# Past Events Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 72 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Alphabetical A-ZChronological sort list grid\_view ## 72 results [### Urban Conversations | The Foot, The Pen, The Naive Question (tentative title) ](/event/urban-conversations-foot-pen-naive-question-tentative-title)April 2, 2026 | 12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT | Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133) In Person How might walking and writing as an intertwined practice—of attunement, recognition, acknowledgement—make possible an “intimate urbanism”? We’ll explore the promise and challenges of the city at close range, and reflect on how the walker creates... event [### Urban Conversations | A City Is Sometimes a Tree ](/event/urban-conversations-city-sometimes-tree)March 9, 2026 | 12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT | Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133) In Person In his seminal 1965 article “A City Is Not a Tree,” design theorist Christopher Alexander argued that urban planners—working centrally and top-down—tend to design cities as efficient hierarchical tree-like structures, whereas successful traditional cities... event [### Urban Conversations | Digital Gossip and Neighborhood Value: How AI Captures the Perceptions That Shape Neighborhood Premiums ](/event/urban-conversations-digital-gossip-and-neighborhood-value-how-ai-captures-perceptions-shape)February 26, 2026 | 12:00PM - 1:00PM EST | Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133) In Person Why do similar homes in different Chicago neighborhoods sell for vastly different prices? Beyond property characteristics, a neighborhood's reputation, or the informal "gossip" and social narratives circulating online, shape its economic value. This work... event [### Book Talk: Bruno Carvalho in Conversation with Diane Davis at Harvard Book Store ](/event/book-talk-bruno-carvalho-conversation-diane-davis-harvard-book-store)January 27, 2026 | 7:00PM EST | Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 In Person Harvard Book Store and Long Now Boston welcome Bruno Carvalho—Harvard University professor and author of Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro—for a discussion of his new book, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern... event [### Urban Conversations: Jared Thorne and Daniel E. Agbiboa on Topographies of Access: Landscape Photography and Reproductive Rights in the Midwest ](/event/urban-conversations-jared-thorne-and-daniel-e-agbiboa-topographies-access-landscape)October 16, 2025 | 12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT | Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133) In Person The state of Ohio prides itself as the gateway to the Midwest. When Jared Thorne began this project in 2015, he witnessed that Planned Parenthood facilities draw a complicated map, marking distinct territories of access and belonging, power and desire... event [### Urban Conversations | Henry Grabar discusses Under Construction ](/event/urban-conversations-under-construction)Apr 28, 2025 | 12:00PM EDT | Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133) In Person Lunch atop a Skyscraper - Charles Clyde Ebbets, 1932 Urban Conversations Speaker: Henry Grabar In conversation with Rachel Meltzer Why has it become so difficult to build housing in the American city, and what does this tell us about the country's larger... event [### CSR Book Talk: Follow the New Way: American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change with Melissa Borja ](/event/csr-book-talk-follow-new-way-american-refugee-resettlement-policy-and-hmong-religious)April 16, 2025 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT | Thomson Room (Room 110), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street In Person The Committee on the Study of Religion invites you to the 2025 Spring Book Talk featuring Melissa Borja (’04), Associate Professor of American Culture and core faculty member in the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program at the University of... event [### Urban Conversations | Urban waters: rethinking city histories, futures and collective life under climate change ](/event/urban-conversations-urban-waters-rethinking-city-histories-futures-and-collective-life)Mar 31, 2025 | 12:00PM EDT | Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133) In Person credit: Joao Vitor Velame Urban Conversations Speaker: Mariana Cavalcanti In conversation with Sidney Chalhoub REGISTER HERE Registration is required for this event. Lunch will be provided. About the Speakers Mariana Cavalcanti is Associate Professor at... event [### Collaborations Afield: Work across Ecologies and Disciplines Conference ](/event/collaborations-afield-conference-harvard-university)Mar. 27 - Mar 29, 2025 | 12:00AM - 12:00AM EDT | Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street In Person Jessica Sarah Rinland, Black Pond, 2018 Collaborations Afield: Work across Ecologies and Disciplines Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Over the past decade, ecological habitats have been increasingly understood as... event [### Urban Conversations | Contested Sovereignty: Chinese-led urban development and the Kenyan middle class in Nairobi ](/event/urban-conversations-contested-sovereignty-chinese-led-urban-development-and-kenyan-middle)Mar 11, 2025 | 12:00PM EDT | Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133) In Person Urban Conversations Speaker: Elisa Tamburo In conversation with Diane E. Davis REGISTER HERE The talk examines the impacts of Chinese-led engagement in the construction sector in Kenya on city development, exploring which contested visions for the future... event [### How are cities rethinking zoning to tackle the housing crisis? HUUSL hosts talk with Jenny Schuetz ](/event/how-are-cities-using-zoning-tackle-housing-crisis-huusl-hosts-hybrid-conversation-jenny)Feb 6, 2025 | 5:30PM EST | Harvard Hall 202 In Person How are cities rethinking zoning to tackle the housing crisis? Find out from Jenny Schuetz, one of the country’s leading urban economists and housing policy experts, on Thursday, February 6th, at 5:30pm in Harvard Hall 202! RSVP here to attend! Join the... event [### The Environment Forum with Emanuele Coccia | Metropolitan Nature: How Different Species Build Cities ](/event/environment-forum-emanuele-coccia-metropolitan-nature-how-different-species-build-cities)Nov 20, 2024 | 5:30PM EST | Emerson Hall, Room 105 In Person THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM SPEAKER: Emanuele Coccia Moderator: Robin Kelsey About the Event Human beings were able to develop a stable relationship with the land and abandon the hunter-gatherer lifestyle only when some communities decided to faithfully and... event - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 6 ](?page=5 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")