Events

2022 Feb 15

Apply to Volunteer at the Arnold Arboretum

Repeats every day until Thu Mar 10 2022 .

(All day)

Location:

Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

Make a difference as an Arnold Arboretum Field Study Guide! Training for the spring season of school programs at the Arboretum begins March 29. We are looking for outgoing and mature adults who can commit to two years of volunteering. You do not need to know about plants, but experience working with children is preferred. If you are interested, please complete an application by March 11 for an interview.

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Clay—Modeling African Design

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

On View:
November 17, 2018–November 13, 2022
University Collections Gallery, African Art, Harvard Art Museums

This exhibition highlights artistic innovation and creativity in Africa as seen primarily through the traditions of ceramic arts from across the continent and over its long history. Countering the assumption that African arts and societies are largely unchanging and bound to traditions and customs, the remarkable diversity of objects and styles on display here tells a different story. A selection of more than 50 works on loan from the...

Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World

Location:

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World explores how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around the ancient Mediterranean transformed the lives and livelihoods of people at all levels of society, driving innovations that had lasting impacts—even on the modern world.

Make an advance reservation to visit the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

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Muchos Méxicos: Crossroads of the Americas

Location:

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 1 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Muchos Méxicos explores Mexico’s rich history as a site of human innovation, creativity and cultural diversity. Featuring Mexican objects from the Peabody Museum collections, this bilingual exhibit tells the story of Mexico as a multicultural and geographic crossroads—one where the exchange of resources, products, and ideas among Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas before the Spanish invasion, and then with cultures around the globe—have all created a vibrant nation.

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From the Hands of the Makers

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

Over their fifty years creating the Glass Flowers, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, father and son, continually experimented with materials and methods that pushed the boundaries of glassworking. Years later, their complex and varied practices presented unique challenges for the conservators preserving and protecting the models, which led to a suite of conservation processes nearly as varied as the Blaschka’s techniques. From the Hands of the Makers explores what it takes to both make and conserve a model and investigates the lingering mysteries surrounding the making of the glass...

Registration Deadline: Marketing Essentials for Small Businesses (4-part series)

Location:

Harvard Ed Portal—Online

No matter how good your product or service is, the way you communicate with your customers can determine its success. Discover the forces that influence the purchasing habits of your customers and learn how to win them over with an effective marketing strategy.

The Harvard Ed Portal is pleased to offer Allston-Brighton and Cambridge residents, business owners, and entrepreneurs this valuable four-part virtual workshop that meets once a week. You will learn how to:

Foster a marketing orientation within your team

Himalayan Art: Art of the Divine Abode

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

On View:
January 22, 2022–May 8, 2022
University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Drawn from the museums’ rich Asian art collections, this installation complements a Harvard undergraduate course that explores the art of the Himalayan region, focusing on the major cultural centers such as the Kathmandu Valley and Buddhist sites across the Tibetan plateau, while examining the history of reception and imagination of the Himalayas in the west. The course is taught by Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art. In...

Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

On View:
January 22, 2022–May 8, 2022
University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

From swaddling newborns to enshrouding the deceased, woven fabrics touch nearly every aspect of human existence. The textiles in this exhibition are particularly meaningful, for they tell a bigger story about political and social power, class, trade, and concerns for the afterlife during a transformative period in Egyptian history. In the medieval era, control of the region shifted repeatedly, as Egypt was subsumed under a sequence of empires—Byzantine,...

The Climate of Community

Location:

Harvard Divinity School—Online

This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speaker for this community tea ceremony is Brian Kirbis of Theasophie.

Tea Master Brian Kirbis, who will open each of our sessions with a tea pouring to set a tone of well-being and attention, will take us through a formal tea ceremony. As a global community online, we will be able to sit and sip in collective silence to contemplate all we have heard and taken into our minds during these sessions....

College Apps 101: The Possible Pathways

Location:

Online via Zoom

What's the 411, the down and dirty, the need-to-know about college applications? What kinds of schools are even out there? How do we pick where to apply? Can I just copy-and-paste the same essay over and over? Get the deets from our college application pros!

This college preparation workshop is for Allston, Brighton, Cambridge, and Boston high school students.

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The Climate of the Future

Location:

Harvard Divinity School—Online

This conversation is part of the series "Weather Reports: The Climate of Now." The featured speaker is novelist Kim Stanley Robinson.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s thriller The Ministry for the Future (2020) is science fiction that reads as hard-edged journalism. With short chapters and a myriad of characters, Robinson creates a kaleidoscope of perspectives on a global climate collapse coming in 2025. Bill McKibben writes “In Kim Stanley Robinson’s anti-dystopian novel, climate change...

Katie Bosley Artist Lecture

Location:

Harvard Ceramics Program—Online

Join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard via Zoom for a talk with artist and Ceramics Program instructor Katie Bosley about her ceramic work. Katie Bosley is the 2021 Artist In Residence at Mudflat Studio in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Katie Bosley is originally from Clearwater, Florida. She earned her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 2021 and her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Florida in 2014. Katie has been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana and Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota,...

Art and Thought in the Dutch Republic: Erasmus Lectures on the History and Civilization of the Netherlands and Flanders (Part 3)

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

The new genre of interior painting enjoyed great popularity among 17th-century Dutch citizens. Its indoor scenes featuring people involved in mundane activities resemble the domestic settings in which they were hung. Other art forms such as perspective boxes and dollhouses further reinforce the link connecting physical, pictorial, and mental space by relating home to the interiority of the individual.

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Afghanistan and Its Consequences

Location:

Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center—Online

Ryan Crocker, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon, will share his unique perspective on Afghanistan and offer insight into the implications of the 2021 Taliban takeover for the country and the region at large.

Learn more about and register for this virtual event.

Film Screening: The Airstrip

Location:

Harvard Film Archive—Online

In collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums' current exhibit Devour the Land, the Harvard Film Archive presents a program of films that critically engage landscape as a site where deeper political, socio-cultural and historical forces are powerfully legible.

The Airstrip is a profound study of the heavy legacy of modernist architecture that traces its deep roots in the fascist ideologies and militarist imperatives that rose to strength in the WWII era and continue to gain strength to this day.

Cost: $10 / Free for Harvard affiliates....

Reconstructing Queen Amanishakheto’s Musical Instruments

Location:

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

Double reed pipes, known as auloi, were popular musical instruments in the ancient Mediterranean. In 1921, archaeologists exploring the necropolis of Meroë (northern Sudan)—as part of the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition—found a large collection of auloi in the pyramid of Nubian Queen Amanishakheto. Susanne Gänsicke will discuss the discovery’s importance and what it reveals about the connections between Nubia and the Mediterranean world as well as the significance of far-reaching musical traditions. She will also share recent efforts to conserve...

Jacqueline Woodson – Saving Our Stories: On Writing to Remember

Location:

Houghton Library—Online

As the pushback against stories that center on nonwhite characters continues to threaten the fabric of the American narrative, this lecture will serve as a reminder of why our stories truly matter.

Jacqueline Woodson is an internationally-acclaimed children's and young adult author with over eight million books in print. She has received more than 300 awards, including the National Book Award, four Newbery Honors, three Coretta Scott King medals, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Beyond COP26: Next Steps in the Fight Against Climate Change

Location:

Harvard Chan School of Public Health—Online

Scientists, health leaders, and politicians alike have described COP26 as our last, best chance to slow global warming and stave off some of the worst health effects of climate change. But the political environment remains fraught. And it’s unclear how rhetoric will translate into action.

Our expert panel brings together leading voices in the fight against climate change, fresh from the halls of the COP26 Summit. They’ll talk through key outcomes and next steps. Bring questions!

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Useful Objects: Nineteenth-Century Museums and American Culture

Location:

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

What can the history of museums tell us about their role in American culture today? What kinds of objects were considered worth collecting, and who decided their value? Join Reed Gochberg, author of Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, September 2021) to learn about the early history of American museums, including Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. In conversation with HMSC...

Education Now: Our Earliest Learners & their Caregivers

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online

The early education landscape continues to shift under the weight of pandemic impacts. Join us as we take a look at where things stand for our young learners, their families, and the early educators who are trying to serve their needs.

We’ll highlight all that we know about the current challenges in early learning that need critical attention. We'll explore how our caregivers are managing their own stresses and helping young children navigate disruption and instability. And we’ll also offer strategies for perseverance and even innovation, focusing in on the solutions that...

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