2018 Sep 25
Creating a King for Eternity
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Florence D. Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology,
Brown University
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2018 Sep 24
Conflict and the Global Threat of Pandemics
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Michele Barry, Professor of Medicine; Senior Associate Dean of Global Health; Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University
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2018 Sep 20
Breakpoint: Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises
6:00pm
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TBD
Jeremy Jackson, Emeritus Professor of Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Senior Scientist Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution
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2018 Sep 05
Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Please join us for a conversation among the curators, Eve Blau and Robert Pietrusko, and invited media theorists, Laura Kurgan,...
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2018 Jun 16

Unnatural Selection

2:00pm

Location: 

Haller Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

When Charles Darwin considered how best to introduce his controversial new theory of evolution to the general public, he chose to liken it... Read more about Unnatural Selection

2018 Apr 30
Passports: Lives in Transit
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Location: 
Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge
This exhibition conceives of passports as the ruins of a modern dream now in terminal crisis – the dream of a globalized world. Drawing on the collections of Harvard Library, Passports: Lives in Transit addresses this major contemporary issue through the lens of passports, visa applications, and other documents associated with noteworthy nineteenth- and twentieth-century travelers, émigrés and refugees. Also on view, items of personal significance to a Harvard student telling a story of Latino immigration to the U.S., as well as a site-specific multimedia art installation of...
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2018 Apr 17

Henry N. Cobb, Peter Eisenman, and Rafael Moneo, “How Will Architecture Be Conceived?”

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

Please join us for an evening with Rafael Moneo, Henry N. Cobb, and Peter Eisenman as they investigate the question, “How will architecture be conceived?” Each... Read more about Henry N. Cobb, Peter Eisenman, and Rafael Moneo, “How Will Architecture Be Conceived?”

2018 Apr 06

Who Belongs? Global Citizenship and Gender in the 21st Century

9:00am to 5:00pm

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

The very meaning of citizenship at local, national, and global levels is in flux in most countries and continents. More than 65 million human beings are... Read more about Who Belongs? Global Citizenship and Gender in the 21st Century

2018 Mar 27
The Camp and the City
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge
Please join Luis Valenzuela and Felipe Vera for a discussion of their new book The Camp and the City: Territories of Extraction, co-edited by Jeannette Sordi.
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2018 Mar 22

Thomas Phifer Evening Lecture

6:30pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

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

Since 1997, Thomas Phifer’s New York-based firm has designed numerous civic, cultural, and educational institutions including the Corning Museum of... Read more about Thomas Phifer Evening Lecture

2018 Mar 20

Suad Amiry, "Reclaiming Space: Riwaq’s 50 Village Project in Rural Palestine"

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

In 2005 Riwaq made a significant shift from the conservation of single building to the rehabilitation of entire historic centers.... Read more about Suad Amiry, "Reclaiming Space: Riwaq’s 50 Village Project in Rural Palestine"

2018 Mar 19
Ancient Egypt in Africa: New Excavations at the Island Fortress of Uronarti
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge
Ancient Egyptian kings conquered Lower Nubia—today northern Sudan—nearly 4,000 years ago, defending it with a string of monumental... Read more about Ancient Egypt in Africa: New Excavations at the Island Fortress of Uronarti
2018 Mar 01

Aaron Sachs, “A Common Treasury for All”: Toward a Deeper History of Environmental Justice"

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge

In recent years, environmental justice scholarship has exploded. But virtually every relevant piece of work has understood the history of... Read more about Aaron Sachs, “A Common Treasury for All”: Toward a Deeper History of Environmental Justice"

2018 Feb 22

The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan

4:15pm

Location: 

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the Papers of June Jordan at the Schlesinger Library, this panel discussion features scholars, poets, and activists... Read more about The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan

2018 Feb 15

The Racial Imaginary and American Poetry: A Lecture with Claudia Rankine

4:15pm

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Claudia Rankine is an American poet, chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University. In this talk, Rankine... Read more about The Racial Imaginary and American Poetry: A Lecture with Claudia Rankine

2018 Feb 07

Who Would Choose to Be LGBT and Nigerian!?

4:00pm

Location: 

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Ifeoma Fafunwa RI ’18 is the creator of the popular stage play HEAR WORD! Naija Women Talk True. In this presentation, Fafunwa will speak about her latest production... Read more about Who Would Choose to Be LGBT and Nigerian!?

2017 Dec 16

From Stone to Silicone

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Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

The Harvard Semitic Museum is reimagining its grand third-floor atrium gallery, featuring the arts of ancient Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). This... Read more about From Stone to Silicone

2017 Dec 07

Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

6:00pm

Location: 

Emerson Hall, 25 Quincy St, Cambridge

A discussion of origin stories with Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University), Meredith Reiches (University of Massachusetts Boston), and Richard... Read more about Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

2017 Dec 06

Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

4:00pm

Location: 

First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Ave

The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard present the Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Bryan... Read more about Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

2017 Nov 30

“Let the Indian Paint His Own Picture”: Alice Fletcher and Cultural Representation Paradoxes

6:00pm

Location: 

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

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