News & Events

Hutchins Center events and exhibitions are accessible, free, and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

Latest News

The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Announces its Fourteenth Class of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows

June 15, 2026

Exterior photo of the Hutchins Center in Harvard Square

Brandon Terry Chosen as Fellow of National Fellowship on the Future of Liberal Education

April 24, 2026

Brandon Terry

FAS Current, 'Henry Louis Gates Jr. accepts medal named for Thomas Jefferson'

April 21, 2026

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. speaking at a podium with an American flag behind him

UVA Today, '‘Distinguished’ trio celebrated with highest honors of 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

Harvard Gazette, 'Harvard’s Hutchins Center names Ben Vinson III fellow at Afro-Latin American Research Institute'

February 20, 2026

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the Wall Street Journal, 'Black and Jewish Americans Can Find Unity Again'

February 10, 2026

Professor Gates in a chair with the title of the documentary above him

Recent Events

Curator Tours of The Alain Locke Gallery

June 4, 2026

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3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT

Curator Tours of The Alain Locke Gallery

May 14, 2026

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3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT

Exhibiting Art from the French- and Creole/Kreyol-Speaking Caribbean and Amazonia: Sociological, Historical, Art Historical, and Museological Perspectives

May 1, 2026

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8:45AM - 3:30PM EDT

Exhibiting Art from the French- and Creole/Kreyol-Speaking Caribbean and Amazonia: Sociological, Historical, Art Historical, and Museological Perspectives

April 30, 2026

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1:00PM - 5:45PM EDT

Dr. Claude Steele, 'Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How To Overcome It.'

April 30, 2026

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12:00PM EDT

Screening of 'I Love Boosters' with Director Boots Riley

April 23, 2026

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3:30PM - 5:30PM EDT