General Conference Information
The Culture Lines conference will take place Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5, 2005 at Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, which is located at 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA. The conference is open to members of the Harvard community and to the general public. Please contact xbounds@fas.harvard.edu with any questions and to RSVP so that we can save you a seat!
Hotels and Restaurants in Cambridge, MA
For information about hotels, restaurants and other places of interest around Harvard Square, please visit Harvard's Visitor's Guide.
Map of 27 Kirkland St.
You may find a map of the location for the conference here.
Directions
By the T (Subway) from Logan Airport: 30-45 minutes, $1.25 (token required)
Take Silver Line bus from the Airport to the South Station. At SOUTH STATION, take the Red Line outbound ALEWIFE station train; HARVARD SQUARE is the fourth stop.
The T (Boston's subway system) may be the best way to get to CES from most places in the Greater Boston area. The Harvard Square stop on the Red Line is approximately 5 minutes from Busch Hall by foot.
By walking from Harvard Square:
Leave Harvard Square Station and cross Massachusetts Ave. (also known as Mass Ave.). You'll see a tall fence - part brick, part wrought iron. Pass through one of the many gates and you'll find yourself in Harvard Yard (a large quad surrounded by brick buildings). You should be able to see the statue of John Harvard in front of a light gray granite building. If you face the statue and turn left, you'll see a gate at the far end of the Yard. If you pass through this gate, the Science Center (a modern building with several telescope domes on top) is in front of you. To your right will be Memorial Hall, a large brick building which has a striking copper and slate steeple complete with gargoyles. Between the Science Center and Memorial Hall, there is a pedestrian path that leads to the corner of Oxford and Kirkland Streets. At the corner look right and you will see Busch Hall which has a clock tower and a red tile roof. There is a yellow wooden home to the left of Busch Hall and a very tall white building (William James Hall) to the right. The actual entrance to Busch Hall is on the left side of the building fifty feet down Cabot Way, a public walkway.
By driving:
Parking
Before driving to Busch Hall (CES), you need to plan where you are going to park. If you don't plan ahead or don't have lots of time to search for a parking place, you will be very frustrated. Please consider parking someplace outside the Harvard campus area and take the T the rest of the way in.Directions from Logan Airport
Follow signs to the Sumner Tunnel into Boston ($3 toll). Stay in the right hand lane. (The BIG DIG is a huge ongoing construction project. Downtown Boston is undergoing drastic changes as a major highway is routed underground and new bridges, overpasses, tunnels and detours proliferate.) Immediately as you leave the Sumner tunnel take the Storrow Drive ramp to Storrow Drive. Continue on Storrow Drive approximately 4 miles to Cambridge/Allston. Look for exit marked HARVARD SQUARE/CAMBRIDGE. Turn right at end of ramp onto John F. Kennedy Street. Harvard Square is approximately 1/2 mile straight ahead.From North and South of Boston
Take I-93 to Storrow Drive exit. Continue on Storrow Drive approximately 4 miles to Cambridge/Allston. Look for exit marked HARVARD SQUARE/CAMBRIDGE. Turn right at end of ramp onto John F. Kennedy Street. Harvard Square is approximately 1/2 mile straight ahead.From West of Boston
Take I-90 East (Mass Turnpike) to exit 18. (Cambridge/Allston). Bear right after toll booth at end of exit ramp. Turn left after lights (before the bridge) onto Storrow Drive. Take Cambridge/Allston exit (1/2 mile ahead) and turn right at end of ramp onto John F. Kennedy Street. Harvard Square is approximately 1/2 mile straight ahead.
