Keys to Responsible Leadership in Troubling Times

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Livestream: hsph.me/Jenkins-Scott

Join us for the next “Voices in Leadership” event of the Spring semester, featuring Jackie Jenkins-Scott, 13^thPresident of Wheelock College.... Read more about Keys to Responsible Leadership in Troubling Times

The Camp and the City

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Please join Luis Valenzuela and Felipe Vera for a discussion of their new book The Camp and the City: Territories of Extraction, co-edited by Jeannette Sordi.

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Thomas Phifer Evening Lecture

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Since 1997, Thomas Phifer’s New York-based firm has designed numerous civic, cultural, and educational institutions including the Corning Museum of... Read more about Thomas Phifer Evening Lecture

Persian New Year Celebration

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Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year and the beginning of spring, with poetry, music, traditional sweets, and an exploration of the traditional haft... Read more about Persian New Year Celebration

Suad Amiry, "Reclaiming Space: Riwaq’s 50 Village Project in Rural Palestine"

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

In 2005 Riwaq made a significant shift from the conservation of single building to the rehabilitation of entire historic centers.... Read more about Suad Amiry, "Reclaiming Space: Riwaq’s 50 Village Project in Rural Palestine"

Ancient Egypt in Africa: New Excavations at the Island Fortress of Uronarti

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

Ancient Egyptian kings conquered Lower Nubia—today northern Sudan—nearly 4,000 years ago, defending it with a string of monumental... Read more about Ancient Egypt in Africa: New Excavations at the Island Fortress of Uronarti

Mark Joseph and Amy Khare, "Succeeding Where Mixed-Income Transformation Falls Short: A Path to Equity and Inclusion in Our Cities

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Drawing on their work examining the costs and consequences of racial segregation and the concentration of poverty and affluence as well as the... Read more about Mark Joseph and Amy Khare, "Succeeding Where Mixed-Income Transformation Falls Short: A Path to Equity and Inclusion in Our Cities

Aaron Sachs, “A Common Treasury for All”: Toward a Deeper History of Environmental Justice"

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

In recent years, environmental justice scholarship has exploded. But virtually every relevant piece of work has understood the history of... Read more about Aaron Sachs, “A Common Treasury for All”: Toward a Deeper History of Environmental Justice"

Rouse Visiting Artist Screening: Kahlil Joseph

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Kahlil Joseph is an American artist and filmmaker working in Los Angeles. In a cover profile of Joseph and his work, Art Papers writes:... Read more about Rouse Visiting Artist Screening: Kahlil Joseph

The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the Papers of June Jordan at the Schlesinger Library, this panel discussion features scholars, poets, and activists... Read more about The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan

The Racial Imaginary and American Poetry: A Lecture with Claudia Rankine

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Claudia Rankine is an American poet, chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University. In this talk, Rankine... Read more about The Racial Imaginary and American Poetry: A Lecture with Claudia Rankine

Kiley Fellow Lecture: Danielle Choi

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Danielle Choi is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She teaches in the Masters of Landscape Architecture core... Read more about Kiley Fellow Lecture: Danielle Choi

Who Would Choose to Be LGBT and Nigerian!?

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Ifeoma Fafunwa RI ’18 is the creator of the popular stage play HEAR WORD! Naija Women Talk True. In this presentation, Fafunwa will speak about her latest production... Read more about Who Would Choose to Be LGBT and Nigerian!?

Norton Lectures: Frederick Wiseman The Search for Story, Structure, and Meaning in Documentary Film: Part I

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Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge

The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry was endowed in 1925. Harvard's preeminent lecture series in the arts and humanities, the Norton... Read more about Norton Lectures: Frederick Wiseman The Search for Story, Structure, and Meaning in Documentary Film: Part I

From Stone to Silicone

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Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

The Harvard Semitic Museum is reimagining its grand third-floor atrium gallery, featuring the arts of ancient Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). This... Read more about From Stone to Silicone

Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

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Emerson Hall, 25 Quincy St, Cambridge

A discussion of origin stories with Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University), Meredith Reiches (University of Massachusetts Boston), and Richard... Read more about Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

All the World is Here

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the first American fair to feature anthropology. The new discipline had its own building,... Read more about All the World is Here

Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

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First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Ave

The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard present the Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Bryan... Read more about Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

Of Monarchs and Milkweed: A Story of Coevolution, Cultural History, and Conservation

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125 Arborway, Boston

What if your host truly didn’t want you to visit? Found you intolerable, in fact, and didn’t want you to stay? You’d think that you’d be kicked out, but... Read more about Of Monarchs and Milkweed: A Story of Coevolution, Cultural History, and Conservation

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