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Radcliffe Gymnasium; photo by Richard Mandelkorn
July
Thursday, July 1, 2010 – Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Schlesinger Exhibition
“Inside/Out: The Geography of Gendered Space”
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Exhibition details
September
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Lecture
"Reading Their Way into History: How Books Inspired the Progressive Generation of Women"
Barbara Sicherman, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values Emerita, Trinity College; author of Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters and The Quest for Mental Health in America, 1880–1917; coeditor of Notable American Women: The Modern Period
5 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Battles for Bodies: Preaching, Burying, and Building in the Medieval City"
Caroline Bruzelius, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Duke University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Charity, Security, and Disparities: Haitian Quests for Asylum”
Erica Caple James, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Remarks and Conversation
“How America Invented The Humanities”
Geoffrey Harpham, President and Director, National Humanities Center
6 p.m., Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, Barker Center,
12 Quincy Street, 617-495-0738
October
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“How Musical Is Guitar Hero?”
Kiri Miller, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Brown University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, October 7, 2010
2010–2011 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“A Stake in the Land: Theorizing Gender and Land Ownership”
Karen V. Hansen, Brandeis University, and Grey Osterud, with commentary by Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Using Microfluidic Flows to Trap, Deform, and Analyze DNA and Other Microscale Objects”
Susan Muller, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute fellow, University of California at Berkeley
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Sex Differences in Simulated War Games”
Rose McDermott, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Brown University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, October 21, 2010
2010–2011 Dean’s Lecture Series
“The Art of Choosing”
Sheena Iyengar, Inaugural S. T. Lee Professor of Business, Columbia University Business School; author of The Art of Choosing
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Thursday, October 28, 2010 – Friday, October 29, 2010
Conference and Site Visits
“Why Books?”
Additional details to be announced.
You may write to humanities@radcliffe.edu with specific questions.
Registration is required and opens in September.
This event is free and open to the public.
November
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Evolutionary Perspectives of Childhood and the Human Capacity for Population Growth”
Karen Kramer, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Harvard University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, November 4, 2010
2010–2011 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture
"Before (and After) Roe v. Wade"
Linda Greenhouse ’68, Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow in Law, Yale University, and Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale University
4:15 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“‘The Other Side of the Sky’: Aretha Franklin’s Sonic Black Feminism”
Daphne A. Brooks, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Princeton University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Interactive Sketching of Architectural Designs in Context”
Julie Dorsey, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Yale University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
December
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Dialogues with Local Cultures in My Composition”
Paul Desenne, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute fellow, FESNOJIV (El Sistema) (Venezuela)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Self-Reflection in Composition”
Yu-Hui Chang, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Brandeis University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“The Carceral Landscape: Slaves, Swamps, Forests, Fields, Horses, Birds, and Dogs”
Walter Johnson, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Harvard University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, December 16, 2010
2010–2011 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Breaking the Bonds? Domesticity, Decolonization, and the Peace Corps Girl in the 1960s”
Molly Geidel, Boston University, with commentary by Alexander Bloom, Wheaton College
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
February
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
2010–2011 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities
Title to be announced
John Tiffany, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Independent Artist (United States)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
March
Thursday, March 3, 2011 – Friday, March 4, 2011
Conference
“Gender and the Developing World”
Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Registration is required and opens in the spring.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
2010–2011 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“The Hemings Family in the 19th Century”
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University, with commentary by Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
2010–2011 Dean’s Lecture Series
Title to be announced
Dame Gillian Beer, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature Emeritus, University of Cambridge
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
April
Friday, April 15, 2011
Science Symposium
“Climate and Economics”
Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Registration is required and opens in the spring.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
2010–2011 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Engendering and Internationalizing the Long Black Freedom Struggle”
Dayo Gore, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with commentary by Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University at Newark
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
