Join the Ash Center and the Institute of Politics for a conversation with: 

• Norman L. Eisen

Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Special Assistant and Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, 2009-2011

U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2011 – 2014)

• Archon Fung

Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship and Academic Dean, Harvard Kennedy School

• Mary Graham

Co-Director, Transparency Policy Project, Ash...

“The Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program: A Model for Dramatically Increasing Diversity at the PhD Level in Science and Engineering”

Keivan Stassun

Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Vanderbilt University

Wednesday, February 15 at 4 PM

Pfizer Lecture Hall — B23, Mallinckrodt Building

12 Oxford St, Cambridge MA

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The degree to which sports—broadly defined—permeates societies and cultures has never been greater, making it a revealing lens through which to understand many contemporary issues. The Radcliffe Institute conference “Game Changers: Sports, Gender, and Society” will explore the relationship between sports and gender in the United States and around the world.

The conference begins with an arts performance and conversation on Thursday evening: scenes from a work in progress by...

Game Changers: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Join us on March 30, 2017, to write women athletes into Wikipedia. Entries about women are underrepresented in Wikipedia, the world’s largest online source of information. We will write new entries about women athletes and women’s sports, supplement current entries, and begin to address the imbalance.

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Fellows' Presentation, Lectures

Part of the 2016–2017 Fellows' Presentation Series and the 2016–2017 Oceans Lecture Series. 

Lecture by Chris Bowler...

Gender and Sexuality

Nancy Krieger, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Abstract

A lurking biological essentialism infuses contemporary research on “health disparities.” Mindful of the long reach of early 20th century...

Modernism

Maria del Pilar Blanco, University of Oxford

Women and Culture in the Early Modern World

Kristen Abbott Bennett, Stonehill College

Erica Zimmer, Boston University

Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome

Johanna Hanink, Brown University

Eighteenth-Century Studies

Christie McDonald, Harvard University

Medieval Studies

Anne Broadbridge, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Michael Penn, Stanford University

Charles Stang, Harvard Divinity School

John Zaleski, Harvard University

Early colonial accounts of the conquest of Mexico meticulously inventory the gold and sundry tribute items (fine cloths, turquoise, jewels) acquired by conquistadors in the service of the Spanish monarchy. Yet, within these accounts, another set of gifts—indigenous tribute women—intermittently appear in...

In Conversation: Roberto Diago with 
Curator, Alejandro de la Fuente 
Friday, Feb 3, 12 noon The Cooper Gallery

Co-sponsored by the Cuban Studies Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

Juan Roberto Diago is a leading member of the new Afro-Cuban cultural movement, which has valiantly denounced the persistence of racism and discrimination in Cuban society. This exhibition of twenty-five mixed-media and installation artworks traces Diago’s vibrant career from the mid-1990s, when he began to...

Cornel West,
Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University

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The Trump Era: Hope in a Time of Escalating Despair

We celebrate Professor Cornel West’s return to Harvard at our inaugural Spring Colloquium. Just five days after Donald Trump takes office, Professor West will share his thoughts with us on where our country finds itself right now and the path forward for progressives and...

Fellows' Presentation, Lectures

War and the Soundscapes of Memory

2016–2017 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities

As the generation with a living memory of the Second World War recedes, the critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler...