Events

2018 Nov 01

Open House Lecture: Irma Boom

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Irma Boom is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer who specializes in making books. After earning her B.F.A. in graphic design from the AKI Art Academy in Enschedé, she worked for five years at the Dutch government publishing and printing office in The Hague. In 1991 she founded ...

2018 Nov 01

Día de los Muertos / Day of the Dead Evening Celebration and Museum Open House

4:00pm to 8:00pm

Location:

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

Remember and celebrate your departed loved ones at this year’s Día de los Muertos altar, savor traditional Mexican hot chocolate and pan de muerto, and enjoy live music.

Free and open to the public. Reservations required; available online starting October 1.

Related family event on November 3.

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2018 Oct 29

Schlesinger 75th Anniversary Celebration

7:00pm

Location:

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

In this performance and discussion, “The Suffragists” captures the power and passion of American women’s fight for the vote through song. Created by the acclaimed singer-songwriter Shaina Taub, the musical tells the story of the last decade of the struggle through the rivalry between Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul. Taub’s musical gives voice to these women in ways that powerfully resonate in today’s political landscape. The performance will be followed by a multidisciplinary panel discussion.

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2018 Oct 29

Guest Speaker: Elisa Silva

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Elisa Silva is director and founder of Enlace Arquitectura established in Caracas Venezuela 2007. Projects focus on raising awareness of spatial inequality and the urban environment through public space, the integration of informal settlements and community engagement in rural landscapes. Public space interventions in informal settlements through participatory methodologies are also...

2018 Oct 26

How to See Architecture: Bruno Zevi (March ’42)

1:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

One hundred years after his birth, the prolific work of Roman architect Bruno Zevi continues to engage current problems in theory and criticism, and deserves to be revisited. From the publication of Towards an Organic Architecture, in 1945, to his monograph on Erik Gunnar Asplund published the very year of his death in 2000, many of his books have had an electrifying effect on architects and historians. Active as educator and as political activist, he was an engaged, charismatic...

2018 Oct 26

The Undiscovered

9:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

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

To paraphrase Louis Pasteur, sometimes luck favors the prepared mind, as when Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by noticing that mold growing accidentally in his lab seemed to kill bacteria. This 2018 Radcliffe Institute science symposium will focus on how scientists explore realities they cannot anticipate. Speakers from across the disciplines of modern science will present personal experiences and discuss how to train scientists, educators, and funders to foster the expertise and open-mindedness needed to reveal undiscovered aspects of the world around us.

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Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Michael Van Valkenburgh

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Michael Van Valkenburgh is the founder of the landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, with offices in Brooklyn, New York...

2018 Oct 25

Archaeology Live: Harvard College Life in Colonial Times

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA

Peer into an active archaeological excavation and learn about the oldest section of North America’s first college, founded in 1636. Harvard archaeology students will answer your questions, demonstrate archaeological methods, and display recent finds from the seventeenth century that reflect how Harvard College students—centuries ago—ate, dressed, and amused themselves, among other experiences. Drop by any time during this 90-minute event. The site is in Harvard Yard, steps away...

2018 Oct 24

Origins of the Silk Roads

6:00pm

Location:

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Approximately 4,000 years ago, the peoples of China and Eurasia gradually began to develop networks of interaction and exchange that radically transformed the cultures of both regions. These networks eventually gave rise to the Silk Road trade routes connecting the East and West. Rowan Flad will examine the archaeological evidence—from the Qijia Culture of Northwest China—that documents the agricultural, metallurgical, and technological innovations that resulted from the earliest trans-Eurasian exchanges, and how studies of the Silk Road origins are being reinvigorated by China’s One...

2018 Oct 23

Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Fritz Haeg, Nils Norman, and Julieta González

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Please join us for a conversation between visual artists Fritz Haeg and Nils Norman and Julieta González, Artistic Director of Museo Jumex. They will discuss their recent project Proposals for a Plaza at Museo Jumex. Proposals for a Plaza was commissioned as part of the series Agora: Blueprints for a Utopia, and the temporary sculptural installation invites the public to imagine and...

2018 Oct 22

Guest Speaker: Marty Poirier

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Stubbins, Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

For 40 years, Marty Poirier has combined insatiable curiosity with love of community life to practice landscape architecture fused with urbanity, social purpose, and aesthetics. His designs strive to shape expressive places that people connect with.

Marty’s career is filled with assignments informed by the downtown centers in which he has lived and worked – Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cambridge, New York, and San Diego. His work has focused on places of dense...

2018 Oct 18

Quantum Tools to Explore the Universe…and Help Life on Earth

7:30pm

Location:

60 Garden Street, Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138

At the Center for Astrophysics, we exploit quantum physics to advance the state-of-the-art in measurement and imaging, and then apply these tools to search for Earth-like planets around other stars and probe the nature, history, and fate of the Universe. Sometimes, these quantum tools can also be applied to down-to-Earth problems — ranging from health to navigation.

Learn more about Quantum Tools to Explore the Universe…and Help Life on Earth.

2018 Oct 18

Memories of the Kings and Queens of Kush: Archaeology and Heritage at El Kurru

6:00pm

Location:

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Geoff Emberling, Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

Ancient Nubia was one of Africa’s earliest centers of political authority, wealth, and military power. After the Nubian kings and queens of Kush rose to power around 800 BCE, they controlled a vast empire along the Middle Nile (now Northern Sudan) and conquered Egypt to rule as its Twenty-fifth Dynasty. The kingdom’s political center, known as El Kurru, was first excavated by George Reisner in 1918–1919 on behalf of the...

2018 Oct 18

Guest Speaker: José Esparza Chong Cuy

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Stubbins, Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

José Esparza Chong Cuy is the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where he recently co-organized a major collection exhibition to celebrate the museum’s 50thanniversary and curated solo shows of Tania Pérez Córdova and Mika Horibuchi. Upcoming projects include a major commission with Federico Herrero, a solo exhibition with Jonathas de Andrade, and a large-scale retrospective on the life and work of Lina Bo Bardi, co-organized with the Museu de arte de São Paulo and the Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Prior to the MCA Chicago, Esparza Chong Cuy was...

2018 Oct 17

An Evening with Ian Schrager

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Since the 70's, entrepreneur Ian Schrager, Founder and Chairman of Ian Schrager Company, has achieved international recognition for concepts that have revolutionized the entertainment, residential...

2018 Oct 16

Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture: Bruno Latour

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Bruno Latour is now emeritus professor associated with the médialab and the program in political arts (SPEAP) of Sciences Po Paris. Since January 2018 he is for two years fellow at the Zentrum fur Media Kunst (ZKM) and professor at the HfG both in Karlsruhe. Member of several academies and recipient of six honorary doctorate, he is the recipient in 2013 of the Holberg Prize. He has written and edited more than twenty books and published more than one hundred and fifty articles.

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2018 Oct 16

Nature vs. Fiction in Sci-Fi Movies

6:00pm

Location:

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Miaki Ishii, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

Recent volcanic eruptions in Hawaii and Guatemala remind us of how devastating these geological eruptions can be. Popular culture depictions of volcanic disasters found in movies like Dante’s Peak and Volcano can strongly distort the public’s understanding of volcanic activity and its immediate effects. As with many science-fiction films, Hollywood depictions of natural phenomena don’t always align with the scientific facts. Seismologist Miaki...

2018 Oct 16

Dragonfly Eyes: What Counts as Art Today?

4:15pm

Location:

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

Xu Bing is a world-renowned artist, professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), and an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. Working at the forefront of Chinese contemporary art, Xu has focused with particular intricacy on the challenges of translation between East and West. This discussion will delve into the range of Xu’s art and its multifaceted impact on the global contemporary art world.

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2018 Oct 15

Can Baby Corals Improve the Reefs of Tomorrow?

6:00pm

Location:

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Aaron Hartmann, 2017–2018 Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Coral reefs are one of Earth’s most biodiverse and imperiled ecosystems. Corals form the foundation of this ecosystem. Substantial effort is being invested to help adult corals survive environmental degradation, but less attention is paid to their offspring and how they establish themselves on the seafloor. Unlike adult corals, baby corals move about in the water column, perhaps allowing them to...

2018 Oct 13

Opening Reception: Raise a Glass – A Contemporary Response to Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World

4:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Harvard Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave, Allston, MA 02134

Join us to celebrate the opening of Raise a Glass—A Contemporary Response to Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World, an exhibition at the Harvard Ceramics Program that is inspired by the Harvard Art Museums’ current special exhibition, Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings.

On view from October 13 through November 26, 2018, Raise a Glass features contemporary ceramic artists responding to the elaborate vessels featured in the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition. Fourteen internationally recognized...

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