Radcliffe Magazine Winter 2013
Photo by Asia KepkaFeatured Magazine Article
Ingrid Monson: Tuning in to Neba Solo’s Music and Culture of Change in Mali
Neba Solo, a visiting scholars performer—thanks to Ingrid Monson, this year’s Suzanne Young Murray Fellow—is a man for his people in war-torn Mali.
Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson
Radcliffe professor Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her lifelong fascination with Thomas Jefferson and shares an excerpt from her book in progress about his intellectual development.
Waterworld: The Radcliffe Lectures
The Radcliffe Institute Water Lecture Series featured professors from across Harvard University addressing urgent aspects of the world's water crisis.
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Photo by Bob O'ConnorBlank Slate Beckons Would-be Artists
More than 150 students preregistered for the Radcliffe Institute Public Art Competition—a testament to the widespread student interest in the arts and their role at Harvard.
Photo by Heather LathamBoston Neighborhoods Talk
If a neighborhood could talk, what would it tell you about its citizens, its resources? A lot, it turns out, as the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) makes clear. The only initiative of its kind, BARI positions Boston at the forefront of city-university research and collaboration.
Leah Price, one of the conference organizers, referred to Sarah Palin's notes for her interview at a Tea Party convention in 2010. Palin's notes on her palm said Energy, Budget (Cut?), Tax, Lift American Spirits. The video of Palin consulting her palm went viral.Taking Notes
Institute conference brought together experts in book history and the digital humanities to look at notes as artifacts of creative thought.
Tamar Diesendruck and Kurt Rohde. Photo by Joshi RadinListen Faster, Listen Different
Radcliffe fellows explore an array of musical subjects: art songs at the Schlesinger Library, trends in music detected by computer software, and interactions between voices and instruments. They're inspired by subjects from Disney to Queen Kristina to biological patterns.
Photo by Martha StewartKeeping It New
Novelist Margot Livesey, the Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, delivered a rich and engaging lecture to a full house at the Radcliffe Gym in December titled, "Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: Homage, Appropriation, and Influence."
Illustration by Kotryna ZukauskaiteWhat Drives the Electorate? The Answer May Surprise You
The political scientist Larry Bartels explained how droughts and shark attacks have affected the political fortunes of incumbents.
Bruce E. Rittman is exploring new ways to clean up pollution, treat water, and wastewater, and improve human health. Photo by Tony RinaldoClarifying Water’s Murky Fate
Symposium draws experts to discuss the state of our water resource and what to do about it.
Photo by Scott EisenBeyond Mourning
Alma Guillermoprieto RI '07 spoke about the 2010 massacre of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico to the northern border. To honor their lives, Guillermoprieto established an online altar like those built for Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican day of remembrance for the dead.
Werner Sollors. Photo by Joshi RadinFrom Two Seminars, One Glorious Book
Go to any good bookstore and you will find A New Literary History of America. This ambitious anthology is an artful gathering of resonant personalities and dates—a celebration of American invention, from the Winchester rifle to the telephone.
Jane Rhodes described her subject, an African American expatriate who became a renowned psychoanalyst. Photo by JM HouleTelling Life Stories
Three Radcliffe Institute fellows—a novelist, a historian, and a biographer—gave alumnae/i and friends in New York City a taste of the cross-disciplinary discussions that occur at the Institute, about telling life stories from their differing perspectives.
Photo by Tony RinaldoGeometry and Permafrost
One of theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt's projects as a Radcliffe fellow is to explore a new form of matter known as a quasicrystal, discovered while panning for meteorite fragments in a remote region of far-eastern Russia.
Newsmakers Winter 2013
Radcliffe Affiliates Making their Mark
