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 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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2022 Feb 17
We Dance: An Exploration of Movement, Foodways, and Environments
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology—Online
From the world-renowned Wideman Davis Dance Company and award-winning filmmakers Ethan Payne and Brian Foster, We Dance is a love story, deconstructed and distilled into its most elemental ingredients. Dreams. Memories. Family. Environments. In this 12-minute film, Tanya Wideman-Davis and Thaddeus Davis take us from Chicago, Montgomery, and New York to the point where their lives meet and become one. Along the way, they honor and signify on Black American art, poetry, and literature.
In this conversation with Sarah Clunis,...
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2022 Feb 17
ECOLOGICAL TIME IN TIME-BASED MEDIA ART
6:00pm
Location: 
Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard—Online
Media and video art practice of the last twenty years coincided with the harrowing expansion of climate degradation. While the effects of climate change had been anticipated before 2000, they took shape ubiquitously and lethally post-2000, bringing new challenges about whether and how to imagine a future for shared life on the planet. These effects coincided also with a deeper historical understanding of how we got here, tracking the history of extractive economies and their imbrication with the forces of gender, race, colonialism, and a human-centered anthropocentricism.
This...
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2022 Feb 17
This Ain’t Normal: Virtual Film Screening & Discussion
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Medical School—Online
Please join us for a free virtual film screening of the documentary film, "This Ain't Normal." Register for a link to see the documentary at your convenience between February 15 and 16. Then join us for a discussion on...
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2022 Feb 15
Benin Bronzes in Context
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology—Online
In Benin Bronzes in Context, Sarah Clunis will look at objects currently in the care of Harvard and discuss the way that these objects represent an iconographic and contextual story of trade, contact, and crossroads between cultures. Diana Loren will moderate a discussion after the presentation.
The bronze, ivory, and wooden artworks broadly known as the “Benin Bronzes” were taken from Benin City as part of the British Punitive Expedition of 1897 and dispersed to private collections and museums around the world. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology...
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2022 Feb 15
Why the Mississippi Delta Matters
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
W. Ralph Eubanks is a visiting professor and writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi, where he is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Join Eubanks as he discusses his upcoming book, which weaves together personal history, archival research, reporting, blues and popular culture, and interviews with current Delta residents to tell the region’s history and explore why many residents of this iconic region of Mississippi persist in trying to transform a place that has been deemed broken and beyond repair.
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2022 Feb 15
Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago
12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront—its most treasured asset? The book’s authors study the lakefront’s evolution from the middle of the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Their findings have significance for understanding not only Chicago’s history but also the law’s part in determining the future of significant urban resources such as waterfronts.
Join us for a discussion on Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago with authors Joseph Kearney and Thomas Merrill and panelists Henry Smith, Richard...
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2022 Feb 10
Book Talk with Anita Hill
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
This installment in the Radcliffe Institute’s winter series of book talks will feature Anita Hill, author of Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence (Viking, 2021). Professor Hill is University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.
Learn more and register for this virtual event.
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2022 Feb 09
Joint Panel with Krzysztof Wodiczko: A Dialogue on Art, Technology, and Spectacle
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Join us for two consecutive panels and a conversation with internationally renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko.
In this joint panel, we will first explore how creative practices and institutions navigate audience participation and how they enter into spaces of co-production. Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will discuss how his practice, use of technology, and processes of community participation are in dialogue with Krzysztof Wodiczko’s own practice. In her presentation, Jill Medvedow, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, will discuss the role of...
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2022 Feb 09
One From Another
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
A presentation from 2021–2022 Suzanne Young Murray Fellow Roger Reeves.
Roger Reeves is a poet and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin. He plans to create a poem that "sings out of the largesse of black life, a song that sings of a future that is both ecstatic and defiant."
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2022 Feb 08
John T. Dunlop Lecture: The Honorable Marcia L. Fudge, "Building the World We Want to See: What Do We Want Our Legacy to Be?"
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Secretary Marcia L. Fudge believes the country’s housing issues do not fit into a one-size-fits-all approach. We need policies and programs that can adapt to meet a community’s unique housing challenges. She is committed to making the dream of homeownership - and the security and wealth creation that comes with it - a reality for more Americans.
After the lecture, Secretary Fudge will be in conversation with Jerold Kayden, the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and...
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