Upcoming Lectures & Talks

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Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn St · Cambridge · mountauburn.org

4 upcoming lectures and talks from Mount Auburn Cemetery, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →

Production art for Chasing Beauty: A Conversation with Natalie Dykstra and Curator Meg Winslow

Tue Oct 6 · 6:30pm

Chasing Beauty: A Conversation with Natalie Dykstra and Curator Meg Winslow

· · 580 Mount Auburn St. · · ·

Natalie Dykstra presents the research behind Chasing Beauty, her life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, which reads Gardner's museum and its holdings “as a kind of memoir” and won the Marfield Prize for arts writing. She talks with Meg Winslow, Mount Auburn's senior curator of historical collections, about their collaboration and what makes a biography come alive. Dykstra, emerita professor of English at Hope College, also wrote Clover Adams.

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Production art for Above and Beneath: An Ode to Women Artists
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Sat Oct 17 – Sun Oct 18

Above and Beneath: An Ode to Women Artists

· · 580 Mount Auburn St ·

Detritus dance performs Conversations: Above and Beneath, a roaming, site-responsive dance installation modelled on Margaret Fuller Ossoli's “Conversations,” the 1839–1844 gatherings of Boston women denied formal education. It traces writer Fuller, poet Maria White Lowell, actor Charlotte Cushman, sculptor Edmonia Lewis and historian Hannah Adams, with stops at gravesites, the Hygeia Statue and Hazel Dell. The queer, women-led company was founded in 2021 by Caroline Bradbury and Claire Lane.

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Sun Oct 18 · 11:00am

“Worthy to be Any Man’s Friend”: Lecture on Henry David Thoreau

· · · 580 Mount Auburn St. · · ·

Concord historian Richard Smith talks about Henry David Thoreau and his friendships with figures now commemorated at Mount Auburn, among them Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Sumner and Margaret Fuller. Thoreau is not buried there, but the “Hermit of Walden Pond” knew many of the cemetery's literary and political figures and was less of a recluse than the label suggests. Afterward Smith leads a walk to some of their monuments.

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Production art for Laurel Circle Lecture Series: Joanne Chang
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Wed Oct 28 · 5:30pm

Laurel Circle Lecture Series: Joanne Chang

· · 580 Mount Auburn St. · · ·

Joanne Chang, pastry chef and co-owner of Flour Bakery and the restaurant Myers + Chang, talks with Mount Auburn President and CEO Matthew Stephens in a fireside chat followed by Q&A. Chang opened the first Flour in 2000 and now runs eleven; she won the 2016 James Beard Award for Outstanding Baker. A reception beforehand includes a signing of her cookbook The Joy of Cookies.

$35 general admission; $75 with a copy of the cookbook

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