Past Events

2017 Jun 21

Summer Solstice Celebration 2017: Night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

5:00pm to 9:00pm
Location:
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Free Public Special Event

Kick off summer at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture's annual Summer Solstice Celebration.

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2017 Jun 17

Thoreau and the Language of Trees

2:00pm
Location:
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Haller Hall, 26 Oxford Street

Public Lecture

Richard Higgins, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees

Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. He admired their beauty, studied how they Read more about Thoreau and the Language of Trees
2017 May 17
Harvard Senior Week Event - An Evening at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
8:00pm to 10:00pm
Location:
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street
Mingle with classmates among glittering gemstones, dinosaurs, and the famed Glass Flowers.
Non-alcoholic beverages available; beer and wine 21+; HUID and government ID required for alcohol service.
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2017 May 16

All the World Is Here: Members Night at the Peabody Museum

6:00pm to 8:30pm
Location:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Please join us at a special members-only open house event to celebrate the Peabody Museum's 150th Anniversary and the new exhibition, All the World Is Here: Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology. Read more about All the World Is Here: Members Night at the Peabody Museum
2017 May 11

The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Natural World—and Us

6:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street

Free Public Lecture and Book Signing
Richard O. Prum, William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
Can adaptation by natural selection truly account for everything we see in nature? Read more about The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Natural World—and Us
2017 May 10

Where the Roads All End: The Marshall Family’s Kalahari Photography

6:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
Free Public Lecture and Book Signing
Ilisa Barbash, Curator of Visual Anthropology, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
The Marshall family, which filmed and studied the Ju/’hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, created one of the most significant visual anthropology projects of the twentieth century. Read more about Where the Roads All End: The Marshall Family’s Kalahari Photography
2017 May 06

Obscura Day: The Weapons and Arts of War at the Peabody Museum

10:30am to 11:00am
Location:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue
Special Tour
Partnering with our friends at Atlas Obscura, for Obscura Day 2017, participants can examine the beautiful, yet deadly weapons of war inside the Arts of War exhibition, complete with a special opportunity to handle the weapons.
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2017 May 04

Curiouser and Curiouser: Why Twenty-First-Century Wonderlands Need Anthropology Museums More Than Ever

6:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
Free Public Lecture
Ruth Phillips, Canada Research Chair and Professor of Art History, Carleton University, Ottawa; Visiting Professor of Art History, Yale University
Western museums have always been in the business of displaying, provoking, and seeking to satisfy curiosity. Read more about Curiouser and Curiouser: Why Twenty-First-Century Wonderlands Need Anthropology Museums More Than Ever
2017 May 03

Facing Philistines: The Discovery of an Iron Age Cemetery

6:00pm
Location:
Northwest Building, B103, 52 Oxford Street
Free Public Lecture
Adam J. Aja, Assistant Curator of Collections, Harvard Semitic Museum; Assistant Director, Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon; Chief Stratigrapher, Tel Shimron Excavations
Archaeological excavations at Philistine settlements have revealed myriad details about the daily life of an Iron Age people, perhaps best known for being the archenemy of the Israelites. Read more about Facing Philistines: The Discovery of an Iron Age Cemetery
2017 May 02

The Evolution and Migration of the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen: Darwin’s Painfully Interesting Subject

6:00pm
Location:
Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford Street
Free Public Lecture
Jean Beagle Ristaino, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Plant Pathology and Director of Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security, North Carolina State University
The culprit behind the nineteenth-century Irish potato famine was Phytophthora infestans, a fungus-like microorganism that causes the disease known as “potato late blight.” Read more about The Evolution and Migration of the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen: Darwin’s Painfully Interesting Subject