# Past Events [### Curator Tours of The Alain Locke Gallery ](/event/curator-tours-alain-locke-gallery-3?occ_id=0)June 4, 2026 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT | Alain Locke Gallery In Person To RSVP for a tour, please email us at with the date of the tour you’d like to attend. Tours are limited to 25 people, and RSVPs beyond that count will be put on a waitlist and notified if spots become available. ![ Anyone’s Date by Ernest T. Crichlow, 1940. Courtesy of the Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Anyone%27s%20Date-Ernest%20T.%20Crichlow%20.jpg?h=34fe8151&itok=hcnr52cN) [### Curator Tours of The Alain Locke Gallery ](/event/curator-tours-alain-locke-gallery-2?occ_id=0)May 14, 2026 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT | Alain Locke Gallery In Person To RSVP for a tour, please email us at with the date of the tour you’d like to attend. Tours are limited to 25 people, and RSVPs beyond that count will be put on a waitlist and notified if spots become available. ![ Anyone’s Date by Ernest T. Crichlow, 1940. Courtesy of the Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Anyone%27s%20Date-Ernest%20T.%20Crichlow%20.jpg?h=34fe8151&itok=hcnr52cN) [### Exhibiting Art from the French- and Creole/Kreyol-Speaking Caribbean and Amazonia: Sociological, Historical, Art Historical, and Museological Perspectives ](/event/exhibiting-art-french-and-creolekreyol-speaking-caribbean-and-amazonia-sociological-0?occ_id=0)May 1, 2026 | 8:45AM - 3:30PM EDT | Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center In Person The symposium gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars, thinkers, and museum professionals to investigate the history, status, and future of exhibiting art from the French- and Creole/Kreyol-speaking Caribbean and Amazonia from plural sociological... ![decorative floral drawing](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/aaaaa.jpeg?h=e8fa6653&itok=UJR-JQsz) [### Exhibiting Art from the French- and Creole/Kreyol-Speaking Caribbean and Amazonia: Sociological, Historical, Art Historical, and Museological Perspectives ](/event/exhibiting-art-french-and-creolekreyol-speaking-caribbean-and-amazonia-sociological?occ_id=0)April 30, 2026 | 1:00PM - 5:45PM EDT | Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center In Person The symposium gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars, thinkers, and museum professionals to investigate the history, status, and future of exhibiting art from the French- and Creole/Kreyol-speaking Caribbean and Amazonia from plural sociological... ![decorative floral drawing](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/aaaaa.jpeg?h=e8fa6653&itok=UJR-JQsz) [### Dr. Claude Steele, 'Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How To Overcome It.' ](/event/dr-claude-steele-churn-tension-divides-us-and-how-overcome-it?occ_id=0)April 30, 2026 | 12:00PM EDT | Tsai Auditorium | CGIS South In Person ![Poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Churn%20The%20Tension%20That%20Divides%20Us%20And%20How%20To%20Overcome%20It-2.png?itok=mweK5UXM) [### Screening of 'I Love Boosters' with Director Boots Riley ](/event/screening-i-love-boosters-director-boots-riley?occ_id=0)April 23, 2026 | 3:30PM - 5:30PM EDT | Brattle Theater In Person Please see attached for details of the Brattle Theater’s screening of I Love Boosters, on April 23, 3:30 pm. Director Boots Riley will be in discussion with Darol Olu Kae afterwards. ![Poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/I%20Love%20Boosters%20Harvard%20web%20flyer%20copy%204-14.png?h=9f5e4ea6&itok=gWHP7fEz) [### Charmaine Nelson, 'Joe the Pressman: How an African-Born Man Refused a Life of Slavery in Canada ' ](/event/charmaine-nelson-joe-pressman-how-african-born-man-refused-life-slavery-canada?occ_id=0)April 22, 2026 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center Hybrid In-person and livestreaming at youtube.com/hutchinscenter event [### Curator Tours of The Alain Locke Gallery ](/event/curator-tours-alain-locke-gallery-1?occ_id=0)April 16, 2026 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT | Alain Locke Gallery In Person To RSVP for a tour, please email us at with the date of the tour you’d like to attend. Tours are limited to 25 people, and RSVPs beyond that count will be put on a waitlist and notified if spots become available. ![ Anyone’s Date by Ernest T. Crichlow, 1940. Courtesy of the Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Anyone%27s%20Date-Ernest%20T.%20Crichlow%20.jpg?h=34fe8151&itok=hcnr52cN) [### Arlette Frund, 'Anna Julia Cooper and the Intellectual Promise of Literature ' ](/event/arlette-frund-anna-julia-cooper-and-intellectual-promise-literature?occ_id=0)April 15, 2026 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | Marcyliena H. Morgan Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center In Person This colloquium will not be livestreamed. event [### 'Transitions' at the Hip Hop Archive ](/event/transitions-hip-hop-archive?occ_id=0)April 10, 2026 | 4:30PM - 6:30PM EDT | Marcyliena H. Morgan Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center In Person Join the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Arts & Learning students for a special event at the Hutchins Center's for African & African American Research's Hiphop Archive This event is meant to celebrate the transitions in our lives and celebrate what... ![Poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Transitions.png?h=7c41727f&itok=2w-A-Uv7) Show morerefresh ## Latest News [### Oxford University awards honorary degrees at its annual Encaenia ceremony ](https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06-23-oxford-university-awards-honorary-degrees-at-its-annual-encaenia-ceremony) June 24, 2026 ![Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in a graduation cap and gown at Oxford University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/hlgoxforddegree.jpg?h=c651ae69&itok=9yMMnnvP) [### The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Announces its Fourteenth Class of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows ](https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/fourteenth-class-du-bois-fellows) June 15, 2026 ![Exterior photo of the Hutchins Center in Harvard Square](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/facade_full-size_06.jpg?itok=bhw063XP) [### Brandon Terry Chosen as Fellow of National Fellowship on the Future of Liberal Education ](https://nffle.org/) April 24, 2026 ![Brandon Terry](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/cf6e2d1f-c939-915e-7303-5845709764a2.jpg?itok=Os7lok7j) [### FAS Current, 'Henry Louis Gates Jr. accepts medal named for Thomas Jefferson' ](https://current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/henry-louis-gates-jr-accepts-medal-named-thomas-jefferson) April 21, 2026 ![Henry Louis Gates, Jr. speaking at a podium with an American flag behind him](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/20260414_Founders_Day_LNG_C1_9209-1.jpg?h=920929c4&itok=PRmduL-W) [### UVA Today, '‘Distinguished’ trio celebrated with highest honors of UVA and Monticello' ](https://news.virginia.edu/content/distinguished-trio-celebrated-highest-honors-uva-and-monticello) April 15, 2026 ![Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., architect Jeanne Gang and scholar and author Henry Louis Gates Jr. standing next to each other](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Header-SF-Founders-LNG.jpg?h=030e8501&itok=GpxwIPHJ) [### Harvard Gazette, 'Harvard’s Hutchins Center names Ben Vinson III fellow at Afro-Latin American Research Institute' ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/harvards-hutchins-center-names-ben-vinson-iii-fellow-at-afro-latin-american-research-institute/) February 20, 2026 ![facade_small_0_01.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/facade_small_0_01.jpg?itok=hj9dh7VN) Show morerefresh ## Recent Events [### Curator Tours of The Alain Locke Gallery ](/event/curator-tours-alain-locke-gallery-3?occ_id=0)June 4, 2026 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT ![ Anyone’s Date by Ernest T. Crichlow, 1940. Courtesy of the Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Anyone%27s%20Date-Ernest%20T.%20Crichlow%20.jpg?h=34fe8151&itok=hcnr52cN) [### Curator Tours of The Alain Locke Gallery ](/event/curator-tours-alain-locke-gallery-2?occ_id=0)May 14, 2026 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT ![ Anyone’s Date by Ernest T. Crichlow, 1940. Courtesy of the Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Anyone%27s%20Date-Ernest%20T.%20Crichlow%20.jpg?h=34fe8151&itok=hcnr52cN) [### Exhibiting Art from the French- and Creole/Kreyol-Speaking Caribbean and Amazonia: Sociological, Historical, Art Historical, and Museological Perspectives ](/event/exhibiting-art-french-and-creolekreyol-speaking-caribbean-and-amazonia-sociological-0?occ_id=0)May 1, 2026 | 8:45AM - 3:30PM EDT ![decorative floral drawing](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/aaaaa.jpeg?h=e8fa6653&itok=UJR-JQsz) [### Exhibiting Art from the French- and Creole/Kreyol-Speaking Caribbean and Amazonia: Sociological, Historical, Art Historical, and Museological Perspectives ](/event/exhibiting-art-french-and-creolekreyol-speaking-caribbean-and-amazonia-sociological?occ_id=0)April 30, 2026 | 1:00PM - 5:45PM EDT ![decorative floral drawing](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/aaaaa.jpeg?h=e8fa6653&itok=UJR-JQsz) [### Dr. Claude Steele, 'Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How To Overcome It.' ](/event/dr-claude-steele-churn-tension-divides-us-and-how-overcome-it?occ_id=0)April 30, 2026 | 12:00PM EDT ![Poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Churn%20The%20Tension%20That%20Divides%20Us%20And%20How%20To%20Overcome%20It-2.png?itok=mweK5UXM) [### Screening of 'I Love Boosters' with Director Boots Riley ](/event/screening-i-love-boosters-director-boots-riley?occ_id=0)April 23, 2026 | 3:30PM - 5:30PM EDT ![Poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/I%20Love%20Boosters%20Harvard%20web%20flyer%20copy%204-14.png?h=9f5e4ea6&itok=gWHP7fEz) Show morerefresh