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2018 Apr 19

Film and Discussion: Spell Reel, with Director Filipa César

7:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums

By turns political documentary, archival history, and lyrical exploration of the relationship between past and present, Filipa César’s 2017 film Spell Reel presents a trove of footage taken during Guinea-Bissau’s war of independence from Portugal (1963–74) in West Africa. Following the screening, director Filipa César will discuss the film with Kate Rennebohm, a Ph.D. candidate in film and visual studies at Harvard University.

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2018 Mar 29

Asmarina: Film and Discussion with Angela Davis, Medhin Paolos, and Lorgia García Peña

6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums

This documentary film about the habesha (Eritrean/Ethiopian community) of Milan, Italy, engages in historical disruption of the relationship between colonialism and diaspora. Interweaving testimonies of first- and second-generation habesha immigrants in Milan, archival research, photography, and music, the film brings to light Italian postcolonial heritage and its effects on present-day place of Italians of color, immigrants, and refugees.

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2018 Mar 28

Productive Disorder: Music, Film, and Art in Postwar Germany

6:00pm

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Harvard Art Museums

Cultural production in postwar Germany was shaped by variety of oppositions: memories of the war’s horrors competed with fragile optimism for the future; renewed artistic freedoms came up against material scarcity and widespread destruction; and a growing appetite for experimentation and invention met with a lingering Nazi-inflected suspicion of anything too modern.

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2018 Jan 23

Exhibition: From the Fellows: Undergraduate Exploration at Houghton Library

Tue - Sat, Jan 23 to Apr 28, 9:00am - 9:00am

Location: 

Houghton Library

Houghton Fellows 2018This exhibition features the work of Houghton Library’s 2017 cohort of undergraduate fellows. Currently entering its fourth year, the Houghton Undergraduate Fellowship Program offers Harvard College students ten
weeks of funded research at the library between June and August.

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2018 Apr 25

Pedro Reyes: Ad Usum / To Be Used

6:00pm

Location: 

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Artist Pedro Reyes and editor José Luis Falconi discuss Ad Usum / To Be Used, a survey of Reyes’s projects. The publication is a collection of images, interviews, and critical essays intended as an apparatus for multiplying the possibilities when art becomes a resource for the common good.

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2018 Mar 26

Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age

4:00pm

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Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

 

In this talk, Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, will be in conversation with Gerd Hurm, Anke Reitz, and Shamoon Zamir, editors of the recently published text The Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age (I. B. Tauris, 2017). Together they will discuss this landmark 1955 exhibition and how it shaped the ways we look at photography today; explore new contexts for interpreting the exhibition’s messages; and share recent research on its reception.

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