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  • Thursday, October 4, 6:00 pm – Conserving Biodiversity: A Global Priority

    Biodiversity is the sum total of life on Earth and a living legacy to future generations. Sadly, it is declining almost everywhere on the planet. Russell A. Mittermeier, Chief Conservation Officer, Global Wildlife Conservation, Chair, Primate Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and recipient of the 2018 Indianapolis Prize, is a biologist and lifelong conservationist who has traveled across 169 countries and discovered more than 20 species in his quest to save biodiversity hot spots. Focusing on nonhuman primates—our closest living relatives—Mittermeier will examine strategies for setting conservation priorities, highlight successful initiatives from around the world, and demonstrate why biodiversity is so critical to human survival.

    The Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture will take place October 4 at 6 pm in the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge.. Free and open to the public.

    Free event parking available at 52 Oxford Street Garage. Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History and Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in collaboration with the Indianapolis Prize. For more information visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu.

    Conserving Biodiversity lecture image of speaker Russell A. Mittermeier

  • Saturday, October 29, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Dia de los Muertos Evening Celebration

    Celebrate the Day of the Dead with a festive benefit evening of music, food, and community. Remember departed ones in front of this year’s Día de los Muertos altar, savor traditional Mexican food, and enjoy lively Mexican music, at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue in Cambridge. Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston and the Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.

    Tickets are only available online at https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Day-of-the-Dead-2016 and must be purchased in advance. Purchase tickets: $20 members/$25 nonmembers.  Complimentary event parking available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage from 5:00-11:00 PM.

  • Tuesday, November 18, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Protecting the Ash Tree: Wabanaki Diplomacy and Sustainability Science in Maine

    Brown ash trees sustain the ancestral basket-making traditions of the Wabanaki people of Maine and play a key role in their creation myths. These trees are now threatened by the emerald ash borer, a beetle that has already killed millions of ash trees in the eastern United States. Wabanaki tribes and basket makers (see basket image below from Hood Museum at Dartmouth) have joined forces with foresters, university researchers, and landowners to develop and deploy actions aimed at preventing an invasion by this insect. Anthropologist Darren Ranco, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Native American Research, University of Maine discusses how the stakeholders involved in this interdisciplinary effort are making use of sustainability science and drawing from Wabanaki forms of diplomacy to influence state and federal responses to the emerald ash borer, and prevent the demise of the ash trees that are so central to Wabanaki culture. The program will take place on Tuesday, November 18, from 7 – 8 at the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge, and is sponsored by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, in collaboration with the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. Visit the exhibits in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Museum of Natural History, open for special evening hours following the lecture. Free event parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Free and open to the public.