Past Events
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Fascism in America
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Catherine A. and Mary C. Gellert Fellow Omer Aziz
12 PM ET
Solidarity! Exhibition Gallery Tour
Gallery Events • Solidarity! Gallery SeriesPlease 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.
2 PM ET
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Abolition Forgery: A History of the Afterlives of Slavery
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Joy Foundation Fellow Ndubueze L. Mbah
12 PM ET
Memory, Memorialization, and Public History: A Discussion with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dan Byers, Tracey Hucks, and Brenda Tindal
Radcliffe on the RoadJoin 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.
757 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
The Moving Parts (&) Tour with the Artist Mary Lum
Gallery Events • The Moving Parts (&) Gallery SeriesJoin the artist Mary Lum and the curator Meg Rotzel for a tour and discussion of the exhibition The Moving Parts (&).
12 PM ET
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Language and Thought
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 William Bentinck-Smith Fellow Asifa Majid
12 PM ET
Music in a Burning World
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the ArtsThe 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Arts will feature the Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer John Luther Adams.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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 SciencesThe 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social Sciences will feature Tressie McMillan Cottom in conversation with Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Countering Culture: Shirley Clarke and the Edges of Cinema
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow Jaimie Baron
12 PM ET
Intimate Inequalities
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Frieda L. Miller Fellow Brodwyn Fischer
12 PM ET
Arriving at the Junction of Statistics and Biology: My Journey
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Helen Putnam Fellow Jingyi Jessica Li
12 PM ET
ArtsThursdays: The Moving Parts (&)
Gallery Events • The Moving Parts (&) Gallery SeriesVisit Mary Lum’s exhibition The Moving Parts (&) during ArtsThursdays extended gallery hours.
5 PM ET
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
When Wounds Travel: Chronicles of War Biology East of the Mediterranean
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Hrdy Fellow Omar Dewachi
12 PM ET
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
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
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
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
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
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
Conference: 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.
9:15 AM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Age of Roe: Voices from the Front Lines
Conferences & SymposiaThis 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.
7 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Understanding Language Survival: Theory, Methods, and Action
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Hilles Bush Fellow Roberto Zariquiey
12 PM ET
Art, Activism, and Climate Change: Conversation with Angélique Kidjo and Vijay Iyer
LecturesHarvard 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.
4 PM ET
Art, Activism, and Climate Change: Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
LecturesHarvard 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.
4 PM ET
Exploring the Landscape of Functional Proteins by Computational Design
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Grass Fellow Bruno Correia
12 PM ET
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