Jacobo Romero, El Valle, New Mexico, March 1979

Selected Public Lectures (1978 to 1993)

  • Duke University
  • University of Virginia
  • University of North Carolina
  • College of Charleston
  • Harvard University
  • Phillips Academy, Andover
  • Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
  • American Museum of Natural History, New York
  • Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
  • High Museum, Atlanta
  • International Center of Photography, New York
  • The City University of New York
  • Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston
  • The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
  • University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  • Anchorage Art Museum, Anchorage, Ak
  • University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
  • The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
  • Arkansas State University
  • Film in the Cities, Minneapolis, Mn
  • Friends of Photography, San Francisco, Ca
  • Kent State University
  • Louisiana State University
  • New Orleans Museum of Art
  • National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

Selected Public Lectures (1993 to present)

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, American Studies Summer Institute on the Thirties, 1993
  • Columbia College Chicago, April 1995
  • Atlanta History Center, March 1997
  • University Of North Carolina Medical School, December 1997
  • Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Ma. March 1997
  • Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, Tn. 1997
  • Sanford Institute of Public Policy, 1997
  • Georgia State University, January 1998
  • Film and Video Happening, Duke University, February 1998
  • University of South Florida April 1998
  • Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University March 1998
  • Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, March 1998
  • High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia, April, 1999
  • Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Ca. 1999
  • National Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Conference, Washington DC, 1999
  • Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain, September 2000
  • Civic Ventures “Coming of Age” Conference, San Francisco Ca, November 2001
  • Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, March 2002
  • Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM. August 2003
  • Perkins Library Duke University, October 2003
  • Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, November 2003
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Mo. November 2003
  • Atlanta Philosophy Club, Atlanta, Ga. February 2005
  • Hart House, Duke University, May 2005
  • Page Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC. October 2006
  • J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, November, 2006
  • Verve Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 2007
  • Books and Books, Miami, Florida, October, 2007
  • The Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Ga. October 2007
  • The Miami Book Fair, November, 2007
  • Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, November, 2007
  • Fed Ex Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, February 2008
  • College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 30, 2008
  • Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, November, 2008
  • Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, January 31, 2009
  • George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, The Idea of Cuba (part of the “Wish You Were Here” lecture series, March 19, 2009
  • Duke University, Trent Center Colloquium Series November 16, 2010
  • Pavillon Populaire , Les Suds Profond de L’Amerique, Montpelier - France, January 6, 2011
  • Duke University,, Provost’s Lecture,March 14, 2011
  • Keynote Address with E.O. Wilson at the Alabama Historical - Association annual meeting, Mobile Alabama, April 15, 2011
  • Lecture at the J. Paul Getty Museum with Ruth Behar, May 18, 2011 as part of the exhibition: A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now May 17 to October 2, 2011.
  • Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure Scientific Retreat, Cavallo Point retreat center, Sausalito, Ca. “The Time of - Our Lives: Living with Brain Cancer,” September 29th, 2011
  • Duke University Hospital, Durham NC, “The Time of Our Lives: Living with Brain Cancer,” sponsored by the - Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and The History of Medicine, January 11th, 2012
  • The University of California Berkeley, Ca. “The Idea of Cuba,” sponsored by the Center for Latin American - Studies. February 16th 2012.
  • Frank Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, “The Time of Our Lives: Living with Brain Cancer” - February 23rd, 2012. School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UNC Chapel Hill, Photonight Lecture, Februrary 27, 2012
  • St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, “Red White Blue and God Bless You,” part of the America Seen - Lecture series, sponsored by the American Studies Department, April 12th 2012.
  • Mobile Museum of Art, October 11th, 2012 with Edward O. Wilson
  • Center for the Living Arts, Mobile, Alabama October 12th 2012 with Edward O. Wilson
  • Tulane University, October 16th 2012 with Edward O. Wilson
  • University of North Carolina Institute for the Environment, Environment and the Arts Lecture Series with William deBuys, October 23, 2012
  • Nasher Museum of Art, 6:30PM, December 12th, 2012 with Edward O. Wilson

Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University- From Analog to Digital - Board of Directors meeting, May 2015

North Carolina Museum of History, September 4, 2015 – Hidden Stories of Abandoned Places

Forum for Scholars and Publics,Always Go on Your Tip Toes: A conversation with Marco Werman A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MARCO WERMAN AND ALEX HARRIS Thursday, November 5, Old Chemistry Building, Duke University, 1:15PM

Power Plant Theater, Durham, NC, “Teaching Photography,” 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for Documentary Studies, November 2015

High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia, September 10, 2016, “Southern Exposures: Walker Evans and Contemporary Photography in the South,” with Brett Abbott and Mark Sloan

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, South Carolina, November 1, 2016, The Mind and the Machine

Duke University, Rubenstein Library September 28, 2017, with Margaret Sartor, a talk about Dream of a House: The Passions and Preoccupations of Reynolds Price

Books and Books, Coral Gables Florida, February 7th, 2018 with Margaret Sartor “Dream of a House: The Passions and Preoccupations of Reynolds Price”

Nasher Museum of Art with Margaret Sartor on January 24th 2019, Gallery talk for Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum

National Archives Museum, Washington, DC., on April 30th, 2019 with Margaret Sartor, a lecture about the Photographs of Hugh Mangum lecture begins at 4:50 on the timeline

Nasher Museum Make Believe: Walking the Line Between Documentary and Fiction, October 16th, 7pm

Durham Arts Council for CLICK 2021, on Sunday October 17th, 2021 Our Strange New Land: Narrative Movie Sets in the American South

Frank Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC An Evening With Alex Harris and Eliza Harris, October 11 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, part of the Click 2023 Photo Festival

Yale University, New Haven Connecticut 2022, A retrospective talk for our 50th virtual reunion about the role of luck and fate in my life in photography, a visual journey that began at Yale on May Day 1971. My talk begins at 20:56, and ends at 33:05