Past Events
& Exhibitions

Join us for a conversation between scholars and university leaders Ruth J. Simmons, former president of Prairie View A&M University, Brown University, and Smith College, and Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

The opening event for the In Their Own Voices exhibition features Taryn Jordan (Colgate University), Kalimah Redd Knight (The League of Women for Community Service), and Holly Smith (Spelman College) in conversation with the curator Petrina Jackson.

The civil rights lawyer and scholar Sherrilyn Ifill will join dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, in conversation about the recent United States Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action and access to higher education.

Artists whose works are represented in the Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis exhibition will engage with scholars of religion, anthropology, and transnational studies to discuss aesthetic and spiritual experiences of water in the age of climate crisis.

In this opening discussion for the exhibition, Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis, the exhibition curator and faculty director Jinah Kim will engage in conversation with the art historian Yukio Lippit and Radcliffe’s curator of exhibitions, Meg Rotzel.

This installment of our 2023 summer Book Talk series will feature Katherine Turk RI ’19, author of The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023). 

This installment of our 2023 summer Book Talk series will feature V.V. Ganeshananthan RI ’15, author of Brotherless Night (Random House, 2023).

This installment of our 2023 summer Book Talk series will feature Jarvis R. Givens RI ’21, author of School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness (‎Beacon Press, 2023).

The 2023 summer Book Talk series will begin with Ann-Christine Duhaime RI ’16, author of Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2022).

Disease ecologist Courtney Murdock will focus on understanding the climate variables that influence mosquito-borne disease transmission.

Anthony Cody is the author of two collections of poetry. His most recent collection is The Rendering (Omnidawn, 2023). Anthony’s debut collection, Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), was winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. 

The climate crisis is a matter of environmental as well as historical injustice. Human geographer Garrett Dash Nelson will explore the uneven distributions of harm, responsibility, vulnerability, and power, in both historical and local perspective.

What does climate change mean for our food systems? How do our food production and consumption habits contribute to the climate crisis? Speakers will explore the complex interplay of food and climate change, challenging and illuminating our unsustainable relationships with meat and water, soil and sea.

The 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Sciences will feature space engineer MiMi Aung.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

What 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.

Throughout 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.

In 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.

In 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.