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2020 Oct 29

Roadmap for Recovery and Resilience for Theater with Diane Paulus and Joe Allen

5:00pm to 6:00pm

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Joe Allen and Diane Paulus will discuss the Roadmap for Recovery and Resilience for Theater created in partnership between the American Repertory Theater and the Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the principles and guidance it offers to help theaters and other performing arts organizations promote health and safety.

Diane Paulus is the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard. Broadway/A.R.T.: Jagged Little Pill, Waitress, Pippin (Tony Award, Best Revival and Best Director);...

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2020 Oct 28

Can Psychedelics Help Save America?

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Science has shown psychedelics to offer resilience and comfort where there seemed to be none. The Food and Drug Administration calls them "breakthrough therapies" for mental health conditions that lack effective treatments. Indigenous communities have known their benefits for centuries, but legal restrictions have stripped them of their rites and remedies. As Schedule I controlled substances, psychedelics remain illegal under federal law, and despite ongoing clinical trials, are unlikely to become FDA approved for several years. These restrictions prevent Americans from realizing their...

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2020 Oct 27

Obesity, COVID-19, and Systemic Racism

4:00pm to 5:15pm

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The health of Black people and communities across the nation has been—and, during the global pandemic, continues to be—significantly impacted by America’s history of slavery and by ongoing systemic oppression. Disparities in obesity and the differing frameworks that public health officials and the public bring to the issue of obesity are powerful examples of such legacies of slavery in the United States.

This program will explore how the historically rooted and uneven distribution of social supports drive obesity; how framing the disease as an individual rather than societal...

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2020 Oct 26

Viscosity, Pastry and Chocolate

2:00pm to 4:00pm

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The lectures pair Harvard professors with celebrated food experts and renowned chefs to showcase the science behind different culinary techniques. The series, organized by Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is based on the Harvard course “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter,” but public lectures do not replicate course content.

Each presentation will begin with a 15-minute lecture about the scientific topics from that week’s class by a faculty member from the Harvard course

This week speaker...

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2020 Nov 01

Commemoration to Honor the Lives Lost to COVID-19

12:15pm

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We invite you to participate in a University-wide Commemoration to Honor the Lives Lost to COVID-19 on Sunday, November 1. In light of the innumerable losses that members of our Harvard community and beyond have experienced since the start of the pandemic, our hope is that this commemoration can be a moment to mark the ongoing tragedy and to honor those who have passed away. On Sunday, November 1 at 12:15 pm, we will ring the bells of Memorial Church 22 times, each toll of the bell representing over 10,000 people in the United States and over 50,...

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2020 Dec 04

Art Study Center Seminar at Home: Chinese Gold from the Winthrop Collection

11:00am to 12:00pm

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Since we are unable to welcome you into the museums at this time, we are bringing our experts to you in a new online series, Art Study Center Seminars at Home.

When Grenville Lindall Winthrop left his extensive collection to the Fogg Art Museum in 1943, it contained three gold plaques dating to China’s Warring States period (475–221 BCE). Never displayed to the public, the plaques remained a mystery until recent excavations and archival records shed new light on their origins. In this seminar, curator Sarah Laursen investigates the decoration and function of the gold...

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2020 Oct 31

Student Guide Tour: The Museums, Revisited, with Kaitlin Hao

11:00am to 11:30am

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Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour!

Kaitlin Hao ’21 will explore and confront the history of museum practice through a critical look at three objects: a mural painting from the Mogao Caves, a Go Ge mask on loan from the Peabody Museum, and Louise Bourgeois’s sculpture Nature Study.

This free tour will take place online via Zoom. To join, click the following link: ...

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2020 Oct 29

Student Guide Tour: Visions of the Future, with Cecilia Zhou

8:00pm to 8:30pm

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Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour!

Cecilia Zhou ’22 examines how three works of art, spanning 700 years, position themselves vis-à-vis the future. She will lead an interactive discussion of the sculpture Prince Shotoku at Age Two and the paintings Mass by Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Untitled by Kerry James Marshall.

This free tour will take place online via Zoom. To join, click the...

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2020 Oct 28

Voting, Activism, and Art

7:00pm to 8:00pm

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The 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage and the upcoming presidential election have brought voting rights to the forefront of American politics in 2020 and have prompted important questions about legacies of disenfranchisement, especially for people of color in the United States.

Inspired by the Long 19th Amendment Project, spearheaded by the Schlesinger Library at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, this program will examine works from the collections at the Harvard Art Museums and Houghton Library that...

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2020 Oct 30

Art Study Center Seminar at Home, with Larry Cook

11:00am to 12:00pm

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Since we are unable to welcome you into the museums at this time, we are bringing our experts to you in a new online series, Art Study Center Seminars at Home.

Cook was recently awarded a grant from the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) for his work exploring themes of racial justice.

In this session, curator Makeda Best will talk with Washington, D.C.–based photographer and artist Larry Cook. They will discuss Cook’s...

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