Upcoming Lectures & Talks
2 upcoming lectures and talks from Peabody Essex Museum, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Fri Nov 13 · 7:45pm
Ornithologist Alan Poole, an associate of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, draws on his book Quetzals: Icons of the Cloud Forest to examine the Resplendent Quetzal of Central America's highland forests. He covers the bird's nesting and feeding habits, its role in Mayan and Aztec traditions, and the land-use pressures threatening its cloud-forest habitat.
Sat Nov 14 · 1:00pm
Curator and Stanford art-history doctoral candidate Christina Hiromi Hobbs examines Isamu Noguchi's decision to voluntarily enter the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona during World War II. The talk weighs his complex motivations, the consequences for his artistic practice, and the wider history of creative expression during the incarceration of Japanese Americans.