A 20-minute preview of the documentary “The Last Survivor” will be screened Tuesday evening at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, followed by a panel discussion on genocide. Film still courtesy of Righteous Pictures.

DCist’s guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area

While this week is filled with a variety of lectures on race, crafts, interviews and comedy, the highlight is DCist’s partnership with the Phillips Collection for a unique event on Thursday. Our Make Your Own Morandi contest kicks off on April 2 with a discussion during the Phillips After Hours event on “sustainable design and mass production of household objects.”

Monday:
>> Starting today is a two-day symposium from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), titled “1968 and Beyond: A Symposium on the Impact of the Black Power Movement on America.” Today’s events run from 9 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. and include two panel discussions: “Nationalism and Pan-Africanism” and “To Be Young Gifted and Black: The Black Arts, Black Consciousness and the New Black Aesthetic.”

>> Tonight at 7 p.m., the Corcoran hosts Bringing the American Garden Home with landscape architect Wolfgang Oehme and his colleague Carol Oppenheimer.

Tuesday:
>> Part two of the NMAAHC symposium is today, again running from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday’s speakers will include the Smithsonian’s Lonnie G. Bunch III and Johnnetta B. Cole, as well as democratic strategists Donna Brazile and Ron Walters. The day will include three panel discussions: “Say It Loud: Campus, Curriculum and Consciousness” from 9 to 11 a.m., “R-E-S-P-E-C-T!: Engendering Black Power: Black Women and Politics of Black Liberation”from 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m., and “Black Electoral Politics Then and Now” from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

>> Find out about the repercussions of Obama’s plan to “stop guaranteeing federal student loans and to instead make the loans directly” from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the New America Foundation, in their discussion titled The Future of Federal Student Loans.

>> Sixth and I has a powerful event tonight as they launch Genocide Prevention Month with a 20-minute preview screening of The Last Survivor, followed by a discussion with genocide survivors, advocates, policy experts and the filmmakers led by former CNN anchor Andrea Koppel. 7 p.m.; $6.