Events in Arts & Humanities

Explore some of our highlighted events happening in the Arts & Humanities. For more information and even more exciting events, please visit our departments' webpages directly.

Highlighted Events

Ideas of America: 250 Years of Public Culture

November 13, 2026
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All day
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Thompson Room (Barker Center 110)
As we mark the first quarter-millenium anniversary of our perennially young country, Americans are once again asking, with particular urgency: who are we? This is far from the first time that we have faced a moment of disunity, alienation or definitional...
Eagle map

Crutch or Catalyst? How AI Is Changing the Ways We Relate

November 19, 2026
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EST
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Lewis International Law Center 515
As AI becomes increasingly embedded in our lives, it has taken on roles as a therapist, a friend, even a lover. When we allow AI systems into our communities and our closest circles, what happens to our agency, our inner lives, and our ability to form...
crutch vs catalyst

Waiting for Light in the Dark: Art and Spirituality on Hope in Dark Times

December 7, 2026
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All day
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Thompson Room (Barker Center 110)
On December 7, Harvard’s Public Culture Project in collaboration with the Presidential Initiative on Interfaith Engagement present Eight Approaches, an eight-piece series of paintings by Cambridge-based artist Joshua Meyer. Layered with thick...
Meyer painting