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Word On The Street

Boston Globe, December 9, 2012

Livesey, a Radcliffe Institute fellow this year, will discuss what can be gained and lost by drawing on the works of others in "Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be: Homage, Appropriation, and Influence" at 4 p.m. Dec. 10 in the Radcliffe Gymnasium.

Girls Who Rock Out

Harvard Gazette, December 6, 2012
[Photo by Rose Lincoln]

Girls Rock Boston chapter founders Hilken Mancini and Nora Allen-Wiles spoke about the rock 'n' roll camp during movie night at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library following a screening of "Girls Rock!"

Professor Challenges Theories on Elections

Harvard Crimson, November 28, 2012

"Election outcomes have very significant policy consequences, but the election outcomes themselves are largely random," Vanderbilt professor Larry M. Bartels declared at a Radcliffe Institute lecture.

Disruptive Music

Harvard Gazette, November 27, 2012
[Photo by Kris Snibbe]

Neba Solo—an innovator on a par with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, according to Professor Ingrid Monson—shared the music that has made him a cultural force in his native Mali.

Neba Solo: Mali’s Balafon Master

The World, November 26, 2012

For a country where music is so central to life and entertainment, the crisis in Mali has quieted many musicians in a big way. But not balafon player Neba Solo. Radcliffe fellow Ingrid Monson, an ethnomusicologist at Harvard Univesity, has been following Neba Solo’s career for years.

Neba Solo Carries Forth Musical Traditions of Mali

The Boston Globe, November 24, 2012

The Boston Globe highlights balafonist Neba Solo who will give a rare concert at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute. Preceding it is a talk by Radcliffe fellow Monson, who has worked with Solo for many years. She studied balafon with him in Mali for six months in 2005 and accompanied the band as they played all over Mali. Her balafons are all his hand-crafted creations

Note Taking in a Clickable Age

Harvard Gazette, November 21, 2012
[Photo by Kris Snibbe]

Radcliffe's "Take Note" conference explores the art and importance of effective note taking. The conference, the culmination of a four-year effort at Radcliffe to examine the tradition of books and their prospects in a digital age, brought together scholars from a range of disciplines.

After Election, South Boston Remains Swing Area

Harvard Crimson, November 20, 2012

The Harvard Crimson reports South Boston has become a political bellwether for statewide races. "Brown's fate in South Boston points to the problems that dogged his campaign statewide and ultimately led to his defeat," said David Luberoff, a senior project advisor for the Radcliffe Institute's Boston Area Research Initiative.

Vintage Cookbooks Reveal Secrets of America’s Past

Boston Globe, November 18, 2012

"American Cookery" is staging a comeback. Scholars in fields like culinary history and food studies are working alongside a thriving community of food professionals and amateurs, all of whom find cookbooks an invaluable window into daily life in yesterday's kitchens. They turn to the culinary collections at the Radcliffe Institute's Schlesinger Library.

The Roads Not Taken

Architecture Boston, November 14, 2012

In November 1972, an improbable campaign to stop a juggernaut of highways from afflicting Greater Boston reached its culmination. Viewed from today, that victory, which was several years in the making, seems preordained. But consider the landscape of the time:

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