Events
& Exhibitions
Radcliffe events and exhibitions are accessible, free, and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
All Events & Exhibitions
Prejudice and Power: Stratification Economics, a General Theory of Intergroup Inequality
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow William Darity Jr.
12 PM ET
Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics Opening
Gallery EventsIn this opening discussion for the exhibition Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics, cartoonists and scholars Hillary Chute, Joel Christian Gill, and James Sturm will discuss comics and their ability to tell stories across time, experience, and identity.
4 PM ET
Machine Learning Emergence from Quantum Matter Data
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow Eun-Ah Kim
12 PM ET
Reckoning with Echoes of the Past: A South African Story
LecturesThe repercussions of violent histories extend far beyond these events to engender repetitions that echo for generations. In this lecture, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela will reflect on this problem and consider alternative ways of theorizing and making sense of the “transgenerational trauma” phenomenon, with the South African post-apartheid context as backdrop.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America
Conferences & SymposiaHarvard Radcliffe Institute will hold a major public conference to probe the complex and unpredictable ways that Roe v. Wade and its aftermath shaped the United States and the world beyond it for nearly half a century. The existential issue of abortion—and the galvanizing impact of Roe in particular—transformed the nation’s politics and public policy and its social movement energies, as well as the operations of the courtroom and the clinic.
through Friday, January 27, 2023
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity
ExhibitionThroughout the 20th century, the marketing and design of menstrual products often stigmatized menstruation as an unmentionable bodily affliction. Menstruation was wrapped in euphemism: that time of the month, a weakness, a nuisance. “Feminine hygiene” products offered sanitation, invisibility, and freedom—but at what cost? Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity shows how marketing and social norms around menstruation create a cultural construct with power to shape people’s lives.
through Saturday, October 1, 2022
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Drawing Us Together: Public Life and Public Health in Contemporary Comics
ExhibitionThis interactive exhibition—anchored by wall-sized graphics from the Center for Comic Studies’ graphic guides to the US healthcare system and democracy—includes a library of over 80 comics spanning the genres of memoir, historical narrative, graphic novel, and informational guide. The comics included in this exhibition illustrate who has the power to make decisions about our lives and our health, and how those decisions affect individuals and communities over time, often determined by class, race, gender, and zip code.
through Saturday, December 17, 2022
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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