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Show and Tell: An Evening about Citizenship with Documentary Filmmakers
Conferences & Symposia10 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
Intersections: Understanding Urbanism in the Global Age
Conferences & Symposia10 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.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
From Sea to Changing Sea: A Science Symposium about Oceans
Conferences & SymposiaThis symposium will focus on important new research on the changing nature of the world’s oceans and the questions that arise from that change.
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.
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 & Symposia10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Confronting Violence
Conferences & Symposiathrough Friday, April 10, 2015
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Lost and Found: A Science Symposium about Navigation
Conferences & Symposia10 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
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 & SymposiaRadcliffe’s annual science symposium will focus on “smart clothes” and the science of designing materials that improve and protect lives. Experts in biology, design, engineering, materials science, medicine, and nanotechnology will address a variety of topics, including digital fabrication, soldier-related technologies, smart materials and biology, wearable technology, and the future of innovative substances.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Crossing Borders: Immigration and Gender in the Americas
Conferences & Symposiathrough Friday, April 26, 2013
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Take Note
Conferences & Symposia"Take Note" brings together scholars from literature, history, media studies, information science, and computer science to explore the past and future roles of note-taking across the university. Panelists will discuss the history of note-taking in different disciplines as well as the potential of emerging digital annotation tools.
through Friday, November 2, 2012
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Cloudy with a Chance of Solutions: The Future of Water
Conferences & Symposia10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Siting Julia
Conferences & Symposia10 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 & Symposia10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Molecules, Movement, and Motors
Conferences & Symposia10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Something in the Air: Climate Change, Science and Policy
Conferences & SymposiaThe 2011 science symposium takes a cross-disciplinary approach to the topic of climate and policy. Atmospheric and environmental scientists, engineers, archaeologists, and scholars of public health, economics, and government come together to address and debate topics fundamental to our understanding of the science of climate change and the policies that result. These issues will be considered in relation to the recent UN Climate Change Conferences and the worldwide economic downturn.
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
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