Events
EVENTS
HAA Events
Mahindra Seminar: Colossal Engineering in Carioca
September 24, 2026
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5:30PM - 7:00PM EDT
VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Erika Naginski, Harvard Graduate School of Design When, in the mid-18th century, the Arcos da Lapa (or Aqueduto da Carioca) was inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro, it heralded not only the arrival of...
Wexner Center for the Arts — Lambert Family Lecture: Cécile Fromont
October 1, 2026
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6:00PM EDT
Join acclaimed art historian Cécile Fromont for a lecture exploring the intersection of artistic creation and scholarship. Cécile Fromont specializes in the visual, material, and religious cultures of Africa, Latin America, and Europe between 1500 and...
AKPIA Lecture Series — Fatima Quraishi "Palimpsests Past and Present: The Sufis and Sultans of the Maklī Necropolis, 1380–1660"
October 15, 2026
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT
Palimpsests Past and Present: The Sufis and Sultans of the Maklī Necropolis, 1380–1660 Established as a small hermitage in the late fourteenth century, the Makli necropolis, in what is now Sindh province, Pakistan, grew over three centuries to a site of...
Medieval Studies Lecture — Krisztina Ilko "Bringing Medieval Lordship into Play: The Symbolic and Material Values of Chess Sets as Votive Offerings, c. 900–1350"
October 19, 2026
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5:00PM - 6:00PM EDT
More Information Forthcoming... Co-sponsored with the Department of Medieval Studies
AKPIA Lecture Series — Heba Mostafa "High Stakes, Big Data: The Existential Entanglements of the Abbasid Nilometer in Cairo"
October 29, 2026
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT
High Stakes, Big Data: The Existential Entanglements of the Abbasid Nilometer in Cairo More information forthcoming... Heba Mostafa Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of Art History, St. George, University of Toronto
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
More information forthcoming Title: Framed: Pictures from Asia in Eighteenth-Century Europe Speaker: Kristel Smentek (MIT) Chair: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Date: Tuesday, November 17th, 2026. Time: 5:30pm, reception to follow at 7pm Room: 485 Broadway Room 422
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 Information forthcoming... Sahar Hosseini Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Zerner Lecture — Stephan Wolohojian
December 1, 2026
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6:00PM - 7:30PM EST
More details to be announced... Stephan Wolohojian John Pope-Hennessy Curator in Charge, European Paintings The Metropolitan Museum of Art Stephan Wolohojian received his PhD from Harvard University and has held academic as well as museum positions. His...
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
Mahindra Seminar: Colossal Engineering in Carioca
September 24, 2026
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5:30PM - 7:00PM EDT
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HAA, Room 422
VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Erika Naginski, Harvard Graduate School of Design When, in the mid-18th century, the Arcos da Lapa (or Aqueduto da Carioca) was inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro, it heralded not only the arrival of...
Opening Reception: An Introduction to Van Lévé. Sovereign Visions from the Creole and Maroon Caribbean and Amazonia
September 28, 2026
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6:00PM - 8:00PM EDT
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Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art
An Introduction to Van Lévé. Sovereign Visions from the Creole and Maroon Caribbean and Amazonia: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane & and Haiti: 2001-Now is an intergenerational and transhistorical exhibition organized from a uniquely Caribbean perspective...
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
More information forthcoming Title: Framed: Pictures from Asia in Eighteenth-Century Europe Speaker: Kristel Smentek (MIT) Chair: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Date: Tuesday, November 17th, 2026. Time: 5:30pm, reception to follow at 7pm Room: 485 Broadway Room 422
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.