• A Discussion about Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, and New Photo Exhibition at the Peabody Museum with Photographer Wendel White
    May 29 2024

    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.

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    42 mins
  • 50 Years at the Farlow: A Conversation with Don Pfister
    May 1 2024

    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.

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    36 mins
  • A Conversation with Amphibian Biologist and Photographer, S.D. Biju
    Apr 3 2024

    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.

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    40 mins
  • The Art of Intimidation: A Journey to Ancient Assyria with Adam Aja, Chief Curator at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
    Mar 6 2024

    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.

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    35 mins
  • Introducing Caroline Fernald, HMSC’s New Executive Director
    Feb 7 2024

    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.

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    54 mins
  • A Conversation with Elizabeth Solinga, HMSC’s New Administrative Director
    Jan 10 2024

    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.

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    26 mins
  • Caring for the Invertebrate Zoology Collections with Adam Baldinger, Collections Manager of the Invertebrate Zoology Collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology
    Dec 13 2023

    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.

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    35 mins
  • Curating the Peabody Museum’s North American Collections with Curator Stephanie Mach
    Nov 15 2023

    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.

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    42 mins