Past Events
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Memory/Care/Work: Chassidy A. Winestock in Conversation with Melissa Messina and Holly Smith
LecturesPresented 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.
4 PM ET
Creative Climate Action: Can Art Protect Us from Rising Seas?
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the ArtsMiami-based artist Xavier Cortada will discuss his innovative approach to stimulating public discourse and galvanizing action around sea level rise.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Next in Science: James Webb Space Telescope
Lectures • Next in ScienceIn 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.
2 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Rewrite, Organize, Remix Opening Event
LecturesThis 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.
4 PM ET
Climate Change, National Security, and International Cooperation
Lectures • Climate Change Science Lecture SeriesNational 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.
12 PM ET
Maren Hassinger in Conversation with Chassidy A. Winestock: On the Occasion of A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture
LecturesIn 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.
5 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Institutional Neutrality in a Polarized World: What Should Harvard and Higher Ed Do?
LecturesHarvard 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.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Book Talk with Drew Gilpin Faust
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksHarvard Radcliffe Institute and the Harvard Alumni Association welcome Drew Gilpin Faust to discuss her book, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury.
4 PM ET
Young Adult Literature Authors and Climate Justice: Discussion with Nnedi Okorafor
LecturesIn 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.
4 PM ET
A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture Opening Program: Curator Talk with Chassidy A. Winestock
LecturesIn 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.
4 PM ET
Revisiting Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower in 2024
LecturesParable 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.
4 PM ET
Using Evidence and Data to Illuminate Our Food Systems
Lectures • Climate Change Science Lecture SeriesJessica 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.
4 PM ET
Free Speech, Political Speech, and Hate Speech on Campus
LecturesHarvard 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.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social Sciences: Conversation with Ruth J. Simmons
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social SciencesJoin 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.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
In Their Own Voices: Black Women's Lives from the Archives Opening Event
LecturesThe 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.
4 PM ET
Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill
LecturesThe 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.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Water Stories: Panel Discussions
LecturesArtists 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.
10 AM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis Opening Event
LecturesIn 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.
4 PM ET
Book Talk with Katherine Turk
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksThis 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).
4 PM ET
Book Talk with V.V. Ganeshananthan
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksThis installment of our 2023 summer Book Talk series will feature V.V. Ganeshananthan RI ’15, author of Brotherless Night (Random House, 2023).
4 PM ET
Book Talk with Jarvis R. Givens
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksThis 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).
4 PM ET
Book Talk with Ann-Christine Duhaime
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksThe 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).
4 PM ET
Predicting Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmission in a Rapidly Changing World
Lectures • Climate Change Science Lecture SeriesDisease ecologist Courtney Murdock will focus on understanding the climate variables that influence mosquito-borne disease transmission.
3 PM ET
Poetry Reading and Discussion with Anthony Cody
Lectures • Roosevelt Poetry ReadingsAnthony 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.
4 PM ET
More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape
Lectures • Climate Change Science Lecture SeriesThe 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.
1 PM ET
There are currently no exhibits scheduled.