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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
Next in Food Sustainability and Climate Change
Lectures • Next in ScienceWhat 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.
2 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Sky’s Not the Limit: My Journey into Space Exploration and STEM
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the SciencesThe 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Sciences will feature space engineer MiMi Aung.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Music in a Burning World
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the ArtsThe 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Arts will feature the Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer John Luther Adams.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Kim and Judy Davis Dean's Lecture in the Social Sciences: Conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social SciencesThe 2023 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social Sciences will feature Tressie McMillan Cottom in conversation with Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Heisenberg Variations: Imagination, Invention, and Uncertainty
Lectures • Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and HumanitiesHow 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.
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Mary Lum: The Moving Parts (&) Opening Event
LecturesIn 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.
4 PM ET
Chilean Constitutional Reform: Mother Nature, Mapuche Women, and Decolonial Perspectives
Lectures • Rama S. Mehta LectureHarvard 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).
4 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Art, Activism, and Climate Change: Conversation with Angélique Kidjo and Vijay Iyer
LecturesHarvard 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.
4 PM ET
Art, Activism, and Climate Change: Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
LecturesHarvard 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.
4 PM ET
Hurricanes and Breezes: Visualizing Climate Change
Lectures • Climate Change Science Lecture SeriesWhat 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.
12 PM ET
Woman, Life, Freedom: Iran’s Women-Led Protests in Context
LecturesThroughout 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.
12 PM ET
Beyond “Fair Harvard”: Perspectives from Black Alumni
LecturesIn 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.
4 PM ET
Exhibition Opening Discussion: The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America
LecturesIn 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.
4 PM ET
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