Anna Pauline Murray was a pioneering civil and human rights activist, feminist and legal theorist, preacher and poet. The Schlesinger Library holds the Pauli Murray Collection, a vast resource comprised of audiotapes, photographs, correspondence, and more. This panel discussion will focus on Murray’s groundbreaking work and her tumultuous times. The speakers—scholars of history, women’s and gender studies, law, and African studies—have each written about different facets of Murray’s prismatic, always interesting, and sometimes contradictory legacy.

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Cosponsored Event

Panelists:
Kornel Chang, Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark

Catherine Warner, College Fellow in South Asian Studies and History at...

Intersections: Understanding Urbanism in the Global Age 

Friday, April 28 | 9 AM–5 PM

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge MA

Urbanism is a global phenomenon that presents a range of pressing issues to consider—economic, political, and material, but most of all human. This one-day conference is designed to stimulate a broad-based discussion about “the urban” in the 21st century, a much more complicated concept than 19th- and 20th-century cities...

Further information on the CES website.

The speakers will focus on:

Mary Sarotte - Russia policy
Yasha Mounk - implications for the liberal order
Heidi Tworek - big data related issues
Stephen Szabo - introduction of the general finding

About

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Eric Deggans is the first full time TV critic at National Public Radio. Before that, he served as TV/Media Critic for the Tampa Bay Times, Florida's largest newspaper, for nearly 20 years. Some people call him the most critical guy in the place, because he served as TV critic, Pop Music Critic and Media Critic at various times. He has also guest hosted CNN's media analysis show Reliable Sources many times and serves on the board of journalists, educators, media experts and media industry luminaries who select the George Foster Peabody Awards.

Raised...

STS Circle at Harvard:

Speaker: Daniel Wikler (HSPH, Ethics and Population Health)

Presented by: Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Tickets: Space is limited, and tickets are required. Free tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning at noon on Thursday, April 6th, at the...

Participants:
Beverly Bossler, University of California, Davis
Ron Egan, Stanford University
Grace Fong, McGill University
Eileen Chow, Duke University
Maram Epstein, University of Oregon
Xu Man, Tufts University

Organized by:
Wai Yee Li, Harvard University
Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College

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Modern China Lecture Series:

Speaker: Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University

In December of 1957, a medical delegation from the People’s Republic of China visited Japan as part of a decade-long series of semi-official cultural exchanges between the two former enemies. The delegation brought back a “Nakatani Ryōdōraku electrodermometer”—a...

Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Professor Schmalzer’s research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China. Her first book, The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008 and won the Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association. Her second book, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China, was...

Further details on the Fairbank Center website. 

Speaker: Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He works out of Beijing and Berlin, where he also teaches and advises academic journals and think tanks.

Johnson has spent over half of...

Early Slavists’ Seminar

Russell E. Martin, Professor of History, Westminster College

In this public talk, Harvard Graduate Student Julia Alekseyeva will discuss her recent graphic memoir, “Soviet Daughter,” the story of her rebellious, independent great-grandmother coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of this story on Alekseyeva’s own life several decades later. In conversation with Alekseyeva, comics scholar ...