Tsai Auditorium S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR: The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University) and Ian Jared Miller (Professor of History, Harvard University). SPEAKER(S): Tiya Miles, University of Michigan CONTACT INFO: humcentr@fas.harvard.edu; 617-495-0739 LINK:...
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR: CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series SPEAKER(S): Dr. Abdulaziz M. Aldukheil, Chairman, Aldukheil Financial Group, leading financial advisory firm based in Riyadh; former Saudi Deputy Minister of Finance CONTACT INFO: elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu DETAILS: Dr. Aldukheil’s publications include 'Saudi Government Revenues and Expenditures: A Financial Crisis in the Making' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and 'The Banking System and its Performance in Saudi Arabia' (Saqi Books, 1995). He...
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR: Lowell House Poemical Society SPEAKER(S): Kevin McGrath, Benjamin Levy, Diana Eck CONTACT INFO: kmcgrath@fas.harvard.edu DETAILS: Annual Poetry Reading of the Lowell House Poemical Society in celebration of May Day
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue
SPEAKER(S): Jody Diamond, Artist in Residence, Music Department, Harvard University, with Gamelan Si Betty COST: Free and open to the public. CONTACT INFO: 617-496-1027 peabody@fas.harvard.edu DETAILS: Shadow theater and live music, popular highlights of the Javanese village at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, come to the galleries of the Peabody Museum! Enjoy a contemporary performance based on scenes from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, featuring intricate leather puppets and the sonorous gong-chime instruments...
WHERE: Science Center Plaza Tent GAZETTE CLASSIFICATION: Special Events ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR: Office for the Arts at Harvard COST: Admission free and open to the public. CONTACT INFO: 617-495-8676 DETAILS: Celebrate International Jazz Day with a free concert under the Tent! Grammy-nominated saxophonist/composer Yosvany Terry directs the Harvard student “Monday” big band in a program featuring compositions of such celebrated jazz masters as Herbie Hancock and Joe...
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR: Office of the President DIRECTED BY: Diane Paulus '88 COST: Free; tickets required. TICKET WEB LINK:www.boxoffice.harvard.edu TICKET INFO: Tickets for Harvard affilates now available through the Harvard Box Office, 12 Holyoke St., 617-496-2222 (tickets available for the public beginning April 21). CONTACT INFO: 617...
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR: Office for the Arts at Harvard and Harvard University Board of Overseers, in association with American Repertory Theater SPEAKER(S): Drew Gilpin Faust, John Lithgow COST: Admission free TICKET WEB LINK:www.boxoffice.harvard.edu TICKET INFO: Tickets required, available in person at the Harvard Box Office, Farkas Hall, 10 Holyoke St....
Robinson Hall, Lower Library 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
SPEAKER(S): • David Armitage • Jane Kamensky • James Kloppenberg • Charles Maier • Serhii Plokhy • Daniel Smail • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich CONTACT INFO: history@fas.harvard.edu DETAILS: Please join us for the annual Harvard History Faculty Book Tour! ...
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street; Free parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR: Presented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in collaboration with the Departments of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University SPEAKER(S): Corinne Kratz, Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology and Institute of African Studies; Director, African Critical Inquiry Program, Emory University; Research Associate, Museum of International Folk Art COST: Free and open to the public. CONTACT INFO: 617-496-1027 peabody@fas.harvard.edu DETAILS:...
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR: Harvard-Yenching Library SPEAKER(S): Professor Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations DETAILS: Professor Hardacre will discuss the main findings of her recent book on the history of Shinto (Oxford University Press, 2016), emphasizing problems in identifying elements of continuity from the ancient period to the present. Afternoon Tea with the Author: Yenching Book Talk is a series of events in...
