“Tango! Dance the World Around: Global Transformations of Latin American Culture”

Tango! engages with the history and aesthetics of a vital dance form to explore traditions of culture and politics in Latin America and across the world. Through performance and conversation, this conference considers tango as a global metaphor with deeply embedded connections to urban poverty, social marginalization, and masculine authority.

Experience conference proceedings on-line via streaming video.

Radcliffe's executive dean Louise Richardson is one of a small band of academics who specialize in where terrorists come from, why they get support, and how they decide to escalate their politically motivated violence.

"Gender and Religion: Authority, Power, and Agency"
This year's annual gender conference examines the persistent entanglements of religion and gender, with a particular focus on women's agency. Panels address religious law, religion and the gendered body, challenges to religious authority, and the complexities of freedom and submission in religious contexts.

"Origins of Life: The Earth, the Solar System, and Beyond"
Leading biologists, chemists, and planetary scientists explore pathbreaking information about planetary processes and the possibility that the origin of life is grounded in them.

TIM ROOD '08

A lecturer in classics at the University of Oxford, Tim Rood RI ’08 studies the literary techniques of Greek historians.