When you walk in New York’s Central Park in the morning, visit the High Line in the afternoon, and then drop by Wave Hill for a summer concert in the evening, you are experiencing different versions of urban spaces and how they are used. In this conversation, after considering Frederick Law Olmsted's vision for urban spaces and how to care for them, we will consider the High Line. We’ll explore what inspired Robert Hammond and Josh David to create this most remarkable example of urban infrastructure reuse; how garden designer Piet Oudolf chose the planting pallet for the park; how the...
“You look at the landscape, but the landscape also looks back at you; Landscape is more about what you don’t see than what you do see.”
Acclaimed artist Teresita Fernández joins Jeffrey De Blois, organizing curator for the Boston presentation of Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today, for an evening of conversation on art, the Caribbean, and the sources of inspiration for her breathtaking mixed media artwork in the exhibition–...
Directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat Written by Andrés Duprat Cast: Rafael Spregelburd and Daniel Aráoz Produced by Aleph Media
Conceived as a boutique and cult film, 'The Man Next Door' surprised the audience by attracting more than 150,000 viewers in the few theaters where it was released outside of the major cinema complexes. The film's unexpected success quickly earned it the status of a phenomenon in the recent history of domestic cinema, capable of capturing the interest of both the mass audience and the...
Join DRCLAS for the launch of the Fall issue of ReVista, “Queer in Latin America: LGBTQ+ Perspectives”. The issue focuses on a variety of themes, ranging from arts and culture to the trans community to thinking on the queer in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Latinx community. A reception will follow.
The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present
Samuel Dolbee Assistant Professor of History, Family Dean's Faculty Fellow in Studies of the Middle East, Vanderbilt University
Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, is an environmental historian of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East, with interests in agriculture, disease, and science. He teaches courses in the Department of History and as part of the Climate Studies major.
A presentation from 2023–2024 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow Francesca Wade
At Radcliffe, Wade is completing her second book, “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife,” a new biography of Stein told through the story of her posthumous legacy. She will also begin work on a new project, exploring the intersecting lives and work of several women poets and activists in 1970s New York.
Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA,
Speaker Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24
Moderated by Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
In the Global 1960s, many Latin American leading intellectuals, such as Pablo Neruda, José Venturelli, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia, visited Maoist China, which was regarded as an alternative to Soviet Union and Cuba’s bureaucratic systems. This talk tries...
Speaker: Carmen Bambach (I Tatti / The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"My talk (somewhat reworked now) was presented at an international conference, “Perugino and Young Raphael: Diagnostic Investigations and Art-Historical Studies,” Accademia Nazionale di Lincei, Rome, 26-27 October 2023. My subject relates research for the exhibition on Raphael that I am organizing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (23 March – 28 June 2026). The Met’s exhibition will be the first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael in the United States...