Upcoming Events
Interdisciplinary Feminist Practices as Insurgent Possibilities: a conversation with Shana M. griffin
November 13th, 2024 at 3 p.m.
Harvard ArtLab
140 N. Harvard St, Allston, MA 02134
This artist talk is part of the Design Within Conflict lecture series curated by 2024 Senior Loeb Scholar Malkit Shoshan at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is cohosted by ArtLab and the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at Harvard Divinity School.
Shana M. griffin, the 2025 Loeb/ArtLab Fellow, is a feminist activist, sociologist, abolitionist, artist, and geographer based in New Orleans. Her practice is research based, activist centered, and decolonial, centering the experiences of Black women most vulnerable to violence and social exclusion. She founded PUNCTUATE, a feminist initiative integrating critical research methods with activism and socially engaged art. She cofounded Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, the first community land trust in New Orleans.
Loeb Fellowship Symposium:“A Round Table – Makers and Users”
November 15, 2024
2:00PM – 09:00PM
GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium
Free and open to the public
Join us for a symposium celebrating the past decade of the Loeb Fellowship and a farewell toast with the outgoing Curator of the Loeb Fellowship, John Peterson.
A round table has been the symbol and a spatial device of equality, exchange, and dialogue. It is also an apt metaphor for the ethos of the Loeb Fellowship and its commitment to the value of knowledge-sharing, relationships, community, and the impact these have on the agency of our work. A round table is where Loeb Fellows gather in Doebele House for their long-standing invitation dinners, and at the kitchen of the Fellowship’s Curator in Strobel House. Both are places where food and drink are elevated beyond sustenance, where human interaction seeks to change and enrich lives and transform each Fellow’s ability to make a difference in the world. These round tables have been witness to hundreds of hours of engagement by Fellows, faculty, students, friends, families, and guests.
This symposium brings five Loeb Fellows from the 10 years of John Peterson’s curatorship to share stories of how interdependence and collaboration have been instrumental to the success of their work, exemplifying and extending the Loeb Fellowship’s vision and reach. This program positions interdependence as a multiplier in a chain of influences through projects, collaborations, ideas, policies, activism, commitment, and tenacity. It also recognizes that our work and wellbeing require us to be dependent beings.
The five Loeb storytellers will delve into the value of dialogue, fellowship, and sharing as acts of care that broaden the intellectual and human horizons of the shapers of our environment. These practices not only cultivate networks of support and personal growth but also challenge the conventional values of authorship and exclusivity.
Food, drink, discourse, and fellowship will be the mediums for the program’s intellectual enrichment and the advancement of social good. Join us for this symposium featuring stories of collaborative efforts for social change, a round table discourse, and a cocktail reception with a farewell toast with John Peterson.
Program
Stories of Interdependence
2-4 pm
Piper Auditorium
Featuring Alejandro Echeverri LF’16, Natalia García Dopazo LF’23, Stephanie Hankey LF’22, Jordan Weber LF’22 and Eric Williams LF’18
Break
4:30-5 pm
A Round Table: Fellowship as a State of Dependence
5-6 pm
Piper Auditorium
Featuring Alejandro Echeverri LF’16, Natalia García Dopazo LF’23, Stephanie Hankey LF’22, Jordan Weber LF’22 and Eric Williams LF’18 and GSD Faculty Maurice Cox LF ’05 and Diane Davis.
Break
6-6:30 pm
Closing Presentation and Farewell Toast with John Peterson
6:30-7:15 pm
Piper Auditorium
Reception
7:15-9 pm
Porticoes
Harvard University welcomes individuals with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you would like to request accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact the Public Programs Office at (617) 496-2414 or [email protected] in advance of your participation or visit. Requests for American Sign Language interpreters and/or CART providers should be made at least two weeks in advance. Please note that the University will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability.
Hard To Swallow: A Food Show Not About Food
November 19, 2024
6:30-8:30 PM
GSD, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium
Join us for a test screening of Hard To Swallow, an unreleased docuseries from Loeb Fellow Tunde Wey. Essayistic and reflexive, the series describes Wey’s career while examining the social structures that disenfranchise Black people globally. The 6-part docuseries premiered at CANNESERIES and SeriesFest in the spring of 2024 and will be released in 2025.
The screening will feature the pilot and finale episode (27 mins each), as well as a digital short, followed by a panel of Loeb Fellows discussing the broader themes of the episodes. The event will end with a Q&A with the filmmakers and a principal subject from the docuseries. The post-screening activities will be recorded, and attendees will receive a jar of spice featured in the show (while supplies last).
Series Trailers and participants
Image Credit: Tyler Aryai.