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WordSong | One text. Three composers. A public conversation.

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One text. Three composers. A public conversation. WordSong, founded in 2008 by composer Howard Frazin and Tom Schnauber, is Boston’s premier interactive concert organization. WordSong has created a new concert format focused on public conversation around...

Public Art’s Interpellation: Refusing the Anthropocentrism of Climate Grief

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SOUND/TEXT SPEAKER: Dylan Robinson, Queen’s University This presentation considers human and non-human encounters with sound art works located in outdoor public spaces. Specifically, I address the ways in which public artworks interpellate the public as...

The Role of Play in Human Evolution and Public Life: Work, or Play?

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Speakers: Peter Gray, Boston College and Peter Levine, Tufts University PANEL SYNOPSIS The Ludics Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University will kick off its 2019-2020 series of talks with a panel discussion between Professor Peter Gray...

The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty

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CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Nicolas Standaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) The Chinese gazette as a publicly available government publication was distributed in a variety of formats since the twelfth century. Little is known, however, about its...

Female artists as gifts. French public collections and the art of making women artists invisible

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Speaker: Vincent Lépinay, Sciences Po Paris French public collections contain just a little more than 20% of female artists’ works. Historically, these collections have been assembled through purchase and, increasingly now, through donations. This talk...

Power and Public Memory

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Roundtable Discussion

Television's Partitioned Publics

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VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKER: DAVID JOSELIT, HARVARD UNIVERSITY The split-screen has moved from a special-effects device to a literal figure of, and tool for achieving political balkanization. This lecture traces the genealogy of...

Werner Sollors in conversation with Daniel G. Williams on the publication of "The Werner Sollors Reader"

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Werner Sollors in conversation with Daniel G. Williams Moderated by John Stauffer; Closing Remarks by Catherine McKenna The Werner Sollors Reader: Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism and Particularism, is the first comprehensive overview of Werner Sollors’ ground...

Hard Questions: Dialogue Across Differences From the Classroom to Public Life

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ART, POLITICAL CULTURE, CIVIC LIFE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION How To Join Please add your name and email to this registration page. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have not...

The Environment Forum with Sonja Dümpelmann | Trees and the City: A History of Public Health

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Photo Credit: Eric Sucar THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM Speaker: Sonja Dümpelmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich) Moderator: Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University About the Event Why do we plant and often protect trees in cities? Throughout history, humans...

Claire Edington

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Claire Edington received a Ph.D. in the History and Ethics of Public Health from Columbia University in 2013. Her dissertation, a social history of psychiatry and mental illness in French Indochina, examines how ideas about what it meant to be abnormal...

The Indigenous Chicago Project

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Rose Miron, Newberry Library, Chicago Dr. Rose Miron joins the Native Cultures of the Americas Seminar to discuss the history, development, and process of creating the Newberry's Indigenous Chicago Project. Miron...