Event Category: Lecture

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Exploring Human Origins at Kenya’s Lake Turkana

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Free Public Lecture – Online & In Person Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 2025 Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture Series Louise Leakey, Director, Koobi Fora Research Project; Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University; National Geographic Explorer at Large Kenya’s fossil-rich Turkana Basin has been—for over five decades—a cornerstone in unraveling the…

Science Spotlights: Short of Breath? Here’s a Rock and the Icy Origins of Life

Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Classroom B, Third Floor 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 Short of Breath? Here’s a Rock When we think of electricity, we often picture wires, circuits and generators. But did you…

The Daily Lives of Ancient Egyptian Artists

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Free Public Lecture – Online & In Person Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Hana Navratilova, Fellow, Royal Historical Society, UK; Supernumerary Fellow, University of Oxford, Harris Manchester College Jaroslav Černý (1898–1970) was a distinguished Egyptologist known for his groundbreaking work on the social and cultural history of ancient Egypt, particularly the community…