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2017 Sep 14

DRCLAS: Student Programs Info Session: January 2018 Opportunities

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Rm. S-216, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Join us at the information session for the DRCLAS January programs in Chile and Mexico and learn about the various opportunities available for Harvard students in health, government, microfinance, women’s rights, economics, documentary film, entrepreneurship, venture capital and more.

Light refreshments will be served.

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2017 Sep 11

Warren Center / DRCLAS: Film Screening: Between Neighborhoods

4:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S-010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

Speakers: Seth Fein, Film Director

Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Between Neighborhoods is an experimental documentary that nonlinearly examines the present and past of the worlds that orbit the world’s biggest rendering of the world, Unisphere, “theme center” of the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair, which still stands in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, in Queens. An audiovisual diptych, Between Neighborhoods travels between...

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2017 Oct 27

CES: Electoral Competition and the New Party Politics of Welfare State Recalibration

2:15pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA

** Please note: Those planning to attend events in this series should read the paper that will be posted on the CES website before the seminar.**

Speaker:
Ellen Immergut – Professor of Political Science, European University Institute

Discussant: 
Katja Möhring – Assistant Professor for Sociology of the Welfare...

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2017 Nov 27

CAS: African Studies Workshop Featuring Shireen Hassim

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Shireen Hassim is Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, currently based at WiSER. She studied at the Universities of Durban-Westville and Natal, and obtained her PhD from York University (Canada). She will present Liminality, identity and the politics of race in South Africa: Fatima Meer and black consciousness. 

A week in advance, the presenter’s paper will be circulated through the Harvard African Studies Workshop listserv. It is...

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2017 Nov 06

CAS African Studies Workshop: Beyond Kin Care: Openness to New Age Scripts in Southern Ghana. With Cati Coe

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall Lower Library, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Cati Coe is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Camden. She will present Beyond Kin Care: Openness to New Age Scripts in Southern Ghana. 

A week in advance, the presenter’s paper will be circulated through the Harvard African Studies Workshop listserv. It is assumed that everyone has read the paper before the workshop.  After presentation and commentary, Workshop attendees are invited to engage in critique and discussion, under the moderation...

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2017 Aug 30

CAS: African Language Program Open House

12:00pm to 2:30pm

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
The African Language Program Open House is a chance to learn about Harvard's many African language courses, meet the ALP's language instructors, and decide on class meeting times for the upcoming semester. Come to learn more about the most linguistically-diverse program on campus (the ALP hopes to offer over 20 African languages this semester!), and to meet the ALP's talented language instructors.
2017 Sep 25

Radcliffe Panel Discussion: The Museum, the City, and the University: Boston Art Museum Directors in Discussion

4:15pm

Location: 

Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

This panel brings together five distinguished museum directors to discuss their leadership of major cultural institutions in urban and university settings and to share personal perspectives on their work. The directors will address questions about the role of museums in debates about public and private support for the humanities and arts; in research and learning endeavors; and in conversations about citizenship, identify, and diversity. Register online.

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2017 Sep 15

Radcliffe Symposium: It Depends What State You’re In: Policies and Politics of the US Health Care System

1:00pm

Location: 

Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

imageHealth care and political systems are deeply intertwined, with implications for the quality and equality of access to health care. In this half-day symposium, health professionals, policy and public health experts, economists, sociologists, and political scientists will...

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2017 Sep 14

Radcliffe Exhibit: Visual Intelligence—A Multidisciplinary Exhibition of Radcliffe Fellows

Thu Sep 14 (All day) to Sat Oct 28 (All day)

Location: 

Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Visual Intelligence—A Multidisciplinary Exhibition of Radcliffe Fellows

September 14-October 28, 2017 | 12-5 PM, Monday-Saturday

Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

This exhibition introduces viewers to the stunning work of members of the 2017–2018 Radcliffe Institute fellowship class. Visitors will encounter underground...

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2017 Sep 19

Radcliffe: Space, Time, and Reality

4:15pm

Location: 

Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of space and time, elevating them to dynamic participants in the evolution of the cosmos. Today, research has pushed this revolution further, suggesting that there may be additional dimensions of space and possibly even other universes. In this lecture, Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, will explore these ideas visually as he and the audience dive into the changing conceptions of space, time, and reality. ...

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2017 Sep 15

Harvard Book Store/Hutchins Ctr: The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers w/ Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In conversation with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

3:00pm

Location: 

1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

Friday Forum

 

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. PhotoHarvard Book Store welcomes HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.—the founding Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, author or co-author of twenty-one books, and Emmy Award-winning creator fifteen...

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