Events for the inaugural weekend

The following is a partial list of events at Harvard over the inaugural weekend. See Calendar for times, locations, prices, etc.

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CONCERTS

Sun., Oct. 14 – “Music of Peace, Reflection, and Hope”

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THEATER

Leverett Old Library
Through Sat., Oct. 20 – “Macbeth,” presented by Industrial Theatre

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FILM

Harvard Film Archive

Fri., Oct. 12 – Parsa’s “Before the Storm” (Sweden, 2000) at 7 p.m.; Dassin’s “Rififi” (France, 1955) at 9 p.m.
Sat., Oct. 13 – Cocteau’s “Beauty and the Beast” (France, 1946) at 7 p.m.; Demme’s “The Perfect Kiss” (USA, 1985) and Wenders’ “Wings of Desire” (France/West Germany, 1987) at 8:45 p.m.
Sun., Oct. 14 – “The Perfect Kiss” and “Wings of Desire” at 8 p.m.

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EXHIBITIONS

Arnold Arboretum
“Science in the Pleasure Ground”

Carpenter Center
“Beyond Decorum: The Photography of Iké Udé”
“Some Options in Abstraction”

Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
“Instruments of Science”

Countway Library
“The Fifteeners: Incunabula at the Countway Library of Medicine”
“The Warren Anatomical Museum”

Graduate School of Design
“Construction and Reconstruction of the Central Artery: Boston, 1950-2000”

Gutman Library
“In My World: Artwork by Maria Termini”

The Harvard Club of Boston
“The Harvard Gates”

Harvard Divinity School
“Akedah: A Suite of Etchings by Bernard Greenwald”
“Paintings by Anita Dana”

Harvard Museum of Natural History
“Dodos, Trilobites, and Meteorites”

• Botanical Galleries
  “Modeling Nature”
  “Ware Collection of Glass Flowers”
• Mineralogical and Geological Galleries
  “The Geology and Mineralogy of Limestone Caves”
  “Romancing the Stone: The Many Facets of Tourmaline”
• Zoological Galleries

Harvard Neighbors
“Xyloglyphs”

Hilles Library
“Ceramics”

Houghton Library
“Byron’s Place in 19th Century American Culture”

Lamont Library
“Collections and Collection Building in Lamont Library”

Mather House
“The Fun House Mirror: Artists Reinvent the Human Body”

Office for the Arts
“NEST”

Public Artwork

Peabody Museum
“The Art of Oceania”
“Encounters with the Americas”
“The Hall of the North American Indian”
“Ju/wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari”
“Photographs by Hillel Burger”
“Photographs of Maya Ruins at Uxmal and Palenque”

Pusey Library
“From Colonel to Commander in Chief: Theodore Roosevelt, 1898-1901”
“Theatrical Photography of Alix Jeffry”

Rockefeller Center
“Hide and Seek”

Schlesinger Library
“Women and War: Photographs from the Schlesinger Library Collections”

Semitic Museum
“Ancient Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection at the Semitic Museum”
“Nuzi and the Hurrians: Fragments from a Forgotten Past”
“The Pyramids and the Sphinx: 100 Years of American Archaeology at Giza”

Tozzer Library
“The Raven and the Loon: Inuit Prints and Sculptures from the Chauncey C. Nash Collection”

University Art Museums

• Busch-Reisinger Museum
  “Eat Art: Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Sonja Alhäuser”
• Fogg Museum
  “Circa 1874: The Emergence of Impressionism”
  “France and the Portrait, 1799-1870”
  “Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection”
  “Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay”
  “Investigating the Renaissance”
  “Marking Places: Spatial Effects of African Art”
  “Precision and Prestige: The Arts of Engraving”
  “Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the 19th Century”
  “‘You Look Beautiful Like That’: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé”
• Sackler Museum
  “Impressions of Mesopotamia: Seals from the Ancient Near East”
  “The Sensuous and the Sublime: Representations of Love in the Arts of the Middle East and Southern Asia”

Widener Library
“Instrument of Scholarship: The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library Building”

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LECTURES

art/design

Sat., Oct. 13 – “You Look Beautiful Like That: The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé”
Sun., Oct. 14 – “Precision and Prestige: The Arts of Engraving”

conferences

Fri., Oct. 12-Sat., Oct. 13 – Fourth Annual John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences & Environmental Health Symposium: “Radiation Damage to DNA: Repair and Cellular Responses”
Sat., Oct. 13-Sun., Oct. 14 – “Overcoming the Obstacles: Extending AIDS Treatment to Poor Communities Worldwide”

humanities

Fri., Oct. 12 – “Molière: Novelist Manqué?”
Sat., Oct. 13 – “Workshop in 19th Century Ottoman Economic History”
Sun., Oct. 14 – “Intelligent Design: A New Holy War Against Science”

poetry/prose

Fri., Oct. 12 – “Dudley House Open Mike Night.”

science

Fri., Oct. 12 – “Engineering Colloidal Interactions to Control Reversible Shear Thickening in Concentrated Dispersions”

social sciences

Fri., Oct. 12 – “CID/IDPIC Friday Graduate Student Lunch with Merilee Grindle”

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CLASSES

Medical Area Ballroom Dancing
For information and updates, visit the Web site at http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hma-bdc, call (617) 670-9526, or e-mail hma-bdc@hcs.harvard.edu.

Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum

• Ongoing Programs
  Creature Features and Discovery Zones
• Saturday Scholars
  Grades 2 and 3
  Sat., Oct. 13 – “Diggin’ the Past.” 9-noon. Fee: $35; $31.50 for members.
• Sneak Peek
  Sat., Oct. 13 – “Giant Clams and Killer Cones” 9:30 a.m.-noon.

Office of Work and Family (Longwood Area)
Fri., Oct. 12 – “Having an Effective Parent-Teacher Conference”

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SPECIAL EVENTS

Sat., Oct. 13 – “Giant Costume Sale”
Sat., Oct. 13 – “Apple Picking for Everyone”

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RELIGION

The Memorial Church
Harvard Yard (617) 495-5508

Fri., Oct. 12 – The Reverend Peter J. Gomes and Shôn Ffowcs Williams
Sat., Oct. 13 – The Honorable Wesley S. Williams Jr., chairman, Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Memorial Church
Oct. 14 – The Reverend Peter J. Gomes

Divinity School Chapel
(617) 495-5778
Cambridge Forum
(617) 495-2727
Christian Science Organization
(617) 876-7843
Fo Guang San ‘V International Buddhist Progress Society
(617) 547-6670
Metropolitan New Life Baptist Church
(617) 868-3261

United Ministry
The following churches and organizations are affiliated with the United Ministry and offer worship and social services. Call for details.

Anglican Church of the Incarnation
(617) 864-3232
Harvard Bahaíi Student Association
(617) 493-9147
Harvard Islamic Society
(617) 496-8084
Harvard Korean Mission
(617) 441-5211
H-R Asian Baptist Student Koinonia
(617) 493-3154
H-R Catholic Student Center
H-R Hillel
(617) 495-4696
H-R Humanist Chaplaincy
(617) 495-5529
Cambridge Friends Meeting
(617) 876-6883
First Church in Cambridge (United Church of Christ)
(617) 547-2724
University Lutheran Church
(617) 876-3256.
Cambridgeport Baptist Church
(617) 576-6779
Christ Church
(617) 876-0200
Episcopal Chaplaincy
(617) 495-4340
First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist
(617) 495-2727
Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church
(617) 354-0837
Old Cambridge Baptist Church
(617) 864-8068
St. Paul Church
(617) 491-8400
Swedenborg Chapel
(617) 864-4552