Events
& Exhibitions
Radcliffe events and exhibitions are accessible, free, and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
All Events & Exhibitions
Feeding the Future: Food Sustainability and Climate Change
Conferences & SymposiaThe 2023 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Science Symposium will explore the dilemma of addressing the global climate crisis while feeding the world’s population healthfully and equitably. How we produce, transport, prepare, and consume our food has direct implications for food access and security, as well as the future of the planet.
9 AM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Whose Time Are We Speaking In?
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
12 PM ET
Solidarity! Exhibition Gallery Tour
Gallery Events • Solidarity! Gallery SeriesPlease join us for a tour of the Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now exhibition led by our student guides and staff from the Schlesinger Library.
10 AM ET
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Memorials and the Cult of Apology
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Frieda L. Miller Fellow Valentina Rozas-Krause
12 PM ET
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 with the Artist Atul Bhalla
Gallery EventsJoin the curator Jinah Kim and the artist Atul Bhalla for a tour of Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis and a discussion of the artwork I was Not Waving but Drowning II.
1 PM ET
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
And Then They Vanished
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Shutzer Fellow Oscar Lopez
12 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
Gender Underground: A Trans History of Do-It-Yourself
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow Jules Gill-Peterson
12 PM ET
Climate Justice Universities: Another Education Is Possible
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow Jennie C. Stephens
12 PM ET
Responsibility and Repair: Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement, Indenture, and Colonization at Harvard and Beyond Evening Event
Conferences & SymposiaThe opening session of the conference will feature a keynote by Dallas Goldtooth (Mdewakanton Dakota and Dińe), an activist, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Rutherford Falls), organizer, writer, Dakota culture and language teacher, and founding member of the sketch comedy group, the 1491s.
7:30 PM ET
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Responsibility and Repair: Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement, Indenture, and Colonization at Harvard and Beyond
Conferences & SymposiaThe second day of the conference will bring together scholars, tribal leaders and historians, university representatives, and others to explore issues of enslavement and indenture, colonization in New England, and Harvard and New England tribal repair. The Friday program will feature a keynote by Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation), environmental and Indigenous rights advocate and founder of the Giniw Collective.
9 AM 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 Knight (Tufts University), and Holly Smith (Spelman College) in conversation with the curator Petrina Jackson.
4 PM ET
What’s Inside a Generative Artificial-Intelligence Model? And Why Should We Care?
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Sally Starling Seaver Professor Fernanda Viégas
12 PM ET
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
Bringing Inclusivity and Rigor to the Science of Sex Differences
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Radcliffe fellow Donna L. Maney
12 PM ET
Water Stories with the Artist Evelyn Rydz
Gallery EventsJoin the artist and educator Evelyn Rydz for an afternoon of conversation and collective artmaking within the exhibition Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis.
1 PM ET
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow Francesca Wade
12 PM ET
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Resistance to Hitler
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Lisa Goldberg Fellow Rebecca Donner
12 PM ET
Water Stories with the Artist Alia Farid
Gallery EventsJoin the artist Alia Farid for a tour of Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis and a discussion of the artwork Chibayish, 2023.
12 PM ET
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Rising Tides: Integrating Situated Visualization, Augmented Reality, and Public-Participation Technology to Create an Accessible Platform for Localized Climate Change Visualization and Discourse
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Radcliffe fellow Narges Mahyar
12 PM ET
Dear Mothership: Poems
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow Marcus Wicker
12 PM ET
Ocean Fever: Deep Thoughts on Water, Culture, and Climate Resilience
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Frances B. Cashin Fellow Rob Verchick
12 PM ET
Black Bell: A Quartet for the End of Time
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow Alison C. Rollins
12 PM ET
Don & Moki: Organic Music Society
Fellows' PresentationA presentation from 2023–2024 Radcliffe-Film Study Center Fellow Ephraim Asili
12 PM ET
Solidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now
ExhibitionSolidarity! Transnational Feminisms Then and Now exhibition features 50 years of transnational feminist collections held at the Schlesinger Library. Through a rich array of materials—including posters, newspapers, photographs, and memorabilia—Solidarity! explores the promises and limits of global feminist solidarity from the 1970s until the present.
through Monday, October 16, 2023
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis
ExhibitionThe exhibition Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis presents artworks that treat water not as a commodity to be exploited but as a cyclical, life-giving, life-dissolving, and inert but innately alive spiritual force—a view widely shared among Indigenous communities, especially in the Global South.
through Saturday, December 16, 2023
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
In Their Own Voices: Black Women's Lives from the Archives
ExhibitionIn Their Own Voices celebrates the power of defining oneself while highlighting the lifework and legacies of Black women whose papers are held in the Schlesinger Library. The featured collections give viewers an opportunity to listen to, view, and read about the experiences of Black women in their private and public lives.
through Friday, March 8, 2024
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture
ExhibitionDuring the long decade of the 1970s, artists replaced traditional artistic gestures with other operations, creating new abstract languages and vocabularies. This exhibition shows how four artists nailed, glued, unraveled, twisted, folded, pierced, and tied, and most importantly, fastened—all to aesthetic effect—to highlight the labor of art making.
through Saturday, June 22, 2024
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
