# Past Events Sort & Filters close ## Filters Events expand\_more - How is digital technology shaping the human soul? (1) - Hum-Pop (2) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 163 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Alphabetical A-ZChronological sort list grid\_view ## 163 results [### Belonging in the Modern World? ](/event/belonging-modern-world)June 16, 2026 | 7:00PM - 9:00PM EDT | Thompson Room (Barker Center 110) In Person America, we are reliably told, is coming apart. Individuals are drifting off into isolation, or, just as bad, clinging to toxic forms of tribalism that rely on exclusion and enmity towards the other. Why is this happening? What are the deep cultural... ![ian image](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/IMG_3192_0.jpeg?itok=yM-a9kUu) [### The Norton Lectures with Steve McQueen: Pulse | Lecture Six ](/event/norton-lectures-steve-mcqueen-pulse-lecture-six)May 5, 2026 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT In Person Photo: James Stopforth, Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery THE NORTON LECTURES 2025-26 Norton Professor of Poetry: Steve McQueen The 2025-26 Norton Lectures | Steve McQueen: Pulse Norton Lecture Six This is the sixth and final of... ![Steve McQueen Pulse image](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/MHCH_Web_Banner_1920x1080%20%281%29.jpg?itok=gaBIF80N) [### Arts and Humanities on the Edge ](/event/arts-and-humanities-edge)April 29, 2026 | 6:00PM - 8:00PM EDT | Harvard Hall 101 In Person It is no secret that enrollment in arts and humanities courses is down, all across academia. Professors have been laid off, and whole departments have been eliminated in the past several years, as universities market their education as explicit career... ![Photo via Wikimedia](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Library_at_prison_looking_toward_rear_of_room_-_NARA_-_299557.jpg?itok=dA_d16_-) [### Whitehead Lectures: Michele Moody-Adams ](/event/whitehead-lectures-michele-moody-adams)April 23, 2026 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT In Person More information coming soon. Free and open to the public. Lectures will be followed by receptions in Robbins Library. event [### The Environment Forum with Terry Tempest Williams | The Glorians Are Among Us ](/event/environment-forum-terry-tempest-williams-glorians-are-among-us)April 22, 2026 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT | Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall In Person Photo Credit: Barbara Kinney THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM Speaker: Terry Tempest Williams Moderator: Robin Kelsey, Harvard University About the Event We are all dreamers. What happens when a particular dream becomes a vow? The vow Terry Tempest Williams made... ![terry tempest williams image](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/IMG_7809.jpeg?itok=SduR_S_p) [### The Tanner Lectures with James Forman Jr.: University Admissions and the American Dream: Who Gets In—and Why It Matters | Lecture Two ](/event/tanner-lectures-james-forman-jr-university-admissions-and-american-dream-who-gets-and-why-0)April 16, 2026 | 4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT | John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building In Person The Tanner Lectures with James Forman Jr. | University Admissions and the American Dream: Who Gets In—and Why It Matters Lecture Two: Admissions in the Crosshairs: Politics, Policy, and Social Mobility Today Speaker: James Forman Jr., Yale University... ![James forman](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/james%20forman%201920x1080.png?itok=4QO72c_Y) [### The Tanner Lectures with James Forman Jr.: University Admissions and the American Dream: Who Gets In—and Why It Matters | Lecture One ](/event/tanner-lectures-james-forman-jr-university-admissions-and-american-dream-who-gets-and-why-it)April 15, 2026 | 4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT | John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building In Person The Tanner Lectures with James Forman Jr. | University Admissions and the American Dream: Who Gets In—and Why It Matters Lecture One: Merit, Privilege, and the American Dream: Universities Then and Now Speaker: James Forman Jr., Yale University Respondent... ![James forman](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/james%20forman%201920x1080.png?itok=4QO72c_Y) [### Music and Philosophy, A conversation with Dean Sean Kelly and Aaron Goldberg ’96 ](/event/music-and-philosophy-conversation-dean-sean-kelly-and-aaron-goldberg-96)April 9, 2026 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT | Thompson Room (Barker Center 110) In Person ![goldberg image](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/58ea1adaf1a3fe3cf29248b3ed226946cb96a5b1.jpg?itok=hGlKXiam) [### Environmental Humanities Seminar with Oliver Aas ](/event/environmental-humanities-seminar-oliver-aas)April 9, 2026 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT | Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133) In Person The Globe is Melting: Scale, Imagination, Language Speaker: Oliver Aas, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Bruno Carvalho Born and raised in Estonia, Oliver Aas is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of environmental... ![mahindra image](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/postdoc_seminar_icon.png?itok=re8jHgTy) [### Inventing Urban Futures: Lessons from Three Centuries of City-making ](/event/inventing-urban-futures-lessons-three-centuries-city-making)April 9, 2026 | 12:00PM EDT | Bloomberg Center for Cities, Taubman Third Floor, Harvard Kennedy School In Person As cities face rapid change and growing uncertainty, questions about how we imagine and plan for the future have taken on renewed urgency. This interactive event draws on insights from Bruno Carvalho’s new book, “The Invention of the Future: A History of... ![Picture for HKS event](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/20260409-event-photo-website-1500x844_0.png?itok=3HM6CbQI) [### Psychedelics and the Specter of Mind Control ](/event/psychedelics-and-specter-mind-control)April 6, 2026 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT | Sever Hall, Room 113 In Person Join us for a panel discussion with Rebecca Lemov, Christian Greer, Tom O’Neill, and Benjamin Breen. About the Speakers Benjamin Breen is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz specializing in the history of science... ![mind control image](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/%5BHome%5D%20MHC%20Psychedelics%20Banner.jpg?itok=EA1HI0n1) [### AI and the Future of Higher Education ](/event/ai-and-future-higher-education)Mar. 30 - Mar 31, 2026 | All day In Person Higher education has been “in crisis” for decades. Some observers have sounded the alarm about skyrocketing tuition, decreasing economic return on investment, a loss of open-ended inquiry to ideological rigidity, widening socioeconomic gaps between those... ![cambridge event photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Screenshot%202026-04-08%20at%208.20.19%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=3oiUdpj2) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 14 ](?page=13 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")