Events

Art Talk Live: The Secret Life of Ptahshepses Impy

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Harvard Art Museums—Online

Join Egyptologist Jen Thum for an engaging look at the results of new research on the tomb relief of Ptahshepses Impy, an Egyptian official. Thum will explore the implications of this research, including possible changes to the display of the relief to indicate missing portions.

Learn more about and register for this virtual event.

Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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Harvard Law School—Online

The jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has been profoundly influential in the region since its inception in 1979. Since 2017, the Court has built up case law on the right to health, addressing an array of issues including: access to emergency care, HIV treatment, and health services for prison inmates; informed consent in physical and mental health care; and State duties to regulate private health providers and insurance companies.

This event will be a moderated panel discussion among scholars who have been directly involved as experts in one or more of...

Thursday Till Sunday

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Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

Sotomayor's celebrated debut feature follows a young family on a road trip, of which the final destination remains ambiguous. Told largely from the point of view of ten-year-old Lucia as she observes the world unfolding before her and intuits her parents’ fraying relationship, Thursday Till Sunday avoids over-narrativization by focusing upon those in-between spaces and non-events noticed by the young girl.

Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard ID holders

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Information Equity and Freedom Of Speech: U.S. Latino Communities

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Harvard Kennedy School—Online

The prevalence of “fake news” in the media and across social networks has received widespread scrutiny, while the implications of fake news on equity for the U.S. Latino communities has received less attention. U.S. Latino communities have been targeted by misinformation campaigns and are particularly vulnerable to its harms.

This conversation, moderated by C. Yulin Cruz Soto, will explore the intersections between fake news, freedom of speech, and equitable access to information. Speakers include Jorge Ramos, a Mexican-American journalist, author, and Univision news anchor...

Health Equity in Native America Summit

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Online

Please join medical, community and academic leaders from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and institutions across the United States for a conversation about the health and the resilience of Indigenous communities.

Learn more and register for this virtual event.

Gutman Library Book Talk - Leadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Confidence and Skill of Principals

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Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online

Leadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Principals Confidence and Skill lays out the case for the development of robust mentorship programs to support new school leaders. With principal turnover at an all-time high, it is urgent that schools and districts find ways to help newly appointed leaders grow into effective supervisors, managers, and strategic thinkers who can also find personal and professional satisfaction in their careers.

Using examples from several established and successful state programs, Leadership Through Mentoring shows how...

Screening: The Blue Eyes of Yonta

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Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

Gomes' second film is a bold follow-up to Mortu Nega that extends its critical scrutiny of post-liberation Guinea-Bissau through a poignantly nuanced story of ardent dreams fractured across different generations. The eponymous heroine of The Blue Eyes of Yonta is a spirited young woman smitten with an old family friend, a hero of the revolution falling on hard times as he struggles to keep his business afloat and stay true to his ideals despite the corrosive pressures of the black market.

Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors...

Arnold Arboretum: Guided Tours

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Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

On Saturdays and Sundays in April, join us for a 90-minute walk through the Arboretum! Tour seasonal plant highlights and learn about Arboretum history from a trained docent.

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Screening: The Children's Republic

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Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

In a post-war civilization run by children, director Flora Gomes explores concepts of symbolism and magical realism to tell the tale of a utopian society and its young inhabitants. The Children’s Republic sheds light on an era of national liberation and harmony, where only children—aside from Dubem the advisor, played by Danny Glover—are left to seek peace and redemption from the death and destruction of their nation's lingering past.

Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard ID holders

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Hale County This Morning, This Evening with RaMell Ross in Person

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Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

Evolving from his large-format photographs—the same medium of Walker Evans and William Christenberry who also famously focused their lenses on rural Hale County, Alabama—Ross walks a multi-dimensional path both alongside and away from these artistic predecessors. As suns set and moons rise and eclipse, Ross’ camera moves fluidly in and out of invisibility and interaction, capturing moments miniscule and monumental, quotidian and otherworldly, with the same curious, clear eye.

Cost: $15 (free for Harvard ID holders)

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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Printmaking and Womanhood, with Sinead Danagher, Calla Bai, and Alexis Boo

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Harvard Art Museums—Online

In celebration of Women's History Month, Sinead Danagher '22, Calla Bai '22, and Alexis Boo '22, three Ho Family Student Guides who were classmates in Harvard's Critical Printing seminar last fall, will explore printmaking and how it relates to womanhood. They will examine a variety of works from the collections.

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Exploring Egypt’s Middle Kingdom at the Site of Ancient Thebes

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Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

One of ancient Egypt's high points of cultural, intellectual, and social life was the period referred to as the Middle Kingdom (2030–1650 BCE). The ancient city of Thebes (modern Luxor) was the Egyptian capital during the early stage of this period and the site of multiple funerary temples and tombs. In this lecture, Egyptologist Antonio Morales will discuss an international and multidisciplinary project that is conducting archaeological, historical, and cultural research, as well as conservation work, in Deir el-Bahari and Asasif—two funerary areas at Thebes—to better understand the...

Fossil Fuels, Health, and Frontline Indigenous Communities

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Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health—Online

Indigenous communities have a long history of living with and learning from the environment, but the extraction and transportation of fossil fuels near their communities, along with unjust policies, have put their health and the climate at risk and impacted tribal sovereignty. Join us for a discussion of how we can uplift Indigenous voices and curb the impacts of fossil fuel extraction on frontline communities.

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Rachel Dorothy Tanur Memorial Lecture: Sam Olbekson, “Culture, Community, and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Indigenous Design”

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Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online

Creating a strong sense of place is critical to cultural identity in Native American communities. New tribal building and planning projects provide significant opportunities for tribal communities to reinforce cultural revival efforts while advancing economic, educational, and healthcare initiatives. This session will encourage an open and interactive discussion of the central issues in tribal design and efforts to lead a fundamental shift toward culturally appropriate design solutions and self-determination. Plus, this session will highlight diverse Native American projects that have...

Field Studies: Hierarchy, Power Dynamics, and the Human Narrative

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Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

Elizabeth A. Baker is a new renaissance artist who chiefly explores how sonic and spatial worlds can be manipulated to personify a variety of philosophies and principles, both tangible and intangible. In this lecture, she will discuss her new creation: Field Studies, which dismantles a human-centered narrative to foster dialogue and act as revolutionary resistance against systemic inequity.

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Celebrating a Sesquicentennial: The Founding of the Arnold Arboretum

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Livestreamed or at Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre St., Boston

The Arnold Arboretum was founded on Friday, March 29, 1872. Exactly 150 years later, we invite you to join Lisa Pearson, Head of the Arboretum Library and Archives, for a special sesquicentennial lecture! Pearson will discuss the earliest benefactors of the Arboretum, the events surrounding the founding of the institution, and the busy first two decades during which the infrastructure and living collections were installed on the grounds.

This event will also be livestreamed to YouTube. To sign up for the virtual livestream instead,...

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture: Anne Lacaton

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Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online

French architect Anne Lacaton will deliver the inaugural Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture. Lacaton and partner Jean-Philippe Vassal received the 2021 Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor.

Anne Lacaton (1955, Saint-Pardoux, France) and Jean-Philippe Vassal met in the late 1970s during their formal architecture training at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux. They established Lacaton & Vassal in Paris (1987), and have since demonstrated boldness...

Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave. & Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Special In-Person Family Event! Free with Museum Admission; Admissions Reservation Required.

Experience an epic day of archaeological events with the family! Activities are scattered across two museums so explore Native North American, Central American, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Mediterranean archaeology. Throw a spear with a spear thrower. Talk to student archaeologists who excavate in locations around the world.

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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Women and Health, with Eve Crompton

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Harvard Art Museums—Online

In this tour, Eve Crompton ’23 will focus on works depicting women in poor health and what values were attributed to the figures. She will look at an Attic grave stele Woman Dying in Childbirth (c. 330 BCE); the painting Mother and Child (c. 1901) that Pablo Picasso was inspired to make after visiting a French prison hospital; and Erich Heckel’s painting ...

Feeding the Nation: Michael W. Twitty on American Foodways and the History of Enslavement

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Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

Michael W. Twitty—food writer, independent scholar, culinary historian, and historical interpreter—is the author of the Afroculinaria blog and The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. He will discuss his insights about the role of enslaved people in shaping American foodways, as well as the critical importance of including stories of the enslaved prominently in public history and historical interpretation.

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