Events

Film Screening: The Last Human--Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

WINNER OF THE NORDIC:DOX AWARD 2022 Denmark, Greenland / 2022 Our most basic understanding of the origins of life was recently turned upside down when Greenlandic scientist Minik Rosing discovered the first traces of life on Earth in a small fjord near Isua, Greenland. His discovery predated all previous evidence by over 300 million years. Life began in Greenland. At the same time, its melting ice masses are disintegrating day-by-day, and scientists around the world agree that it could drown our entire civilization if it continues. Director Ivalo Frank’s new film is a tribute to a vast,...

John T. Dunlop Lecture: Margot Kushel, “The Toxic Problem of Poverty + Housing Costs: Lessons from New Landmark Research About Homelessness”

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GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

For over three decades, Dr. Margot Kushel has both cared for people who experience homelessness and studied the causes, consequences, and solutions to homelessness, particularly in California, which is home to 30 percent of the people experiencing homelessness in the US. Kushel, who recently led the largest representative study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s, will discuss insights that have emerged from her work as a physician and researcher. Her research has shown that California’s homelessness crisis is primarily due to the lack of housing that low-income...

JFK Jr. Forum | Objective Journalism in America: A Conversation with Marty Baron

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Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School—Online

Join us for a discussion with Marty Baron, the former editor of The Boston Globe (2001-2012) and former executive editor of The Washington Post (2012-2021), as he discusses the importance of objective journalism in a democratic society, and the role of media in a presidential election.

This conversation will be moderated by Nancy Gibbs, the Lombard Director of the Shorenstein Center, and Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Press, Politics, and Public Policy.

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JFK Jr. Forum | A Conversation with Cassidy Hutchinson

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Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School—Online

Please join us for a conversation with Cassidy Hutchinson, author and former White House Aide, who served as assistant to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, during the Trump administration. During this conversation, she will reflect on her time in the White House, and discuss themes in her book 'Enough'.

This conversation will be moderated by Setti Warren, Director of the Institute of Politics, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and former Mayor of Newton, MA from 2010-2018.

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The Art of Resistance: Sacred Visual Creations of New Orleans’ African American Mardi Gras Maskers

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Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

Kim Vaz-Deville is a professor of education at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her work in New Orleans studies focuses on the lives of African Americans from the early 20th century to the present, explicitly on their material and intangible culture. In this lecture, Vaz-Deville will draw on a decade of research to explore how African American masks produce awareness among Mardi Gras revelers of their community’s African and Afro-Caribbean heritage and shared global struggles.

Free, virtual

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Margaret McCurry Lectureship in the Design Arts: Petra Blaisse, “Art Applied, Inside Outside”

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GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

In Conversation with Grace La, Niels Olsen, and Fredi Fischli

Designer Petra Blaisse discusses her forthcoming publication Art Applied, Inside Out (2024), a kaleidoscopic view of her work across interior, exhibition, and landscape design over three decades. This comprehensive survey encompasses renowned projects, including the recently completed Taipei Performing Arts Center; the Kunsthal Rotterdam; Biblioteca degli Alberi in Milan, a park spanning almost ten hectares; and LocHal Library in Tilburg, a vast factory repurposed using an architecture of...

JFK Jr. Forum | Leveling the Playing Field: Sports and Racial Equality in the United States

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Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School—Online

In the United States, sports and patriotism go hand in hand. For decades, expressions of national pride have been common at sporting events — starting with national anthem renditions in 1918 and including military flyovers since 2001. Once considered a 'politically neutral' space, the sports industry is now a contested stage for American patriotism and dissent — as well as power struggles between white owners and managers, and the vast majority of players, who are of color. How are players and journalists using this stage to advance racial equity in the U.S. today?

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Teen Saturdays at the Museum! / ¡Sábados de Jóvenes en el Museo!

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

The Natural World of Latin America

February 10: Special: Visit the I Heart Science Festival

March 16: Ants in Action

April 13: Flying High

May 11: Shark Frenzy

Teen Saturdays! is designed for teens interested in Latino culture, history, and community. This spring, high school students are invited to free monthly workshops to explore and learn about the natural world of Latin America and contribute thoughts on making the...

Teen Saturdays at the Museum! / ¡Sábados de Jóvenes en el Museo!

Location:

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

The Natural World of Latin America

February 10: Special: Visit the I Heart Science Festival

March 16: Ants in Action

April 13: Flying High

May 11: Shark Frenzy

Teen Saturdays! is designed for teens interested in Latino culture, history, and community. This spring,...

Landscape Sketching

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Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

Landscapes are an appealing subject for drawings, but it can be difficult to know where to start. In this program we will learn how to select a landscape, create a sense of depth and volume, and use a variety of marks to capture a dynamic variety of textures.

Cost: $30 members / $35 nonmembers

Learn more and RSVP.

Nature Journaling: A Creative Exploration of the Arboretum Landscape

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Hunnewell Lecture Hall, 125 Arbor Way, Boston (Arnold Arboretum)

Nature journaling is all about expressing your curiosity and wonder through sketching, calligraphy, writing, or other forms of art-making. Tap into your creativity and let yourself be surprised by the diversity of forms on display in the winter landscape.

Free, Registration Required

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Do You Mind? Developing the Ethics of New Neurotechnologies--Center for Bioethics

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Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

New neurotechnologies, including deep brain stimulation and implants, offer the promise of improving treatment for psychiatric conditions, disorders of consciousness, and brain injury. Simultaneously, they raise new questions about the ethics and policy implications of directly intervening in the brain. In this session, experts in neurotechnologies and ethics will explore how they integrate neuroethics alongside clinical research advances.

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Malkit Shoshan and Womxn in Design: “Designing Within Conflict: Building for Peace”

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Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby

Malkit Shoshan is a designer, author, and educator. She is the founding director of the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST), which initiates and develops projects at the intersection of architecture, urban planning and human rights. In her work, she uses spatial design tools to make visible systemic violence, engage with various publics to co-design alternatives that center social and environmental justice, and advocate for systemic change.

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International Womxn's Day Keynote Address: Jack Halberstam, “Trans* Anarchitectures 1975 to 2020”

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Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

International Womxn’s Week includes a weeklong series of events organized by Womxn in Design that gather members of the GSD community to learn about and challenge notions of gender and power from within the framework of design.

Celebrating Trans In Design’s (TID) inaugural lecture as a new student organization, TID has organized this year’s International Women’s Week Keynote Address, welcoming Jack Halberstam, to explore the impact that trans artist and designers have in expanding the field.

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An Evening with Ursula von Rydingsvard & Film Screening

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Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston, MA

We hope you will join us for this very special event as we celebrate Women's History Month. Organized in conjunction with the 2023-2025 exhibition supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection at Harvard Business School, this event will feature a film screening of the 2019 documentary Into Her Own. Movie snacks will be served.

This live, in-person event is free and open to the Harvard community and the public. Registration is required.

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Maren Hassinger in Conversation with Chassidy A. Winestock: On the Occasion of A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture

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Knafel Center, 10 Garden St, Cambridge OR Online via Zoom

In conjunction with the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, join us for a special conversation between the artist Maren Hassinger and the curator Chassidy A. Winestock. The works in this exhibition demonstrate the ways in which their creators—Maren Hassinger, Howardena Pindell, Liliana Porter, and Thompson—navigated art-making during times of social rupture and sought their way with novel, reparative gestures.

Free, Registration required for online or in-person

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Debra Spark, “Falling Out: Narrating the Neutra-Schindler Story”

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GSD, Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby Lecture

A fiction writer whose “day job” includes freelance writing for shelter magazines, Debra Spark will talk about how an article for Dwell led to her desire to tell the story of the Richard Neutra/Rudolph Schindler friendship, collaboration, and falling out. A Writer-at-Work type discussion, she’ll describe the writing and research of this particular piece, touching on earlier architectural historians, present-day filmmakers, and both men’s heirs.

Free, open to the public

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India Votes 2024: The World’s Largest Democracy? Part 1 of a 4-part series

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CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010)

This spring, the Mittal Institute will host a four-part series on the Indian elections, from how they are covered to what it means regionally and globally. This is the launch of the series, focusing on “How should we assess India’s standing as the 'world’s largest democracy,' in theory and practice?” The series is led by Harvard Professors Arunabh Ghosh, Maya Jasanoff and Vastal Naresh.

Free; Registration Required

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Food Literacy Project Speaker Series: Caroline J. Smith on the Changing Gender Politics of the Kitchen

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Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

Caroline J. Smith will be part of the Food Literacy Project guest speaker series to discuss her new book, Season to Taste. "Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private space of the kitchen, writing about their experiences in that space and then publishing their memoirs for the larger public to consume. Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs explores women’s food memoirs with recipes in order to consider the ways in which these women are rewriting this kitchen space and renegotiating their...

Wheelwright Prize Lecture: Daniel Fernández Pascual, “Being Shellfish: Architectures of Intertidal Cohabitation”

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Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

Tidal zones are liminal spaces that challenge the ecological, legal and financial thresholds of coastal areas. They appear, disappear, reappear, and constantly change in size and chemistry, while shaped by new human-made seasons of wetland draining and ocean pollution. Following CLIMAVORE, a framework that investigates ways of metabolizing climate breakdown, these littoral spaces are at the core of entanglements between risk and social security, profit margins and contamination struggles, geological processes and weather events; between what is used and what is refused. Thinking with...

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