Past Events
& Exhibitions

Join us for an interdisciplinary panel of Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellows to explore how leading researchers and policymakers are collaborating to raise our ambitions for climate action and climate justice.

People who are incarcerated are disproportionately vulnerable to climate hazards, and this population is often ignored and/or excluded from conversations about climate change. Speakers will explore ways to address the potentially deadly challenges for those who are incarcerated.

This year's Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities will be given by 2023–2024 Rita E. Hauser Fellow Matthieu Aikins.

Ermias Kebreab, world-renowned animal scientist and chair of the United Nations Technical Working Group on Feed Additives, will explore methane mitigation strategies that emphasize global and region-specific targets for addressing the climate crisis.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs will offer an ecofeminist exploration into how the works of Black feminist poets Audre Lorde and June Jordan can speak to our current climate crisis.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, visiting curator Chassidy A. Winestock will join Holly Smith and Melissa Messina for a dialogue about the labor and care of working with art, archives, and collections.

Miami-based artist Xavier Cortada will discuss his innovative approach to stimulating public discourse and galvanizing action around sea level rise.

In this Next in Science program, we will focus on exciting early results from the James Webb Space Telescope that have been capturing the public's imagination and revolutionizing our understanding of the earliest stages of cosmic evolution and the atmospheres of extrasolar planets.

This exhibition presents stories of groups that mobilized to name and challenge injustice. Program speakers will discuss how materials from the archives speak to the solidarity of past movements and moments and to the possibility of inspired change within our own.

National security expert and interdisciplinary research scientist Swathi Veeravalli will address how climate crises are prompting more multidisciplinary cooperation across government agencies and between national governments.

In conjunction with the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, join us for a special conversation between the artist Maren Hassinger and the curator Chassidy A. Winestock. This dialogue will be introduced and moderated by Mary Schneider Enriquez.

Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard cosponsor a discussion about the idea and application of institutional neutrality. Four leading legal scholars will bring different perspectives and experiences to the conversation.

Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Harvard Alumni Association welcome Drew Gilpin Faust to discuss her book, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury.

In this program, award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor will converse with Liz Phipps-Soeiro on how writing, reading, and teaching books and comics with themes of climate change and climate justice can encourage young people to learn and think about these issues.

In this opening program for A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, the curator Chassidy A. Winestock will offer an introduction to the exhibition and its historical context, followed by a conversation with Mary Schneider Enriquez.

Parable of the Sower, first published in 1993, engages young readers in complex climate issues through fiction while demonstrating the power that arts and literature can have on our communities.

Jessica Fanzo, a climate, nutrition, and immunology expert, will discuss how innovations in data gathering and analysis can illuminate our complex food systems and also equip decision-makers to navigate the difficult course of making our food systems more resilient in the face of the climate crisis and environmental instability.

Harvard Radcliffe Institute will host an interdisciplinary panel to discuss the purposes and scope of academic freedom and the legal norms that govern how universities respond to conflict and protest.

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).