2022 Mar 22
Art Talk Live: Jozef Israëls—Drawing Toward Social Justice
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Figure drawing is often described by artists as a way of facilitating empathy and understanding another person’s vulnerability. A discussion of works by Jozef Israëls and his contemporaries, such as Vincent van Gogh, offers insights into the transformation of figure studies from an academic discipline into a vehicle for denouncing social injustice.
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2022 Mar 21
Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Archive Matrix Assembly: Nana Last and Thomas Struth
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Join the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture with art and architecture theorist, Nana Last, and artist Thomas Struth. 
Nana Last MArch ’86 is an art and architecture theorist. She is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where she founded the interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in the Constructed Environment. Her writing considers relations between architecture, art, philosophy and science in modern and contemporary society. Her books include:...
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2022 Mar 10
Virtual Student Guide Tour: Losing Your Head, with Sawyer Taylor-Arnold
8:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Sawyer Taylor-Arnold ’23 will highlight a few of the not-so-pretty subjects that have fascinated painters over the centuries—notably, head wounds, decapitated bodies, and severed heads. Moving through the museums’ collections, Taylor-Arnold will explore the symbolic and historical significance of Lorenzo Lotto’s portrait Friar Angelo Ferretti as St. Peter Martyr (1549), Gustave Moreau’s The Apparition (1876–77), and Johannes Molzahn’s...
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2022 Mar 10
Artists Surviving and Thriving in Recent Times
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
The upheaval of the past two years has acutely impacted artists’ careers and changed the ways in which they approach their work. In the next installment of our Radcliffe on the Road series, featuring Min Jin Lee RI ’19 and Ifeoma Fafunwa RI ’18, we will consider how artists have navigated the struggles and opportunities that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront.
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2022 Mar 09
Mexico Seminar: La Reconquista: Indigenous Migrants and Their New Geographies of Mestizaje in the U.S.
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: 
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard—Online
Tens of thousands of indigenous peoples from Latin America have migrated to the United States since 1994, the vast majority of those from Mexico and Mesoamerica traveling as family units. As a consequence, according to the 2020 US Census, the Native American population in the US increased by 86% since 2010. Zapotec is now second only to Navajo as the most-spoken indigenous language in the United States, while Mixtec is taught as part of the bilingual education curriculum in New York City.
This is challenging how we define indigeneity in the United States, our official...
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2022 Mar 08
International Womxn’s Week Keynote Address: Nitasha Dhillon
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Womxn in Design‘s sixth annual International Womxn’s Week convenes a weeklong series of events that gathers members of the Harvard GSD community and beyond to celebrate and cultivate new ways of thinking about gender and power.
Speaker:
Nitasha Dhillon is a writer, artist, educator, and organizer. Dhillon has a B.A. in Mathematics from St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and School of International...
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2022 Mar 08
Art Talk Live: A Conversation with Allan Edmunds
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Founded by Allan Edmunds in Philadelphia in 1972, the Brandywine Workshop and Archives provides a fertile environment for artists from diverse backgrounds to create cutting-edge prints. Reflecting on 50 years of artist residencies, educational outreach, and community building, Edmunds will discuss highlights from Brandywine’s history and share goals for new projects ahead.
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2022 Mar 07
Arrival: Panel Discussion
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative at Harvard—Online
When aliens touchdown on Earth, linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and her team are tasked with determining why they are here and what they want. Our experts will discuss and debate the challenges that may arise in communicating with alien lifeforms and where the film succeeded and/or failed in this regard.
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2022 Mar 07
Aga Khan Program Lecture: Mariam Kamara, “atelier masōmī: pedagogy, practice and (shifting) possibilities”
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Mariam Issoufou Kamara is an architect from Niger who studied architecture at the University of Washington. In 2014, she founded atelier masōmī, an architecture and research practice with offices in Niger’s capital, Niamey. The firm tackles public, cultural, residential, commercial, and urban design projects. Kamara believes that architects have an important role to play in creating spaces that have the power to elevate, dignify, and provide people with a better quality of life.
From the speaker:
"The Architecture canon, the way it is researched, taught and practiced,...
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2022 Mar 04
Art Study Center Seminar at Home: The Blues—Cobalt and Indigo in Asian Art
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
In Asia, the mineral cobalt has long been used as a colorant in ceramic glazes, and indigo dye, derived from plants of the Indigofera genus, has been employed in textiles and paints. In this Art Study Center Seminar, a curator, conservators, and a conservation scientist consider the history of blue through the ceramics, textiles, and paintings now on view in the Picturing the Lives of Women installation in the Asian art galleries.
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2022 Mar 04
Art Study Center Seminar at Home: The Blues—Cobalt and Indigo in Asian Art
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
In Asia, the mineral cobalt has long been used as a colorant in ceramic glazes, and indigo dye, derived from plants of the Indigofera genus, has been employed in textiles and paints. In this Art Study Center Seminar, a curator, conservators, and a conservation scientist consider the history of blue through the ceramics, textiles, and paintings now on view in the Picturing the Lives of Women installation in the Asian art galleries.
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2022 Mar 03
500 Years of Women Authors, Authorizing Themselves
Repeats every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday until Fri Mar 11 2022 .
10:00am to 5:00pm
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10:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 
Amy Lowell Room (2nd Floor), Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Let us introduce you to some of the most infamous female authors you’ve never heard of who carved out cultural spaces for themselves. Our challenge to you: Remember their names. Share their stories. Rewrite history.
Highlights include:
• A copy of Phillis Wheatley's collection of poems autographed by the author

• A mysterious ownership inscription by a medieval woman named "Johanna" in a copy of Jerome's Vitas Patrum

• Mary Wroth's copy of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, bearing her cryptic monogram...
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2022 Mar 01
Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture: Lesley Lokko
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
The Senior Loeb Scholars program invites prominent individuals whose expertise is outside the typical disciplines of the GSD or whose practice displays a unique focus. Scholars are welcomed for a short-term residency at the School, during which they present a public lecture and engage directly with GSD students, faculty, staff, researchers, Loeb Fellows, and others. Since its inception, the program has offered the GSD community opportunities to learn from and be in discourse with...
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2022 Feb 28
"A Blessing" and Little Black Library at Harvard Business School: Virtual Author Chat to Celebrate Black History Month
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Business School—Online
HBS's iconic Baker Library is the largest business library in the world—and its collection expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time in its 95-year history, Baker brought in non-business books, over 170 titles (to date) organized by Cathy Chukwulebe (MBA 2021) as part of her new non-profit, Little Black Library (LBL).
In response to the racial and social unrest of 2020, Cathy launched Little Black Library to promote Black authors and conversations about the Black experience through books and events at libraries and other partners around the U.S.
When...
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2022 Feb 28
Poetry Reading and Discussion with Camille T. Dungy
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009) and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate...
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2022 Feb 24
On the Literacy and Education of Ancient Egyptian Artists
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East—Online
One of the salient characteristics of ancient Egypt undoubtedly is its hieroglyphic script. The "code" to decipher this writing system was cracked precisely two hundred years ago, in 1822, by the brilliant French linguist Jean-François Champollion—the founding father of Egyptology. The complexity of Egyptian hieroglyphs resulted in a low literacy rate among the Pharaonic population.
In this lecture, Dimitri Laboury will address the level(s) of literacy and scholarly education among the makers of the countless hieroglyphic monuments that help make ancient Egypt so famous....
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2022 Feb 24
Drawing Trees
9:30am to 11:30am
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
Explore the variety and elegance of tree forms using pencil and paper. We will focus on capturing the shapes and volume of trunks and branches and techniques for drawing foliage in this online workshop. Groups will be limited to ten, allowing ample time for individual feedback. All skill levels are welcome.
Cost: $30 for members; $35 for nonmembers.
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2022 Feb 23
Lessons from Plants
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online
Plants are essential to humans and the environment: they provide food, absorb carbon dioxide, produce oxygen, serve multiple ecosystem functions, and beautify landscapes. In Lessons from Plants (Harvard University Press, 2021) Beronda Montgomery invites us to appreciate our interdependence with plants and the many lessons that can be gained from a better understanding of the ways in which plants grow, adapt, and thrive.
In this conversation with Brenda Tindal, she will address what plants can teach us about relating to one another, building diverse communities and...
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2022 Feb 23
Small Infrastructures
9:00am to 10:00am
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Although accessible housing has been cast in many forms, accessory dwelling units (ADUs) have been a catalyst for including architects in direct policy development. For the first time, cities are directly contracting with architects to provide designs for private property through pre-approved ADU programs. These programs reflect a plurality of ideas, though without rigorous consideration for how the costs of site work, labor, materials, and energy make quality housing sustainable.
Small Infrastructures is an exhibition of ADU designs that uses the economics of...
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2022 Feb 17
John Hejduk Soundings Lecture: Anthony Titus, "Rupture and Reconciliations"
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
The lecture will focus on the structure of Anthony Titus's transdisciplinary practice of art and architecture. Titus will speak about a selection of several exhibitions, installations, and projects that span the past decade. Emphasis will be placed upon the processes and procedures as well as the final product of the works. Looking to explore and discover new possibilities between the spaces of architecture, sculpture, and painting Titus will share drawings, diagrams, models, and photographs of the projects.
The conversation and exchange between these disciplines serves as a...
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