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Gail Collins on “When Everything Changed”
Photo by Rose Lincoln, Harvard Staff PhotographerNew York Times columnist Gail Collins spoke at the Radcliffe Institute about When Everything Changed, the causes and effects of changes in American society for women between 1960 and today.
Surrogate Subjectivity with Radcliffe’s David Levine AM ’96
Photo by Tony RinaldoThrough his fellowship, David Levine is pursuing Character Analysis, an experiment in which volunteers are paired with actors over a period of three months so the actors can “acquire” the participants’ subjectivity.
On Closer Inspection, Not Such a Plain Jane
In her latest work, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Jill Lepore brings Benjamin Franklin's sister and her story out of history’s fog and into the open.
Letters to Ms. Magazine
A researcher at the Schlesinger Library read an archive of letters about pornography sent to Ms. Magazine in the 1980s, and shares what he learned about sex, feminism, and the connection between a magazine and its readers.
Food, Gender, Culture
"Best Toast I Ever Had," 1939, from Culinary Pamphlet collection, Hilda Worthington Smith Papers/Schlesinger LibraryA Harvard Summer School course, “Gender, Food and Culture in American History," explores the Schlesinger Library's collections and cultural stereotypes around what we eat and who we are.
Historical Posters Show the Arguments for Women's Suffrage
Image courtesy Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe InstituteTo commemorate the anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, the Schlesinger Library at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute has been promoting its digitized collection of posters from the women's suffrage movement.
Losing Our Way in the World
John Huth, a professor of physics at Harvard and a faculty associate at the Radcliffe Institute, writes about the lost art of way-finding and the importance of rooting knowledge in understanding.
Lindy Hess, Who Trained Many for Publishing Industry, Dies at 63
Lindy Hess, who led the Radcliffe Publishing Course, and shaped the careers and publications of countless people - including Radcliffe Institute fellows - passed away in July 2013 in Cambridge, MA.
Historic Fay House Achieves LEED Gold
Fay HouseHarvard's historic Fay House at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study achieves LEED Gold certification.
Heroes, Day by Day
Photo by Jon ChaseRadcliffe Institute staff members Jessica Brilli and Paraison Francois honored as 2013 Harvard Heroes