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Monday, September 8, 2008–Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Schlesinger Exhibition at Byerly Hall
"Until That Last Breath! Women with HIV/AIDS"
Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Direct Faith and Direct Sales in Mexico"
Peter S. Cahn, 2008–2009 Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Oklahoma
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, September 22, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Lying About Lord Byron"
Benjamin Markovits, 2008–2009 Constance E. Smith Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, England
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Fellow's Performance
"The Pleasures of Love and Libation: French Airs by Julie Pinel and Other Parisian Women"
Directed by Laury Gutiérrez, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, La Donna Musicale
7 p.m., MIT Hayden Library Building, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Catholic Political Mobilization and Antisemitic Violence in Fin-de-Siècle France: The Case of the Union Nationale"
Vicki Caron, 2008–2009 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Cornell University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
October
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Spanglish (2004), directed by James L. Brooks
A discussion with Linda Schlossberg, Harvard University, will follow the film.
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Monday, October 6, 2008
2008–2009 Lecture in the Sciences
"Reading Between the Spectral Lines: Revealing Interactions Within Living Cells"
Carol Robinson, professor of biological chemistry, University of Cambridge, England
4:15 p.m., Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building, Room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 617-495-8600
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Fellow's Reading
"Readings by Benjamin Markovits and Matthew Pearl"
6 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
RSVP to accardo@fas.harvard.edu or 617-496-4027 is required.
Friday, October 10, 2008–Thursday, March 5, 2009
Schlesinger Exhibition
"From Exclusion to Empowerment: Chinese American Women in New England"
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Reception on Monday, December 1, 2008.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Next-Generation Implications of Open Access"
Paul Ginsparg, 2008–2009 Benjamin White Whitney Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute, Cornell University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Eighth Annual Navin Narayan Memorial Lecture
“What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat”
Louise Richardson, executive dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
5 p.m., Adams House Lower Common Room, 26 Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA, 617-496-2957, vsacchet@fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, October 16, 2008
2008–2009 Dean’s Lecture Series
"Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare: The Role of Healthcare Professionals"
Lisa A. Cooper, professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Monday, October 20, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"’Thunderstruck Not Lightning-struck,’ A Reading"
Elizabeth McCracken, 2008–2009 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Writer, United States
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"The Genetics of Species Formation"
Daven Presgraves, 2008–2009 Grass Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Rochester
3 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, October 23, 2008–Thursday, April 16, 2009
Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
"2008–2009 Boston Seminar Series"
Various times and locations, 617-495-8647
Thursday, October 23, 2008
2008–2009 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
"Second/Third Wave Feminism: The Case of Helen Gurley Brown"
Jennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin College, with commentary by Alice Jardine, Harvard University
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Alumnae/i Event
"Drugs and Mexico: The Epidemic Across the Border"
Alma Guillermoprieto, 2006–2007 Radcliffe Institute fellow, University of Chicago
5 p.m., hosted by Mari De Costa Terman ’57, 941 Sheridan Road, Wilmette, IL, 1-888-RAD-ALUM
Registration is required by October 17.
Monday, October 27, 2008
2008–2009 Dean’s Lecture Series
"Can't You See I'm Busy? Computers That Know When to Interrupt"
Barbara J. Grosz, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
4:15 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"New Directions in Nanoscience"
Katharina Al-Shamery, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, October 30, 2008–Friday, October 31, 2008
Conference
"Postcolonial Wars: Current Perspectives on the Deferred Violence of Decolonization"
Thursday 9:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m., Friday 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
November
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Freaks (1932), directed by Tod Browning
A discussion with Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix, will follow the film.
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Building a Better Beast: Towards a Theory of Moral Responsibility"
Manuel Vargas, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, University of San Francisco
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Colored Television: Religion, Media, and Racial Uplift in the Black Atlantic World"
Marla Frederick, 2008–2009 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, November 17, 2008
2008–2009 Lecture in the Sciences
"Title to be announced"
Luke Whitesell, 2005–2006 Grass Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
4:15 p.m., Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building, Room 102, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 617-495-8600
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Connecting Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Architecture Through Biomimetics"
Joanna Aizenberg, 2008–2009 Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Alumnae/i Event
"Capturing a Moment in Time"
Kay Kaufman Shelemay, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Harvard University
6:30 p.m., Harvard Club of New York City, Cambridge Room, 27 West 44th Street, New York City, NY, 1-888-RAD-ALUM
Monday, November 24, 2008
2008–2009 Rama S. Mehta Lecture
"Title to be announced"
Hauwa Ibrahim, 2008–2009 Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Aries Law Firm, Nigeria
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
December
Monday, December 1, 2008
Schlesinger Exhibition Reception
"From Exclusion to Empowerment: Chinese American Women in New England”
A lecture by Jennie Chin Hansen, president of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), will precede the reception.
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium (lecture) and Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (reception), 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
2008–2009 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities
"The Health of Poetry"
Gwyneth Lewis, 2008–2009 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Welsh National Poet
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Short educational films from the 1940s to the 1970s aimed at girls
A discussion with Melissa Dollman, Schlesinger Library, and Amy Sloper, Harvard Film Archive, will follow the films.
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Stability and Instability in Repairing Broken Chromosomes"
James Haber, 2008–2009 Katherine and Peter Sachs Faculty Associate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"In Praise of Mediocrity: The Defense of Imperfection in Late Medieval England"
Nicholas Watson, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Harvard University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Schlesinger Library Book Sale
"Book Sale 2008"
8 a.m.–6 p.m., Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Transition: The Politics of Racial and Ethnic Change"
Kim M. Williams, 2008–2009 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow at Radcliffe, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
February
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
La Corona (2008), directed by Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega, and Perfect Image? (1988), directed by Maureen Blackwood
A discussion with Helen Elaine Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will follow the films.
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Thursday, February 12, 2009
2008–2009 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
"Race Work, Women's Work: African American Women and History in Massachusetts"
Lois Brown, Mount Holyoke College, with commentary by Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts at Boston
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Monday, February 23, 2009
2008–2009 Lecture in the Sciences
"Title to be announced"
Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University
4:15 p.m., location to be determined, 617-495-8600
March
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Dogfight (1991), directed by Nancy Savoca
A discussion with Andrea Walsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will follow the film.
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Thursday, March 12, 2009–Friday, March 13, 2009
Conference
"Gender and the Law"
Time to be determined, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Thursday, March 19, 2009
2008–2009 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
"A Domestic Market: Reframing International Marriages in the Age of US Expansionism"
Amy G. Richter, Clark University, with commentary by Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Thursday, March 19, 2009
2008–2009 Dean’s Lecture Series and Lecture in the Sciences
"Title to be announced"
Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
4:15 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
April
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Marty (1953), directed by Delbert Mann
A discussion with Judith Smith, University of Massachusetts at Boston, will follow the film.
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Thursday, April 16, 2009
2008–2009 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
"Anticolonial Feminism in the Cold War Era"
Jacqueline Castledine, Empire State College, State University of New York, with commentary by Margaret Burnham, Northeastern University
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Friday, April 17, 2009
Science Symposium
"Improving Decision Making: Interdisciplinary Lessons from the Natural and Social Sciences"
Time to be determined, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Monday, April 27, 2009
2008–2009 Dean’s Lecture Series
"Title to be announced"
Jeremy Waldron, New York University School of Law
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
May
Monday, May 4, 2009
2008–2009 Dean’s Lecture Series
"Title to be announced"
Susan Stewart, Princeton University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Never Perfect (2007), directed by Regina Park, and The Mirror Lied (1998), directed by Jennifer Haskin-O’Reggio
A discussion with Elena Creef, Wellesley College, will follow the films.
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
