Events
EVENTS
HAA Events
New Directions in Art History — David Young Kim "Listening to the Lives anew: Giorgio Vasari in South Korea circa 1986"
November 2, 2026
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EST
Lee Keun Bai (1914–2007), born in Pyongyang and educated in Nagasaki, Paris, Milan, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a biochemist lauded for his research on human metabolism. During South Korea’s forays into nuclear energy development early in the Cold...
CAMLab Frontiers Exhibition — Measuring the Cosmos: From Mandala to Latent Space
Nov. 5 - Nov 23, 2026
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All day
Measurement is never neutral. From the ninth-century stupa at Borobudur to the AI latent space, this exhibition traces a single idea across a thousand years: to measure a world is to generate one. Bringing together pre-modern cosmological instruments and...
CAMLab: RPM Festival
Nov. 6 - Nov 7, 2026
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All day
Revolutions per Minute Festival, an artist-run festival, is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, cinematic work in experiments, essay film, animation, documentary, video, and audiovisual performance. RPM Festival participates in the Mass Cultural...
University of Rochester: "Honor and Risk: Recovering Afro-Atlantic Power and Its Objects from the Archives of Enslavement"
November 10, 2026
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5:00PM EST
Cécile Fromont – Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University In the first half of the eighteenth century, African men and women enslaved or free, living in plantations or cities around the Atlantic, created empowered packets that...
Mahindra Lecture: Kristel Smentek "Framed: Pictures from Asia in Eighteenth-Century Europe"
November 17, 2026
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5:30PM - 7:00PM EST
To frame a picture is to distinguish it, to mark it as demanding a form of visual attention that is different from every day seeing. This paper probes the ambivalent European reception of paintings on paper from Asia via their frames: those they traveled...
Emma Stein: Curating and Collaborating with Cambodia at the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian
November 17, 2026
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5:30PM EST
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art is currently engaged in a multi-year collaboration with the Kingdom of Cambodia. Focusing on capacity building and knowledge exchange, the collaboration will lead to a co-created touring exhibition about the...
AKPIA Lecture Series — Sahar Hosseini "Entangled with the River: The Making of Safavid Isfahan from Watershed to Body"
November 19, 2026
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EST
Entangled with the River: The making of Safavid Isfahan from Watershed to Body Abstract: The usual story of seventeenth-century Isfahan is a story of land: a capital remade by Shah Abbas I (r.1588-1629) and his Safavid successors through squares, gardens...
Zerner Lecture — Stephan Wolohojian: Four Paintings, Four Stories, Four Uncharted Points in the History of European Painting
December 1, 2026
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EST
Museums acquire works of art not only to expand and strengthen their collections, but also to reshape the narratives those collections make possible. The greatest excitement come with the acquisition of previously unknown or unpublished works, whose...
Ancient Studies Spring Visitor Lecture - Jas Elsner (Oxford)
March 25, 2027
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5:15PM - 7:15PM EDT
TBD Part of the Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Details to follow.
Ancient Studies Spring Visitor Master Class - Jas Elsner (Oxford)
March 26, 2027
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12:00PM - 2:00PM EDT
TBD Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Details to follow.
Harvard Events
Emma Stein: Curating and Collaborating with Cambodia at the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian
November 17, 2026
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5:30PM EST
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CGIS South S020
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art is currently engaged in a multi-year collaboration with the Kingdom of Cambodia. Focusing on capacity building and knowledge exchange, the collaboration will lead to a co-created touring exhibition about the...
Mahindra Lecture: Kristel Smentek "Framed: Pictures from Asia in Eighteenth-Century Europe"
November 17, 2026
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5:30PM - 7:00PM EST
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HAA, Room 422
To frame a picture is to distinguish it, to mark it as demanding a form of visual attention that is different from every day seeing. This paper probes the ambivalent European reception of paintings on paper from Asia via their frames: those they traveled...
Ancient Studies Spring Visitor Lecture - Jas Elsner (Oxford)
March 25, 2027
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5:15PM - 7:15PM EDT
TBD Part of the Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Details to follow.
Ancient Studies Spring Visitor Master Class - Jas Elsner (Oxford)
March 26, 2027
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12:00PM - 2:00PM EDT
TBD Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Details to follow.
Greater Boston & Beyond
Universal Rights?: A Dialogue
November 4, 2026
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6:30PM - 8:30PM EST
Join internationally-recognized visual artist Banu Cennetoğlu, Harvard professor and award-winning author Sarah Lewis, and Barr Foundation President & CEO Ali Noorani in conversation with MassArt President Mary K. Grant for a timely discussion exploring...