Event Category: Lecture

Free Hybrid Lecture Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speaker: Philip J. Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University During the American Revolution, representatives of the Continental Congress sought to forge alliances with Native nations through treaties, much as they did with European powers like France. This talk will examine…

Free Hybrid Lecture Event Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speakers: Scott Edwards, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Ornithology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Michael Reed, Professor of Biology, Tufts University Jingmai O’Connor, Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles, Field Museum of Natural…

Free Hybrid Lecture Event Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speaker: Christelle Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Brown University The earliest large-scale records of ancient Egyptian religious literature come from Saqqara, an important royal cemetery from Egypt’s Old Kingdom period. For nearly two centuries, the subterranean chambers beneath some of Saqqara’s…

In-Person Presentation Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor), 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA Speaker: Dr. Jessica Whited – Whited Lab, Harvard Stem Cell Institute Meet up-and-coming scientists and learn about questions at the forefront of research today in this series of short talks. 2:00–2:30 pm Amazing Axolotls Have you ever wondered what…

Free Hybrid Lecture Event Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speaker: Rune Nyord, Associate Professor and Chair, Art History Department, Emory University Could some of our familiar ideas about the ancient Egyptian afterlife be more Christian than Egyptian? Recent studies suggest that themes we often assume to be central, such as…