Lecture: Digging for Hope in Mexico: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves: Rosalva Aida Hernández Castillo

Knafel Center 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

In-Person or ZOOM A presentation from 2023–2024 Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow Rosalva Aida Hernández Castillo Hernández Castillo’s book, “Digging for Hope in Mexico: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves,” will offer an ethnographic account of family collectives searching for their disappeared loved ones throughout Mexico. Drawing on interviews, participant […]

Opening Lecture: Rewrite, Organize, Remix: Visions of Feminist Organizing

Knafel Center 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

In-Person or ZOOM The opening event for Rewrite, Organize, Remix: Visions of Feminist Organizing features the American Library Association president Emily Drabinski and the climate activist Thanu Yakupitiyage in conversation with the exhibition curator Mimosa Shah. Shouts of struggle echo through the Schlesinger Library’s collections. Rewrite, Organize, Remix: Visions of Feminist Organizing presents the dynamic stories of groups that mobilized to name and challenge injustice. […]

Black Bell: A Quartet for the End of Time: Poet/Performance Artist Alison Rollins

Knafel Center 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

In-Person or ZOOM A presentation from 2023–2024 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow Alison C. Rollins Rollins will discuss her work toward the completion of her second poetry collection, titled "Black Bell," and a creative nonfiction project, titled "Outside: Fieldnotes for Living Beyond Survival." Imploring investigations of time and space through the lenses of love and liberation, Rollins […]

Lecture: Maren Hassinger in Conversation with Chassidy A. Winestock: On the Occasion of A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture

Knafel Center 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Lecture is in person  or online: In conjunction with Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, join us for a special conversation between the artist Maren Hassinger, whose work is included in the exhibition, and the curator Chassidy A. Winestock. This dialogue will be introduced and moderated by the art historian and curator Mary Schneider […]