Events
& Exhibitions
Radcliffe events and exhibitions are accessible, free, and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
All Events & Exhibitions
Countering Culture: Shirley Clarke and the Edges of Cinema
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow Jaimie Baron
12 PM ET
Kim and Judy Davis Dean's Lecture in the Social Sciences: Conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social SciencesThe 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social Sciences will feature Tressie McMillan Cottom in conversation with Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Music in a Burning World
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the ArtsThe 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Arts will feature the Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer John Luther Adams.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Moving Parts (&) Tour with Artist Mary Lum
Gallery Events • The Moving Parts (&) Gallery SeriesJoin artist Mary Lum and curator Meg Rotzel for a tour and discussion of the exhibition The Moving Parts (&).
12 PM ET
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Language and Thought
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 William Bentinck-Smith Fellow Asifa Majid
12 PM ET
Memory, Memorialization, and Public History: A Discussion with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dan Byers, Tracey Hucks, and Brenda Tindal
Radcliffe on the RoadJoin Tomiko Brown-Nagin for a discussion of memory, memorialization, and public history with Dan Byers, Tracey Hucks, and Brenda Tindal, presented as part of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery.
757 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Rebellious Migrants: Forging Abolition, Cosmopolitan Identities, and Postcolonial Spaces in West Africa, 1840–1960
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Joy Foundation Fellow Ndubueze L. Mbah
12 PM ET
Fascism in America
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Catherine A. and Mary C. Gellert Fellow Omer Aziz
12 PM ET
A Journey in Engineering Space Systems: From the Mars Helicopter to Project Kuiper
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the SciencesThe 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Sciences will feature space engineer Mimi Aung.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Postindustrial Ecology: New Values in Recovering Marine Ecosystems
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Radcliffe fellow Joe Roman
12 PM ET
Tireless Sacred Work: Performance and Conversation with Ezra Furman
PerformancesSinger, songwriter, musician, and critic Ezra Furman will perform and open Harvard Radcliffe Institute's “Minding the Gap: Gender and the Mental Health Crisis” conference. Through music and conversation, she will explore themes of identity and anxiety, angst and fearlessness.
7 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Minding the Gap: Gender and the Mental Health Crisis
Conferences & SymposiaHarvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023 gender conference will explore the relationship between gender and mental health, with a focus on youth, underserved communities, and the impact of social justice issues.
9 AM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Gender and Racial Capitalism: Atlantic Geographies of Sexual and Social Reproduction
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
12 PM ET
The Moving Parts (&): Gallery Tour with Meg Rotzel (May)
Gallery EventsJoin the curator Meg Rotzel for a tour and discussion of commissioning the exhibition The Moving Parts (&), and making of the artist’s book.
12 PM ET
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Next in Food Sustainability and Climate Change
Lectures • Next in ScienceWhat does climate change mean for our food systems? How do our food production and consumption habits contribute to the climate crisis? Speakers will explore the complex interplay of food and climate change, challenging and illuminating our unsustainable relationships with meat and water, soil and sea.
2 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Resonating with the Universe: The Embodiment of Entropy in My Music
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music Ka Shu (Kenneth) Tam
12 PM ET
Out of Many: American Stories
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow Anand Giridharadas
12 PM ET
Tell Me Everything
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Robert G. James Scholar Fellow Homeira Qaderi
12 PM ET
Radcliffe Day 2023
Radcliffe DayOn Radcliffe Day 2023—Friday, May 26—we will award the Radcliffe Medal to Ophelia Dahl to honor her work advancing global access to healthcare and championing the rights of the poor.
10 AM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Moving Parts (&): Gallery Tour with Meg Rotzel (June)
Gallery EventsJoin the curator Meg Rotzel for a tour and discussion of commissioning the exhibition The Moving Parts (&), and making of the artist’s book.
4 PM ET
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Mary Lum: The Moving Parts (&)
ExhibitionFor this exhibition, Mary Lum has created an artist’s book and installation featuring photographs of temporary constructions made from a palette of broken vintage letterforms. The small constructions carry ideas about language coming into being and piling up on itself. Fragments are rearranged in attempts to communicate, to form something whole and understandable, against backgrounds of varying colors.
through Saturday, June 24, 2023
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now
ExhibitionSolidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now exhibition features 50 years of transnational feminist collections held at the Schlesinger Library. Through a rich array of materials—including posters, newspapers, photographs, and memorabilia—Solidarity! explores the promises and limits of global feminist solidarity from the 1970s until the present.
through Monday, October 16, 2023
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
