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Belonging in the Modern World?
June 16, 2026
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7:00PM - 9:00PM EDT
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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...
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The Norton Lectures with Steve McQueen: Pulse | Lecture Six
May 5, 2026
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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...
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Arts and Humanities on the Edge
April 29, 2026
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6:00PM - 8:00PM EDT
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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...
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Whitehead Lectures: Michele Moody-Adams
April 23, 2026
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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.

The Environment Forum with Terry Tempest Williams | The Glorians Are Among Us
April 22, 2026
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT
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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...
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Environmental Humanities Seminar with Oliver Aas
April 9, 2026
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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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...
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Inventing Urban Futures: Lessons from Three Centuries of City-making
April 9, 2026
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12:00PM EDT
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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...
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Psychedelics and the Specter of Mind Control
April 6, 2026
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT
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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...
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AI and the Future of Higher Education
Mar. 30 - Mar 31, 2026
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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...
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