Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks
Book Talk with Katherine Turk
This 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).
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Book Talk with V.V. Ganeshananthan
This installment of our 2023 summer Book Talk series will feature V.V. Ganeshananthan RI ’15, author of Brotherless Night (Random House, 2023).
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Book Talk with Jarvis R. Givens
This 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).
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Book Talk with Ann-Christine Duhaime
The 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).
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Book Talk with Olivia Laing
Olivia Laing is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction and writer for the New York Times, Guardian, Financial Times, and other publications. Laing’s reading from her new book, Everybody: A Book About Freedom (W. W. Norton & Company (2021), will be followed by a discussion with Joey Soloway, Emmy Award-winning creator, writer, producer, and director.
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Book Talk with Meghan O’Rourke
Meghan O’Rourke RI ’15 is an award-winning writer, poet, and editor. In this book talk, O’Rourke will be discussing The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Riverhead Books, 2022).
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Book Talk with Miguel Syjuco
Miguel Syjuco RI ’14 is an author, journalist, civil society advocate, and assistant professor of practice, literature and creative writing at New York University Abu Dhabi. This book talk will feature Syjuco’s most recent work, I Was the President’s Mistress!! (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022).
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Book Talk with Gish Jen
Gish Jen RI ’02 is the award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon (Knopf, 2022), eight other books, and dozens of short stories and articles. Jen’s reading will be followed by a discussion with Alice Kessler-Harris RI ’02, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History at Columbia University.
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Book Talk with Anita Hill
This installment in our winter series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks will feature Anita Hill, author of Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence (Viking, 2021). Professor Hill is University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.
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Book Talk with Tomiko Brown-Nagin
This installment in our winter series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks features Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, who will discuss Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (Pantheon, 2022).
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Our Bodies, Ourselves Book Talk
A discussion of Our Bodies, Ourselves, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the first edition of the book and in connection with the Schlesinger Library’s collections of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective records.
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Book Talk with Daniel Carpenter
This installment in our summer series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks will feature Daniel Carpenter, author of Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021). Carpenter is the faculty director of the social sciences at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Book Talk with Tiya Miles
This installment in our summer series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks will feature Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Random House, 2021). Miles is a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and a professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Book Talk with Clint Smith
This installment in our summer series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks will feature Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little, Brown and Company, 2021) and staff writer at the Atlantic.
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Book Talk: A’Lelia Bundles
Join 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.
Book Talk: Gish Jen
Join 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.
Book Talk: Michael Pollan
Join 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.
Book Talk: Maggie Doherty
Join 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.
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