Public Lectures

Free Book Presentation & Special Event Jorge Cham, Engineer-Turned Cartoonist, Writer, and Producer Dwayne W. Godwin, Professor of Translational Neuroscience, Wake Forest University School of Medicine Advanced Registration Required. Free event parking at...

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge Free Lecture Event – Online & In Person Speaker: Jonathan Losos, Director, Living Earth Collaborative; William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, Department of Biology...

REGISTER Harvard’s Glass Flowers, the Harvard University Herbaria, and artist Sonia Ralston’s digital botanical models: one is made of glass, one is dried and pressed, and one exists only in the digital space, yet they all exist for the same purpose. Join...

Speaker: S. D. Biju (Sathyabhama Das Biju) – Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi, India; Radcliffe Hrdy Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Associate, Museum of Comparative Zoology; and Department of...

Hybrid Book Presentation Speaker: Saleem H. Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at the University of Delaware and a senior fellow at the Columbia University Center on Sustainable Investment. He is a member of the...

Image Courtesy of Pablo Borboroglu Free Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Pablo García Borboroglu, Global Penguin Society Advance registration required for both in-person and online REGISTER Join Dr. Pablo Borboroglu, the 2023 Indianapolis Prize Winner for animal...

Free Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Lawrence Bradley, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography/Geology, University of Nebraska-Omaha Advance registration required The continental interior of the United States—home to many Native American communities—is a...

Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Scott Fulton, Conservator Registration via Zoom is required for both onsite and online attendees In person attendance is free with regular museum admission. REGISTER How were the world-renowned Blaschka Glass Flowers made over a...

Free Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Terence D. Capellini, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Advance registration required Being able to walk upright on two feet is a physical trait that distinguishes modern humans from our early...

Immersive experience by artist, Robin Vuchnich, and cyanotype and gold leaf print on glass by artist, Leah Sobsey, feature Thoreau Herbarium specimens that are now locally extinct or in severe decline due to climate change. Advance registration...