Past Events
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14 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 Friday, April 14, 2023
2 PM ET
Location Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
12 Apr
2023

Abolition Forgery: A History of the Afterlives of Slavery

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Joy Foundation Fellow Ndubueze L. Mbah

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

11 Apr
2023

Memory, Memorialization, and Public History: A Discussion with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dan Byers, Tracey Hucks, and Brenda Tindal

Radcliffe on the Road

Join 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.

Date & Time Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Location Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco
757 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
05 Apr
2023

Language and Thought

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 William Bentinck-Smith Fellow Asifa Majid

Date & Time Wednesday, April 5, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

05 Apr
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 Wednesday, April 5, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
04 Apr
2023

Music in a Burning World

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

The 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Arts will feature the Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer John Luther Adams.

Date & Time Tuesday, April 4, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
30 Mar
2023

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 Sciences

The 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social Sciences will feature Tressie McMillan Cottom in conversation with Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin.

Date & Time Thursday, March 30, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
29 Mar
2023

Countering Culture: Shirley Clarke and the Edges of Cinema

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow Jaimie Baron

Date & Time Wednesday, March 29, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

22 Mar
2023

Intimate Inequalities

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Frieda L. Miller Fellow Brodwyn Fischer

Date & Time Wednesday, March 22, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

08 Mar
2023

Arriving at the Junction of Statistics and Biology: My Journey

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Helen Putnam Fellow Jingyi Jessica Li

Date & Time Wednesday, March 8, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

02 Mar
2023

ArtsThursdays: The Moving Parts (&)

Gallery Events • The Moving Parts (&) Gallery Series

Visit Mary Lum’s exhibition The Moving Parts (&) during ArtsThursdays extended gallery hours.

Date & Time Thursday, March 2, 2023
5 PM ET
Location Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
01 Mar
2023

When Wounds Travel: Chronicles of War Biology East of the Mediterranean

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Hrdy Fellow Omar Dewachi

Date & Time Wednesday, March 1, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

22 Feb
2023

Analyzing Earth’s “Fine Prints”: High-Resolution Geological Records Inform Near Future Climate Change

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow Hong Yang

Date & Time Wednesday, February 22, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

16 Feb
2023

The Heisenberg Variations: Imagination, Invention, and Uncertainty

Lectures • Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities

How 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.

Date & Time Thursday, February 16, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
08 Feb
2023

Wiring Gaia in the Anthropocene: “Smart Earth” Digital Technologies and Environmental Futures

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor Karen Bakker

Date & Time Wednesday, February 8, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

06 Feb
2023

Mary Lum: The Moving Parts (&) Opening Event

Lectures

In 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.

Date & Time Monday, February 6, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

01 Feb
2023

Quartette: Stories from the Lives of Four Women Jazz Musicians—Maxine Sullivan, Velma Middleton, Melba Liston, and Shirley Scott

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow Maxine Gordon

Date & Time Wednesday, February 1, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

31 Jan
2023

Chilean Constitutional Reform: Mother Nature, Mapuche Women, and Decolonial Perspectives

Lectures • Rama S. Mehta Lecture

Harvard 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).

Date & Time Tuesday, January 31, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
27 Jan
2023

Conference: The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America

Conferences & Symposia

Harvard 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.

Date & Time Friday, January 27, 2023
9:15 AM ET
Location Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
26 Jan
2023

The Age of Roe: Voices from the Front Lines

Conferences & Symposia

This opening session of the "Age of Roe" conference features speakers with a range of perspectives from the front lines of debates about abortion, birth, and birth disparities. Each will tell stories from their work and talk about the work of stories in their own social movement and thought leadership.

Date & Time Thursday, January 26, 2023
7 PM ET
Location Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
25 Jan
2023

Understanding Language Survival: Theory, Methods, and Action

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Hilles Bush Fellow Roberto Zariquiey

Date & Time Wednesday, January 25, 2023
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

24 Jan
2023

Art, Activism, and Climate Change: Conversation with Angélique Kidjo and Vijay Iyer

Lectures

Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University present a series of virtual programs focusing on the intersection of art, activism and climate change. The second program in the series will feature Angélique Kidjo in conversation with Vijay Iyer.

Date & Time Tuesday, January 24, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

17 Jan
2023

Art, Activism, and Climate Change: Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Lectures

Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University present a series of virtual programs focusing on the intersection of art, activism, and climate change. The first program in the series will feature Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

Date & Time Tuesday, January 17, 2023
4 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

14 Dec
2022

Exploring the Landscape of Functional Proteins by Computational Design

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Grass Fellow Bruno Correia

Date & Time Wednesday, December 14, 2022
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom

07 Dec
2022

Algorithms for Personalizing Digital Interventions

Fellows' Presentation

A presentation from 2022–2023 Radcliffe Alumnae Professor Susan A. Murphy

Date & Time Wednesday, December 7, 2022
12 PM ET
Location Online on Zoom