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CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2024 URBAN RESEARCH GRANTS DUE DATE: FEBRUARY 21, 2024

January 9, 2024

FUNDING FOR URBAN RESEARCH GRANTS AVAILABLE | DUE DATE: FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative (HMUI) invites applications for grants to support research
projects with an urban focus, ideally with an interdisciplinary approach. We seek proposals in three
broad areas:


1. Research in archives and online data sets that will lead to publication.
2. Funding towards producing materials that seek to disseminate knowledge more broadly
(e.g.: data visualization, maps, multimedia history, etc.).
3. Development of course-...

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Past Events

2023 Nov 16

URBAN CONVERSATIONS | Berlin: The Guilt Environment

12:00pm

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center

SPEAKER: VALENTINA ROZAS-KRAUSE, 2023-24 HARVARD UNIVERSITY RADCLIFFE FELLOW AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE AT THE UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBÁÑEZ IN CHILE

IN CONVERSATION WITH VINCENT BROWN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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The talk will examine the role that memorials play in processes of symbolic and material reparation after political conflicts in Germany and Argentina.

Registration is required for this event. Lunch...

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2023 Oct 27

Shifting Ground Exhibition

Fri Oct 27, 12:00pm to Sun Feb 25, 12:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

In this exhibition, co-curated by Eve Blau and Alexandra Vacroux to mark the Davis Center's 75th anniversary, Harvard scholars and artists — including Davis Center students past and present — grapple with the transformations wrought by history in six thought-provoking projects:

  • Journalist-turned-anthropologist Alisa...
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