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• February 23, 10 a.m.-NOON Dwarf Conifer and Juniper Collections Extracurriculars via Snowshoes. Join educators for a tromp through the winter landscape to dance •

January 13, 8-9:30 a.m. seek out, identify, and share stories about hive c http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/dance Winter Wonderland Bird Walk with do- this microclimate. r www.boxoffice.harvard.edu (for tickets) cent Bob Mayer. While most of the natu- • February 25, 7-8:30 p.m. 617-495-8683; Harvard Dance Center, ral world is resting, dozens of bird spe- Biodiversity 2013: Crisis and Opportu- 60 Garden Street cies are actively making a living. nity features a lecture by and discussion arvard A • February 1 at 7 p.m. • January 14, 7-8 p.m. with biology professor James Hanken, A Boston Ballet preview performance of Plants, the First Three Billion Years: A Agassiz professor of zoology, curator in works by Wayne McGregor and Jiri Kyl- Reflection on the Nature of Evolutionary herpetology, and director of the Museum ian, followed by a discussion. History with arboretum director Wil- of Comparative Zoology. liam “Ned” Friedman, Arnold professor The Harvard-Smithsonian Center theater of organismic and evolutionary biology. for Astrophysics haeaology and ethnology; the H c American Repertory Theater • Opening January 19, with an artist’s recep- www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/mon.html r www.americanrepertorytheater.org tion, 1-3 p.m.; there will also be a talk by the 617-495-7461; 60 Garden Street f A

617-547-8300 (box office) artist on February 21, 7-8:30 p.m. Observatory Night Lectures at 7:30 p.m., fol- useum o 617-495-2668 (general number) Drawn To Woods by Paul Olson features lowed by stargazing, if weather permits. Loeb Drama Center illustrations and paintings by the artist, a • January 17

64 Brattle Street teacher at Massachusetts College of Art “Explosive Universe,” with Loeb associate he Peabody M • February 2 through March 17 and Design and Rhode Island School of De- professor of natural sciences Edo Berger The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Wil- sign, who has spent many hours walking • February 21 liams’s classic Southern family drama is less-traveled arboretum paths, observing “Gas Giant Mysteries,” with CfA research directed by John Tiffany and stars Cherry the diversity of plants through the seasons. assistant Rebekah Dawson Jones, among others. • January 29, 6-8 p.m. When America First Met China: An Ex- music Nature and science otic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money • February 15 at 7:30 p.m. The Arnold Arboretum in the Age of Sail. Best-selling author Eric www.harvardclub.com; 617-536-1260 t to right: harvardt to right: College libraries; T www.arboretum.harvard.edu; 617-384-5209 Jay Dolin traces America’s fraught relations www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jazz f

Events are free, but registration is required. with China. 374 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston From le Left to right: From an exhibit on poet Amy Lowell at ; from Daguerreotype to Digital at the Peabody Museum; a still from Nothing But a Man, to be screened at the Harvard Film Archive.

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A Full-Service Lifecare Retirement Community film www.brookhavenatlexington.org The Harvard Film Archive (781) 863-9660 • (800) 283-1114 http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 617-495-4700 Visit the website for a complete listing of festivals and showtimes. • January 11-14 Michael Roemer’s “Nothing But a Man” reveals the nuanced relationship of a black couple in 1960s Alabama. There will be dis-

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Movie Night at the Continuing: Visitors can touch and mar- offers a selection of shorts that examine vel at the 1,600-pound amethyst geode the lives of girls and older women, includ- among a dazzling array of minerals and ing Toward Emotional Maturity (1954) and gemstones from around the world. Radcliffe Blues (1969). Check website for AAAS 2013 The Semitic Museum other monthly movie events. www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu • Continuing: Siting Julia: Julia Child ANNUAL MEETING 617-495-4631 Centenary Exhibition traces Child’s prodi- 14-18 FEBRUARY • BOSTON • Continuing: The Houses of Ancient Is- gious life and career through the library’s rael: Domestic, Royal, Divine THE BEAUTY AND BENEFITS OF SCIENCE features a extensive collection of her manuscripts, full-scale replica of an Iron Age (ca. 1200- letters, and other items (see page 76). 586 b.c.e.) village abode. • Continuing: Nuzi and the Hurrians: Lectures Fragments from a Forgotten Past features Radcliffe Institute for Advanced more than a hundred objects from the Mu- Study at seum’s collection of 10,000 excavated arti- www.radcliffe.edu; 617-496-8600 facts, the largest Nuzi collection outside of • February 13 at 4 p.m. the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. “Locked Out: Investigating Societal Dis- crimination against People with Disabili- Libraries ties Due to Inaccessible Websites,” by Houghton Library Jonathan Lazar, Shutzer fellow at the in- http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton stitute. Fay House, 10 Garden Street 617-495-2449 • February 25 at 4 p.m. • Through January 11 “The End of the British Empire after the From Austen to Zola: Amy Lowell as a Second World War,” by Caroline Elkins, Collector highlights some of the thou- professor of history and African American sands of rare books and manuscripts fa- studies and a Burkhardt fellow at the in- vored by the poet. Her collection was be- stitute. Fay House, 10 Garden Street every day queathed to Harvard in 1925. Register today at Schlesinger Library Events listings also appear in the Univer- Museum of Fine Arts Boston mfa.org a new www.aaas.org/meetings www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger- sity Gazette, accessible via this magazine’s library; 617-495-8647 website, www.harvardmagazine.com. Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers (detail), 1906. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Purchased with the W.P. Wilstach Fund.

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