Isaac Newton....

Join us for an intimate exploration of the "ignorance of history and the primacy of fiction over fact" with former Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and best-selling author Tony Horwitz. Tony has taken public history in new directions with works such as his seminal Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, A Voyage Long and Strange, and Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, each with his characteristically perspicacious view on the important ways that the past...

Rory Finnin

Head, Department of Slavonic Studies, University Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies;
Director, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies program, University of Cambridge, UK

For additional information, see: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/news/news-from-huri/237-rory-finnin-on-literature-in-the-ukrainian-crimean-tatar-encounter.html

Wikipedia edit-a-thon, Strong Voices Indigenous Women

 Join the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Harvard University Native American Program in a...

SCHLESINGER LIBRARY OPEN WORKSHOP – All are welcome, No RSVP Required

Radcliffe Workshop on Technology & Archival Processing

April 4, 2016, Knafel Center, 1:30-5:00pm

Please join us for the Radcliffe Workshop on Technology and Archival Processing, April 4, 2016. The afternoon program will bring together scholars, archivists, and computer scientists for a problem-solving event. Participants will be asked to consider the relationship between archival processing, technology, and digital humanities and how digital...

• Symphony in Black, 1935, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday (9:36)
• Rhapsody in Black and Blue, 1932, Louis Armstrong (10:00)
• St. Louis Blues, 1929, Bessie Smith (15:41)
• Cab Calloway’s Hi De Ho, 1933 (10:00)
• Bundle of Blues, 1933, Duke Ellington (9:00)
• Hoagy Carmichael, 1939, Hoagy Carmichael, Jack Teagarden (10:00)
• Artie Shaw’s Class in Swing, 1939, Artie Shaw (10:00)...

W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Spring Colloquium

 Beekan Guluma Erena

Writer & Scholar

Fellow’s Bio

Free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Noel Valis (Yale University), a major American critic of Spanish literature, and Anna Caballé (Barcelona University), a scholar of women’s writing, the diary, and the memoir will consider a series of autobiographical essays by some of America’s leading Hispanists. The conversation –about remembered moments of first contact with other authors and cultures–will be moderated by Christopher Maurer (Boston University).

 La reciente publicación de un volumen de ensayos autobiográficos de...

Beginning in 1916, a group of black women in Washington D.C. came together to protest ceaseless acts of terrorism against African Americans - by writing plays. These plays, which were written over many decades and never commercially produced, focus on the survivors: lynching victims' mothers, siblings and spouses. They tell the stories of women who tried to prevent the violence and how they struggled to endure in its aftermath. The April 7, 2016 reading will feature three of these little known plays: Mary Burrill's Aftermath (1919), Georgia Douglas Johnson's...

On Sunday, April 3 at 8:00 p.m., the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta will make its American debut at Symphony Hall in a special performance commemorating the fifth anniversary of the environmental disasters that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011.

Created at the initiative of students from a number of Fukushima middle schools and high schools in the aftermath of the disasters, the Sinfonietta comes to Boston following sold-out performances at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Tokyo Opera City. The...