Events

    2023 Oct 11

    The Living Dead in Ancient Egypt

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

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

    “Oh Unas, you have not gone away dead, but alive.” The Pyramid Text quoted here tells us that the ancient Egyptians believed in the continued influence of the dead in the lives of the living. The dead in ancient Egypt were supernatural intermediaries, folk heroes, and some were even deified, worshiped as gods in the Egyptian pantheon.

    This talk will build on the research found in Dr. Troche’s first book, Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt (Cornell University Press, 2021) and invite audiences to learn about the spectrum of deceased actors in ancient Egypt....

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    2023 Oct 11

    From Loneliness to Social Connection: Lessons from research and a global pandemic

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Decades of evidence across multiple scientific disciplines have accumulated pointing to widespread health impacts associated with social connection, or lack thereof. Despite this evidence, social connection has been widely assumed to be a personal issue primarily associated with emotional well-being, underappreciating the physical and public health ramifications. While a global pandemic raised awareness of loneliness and the importance of social connection, it simultaneously revealed gaps in our understanding.

    Drawing upon her work with the US Surgeon General Advisory and the...

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    2023 Oct 11

    Memorials and the Cult of Apology

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Valentina Rozas-Krause is an assistant professor in design and architecture at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, in Chile. She is an architect and a historian of the built environment who focuses on global cultural practices across the Americas and Europe. In this lecture, Rozas-Krause will examine the role that memorials play in symbolic and material reparation after political conflicts.

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    2023 Oct 11

    Community Conversation - Reimagining Black Wall Street: Economic Stability, Mobility, and Prosperity

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Design's Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging—Online

    Join the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for "Reimagining Black Wall Street: Economic Stability, Mobility, and Prosperity." In this Community Conversation, we will unpack how Black business districts came to be in the U.S. context and what contemporary requisites are essential for building a Black Wall Street today. We will discuss the necessary economic and legal opportunities to counter declining Black wealth and explore how to transition from short-term wealth accumulation to lasting intergenerational resilience.

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    2023 Oct 11

    Solidarity! Exhibition Gallery Tour

    10:00am

    Location: 

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

    Join a tour of the Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now exhibition led by student guides and staff from the Schlesinger Library.

    Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now features 50 years of transnational feminist collections held at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Through a rich array of materials—including posters, newspapers, photographs, and memorabilia—the exhibition explores the promises and limits of global feminist solidarity, while highlighting the key role of iconography in transnational feminist and...

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    2023 Oct 10

    Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Anita Berrizbeitia, "The Blue Hills: Charles Eliot’s Design Experiment (1893-1897)"

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

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

    This lecture explores how developments in the earth sciences—specifically geology, evolutionism, and biogeography—ushered in advances in design methodologies for large public–realm landscapes in late nineteenth-century Boston.

    Speaker: Anita Berrizbeitia
    Berrizbeitia is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She served as Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture between 2015-2022 and as Program Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Degree Programs between 2012-2015. Her research explores...

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    2023 Oct 10

    Curator-Led Exhibition Tour: At the Limits of the Book

    5:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    Join exhibition curator and Houghton librarian Molly Schwartzburg for a special guided tour of At the Limits of the Book: Bindings from the Houghton Library Collections. This 45-minute tour will include discussion of the themes of the exhibition, highlights from the materials on display, and ample time for participant questions.

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    2023 Oct 10

    Harvard Freecycle

    11:00am to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Smith Campus Center Arcade, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

    Do you have an overwhelming amount of office supplies? Do you need office supplies? Come and find free items that others no longer need, and share your own usable items so that they may find new use. You are free to browse items whether or not you have donated some.

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    2023 Oct 08

    Spotlight Tour: Out of This World, with Arielle Frommer '25

    2:00pm to 2:50pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    On this tour, Arielle Frommer ’25 will explore the intersection of art and astronomy in three works: Light Prop for an Electric Stage [Light-Space Modulator] (1930), a reflective kinetic sculpture by László Moholy-Nagy, who had been a professor at the Bauhaus in Germany; Prince Shōtoku at Age Two (datable to about 1292), an iconic Buddhist sculpture from Japan; and The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train (1877), a large canvas that Claude Monet painted in Paris, soon after he began painting in the Impressionist style. An astrophysics student, Frommer will ask, “How does our...

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    2023 Oct 08

    Spotlight Tour: Seeing in Art and Medicine, with Genesis Nam '24

    11:00am to 11:50am

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    On this tour, Genesis Nam ’24 will put visitors in the shoes of the radiologists who have participated in the Seeing in Art and Medical Imaging program, which is offered by the Harvard Art Museums in partnership with Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The program promotes empathy, mindfulness, and tolerance for ambiguity in the medical community through conversations about works of art, focused on themes such as care, objectivity, and power. The stops on the tour are Shutter (2006), a glazed stoneware sculpture by Rosemarie Trockel, and an Attic grave stele, Woman dying in...

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    2023 Oct 07

    Spotlight Tour: Deconstructing Disorientation, with Emily Feng '25

    2:00pm to 2:50pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    On this tour, Emily Feng ’25 will explore how certain works of art provoke a sense of disorientation. A student of philosophy and economics, Feng will look closely at three works: Saxon Motif (1964), an oil painting made in West Germany by Georg Baselitz; Zhan Wang’s Sculpture in the Form of a Nine-Hole Scholar’s Rock, made in China in 2001; and The End of the World (1936), a painting by David Alfaro Siqueiros, which he produced in New York City.

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    2023 Oct 07

    National Fossil Day

    1:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

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

    What treasures are found in the Harvard University paleontology collections? Meet Harvard paleontologists to find out! See their favorite fossils, learn about their research, and ask them your questions.

    Learn about local fossils and where to find them, see what new techniques and technologies are being used to study fossils, and hear about current research projects. Join us to celebrate National Fossil Day with short talks and table-top presentations for all ages.

    Regular museum admission rates apply.

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    2023 Oct 07

    Spotlight Tour: Sensing the Divine, with Hanna Carney '25

    11:00am to 11:50am

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    On this tour, Hanna Carney ’25 will look at multisensory religious experiences as portrayed in art and the significant role they play in people’s lives. Featured works include a bronze ritual wine vessel (late 11th–early 10th century BCE), cast in China during the Zhou dynasty, and The Miracle of the Sacred Fire, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (1892–99), an ambitious painting by Englishman William Holman Hunt, based on his multiple trips to the Holy Land. Emerging from Carney’s studies of comparative religion and the history of art and architecture, the tour encourages visitors to embrace...

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    2023 Oct 05

    Seeing in Art and Medicine: A Conversation

    6:00pm to 7:15pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for a lively conversation about the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine and the museums’ medical humanities program that inspired it. Presenters include the program’s founders, Hyewon Hyun and David Odo, and exhibition curator Jen Thum. The talk will also include interactive segments based on the work of the program.

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    2023 Oct 05

    Artist Talk and Opening Reception for This Machine Creates Opacities

    6:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for an Artist Talk and Opening Reception to celebrate the opening of This Machine Creates Opacities: Robert Fulton, Renée Green, Pierre Huyghe, and Pope.L.

    Artist Pope.L will present an artist talk that touches on his project Corbu Pops, which was originally commissioned for the Carpenter Center’s level 1 space in 2009. Various installation elements of this pivotal work have been restaged for This Machine Creates Opacities.

    Following the conversation, there will be a reception and community dinner in the sunken terrace on Level 1...

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    2023 Oct 05

    Protecting the World’s Penguins

    6:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Join Dr. Pablo Borboroglu, the 2023 Indianapolis Prize Winner for animal conservation, as he recounts his lifelong journey to save penguins. Dr. Borboroglu will highlight the challenges of conservation work, from protecting 32 million acres of ocean and coastal habitat to cofounding the Global Penguin Society, an international conservation coalition for the world’s penguin species. Hear about the risks and rewards he has experienced while trying to save penguins in some of nature’s wildest places.

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    2023 Oct 04

    Food Literacy Project Speaker Series: Sustainable Seafood with Fishwife Co-Founder & CEO, Becca Millstein

    4:30pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University Dining Services - Food Literacy Project—Online

    Recently featured in Forbes “30 Under 30, North America 2023,” in the Food and Drink category for “redefining the way we eat, drink and think about consumption,” is Becca Millstein, the CEO/co-founder of tinned seafood company, Fishwife.

    Fishwife is a female-founded and led food company aiming to make ethically-sourced, premium, and delicious tinned seafood a staple in every cupboard. The company has been proclaimed the leader of “America’s tinned fish Renaissance” by INSIDER, and has been featured in The New York Times, Food & Wine, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Refinery29, New...

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    2023 Oct 04

    Understanding the Relationship Between Parent and Teen Mental Health

    3:00pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Graduate School of Education—Online

    The medical community declared a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now new research is helping to shine a light on another important aspect of the story — the mental health of parents and the influence of their health on teens. We discuss strategies to better support the mental well-being of parents and caregivers, with a view to preventing anxiety and depression in adolescents.

    Speakers include:

    • Rick Weissbourd, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Harvard Kennedy School;...
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