June 11, 2009

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Lectures

art/design

Tue., July 14 - "The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine." (Semitic Museum) Free lunchtime tour. Learn how people lived in an ancient Mesopotamian city around 800 BCE. Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave., 12:15 p.m. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic.

Sat., July 18 - "Modern Visions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum Collection." (Art Museum) Gallery talk with Laura Muir, assistant curator, Harvard Art Museum. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, 11 a.m. Free and open to the public. (617) 495-9400, http://www.harvardartmuseum.org.

Wed., July 29 - "The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine." (Semitic Museum) Free lunchtime tour. Learn how people lived in an ancient Mesopotamian city around 1200 BCE. Nuzi Gallery, Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave., 12:15 p.m. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic.

Sat., Aug 15 - "Renaissance Responses to Antiquity: Rubens, Bernini, and Poussin." (Art Museum) Gallery talk with Antien Knapp, postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Art Museum. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, 11 a.m. Free and open to the public. (617) 495-9400, http://www.harvardartmuseum.org.

conferences

Thu., Aug. 27-Sat., Aug 29 - "Johnson at 300: A Houghton Library Symposium." (Harvard College Library) For symposium details, visit http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/Houghton/conference_johnson.html. See also exhibitions.

environmental sciences

Thu., July 23 - "China's Environmental NGOs and Public Policy: Three Case Studies." (Fairbank Center) Jialiang Xu, Beijing Normal University and visiting scholar, Fairbank Center. Room S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 12:15 p.m.

health sciences

Wed., July 1 - "Children of Ukraine Hospital Rotary Project: 12 Years of Working Side by Side To Save Children." (HURI) Joyce Dove, founder and director, Foundation for Children Inc. Room S050, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 7 p.m. www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html.

humanities

Wed., July 8 - "The Art of Fiction: Practice, and Practice (A Workshop and Reading)." (HURI) Askold Melnyczuk, UMass Boston. Room S050, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 7 p.m. Open to Harvard students only. http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html.

Wed., July 15 - "The Politics of Memory in a Divided Society: A Comparison of Post-Franco Spain and Post-Soviet Ukraine." (HURI) Oxana Shevel, Tufts University. Room S050, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 7 p.m. http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html.

poetry/prose

Wed., July 8 - "The Art of Fiction: Practice, and Practice (A Workshop and Reading)." (HURI) Askold Melnyczuk, UMass Boston. Room S050, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 7 p.m. Open to Harvard students only. http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html.

social sciences

Tue., June 30 - "Famine and Socialism: Exploring the Cases of China and the Soviet Union." (Fairbank Center, Davis Center) Felix Wemheuer, Vienna University and visiting scholar, Fairbank Center. Room S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 12:15 p.m.

Wed., July 1 - "Children of Ukraine Hospital Rotary Project: 12 Years of Working Side by Side To Save Children." (HURI) Joyce Dove, founder and director, Foundation for Children Inc. Room S050, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 7 p.m. http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html.

Wed., July 15 - "The Politics of Memory in a Divided Society: A Comparison of Post-Franco Spain and Post-Soviet Ukraine." (HURI) Oxana Shevel, Tufts University. Room S050, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 7 p.m. http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html.

Thu., July 23 - "China's Environmental NGOs and Public Policy: Three Case Studies." (Fairbank Center) Jialiang Xu, Beijing Normal University and visiting scholar, Fairbank Center. Room S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., 12:15 p.m.