2021 Nov 17
Indian Collectibles: Appropriations and Resistance in the Haudenosaunee Homelands
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Scott Manning Stevens is an associate professor and director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University. In this lecture, he will discuss his new project, which focuses on ways Indigenous communities can confront cultural alienation and appropriation in museums, galleries, and archives.
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2021 Nov 15
Black Women and the American University: Eileen Southern's Story
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Join us for a one-hour webinar exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of The Music of Black Americans: A History and founder and editor of The Black Perspective in Music. In 1976, Eileen Southern became the first African American woman tenured in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Southern played an important institutional role at Harvard. She was central in developing the Department of Afro-American Studies (now African and African American Studies), serving as an early chair, and was on the faculty of the Department of Music, where she taught...
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2021 Nov 15
Black Women and the American University: Eileen Southern’s Story
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Join us for a one-hour webinar exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of “The Music of Black Americans: A History” and founder and editor of “The Black Perspective in Music.”
In 1976, Eileen Southern (1920–2002) became the first African American woman tenured in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She was central in developing...
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2021 Nov 15
ArtsBites: Actor & Playwright John Cariani
12:00pm
Location: 
Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online
ArtsBites is the OFA round-table discussion series with undergraduate students and visiting artists. Discover and explore how you can create an expressive career and a performative life. Join us for a conversation with John Cariani, Tony-nominated actor and playwright for Almost, Maine, featured this fall in Caroline, or Change on Broadway. This event is in partnership with Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club.
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2021 Nov 15
Aude-Line Dulière, "The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Stories on Dismantling and Reuse"
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Dulière, winner of Harvard Graduate School of Design's 2018 Wheelwright Prize, presents the conclusion of her research proposal, offering a collection of stories on the use and reuse of materials across building sites, demolition sites, salvage yards, quarries, film sets, and other out-of-the-way locations.
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2021 Nov 13
Harvard Dance Center Showing: Initiation – In Love Solidarity
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Dance Center—Online or in-person
Initiation – In Love Solidarity is a choreographic narrative exploring the embodiment of the Middle Passage, and the resilience and evolving identities of women in the African diaspora. A film component of the work was created at historic sites in New England related to the transatlantic slave trade and emancipation. The imagery of the cowrie shell is present throughout, chosen as an emblem of the transformative identity of the Black female body.
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2021 Nov 12
Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic: Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders (Part 2)
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Arts and sciences flourished in the Dutch Republic during the 17th century. Women such as Anna Maria van Schurman, Margareta van Godewick, and Anna Roemer Visscher excelled in scholarly pursuits and art practice. They were greatly admired, but they were nonetheless categorized as exceptional cases and never possessed the freedom to voice ideas enjoyed by their male counterparts. Working in a variety of art forms, including miniature painting, drawing, embroidery, and paper cutting, these women often meant to address no other audience than the artist herself.
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2021 Nov 10
Li Hu + Huang Wenjing | OPEN, "Imagine"
7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Through stories behind six recent cultural projects from the studio, Hu and Wenjing, Founding Partners of OPEN, discuss the changing role and opportunity for architects in a transformative society, and the importance of being radical yet poetic at the same time.
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2021 Nov 10
Biogeography across Broken Continents and Sunken Islands
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
The major continents of the Southern Hemisphere—Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica—as well as India and islands in the Pacific, were once part of Gondwana, an ancient supercontinent that began to break up about 180 million years ago. How did this breakup influence the evolution of ecosystems and organisms found on modern continents and islands? This is one of the questions that biogeography, the study of how organisms are distributed across space and time, seeks to answer. Gonzalo Giribet will discuss how he uses biogeography and tiny invertebrate species to understand the...
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2021 Nov 10
Tell the truth but tell it slant—Behind the Scenes of Apple TV+’s Dickinson
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Houghton Library—Online
Join Houghton Library for a peek behind the scenes of Apple TV+’s Dickinson, a biographical comedy about poet Emily Dickinson. Show creator Alena Smith, Set Decorator Marina Parker, and Costume Designer Jennifer Moeller will be joined by Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Deidre Lynch to delve into the research and creativity driving the show. The show’s archive—scripts, set and costume designs, tone books, and more—are now housed at Houghton Library as part of its Emily Dickinson Collection.
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2021 Nov 10
Where Does Our Leftover Food Go? A Conversation About Food Recovery at Harvard
4:30pm
Location: 
Food Literacy Project—Online
Every day, Harvard Dining Services operates more than a dozen dining halls at Harvard College, and every day, a certain amount of hot food goes untouched. What happens to this leftover food? Join us for a discussion with Sasha Purpura, Executive Director at local non-profit, Food for Free, and Crista Martin, Director for Strategic Initiatives and Communications at HUDS. Learn more about what happens to leftover food in dining halls, how food insecurity affects the local community, and how Harvard students can reduce food waste and combat food insecurity.
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2021 Nov 10
Gutman Library Book Talk: 100 Days in Vietnam: A Memoir of Love, War, and Survival
1:30pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online
Painstakingly recreated from wartime letters and remembrances and contextualized by contemporary news accounts, 100 Days in Vietnam is a collaboration between Joe and his son Matthew A. Tallon, Ed.M.'09, Administrative Director of Faculty Support Services at HGSE, also an Army veteran.
Here we experience the war through the emotions of the man who survived it: the drudgery and monotony of airfield life, the heartache of a newlywed missing his wife, the terror of combat missions, the agony of injury and rehabilitation, and the bittersweet relief from the completion of...
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2021 Nov 10
The Biology of Intimacy: A Synthesis
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Join Steven Phelps, a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas, Austin, for a discussion of his work using evolutionary neurobiology and social neuroscience to probe how and why species form attachments.
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2021 Nov 09
After-School Animal Encounters: Teeming Tidepools
4:00pm to 4:45pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Tidepools exist where the land meets the ocean and the amazingly resilient creatures that live there manage the challenges of both environments. From swimming and climbing to burrowing, animals in tidepools have adapted many behaviors to live in an ever-changing world. Join human museum staffers Javier and Ryan as they lead you in a 45-minute program with live ocean invertebrates. This event will be fun for the whole family so bring your questions and sense of wonder.
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2021 Nov 08
The Climate of Resistance
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Divinity School—Online
This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speakers are Chloe Aridjis, award-winning novelist, Sea Monsters (2020) and organizer for Writers Rebel, and Wanjira Mathai, Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute.
Activists Aridjis and Mathai are powerful, fierce, compassionate leaders in the global environmental movement. A writer and an organizer, they are also the daughters of iconic conservation heroes: Homero Aridjis,...
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2021 Nov 05
Michael Twitty, "Beyond 'Slave Food': Re-Organizing the Perceptions and Potential of African American Foodways"
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online
Culinary historian Michael Twitty, author of the James Beard-winning book, The Cooking Gene, discusses the impact of the collective perceptions of African American foodways on how we experience a broader vision of healing. With such foodways often stigmatized as a continuation of socio-cultural trauma or defended with a mark of "authentic" racial identity, Twitty offers alternative ways to see how the revitalization of ancestral foodways and culinary justice is a necessary part of our collective national experience.
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2021 Nov 05
Vernal Life: Ruth Easterbrook (Opening Reception and Talk)
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Gallery 224, Harvard Ceramics Program, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Solo exhibition of work by Ruth Easterbrook, 2019-20 Artist In Residence at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard.
Opening Reception is on Friday, November 5 from 5:00pm–7:00pm with a gallery talk at 6:00pm; advance registration required for in-person or...
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2021 Nov 05
Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic: Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders (Part 1)
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic was a fast-paced, successful, modern society—economically, politically, and artistically. The work ethic of its citizens amazed foreign visitors, who compared the Dutch to crawling ants. Its flourishing art production showed the bustle of everyday life with almost scientific precision. Yet many artworks amassed by Dutch citizens in their homes portray scenes of silence and serenity. Such works, including genre pieces by Johannes Vermeer and still lifes featuring fruit, nuts or bread by Willem Heda and Adriaen Coorte, suggest a deep engagement with...
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2021 Nov 05
ArtsBites: Playwright Jocelyn Bioh
12:00pm
Location: 
Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online
ArtsBites is the OFA round-table discussion series with undergraduate students and visiting artists. Discover and explore how you can create an expressive career and a performative life. Join us for a conversation with Jocelyn Bioh, performer and playwright who adapted Merry Wives of Windsor for Shakespeare in the Park in New York City. This event is in partnership with Harvard BlackCAST.
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2021 Nov 04
Virtual Student Guide Tour: This Land Is Whose Land?, with Jacqueline Zoeller
8:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
On this tour commemorating Native American Heritage Month, Jacqueline Zoeller ’23 will contrast colonial visions of the Western U.S. landscape, such as Albert Bierstadt’s Rocky Mountains, “Lander’s Peak” (1863), with the realities lived and portrayed by Native American artists. Stops on the tour will include Diné artist Will Wilson’s Mexican Hat Disposal Cell (2020), a landscape photograph of Halchita, Utah, the Navajo...
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