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    2023 May 17

    Tell Me Everything

    12:00pm

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    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Homeira Qaderi is an Afghan writer, activist, and educator. She is writing a novel, based on her lived experience, that covers the last three decades of political turmoil, military invasions, and social upheaval in Afghanistan.

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    2023 May 16

    Art Talk Live: Collecting, Curating, and Teaching: Photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Fogg Museum

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    This talk focuses on how curators Davis Pratt, at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Fogg Museum, and Barbara Norfleet, at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, collected and curated photographs as teaching tools beginning in the 1960s. Curatorial fellow Jackson Davidow will also consider what types of photography were prioritized in these early collections, and whose images and voices were left out.

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    2023 May 13

    Science Spotlights

    2:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Meet up-and-coming scientists and learn about questions at the forefront of research today in this series of short talks. Perhaps you’ll discuss how studying dog reactions help us learn about the evolution of social behavior? Maybe you’ll consider the regrowth of a microscopic worm after injury and what that can teach us about any animal cell. Will you look at how trees manage the tradeoffs of building woody tissue or look for geological evidence of Earth’s first billion years? Each Science Spotlight in the series will include several short research talks.

    Ages 10–Adults....

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    2023 May 13

    Bilingual Exhibition – Shehuo: Community Fire

    Sat May 13 (All day) to Sun Apr 14 (All day)

    Location: 

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

    Zhang Xiao, the 11th recipient of the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, brings us on a bilingual photographic exploration of the transformation of Shehuo, a traditional spring festival held in rural northern China that coincides with the New Year. When Zhang began his photography in 2008, shehuo (社火,community fire) was celebrated with great regional variation, and included prayers for a good harvest and ritual performances of local folk tales. A decade later, he found that the festival—while still fascinating and visually engaging—had become a highly...

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    2023 May 11

    Exhibition Preview and Conversation: "Shehuo: Zhang Xiao’s Photography of Rural China"

    6:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Contemporary photographer Zhang Xiao explores the impact of rapid economic change and urbanization on Chinese rural landscapes and traditions. In this conversation with artist and scholar Ou Ning, Zhang will share his aesthetic approach to documenting Shehuo (社火, “community fire”), a cultural festival held in Northern China that commemorates the Chinese Lunar New Year.

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    2023 May 11

    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

    1:00pm to 1:30pm

    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. Ballard will share insights about the ways in which the idea of “America” and the canon of American art are inseparable from the histories of Spanish colonialism across the hemisphere.

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    2023 May 11

    [CANCELED] Out of Many: American Stories

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    A Conversation with the writer Anand Giridharadas, who is the author of the international best seller Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Knopf, 2018) and the forthcoming The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy (Knopf, 2022). A former foreign correspondent and columnist for the New York Times for more than a decade, he has also written for the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and Time, and he is the publisher of the popular newsletter The.Ink.

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    2023 May 09

    Solidarity! Exhibition Gallery Tour

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library, 3 James St., Cambridge

    Please join the Radcliffe Institute for a tour of the Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now exhibition led by student guides and staff from the Schlesinger Library.

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    2023 May 08

    An Evening of Georgian Culture with Shota Saganelidze

    5:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S010, Cambridge

    The Program on Georgian Studies presents Georgian artist and Master Calligrapher Shota Saganelidze for a night of Georgian art and culture.

    Shota's distinctive art style uses the three Georgian alphabets to create portraits of influential figures from Georgian history. At this event, Mariam Tabakhmelashvili will speak about Georgian script, followed by a multimedia art presentation from Shota, including live music. After the presentation, there will be Caucasian food and an interactive art project. Come learn more about Georgian culture, enjoy live music and art, and eat...

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    2023 May 07

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

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for a tour of the special exhibition From the Andes to the Caribbean, with associate curator Horace D. Ballard. Ballard will share insights about the ways in which the idea of "America" and the canon of American art are inseparable from the histories of Spanish colonialism across the hemisphere.

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    2023 May 06

    Guided Tours at Arnold Arboretum

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    Location: 

    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Join us for a walk through the Arboretum! Tour seasonal plant highlights and learn about Arboretum history from a trained docent. Tour is 90 minutes long.

    Tour times are at 10:30am or 1:00pm, depending on availability.

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    2023 May 03

    Gender and Racial Capitalism: Atlantic Geographies of Sexual and Social Reproduction

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    2022–2023 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow Elizabeth Maddock Dillon will talk about her book-in-progress that explores the forms of racialized labor, property ownership, and inheritance that shaped plantation culture in the early Caribbean and laid the groundwork for structures of gender and race that persist into the present.

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    2023 May 02

    When Leaders Become Parties: Populism, Charisma, and Party Building in the Andes

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Online or at CGIS South, S-216, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

    This talk will discuss the crisis of Peruvian democracy as an extreme case of 'Democratic Hollowing' in Latin America. Unlike conventional views that focus on power concentration as the natural threat to democracy, the concept of democratic hollowing instead focuses on the threats stemming from power dilution.

    Speaker: Rodrigo Barrenechea Carpio, Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Católica del Uruguay...

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    2023 Apr 27

    ArtsThursdays at HMSC

    5:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

    Explore the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture at night! Enjoy free admission at two HMSC museums as part of ArtsThursdays. Too much to see in one visit? ArtsThursdays at HMSC, on the last Thursday of each month, is always free.

    Harvard Museum of Natural History

    Visit the new exhibits Swimming with Sharks and In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, as well as the world-famous Glass Flowers. Find your birthstone in the newly renovated mineral gallery, see large tigers, and view dinosaur fossils in the paleontology gallery....

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    2023 Apr 22

    Alfred Russel Wallace Turns 200!: A Night of Lightning Talks and Birthday Drinks

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Dive into the world of Alfred Russel Wallace at this science-packed birthday party. In celebration of the bicentenary of Wallace’s birth, Harvard scholars and guest speakers will introduce his key contributions to our understanding of evolution, biodiversity, and biogeography. While unjustly relegated to a footnote in the Charles Darwin story, Wallace was, in fact, a pioneering biologist in his own right.

    Cost: $20 nonmembers / $15 members and Harvard ID holders
    Ticket includes full access to museum galleries and a special Wallace-themed mocktail...

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