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Conferences/Symposia
"Schlesinger Library's Summer Seminar on Gender History: Sequels to the 1960s" (June 2008)
"Gender and Religion: Authority, Power, and Agency" (April 2008)
"Origins of Life: The Earth, the Solar System, and Beyond" (March 2008)
"Tango! Dance the World Around: Global Transformations of Latin American Culture" (October 2007)
"Frontiers of Tissue Engineering" (November 2006)
Harvard@Home Presentations:
"Women, Men, and Food: Putting Gender on the Table" (April 2007)
"Women and War in the Twentieth Century/Schlesinger Collections: Inside the Archives" (November 2005)
"In the War Zone: How Does Gender Matter?" (November 2005)
"Reproductive Health in the Twenty-First Century" (October 2004)
"Gender and Race: Together at Last?" (March 2004)
Women, Money and Power:
"Women and Economic Development" (September 2003)
"Women Without Money and Women as Commodities" (June 2003)
"Entrepreneurship in Contemporary America" (May 2003)
"Enterprising Women Exhibition: 250 Years of American Business" (March 2003)
Panel Discussions
“Women at the Top: The Changing Face of the Ivies” (May 2007)
Moderator Drew Gilpin Faust, president-elect, Harvard University and dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Amy Gutmann, president, University of Pennsylvania
Judith Rodin, president, Rockefeller Foundation and past president, University of Pennsylvania
Ruth J. Simmons, president, Brown University
Shirley Tilghman, president, Princeton University
2006–2007 Voices of Public Intellectuals Lecture Series
Video (1:47 minutes)
"Women Surgeons: Cutting New Paths" (November 2006)
"The Sky's Not the Limit: Women in Astronomy" (November 2005)
Lectures
"The Essence of Leadership"
Carol Bellamy, president and CEO, World Learning
2006–2007 Dean’s Lecture Series
Video (1:22 minutes)
"Why Dramatize?"
Lee Breuer, 2005–2006 Radcliffe Institute fellow and coartistic director, Mabou Mines Theatre Company
2005–2006 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities
Video (1:27 minutes)
“Making Fiction from Fact?”
Geraldine Brooks, independent writer; 2005–2006 Radcliffe Institute fellow
2005–2006 Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentations
Video (1:01 minutes)
"Brown Babies: The Birth of Britain as a Racialized State, 1943–1948"
Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, professor of American studies, and director of the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization, Yale University
2006–2007 Dean’s Lecture Series
Video (1:34 minutes)
"Out of the Gutter: Contemporary Graphic Novels by Women"
Hillary Chute, Harvard University Society of Fellows
2007–2008 Schlesinger Lecture
Video (1:24 minutes)
"The Forgotten 'Refugees': Protecting People Uprooted in their Own Countries"
Roberta Cohen, senior fellow, Brookings Institution
2005–2006 Voices of Public Intellectuals Lecture Series
Video (1:14 minutes)
"Oceans, Climate, Biodiversity, and Human Health: The Cholera Paradigm"
Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland at College Park; Distinguished University Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; senior advisor and honorary chairman, Canon US Life Sciences
2006–2007 Dean’s Lecture Series
Video (1:01 minutes)
"Breast Cancer in the Molecular Era"
Nancy E. Davidson, breast cancer research professor of oncology, Johns Hopkins University and director of the breast cancer research program, Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
2006–2007 Lectures in the Sciences
Video (1:22 minutes)
“The Role of Iraqi NGOs in the Iraqi Democratic Process”
Hanaa Edwar, secretary general, Iraqi Al-Amal Association
2005–2006 Rama S. Mehta Lecture
Video (1:01 minute)
"Formation and Evolution of Extrasolar Planetary Systems"
Debra Fischer, associate professor of astronomy, San Francisco State University
2005–2006 Lectures in the Sciences
Video (58 minutes)
"The Changing Carbon Cycle: How Fast Will Atmospheric CO2 Increase?"
Inez Fung, professor of atmospheric sciences, codirector, Berkeley Institute of the Environment, University of California at Berkeley
2007–2008 Lectures in the Sciences
Video (1:12 minutes)
"Guts, Greyhounds, and Gandhi: Pauli Murray’s Civil Rights Movement, 1935–1973"
Glenda E. Gilmore, 2000–2001 Radcliffe Institute fellow, author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950 (W. W. Norton, forthcoming January 2008), and Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University
2007–2008 Schlesinger Lecture
Video (1:10 minutes)
"The Rise and Fall of the Jewish-American Novel"
Vivian Gornick, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow and independent writer
2007–2008 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities
Video (1:16 minutes)
"One Mexico, Many Songs"
Alma Guillermoprieto, independent writer, current Radcliffe Institute fellow
2006–2007 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities
Video (56 minutes)
“A Field Guide to Sprawl: How to Read Everyday American Landscapes”
Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies, Yale University and fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
2006–2007 Dean’s Lecture Series
Video (1:29 minutes)
"Inventing Human Rights"
Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, University of California at Los Angeles
2007–2008 Dean's Lecture Series
Video (1:28 minutes)
"New World in the Making: Origins of Planets and Brown Dwarves"
Ray Jayawardhana, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics,
University of Toronto
2005–2006 Dean's Lecture Series
Video (1:09 minutes)
"Flight from Attack and Atrocity: The Impact of War-Induced Violence Against Women"
Irene Khan, secretary general, Amnesty International
2005–2006 Voices of Public Intellectuals Lecture Series
Video (1:21 minutes) Lecture presentation (PDF, 272 KB)
"Embedded Clusters: Laboratories for Understanding the Origin of Stars and Planets"
Elizabeth A. Lada, professor of astronomy, University of Florida
2005–2006 Lectures in the Sciences
Video (1:09 minutes)
Introduction to lecture presentation (PDF, 1.4 MB)
Lecture presentation, part 1 (PDF, 4.7 MB)
Lecture presentation, part 2 (PDF, 3.6 MB)
“Women’s Status, Men’s States”
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
2006–2007 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture
Video (1:46 minutes)
“The Dragon Cart: The Femme Fatale in 17th-Century French Opera”
Susan McClary, professor of musicology, University of California at Los Angeles
2005–2006 Dean’s Lecture Series
Video (1:11 minutes)
"On Flies and Fishes and the Origin of Vertebrates"
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, director, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany) and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2007–2008 Dean's Lecture Series and Lecture in the Sciences
Video (1:25 minutes)
“Can US Foreign Policy Be Fixed?”
Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize Winner; Professor of Human Rights Practice, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2005–2006 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture
Video (1:39 minutes)
"Regional Expressions of Global Warmth: Lessons from the Pliocene"
Christina Ravelo, University of California at Santa Cruz
2007–2008 Lectures in the Sciences
Video (1:01 minutes)
“Why People Die When They Flee from Conflict: What We Have Learned about War-Related Famine and Disease in the Last Twenty-Five Years”
Peter Salama, chief of immunization and child survival, UNICEF
2005–2006 Voices of Public Intellectuals Lecture Series
Video (1:25 minutes)
Lecture presentation (PDF, 4.2 MB)
"The Culture War in the Courts"
Phyllis Schlafly, author and attorney
2007–2008 Dean's Lecture Series
Video (1:27 minutes)
"Hunting the Earth's Magnetic Field"
Lisa Tauxe, professor of geophysics, director of the earth sciences major, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
2007–2008 Lectures in the Sciences
Video (1:09 minutes)
"Psychological and Behavioral Responses to Disaster"
Robert J. Ursano, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, and professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
2006–2007 Lecture in the Social Sciences
Video (1:36 minutes)
Lecture presentation plus additional information (PDF, 3.6 MB)
