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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.
Amplifying Community Voices: LGBTQ Health and Wellbeing during COVID-19
Lectures • Health Inequity in the Age of COVID-19This Radcliffe webinar brings together historians, physicians, and organizers to discuss the disparate impact of the pandemic on the physical and mental health of sexual and gender minorities.
Decarceration and Community: COVID 19 and Beyond (Part II)
Lectures • Health Inequity in the Age of COVID-19The Radcliffe Institute is offering a two-part series of virtual programs to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on incarcerated people.
Music in the Moment
Lectures • Health Inequity in the Age of COVID-19Music has played a large social function during the coronavirus pandemic: from the daily balcony concerts in Italy to the virtual performances of countless orchestras, it has helped tie communities together where social distancing has atomized us. During this Radcliffe webinar, we will talk with musicians about their experience during the crisis—from the precarious position of performers without gigs to the healing role music can play.
4 PM ET
Decarceration and Community: COVID-19 and Beyond (Part I)
Lectures • Health Inequity in the Age of COVID-19Part I of this discussion series focuses on people who are incarcerated and their families, exploring how systemic racism and mass criminalization threaten both incarcerated individuals and their communities
When “Stay at Home” Isn’t Safe: Domestic Violence during COVID-19
Lectures • Health Inequity in the Age of COVID-19In this Radcliffe webinar, scholars, public officials, community activists, and medical professionals join to discuss domestic violence in the midst of this public health crisis and consider ways to aid those in need.
Naming Racism
Lectures • Health Inequity in the Age of COVID-19Camara Phyllis Jones RI ’20 and David R. Williams will explore how we might overcome, “the somnolence of racism denial,” dismantle the system of racism, and put in its place a system in which all people can thrive.
4 PM ET
Equitable Readiness: Reimagining the Role of the Public Sector in the Wake of COVID-19
Lectures • Health Inequity in the Age of COVID-19In this Radcliffe webinar, scholars and practitioners engage in a conversation about how to leverage the policy opportunities the epidemic presents for changes that could support an equitable public health response.
Confronting the Challenge of COVID-19 in American Indian Communities
Lectures • Health Inequity in the Age of COVID-19In this Virtual Radcliffe program, two Indigenous professors of medicine will consider the implications of the pandemic for lives and livelihoods in contemporary American Indian communities.
Health, Inequity, and COVID-19
Lectures • Health Inequity in the Age of COVID-19Mary Bassett and Khalil Gibran Muhammad will discuss inequity and public health in the time of COVID-19, exploring how the virus exacerbates existing inequalities.
4 PM ET
Ensuring Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities
Lectures • Health Inequity in the Age of COVID-19This Radcliffe webinar contextualizes the history of disability civil rights and considers what is necessary to achieve an equitable health outcome for persons with disabilities during this time of crisis.
4 PM ET
The New Geopolitical Order
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Social SciencesIn this talk, the career diplomat and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein will argue that the world’s people deserve better.
4:15 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Humanizing Drug Discovery
Lectures • Gene Editing Science Lecture SeriesDavid Altshuler will discuss protein-folding correction for cystic fibrosis and investigative CRISPR-based gene-editing approaches for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.
5 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
History Reconsidered: Poetry Reading with Clint Smith
Lectures • Roosevelt Poetry ReadingsClint Smith's upcoming nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed, explores how different historical sites reckon with—or fail to reckon with—their relationship to the history of slavery.
4:15 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
Lectures • Gene Editing Science Lecture SeriesHaunting and humorous, poignant and political, the award-winning documentaryFixed rethinks “disability” and “normalcy” by exploring technologies that promise to change our bodies and minds forever.
5 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
What Choice Do I Have? Gabriela Montero Discusses Classical Improvisation, Composition, and Creative Dissent
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the ArtsIn a program designed around a musically illustrated discussion, the internationally renowned pianist Gabriela Montero will discuss her evolution as an improvisational artist and creative dissenter.
4:15 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Making Pig-to-Human Transplantation a Clinical Reality with CRISPR Genome Editing
LecturesXenotransplantation is a promising strategy to address the shortage of organs for human transplantation. Concerns about pig-to-human immunological compatibility and the risk of cross-species transmission of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) have impeded the clinical application of this approach.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Once and Future Heart
LecturesFor centuries, in both the arts and the sciences, the human heart has been a source of reverence and marvel: Western artistic traditions have explored the heart as the vessel of sacred identity and the visceral instrument of emotional life, while the sciences know it as an exquisitely complicated pump that has tested the limits of medicine and engineering. Although these approaches may seem incompatible, recent advances in both fields provide surprising opportunities for art and science to converge around new insights and questions.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Writing Black Lives
LecturesTomiko Brown-Nagin, Imani Perry, and Robert Reid-Pharr will join in conversation to discuss how their work as biographers speaks to key contemporary discussions about black politics, community, identity, and life.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Thinking Like a Magician
LecturesIn this performance-based lecture, the globe-trotting magician Joshua Jay will pull back the curtain on the way magicians think.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Why Brain Science Needs an Edit: Non-human Primate Studies in Neuroscience and Biomedicine
Lectures • Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the SciencesResearch in experimental biology and biomedical sciences has been greatly facilitated by the use of animal models. Because of their evolutionary proximity to humans, non-human primates are favorable models for understanding human neurobiology and brain disorders.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Even a Moon Shot Needs a Flight Plan: Genetics and Ethics in the Obama Administration
LecturesAlondra Nelson will discuss the Obama administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and, in particular, the evolution of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in the United States.
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Are Koreans Human? Our Survival Powers, the Quest for Superpowers, and the Problem of Invulnerability
Lectures • Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and HumanitiesWho are the modern Koreans, and what do they care about? Koreans have experienced colonialism, diaspora, war, national division, immigration, and a persistent nuclear threat—and yet, they have achieved extraordinary gains in their homelands and elsewhere.
4:15 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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