MIKAEL BAUER, Assistant Professor of Japanese Religions, McGill University

Moderator: RYUICHI ABE, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Harvard University

MICHAEL BASKETT, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Kansas

Moderator: ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civlizations, Harvard University

Dean Lizabeth Cohen of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University invites you to attend a reception and panel discussion with current Radcliffe Fellows:

TOMIKO BROWN-NAGIN
2016–2017 Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; 
Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; 
Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Presented by the Harvard Semitic Museum with support from the Marcella Tilles Memorial Fund

VANESSA DAVIES
Visiting Scholar Researcher, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley

Race, Representation, and Museums Lecture Series

Christopher Dean, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, Division of Biosciences and Professorial Research Associate, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London

In 1912, British paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward and amateur antiquarian Charles Dawson announced the discovery of a hominin in Sussex, England, thought to be a possible “missing link” between apes and humans. Referred to as Piltdown Man, the find made headlines, but ultimately turned out to be one of the most...

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László Borhi will be offering an overview of Hungary's relations with both the United States and the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War.  Drawing on...

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Polina Barskova, Associate Professor of Russian Literature, Hampshire College
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Lygia Clark (1920–1988) was a leading abstract artist at the forefront of the Neoconcrete movement in Brazil. She developed her artistic practice by increasingly experimenting with sensory experience, leading to her Objetos sensoriais (Sensorial objects). These objects—often made of...

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In 1943, President Roosevelt spoke at Monterrey, Mexico noting Mexico’s contributions of military support and farm laborers to the war effort. “Our two countries,” he stated, “owe their independence to the fact that your ancestors and mine held the same truths to be worth fighting for and dying for… No less important than the military cooperation...

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Speaker: Sergio Villalobos Ruminott, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan

Series co-chaired and moderated by Mariano Siskind...

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Speaker: Dr. Eduardo Torres Cuevas, Director of Cuba’s National Library José Martí

This talk will be in Spanish.

Dr. Eduardo Torres Cuevas...

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Speaker: Mariana Joffily, Professor, Department of History, State University of Santa Catarina

Moderator: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor, Department of History, Harvard University

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Speaker: Rainer Schultz, PhD, Director of the Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA), Cuba Divisional Center in Havana 

Moderators: Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American...

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Speaker:  Claudia Mattos Avolese, Associate Professor of History of Art, University of Campinas; DRCLAS Cisneros Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

Moderator:  Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government,...