Past Events
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All Events & Exhibitions
The Intentional Museum
LecturesIn this program, Christy Coleman, an American historian, will discuss the power that museums have to genuinely engage with communities around what matters most to them.
4 PM ET
Transients: A Poetry Reading and Discussion with Douglas Ridloff
Lectures • Roosevelt Poetry ReadingsDouglas Ridloff is the founder and executive director of ASL Slam, a nonprofit organization that creates safe spaces for the Deaf community to thrive in the many modalities of their native language.
4 PM ET
MAKING IT MINE: Revealing/Imagining Slavery through Museum Collections
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the ArtsFred Wilson is a conceptual artist whose work investigates museological, cultural, and historical issues that are largely overlooked or neglected by museums and cultural institutions.
4 PM ET
And So On: Reading and Conversation with Kiese Laymon
Lectures • Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and HumanitiesKiese Laymon will talk with Courtney R. Baker about whether the actual histories of American colleges and universities should be ripe sites for Black American horror and comedic narratives.
4 PM ET
Changing Carceral Systems through Compassion, Practice, and Research
Lectures • Driving Progress in Social Policy: Education, Public Health, and Carceral SystemsRacial disparities in our carceral systems are profound and troubling. As a society, we appear to be at an inflection point where racial justice is a core priority for the incoming Biden administration and a majority of the public. This program will bring together the compassionate work of a practitioner on the front lines with the expertise of a world-renowned researcher in criminal justice policy.
4 PM ET
Protest as Politics: African American Young Adults, Reimagining Democracy
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social SciencesHow does the precarious position of African American young adults facilitate a reimagining of democracy? What does this reimagining mean for American politics?
4 PM ET
Critical Public Health Questions for 2021: Closing (and Reopening) Schools and Workplaces
Lectures • Driving Progress in Social Policy: Education, Public Health, and Carceral SystemsThe COVID-19 pandemic—the greatest public health challenge in more than a century—has forced many hard decisions. The partial or full closures of schools nationwide have become a flashpoint with very strong opinions on both sides and have reinforced the critical role that schools play in supporting the health of our children.
12 PM ET
Addressing Inequalities in Education through Policy, Research, and Practice
Lectures • Driving Progress in Social Policy: Education, Public Health, and Carceral SystemsWe are in the midst of an education crisis, greatly exacerbated by COVID-19, that is preventing many children from reaching their full potential. These gaps are most acutely felt by Black and brown children. The speakers in this program will discuss inequalities among social groups in schools and society, with a focus on racial, economic, social, and cultural differences, and the role of education in the lives of all youth, including African American men.
4 PM ET
The Future of COVID-19 Epidemiology
LecturesJoin leading epidemiologists for a panel discussion as they assess the current and future state of the epidemic.
2020 Visions
Lectures • Voting Matters: Gender, Citizenship, and the Long 19th AmendmentThis concluding sessions asks a variety of experts to briefly unfold a single “big idea” that captures the significance of the 19th Amendment for voting rights, citizenship, and democracy today.
4 PM ET
The Impact of 2020 on Higher Education: Colleges, COVID-19, and a Time of Racial Reckoning
LecturesSpeakers on this panel will discuss how higher education can and should rise to the challenges of 2020 and beyond.
4 PM ET
Antiracism in Higher Education: A Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi
LecturesJoin us for a discussion about antiracism in higher education with award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi, joined by Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana.
4:30 PM ET
Benefiting from the Human Genome
LecturesAnne Wojcicki, cofounder and CEO of 23andMe, will discuss the next phase of consumer genetics: taking action.
4 PM ET
Education Justice: Centering Student Voices
Lectures“Education Justice: Centering Student Voices” is the second in a two-part series that explores education justice in carceral settings and through nontraditional paths.
4 PM ET
Education Justice: Why Prison Classrooms Matter
Lectures“What college does, it helps us learn about the nation,” said Rodney Spivey-Jones, a 2017 Bard College graduate currently incarcerated at Fishkill Correctional Facility in New York, in the docuseries College behind Bars. “It helps us become civic beings. It helps us understand that we have an interest in our community, that our community is a part of us and we are a part of it.”
Obesity, COVID-19, and Systemic Racism
LecturesThis program will explore how uneven distribution of social support drives obesity; how framing affects policy; and how lack of research fuels speculation and reinforces racist stereotypes.
4 PM ET
Next in Water
LecturesThe speakers in this program will discuss water’s vital role across four areas of modern inquiry: biology, earth science, public health, and the search for extraterrestrial life.
The Enduring Legacy of Slavery and Racism in the North
LecturesThis panel of experts will examine the role and impact of slavery in the North and discuss the influence of Agassiz and how Black abolitionists responded to scientific racism.
4 PM ET
Perfecters of This Democracy: A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones
LecturesNikole Hannah-Jones, will engage in conversation with Tomiko Brown-Nagin about pressing issues of race, civil rights, injustice, desegregation, and resegregation.
4 PM ET
Book Talk: A’Lelia Bundles
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksJoin us this summer for a series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks exploring recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with the Radcliffe Institute.
4 PM ET
Book Talk: Gish Jen
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksJoin us this summer for a series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks exploring recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with the Radcliffe Institute.
4 PM ET
Book Talk: Michael Pollan
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksJoin us this summer for a series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks exploring recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with the Radcliffe Institute.
4 PM ET
Book Talk: Maggie Doherty
Lectures • Virtual Radcliffe Book TalksJoin us this summer for a series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks exploring recent publications whose subjects or authors have a connection with the Radcliffe Institute.
4 PM ET
Is Now the Time to Build a Better System? K–12 Education and Systemic Racism in the Era of COVID-19
LecturesThis Radcliffe webinar, cosponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will bring together experts from public school systems, foundations, and academia to explore the present and future of US education.
American Policing and Protest
LecturesSpeakers discuss contemporary police violence against people of color along with ethical issues that we must consider as we reflect on the current turmoil and attempt to envision how our nation might be transformed.
There are currently no exhibits scheduled.