2018 Oct 11
(Why) Reporting the Voices of African Women and Girls Matters
4:15pm
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton is an award-winning broadcaster and NPR’s Africa correspondent. An all-purpose Africa reporter, Quist-Arcton will share stories and insight from her experiences listening to African women and girls talk about the continent, the world, and what matters to them. And to us all. Following her remarks, Quist-Arcton will be joined in conversation by Marco Werman, host of Public Radio International’s The World.
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2018 Oct 09
Guest Speaker: Christopher Hawthorne
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Christopher Hawthorne is the Chief Design Officer for the city of Los Angeles, a position appointed by Mayor Eric Garcetti. Prior to joining City Hall, Hawthorne was architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to early 2018. He is Professor of the Practice at Occidental College, where since 2015 he has directed the ...
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2018 Oct 05
Blodgett Quartet in Residence: Parker Quartet
8:00pm
Location: 
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, 3 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA
Join the Parker Quartet for a night of music! On their set is Janáček String Quartet No.1 “Kreutzer Sonata”; Kurtág Six moments musicaux, Op.44; Kurtág Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, Op.28; Debussy String Quartet in G Minor, Op.10.
Free but tickets required, available beginning September 21 at Harvard Box Office.
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2018 Oct 05
Mohammad al-Asad, “The Center for the Study of the Built Environment: A Twenty-Year Journey”
12:00pm to 1:30pm
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Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This presentation tells the story of The Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE), an independent non-profit think / do tank. It focuses on exploring how fields connected to the built environment, including architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, heritage...
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2018 Oct 04
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Hannah Beachler with Jacqueline Stewart
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design in welcoming Hannah Beachler in conversation with Jacqueline Stewart. Hannah Beachler is a prolific production designer with an affinity for evocative designs and visuals. Beachler designed Marvel’s Black Panther for director Ryan Coogler, which just became the 9th-highest grossing film of all time. Her incredible work on the film...
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2018 Oct 03
New Poets of Native Nations: Lecture, Reading & Book Signing
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf Press, July 2018) gathers the work of 21 poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range of new Native poetry. The publication features long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics—and the result is an essential anthology of some of the best poets writing today. Heid Erdrich, editor of the anthology, will discuss the poets’ literary...
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2018 Oct 02
Carla Juaçaba, “Empty Space”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
The lecture will present recent projects, focusing on Venice Architecture Biennale 2018: the project “Vatican Chapels” for the Holy See Pavilion, and “Ballast” for the curators of the Biennale. The continuity of the “Humanidade Pavilion”, a few exhibition designs done in Rio de Janeiro and housing project will also be presented.
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2018 Oct 02
New Voices Lecture with Summer Chen
5:30pm to 6:30pm
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Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard 224 Western Ave, Allston MA 02134
Summer Chen recently completed a month-long residency program in Jingdezhen, the world’s porcelain capital, where she re-examined her culture through the eyes of a ceramic artist. During her talk, Summer will present images and videos of ceramic factories she visited, discuss the process of making work in Jingdezhen, talk about the work she made while she was there and share detailed information about all the residency opportunities in town. Free and open to the public; RSVP to reserve your seat.
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2018 Sep 27
Visual Storytelling, Visual Communication
4:15pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
We rely on our eyes like never before: to navigate not only the physical world, but also the narrative and information landscapes we increasingly inhabit. In a fast-moving cascade of images and ideas, the author and cartoonist Scott McCloud shares why there are no neutral visual decisions, why all pictures are words, and why an era of misinformation calls for a new approach to visual education.
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2018 Sep 25
Creating a King for Eternity
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Florence D. Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology,
Brown University
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2018 Sep 22
Materials Lab Workshop: Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World
Repeats every week every Saturday until Sat Sep 29 2018 .
10:00am to 1:00pm
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Location: 
Materials Lab, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
This two-part workshop series allows participants to experience firsthand the tradition of making ceramic drinking vessels similar to the ancient Greek vessels featured in our special exhibition ...
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2018 Sep 20
Ranjani Mazumdar, “Slums in the Cultural Imaginary”
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
The slum has been a visual force in a number of city films from across the world. The use of certain geographical locations and popular discourses about crime and poverty have given shape to a diverse range of images that are at once powerful, mythic and disturbing. This event, which will kick off a two-day conference on “Slums: New Visions for an Enduring Global Phenomenon,” will explore the perceptions that have fuelled the imagination of the cinematic slum.
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2018 Sep 20
Teresita Fernández: Wayfinding
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
In connection with her public installation in Harvard Yard this fall, Autumn (. . . Nothing Personal), Teresita Fernández will discuss her practice and ongoing research for this major commission by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts.
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2018 Sep 19
The Open University’s Course A305 and the Future of Architecture Education
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112 48 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Taking The Open University's Course A305 as a starting point, this panel discussion will interrogate the role of online learning in the future of architecture education. Participants include Lisa Haber-Thomson, K. Michael Hays,...
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2018 Sep 18
Materials Lab Workshop: Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World
Repeats every week every Tuesday until Tue Sep 25 2018 .
1:00pm to 4:00pm
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Materials Lab, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
This two-part workshop series allows participants to experience firsthand the tradition of making ceramic drinking vessels similar to the ancient Greek vessels featured in our special exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings.
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2018 Sep 17

Lecture: Alison Brooks

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Alison Brooks, Principal and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects, is one of the leading architects of her generation. She has developed... Read more about Lecture: Alison Brooks

2018 Sep 15
Autumn (…Nothing Personal) Family Welcome Event!
10:00am to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Yard Memorial Church Lawn
Come to Harvard Yard for hands-on art-making activities, games, and other family fun to celebrate artist Teresita Fernández’s sculptural installation Autumn (…Nothing Personal). Explore the sculpture and create your own work of public art, then head across Quincy Street to the Harvard Art Museums, which are offering free admission to all visitors throughout the day. All are welcome at this free, family-friendly event.
Commissioned by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts specifically for Harvard Yard’s...
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2018 Sep 14

Kees Christiaanse, “Inversion and Subtraction in Urban Design”

6:30pm to 8:00pm

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Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

The European city is a nucleus in a network of approximately 500 cities with an average population of 50.000-1.000.000 inhabitants and an... Read more about Kees Christiaanse, “Inversion and Subtraction in Urban Design”

2018 Sep 13
Feminisms Now!
4:15pm
Location: 
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
What do millennial feminists want? This panel invites rising artists, thinkers, and organizers to share their visions of gender equality for the 21^st century. Panelists will reflect on their art and activism in the service of intersecting and sometimes competing feminisms. They’ll also discuss the ways they do—and don’t—engage the legacy of their 19^th- and 20^th-century foremothers as they work to move society forward.
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2018 Sep 13
Exhibition: Lead, Line and Plummet
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Location: 
Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery of Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street, Cambridge
Lead, Line, and Plummet features more than 40 intriguing objects, including artifacts, tools, images, and videos. Contributed by the incoming class of 2018–2019 Radcliffe fellows, this constellation of items introduces viewers to many of the projects and perspectives that animate the Institute’s vibrant multidisciplinary community of scholars, scientists, and artists.
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