# Past Events Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 57 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Alphabetical A-ZChronological sort list grid\_view ## 57 results [### Unseen Hands: Designing Gardens in the Roman World ](/event/unseen-hands-designing-gardens-roman-world)March 30, 2026 | 5:30PM - 7:00PM EDT | 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](/sites/g/files/omnuum9311/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Untitled%20%28Medium%20Banner%20%28US%29%20%28Landscape%29%29.png?h=22a1630f&itok=7onkYPyO) [### Manuscripts and molecules: a new project to analyze the parchments of the earliest English and Irish books, ca. 600-900 C.E. ](/event/manuscripts-and-molecules-new-project-analyze-parchments-earliest-english-and-irish-books-ca)February 10, 2026 | 5:30PM - 7:00PM EST | CGIS S020 Belfer Case Study room (Lower Level) Hybrid The Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels exemplify the distinctive “Insular” handwriting and decoration developed between ca. 600 and 900 CE in books made in England and Ireland—and in English and Irish missionaries’ monasteries in Europe. Scholars... event [### Ancient DNA illuminates the Origins and Early Migrations of the Slavs ](/event/ancient-dna-illuminates-origins-and-early-migrations-slavs)November 11, 2025 | 5:00PM - 6:15PM EST | 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](/sites/g/files/omnuum9311/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/41586_2025_9437_Fig2_HTML.jpeg?h=ae03a42f&itok=X8uvZjX5) [### African connections with Anglo-Saxon England? New insights from ancient DNA ](/event/african-connections-anglo-saxon-england-new-insights-ancient-dna)November 6, 2025 | 5:00PM - 6:15PM EST | 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](/sites/g/files/omnuum9311/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/urn_cambridge.org_id_binary_20251017114514384-0998_S0003598X25101397_S0003598X25101397_fig5.png?itok=tqNci0lz) [### Big Ideas, Quick Talks: Science of the Human Past Fall Research Talks ](/event/big-ideas-quick-talks-science-human-past-fall-research-talks)October 21, 2025 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT | CGIS S020 Belfer Rm | 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Hybrid event [### Making Milk: Mongolia’s Unique Role in Dairy’s History ](/event/making-milk-mongolia%E2%80%99s-unique-role-dairy%E2%80%99s-history)March 6, 2025 | 5:00PM - 6:00PM EST | 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... event [### Current Research Lightning Talks ](/event/current-research-lightning-talks)February 26, 2025 | 4:15PM - 6:30PM EST | 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. event [### Breakthrough: Ancient DNA illuminates malaria’s impact across human history ](/event/megan-michel-ancient-dna-illuminates-malaria%E2%80%99s-impact-across-human-history)November 20, 2024 | 4:15PM - 5:30PM EST | 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... event [### Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen ](/event/wolf-r%C3%BCdiger-teegen)October 9, 2024 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT | 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... event [### Migrations, Mediterranean to Slavic: Ancient DNA reveals the Roman Empire’s cosmopolitan Danube frontier from Domitian to the Slavs ](/event/migrations-mediterranean-slavic-ancient-dna-reveals-roman-empire%E2%80%99s-cosmopolitan-danube)April 16, 2024 | 4:30PM - 6:15PM EDT | 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... event [### Mapping Past Societies: Data Science Meets the Human Past ](/event/mapping-past-societies-data-science-meets-human-past)March 20, 2024 | 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... event [### Ancient DNA & U.S. History: The Genetic Legacy of African Americans from Catoctin Furnace ](/event/ancient-dna-us-history-genetic-legacy-african-americans-catoctin-furnace)February 7, 2024 | 5:30PM - 6:45PM EST | 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... event - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 5 ](?page=4 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")