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...

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

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.

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

Health 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...

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

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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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. ...

Read more about Radcliffe: Space, Time, and Reality

Friday Forum

 

Harvard 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...

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

Harvard Book Store welcomes National Jewish Book Award–winning...

Read more about Harvard Book Store: The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution w/ Yuri Slezkine in conversation with Terry Martin

Harvard Book Store welcomes Harvard Kennedy School's ODD...

Read more about Harvard Book Store: The Cold War: A World History w/ Odd Arne Westad

Tuesday Seminar Series

Peter Andreas, John Hay Professor of International Studies, Brown University

Peter Andreas will discuss his new book, a political memoir described by the New York Times as "thoroughly engrossing," about his childhood on the run in South America with...

Read more about DRCLAS: Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution

Presentation by Dr. Shan Jiang, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

 

 Abstract: Cities are growing at an unprecedented speed: by 2050 the urban population will grow to 6.4 billion, and over 60% of new urban areas will be built (United Nations, 2014). As a result, human beings are facing enormous challenges such as traffic congestion, environmental degradation, increased energy consumption, decreased quality of life, and climate change. Meanwhile, the explosion of urban sensors, mobile phone traces, social...

Read more about CFGA: Data-Driven Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities

Inaugural Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series

Chair: Professor Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Professor Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University

Professor Michael Szonyi,  Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

Dr. William Overholt, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center

Sponsored by...

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EU Study Group and the American Council on Germany, Boston Warburg Chapter

 

Thomas Matussek, Senior Advsor, Flint Global, Berlin

 

The historical promises of European integration, peace, prosperity and a powerful voice in a globalized world, seem to have lost their appeal. War in the east, economic and social meltdown in the south, millions of refugees, xenophobia and nationalism have a led to Brexit, Le Pen and the AfD, but have the elections in The Netherlands, France and...

Read more about CES: Three Elections and a Brexit: The Unraveling of Europe?

 

Quinn Slobodian, Associate Professor of History, Wellesley College; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

 

The intellectual history of neoliberalism is often told as one of conviction, consistency and coherence with notes of inevitability. As neoliberalism shows its cracks, it is a good time to revisit the problems that have dogged the leading thinkers of the circle around F. A. Hayek for the last seven decades. Some problems are predictable: securing...

Read more about CES: A Brief History of Neoliberal Problems

Join us for refreshments and meet our faculty, visiting scholars and students interested in Europe from Harvard and the area’s many universities. Find out about our programming, upcoming events, internships & grants! Open to the public.