Past Events

2022 Feb 23

In Conversation: Jeffrey Gibson and Philip J. Deloria

6:30pm
Location:
// Virtual //

This event is being hosted by the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. Join them for a virtual conversation between the celebrated contemporary artist Jeffrey Gibson and Harvard historian Philip J. Deloria as they discuss aspects of Indigenous...
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2022 Feb 11

Red Nation Rising and Harvard: A conversation with Jason Packineau

12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
In-Person & Virtual
Join us for a hybrid conversation with Harvard University Native American
Program (HUNAP) Interim Executive Director Jason Packineau as we
situate Harvard in the HDS common read Red Nation Rising: From Border
Town Violence to Native Liberation. Alongside Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato,
Masters of Divinity Candidate, Mr. Packineau will discuss Harvard’s
historical and present-day relationship with the struggle for Native
American and global Indigenous rights and liberation. We welcome your
presence and participation even if you have not yet read the book.

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2022 Feb 09

NIH Tribal Health Research Office: A Holistic Approach to Improving Health Through Biomedical Research

12:00pm
Location:
Virtual // Zoom

David Wilson, PhD is Director of the Tribal Health Research Office, and Associate Faculty Member at the Center for American Indian Health at Johns Hopkins University.

The ...
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2022 Feb 03

Rachel Dorothy Tanur Memorial Lecture: Sam Olbekson, “Culture, Community, and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Indigenous Design”

6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location:
GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium
Creating a strong sense of place is critical to cultural identity in Native American communities. New tribal building and planning projects provide significant opportunities for tribal communities to reinforce cultural revival efforts while advancing economic, educational, and healthcare initiatives. This...
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2021 Dec 17

Four Directions Program Application Period

Fri Dec 17 (All day) to Tue Feb 1 (All day)

The Four Directions Program is returning to Harvard Medical School!

The Four Directions Summer Research Program (FDSRP) is a unique summer research opportunity at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) for undergraduate rising sophomores, juniors and...
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2021 Dec 08

Mahindra Event: Two Proposals Regarding "The Woman Carried Away By A Skull," A Kwak'wala Narrative from the Road-Hunt Corpus

6:00pm
Location:
// Virtual //

SPEAKER: Daniel Frim, Harvard University

Daniel Frim is a PhD candidate under Harvard's Committee on the Study of Religion. His research focuses on Kwak'wala and other oral-traditional literatures within a comparative framework.

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2021 Dec 01
Indigenous Health Seminar Series ft. Melissa Walls
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Virtual
Indigenous Health Seminar Series
Melissa Walls

12/1, 12 -2 pm, Virtual

In partnership with the Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine

Details forthcoming
2021 Nov 19

Native & Indigenous Caucus at HKS Forum

4:00pm
Location:
HKS, TBA

The Native & Indigneous Caucus at Harvard Kennedy School invites Harvard affiliates to an evening event with food & drink.

Interested individuals can contact Joel Chastain (jchastain@hks.harvard.edu) and Vic Hogg (vhogg@hks.harvard.edu).
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2021 Nov 19

FIERCE Event, "How Do We Talk About Genocide with Our Students"

12:00pm
Location:
Virtual // Zoom

This event is organized by the HGSE Native/Indigenous student organization, FIERCE (Future Indigenous Educators Resisting Colonial Educaiton).

You can register for the event at the following link, https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctf--...
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2021 Nov 18

Joan Naviyuk Kane presents Dark Traffic

6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Virtual
Joan Naviyuk Kane presents her new book, Dark Traffic as part of Cambridge Public Library's Native American Heritage Month programming. Register for this virtual event here. Kane's new book explores the arctic and subarctic, as well as America, motherhood, indigenous experience, feminism, and more. Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq, with family from King Island (Ugiuvak) and Mary’s Igloo, Alaska. She is the author of The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, and Milk Black Carbon.