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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
Algorithms for Personalizing Digital Interventions
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Radcliffe Alumnae Professor Susan A. Murphy
12 PM ET
Hurricanes and Breezes: Visualizing Climate Change
Lectures • Climate Change Science Lecture SeriesWhat role can visualization play in understanding and managing climate change? Data analytics experts Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg will discuss a series of projects that visualize and portray climate and weather, and explore issues that these projects have raised.
12 PM ET
Exit Wounds: American Guns, Mexican Lives, and the Vicious Circle of Violence
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Maury Green Fellow Ieva Jusionyte
12 PM ET
Woman, Life, Freedom: Iran’s Women-Led Protests in Context
LecturesThroughout history, Iranian women have participated in national uprisings. In 2022, they are leading them, taking direct aim at the regime’s repressive treatment of women and girls, while the Iranian government is reacting with lethal force to attempt to end the protests. Join us for an examination of the history and contemporary political and social conditions giving rise to current events as well as a discussion of how the situation may evolve.
12 PM ET
Replicating the Hustle: Institutionalizing Justice-Impacted Brilliance and Development in Community Organizing
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Joint HRI–HLS Visiting Practitioner Brittany White
12 PM ET
Beyond “Fair Harvard”: Perspectives from Black Alumni
LecturesIn this panel discussion, Black Radcliffe and Harvard alumni from different generations will explore and celebrate stories of resistance, excellence, resilience, and change-making from while they were students and after graduation.
4 PM ET
The New Economy
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow Gabrielle Calvocoressi
12 PM ET
And Then COVID Came: Supporting Inclusive Student Life at Harvard University
Radcliffe on the RoadJoin us for a conversation exploring the Harvard student experience in the wake of a national reckoning over long-standing racial inequalities, a global pandemic, and sustained economic uncertainty. We will unpack the lessons this unprecedented period holds for the University as it reckons with its ties to slavery and seeks to better support historically underserved students.
7 PM ET
212 E 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
Exhibition Opening Discussion: The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America
LecturesIn this opening discussion for the exhibition The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America, curator Mary Ziegler will engage in conversation with Andrew R. Lewis and Kimberly Mutcherson.
4 PM ET
Supporting People with Severe Disability or Late-Stage AIDS to Live with Dignity at Home: Lessons from the Community Medical Alliance Demonstration, 1992–1996
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Sally Starling Seaver Fellow Lisa I. Iezzoni
12 PM ET
Trauma to Transformation: A Set of Existential Opportunities to Address Environmental Justice and the Climate Crisis
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean's LectureMustafa Santiago Ali will discuss opportunities to address environmental justice and the climate crisis as part of the Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture Series and Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s focus area on climate change.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
A Pale Blue Dot under Pressure: Climate Change, Justice, and Resilience in Our Rapidly Warming World
Conferences & SymposiaClimate change is one of the, if not the, most significant threats facing our planet today. It affects life on Earth in countless ways—atmospheric health to wellness; natural ecosystems to small businesses; global security to neighborhood food insecurity; and international policy to individual decision-making—while exacerbating inequality. Symposium sessions will investigate global climate systems and disasters, health, climate justice, and adaptation and remediation.
9:15 AM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Migration: The Path of the People
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Joy Foundation Fellow Tsitsi Dangarembga
12 PM ET
Pedagogy of the Rainforest: An Indigenous Yanomami Perspective
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Radcliffe fellow Emil' Keme
12 PM ET
Oklahoma and a Blacker America?
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2022–2023 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow Caleb Gayle
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
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
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
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
Book Talk with Olivia Laing
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksOlivia Laing is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction and writer for the New York Times, Guardian, Financial Times, and other publications. Laing’s reading from her new book, Everybody: A Book About Freedom (W. W. Norton & Company (2021), will be followed by a discussion with Joey Soloway, Emmy Award-winning creator, writer, producer, and director.
4 PM ET
There are currently no exhibits scheduled.