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22 Sep
2023

Solidarity! Exhibition Gallery Tour

Gallery Events • Solidarity! Gallery Series

Please join us for a tour of the Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now exhibition led by our student guides and staff from the Schlesinger Library.

Registration open
Date & Time Friday, September 22, 2023
3 PM ET
Location Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
20 Sep
2023

Talk to Me: Two Nations, Coup, and Democracy

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2023–2024 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow Rich Benjamin

Date & Time Wednesday, September 20, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

18 Sep
2023

Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis Opening Event

Lectures

In this opening discussion for the exhibition, Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis, the exhibition curator and faculty director Jinah Kim will engage in conversation with the art historian Yukio Lippit and Radcliffe’s curator of exhibitions, Meg Rotzel.

Date & Time Monday, September 18, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

15 Aug
2023

Book Talk with Katherine Turk

Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks

This installment of our 2023 summer Book Talk series will feature Katherine Turk RI ’19, author of The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023). 

Date & Time Tuesday, August 15, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

08 Aug
2023

Book Talk with V.V. Ganeshananthan

Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks

This installment of our 2023 summer Book Talk series will feature V.V. Ganeshananthan RI ’15, author of Brotherless Night (Random House, 2023).

Date & Time Tuesday, August 8, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

25 Jul
2023

Book Talk with Jarvis R. Givens

Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks

This installment of our 2023 summer Book Talk series will feature Jarvis R. Givens RI ’21, author of School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness (‎Beacon Press, 2023).

Date & Time Tuesday, July 25, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

11 Jul
2023

Book Talk with Ann-Christine Duhaime

Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks

The 2023 summer Book Talk series will begin with Ann-Christine Duhaime RI ’16, author of Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2022).

Date & Time Tuesday, July 11, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

21 Jun
2023

Predicting Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmission in a Rapidly Changing World

Lectures • Climate Change Science Lecture Series

Disease ecologist Courtney Murdock will focus on understanding the climate variables that influence mosquito-borne disease transmission.

Date & Time Wednesday, June 21, 2023
3 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

17 Jun
2023

The Moving Parts (&) Tour with the Artist Mary Lum

Gallery Events • The Moving Parts (&) Gallery Series

Join the artist Mary Lum and the curator Meg Rotzel for a tour and discussion of the exhibition The Moving Parts (&).

Date & Time Saturday, June 17, 2023
1 PM ET
Location Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
16 Jun
2023

The Moving Parts (&): Gallery Tour with Meg Rotzel (June)

Gallery Events

Join the curator Meg Rotzel for a tour and discussion of commissioning the exhibition The Moving Parts (&), and making of the artist’s book.

Date & Time Friday, June 16, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
13 Jun
2023

Poetry Reading and Discussion with Anthony Cody

Lectures • Roosevelt Poetry Readings

Anthony Cody is the author of two collections of poetry. His most recent collection is The Rendering (Omnidawn, 2023). Anthony’s debut collection, Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), was winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. 

Date & Time Tuesday, June 13, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

08 Jun
2023

More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape

Lectures • Climate Change Science Lecture Series

The climate crisis is a matter of environmental as well as historical injustice. Human geographer Garrett Dash Nelson will explore the uneven distributions of harm, responsibility, vulnerability, and power, in both historical and local perspective.

Date & Time Thursday, June 8, 2023
1 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

26 May
2023

Radcliffe Day 2023

Radcliffe Day

On 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.

Date & Time Friday, May 26, 2023
10 AM ET
Location Radcliffe Yard OR Online on Zoom
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
17 May
2023

Tell Me Everything

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Robert G. James Scholar Fellow Homeira Qaderi

Date & Time Wednesday, May 17, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

10 May
2023

Resonating with the Universe: The Embodiment of Entropy in My Music

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music Ka Shu (Kenneth) Tam

Date & Time Wednesday, May 10, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

09 May
2023

Solidarity! Exhibition Gallery Tour

Gallery Events • Solidarity! Gallery Series

Please join us for a tour of the Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now exhibition led by our student guides and staff from the Schlesinger Library.

Date & Time Tuesday, May 9, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
08 May
2023

Next in Food Sustainability and Climate Change

Lectures • Next in Science

What 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.

Date & Time Monday, May 8, 2023
2 PM ET
Location Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
05 May
2023

The Moving Parts (&): Gallery Tour with Mary Lum (May)

Gallery Events

Join the artist Mary Lum for a tour and discussion of commissioning the exhibition The Moving Parts (&), and making of the artist’s book.

Date & Time Friday, May 5, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
03 May
2023

Milk, Sugar, Honey: Sweetness and the Making of the Modern World

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Date & Time Wednesday, May 3, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

28 Apr
2023

Minding the Gap: Gender and the Mental Health Crisis

Conferences & Symposia

Harvard 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.

Date & Time Friday, April 28, 2023
9 AM ET
Location Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
27 Apr
2023

Tireless Sacred Work: Performance by and Conversation with Ezra Furman

Performances

Singer, 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.

Date & Time Thursday, April 27, 2023
7 PM ET
Location Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
26 Apr
2023

Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Radcliffe fellow Joe Roman

Date & Time Wednesday, April 26, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

25 Apr
2023

Solidarity! Exhibition Gallery Tour

Gallery Events • Solidarity! Gallery Series

Please join us for a tour of the Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now exhibition led by our student guides and staff from the Schlesinger Library.

Date & Time Tuesday, April 25, 2023
11 AM ET
Location Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
24 Apr
2023

The Sky’s Not the Limit: My Journey into Space Exploration and STEM

Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Sciences

The 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Sciences will feature space engineer MiMi Aung.

Date & Time Monday, April 24, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
19 Apr
2023

Fascism in America

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Catherine A. and Mary C. Gellert Fellow Omer Aziz

Date & Time Wednesday, April 19, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom