Suggests: Drawing from Life: Storytelling, Heritage, and Turning the Personal into the Universal
Mon, Nov 17
|Cambridge
Time & Location
Nov 17, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Cambridge, 18 Mason St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
About the event
Join the Academy Award–winning director, animator, and filmmaker Domee Shi for an engaging conversation about creative expression and empathetic storytelling. A self-described “film nerd,” Shi will be joined by Ju Yon Kim, the Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English at Harvard, to discuss Shi’s life and career, taking surprising creative risks, and using animation to explore worlds different from our own while finding universality through the stories told.
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The Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture Series was established through the generosity of Kim G. Davis AB ’76, MBA ’78, and Judith N. Davis, longtime friends and champions of Harvard Radcliffe Institute. This annual lecture series invites leading figures from across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences to share their expertise, ideas, and…