HMSC Connects! Podcast

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
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HMSC Connects! Podcast

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.

  1. 05/29/2024

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

    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.

    42 min

  2. 05/01/2024

    50 Years at the Farlow: A Conversation with Don Pfister

    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.

    36 min

  3. 04/03/2024

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

    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.

    40 min

  4. 03/06/2024

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

    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.

    35 min

  5. 02/07/2024

    Introducing Caroline Fernald, HMSC’s New Executive Director

    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.

    54 min

  6. 01/10/2024

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

    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.

    26 min

  7. 12/13/2023

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

    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.

    35 min

  8. 11/15/2023

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

    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.

    42 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    75
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Copyright 2020 All rights reserved.
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