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2023 Apr 18

Divine Mortals: Royal Ancestor Worship in Deir el-Medina

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

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

Yasmin El Shazly will discuss the importance of ancestor worship in Deir el-Medina—particularly of Amenhotep I and his mother Ahmose-Nefertari. Prominently featured in homes, artwork, and tombs, these two royal figures held important positions in the Egyptian "hierarchy of being" and exerted great influence over the daily lives of Deir el-Medina residents.

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2023 Apr 20

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

12:30pm to 1:00pm

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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.

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2023 Apr 16

Materials Lab Workshop: Art by the Book—Chinese Brush Painting Instruction (English)

1:00pm to 4:00pm

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

In this workshop, offered in English on April 16 and in Chinese on April 23, join us first for a tour of the installation of painting manuals led by its curator, Yuhua Ding, the Kemper Assistant Curator of Collections and Academic Affairs at the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, and former Gregory and Maria Henderson Curatorial Fellow in East Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Then we’ll move to the Materials Lab, where master brush painter Qingxiong Ma will guide you in making your own brush painting, inspired by 17th- and 18th-century manuals.

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2023 Apr 11

Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

12:30pm to 1:00pm

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Join museum staff members for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.

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2023 Apr 09

Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Join museum staff members for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.

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2023 Apr 06

HUNAP Annual Lecture: Tommy Orange

6:00pm to 7:30pm

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Join the Harvard University Native American Program for a lecture by Tommy Orange, titled "The View From Here: POV, Its History and Uses in Fiction." 

Tommy Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and the author of There There, one of the New York Times' top books of 2018 and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. This will be the third installment of the HUNAP Annual Lecture, a series of talks intended to elevate and promote the sophistication of Native ideas, arts, literature, and culture.

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2023 Apr 06

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

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Join exhibition designer Madelyn Albright for an in-depth discussion about one of the works in the exhibition De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español/From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire, on view until July 30, 2023.

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2023 Apr 05

Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

3:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Join graduate student intern Sammi Richter for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today by delving into small-scale ancient Greek and Roman art.

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2023 Apr 04

Art Talk Live: Material Wonder and Hemispheric Identities—Silver and Mahogany in the Spanish Empire

12:30pm to 1:00pm

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Harvard Art Museums—Online

Join associate curator Horace D. Ballard as he discusses the ideas and objects featured in the special exhibition De los Andes al Caribe: El arte americano desde el imperio español / From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire, on view through July 30, 2023.

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2023 Mar 21

HUNTING & PECKING AWAY: Mabel's Newfangled Typewriter & Emily's Newfangled Poems

6:00pm to 7:15pm

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Online or at Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

The Poetry Room is proud to present a lecture by Julie Dobrow, author of After Emily: Two Remarkable Women & the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet (Norton, 2018), who will explore the complicated path to publishing Dickinson's first collection and the instrumental role that Mabel Loomis Todd played, including her pioneering use of typewriters in the transcription process.

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2023 Mar 06

Film Screening and Discussion: Wounded Land

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Crimea was the major wine-producing region in Ukraine until Russia annexed it in 2014. The country lost more than half its bottled wines, mostly semi-sweet and dessert wines. But the loss of Crimea and the armed conflict in the east ironically gave a giant push to Western-style dry wines, especially in Transcarpathia and the southern Odesa and Kherson regions.

The director and the crew wanted to learn more about these regions when they started filming in the Fall of 2021. But after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Wounded Land’s focus shifted quickly. They circled back to the...

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2023 Mar 30

Fossil Dispossession of Sioux Lands

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

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

The continental interior of the United States—home to many Native American communities—is a region rich in fossils. Since the nineteenth century, fossils found on Native lands have been removed and placed in museums and universities without the consent of, or proper collaboration with Native Tribes.

Lawrence Bradley will discuss the history of fossil dispossession from Sioux lands and the legal frameworks—or lack of—that allowed it to occur. He will also examine the role that fossils taken from these lands have played in establishing vertebrate paleontology as a scientific...

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2023 Mar 26

Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard

1:00pm to 4:00pm

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

Find out how archaeology expands upon written historical records and helps to diversify our understanding of human behavior. Explore North American, South American, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian archaeology across the exhibit halls of two museums. Experience human history and prehistory through exhibits, hands-on opportunities (indoors and outdoors), and discussions with student archaeologists. Activities include ancient DNA analysis, animal mummies, King Tut’s throne, spear throwing, flintknapping, and other surprises during this popular annual event.

All ages welcome....
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