Events
& Exhibitions
Radcliffe events and exhibitions are accessible, free, and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
All Events & Exhibitions
Chilean Constitutional Reform: Mother Nature, Mapuche Women, and Decolonial Perspectives
Lectures • Rama S. Mehta LectureHarvard Radcliffe Institute is pleased to welcome Elisa Loncón Antileo to deliver the Rama S. Mehta Lecture for 2022–2023. In 2021, Loncón was elected as one of the representatives of the Mapuche people to the Chilean Constitutional Convention, and was then named the Convention’s first president (July 2021–January 2022).
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Quartette: Stories from the Lives of Four Women Jazz Musicians—Maxine Sullivan, Velma Middleton, Melba Liston, and Shirley Scott
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow Maxine Gordon
12 PM ET
Mary Lum: The Moving Parts (&) Opening Event
LecturesIn this opening discussion for the newly commissioned exhibition The Moving Parts (&), the artist Mary Lum will engage in a wide-ranging conversation with the art historian Steven Nelson.
4 PM ET
Wiring Gaia in the Anthropocene: “Smart Earth” Digital Technologies and Environmental Futures
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor Karen Bakker
12 PM ET
The Heisenberg Variations: Imagination, Invention, and Uncertainty
Lectures • Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and HumanitiesHow do we create art? How do we become ourselves? In this year’s Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities, Jennifer Finney Boylan considers the way revision and reinvention serve—not only as necessary aspects of the creative process—but also as a model for the way we live our lives, and create ourselves, through trial and error.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Analyzing Earth’s “Fine Prints”: High-Resolution Geological Records Inform Near Future Climate Change
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow Hong Yang
12 PM ET
When Wounds Travel: Ecologies of War and Healthcare East of the Mediterranean
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Hrdy Fellow Omar Dewachi
12 PM ET
Clarifying the Mysteries of Choosing Statistical and Machine-Learning Methods in Genomics Research
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Helen Putnam Fellow Jingyi Jessica Li
12 PM ET
Intimate Inequalities: Informality and the Afterlives of Slavery in Recife, Brazil
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Frieda L. Miller Fellow Brodwyn Fischer
12 PM ET
Wandering Eye: Shirley Clarke and the Edges of Cinema
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow Jaimie Baron
12 PM ET
Language and Thought
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 William Bentinck-Smith Fellow Asifa Majid
12 PM ET
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
Postindustrial Ecology: New Values in Recovering Marine Ecosystems
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Radcliffe fellow Joe Roman
12 PM ET
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
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
Tell Me Everything
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Robert G. James Scholar Fellow Homeira Qaderi
12 PM ET
Exhibition: The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America
ExhibitionThe Age of Roe exhibition examines the political, cultural, and societal landscape of reproductive and women’s rights in America. It reevaluates the legacy of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision through the work of those who have defined the debate about reproduction in the past five decades and uplifts stories of women, people of color, and communities that have been affected by the ruling.
through Saturday, March 4, 2023
3 James 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
