Joan Kane, Radcliffe Institute

Part of the Native Cultures of America lectures seminar at the Mahindra Center for Humanities at Harvard.

This seminar is a forum for the interdisciplinary study of the indigenous peoples and cultures of the Americas. It features scholarship on topics both pre- and post-contact, from deep archaeology to contemporary politics and culture, as well as the implications of such work for law, education, environmental policy, and public memory.

How might creative acts of remembering and imagining in public help us reframe the past and present–and see more inclusive futures?

Join the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) and New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) for a conversation that explores the power of public art to catalyze critical dialogue around public memory, representation, and belonging, and to transform public life. You’ll hear from artists, curators, and organizers who use creative strategies to reframe public memory and imagine future...

UPDATE: 3/9/20, This event has been postponed with hopes for rescheduling during the 2020-2021 academic school year.

In partnership with Harvard Art Museums, the Harvard University Native American Program presents a reading and conversation with Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States.

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer and member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). The author of nine books of poetry, several plays, and...