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Unseen Hands: Designing Gardens in the Roman World
March 30, 2026
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5:30PM - 7:00PM EDT
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CGIS S020 Belfer Case Study Room
Hybrid
Kaja Tally-Schumacher is an Assistant Professor of Environmental History at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an Assistant Director of the Casa della Regina Carolina Project at Pompeii. Her primary area of expertise is the archaeology and analysis...
Image of Dr. Tally-Schumacher

Ancient DNA illuminates the Origins and Early Migrations of the Slavs
November 11, 2025
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5:00PM - 6:15PM EST
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CGIS S020 Belfer Case Study room (Lower Level)
Hybrid
How the Slavs Transformed Europe Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | 5:00–6:30 PM (ET) Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South S020 (Lower Level) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA Join us for a compelling lecture based on the latest breakthrough in ancient DNA...
Figure image, before and after the MP=SP transition

African connections with Anglo-Saxon England? New insights from ancient DNA
November 6, 2025
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5:00PM - 6:15PM EST
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CGIS S020 Belfer Case Study room (Lower Level)
Hybrid
A More Diverse Society in Medieval Britain Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 5:00–6:30 PM (ET) Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South S020 (Lower Level) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA Join for a discussion of the earliest direct genetic evidence of West African...
burial site with partial skeletal remains

Making Milk: Mongolia’s Unique Role in Dairy’s History
March 6, 2025
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5:00PM - 6:00PM EST
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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
In Person
Milk is both ancient and enigmatic. First transformed into dairy products over 9,000 years ago in the Near East, its production required the domestication of not only animals, but also microorganisms. Dairy technologies spread across Europe, Africa, and...

Current Research Lightning Talks
February 26, 2025
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4:15PM - 6:30PM EST
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Belfer Case Study Rm., CGIS 020 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138.
In Person
Hear what the Science of the Human Past team have been up to in this exciting round of lightning talks! Reception to follow. Can't join us in person? Click here to register for the webinar.

Breakthrough: Ancient DNA illuminates malaria’s impact across human history
November 20, 2024
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4:15PM - 5:30PM EST
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Tsai Auditorium | CGIS South S010
In Person
Dr. Megan Michel Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University RESPONDENT Dyann F. Wirth Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health COMMENTS Kyle Harper G.T. and...

Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen
October 9, 2024
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT
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Barker Center 110 (the Thompson Room)
In Person
Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München), Life and Death in Late Antique Gaul: Aligning Ancient Bodies with Inscriptions in the Burials at St. Maximin, Trier, with response by Christina Warinner (Harvard University). Co-sponsored with...

Migrations, Mediterranean to Slavic: Ancient DNA reveals the Roman Empire’s cosmopolitan Danube frontier from Domitian to the Slavs
April 16, 2024
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4:30PM - 6:15PM EDT
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Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Come learn how the humanities are using biomolecules, archaeology and history to discover a dramatic new vision of the Roman Empire and its enduring impact. Stunning new ancient DNA evidence from the SoHP/MHAAM research team reveals the Roman Empire’s...

Mapping Past Societies: Data Science Meets the Human Past
March 20, 2024
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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT
In Person
Mapping Past Societies (MAPS): Data Science meets the Human Past Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA Harvard University Public reception to follow at Adams House, Oaktel Room 217 (at the...

Ancient DNA & U.S. History: The Genetic Legacy of African Americans from Catoctin Furnace
February 7, 2024
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5:30PM - 6:45PM EST
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CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (Lower Level), Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
In Person
The Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard invites you to a discussion about recent work in U.S. History from Prof. David Reich’s lab that deploys ancient DNA and Big Data to discover new genomic insights into the life stories of 27...