Upcoming events
Harvard University welcomes neighbors and visitors. On any given day you will find lectures, exhibitions, cultural performances, and athletic events that we hope you will attend. Come and experience firsthand all that Harvard has to offer. Here is just a sample of upcoming events open to the general public. Check out the complete events calendar at http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/section/calendar/gazette-calendar/
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Mar 13 2008 - Dec 31 2010 |
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
 Throughout time and around the world, people have adorned the walls of their homes, palaces, tombs, temples, and government buildings with painted scenes and designs. |
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Apr 3 2009 - Aug 1 2011 |
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
"Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West" explores the meanings of a unique 19th century "artist's book" filled with colored drawings by Indian warriors, probably Lakota Indians, recovered by the U.S. Army from the battlefield after the 1876 Little Big Horn fight, in which George Armstrong Custer was defeated by the Sioux and Cheyenne. |
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May 1 2009 - Dec 11 2009 |
Science Center
Patent Republic: Materialities of Intellectual Property in 19th-Century America’ presents patent models for common inventions such as washing machines, carpet sweepers, and ice skates, as well as Thomas Edison’s carbonizer. |
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May 27 2009 - Mar 30 2010 |
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
The African masks that inspired painters like Picasso in the early twentieth century were only a small part of a larger cultural context and spectacle. The festivals of Canton Bo, located in the dense forest region of Southwest Ivory Coast, centered on the spirit forms of ancient ancestors who appeared in post-harvest festivals wearing carved masks and full-body coverings of straw, animal hide, textiles, and paint. |
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Sep 15 2009 - Dec 15 2009 |
Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery
Between 1986 and 1997 Jacob Lawrence created fifteen large silk-screen prints identical to key images from his earlier 1937 series, The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture. On view at the Rudenstine Gallery during the Fall 2009 semester, the prints tell the story of Toussaint L’Ouverture, born a slave, but who rose to lead the liberation of Haiti. Captured by the invading troops of Napoleon Bonaparte, he died in a French prison the year before Haiti won its independence in 1804. |
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Oct 24 2009 - Dec 15 2009 |
Arnold Arboretum
Artist talk Marty Klein is fueled by an insatiable and wide-ranging curiosity to see familiar natural forms in new and refreshing ways. Using a flatbed scanner as a camera, Marty Klein captures images of plants and other natural objects with incredible depth and contrast. The images are very different from traditional photographs, yet remain close in spirit, imbued with an arresting vitality. Several new works in this show use specimens gathered by special permission from the Arboretum’s living collections. |
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Nov 30 2009 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Brown Bag Lunch Discussion with Evelyn Friedman, Chief of Housing and Director of the Department of Neighborhood Development, City of Boston Harvard Graduate School of Design |