Past Events
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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
Book Talk with Meghan O’Rourke
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksMeghan O’Rourke RI ’15 is an award-winning writer, poet, and editor. In this book talk, O’Rourke will be discussing The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Riverhead Books, 2022).
4 PM ET
Book Talk with Miguel Syjuco
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksMiguel Syjuco RI ’14 is an author, journalist, civil society advocate, and assistant professor of practice, literature and creative writing at New York University Abu Dhabi. This book talk will feature Syjuco’s most recent work, I Was the President’s Mistress!! (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022).
4 PM ET
Book Talk with Gish Jen
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksGish Jen RI ’02 is the award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon (Knopf, 2022), eight other books, and dozens of short stories and articles. Jen’s reading will be followed by a discussion with Alice Kessler-Harris RI ’02, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History at Columbia University.
4 PM ET
Title IX at 50: Progress Made and Challenges Ahead for Women’s Sports
LecturesOn the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, we will celebrate the significant strides made in women’s athletics and discuss the inequities that remain. Current and former competitive athletes will reflect on advancements since 1972, share their personal experiences, and consider the best ways to push forward.
4 PM ET
Radcliffe Day 2022
Radcliffe DayOn Radcliffe Day 2022—Friday, May 27—we will award the Radcliffe Medal to Sherrilyn Ifill.
10:30 AM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Social Costs of Pretrial Detention
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor Sandra Susan Smith
12 PM ET
Charismatic Robots in Everyday Human Spaces
Lectures • HRI Science Lecture Series on AIHeather Knight will present work from the Collaborative Humans and Robotics: Interaction, Sociability, Machine learning and Art (CHARISMA) robotics lab at Oregon State University. CHARISMA demonstrates the possibility of automated work and technology with everyday human communication and interactions.
1 PM ET
The Time of Slavery: History, Memory, Politics, and the Constitution
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Joy Foundation Fellow Ariela Gross
12 PM ET
Telling the Truth about All This: Reckoning with Slavery and Its Legacies at Harvard and Beyond
Conferences & SymposiaUniversities and other institutions around the world have begun to reckon with their ties to slavery and its enduring legacies. Such efforts have uncovered previously unknown or ignored histories of enslavement, financial ties to slavery, and support for racist ideologies. They have also called attention to the long history of Black leadership and resistance. Taking these histories as a starting point, this conference will consider how institutions can pursue sustained and meaningful repair.
9:15 AM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Descendants (A Novel)
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe Fellow Ladee Hubbard
12 PM ET
Who Is Policing the Police?
LecturesThis program will explore what real police accountability looks like and include the voices of current and former law enforcement officers, activists, and academics to ask the question: Who is policing the police?
4 PM ET
Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the Early Modern French Empire
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe Institute Fellow Mélanie Lamotte
12 PM ET
Inclusions: Envisioning Justice on Harvard’s Campus
LecturesInclusions–a participatory, student-generated art installation–serves as the inspiration for this conversation about the intersection of art, visual culture, and representation at Harvard. The discussion will foreground the perspectives of the Harvard student organizers and focus on how we can use art to envision justice collectively and translate these ideas to the immediate context of our own campus.
5 PM ET
1350 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Children Go (Novel in Progress)
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow Lysley Tenorio
12 PM ET
Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity (Exhibition Opening)
LecturesJoin us for a discussion featuring leading activists and scholars working toward menstrual justice. The program will open the exhibition Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity.
4 PM ET
Lift Ev’ry Voice: Celebrating the Music of Black Americans
PerformancesIn honor of Eileen Southern, a pioneering scholar of Black music, the Aeolians of Oakwood University will join the Harvard Choruses and the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College in concert to premiere new works and celebrate the rich legacy of Black music in the US.
7 PM ET
45 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Black Music and the American University: Eileen Southern’s Story
LecturesJoin us for the second of two one-hour webinars exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of The Music of Black Americans: A History and founder and editor of The Black Perspective in Music.
4 PM ET
The Impact of Gold Mining on the Feasibility of Malaria Elimination in the Amazon
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2021–2022 Joy Foundation Fellow Caroline Buckee
12 PM ET
To Laugh Is Human: Gender and Comedy
Conferences & SymposiaAre we entering a new age of comedy? As once marginalized voices take center stage, fresh comedic genres are challenging assumptions about who and what can be funny. Join us as comedians, academics, and activists share their surprising insights into gender and comedy and how laughter can deepen and transform our sense of humanity.
9:30 AM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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