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Art and Science Converge in the Deep Sea

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Lily Simonson and Peter Girguis exemplify the long tradition of artists and scientists working in tandem to explore new worlds—in their case, the magnificent deep sea. Simonson will discuss how the immersive, glowing canvases in her current exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Lily Simonson: Painting the Deep, have been shaped by collaborations with scientists—whether exploring the depths of the ocean in a submersible or scuba diving beneath Antarctic sea ice. Girguis will reveal how working at sea with an artist has shaped his research and enabled him to see...

Exhibition Opening Reception: “Fighting Pencil” vs. the Bureaucrat

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Fisher Family Commons, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Join the Davis Center for a reception to celebrate the opening of a new exhibition, "Fighting Pencil" vs. The Bureaucrat: Satirical Posters from the Soviet Union.

By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor planning, endless paper-pushing, redundancy and shirking, bribery, embezzlement, phony reporting, and cover-ups at all levels of the centralized economy had become the norm. The results included shoddy construction, inefficient farming methods, empty store shelves, environmental pollution, and a decidedly uncivil...

Great Russian Jews: David Oistrakh

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CGIS South Building, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

This panel examines the remarkable achievements of the great violinist David Oistrakh (1908-1974). Born and raised in Odessa, Oistrakh became one of the 20th century’s preeminent musical virtuosi. He collaborated with leading musicians and composers of his time, among them Aram Khachatourian and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Panelists will include: Oleh Krysa (Ukrainian-American Violinist; University of Rochester) and Harlow Robinson (Northeastern University).
Moderated by Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College; Davis Center).

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Dance Master Class with Belinda McGuire

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Harvard Dance Center, 66 Garden Street, Cambridge

Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and artistic director Belinda McGuire will teach a contemporary dance master class based in Limón technique. The class will explore phrase work excerpted from McGuire’s own repertoire and will include live accompaniment by musician Ryan Edwards. This is an intermediate/advanced level class. Observers are always welcome.

Due to limited capacity, online pre-registration is required.

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Lecture: Rosi Braidotti, “Posthuman Knowledge”

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

Join Harvard Graduate School of Design for a lecture by Rosi Braidotti, a Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University and the founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University (2007-2016). She is also the founding professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht University (1988-2005) and the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies.

This lecture is built on the assumption that we are currently situated in a posthuman convergence between the Fourth Industrial Age and the Sixth Extinction,...

Materials Lab Workshop: Shadow/Substance—Paper Cutting and Kara Walker

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge

This workshop takes inspiration from the art of Kara Walker, whose U.S.A. Idioms will be on view at the Harvard Art Museums from March through October 2019. This monumental collage, made with Sumi ink on newsprint, sheds new light on the themes of race and history that Walker has explored throughout her long career, including in an extensive body of work featuring silhouettes and other forms of cut paper.

Participants will experiment with paper silhouettes and botanical...

Lecture: Kenneth Helphand, “Lawrence Halprin”

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

Join us for a lecture from Kenneth I. Helphand FASLA, a Philip H. Knight Professor of Landscape Architecture Emeritus at the University of Oregon where he has taught courses in landscape history, theory and design since 1974. He is a graduate of Brandeis University (1968) and Harvard's Graduate School of Design (MLA 1972). Helphand is the recipient of distinguished teaching awards from the University of Oregon and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. He is also the author...

Documentary Film Screening & Panel Discussion: "Why We Cycle"

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

Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for the exclusive Boston-area premiere of “Why We Cycle,” exploring the hidden effects of cycling on our cities and ourselves. The one-hour film will be followed by a one-hour panel discussion with local cycling leaders on the health, sustainability, and equity benefits from cycling.

The screening begins promptly at 6:30pm.

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International Women’s Day Lecture: Demita Frazier

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

A personal exploration of the impact the city landscape of the city of Chicago had on one precocious and observant African American midcentury woman’s aesthetic evolution. This talk, designed to raise questions without an expectation of finding answers, will hopefully provide the Harvard Graduate School of Design community with the opportunity to reflect on who architecture is designed for, toward what purpose, and the resulting impacts on communities & how they interact with the built environment.

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Poetry Reading: Rootedness

Location:

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

A distinct group of five poets will read selected works from their collections and participate in a moderated discussion about reinventing worlds and reimagining belongings.

Learn more about and RSVP for Poetry Reading: Rootedness.

Gallery Talk: Girls and Their Dolls

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge

In honor of International Women’s Day, curatorial fellow Frances Gallart Marques will trace the origins of girls’ fondness for dolls.

Free with museums admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

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2019 Mar 07

Exhibition: "Fighting Pencil" vs. the Bureaucrat, Satirical Posters from the Soviet Union

Repeats every day until Sun Apr 21 2019 .

9:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Fisher Family Commons, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge

To combat these ills, the government enlisted the help of cartoonists and poets from the Fighting Pencil, a Leningrad-based artists’ collective. Borrowing from the...

Film Screening & Discussion: Women of the Gulag

Location:

CGIS South, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

The documentary film Women of the Gulag tells the compelling and tragic stories of six women as last survivors of the Gulag. Women of the Gulag features six women in their eighties and nineties as they tell their stories while going about their daily lives in remote villages in the Ural Mountains, in break-away Sukhumi, and in the Moscow suburbs. This film was short-listed for the Academy Award Documentary Short Subject nomination, 2019.

Following the film, Professor Terry Martin will moderate a conversation with Marianna Yoravskaya, the...

Budding Friendship: A Joint Concert ft. Harvard Wind Ensemble & Middlesex Concert Band

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Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland Street, Cambridge

Come see Harvard’s Wind Ensemble and the Middlesex Concert Band together in concert for the first time! The program includes pieces such as “Gandalf,” “Danzon no.2,” and “Pineapple Poll.” Join us in sharing the joy of music and celebrating the growth of our musical community. Admission is free!

Learn more about Budding Friendship: A Joint Concert ft. Harvard Wind Ensemble & Middlesex Concert Band.

Loreta Castro Reguera

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Born in Mexico City in 1979, she studied Architecture at the School of Architecture of UNAM, has a Master in Architecture form Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, and a Master in Urban Design with Distinction from the Harvard GSD. She has been awarded with several scholarships and prizes for both her trayectory and her independent work such as the FONCA Young Creators Program in Mexico, a Fulbright scholarship, and the CEMEX Marcelo Zambrano scholarship. As a result of focusing her research on water and design, she received...

Film by Design: Bauhaus and the Moving Image, Part 1

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street Cambridge MA

In conjunction with our special exhibition The Bauhaus and Harvard, this film series will reconstruct how Bauhäusler (students and faculty at the Bauhaus) actively engaged with moving images between 1919 and 1933. They created abstract animations, lightplays, architectural films, and short documentaries; they invited avant-garde filmmakers to present their work at the Bauhaus; they organized frequent film screenings at Bauhaus festivities; and they even made a series of material...

David Hartt, “Urban Futures of the Recent Past”

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

This talk borrows the sub-title from Reyner Banham’s seminal book Megastructure, published in 1976. As a reference, Banham’s text critiques the failure of translating the energy and optimism of 60’s era civic projects into lasting institutions; thus creating fertile conditions for the seeds of our own post-ideological crisis to germinate in the capitalist restructuration of the mid 70’s. Hartt will focus on the relationship between the speculative and documentary aspects of his practice and, in particular,...

Book Discussion: Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter

Location:

CGIS South Building, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Join us for a book discussion about Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter, with author Edythe Haber.

Teffi was one of twentieth century Russia's most celebrated authors. In the first biography of her in any language, Edythe Haber here brings Teffi – who has recently been 'rediscovered' in the West to resounding acclaim – to life. Teffi...

Kuehn Malvezzi, “A HOUSE BETWEEN”

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins, Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Please join us for a noon lecture by Berlin-based architects Kuehn Malvezzi. Kuehn Malvezzi's House of One in Berlin was featured in Harvard Design Magazine's 42nd issue, Run for Cover!

RSVP Requirements: Free and open to...

HECTOR (Jae Shin & Damon Rich)

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Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Hector is an urban design, planning & civic arts practice led by Jae Shin and Damon Rich. We work on designs for public places, neighborhood plans, and development regulations, trying to learn from traditions of popular education and community organizing to build collective understanding and action.

Jae Shin is a designer and partner at Hector. She recently served as an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), where she...

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