The Annual Raimundo Lida Memorial Lecture

Brad Epps, Professor of Spanish, and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge

“The Unbearable Lightness of Bones:

Memory, Emotion, and Pedagogy in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, la memoria obstinada and Nostalgia de la luz”

 ...

The United States is culminating five years of commemoration of the pivotal events in its history. Dr. Edward Ayers, Civil War scholar and president of the University of Richmond, will explore what we have learned about ourselves and our history during these years, and then offer thoughts about what we still need to learn—and how we might...

Harvard Curatorial Innovations Series Showcases Experts from MoMA and the Exploratorium in April 27 Lecture

 Museums can be important spaces for exploring social, political, and historic experiences through art and science.  Experts from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Exploratorium in San Francisco will discuss examples at Harvard’s second annual Seminar on Innovative Curatorial Practice Monday, April 27.

 The event will be held from 6 to 7:15 p.m. at Harvard University’s Northwest Building, B-103, 52 Oxford Street. ...

Speakers:

Lawrence Buell - Harvard University
Lawrence Kramer - Fordham University

Elisa New - Harvard University

Heinrich Christensen - King's Chapel

Eric Christopher Perry - Tenor & Conductor

Copies of the new edition of Drum-Taps, edited by Lawrence Kramer and published by the New York Review Books, will be available for purchase. Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

See all information on the Office of Career Services website.
Please register through Crimson Careers.

**Not open to the public, for PhD students - registration required**

Caroline Elkins is Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her work focuses on colonial violence and post-conflict reconciliation in Africa, and the role of...

Over the last five years, hundreds of researchers, journalists, activists, and scholars from a variety of fields have come together at Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, under the direction of Lawrence Lessig, to investigate, map, and find solutions for institutional corruption around the world.

On May 1-2, the project will culminate with a two-day conference to celebrate the accomplishments of the Lab and point the way forward. Join us as we present the findings of the Lab in fields from pharma to academia to Wall Street to K Street and beyond.

There are as many ways to react to a photograph as there are people viewing
it. Focus: Experiments in Photographic Interpretation, hosted by the Tufts University Art Gallery,
explores the power of photography and curation to prompt personal responses in viewers.
Curated by graduate students in the Tufts University Museum Studies program, the exhibition
will be open to the public from Tuesday, May 5 through Sunday, May 17, 2015. A public
opening reception will take place on May 5 from 5:00 to 8:00 P.M.

On display are twelve distinct experiments in curatorial...

The Annual Raimundo Lida Memorial Lecture

 Brad Epps, Professor of Spanish, and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge

 “The Unbearable Lightness of Bones:

Memory, Emotion, and Pedagogy in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, la memoria obstinada and Nostalgia de la luz”

 4:00 pm - Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

...

Initiative for Science of the Human Past: (SoHP):
Tues. 4/14/15
5:00pm - 7:00pm
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room

Cyprian Broodbank
University of Cambridge

Discussants:...

Download the conference schedule

Sponsored by: The Hutchins Center, The Weatherhead Center, & the Center for African Studies.