Past Events
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New Blocs, New Maps, New Power (ca. 1982)
Conferences & Symposia • Voting Matters: Gender, Citizenship, and the Long 19th AmendmentThis panel draws together the ideas and growing influence of conservative women, the political activism of gay communities, and the mobilization of Latinx constituencies in the ongoing struggle over votes.
4 PM ET
On Account of Race (1965)
Conferences & Symposia • Voting Matters: Gender, Citizenship, and the Long 19th AmendmentThis roundtable conversation looks at the relationships among the Reconstruction Amendments, the 19th Amendment, the Voting Rights Act (VRA), and the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
4 PM ET
Reconstructing the Polity (1870)
Conferences & Symposia • Voting Matters: Gender, Citizenship, and the Long 19th AmendmentThis panel will use gender as a lens to understand the cross-cutting trends of enfranchisement and disenfranchisement that came together in the wake of the Civil War.
4 PM ET
Origin Stories: Keynote Address (1848)
Conferences & Symposia • Voting Matters: Gender, Citizenship, and the Long 19th AmendmentOur series Voting Matters: Gender, Citizenship, and the Long 19th Amendment begins with a keynote address by the historian Martha S. Jones who explores the intersection of gender and race in the battle for the ballot.
4 PM ET
Radical Commitments: The Life and Legacy of Angela Davis
Conferences & SymposiaNo single person sits more squarely at the intersection of these pivotal movements than the political activist and pioneering philosopher Angela Davis. “Radical Commitments” will use Davis’s life and work to ground discussions on the rich tradition of activism and social theory in the late 20th century, bringing together a cross-generational group of leading scholars, activists, musicians, and incarcerated women.
through Tuesday, October 29, 2019
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Making the Cut: Promises and Challenges of Gene Editing
Conferences & Symposia • Gene Editing Science Lecture Series10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Vision & Justice
Conferences & Symposia“Vision & Justice” is a two-day creative convening (April 25–26, 2019) that will consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.
through Saturday, April 27, 2019
Unsettled Citizens
Conferences & SymposiaPopulism, global crisis, and modernity have rendered citizenship an ever-more fluid and troubled concept. Even as millions of migrants from poorer countries struggle for citizenship in places like Canada, Europe, and the United States, wealthy families and individuals often have the means to purchase legal citizenship rights in a new country. Prominent court cases have granted the legal rights of citizens to corporations, which are themselves created by the government. Meanwhile, indigenous peoples frequently find their citizenship regulated by nation-states as well as tribal governments. In country after country, ethnic majorities are seeking laws to define citizenship based on race, language, and religion. In other settings, nations seek an ideal of citizenship that potentially erases biological, racial, and religious difference.
1 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication
Conferences & Symposia“Beyond Words” will explore the aesthetics of communication, focusing particularly on how we communicate through the body—how we make ourselves look and smell, move and sound.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Disability and Citizenship: Global and Local Perspectives
Conferences & SymposiaThis conference will explore the ways in which contemporary notions of disability are linked to concepts of citizenship and belonging. Leaders in advocacy, education, medicine, and politics will consider how ideas of community at the local, national, and international levels affect the understanding of and policies related to disability—and how this has manifested itself, in particular, in higher education.
2 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Undiscovered
Conferences & SymposiaThe 2018 Radcliffe Institute science symposium will focus on how scientists explore realities they cannot anticipate. Speakers from across the disciplines of modern science will present personal experiences and discuss how to train scientists, educators, and funders to foster the expertise and open-mindedness needed to reveal undiscovered aspects of the world around us.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Who Belongs? Global Citizenship and Gender in the 21st Century
Conferences & SymposiaThe very meaning of citizenship at local, national, and global levels is in flux in most countries and continents. More than 65 million human beings are currently displaced from their homes, while even in countries where armed conflict is not prevalent, separatist and nationalist movements have reshaped policy. Gender—in all its forms—is essential to any analysis of these trends and to our understandings of citizenship around the world, although it is often overlooked in public debate.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Show and Tell: An Evening about Citizenship with Documentary Filmmakers
Conferences & Symposia11:30 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contagion: Exploring Modern Epidemics
Conferences & SymposiaEpidemic disease spreads quickly in our interconnected, globalized world. This symposium looks at new ways of tracking epidemics using big data and social networks to predict and stem the rise of emergent diseases.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
It Depends What State You’re In: Policies and Politics of the US Health Care System
Conferences & SymposiaThis symposium will explore the political dynamics of health care laws and the way they affect people not only as patients but also as citizens. Health professionals, policy and public health experts, economists, sociologists, and political scientists will draw on comparative politics and policies of the US states—alone and as part of a federalist system—and on international perspectives to explore the relationships between citizens and their health care.
5 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Intersections: Understanding Urbanism in the Global Age
Conferences & Symposia1 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Game Changers: Sports, Gender, and Society
Conferences & SymposiaThe degree to which sports—broadly defined—permeates societies and cultures has never been greater, making it a revealing lens through which to understand many contemporary issues. The Radcliffe Institute conference “Game Changers: Sports, Gender, and Society” will explore the relationship between sports and gender in the United States and around the world.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Universities and Slavery: Bound by History
Conferences & SymposiaIn March 2016, Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, in an opinion piece in the Harvard Crimson, urged the university to more fully acknowledge and understand its links to slavery, stating, “The past never dies or disappears. It continues to shape us in ways we should not try to erase or ignore.”
On March 3, 2017, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University will host a daylong conference to explore the relationship between slavery and universities, across the country and around the world.
2 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
From Sea to Changing Sea: A Science Symposium about Oceans
Conferences & Symposia1 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Native Peoples, Native Politics
Conferences & SymposiaPolitics requires more than voting and electoral mobilization. It requires knowledge of law, organization, identity, history, and culture. This reality is very much evident in Native American life today, where Native communities are sovereign nations within the United States, yet must still negotiate politically within a federal democratic system that at times inconsistently honors their rights, their land and water, and their ways of life.
1 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Ways with Words: Exploring Language and Gender
Conferences & SymposiaLanguages constantly evolve, and reflect cultural practices. They are a fluid reflection of the passage of time, influenced by many factors, including age, class, and gender. This conference will focus on a snapshot of the state of language in present-day society as it relates to, mirrors, and affects perceptions of gender. Four panels of experts, including anthropologists, authors, computer scientists, linguists, journalists, performing artists, politicians, and psychologists, will explore different facets of the interplay of gender and language.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Past, Present, and Future of DNA
Conferences & SymposiaThe focus of this one-day science symposium is on the explosion of knowledge about past and present DNA, and includes discussions about possible directions and applications for future research. The event includes experts in ancient DNA, de-extinction, human origins, population genetics, forensic science, ethics, business, future synthetic life, and the personal genome.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Women in Biotech
Conferences & SymposiaThis symposium will explore the divide between the large number of women who pursue advanced degrees in related scientific fields and their representation in leadership positions in biotech firms. Scientists, industry and venture capital leaders, and academics will also consider new research, experimentation, and promising models that may help industry, universities, government, and private capital improve the current system.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
University As Collector
Conferences & Symposia1 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Confronting Violence
Conferences & Symposiathrough Friday, April 10, 2015
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Understanding and Improving Cities
Conferences & Symposia2 PM ET
75 Northern Avenue
Boston, MA 02210
Lost and Found: A Science Symposium about Navigation
Conferences & Symposia2 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Who Decides? Gender, Medicine, and the Public’s Health
Conferences & SymposiaEach year, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University hosts a conference that explores the role of gender in a significant aspect of the human experience. “Who Decides? Gender, Medicine, and the Public’s Health” was the conference in 2014.
through Friday, April 11, 2014
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Why History Matters
Conferences & Symposia9 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fifty Years after The Feminine Mystique
Conferences & SymposiaTwo notable scholars will look back at Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and consider whether movement toward equality has persisted or stalled since the book was published in 1963. What has changed in roles at home and at work? How has law figured in the balance? Do we have new mystiques today?
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Smart Clothes
Conferences & Symposia2 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Crossing Borders
Conferences & Symposiathrough Friday, April 26, 2013
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Take Note
Conferences & Symposiathrough Friday, November 2, 2012
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Cloudy with a Chance of Solutions: The Future of Water
Conferences & Symposia1 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Siting Julia
Conferences & Symposia1:15 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Women Making Democracy
Conferences & SymposiaActivists, journalists, and academics from different fields and disciplines will examine and analyze recent events in countries affected by the democratizing efforts often described as “Arab Spring” and compare women’s experiences of these events with those of women in other moments of democratic change around the world, including Eastern Europe, South Africa, and Latin America.
through Friday, March 30, 2012
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Reimagining the City-University Connection: Integrating Research, Policy, and Practice
Conferences & Symposia12:45 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Molecules, Movement, and Motors
Conferences & Symposia12 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Something in the Air: Climate Change, Science and Policy
Conferences & Symposia7:45 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Driving Change, Shaping Lives: Gender in the Developing World
Conferences & Symposiathrough Friday, March 4, 2011
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Why Books?
Conferences & Symposia1 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
There are currently no exhibits scheduled.