Harvard University Gazette

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

15 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave
Cambridge
Ongoing through Sun., Mar. 21, 2027, 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums for Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

15 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 15, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

15 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 15, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

15 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 15, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

15 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 15, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

15 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 15, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

15 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 15, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

16 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 16, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

16 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 16, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

16 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 16, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

16 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 16, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

16 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 16, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

16 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 16, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

17 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 17, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

17 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Mon., Aug. 17, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

17 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

17 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

17 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

17 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

17 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

A More Perfect Union: The Birth of the Constitution

17 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 17, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Declaring independence was just the first step towards forming the United States. Seeking to replace the weak Articles of Confederation with a stronger central government, a 1787 convention produced a constitution that provoked sharp debate over its ratification by the states. This exhibition features one of the early printings through which the text of the Constitution was presented to the public, as well as the most influential work of the ratification debate, "The Federalist."

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

17 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 17, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Making Waves: Books on Angling and Fish at Houghton Library

17 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 17, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Houghton Library holds almost 3,000 items related to angling and fish. This exhibition displays the breadth of this collection, which includes richly illustrated taxonomies, anglers’ guides, ships’ logs, watercolors, and even children’s materials and miniature books.

Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

18 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

18 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

18 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

18 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

18 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

18 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

18 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

18 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

A More Perfect Union: The Birth of the Constitution

18 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Declaring independence was just the first step towards forming the United States. Seeking to replace the weak Articles of Confederation with a stronger central government, a 1787 convention produced a constitution that provoked sharp debate over its ratification by the states. This exhibition features one of the early printings through which the text of the Constitution was presented to the public, as well as the most influential work of the ratification debate, "The Federalist."

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

18 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Making Waves: Books on Angling and Fish at Houghton Library

18 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Houghton Library holds almost 3,000 items related to angling and fish. This exhibition displays the breadth of this collection, which includes richly illustrated taxonomies, anglers’ guides, ships’ logs, watercolors, and even children’s materials and miniature books.

Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Art + Science: Materials and Techniques in Frame Conservation

18 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 18, 2026, 12 – 1 p.m.

Have you ever wondered what happens in our conservation labs? Join a member of our Straus Center staff for an informal conversation about their work treating objects in our collections. Taking place just outside the Straus Center in the Lightbox Gallery, this presentation will give you the chance to get up close and hands-on with a selection of tools and materials used by conservation staff.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

19 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 19, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

19 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 19, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

19 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Wed., Aug. 19, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

19 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 19, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

19 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 19, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

19 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 19, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

19 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 19, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

19 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 19, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

A More Perfect Union: The Birth of the Constitution

19 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 19, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Declaring independence was just the first step towards forming the United States. Seeking to replace the weak Articles of Confederation with a stronger central government, a 1787 convention produced a constitution that provoked sharp debate over its ratification by the states. This exhibition features one of the early printings through which the text of the Constitution was presented to the public, as well as the most influential work of the ratification debate, "The Federalist."

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

19 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 19, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Making Waves: Books on Angling and Fish at Houghton Library

19 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 19, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Houghton Library holds almost 3,000 items related to angling and fish. This exhibition displays the breadth of this collection, which includes richly illustrated taxonomies, anglers’ guides, ships’ logs, watercolors, and even children’s materials and miniature books.

Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

20 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 20, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

20 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 20, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

20 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Thu., Aug. 20, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

20 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 20, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

20 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 20, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

20 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 20, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

20 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 20, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

20 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 20, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

A More Perfect Union: The Birth of the Constitution

20 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 20, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Declaring independence was just the first step towards forming the United States. Seeking to replace the weak Articles of Confederation with a stronger central government, a 1787 convention produced a constitution that provoked sharp debate over its ratification by the states. This exhibition features one of the early printings through which the text of the Constitution was presented to the public, as well as the most influential work of the ratification debate, "The Federalist."

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

20 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 20, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Making Waves: Books on Angling and Fish at Houghton Library

20 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 20, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Houghton Library holds almost 3,000 items related to angling and fish. This exhibition displays the breadth of this collection, which includes richly illustrated taxonomies, anglers’ guides, ships’ logs, watercolors, and even children’s materials and miniature books.

Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Parental mental health: Raising healthier families

20 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Thu., Aug. 20, 2026, 1 – 1:45 p.m.

Parents today are facing unprecedented levels of stress, with many reporting symptoms of anxiety, depression, burnout, and loneliness. The U.S. Surgeon General’s 2024 advisory calls parental mental health and well-being an urgent public health issue, sighting the effects of parental health on the health and development of children. In this discussion, experts will examine the factors driving parental stress, explore how parental mental health shapes child development and family well-being, and discuss evidence-based strategies to better support parents. Drawing on research in public health, psychology, and child development, panelists will share practical insights for families while considering the policies and community investments needed to help parents—and the next generation—thrive.

Online Location: www.youtube.com…
Gazette Classification: Health Sciences, Mental Health / Wellness
Organization/Sponsor: The Studio at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Speaker(s): Archana Basu, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Research Scientist, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Psychologist, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH); Co-Director, Integrated Primary Care Program, MGH/MassGeneral Brigham, Karestan Koenen, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Jayne Singer, IECMH-E, Director of Relational Health and Clinical Training, Brazelton Touchpoints Center; Senior Attending Psychologist, Division of Developmental Medicine and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School , Richard Weissbourd, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Director, Making Caring Common Project , Melody Mendez, Anchor/Reporter, NBC10 Boston
Contact Info: studio@hsph.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hsph.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

21 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

21 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

21 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

21 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

21 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

21 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

21 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

21 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

A More Perfect Union: The Birth of the Constitution

21 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Declaring independence was just the first step towards forming the United States. Seeking to replace the weak Articles of Confederation with a stronger central government, a 1787 convention produced a constitution that provoked sharp debate over its ratification by the states. This exhibition features one of the early printings through which the text of the Constitution was presented to the public, as well as the most influential work of the ratification debate, "The Federalist."

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

21 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Making Waves: Books on Angling and Fish at Houghton Library

21 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Houghton Library holds almost 3,000 items related to angling and fish. This exhibition displays the breadth of this collection, which includes richly illustrated taxonomies, anglers’ guides, ships’ logs, watercolors, and even children’s materials and miniature books.

Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Lightning Gallery Talks: Teen Eyes on the Collections

21 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 21, 2026, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Join us for four 10-minute lightning gallery talks in this hour-long session led by this summer’s cohort of Hao Family High School Interns! Each intern will focus on a single object in the collections that they’ve selected and researched. A brief question and answer period will follow each talk.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu or 617-495-9400.
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

22 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 22, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

22 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 22, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

22 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 22, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

22 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 22, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

22 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 22, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

22 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 22, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

23 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 23, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

23 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 23, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

23 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 23, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

23 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 23, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

23 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 23, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

23 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 23, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

24 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 24, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

24 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Mon., Aug. 24, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

24 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 24, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

24 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 24, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

24 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 24, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

24 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 24, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

24 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 24, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

A More Perfect Union: The Birth of the Constitution

24 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 24, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Declaring independence was just the first step towards forming the United States. Seeking to replace the weak Articles of Confederation with a stronger central government, a 1787 convention produced a constitution that provoked sharp debate over its ratification by the states. This exhibition features one of the early printings through which the text of the Constitution was presented to the public, as well as the most influential work of the ratification debate, "The Federalist."

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

24 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 24, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 25, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

25 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 25, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

25 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Tue., Aug. 25, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

25 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 25, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

25 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 25, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

25 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 25, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

25 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 25, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

25 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 25, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

A More Perfect Union: The Birth of the Constitution

25 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 25, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Declaring independence was just the first step towards forming the United States. Seeking to replace the weak Articles of Confederation with a stronger central government, a 1787 convention produced a constitution that provoked sharp debate over its ratification by the states. This exhibition features one of the early printings through which the text of the Constitution was presented to the public, as well as the most influential work of the ratification debate, "The Federalist."

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

25 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Aug. 25, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 26, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

26 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 26, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

26 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Wed., Aug. 26, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

26 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 26, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

26 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 26, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

26 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 26, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

26 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 26, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

26 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 26, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

A More Perfect Union: The Birth of the Constitution

26 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 26, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Declaring independence was just the first step towards forming the United States. Seeking to replace the weak Articles of Confederation with a stronger central government, a 1787 convention produced a constitution that provoked sharp debate over its ratification by the states. This exhibition features one of the early printings through which the text of the Constitution was presented to the public, as well as the most influential work of the ratification debate, "The Federalist."

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

26 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Aug. 26, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 27, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 27, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

27 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Thu., Aug. 27, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

27 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 27, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

27 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 27, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

27 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 27, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

27 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 27, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

27 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 27, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

A More Perfect Union: The Birth of the Constitution

27 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Houghton Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 27, 2026, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Declaring independence was just the first step towards forming the United States. Seeking to replace the weak Articles of Confederation with a stronger central government, a 1787 convention produced a constitution that provoked sharp debate over its ratification by the states. This exhibition features one of the early printings through which the text of the Constitution was presented to the public, as well as the most influential work of the ratification debate, "The Federalist."

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Houghton Library
Cost: Free
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

27 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 27, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Harvard Art Museums at Night

27 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Aug. 27, 2026, 5 – 9 p.m.

Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! Conservators will be coming out from behind the scenes for a night of creative surprises.

Gather with friends and mingle inside our spectacular Italian-inspired courtyard, evoking the energy of a bustling town piazza. DJ C-Zone will set the mood with smooth, curated sounds as you chat, snack, sip, and catch up over bites and drinks available for purchase from local vendors. Drop in on a Spotlight Tour, browse the museum shop, and stop by the Materials Lab for a fun art-making activity. The galleries are yours to explore, with more than 50 spaces filled with world-class art.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: secure.touchnet.net…
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 28, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 28, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

28 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Fri., Aug. 28, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

28 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 28, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

28 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 28, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

28 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 28, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

28 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 28, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

28 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 28, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

28 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Aug. 28, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

29 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 29, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

29 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 29, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

29 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 29, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

29 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 29, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

29 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 29, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

29 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 29, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

29 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Aug. 29, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

HCAS Annual Summer Book Club Discussion (Virtual)

29 Aug 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Sat., Aug. 29, 2026, 7 – 8:30 p.m.

Join us for our annual summer reading gathering as Oriana Li Halevy leads a discussion on Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas.

In this rich and deeply reflective encyclical, Pope Leo XIV explores what it means to be fully human amid rapid technological transformation. Drawing on Scripture, philosophy, and the Church's social teaching tradition, he offers a compelling vision of the human person and the future of civilization. Rather than presenting a narrow policy framework on artificial intelligence, Magnifica Humanitas examines the dignity of the human person, the meaning of work, the nature of community, and the moral responsibilities that accompany creativity and innovation.

Framing our moment as a choice between the confusion of Babel and the rebuilding of Jerusalem, the Holy Father reflects on AI, labor, war, technology, and human flourishing with depth and moral seriousness. He explicitly places this encyclical in continuity with Rerum Novarum whose enduring vision of solidarity, human flourishing, and the common good guided our summer reading discussion last year. Just as Rerum Novarum addressed the profound social and economic transformations of the industrial age, Magnifica Humanitas invites Christians and "all people of good will" to discern faithfully the opportunities and challenges of the digital age through a renewed understanding of the human person – created for truth, communion, and love.

Please join us for a thoughtful and timely conversation as we continue exploring the Church's wisdom for the modern world and the shared future we are called to build together.

Online Location: hcas.sigs.harvard.edu…
Gazette Classification: Community, Lecture, Religion
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Christian Alumni Society
Cost: Free
Ticket Web Link: hcas.sigs.harvard.edu…
Contact Info: Nadira Wansor, SIG AdministratorHarvardChristians@gmail.com
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hcas.sigs.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

30 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 30, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

30 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 30, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

30 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 30, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

30 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 30, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

30 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 30, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

30 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 30, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

30 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 30, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

First-Year Sunday Service

30 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Sun., Aug. 30, 2026, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

The Memorial Church invites first-year Harvard students to Sunday worship, followed by a meet-and-greet on the porch. The Memorial Church of Harvard University, part of Harvard's vibrant interfaith network, is an interdenominational Protestant church in the midst of Harvard Yard that serves as a place of spiritual refuge for the entire community.

Services in the Memorial Church Sanctuary are live-streamed on YouTube and broadcast live on Harvard’s radio station, WHRB 95.3 FM. A recording of the service will be available on our website.

Online Location: www.youtube.com…
Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: The Memorial Church of Harvard University
Speaker(s): Preacher: The Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Ph.D ’13, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in the Faculty of Divinity, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church. Anthems: David Brunner: A Divine Voice Sings Through All Creation; Nehemiah Shumway: Schenectady.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 31, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

31 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Mon., Aug. 31, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

31 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 31, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

31 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 31, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

31 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 31, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

31 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 31, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

31 Aug 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 31, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

31 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Aug. 31, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 1, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 1, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

01 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Tue., Sep. 1, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Breakfast with the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program & Queer Nation Faculty

01 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Marc Heng And Family Conference Room
Wexner Building - W-102
Harvard Kennedy School
19 Eliot St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 1, 2026, 9 – 10 a.m.

Join us for a light student breakfast to learn more about the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program at the Carr–Ryan Center and the Queer Nation: LGBTQ Protest, Politics, and Policy in the United States class.

Gazette Classification: Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Ethics, Humanities, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: Carr-Ryan Center Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker(s): Diego Garcia Blum, Program Director, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program, Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights, Tim McCarthy, Faculty Chair, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program, Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights
Cost: Free
Ticket Web Link: www.hks.harvard.edu…
Harvard Key Required: Yes
More info: www.hks.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

01 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 1, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

01 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 1, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

01 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 1, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

01 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 1, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

01 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 1, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

01 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 1, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

01 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 1, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 2, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 2, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

02 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Wed., Sep. 2, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

02 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 2, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

02 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 2, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

02 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 2, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

02 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 2, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

02 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 2, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

02 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 2, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

02 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 2, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

02 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 2, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

03 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

03 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

03 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

03 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

03 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

03 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

03 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

03 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

03 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

State Security Surveillance of Women Under Romanian Communism

03 Sep 2026 20:00:00 GMT

S354 CGIS South
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026, 4 – 5:30 p.m.

Join us in exploring how gender and state surveillance is reflected in dramatic arts in the Soviet bloc through archival material.

Drawing on insights from Romanian Communist Party and State Security archives, this seminar reassesses the history of dramatic arts in the Soviet bloc through the lens of gender and surveillance.

Gazette Classification: Humanities, Lecture, Research study, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Cristina Modreanu, Professor of Drama and the Arts, University of the Arts, Tirgu Mures, Romania, Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center
Ticket Web Link: www.eventbrite.com…
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Compline Service

04 Sep 2026 01:00:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 3, 2026, 9 – 9:30 p.m.

Based upon the traditional evening liturgy of scripture, music, prayers, and silence, this ancient, brief service is sung in the candlelit space of Appleton Chapel by members of the Harvard University Choir. All are welcome.

Online Location: www.youtube.com…
Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: The Memorial Church of Harvard University
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

04 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

04 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

04 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

04 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

04 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

04 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

04 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

04 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

04 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Eteri Tsintsadze-Maass

04 Sep 2026 16:30:00 GMT

S354, CGIS South
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 4, 2026, 12:30 – 2 p.m.

Join us for this event, which seeks to understand Georgian presence in the Russo-Ukrainian war, informed by local geopolitics and identity.

Gazette Classification: Humanities, Lecture, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Eteri Tsintsadze-Maas , Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hampton University, Natia Chankvetadze, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
Ticket Web Link: www.eventbrite.com…
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 5, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 5, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

05 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 5, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

05 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 5, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

05 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 5, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

05 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 5, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

05 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 5, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

06 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 6, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

06 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 6, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

06 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 6, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

06 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 6, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

06 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 6, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

06 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 6, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

06 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 6, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

First Sunday Service of Fall Term

06 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 6, 2026, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

The Memorial Church invites all Harvard students to Sunday worship, followed by a meet-and-greet on the porch. The Memorial Church of Harvard University, part of Harvard's vibrant interfaith network, is an interdenominational Protestant church in the midst of Harvard Yard that serves as a place of spiritual refuge for the entire community.

Services in the Memorial Church Sanctuary are live-streamed on YouTube and broadcast live on Harvard’s radio station, WHRB 95.3 FM. A recording of the service will be available on our website.

Online Location: www.youtube.com…
Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: The Memorial Church of Harvard University
Speaker(s): Preacher: The Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Ph.D ’13, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in the Faculty of Divinity, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church. Anthems: David Brunner: A Divine Voice Sings Through All Creation; Nehemiah Shumway: Schenectady.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

07 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 7, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

07 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Mon., Sep. 7, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

07 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 7, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

07 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 7, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

07 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 7, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

07 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 7, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

07 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 7, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

07 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 7, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

08 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

08 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

08 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

08 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

08 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

08 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

08 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

08 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Public Research Talk: Emancipating Ecology: The Emerson-Thoreau Fault Line and Why It Matters for the Climate Crisis — Russell C. Powell

08 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Common Room, CSWR
42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026, 12 – 1:30 p.m.

Registration is required.
Please register to attend in person.
Please register to attend on Zoom.

Thoreau is a hero of environmental politics. Why isn't Emerson?
As ecological thought has increasingly emphasized particular places, histories, and forms of life, Thoreau has come to embody an ethic of attention to what resists universal abstraction. Yet climate change confronts us with injustices that extend beyond local contexts, making the abandonment of universality—and the emancipation it promises—a political liability.
Revisiting Emerson as a thinker of universality, this talk asks how environmental politics might meet the demands of justice while remaining faithful to particular places and concerns. Though Thoreau and Emerson represent different strands of the Transcendentalist legacy, both are essential to an environmental politics that is adequate to our historical moment.

Russell C. Powell is Research Affiliate for the Transcendentalism Initiative at the Center for the Study of World Religions. Formerly the Center's Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy of Religion, his research examines the religious, ethical, and political dimensions of environmental thought. He is currently completing a book on Ralph Waldo Emerson's relevance to contemporary ecological thought.

Programming Series: Transcendentalism
Gazette Classification: Environmental Sciences, Religion
Sponsor: Center for the Study of World Religions
Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator, ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu
More info: cswr.hds.harvard.edu…

Boston Bach International Organ Competition Faculty Recital

08 Sep 2026 23:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 8, 2026, 7:30 – 9 p.m.

Following the success of the Boston Bach International Organ Competitions in 2018 and 2022, the third Boston Bach International Organ Competition will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, from Sept. 6 to 13. The BBIOC is open to emerging, highly qualified organists from around the world who are now embarking on their careers.

The Memorial Church will host a Jury Recital featuring Stephen Farr, Ludger Lohmann, Rosalind Mohnsen, and Robert Huw Morgan on Sept. 8, 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: The Memorial Church of Harvard University
Speaker(s): Organ recital featuring Stephen Farr, Ludger Lohmann, Rosalind Mohnsen, and Robert Huw Morgan.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

09 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

09 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

09 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

09 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

09 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

09 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

09 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

09 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

09 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

09 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

09 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exploring Spirituality in Nature Writing: A Writing Workshop Series in Creative Nonfiction

09 Sep 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Conference Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
Wed., Sep. 9, 2026, 4 – 6 p.m.

This workshop is currently full. Thank you for your interest! If you'd like to be added to the waitlist, please contact Laurie Sedgwick at ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu.
Registration was limited to 12 participants.

This workshop series meets on four consecutive Wednesdays—September 9, 16, 23, and 30—from 4:00–6:00 p.m. Because each session builds on the previous one, participants are expected to attend all four sessions.

When William Ellery Channing claimed in an 1828 sermon that “we are brought into harmony with the creation” in proportion to our pursuit of our own “likeness to God,” he could not have known that his theology would help inspire a literary tradition that continues to explore spiritual growth through encounters with the natural world. American nature writing developed some of its strongest roots in the ideas of Channing and the American Transcendentalists he influenced. Emerson explored selfhood and spirituality through nature, famously writing of standing in the woods and sensing that he was “part and parcel of God.” Thoreau likewise wrote of the spiritual expansiveness he experienced through his connection with the natural world. This tradition extends through writers such as John Muir, Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, and Kathleen Dean Moore. Today, nature writers continue to explore the spiritual dimensions of life through encounters with the more-than-human world.
In this creative nonfiction workshop, participants will practice nature writing as an expression and exploration of spirituality. Before the first session, participants will be invited to read brief excerpts from texts central to the nature writing tradition. During the workshop, participants will discuss the readings and elements of writerly craft, focusing on strategies authors have used to explore, reveal, and experience spirituality through nature. Sessions will also include guided writing exercises and prompts. Between meetings, participants will be invited to complete writing exercises that may inform future discussions. At the conclusion of the series, the instructor will provide individual feedback on a short essay submitted by each participant.

Rochelle L. Johnson received the 2026 John Burroughs Nature Essay Award and the 2025 Georgia Review Prose Prize for her essay “Phantom Pains,” which was also featured by Longreads, Memoir Land, and Nature. A recipient of the Carnegie Foundation’s Idaho Professor of the Year Award and the 2024 Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities Award from the Idaho Humanities Council, Johnson is the author of numerous creative and scholarly works, including Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation. She has also coedited several volumes, including Thoreau in an Age of Crisis.
A leading scholar of nineteenth-century naturalist Susan Fenimore Cooper, Johnson’s research has been supported by fellowships from the Beinecke Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other organizations. She holds the Bernie McCain Chair in the Humanities at the College of Idaho, where she teaches environmental studies, and serves as the 2026 Robert Frost Chair at the Bread Loaf School of English, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She is a past president of both the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the Thoreau Society.

Programming Series: Transcendentalism
Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Poetry/Prose, Religion
Sponsor: Center for the Study of World Religions
Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator, ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu
More info: cswr.hds.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

10 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 10, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

10 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 10, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

10 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Thu., Sep. 10, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

10 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 10, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

10 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 10, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

10 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 10, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

10 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 10, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

10 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 10, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

10 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 10, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

10 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 10, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

10 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 10, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 11, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

11 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 11, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

11 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Fri., Sep. 11, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

11 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 11, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

11 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 11, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

11 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 11, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

11 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 11, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

11 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 11, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

11 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 11, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

11 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 11, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

11 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 11, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 12, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

12 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 12, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

12 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 12, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

12 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 12, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

12 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 12, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

12 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 12, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

12 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 12, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

13 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 13, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

13 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 13, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

13 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 13, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

13 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 13, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

13 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 13, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

13 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 13, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

13 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 13, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Sunday Service

13 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 13, 2026, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, part of Harvard's vibrant interfaith network, is an interdenominational Protestant church in the midst of Harvard Yard that serves as a place of spiritual refuge for the entire community.

Services in the Memorial Church Sanctuary are live-streamed on YouTube and broadcast live on Harvard’s radio station, WHRB 95.3 FM. A recording of the service will be available on our website.

Online Location: www.youtube.com…
Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: The Memorial Church of Harvard University
Speaker(s): Preacher: The Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Ph.D ’13, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in the Faculty of Divinity, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church. Anthems: David Brunner: A Divine Voice Sings Through All Creation; Nehemiah Shumway: Schenectady.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 14, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

14 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Mon., Sep. 14, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

14 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 14, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

14 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 14, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

14 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 14, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

14 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 14, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

14 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 14, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

14 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 14, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

14 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 14, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Public Research Talk: Transcendental Imagination: The Case for a New American Renaissance — Kristen Case

14 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions
42 Francis Ave. Cambridge, MA
Mon., Sep. 14, 2026, 12 – 1:30 p.m.

Registration is required.
Please register to attend in person.
Please register to attend on Zoom.

This talk explores the transcendentalist reimagining of sociality and temporality, aspects of human experience that underwent broad transformations in the late nineteenth century. In our own time, as we navigate unprecedented access to the globe and to one another while also experiencing ever-increasing loneliness and disconnection, the relationship between self and world is once more a site of contestation and cultural renegotiation.
At the same time, our hyperconnectivity means that our experience of time is ever more fragmented, accelerated, and homogenized. As human creativity and connection are threatened by AI and algorithmic determinism, the example of the transcendentalist writers can help us recommit to an imaginative reorganization of our experience.

Kristen Case is a poet and scholar whose books include American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice, Little Arias, Principles of Economics, Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar, and Daphne. She has co-edited several essay collections on American writers and is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Henry David Thoreau with James Finley.
Case serves as Executive Director of the Monson Arts Fellowship, a residential arts and humanities program for Pell-eligible college students, and is visiting faculty at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. She lives in Maine.

Programming Series: Transcendentalism
Gazette Classification: Humanities, Lecture, Religion
Sponsor: Center for the Study of World Religions
Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator, ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu
More info: cswr.hds.harvard.edu…

Carr-Ryan Open House

14 Sep 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Nye ABC
Harvard Kennedy School
79 John F. Kennedy St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 14, 2026, 4 – 6 p.m.

Please join us at Nye ABC to learn more about the work of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights. We will provide light refreshments and you can learn about our work from our Faculty and Staff.

Since 1999, the Center at Harvard Kennedy School has tackled some of the world’s most urgent challenges—from genocide and torture to violence against women, human trafficking, racial justice, transitional justice, and LGBTQI+ rights.

Now led by Director Mathias Risse and Executive Director Maggie Gates, the Carr-Ryan Center is expanding its work on technology and human rights, nonviolent social movements, and renewing rights and responsibilities in the United States.

Gazette Classification: Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Ethics, Humanities, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: Carr-Ryan Center Harvard Kennedy School
Cost: Free
Ticket Web Link: www.hks.harvard.edu…
Harvard Key Required: Yes
More info: www.hks.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 15, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

15 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 15, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

15 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Tue., Sep. 15, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

15 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 15, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

15 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 15, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

15 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 15, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

15 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 15, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

15 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 15, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

15 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 15, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

15 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 15, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

15 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 15, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

16 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

16 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

16 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

16 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

16 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

16 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

16 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

16 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

16 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

16 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Lunchtime Recital

16 Sep 2026 16:15:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 12:15 – 1 p.m.

Carson Cooman, Research Associate in Music and Composer in Residence at the Memorial Church, and David von Behren, Assistant University Organist and Choirmaster, perform a lunchtime recital. The concert is free and open to the public.

The Memorial Church will host a Jury Recital featuring Stephen Farr, Ludger Lohmann, Rosalind Mohnsen, and Robert Huw Morgan on Sept. 8, 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: The Memorial Church of Harvard University
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Exploring Spirituality in Nature Writing: A Writing Workshop Series in Creative Nonfiction

16 Sep 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Conference Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 4 – 6 p.m.

This workshop is currently full. Thank you for your interest! If you'd like to be added to the waitlist, please contact Laurie Sedgwick at ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu.
Registration was limited to 12 participants.

This workshop series meets on four consecutive Wednesdays—September 9, 16, 23, and 30—from 4:00–6:00 p.m. Because each session builds on the previous one, participants are expected to attend all four sessions.

When William Ellery Channing claimed in an 1828 sermon that “we are brought into harmony with the creation” in proportion to our pursuit of our own “likeness to God,” he could not have known that his theology would help inspire a literary tradition that continues to explore spiritual growth through encounters with the natural world. American nature writing developed some of its strongest roots in the ideas of Channing and the American Transcendentalists he influenced. Emerson explored selfhood and spirituality through nature, famously writing of standing in the woods and sensing that he was “part and parcel of God.” Thoreau likewise wrote of the spiritual expansiveness he experienced through his connection with the natural world. This tradition extends through writers such as John Muir, Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, and Kathleen Dean Moore. Today, nature writers continue to explore the spiritual dimensions of life through encounters with the more-than-human world.
In this creative nonfiction workshop, participants will practice nature writing as an expression and exploration of spirituality. Before the first session, participants will be invited to read brief excerpts from texts central to the nature writing tradition. During the workshop, participants will discuss the readings and elements of writerly craft, focusing on strategies authors have used to explore, reveal, and experience spirituality through nature. Sessions will also include guided writing exercises and prompts. Between meetings, participants will be invited to complete writing exercises that may inform future discussions. At the conclusion of the series, the instructor will provide individual feedback on a short essay submitted by each participant.

Rochelle L. Johnson received the 2026 John Burroughs Nature Essay Award and the 2025 Georgia Review Prose Prize for her essay “Phantom Pains,” which was also featured by Longreads, Memoir Land, and Nature. A recipient of the Carnegie Foundation’s Idaho Professor of the Year Award and the 2024 Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities Award from the Idaho Humanities Council, Johnson is the author of numerous creative and scholarly works, including Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation. She has also coedited several volumes, including Thoreau in an Age of Crisis.
A leading scholar of nineteenth-century naturalist Susan Fenimore Cooper, Johnson’s research has been supported by fellowships from the Beinecke Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other organizations. She holds the Bernie McCain Chair in the Humanities at the College of Idaho, where she teaches environmental studies, and serves as the 2026 Robert Frost Chair at the Bread Loaf School of English, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She is a past president of both the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the Thoreau Society.

Programming Series: Transcendentalism
Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Poetry/Prose, Religion
Sponsor: Center for the Study of World Religions
Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator, ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu
More info: cswr.hds.harvard.edu…

Facing East or Facing South? Nazi Rule in the Soviet Muslim Borderlands

16 Sep 2026 20:30:00 GMT

S234 CGIS South
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 16, 2026, 4:30 – 6 p.m.

Nazi rule in Crimea and North Caucasus was shaped by two strategic orientations pulling occupation policy in different directions. The “Eastern” vector followed the racial-colonial logic of the Ostkrieg. The “Southern” vector looked beyond the Soviet frontier toward Turkey, Iran, and the wider Muslim world, encouraging a pragmatic and friendly approach to local Muslim communities and, by extension, to other groups. Their interaction produced an occupation regime unlike any other in the occupied Soviet territories. The tension became most visible in Nazi efforts to determine whether groups associated with Jewish ancestry or Judaism (Karaites, Krymchaks, Mountain Jews, and Subbotniks) should be classified as Jews and share their fate during the Shoah. For these groups, the southern dimension created a unique window of survival; yet, the extermination of Ashkenazi Jews remained non-negotiable.

Gazette Classification: Humanities, Research study, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Kiril Feferman, Senior Lecturer, Ariel University (Israel), Maxim D. Shrayer, Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center
Ticket Web Link: www.eventbrite.com…
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 17, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 17, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

17 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Thu., Sep. 17, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

17 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 17, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

17 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

17 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

17 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

17 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

17 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

17 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 17, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

17 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 17, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

18 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 18, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

18 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 18, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

18 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Fri., Sep. 18, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

18 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 18, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

18 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

18 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

18 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

18 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

18 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

18 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 18, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

18 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 18, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 19, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

19 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 19, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

19 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 19, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

19 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 19, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

19 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 19, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

19 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 19, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

19 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 19, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 20, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

20 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 20, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

20 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 20, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

20 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 20, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

20 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 20, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

20 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 20, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

20 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 20, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

21 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 21, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

21 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Mon., Sep. 21, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

21 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 21, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

21 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 21, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

21 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 21, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

21 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 21, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

21 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 21, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

21 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 21, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

21 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 21, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Public Research Talk: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Radical Reconstruction, and the Antislavery Roots of American Social Science - Peter Wirzbicki

21 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Common Room, CSWR
42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
Mon., Sep. 21, 2026, 12 – 1:30 p.m.

Registration required.
Please register to attend in person.
Please register to attend on Zoom.

Forthcoming

Programming Series: Transcendentalism
Gazette Classification: Humanities, Lecture, Religion
Sponsor: Center for the Study of World Religions
Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator, ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

22 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

22 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

22 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

22 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

22 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

22 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

22 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

22 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

22 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

22 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

22 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Debate, Debrief, and Dessert: The Role of Diversity in Higher Education and American Life

22 Sep 2026 22:00:00 GMT

JFK Jr. Forum, Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School
79 John F. Kennedy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 22, 2026, 6 – 7:30 p.m.

In a conversation moderated by Washington Post reporter Laura Meckler, Prof. Cornell William Brooks, HKS Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and 18th President and CEO of the NAACP, will sit down with Dr. Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation and a key architect of the “Project 2025” presidential transition blueprint, to debate the role of diversity in higher education and American life more broadly.

Following the conversation, Julia Minson, HKS Professor of Public Policy and author of How to Disagree Better, will lead the audience in a facilitated debrief of how the session unfolded.

Debate, Debrief, and Dessert is an HKS series that explores competing perspectives on pressing policy issues and seeks to strengthen the Harvard community’s capacity to engage in respectful, substantive dialogue across differences.

Please register with a valid Harvard email address to attend in-person. The debate portion of this event will be publicly livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

Online Location: ken.sc…
Gazette Classification: Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, Dean's Office at Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker(s): Cornell William Brooks , Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations; Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice, Harvard Kennedy School, Dr. Kevin Roberts , President, Heritage Foundation, Laura Meckler (Moderator), Reporter, Washington Post, Julia Minson , Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of How to Disagree Better
Cost: Free
Ticket Web Link: iop.harvard.edu…
Contact Info: iop_info@hks.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: iop.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

23 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

23 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

23 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

23 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

23 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

23 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

23 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

23 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

23 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exploring Spirituality in Nature Writing: A Writing Workshop Series in Creative Nonfiction

23 Sep 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Conference Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
Wed., Sep. 23, 2026, 4 – 6 p.m.

This workshop is currently full. Thank you for your interest! If you'd like to be added to the waitlist, please contact Laurie Sedgwick at ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu.
Registration was limited to 12 participants.

This workshop series meets on four consecutive Wednesdays—September 9, 16, 23, and 30—from 4:00–6:00 p.m. Because each session builds on the previous one, participants are expected to attend all four sessions.

When William Ellery Channing claimed in an 1828 sermon that “we are brought into harmony with the creation” in proportion to our pursuit of our own “likeness to God,” he could not have known that his theology would help inspire a literary tradition that continues to explore spiritual growth through encounters with the natural world. American nature writing developed some of its strongest roots in the ideas of Channing and the American Transcendentalists he influenced. Emerson explored selfhood and spirituality through nature, famously writing of standing in the woods and sensing that he was “part and parcel of God.” Thoreau likewise wrote of the spiritual expansiveness he experienced through his connection with the natural world. This tradition extends through writers such as John Muir, Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, and Kathleen Dean Moore. Today, nature writers continue to explore the spiritual dimensions of life through encounters with the more-than-human world.
In this creative nonfiction workshop, participants will practice nature writing as an expression and exploration of spirituality. Before the first session, participants will be invited to read brief excerpts from texts central to the nature writing tradition. During the workshop, participants will discuss the readings and elements of writerly craft, focusing on strategies authors have used to explore, reveal, and experience spirituality through nature. Sessions will also include guided writing exercises and prompts. Between meetings, participants will be invited to complete writing exercises that may inform future discussions. At the conclusion of the series, the instructor will provide individual feedback on a short essay submitted by each participant.

Rochelle L. Johnson received the 2026 John Burroughs Nature Essay Award and the 2025 Georgia Review Prose Prize for her essay “Phantom Pains,” which was also featured by Longreads, Memoir Land, and Nature. A recipient of the Carnegie Foundation’s Idaho Professor of the Year Award and the 2024 Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities Award from the Idaho Humanities Council, Johnson is the author of numerous creative and scholarly works, including Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation. She has also coedited several volumes, including Thoreau in an Age of Crisis.
A leading scholar of nineteenth-century naturalist Susan Fenimore Cooper, Johnson’s research has been supported by fellowships from the Beinecke Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other organizations. She holds the Bernie McCain Chair in the Humanities at the College of Idaho, where she teaches environmental studies, and serves as the 2026 Robert Frost Chair at the Bread Loaf School of English, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She is a past president of both the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the Thoreau Society.

Programming Series: Transcendentalism
Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Poetry/Prose, Religion
Sponsor: Center for the Study of World Religions
Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator, ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu
More info: cswr.hds.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

24 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 24, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

24 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 24, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

24 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Thu., Sep. 24, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

24 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 24, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

24 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 24, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

24 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 24, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

24 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 24, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

24 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 24, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

24 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 24, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

24 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 24, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

24 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Sep. 24, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

25 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 25, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

25 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 25, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

25 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Fri., Sep. 25, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

25 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 25, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

25 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 25, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

25 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 25, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

25 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 25, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

25 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 25, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

25 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 25, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

25 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 25, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

25 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Sep. 25, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

26 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 26, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

26 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 26, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

26 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 26, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

26 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 26, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

26 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 26, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

26 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 26, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

26 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Sep. 26, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

27 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 27, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

27 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 27, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

27 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 27, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

27 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 27, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

27 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 27, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

27 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 27, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

27 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Sep. 27, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

28 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 28, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

28 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Mon., Sep. 28, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

28 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 28, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

28 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 28, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

28 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 28, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

28 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 28, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

28 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 28, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

28 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 28, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

28 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mon., Sep. 28, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

Public Research Talk: A Transcendentalist Peace: American Pacifism from Lydia Maria Child to Jane Addams

28 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Common Room, CSWR
42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
Mon., Sep. 28, 2026, 12 – 1:30 p.m.

Registration is required.
Please register to attend in person.
Please register to attend on Zoom.

In 1839, abolitionist Lydia Maria Child called the first Peace Convention in Boston “unquestionably the greatest event of the nineteenth century.” “Posterity will marvel,” she wrote, “at the early adoption of such transcendental principles.” Seventy-five years later, Jane Addams honed transcendentalist ideas into a theory of pacifism that Child would have recognized—one built on moral self-reliance, faith in individual transformation, and a dedication to justice through applied democracy. These women's ideas, and the example of their lives, are deeply relevant today as we struggle, in a war-torn world, to imagine a lasting peace.

Lydia Moland is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Philosophy at Colby College. She is the author of Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life (2022), a biography of abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and American Scholar, among other publications. She is also the author of books on classical German philosophy and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century (2025). She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Academy in Berlin. In 2025, she was a Fulbright Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. She is currently working on a group biography of interwar pacifists, provisionally titled Pacifist Women at War: Four Paths to Peace.

Programming Series: Transcendentalism
Gazette Classification: Humanities, Lecture, Religion
Sponsor: Center for the Study of World Religions
Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator, ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu
More info: cswr.hds.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 29, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 29, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

29 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Tue., Sep. 29, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

29 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 29, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

29 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 29, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

29 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 29, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

29 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 29, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

29 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 29, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

29 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 29, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

29 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 29, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

29 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Tue., Sep. 29, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

30 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

30 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

30 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

30 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

30 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

30 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

30 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

30 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

30 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exploring Spirituality in Nature Writing: A Writing Workshop Series in Creative Nonfiction

30 Sep 2026 20:00:00 GMT

Conference Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
Wed., Sep. 30, 2026, 4 – 6 p.m.

This workshop is currently full. Thank you for your interest! If you'd like to be added to the waitlist, please contact Laurie Sedgwick at ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu.
Registration was limited to 12 participants.

This workshop series meets on four consecutive Wednesdays—September 9, 16, 23, and 30—from 4:00–6:00 p.m. Because each session builds on the previous one, participants are expected to attend all four sessions.

When William Ellery Channing claimed in an 1828 sermon that “we are brought into harmony with the creation” in proportion to our pursuit of our own “likeness to God,” he could not have known that his theology would help inspire a literary tradition that continues to explore spiritual growth through encounters with the natural world. American nature writing developed some of its strongest roots in the ideas of Channing and the American Transcendentalists he influenced. Emerson explored selfhood and spirituality through nature, famously writing of standing in the woods and sensing that he was “part and parcel of God.” Thoreau likewise wrote of the spiritual expansiveness he experienced through his connection with the natural world. This tradition extends through writers such as John Muir, Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, and Kathleen Dean Moore. Today, nature writers continue to explore the spiritual dimensions of life through encounters with the more-than-human world.
In this creative nonfiction workshop, participants will practice nature writing as an expression and exploration of spirituality. Before the first session, participants will be invited to read brief excerpts from texts central to the nature writing tradition. During the workshop, participants will discuss the readings and elements of writerly craft, focusing on strategies authors have used to explore, reveal, and experience spirituality through nature. Sessions will also include guided writing exercises and prompts. Between meetings, participants will be invited to complete writing exercises that may inform future discussions. At the conclusion of the series, the instructor will provide individual feedback on a short essay submitted by each participant.

Rochelle L. Johnson received the 2026 John Burroughs Nature Essay Award and the 2025 Georgia Review Prose Prize for her essay “Phantom Pains,” which was also featured by Longreads, Memoir Land, and Nature. A recipient of the Carnegie Foundation’s Idaho Professor of the Year Award and the 2024 Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities Award from the Idaho Humanities Council, Johnson is the author of numerous creative and scholarly works, including Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation. She has also coedited several volumes, including Thoreau in an Age of Crisis.
A leading scholar of nineteenth-century naturalist Susan Fenimore Cooper, Johnson’s research has been supported by fellowships from the Beinecke Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other organizations. She holds the Bernie McCain Chair in the Humanities at the College of Idaho, where she teaches environmental studies, and serves as the 2026 Robert Frost Chair at the Bread Loaf School of English, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She is a past president of both the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the Thoreau Society.

Programming Series: Transcendentalism
Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Poetry/Prose, Religion
Sponsor: Center for the Study of World Religions
Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator, ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu
More info: cswr.hds.harvard.edu…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

01 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

01 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

01 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

01 Oct 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

01 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

01 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

01 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

01 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

01 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

01 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

01 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

02 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

02 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street

02 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

North Lobby
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Muriel Siebert: Redefining Power and Possibility on Wall Street traces the career of Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.

Drawing on photographs, correspondence, advertisements, and contemporary media coverage from the Muriel Siebert Collection, generously donated to Baker Library in 2019 by the Muriel Siebert Foundation, with additional materials on loan from the New York Stock Exchange Archives and the Museum of American Finance, the exhibition follows Siebert's rise from a research analyst in the 1950s to a Wall Street trailblazer, regulator, philanthropist, and advocate for financial literacy.

Open to the public Monday-Thursday, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, Friday, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, excluding holidays.

Online Location: www.hbs.edu…
Gazette Classification: Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and organized by Baker Library Special Collections and Archives
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.library.hbs.edu…

Morning Prayers

02 Oct 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The Memorial Church of Harvard University, Appleton Chapel
One Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026, 8:30 – 8:45 a.m.

The daily Morning Prayers service is conducted each weekday morning from 8:30 to 8:45 a.m. in Appleton Chapel during the academic term. The service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address by a member or friend of the University.

Gazette Classification: Music, Religion, Support/Social
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard/Memorial Church
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: Phone: 617-495-5508 memorialchurch@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: memorialchurch.harvard.edu…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

02 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks

02 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James St.
Cambridge
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Drawn from the Schlesinger Library’s collection of more than 4,300 community cookbooks, ‘Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks’ explores the cultural and historical significance of community cookbooks from the nineteenth century to today. These volumes document how women’s groups across religious, educational, and civic organizations raised funds while preserving the social histories and culinary traditions of their communities.

Featuring cookbooks from diverse geographic regions and racial and ethnic communities, the exhibition highlights the intersection of foodways and community advocacy. Archival materials from local organizations reveal how these cookbooks were produced and marketed, while handmade and artistically embellished volumes underscore the creative labor involved. Annotated, food-stained pages attest to their everyday use and lasting presence in homes. Through recipes and reflections, ‘Cooking Up Change’ celebrates shared cooking traditions and the enduring power of women-led community building through the kitchen.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Cost: Free
Contact Info: info@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More info: www.radcliffe.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

02 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

02 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

02 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Harvard and the American Revolution

02 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
Harvard University Archives
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war between Great Britain and its 13 American colonies. Colonists who supported independence believed they should have more control over their own laws and taxation, while the British wanted to keep the colonies under Imperial rule. These disagreements grew into open conflict and eventually led to the founding of a new nation.

Harvard played many roles in the American Revolution. It served as headquarters for the colonies’ Continental Army, produced graduates who became key revolutionary leaders, and fostered bold new ideas through active intellectual and academic debate. The stories gathered here reveal how the Harvard community helped shape—and was shaped by—the birth of the American republic.

This exhibition invites you to explore the many complex and influential ways Harvard participated in the American Revolution. Through thoughtfully curated objects, documents, and narratives from the collections of the Harvard University Archives, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the hopes and anxieties that shaped the era and how Harvard both participated in and contributed to the nation’s struggle for independence. We invite you to walk in these historical footsteps around campus, engage with the voices of the past, and reflect upon the lasting importance of education and critical inquiry during times of great change.

Harvard and the American Revolution was curated by Emily Atkins, Ariana Cook, Hannah Hack, Virginia Hunt, Juliana Kuipers, and Sarah Martin of the Harvard University Archives. Exhibit graphic design by Molly Regan, Logica Design.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard University Archives
Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact Info: archives_engagement@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: library.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

02 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Imaginative Seeing in Goethe, Coleridge, and Emerson: Pathways to a Phenomenological Ecology — Ryan Shea

02 Oct 2026 19:30:00 GMT

Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
Fri., Oct. 2, 2026, 3:30 – 5 p.m.

Registration is required.
Please register to attend in person.
Please register to attend on Zoom.

In “The Poet,” Emerson said that imagination is “a very high sort of seeing.” This talk explores the imagination as an organ of direct intuitive perception that might become the foundation for a new phenomenological science of ecology. The first part explores the historical and cultural resonances among conceptions of the imagination in German Idealism, British Romanticism, and American Transcendentalism, as represented by Goethe, Coleridge, and Emerson. The second part engages the audience in interactive imaginative exercises that invite participants to see new things for themselves.

Ryan Shea is a full-time researcher and educator at The Nature Institute in Ghent, New York. Previously, he taught environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, interdisciplinary humanities, and nature writing at Providence College for eight years. He is also a doctoral researcher with MESH (Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities) at the University of Cologne in Germany.

His research seeks to develop the practice of experiential and participatory ecology, with a focus on metamorphosis in plants and insects. His work is informed by the tradition of Goethean transformative phenomenology—especially the work of Craig Holdrege, Mark Riegner, Henri Bortoft, Jochen Bockemühl, and Andreas Suchantke—which develops new ways of seeing that allow the whole to be directly experienced through the part.

Shea is the editor of The Nature Institute’s in-house publication, In Context, and co-producer of its podcast, In Dialogue with Nature. He also co-edited a recent translation of Goethean biologist Andreas Suchantke’s Insect Forms and Patterns: Exploring the Language of Nature.

Programming Series: Transcendentalism
Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Environmental Sciences
Sponsor: Center for the Study of World Religions
Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator, ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

03 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sat., Oct. 3, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

03 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Oct. 3, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

03 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Oct. 3, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

03 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sat., Oct. 3, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

03 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Oct. 3, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

03 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sat., Oct. 3, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

Check the museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

Living Transcendentalism: Phenomenological Ecology and Nature's Wholeness Talk and Workshop

03 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA
Sat., Oct. 3, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Living Transcendentalism: Phenomenological Ecology and Nature’s Wholeness
Friday, October 2, 3:30–5:00 pm Opening Talk & Discussion: Imaginative Seeing in Goethe, Coleridge, and Emerson: Pathways to a Phenomenological Ecology
Saturday, October 3, 9:00 am–5:00 pm Workshop: Living Transcendentalism: Phenomenological Ecology and Participating in Nature’s Wholeness

Registration is required.
Please register to attend in person.

The Friday opening talk and discussion is open to all.
Registration for the Saturday workshop includes attendance at both the Friday opening talk and the Saturday workshop. Workshop participation is limited to 15 attendees.

Inspired by the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, this two-day workshop invites participants to cultivate a deeper relationship with nature's wholeness. Friday afternoon’s talk introduces the imagination as an organ of participatory knowing. Saturday’s all-day workshop is devoted to attending carefully to plants in their immediate appearances and dynamic ecological relationships. By engaging in precise observation, pencil drawing, and writing practices, participants will explore transcendentalism as a living practice of perception, imagination, and engagement with the more-than-human world.

Ryan Shea is a full-time researcher and educator at The Nature Institute in Ghent, New York. Previously, he taught environmental philosophy, philosophy of science, interdisciplinary humanities, and nature writing at Providence College for eight years. He is also a doctoral researcher with MESH (Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities) at the University of Cologne in Germany.

His research seeks to develop the practice of experiential and participatory ecology, with a focus on metamorphosis in plants and insects. His work is informed by the tradition of Goethean transformative phenomenology—especially the work of Craig Holdrege, Mark Riegner, Henri Bortoft, Jochen Bockemühl, and Andreas Suchantke—which develops new ways of seeing that allow the whole to be directly experienced through the part.

Shea is the editor of The Nature Institute’s in-house publication, In Context, and co-producer of its podcast, In Dialogue with Nature. He also co-edited a recent translation of Goethean biologist Andreas Suchantke’s Insect Forms and Patterns: Exploring the Language of Nature.

Programming Series: Transcendentalism
Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Environmental Sciences
Sponsor: Center for the Study of World Religions
Contact: Laurie D. Sedgwick, CSWR Events Coordinator, ldsedgwick@hds.harvard.edu
More info: cswr.hds.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

03 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sat., Oct. 3, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…

Exhibition "The Space of Appearance: A Shared Tongue"

04 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Third Floor, CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge
Sun., Oct. 4, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their respective home countries due to political repression, the gradual collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life and society, or war.  
Photographs in the exhibition portray a Russian-speaking immigrant community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, capturing moments of togetherness in informal, undefined spaces of comfort—where people talk, read, listen to music, daydream, or scroll on their phones. These encounters become what Hannah Arendt, in The Human Condition, calls “the space of appearances,” a threshold between the private and the public realms. These newly formed communities construct precisely such spaces: provisional and evanescent, yet undeniably vital.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions, Social Sciences
Organization/Sponsor: The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Speaker(s): Yulia Spiridonova, Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Laura A. Sargent, Events Manager, Davis Center
Cost: Free
Contact Info: laura_sargent@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu…

Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland

04 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Oct. 4, 2026

Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Ticket Web Link: harvardartmuseums.org…
Contact Info: 1 (617) 495-9400
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: bit.ly…

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

04 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Oct. 4, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are records of the planet from different times and places. Objects span billions of years and come from every continent, ocean, and beyond. They are stone and bone, plant and animal, feather and fossil.

Since the early days of Harvard University, collections have been central to teaching and research. People continue to study these collections and uncover knowledge. Come explore some treasures of the collection!

Explore historic specimens presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence on June 27.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

04 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
Sun., Oct. 4, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs each scene from multiple angles to reimagine historical events as complex tableaux, set in real locations in Iran.

In sixteen images—three presented as large-scale prints—Akhlaghi depicts eleven pivotal incidents highlighting the cycle of successful and failed efforts by Iranians to reclaim control of their country between 1908—when the Shah quashed the first National Assembly—and 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and Islamic rule began.

Photo: Detail of The First Iranian Women’s Movement, Dr. Kahhal’s Office, Tehran | December 1, 1911 © Azadeh Akhlaghi

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Exhibitions, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Science & Culture
Cost: Regular admission applies
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: peabody.harvard.edu…

Pop Quiz: 1776

04 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History,
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Oct. 4, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums — the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments — to check your answers.

Pro tip: join us any Sunday–Friday 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to access all four museums!

Check museum's website for closure dates.

Gazette Classification: America 250, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental Sciences, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: hmsc.harvard.edu…

Rubies

04 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford St.
Cambridge
Sun., Oct. 4, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.

Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking fluorescence, glowing bright crimson under ultraviolet light. Ruby’s internal world—its inclusions, growth zoning, and rutile “silk” needles—records its geological journey and can reveal its origin, making ruby a gemstone of extraordinary beauty and a rich source of scientific insight.

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Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Community, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Exhibitions, Science
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cost: Regular museum admission rates apply
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: www.hmnh.harvard.edu…

The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection

04 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy St.
Cambridge
Sun., Oct. 4, 2026, 10 a.m.

Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.

Gazette Classification: Art/Design, Exhibitions
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Art Museums
Cost: Free admission
Contact Info: am_register@harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No
More info: harvardartmuseums.org…