Past Events

  • 2024 Mar 30

    U.S. Citizenship Course

    Repeats every week every Saturday until Sat Apr 13 2024 .
    10:30am to 12:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

    Prepare for the U.S. citizenship exam with art at the Harvard Art Museums!

    In partnership with the St. Mark Community Education Program, the Harvard Art Museums are pleased to offer a free 10-week course that will prepare students to answer the exam’s 100 civics questions and offer instruction to improve their English language skills.

    Special interactive tours of the American art galleries, led by Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program, will deepen the lessons taught by St. Mark’s experienced and trained teachers in one of our museum classrooms. The...

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  • 2024 Mar 30

    Peabody Museum Tours by Harvard Students

    Repeats every week on Sunday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Apr 21 2024 except Fri Nov 24 2023, Sat Nov 25 2023, Sun Nov 26 2023.
    (All day)

    Location: 

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

    Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who accesses them and how do items return home?

    Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes. Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at these and other times.

    Offered on: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2:00pm and Sundays at 11:00am
    Regular museum admission...

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  • 2024 Mar 29

    Reducing Disparities Through Integration of Medical and Social Care--Center for Bioethics

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    Join us for the March session of the Organizational Ethics Consortia on reducing disparities through integration of medical and social care. Hospitals, ACOs, health plans, professional societies, and other health-related organizations are increasingly dealing with the ethical dimensions of policies, procedures, resource allocation decisions, social movements and more. This consortia series provides a forum for local, national, and international discussion of organizational-level ethical issues and processes to address them, with the aim of cultivating a learning community of...

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  • 2024 Mar 29

    Joel Sanders, “From Stud to Stalled!: Inclusive Design through a Queer Lens”

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby

    In his talk, Joel Sanders will trace the evolution of his thinking about gender, human identity and space over the past twenty-five years from the publication of STUD: Architectures of Masculinity (1996), which examined the role that architecture plays in the construction of masculinity through a gay male lens, to recent projects like Stalled! Public Restrooms, created by JSA/MIXdesign, an inclusive design studio dedicated to considering the intersecting needs of a broad segment of the population that the discipline of architecture has traditionally overlooked: people of different ages,...

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  • 2024 Mar 29

    Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

    Repeats every week on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday until Sun Jun 23 2024 .
    11:00am to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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  • 2024 Mar 29

    Peabody Museum Tours by Harvard Students

    (All day)

    Location: 

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

    Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who accesses them and how do items return home?

    Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes. Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at these and other times.

    Offered on: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2:00pm and Sundays at 11:00am
    Regular museum admission...

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  • 2024 Mar 28

    Public Observatory Night at the Harvard College Observatory| Stars

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Phillips Auditorium, Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge

    Born from vast clouds of gas and dust, stars embark on a fascinating life cycle, evolving from brilliant birth to fiery demise. As these stellar furnaces forge elements, they seed the cosmos with stardust, the very essence from which we arise. Our connection to the stars is profound—we are all made of stardust, a testament to the universal magic woven into the fabric of our existence.

    Embark on an evening with two captivating talks delving into the mesmerizing world of stars. Following discussions, elevate your experience with rooftop stargazing using powerful telescopes,...

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  • 2024 Mar 28

    John Hejduk Soundings Lecture: Mario Carpo, “Generative AI, Imitation, Style, and the Eternal Return of Precedent”

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

    Generative AI does not create new images out of thin air; it generates images that have a “certain something” in common with a selection of images we have fed into it. This selection, often called a “dataset,” can be generic or custom-made; either way, Generative AI automates the imitation and replication of some of its common visual features, often known in the past as styles. Imitation was for centuries the backbone of the classical tradition in European art, and it was de facto banned by 20th-century modernism for many good reasons. As the rise of Generative AI is bringing the...

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  • 2024 Mar 28

    Black Bell: A Quartet for the End of Time

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

     presentation from 2023–2024 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow Alison C. Rollins

    Rollins will discuss her work toward the completion of her second poetry collection, titled "Black Bell," and a creative nonfiction project, titled "Outside: Fieldnotes for Living Beyond Survival." Imploring investigations of time and space through the lenses of love and liberation, Rollins will showcase performance art practices, including metalwork, which are in conversation with Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time and historical...

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  • 2024 Mar 28

    Exhibition: "Surveillance: From Vision to Data"

    11:00am to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    This timely exhibit considers surveillance beyond the realm of cameras and their watchers, exposing the profound influence of data. Learn about the historical instruments that have been used to transform individuals and landscapes into data. Uncover how powerful entities, from colonial empires to U.S. intelligence agencies, have harnessed surveillance data to produce and perpetuate hierarchies of human difference. Immerse yourself in interactive critical artworks that challenge and resist surveillance through data. Look beyond vision and toward data to reveal an elusive, and now...

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