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Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond.

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture


    • May 29, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 32m AVG DURATION
    • 75 EPISODES


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    A Discussion about Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, and New Photo Exhibition at the Peabody Museum with Photographer Wendel White

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 41:38


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode, host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Wendel White, a photographer, educator, cultural worker, and the 2021 recipient of the Peabody Museum's Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography.

    50 Years at the Farlow: A Conversation with Don Pfister

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2024 35:54


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode, host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Don Pfister, a professor at Harvard and a curator of the Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany.    

    A Conversation with Amphibian Biologist and Photographer, S.D. Biju

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2024 39:43


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode, host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with S. D. Biju, a biologist and professor in the Environmental Studies Department at the University of Delhi, who is currently a Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. He's a a biologist who studies amphibians like frogs, caecilians, and salamanders.

    The Art of Intimidation: A Journey to Ancient Assyria with Adam Aja, Chief Curator at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2024 35:15


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode, host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Adam Aja, the Chief Curator at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East or HMANE. On March 15, 2024, HMANE will release a new augmented reality experience for its From Stone to Silicone exhibition. It will transport visitors from modern Cambridge to the ancient past to pay tribute to an Assyrian king at the Palace of Nineveh. It's called The Art of Intimidation: A Journey to Ancient Assyria. Adam and Jennifer discuss the app, its creation, and the adventure HMANE has planned for visitors.

    Introducing Caroline Fernald, HMSC's New Executive Director

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2024 53:39


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Caroline Fernald, HMSC's new Executive Director. 

    A Conversation with Elizabeth Solinga, HMSC's New Administrative Director

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2024 26:20


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Elizabeth Solinga, the new Administrative Director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.

    Caring for the Invertebrate Zoology Collections with Adam Baldinger, Collections Manager of the Invertebrate Zoology Collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2023 34:46


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Adam Baldinger, the Curatorial Associate and Collections Manager of Invertebrate Zoology here at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.

    Curating the Peabody Museum's North American Collections with Curator Stephanie Mach

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2023 42:24


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Stephanie Mach, the curator of North American Collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. She focuses on the museum's historical, modern, and contemporary Native American collections. Stephanie is also a member of the Navajo Nation and the first Native curator for the North American Collections.

    Introducing Hannah Marcus, Incoming Faculty Director for the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2023 35:06


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Hannah Marcus, a professor in Harvard's History of Science Department, and the new Faculty Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.

    Making Meaning of Surveillance: A Conversation about a New Exhibition at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2023 31:04


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Aaron Gluck-Thaler, and Carolyn Bailey, PhD candidates in the History of Science and Visual Studies Departments at Harvard, and two of the guest curators for a new exhibition on surveillance at Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, which is slated to open on September 21.

    The Journey Home: Repatriating the Gitxaała Totem Pole

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2023 45:17


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund speaks with Dustin Johnson, a member of and Cultural Program Manager for the Gitxaała Nation, and Kara Schneiderman, the Peabody's Director of Collections, about Peabody Museum's repatriation process of returning meaningful objects to their origin communities.

    Growing Up in the Harvard Museum of Natural History

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 40:23


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Shoyo Sato, an Invertebrate Biologist who just finished his Ph.D. at Harvard. Shoyo is an old friend to HMSC. He's been volunteering at the Museum of Natural History since he was 12. We wanted to talk to him about that experience, what it has been like to grow up in the museum, how he and the museum have changed, and what it's like to look back at the museum as he steps into a new era of his life.

    Making the Museum Accessible to Latino Teens through HMSC's Hear Me Out Program

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2023 33:31


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Abbie Sandoval-Focil, a bilingual museum educator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, as well as Mia Hortado, a teen student in HMSC's "Hear Me Out" program. The Hear Me out program was created to reach out to the Latino community across Massachusetts and engage them in the goings on at the HMSC museums.

    HMSC Turns 10! A Conversation with Leadership, Past and Present

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2023 57:01


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. HMSC is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year! A lot has changed over 10 years. It's been quite the journey, but we've been guided with grace by two Executive Directors. First, Jane Pickering, who is now the William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, one of our partner museums at Harvard. And now, Brenda Tindal, who recently took on a new role as Chief Campus Curator for Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Today, Jennifer is reflecting with them on HMSC's first decade, and imagining how we grow from here.

    Journey of a Visual Anthropologist with Ilisa Barbash, Curator of Visual Anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2023 42:45


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Ilisa Barbash, the curator of Visual Anthropology for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and a documentary filmmaker. In this episode, Ilisa describes her journey through visual anthropology, from film to Peabody curator. We also discuss an upcoming photography exhibition for the Peabody Museum's Gardner Fellowship, which Ilisa curates. This year's exhibition, titled Shehuo: Community Fire, features the work of Zhang Xiao, who explores the transformation of Shehuo, a traditional spring festival held in rural northern China that coincides with the Lunar New Year. It opens on May 13.

    Theresa Goell's Archaeological Legacy with Archaeologist Donald Sanders

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2023 43:43


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Donald Sanders, an archaeologist and architect who compiled and published the life's work of Theresa Goell, a 20th-century archaeologist who broke gender and cultural barriers in her field with her work at Nemrud Dagi, an archaeological site in the remote mountainous regions of modern Turkey.

    Piecing Together Stories of the Mesoamerican Past with Peabody Archaeologist Jenny Carballo

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2023 35:22


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Peabody Archaeologist Jenny Carballo.

    Accessing Nature and Science with Scott Edwards, Curator of Ornithology for the Museum of Comparative Zoology

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2023 40:54


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Professor Scott Edwards, the Curator of Ornithology for the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Department Chair of Harvard's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

    The World According to Natural History Diorama Artist, Terry Chase

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2023 41:56


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with diorama maker, artist, geologist, and all-around renaissance man, Terry Chase.

    Celebrating Egyptology's Big Anniversary with HMANE Director Peter Der Manuelian

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2022 35:33


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Peter Der Manuelian, a professor of Egyptology and the Director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Peter recently published a book called "Walking Among Pharaohs: George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology," a 15-year project that documents the work and life of George Reisner, a Harvard Egyptologist who worked in Egypt during Egyptology's golden age, the era in which Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered.

    Caring for the MCZ's Collections with Breda Zimkus, Director of Collections Operations, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2022 40:38


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Breda Zimkus, the Director of Collections Operations at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. She coordinates all the activities among the museum's 10 different zoological collections, which support the work of hundreds of scientists and their groundbreaking science annually.

    Exploring Aztec Moments with Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2022 49:21


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Davíd Carrasco, a professor in the Harvard Department of Anthropology as well as the Harvard Divinity School, where he teaches courses on the history of religions in the Americas. In their conversation, they explore the significance of Dia de los Muertos and the 20th anniversary of the special celebration at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Professor Carrasco recounts his first experience witnessing the Day of the Dead in Mexico City, his friendship with Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez, and his deep connection to Aztec culture.

    The Power of Observation with Underwater Photographer, Keith Ellenbogen

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2022 44:56


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Keith Ellenbogen, an underwater wildlife photographer, Associate Professor of Photography at SUNY, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and a Visiting Artist at the MIT Sea Grant.

    Learning about Early Christianity through Objects and Literature with Annewies Van Den Hoek

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2022 36:11


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Annewies Van Den Hoek, a retired Greek language professor at the Harvard Divinity School, who's been spending her retirement photographing and cataloging an assortment of objects housed in the collections of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. 

    The Art of Keeping Time with Richard Ketchen, Horologist for The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2022 35:59


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Richard Ketchen, a horologist, or artisan who makes and repairs clocks.

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    Reflecting on Geechee Traditions with Master Basket Maker, Yvonne Grovner of Sapelo Island, Georgia

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2022 34:19


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Mrs. Yvonne Grovner, a resident of Sapelo Island, Georgia, and Master basketmaker, whose talents are featured in the new mini-exhibit: "Rice: Seeds from Africa" set within the Peabody Museum's Resetting the Table exhibition.

    Reading Planets through Rocks: A Conversation with Andrew Knoll, Emeritus Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2022 37:29


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Andy Knoll, a now emeritus professor of earth sciences and biology, with dual appointments in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard. He's interested in how physical and biological processes have interacted across the span of our planet's history to shape our world.

    An Interview with the Host, HMSC's Exhibit Developer, Writer and Podcaster, Jennifer Berglund

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2022 34:19


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's very special episode HMSC's Executive Director, Brenda Tindal, interviews none other than our usual host, Jennifer Berglund, HMSC exhibit and content developer. They discuss her career at HMSC including the genesis of this podcast series, as well as insight into her fascinating journey as a documentarian, biology enthusiast, National Geographic Explorer, and purveyor of science communication.

    In Search of Thoreau's Flowers: An Art + Science Conversation with biologist Emily Meineke & Artists Robin Vuchnich & Leah Sobesy

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2022 49:40


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund delves into the collaboration behind the upcoming exhibit "In Search of Thoreau's Flowers," opening at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in May. Berglund asks Emily Meineke, Leah Sobsey, and Robin Vuchnich, the artists and scientists behind the multimedia exhibition inspired by the digitized collection of Henry David Thoreau's plant specimens from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University.

    From Gymnastics to Paleontology: A Conversation with Stephanie Pierce, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2022 41:40


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Our women's history month-themed podcast interview features Stephanie Pierce, Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology's very first female curator of vertebrate paleontology.

    Healing the Scars of the Past: A Conversation with Sarah Clunis, Curator of African Collection at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2022 42:17


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. In this episode host Jennifer Berglund and guest Sarah Clunis, the Director of Academic Partnerships for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the new curator of their African collections, delve into important topics focusing on racial identity and healing from the collective trauma of slavery.

    2022 State of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture with Executive Director Brenda Tindal

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2022 35:15


    For the first HMSC Connects! podcast of 2022, host Jennifer Berglund speaks with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture's new Executive Director, Brenda Tindal, reflecting on Brenda's first six months, the current state of the museums, and the significance of the upcoming 10th anniversary of HMSC. 

    Transforming the Museums with Teens, a Conversation with Julia Szejnblum, Former Coordinator of the Escúchame/Hear Me Out Project at HMSC

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2021 33:14


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Julia Szejnblum, the former coordinator of the Escúchame/Hear Me Out project at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. The project is for teenagers from the Somerville and Chelsea, Mass. communities who identify as Latinos, Latinas, LatinX, or Hispanics to create media projects designed to make the museums more engaging and accessible to their communities.

    Exploring History through Plants and Glass: A Conversation with Michaela Schmul

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2021 37:16


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Michaela Schmull, Director of Collections for the Harvard University Herbaria, about her work with a collection of about five and a half million dried and pressed botanical specimens and their associated artifacts, including the one-of-a-kind Glass Flowers models. 

    Forgotten Scientific Histories of Many Mexicos, A Conversation with Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2021 36:27


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Gabriela Soto Laveaga, a professor of the History of Science in the History of Science department at Harvard, who researches Latin American history, science, and technology.

    Exploring Ancient Deep Sea Shipwrecks with Dana Yoerger, Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2021 35:24


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Dana Yoerger, Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who works in the Deep Submergence Laboratory. He designs, builds, and operates new kinds of underwater robots for use in the deep ocean. 

    A Lifetime of Natural History with Gonzalo Giribet, incoming Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2021 29:29


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Gonzalo Giribet, the new director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, and curator of invertebrate zoology. Giribet recounts his insatiable interest in scouring the beach for shells growing up south of Barcelona, Spain, which ultimately led him into a career as a scientist.

    Twenty Years of the MCZ with James Hanken, outgoing Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2021 33:30


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with James Hanken, Professor of Biology at Harvard University and outgoing Director and Curator of Herpetology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Jennifer speaks with Professor Hanken about his fascination with natural history from a young age in Queens, NY, his choice between a career in nature photography and academia, seeing the potential in renovating the collections, and the joy of watching vultures create a home in his garage during the pandemic. 

    Reflections on Repatriation with Philip Deloria

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2021 29:54


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Phil Deloria, the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard, and the chair of the committee on degrees in history and literature. Deloria has been working with the Peabody Museum as the chair of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act committee and has been instrumental in guiding the Peabody on its efforts to repatriate culturally affiliated Native American remains and objects.

    Maine, Monkeys, and Museums: A Conversation with Outgoing HMSC Director of Exhibitions Jan Sacco

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2021 33:18


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Jan Sacco, the  Director of Exhibitions at HMSC. Jan is retiring at the end of June. Not only is Jan an exhibit developer for our wonderful exhibitions, but she's also been an inspiring force within the HMSC organization.

    A Walk in the Woods with John O'Keefe, Forest Ecologist at Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2021 29:34


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this year's summer solstice episode, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with John O'Keefe. John is a recently retired forest ecologist and coordinator of the Fisher Museum at the Harvard Forest in Petersham. Today, John is going to take us on a journey through the woods during the solstice, highlighting the magnificence of New England's forests and the challenges they face.

    Reflections of An Anthropologist: A Conversation with Peabody Curator of North American Ethnography, Castle McLaughlin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2021 32:23


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Castle McLaughlin, the curator of North American Ethnography at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

    Visualizing Science: From Black Holes to the Future with Peter Galison, Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2021 21:41


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Peter Galison, Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard. He is also co-founder of the Black Hole Initiative which, with the internationally-based Event Horizon Telescope project, successfully captured an image of a black hole in 2019. The discovery also inspired Galison’s recent film The Edge of All We Know.

    Museums as Centers for Courageous Inquiry – A conversation with Brenda Tindal, new Executive Director of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 34:17


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Brenda Tindal, the incoming Executive Director of HMSC. Brenda is a museum practitioner, educator, researcher and scholar who uses the platform of museums to connect with a diversity of audiences.

    Cultivating a Climate of Empathy with Kiana Ziadkhanpour and Charles Hua, Harvard Juniors/Sustainability Advocates

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2021 21:04


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Kiana Ziadkhanpour and Charles Hua, juniors at Harvard and passionate advocates for sustainability initiatives who are starting a new podcast called “Climate of Empathy” to tell the human stories behind our collective experience of global climate change. 

    21st Century Reflections on the Study of Ancient Egypt with Peter Der Manuelian, Director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2021 35:05


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Peter Der Manuelian, a professor of Egyptology, and the Director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

    Painting Connections Between Parallel Worlds with artist Lily Simonson

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2021 32:05


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund chats with Lily Simonson, an artist whose giant, luminous paintings of rare underwater animals and environments are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. 

    Exploring Animal Behavior through Expressive Storytelling with Caroline Hu, Artist and Evolutionary Neuroscientist in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2021 25:11


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Caroline Hu, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department at Harvard, who studies the evolution of animal behavior in Hopi Hoekstra's lab. She's also a cartoonist, who will be leading a workshop that she hopes will help our visitors connect to our museum specimens on a deeper, more emotional level.

    Narcissism, Freud, and the Future of Psychotherapy – A conversation with Elizabeth Lunbeck, Historian of Psychological Sciences

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2021 30:44


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Elizabeth Lunbeck, a historian of gender, as well as the psychological sciences, including psychoanalysis and psychiatry.

    Unraveling the Mysteries of Planet Formation with Harvard Geophysicist Rebecca Fischer

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 26:22


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Rebecca Fischer, a geophysicist and assistant professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, who studies the formation and deep interiors of Earth and other planets.

    Lizards, Snakes, and Frogs…Oh Yeah! Jose Rosado, Curatorial Associate in Herpetology shares his lifetime passion for reptiles, amphibians, and museums

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 25:45


    Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with José Rosado, the Collections Manager and Curatorial Associate of the Herpetology Collection at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, a collection of roughly 345,000 amphibians and reptiles.

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