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. In this episode host Jennifer Berglund and guest Sarah Clunis, the Director of Academic Partnerships for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the new curator of their African collections, delve into important topics focusing on racial identity and healing from the collective trauma of slavery.
Feb 15, 2022•42 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast For the first HMSC Connects! podcast of 2022, host Jennifer Berglund speaks with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture’s new Executive Director, Brenda Tindal, reflecting on Brenda’s first six months, the current state of the museums, and the significance of the upcoming 10th anniversary of HMSC.
Jan 12, 2022•35 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Julia Szejnblum, the former coordinator of the Escúchame/Hear Me Out project at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. The project is for teenagers from the Somerville and Chelsea, Mass. communities who identify as Latinos, Latinas, LatinX, or Hispanics to create...
Dec 15, 2021•33 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Michaela Schmull, Director of Collections for the Harvard University Herbaria, about her work with a collection of about five and a half million dried and pressed botanical specimens and their associated artifacts, including the one-of-a-kind Glass Flowers models. C...
Nov 17, 2021•37 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Gabriela Soto Laveaga, a professor of the History of Science in the History of Science department at Harvard, who researches Latin American history, science, and technology.
Oct 20, 2021•36 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Dana Yoerger, Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who works in the Deep Submergence Laboratory. He designs, builds, and operates new kinds of underwater robots for use in the deep ocean.
Sep 22, 2021•35 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Gonzalo Giribet, the new director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, and curator of invertebrate zoology. Giribet recounts his insatiable interest in scouring the beach for she...
Aug 11, 2021•29 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with James Hanken, Professor of Biology at Harvard University and outgoing Director and Curator of Herpetology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Jennifer speaks with Professor Hanken about his fascination with natural history from a young age in Queens, NY, h...
Jul 28, 2021•34 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Phil Deloria, the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard, and the chair of the committee on degrees in history and literature. Deloria has been working with the Peabody Museum as the chair of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act c...
Jul 14, 2021•30 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Jan Sacco, the Director of Exhibitions at HMSC. Jan is retiring at the end of June. Not only is Jan an exhibit developer for our wonderful exhibitions, but she’s also been an inspiring force within the HMSC organization.
Jun 30, 2021•33 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this year's summer solstice episode, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with John O'Keefe. John is a recently retired forest ecologist and coordinator of the Fisher Museum at the Harvard Forest in Petersham. Today, John is going to take us on a journey through the woods during the solstice, highlighting the mag...
Jun 16, 2021•30 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Castle McLaughlin, the curator of North American Ethnography at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Jun 02, 2021•32 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Peter Galison, Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard. He is also co-founder of the Black Hole Initiative which, with the internationally-based Event Hor...
May 19, 2021•22 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Brenda Tindal, the incoming Executive Director of HMSC. Brenda is a museum practitioner, educator, researcher and scholar who uses the platform of museums to connect with a diversity of audiences.
May 05, 2021•34 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Kiana Ziadkhanpour and Charles Hua, juniors at Harvard and passionate advocates for sustainability initiatives who are starting a new podcast called “Climate of Empathy” to tell the human stories behind our collective experience of global climate change.
Apr 21, 2021•21 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Peter Der Manuelian, a professor of Egyptology, and the Director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.
Apr 07, 2021•35 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This week Jennifer Berglund chats with Lily Simonson, an artist whose giant, luminous paintings of rare underwater animals and environments are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History .
Mar 24, 2021•32 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Caroline Hu, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department at Harvard, who studies the evolution of animal behavior in Hopi Hoekstra's lab. She's also a cartoonist, who will be leading a workshop that she hopes will help our visitors connect to our...
Mar 10, 2021•25 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Elizabeth Lunbeck, a historian of gender, as well as the psychological sciences, including psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
Feb 24, 2021•31 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Rebecca Fischer, a geophysicist and assistant professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard, who studies the formation and deep interiors of Earth and other planets.
Feb 10, 2021•26 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with José Rosado, the Collections Manager and Curatorial Associate of the Herpetology Collection at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, a collection of roughly 345,000 amphibians and reptiles.
Jan 27, 2021•26 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Judy Jungels, a conservator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology who is responsible for preparing, protecting and conserving the museum's vast collection of artifacts from cultures around the world.
Jan 13, 2021•24 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Hannah Gavin, a microbiologist, and educator who researches viruses and also manages Harvard's Microbial Sciences Initiative.
Dec 02, 2020•28 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Mansi Srivastava, an Associate Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. She studies marine worms called three-banded panther worms, which have the capacity to regenerate any part of their bodies.
Nov 18, 2020•33 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Joe Greene, the Deputy Director and Curator of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.
Nov 04, 2020•25 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Diana Xochitl Munn, the Director of Public Programs at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.
Oct 21, 2020•23 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Meredith Vasa, a collection steward at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and Elizabeth James Perry, a textile artist, marine biologist, and member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe. They recently worked together on an online exhibit called Wampanoag Voices: Beyond 16...
Oct 07, 2020•25 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Jenny Brown, Collections Manager of Harvard's Collection of Glass Flowers. These flowers were made by hand more than 100 years ago by Rudolph and Leopold Blaschka. Buy the new book Glass Flowers: Marvels of Art and Science at Harvard...
Sep 23, 2020•22 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Senior Exhibit Designer Sylvie Laborde.
Sep 09, 2020•24 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For our fourth and final episode celebrating the Women's Suffrage Centennial this month, Jennifer is speaking with Jen Thum, the Assistant Director of Academic Engagement, and the Assistant Research Curator at the Harvard Art Museums. She's an archaeologist and a specialist in the art and archaeology of ancien...
Aug 26, 2020•20 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast 
