Calendar of Events

Peabody Museum Lectures, Events, & Exhibits

All events are free and open to the public, except where noted below. All lectures are at the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, except where noted below.

Trash Talk

A series of lectures and programs focusing on The Anthropology of Waste

Garbage, trash, waste, rubbish, discard, refuse, detritus, cast-off, junk, dross, debris, litter, rubble, dregs, leavings: everything we have that that isn’t consumed will eventually become rubbish and be thrown away. But what is rubbish, how do we define it, manage it, think about it? Where is “away”? Researchers from fields as disparate as urban design to philosophy to contemporary art are grappling with these issues as a practical problem, an ecological problem, an economic challenge, an idea, a risk, or a source for creativity. Join us as we Talk Trash this year.

Look for the trash can for lectures and other activities in this series.

Most Peabody Talks are recorded. Miss one? Find it here!

February 21-25

Noon-4 pm

Drop-in Family Event

Mexican Flag Day Discovery Room

February 23

6:00 pm

Gordon R. Willey Lecture

"Maya and the Idea of Empire: A View from the Field"
David Freidel, Professor of Archaeology, Washington University, St. Louis

February 29

6:00 pm

Trash Talk Lecture

Waste Ecologies: Waste is Natural and Necessary, So How Do We Design Our Future?

Pierre Belanger, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

March 17

1-4 pm

Drop-in Family Event

Fabulous Flutes, Marvelous Music

March 22

6:00 pm

Hallam L. Movius Jr. Memorial Lecture

"Recent Discoveries in the Altai: Issues on the Evolution of Homo Sapiens " (in Russian with translation)

Anatoly Derevianko, Head, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography

March 29

6:00 pm

Musical Evening

"Music of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Performance & Talk" Cosponsored with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard

José Cuellar, Professor of Latina/Latino Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University

Note Location: Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street (Concourse level)

April 5

6:00

Trash Talk Film Sneak Preview and Discussion

"Garbage City and the Informal Economy"

Co-sponsored by Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Semitic Museum, Harvard University

April 19

6:00

Trash Talk Lecture

"Tornadoes, Twin Towers, and Hurricanes: 20 Years of Urban Disaster Clean-up"
Ben R. Turner, President, and Patrick McMullen, Executive Vice President, CFO, & Treasurer, Phillips and Jordan, Inc.

April 20 and 21

Noon-4 pm