Eight expeditions to the Kalahari Desert by a Cambridge family in the 1950s yielded more than 40,000 photographs that captured hunter-gatherer cultures on the verge of disappearing. Many of the photos are now on view at Harvard’s Peabody Museum in a new exhibit, “Kalahari Perspectives: Anthropology, Photography, and the Marshall Family.”

To honor its past and its future, Harvard will offer special exhibits on Oct. 4 and 5 during the inauguration of Larry Bacow, the University’s 29th president.

During Harvard visit, artist Scott McCloud explains how comics can promote a new way of seeing.

The Rev. Jonathan Walton’s new book, “A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in its World for Our World,” is an exploration of his interpretive approach, which reads biblical stories through the eyes of the vulnerable and marginalized.

Dorit Chrysler, a musicologist, composer, and leading thereminist, sat down with Harvard physicist John Huth at the Radcliffe Institute on for a conversation set to music.

Mayra Rivera draws on her cross-disciplinary background in her role as Harvard's faculty chair of the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights.

Nearly 60 examples of animal-shaped drinking objects make up “Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings,” a new Harvard Art Museums exhibit that celebrates artistry and the exchange of ideas across cultures and centuries.

A multimedia production incorporates dance, music, and spoken word to explore how humans might cooperate with future generations to try to solve problems like climate change. “Dancing with the Future” will premiere at Farkas Hall on Sept. 25.

At the Graduate School of Design, the exhibit “Urban Intermedia” stands as “an experiment and the beginning of an ongoing discussion on new kinds of practices around the study of cities,” said co-curator Eve Blau.