Past Events

Talk: Eurydice Georganteli, "Whose Culture? Archaeology, Byzantine Studies, and Modernity along Egnatia, 1864-1923"

Mar 4, 2020

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2:00PM EST

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Founders Room, Dumbarton Oaks Museum, 1703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC 20007

In Person

Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 2 p.m. Prof. Eurydice Georganteli, Byzantine Studies Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC 20007 The Via Egnatia, one of the oldest routes of cultural exchange, central to the history of Ancient and Medieval Europe, was...

CAMLab Seminar I Asia Now: A New Focus on Contemporary Art

Mar 3, 2020

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4:00PM EST

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Room 422, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

In Person

Please join us for a lecture, Asia Now: A New Focus on Contemporary Art, by Dr. Jay Xu, Director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Tuesday, March 3rd, 4pm Room 422 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA Ever since its doors opened in 1966, the Asian...

Film Screening, "Badlands" - Museum of Fine Art

February 29, 2020

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1:00PM - 2:40PM EST

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Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161)

In Person

Enjoy a screening of Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, starring Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, and Martin Sheen. Tickets are required. For more information, visit the MFA events page.

Film Screening, "Days of Heaven" - Museum of Fine Arts

February 28, 2020

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8:00PM - 9:40PM EST

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Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161)

In Person

"Dispassionately told from the point of view of a child, Days of Heaven is a poetic story of love and murder set against the sweeping farmlands of Texas in 1916." Enjoy Terrence Malick's critically acclaimed 1978 film at the MFA. Tickets are required. For...

Lecture, “Saving America’s Cities: The Past, Present, and Future of Urban Revitalization” - GSD

February 27, 2020

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6:30PM - 8:00PM EST

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GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

In Person

Lizabeth Cohen, Shaun Donovan, and Sarah Whiting will be offering a free public lecture on how policy, planning, and design adress modern urban challenges.

Lecture, "feminist architecture collaborative: Hymens, Passports and Other Counterfeits" - MIT Architecture

Feb 27, 2020

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6:00PM EST

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Room 7-429/Long Lounge

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The feminist architecture collaborative will be delivering an overview lecture to their approach on desinged ways of being. More infomation can be found at the MIT Architecture events page.

Seminar, "Saying Goodbye in the Renaissance: Meditations on Leavetaking" - Villa I Tatti

February 27, 2020

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6:00PM - 7:30PM EST

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Gould Hall, I Tatti

In Person

This lecture explores Renaissance arts' answers to the central human question: How do we take leave of what we love? More information can be found on the I Tatti event page.

Seminar: Wonderfull Edirne: A Marvelous Ottoman Town by Amy Singer

February 26, 2020

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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST

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S030 (Lee Gathering Room), CGIS South

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Seminar: Wonderfull Edirne: A Marvelous Ottoman Town by Amy Singer Amy Singer, Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic Studies and Professor of History, Brandeis University Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: S030 (Lee Gathering Room)...

Lecture: "Slipstream: Making Frontiers in Medieval Black Sea" - New Directions in Art History Series

February 25, 2020

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6:00PM - 7:30PM EST

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Lower Lecture Hall 004, 485 Broadway

In Person

We are excited to announce that on February 25, at 6 p.m. at Sackler Auditorium Professor Ittai Weinryb from Bard Graduate Center will present his latest project, "Slipstream: Making Frontiers in Medieval Black Sea." A frontier is an imaginary boundary...

AKPIA@MIT Lectures - Architecture in Dialogue: The Aga Khan Award in its Fourteenth Cycle, followed by panel with Gülru Necipoğlu

Feb 24, 2020

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6:00PM EST

In Person

Architecture in Dialogue: The Aga Khan Award in its Fourteenth Cycle Farrokh Derakhshani Director of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Lecture to be followed by a panel discussion with Aga Khan Professors:From Harvard, Gülru Necipoğlu; and from MIT...

Lecture, "Architecture in Dialogue: The Aga Khan Award in its Fourteenth Cycle" - MIT Architecture

Feb 24, 2020

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6:00PM EST

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3-133

In Person

Farrokh Derakhshani, Director of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, will be delivering a lectured folleowed by a panel with Aga Khan Professors Gülru Necipoğlu, Nasser Rabbat and James Wescoat.More information can be found at the MIT Architecture events...

Lecture, "Modernism and Political Modernity: Tunisian Art in the Time of Bourguiba (1957-1979)" - Center for Middle Eastern Studies

February 24, 2020

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5:30PM - 7:30PM EST

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CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

In Person

Join Ridha Moumni, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, for an exploration of Modern Tunisian art. For more information, please see the CMES event description.