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  • Sunday, April 21, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm – The Conservation of Migration

    Since 1992, birders from around New England have come together to attend Mass Audubon’s annual Birders Meeting. We are please to announce that after a three year absence, this year’s meeting will once again be held in person at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA on Sunday, April 21 from 8 am – 4:30 pm. Please join us for The Conservation of Migration.

    Migratory birds travel short and long distances between their breeding and wintering areas, while stopping in between. The feat of migration does not come without risks. North American migratory birds have been declining for decades and are in dire need of conservation. The 2024 Birders Meeting will explore the wonders of bird migration, conservation risks, conservation needs, and the history of how we understand migration. This year’s speakers include John Rappole of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Dan Klem of Muhlenberg University, Freda Guo of Princeton University, and author Rebecca Heisman. We are happy to announce the participation of the Museum of American Bird Art as well!

    Registration ($25) link is located at www.massaudubon.org

  • Wednesday, January 13, 10:00 am – Celebrate What Unites Us! French Dinner Party with Catherine Katz, Online

    Join Age-Friendly Boston, Oldways, and Friends of Armenian Heritage Park on January 13 at 10 am for a free special at-home Celebrating What Unites Us! program to keep us connected and coming together. This session will feature French dinner party recipes from Chef Catherine Katz of Cuisinicity. Celebrating What Unites Us! celebrates the immigrant experience while building community and cross-cultural understanding, and promoting healthy living. We are looking forward to resuming the two part program that begins at the Park when it is safe to do so. The program is free, but registration is required at www.armenianheritagepark.org.

    Catherine is a French-born-and-raised foodie, and lover of luscious cuisine. But she also a scientist, earning her PhD in neuroscience at Princeton University. So, when her husband David presented her with the challenge of his very demanding nutrition standards, we realized that his passion for health and my love of French cooking also needed to be wed! And so our “marriage” of priorities resulted in 20 some years of methodical experimentation – but in a warm, lively home kitchen, rather than any neuroscience lab.

  • Wednesday, June 3, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Let Them Eat Flowers: The Gardens of Paris Webinar

    Paris gardens were originally inspired by the classical and romantic styles found in Italy and England. Over the past two hundred years, designers have created a uniquely Parisian look to the gardens, as they have become a cultural way of life. Today, Paris boasts of more than 400 private and public gardens, each one appreciated for its distinct place in the fabric of the city.

    The Ecological Landscape Association online tour will begin with such well-known parks as Luxembourg, Tuileries and Bagatelle, smaller gardens such as Monceau, Rodin, and Carnavalet, and also a few surprises such as Promenade du Plantee, Hotel du Sully and Mosque du Paris. In Paris, a park is almost never a mere plot of grass reserved for leisure, and a garden is rarely a random selection of flowers and plants. Parisians pride themselves in making their city’s parks and gardens places of elegance, artistic detail, and symmetry– even the romantic gardens have been carefully planned to imitate nature.

    CeCe Haydock graduated from Princeton University (BA English) and received a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the SUNY School of Environmental Science and Forestry. After working for the New York City Parks Department, she joined the firm, Innocenti and Webel in Locust Valley, NY, before starting her private practice. In 2007, she did research as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome on Edith Wharton and Italian villas. She has lectured and written on historic Italian, French, and American gardens for Old Westbury Gardens, Maryland’s Ladew Topiary Gardens, Princeton University, and numerous garden and horticultural clubs. A trustee of Planting Fields Arboretum and a member of the International Council of The Preservation Society of Newport County and a visiting lecturer at the New York Botanic Garden. CeCe is currently expanding her private practice to include landscape sustainability.

    The free online tour will take place June 3 at noon Eastern time, and you may register at https://www.ecolandscaping.org/event/webinar-let-them-eat-flowers-the-gardens-of-paris/

  • Thursday, April 18, 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm – The Green Ideal: Botanical Practices and the Creation of Santiago’s Civic Landscape

    The Harvard Graduate School of Design presents a free lecture by Romy Hecht on April 18 at 12 noon at 48 Quincy Street in Cambridge entitled The Green Ideal: Botanical Practices and the Creation of Santiago’s Civic Landscape.

    Romy Hecht is a Professor at the School of Architecture, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), where she gives courses and research seminars on historical narratives and design theories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscapes. She holds a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University and an M. Arch and professional degree in architecture from the PUC. She has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the GSD (2012), in the Ph.D in Architecture program at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina (2016) and in the Master in Architecture program at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Lima (2017). She is also a former fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C. (2015, 2017–2018).

    As an author and recipient of National Grants and research fellowships, Hecht has developed a fundamental task in the studies of landscape architecture in Latin America. She has focused on constructing a comprehensive history of Chile’s landscape projects, particularly in post-independence Santiago, describing how landscape strategies have been shaped by a dynamic relationship between botanical practices, political decisions and economic circumstances giving form to an arboreal culture that has transformed the city.

    Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.

  • Thursday, February 22, 6:00 pm – The Changing Landscape of Plate Tectonics

    W. Jason Morgan, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University; Visiting Scholar, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, will speak on Thursday, February 22 at 6 pm at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street, on The Changing Landscape of Plate Tectonics. Image below is of Professor Morgan receiving the National Medal of Science from then President George W. Bush.

    Plate tectonic theory, a milestone in twentieth-century science, has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of Earth’s geological history, the formation of its surface features, and its earthquake movement. Geophysicist W. Jason Morgan—who introduced plate tectonics at a 1967 meeting of the American Geophysical Union—will discuss how the theory came about, highlighting both the role of ocean exploration in the 1950s and 1960s and early observations of seafloor spreading and ocean magnetic anomalies. He will also touch on the advances made in understanding Earth’s movements since the development of space geodesy instruments and technologies.

    Free and open to the public. Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage. Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History in collaboration with the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University. This event will be livestreamed on the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Facebook page. Check https://hmnh.harvard.edu/event/changing-landscape-plate-tectonics the day of the program for a direct video link. A recording of this program will be available on our YouTube channel approximately three weeks after the lecture.

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  • Friday, April 4, 4:00 pm – Forty Years of Evolution on the Galapagos

    A special free talk has been underwritten by Sinauer Associates, Inc at UMASS-Amherst. The talk is Forty Years of Evolution on the Galapagos by Rosemary and Peter Grant, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University. The talk will be April 4th, 2014 starting at 4:00 pm in the Isenberg School of Management room 137 (see UMASS-Amherst home page for map). (Refreshments served at 3:45pm). Seating on first come basis (and this room only seats about 200).

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  • Tuesday, November 1, 7:00 pm – The La Farge Christ Preaching Window

    John La Farge’s Christ Preaching (1883) –newly returned to Trinity Church after a multi-year restoration–is Trinity Church’s crowning glory and one of the artist’s most significant windows. Julie Sloan, consultant to the restoration, will explore the window’s history, design, and restoration and La Farge’s relationship to Trinity Church in a lecture to be held Tuesday, November 1 beginning at 7 pm.

    Julie Sloan is one of the leading stained-glass consultants in North America. She is the author of Conservation of Stained Glass in America and is adjunct professor of historic preservation at Columbia University, where she has taught stained glass restoration since 1985. Ms. Sloan’s conservation projects include Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, New York; H. H. Richardson’s Trinity Church in Boston; Harvard University’s Memorial Hall; Princeton University’s Chapel, and the State Houses of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Her conservation and research projects have won many awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel Kress Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and the Arts & Crafts Fund.

    Tickets: $10 per person, available at The Shop at Trinity (206 Clarendon St.) or by phone 617.536.0944 x225. Questions: Kathy Acerbo-Bachmann, kacerbobachmann@trinitychurchboston.org.