Events
& Exhibitions
Radcliffe events and exhibitions are accessible, free, and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
All Events & Exhibitions
Corporate Social Responsibility
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Jeffrey S. and Margaret Mais Padnos Fellow Oliver Hart
12 PM ET
Airbrush, Instamatics, and Funk: Art, Pop, and New York City’s Long 1970s
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow Uri McMillan
12 PM ET
American Women and the Ongoing Battle to Save Democracy
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean's LectureJennifer Rubin, a Washington Post opinion writer, will discuss how American women transformed their own lives and redefined US politics in the last election. Looking ahead, she will examine women’s key role in defending the rule of law and multiracial democracy.
4 PM ET
Novel Interfaces to Support Human Intent Formation and Communication to Humans and Computers Alike
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Stanley A. Marks and William H. Marks Assistant Professor Elena L. Glassman
12 PM ET
Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Rita E. Hauser Fellow Amelia M. Glaser
12 PM ET
Decoding AI: The Science, Policies, Applications, and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Conferences & SymposiaThe Harvard Radcliffe Institute Science Symposium will examine artificial intelligence (AI), its impact, and its ethics by exploring current and potential applications of AI in a range of fields of inquiry, practice, and public policy as well as what AI is (and is not).
10 AM ET
Elect/Ability: Pride, Prejudice, and the Female Candidate (Exhibition Opening)
Gallery EventsHarvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition, Elect/Ability: Pride, Prejudice, and the Female Candidate, will open with a conversation between historian Susan Ware, curator of the exhibition, and Sumbul Siddiqui, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. They will discuss the hurdles facing women candidates in politics and public life, beginning before the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution through the present day. Although there is no typical female candidate, all share one thing in common: they continue to face prejudice and sexism in the press, on the campaign trail, and once in office.
4 PM ET
Between Worlds: China’s WWII Interpreters and Their Divergent Fates in China, Taiwan, and the United States
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow David Cheng Chang
12 PM ET
Speaking with Whales
Radcliffe on the Road2017–2018 Radcliffe fellows David Gruber, Michael Bronstein, and Shafi Goldwasser convened in 2019 an exploratory seminar at Harvard Radcliffe Institute titled “Novel Ways to Non-invasively Visualize/Characterize/ Decipher the Sonic Communication of Marine Mammals.” From this, the group formed Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) with the mission to study communication among highly intelligent sperm whales to understand the species on a new level. Using state-of-the-art non-invasive robotics to capture sounds and apply advanced machine learning to decode recordings, researchers now have the tools to look for deep structure in whales’ communication systems.
4 PM ET
Diversity and Origins of Planetary Systems
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow Joan R. Najita
12 PM ET
The Biology of Intimacy: A Synthesis
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe fellow Steven Phelps
12 PM ET
Black Women and the American University: Eileen Southern’s Story
LecturesJoin us for the first of two one-hour webinars exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of The Music of Black Americans: A History and founder and editor of The Black Perspective in Music.
4 PM ET
Indian Collectibles: Appropriations and Resistance in the Haudenosaunee Homelands
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe fellow Scott Manning Stevens
12 PM ET
The Mathematical Elephant
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Sally Starling Seaver Fellow Holly Krieger
12 PM ET
A Postcolonial Ethnography of Subaltern Agency
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe fellow Chidi Ugwu
12 PM ET
Artificial Intelligence for Pathology
Lectures • HRI Science Lecture Series on AIPathology plays a critical role in the diagnosis of disease and the development and implementation of tissue-based prognostic and predictive biomarkers. In this talk, Andrew H. Beck will discuss the potential for recent advances in artificial intelligence to significantly advance the accuracy, reliability, and predictiveness of pathology with applications to both clinical research and practice.
4 PM ET
Measuring the Earth: C. S. Peirce, Uncertainty, and the Pragmatic Philosophy
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe fellow Alisa Bokulich
12 PM ET
And Then Covid Came
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Shutzer Assistant Professor Anthony Abraham Jack
12 PM ET
Book: The Prince and the Revolutionary
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Catherine A. and Mary C. Gellert Fellow Suki Kim
12 PM ET
One From Another
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Suzanne Young Murray Fellow Roger Reeves
12 PM ET
When It's Darkness on the Delta
Lectures • Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and HumanitiesA presentation from 2021–2022 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow W. Ralph Eubanks
4 PM ET
Steam: A Multimedia Opera for Jazz Ensemble, Electronics and Video
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Frances B. Cashin Fellow David Dominique
12 PM ET
Understanding Our Heliospheric Shield: Laying the Groundwork to Predict Habitable Astrospheres
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 William Bentinck-Smith Fellow Merav Opher
12 PM ET
A Pistol in the Orchestra: Notes on Art and Politics
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
12 PM ET
Women on the Frontlines of Revolution
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor Erica Chenoweth
12 PM ET
Field Studies: Hierarchy, Power Dynamics, and the Human Narrative
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music Elizabeth A. Baker
12 PM ET
The Impact of Gold Mining on the Feasibility of Malaria Elimination in the Amazon
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Joy Foundation Fellow Caroline Buckee
12 PM ET
The Children Go (Novel in Progress)
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow Lysley Tenorio
12 PM ET
Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe Institute Fellow Mélanie Lamotte
12 PM ET
The Descendants (A Novel)
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe Fellow Ladee Hubbard
12 PM ET
The Time of Slavery: History, Memory, Politics, and the Constitution
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Joy Foundation Fellow Ariela Gross
12 PM ET
The Social Costs of Pretrial Detention
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor Sandra Susan Smith
Brown II
ExhibitionTomashi Jackson combines a practice based in painting and printmaking with archival research in the histories of law, urbanism, and social justice. Her work plumbs the intersections between the formal languages of visual art (color, composition, layering) and the political languages driving the histories of segregation, voting rights, education, and housing in the United States. By activating these shared motifs of art and policy, her work brings the full power of both traditions to bear on historical engagement and critical action.
through Saturday, January 15, 2022
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Elect/Ability: Pride, Prejudice, and the Female Candidate
ExhibitionToday’s American political landscape showcases a diversity of strong female candidates, the culmination of a proud but contested history of women running for political office. This exhibition, drawn from the Schlesinger’s collections, presents a diversity of candidates and the struggles that they continue to face in the press, on the campaign trail, and once in office. Nevertheless, they persist.
through Sunday, February 27, 2022
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
