Events

    2023 Nov 14

    Lecture: "Surprises in soliton physics with quantum gas mixtures"

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Physics Department—Online

    Lecturer Jean Dalibard (Professor, Collège de France):
    Solitons are nonlinear wave packets that maintain their shape during free propagation. In quantum gases, bright and dark solitons are observed for attractive and repulsive interactions, exhibiting relatively simple behavior. However, mixtures of gases result in a much more complex physics, with the emergence of dark-bright and magnetic solitons. Here, we examine some non-intuitive phenomena in this context, including the following experimental observation: a magnetic soliton exposed to a constant force...

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    2023 Nov 14

    Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social Sciences: Conversation with Ruth J. Simmons

    4:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

    Join a discussion for Ruth J. Simmons' (former president of Prairie View A&M University) new book, Up Home: One Girl’s Journey (Random House, 2023), as well as her personal journey, her pioneering work researching and sharing publicly universities' historical ties to slavery, and her perspectives on the future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and higher education in light of recent Supreme Court rulings.

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    2023 Nov 13

    Film Screening: Wild Life

    6:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Divinity School, James Room (Swartz Hall), 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge

    Join us for a public screening of Oscar-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhely and Jimmy Chin's extraordinary film Wild Life—a story of love, wildness, and restoration in Patagonia, Chile. The film follows conservationist Kris Tompkins on an epic decades-spanning love story as wild as the landscapes she dedicated her life to protecting.

    A discussion on the film will follow the screening. Special guests include Kris Tompkins and Chai Valarhelyi in conversation with guest curator Geralyn Dreyfous and HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams.

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    2023 Nov 13

    Lecture: "Scale invariance, a hidden symmetry explored with quantum gases"

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Physics Department—Online

    Lecturer Jean Dalibard (Professor, Collège de France):
    "Scale invariance, a concept initially introduced in high-energy physics, has gained numerous applications in the physics of quantum fluid. It is applicable to strongly interacting Fermi gases, two-dimensional Bose gases, as well as few-body systems that exhibit the 'Efimov effect.' In the presentation, I will illustrate how scale and conformal invariance emerge in cold atomic gases. I will use various examples ranging from thermodynamics to soliton physics to specific structures with periodic time evolution...

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    2023 Nov 12

    Hip-Hop Experience Workshop: The Art of 16 Bars

    1:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    To celebrate National Hip-Hop History Month in November and the 50th anniversary of this world-changing cultural and artistic movement, we are offering the Hip-Hop Experience Workshop, facilitated by artist and singer Jazzmyn RED.

    This session will highlight elements of hip-hop and take a closer look at the art of being an MC. Jazzmyn will discuss MC writing techniques, instrumental visualization, and how to find your flow. Participants will write their own 16 bars (16 counts of 4) to perform for the group.

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    2023 Nov 11

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

    1:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History (26 Oxford Street) and Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology (11 Divinity Avenue)

    Teen Saturdays is designed for Latino high school students. Workshops delve into four fascinating traditional celebrations from Central America. Participants will embark on a journey to discover diverse festivals that shape societies in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. During each workshop, teenagers will visit exhibits, use art and language to create original works, and challenge their sense of what a tradition can be through discussion. We will learn about the historical and social contexts behind these festivities, their cultural symbolism, and the values they embody...

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    2023 Nov 09

    Pier Vittorio Aureli, "The Longhouse"

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

    The lecture presents Dogma's research of the longhouse, the linear, long, and narrow habitation typology that existed and still exists in many parts of the world, including South-East Asia, Europe, and North America. While there are numerous scholarly investigations of specific cases of longhouses, a comparative study of this ubiquitous type of habitation is missing. This lacuna is both surprising and understandable. It is surprising because the longhouse is among the most ubiquitous forms of pre-modern dwellings. Alternatively, it is comprehensible because the longhouse represents a...

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    2023 Nov 09

    Curator-Led Exhibition Tour: At the Limits of the Book

    12:30pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    Join exhibition curator and Houghton librarian Molly Schwartzburg for a special guided tour of At the Limits of the Book: Bindings from the Houghton Library Collections. This 45-minute tour will include discussion of the themes of the exhibition, highlights from the materials on display, and ample time for participant questions.

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    2023 Nov 09

    __positions

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

    "__positions" is a series of conversations convened by the Department of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design aimed at revealing the positions taken by players on the field of contemporary architecture. The series unfolds the complexity of relations and metaphors to make them explicit, inviting faculty and guests to voice where they stand.

    November __positions event speakers: Germane Barnes,...

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    2023 Nov 09

    Midday Organ Recital: Scott Hyslop

    12:15pm to 12:45pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St., Cambridge

    Scott Hyslop, director of parish music at St. Lorenz Lutheran Church in Frankenmuth, Michigan, will perform. Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ.

    Audience members are invited to lunch quietly while listening.

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    2023 Nov 08

    Objects of Addiction: The Legacy of the Opium Wars

    6:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    In conjunction with the exhibition Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade, Harvard faculty in Chinese history, business, politics, and law will take part in a roundtable discussion on the 19th-century Opium Wars and the legacy of the opium trade in U.S.–China relations.

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    2023 Nov 08

    What’s Inside a Generative Artificial-Intelligence Model? And Why Should We Care?

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    A presentation from 2023–2024 Sally Starling Seaver Professor Fernanda Viégas

    During her fellowship, Viégas is excited to explore new modes of human/AI interaction that draw from her roots in data visualization and human-computer interaction. She is interested in the possibility of leveraging advances in AI interpretability (usually aimed at experts) to help drive improvements in lay user agency and control of AI systems. She looks forward to working with colleagues from various departments at Harvard to uncover creative and useful ways of empowering a wide range of...

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    2023 Nov 08

    PON Live! Book Talk: Resolving the Parthenon Marbles Dispute

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation—Online

    The dispute between Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles has been ongoing for years. It relates to the ancient sculptures taken from the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis by men working for British Ambassador Lord Elgin in the early 19th century. Greece wants them back, and has made restitution a central part of the country’s international cultural policy since the 1980s, but the British Museum and the UK government have continually rebuffed Greek demands.

    The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics, by Alexander Herman,...

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    2023 Nov 07

    Gallery Talk: Seeing in Art and Medicine

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join Ph.D. candidate and graduate student teacher Sarah Eisen for a closer look at a work from the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine, on view from September 2 to December 30, 2023. Eisen will share insights about a grave marker from ancient Greece and will encourage participants to reflect on the role of empathy across time and place.

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    2023 Nov 06

    Lina Ghotmeh, "Living in Symbiosis – an Archeology of the Future"

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium (48 Quincy St., Cambridge)

    More than a method of work, “archeology of the future” is a true approach to the built landscape established by Lina Ghotmeh throughout her practice. Founder of Lina Ghotmeh—Architecture, Paris-based Lina Ghotmeh’s designs develop thorough historical research, emerging as exquisite interventions that enliven our memories and senses.

    In this “Archeology of the future”, every work of architecture is drawn from its place and the traces of its past. A link is drawn between time, memory, and space, establishing an anchored place and drawing a strong tie between the Humane and...

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    2023 Nov 06

    Soil to Foil: Aluminum and the Quest for Industrial Sustainability

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online or at Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    In Soil to Foil (Columbia University Press, 2023), Saleem Ali tells the extraordinary story of aluminum. He reveals its pivotal role in the histories of scientific inquiry and technological innovation as well as its importance to sustainability. He highlights scientists and innovators who discovered new uses for this remarkable element, ranging from chemistry and geoscience to engineering and industrial design. Ali argues that aluminum use exemplifies broader lessons about stewardship of nonrenewable resources: its seeming abundance has given rise to wasteful and destructive...

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    2023 Nov 06

    In Their Own Voices: Black Women's Lives from the Archives Opening Event

    4:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    The opening event for the Harvard Radcliffe Institute exhibition In Their Own Voices features Taryn Jordan (Colgate University), Kalimah Redd Knight (Tufts University), and Holly Smith (Spelman College) in conversation with the curator Petrina Jackson.

    The exhibition celebrates the power of defining oneself while highlighting the lifework and legacies of Black women whose papers are held at the Schlesinger Library. The featured collections include those of graphic designer Louise E. Jefferson, civil and women’s rights activist Pauli Murray, and educator Rebecca Primus...

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    2023 Nov 06

    View from Above with Colonel Terry Virts

    3:30pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston

    This talk features astonishing aerial images of Earth from Colonel Terry Virts' book and takes of life from the edge of the atmosphere.

    Colonel (USAF retired) Terry Virts has spent over seven months in space during his two spaceflights, piloting the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2010 and commanding the International Space Station in 2014/2015. He served in the US Air Force as a fighter pilot, test pilot, NASA astronaut, and is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Harvard Business School General Management Program.

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    2023 Nov 06

    Gutman Library Book Talk: Education Lead(her)ship

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Education, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

    An incisive account on the underrepresentation of women, especially women of color, in positions of leadership in K–12 schools and how to correct this bias.

    Education Lead(her)ship exposes the systemic obstacles that impede the professional advancement of women in K–12 education and offers readers the tools to recognize and combat these inequities. In this rousing work, educational leadership scholars Jennie Weiner and Monica Higgins investigate patterns of gender bias in the profession, prompted by the observation that, although the great majority of classroom educators are...

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    2023 Nov 05

    Hip-Hop Experience Workshop: The Roots

    1:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    To celebrate National Hip-Hop History Month in November and the 50th anniversary of this world-changing cultural and artistic movement, we are offering the Hip-Hop Experience Workshop, facilitated by artist and singer Jazzmyn RED.

    This workshop session will focus on the roots of hip-hop, reflecting on early storytellers and how their influence on the genre evolved into elements of hip-hop culture we see today. We will discuss storytelling, sampling, and the socioeconomic conditions of the birthplace of hip-hop.

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