Events

    2023 Apr 20

    Gallery Talk: De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español/From the Andes to the Caribbean: American art from the Spanish Empire

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for a guided look at works of art in the special exhibition From the Andes to the Caribbean, with associate curator Horace D. Ballard.

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    2023 Apr 19

    Fascism in America

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Omer Aziz is the author of "Brown Boy: A Memoir" and a former foreign policy advisor for Justin Trudeau’s administration in Canada. Inspired by the work of Alexis de Tocqueville, he will talk about his latest project—an essay collection that examines fascism in our own time using reportage, history, law, and sociological analysis.

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    2023 Apr 18

    Divine Mortals: Royal Ancestor Worship in Deir el-Medina

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Yasmin El Shazly will discuss the importance of ancestor worship in Deir el-Medina—particularly of Amenhotep I and his mother Ahmose-Nefertari. Prominently featured in homes, artwork, and tombs, these two royal figures held important positions in the Egyptian "hierarchy of being" and exerted great influence over the daily lives of Deir el-Medina residents.

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    2023 Apr 12

    Rebellious Migrants: Forging Abolition, Cosmopolitan Identities, and Postcolonial Spaces in West Africa, 1840–1960

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Ndubueze L. Mbah is a West African Atlantic historian. He will examine how marginal West African intra-regional and trans-colonial migrants across Sierra Leone, southeastern Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon used forgery, smuggling, human trafficking, and intransigent itinerancy to express anti-imperial and abolitionist notions of freedom as well as to articulate rebellious Afropolitan belonging in ways that redefined British, Spanish, and French colonial labor and subjecthood policies in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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    2023 Apr 11

    Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join museum staff members for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.

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    2023 Apr 09

    Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join museum staff members for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.

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    2023 Apr 06

    HUNAP Annual Lecture: Tommy Orange

    6:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join the Harvard University Native American Program for a lecture by Tommy Orange, titled "The View From Here: POV, Its History and Uses in Fiction." 

    Tommy Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and the author of There There, one of the New York Times' top books of 2018 and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. This will be the third installment of the HUNAP Annual Lecture, a series of talks intended to elevate and promote the sophistication of Native ideas, arts, literature, and culture.

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    2023 Apr 06

    Gallery Talk: De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español/From the Andes to the Caribbean: American art from the Spanish Empire

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join exhibition designer Madelyn Albright for an in-depth discussion about one of the works in the exhibition De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español/From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire, on view until July 30, 2023.

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    2023 Apr 05

    Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

    3:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join graduate student intern Sammi Richter for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.

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    2023 Apr 04

    Art Talk Live: Material Wonder and Hemispheric Identities—Silver and Mahogany in the Spanish Empire

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Join associate curator Horace D. Ballard as he discusses the ideas and objects featured in the special exhibition De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español / From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire, on view through July 30, 2023.

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    2023 Apr 03

    [Gutman Library Hybrid Book Talk] Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

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    Zoom and In-Person at Gutman Conference Center, E4, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

    Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy’s deep-seated roots in our nation’s educational system through a fascinating, in-depth examination of America’s wide assortment of texts, from primary readers to college textbooks, from popular histories to the most influential academic scholarship. Sifting through a wealth of materials from the colonial era to today, Yacovone reveals the systematic ways in which this ideology has infiltrated all aspects of American culture and how it has been at the heart of our collective national identity.

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    2023 Mar 30

    Fossil Dispossession of Sioux Lands

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    The continental interior of the United States—home to many Native American communities—is a region rich in fossils. Since the nineteenth century, fossils found on Native lands have been removed and placed in museums and universities without the consent of, or proper collaboration with Native Tribes.

    Lawrence Bradley will discuss the history of fossil dispossession from Sioux lands and the legal frameworks—or lack of—that allowed it to occur. He will also examine the role that fossils taken from these lands have played in establishing vertebrate paleontology as a scientific...

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    2023 Mar 28

    Gallery Talk: Digging up Ancient Samaria-Sebaste

    3:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Explore a display about early 20th-century excavations of the ancient city of Samaria-Sebaste, with curatorial fellow Caitlin Clerkin. You’ll learn how photographs and payroll records help us rewrite the history of archaeology—one that acknowledges the people behind the excavation of the objects on display.

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    2023 Mar 26

    Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard

    1:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

    Find out how archaeology expands upon written historical records and helps to diversify our understanding of human behavior. Explore North American, South American, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian archaeology across the exhibit halls of two museums. Experience human history and prehistory through exhibits, hands-on opportunities (indoors and outdoors), and discussions with student archaeologists. Activities include ancient DNA analysis, animal mummies, King Tut’s throne, spear throwing, flintknapping, and other surprises during this popular annual event.

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    2023 Mar 22

    Intimate Inequalities

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Brodwyn Fischer is a historian of inequality and its persistence who specializes in the study of Brazil and Latin America, focusing particularly on informality, cities, citizenship, law, migration, race, and slavery and its afterlives. In this talk, she will explore the deep history of Recife, Brazil, arguing that Brazil’s profound inequalities are rooted in the informal, relational dynamics that historically undergird both Brazilian slavery and Brazilian freedom.

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    2023 Mar 21

    HUNTING & PECKING AWAY: Mabel's Newfangled Typewriter & Emily's Newfangled Poems

    6:00pm to 7:15pm

    Location: 

    Online or at Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    The Poetry Room is proud to present a lecture by Julie Dobrow, author of After Emily: Two Remarkable Women & the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet (Norton, 2018), who will explore the complicated path to publishing Dickinson's first collection and the instrumental role that Mabel Loomis Todd played, including her pioneering use of typewriters in the transcription process.

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    2023 Mar 20

    Reflecting on Religion and the Legacies of Slavery

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Divinity School—Online

    This session will be a discussion among presenters reflecting upon the insights shared throughout the series. In addition to identifying themes and throughlines among sessions, we will return to the overarching questions that framed this collaboration: What does the academic study of religion teach us about the complex histories and legacies of slavery? How can a deeper understanding of the roles of religion enhance our commitment to reparative action in our contemporary times?

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