Reception begins at 5:00pm.

Bert Hansen, Ph.D.: Retired Professor of History, Baruch College, City University of New York

For over a century, biographers of the great medical scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) have ignored his passionate and sophisticated love for painting and sculpture and the delight he took in his close friendships with leading artists.  New research on this forgotten history enriches our understanding of his personality as well as his manner of working.  The sober chemist, who had seemed to be devoted strictly to work...

Pizza will be provided.

To celebrate the opening of Corpus Delicti: the Doctor as the Detective, our new exhibit on the history of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Center of the History will present a screening of the 1950 MGM film Mystery Street. Mystery Street (also known as Murder at Harvard) was originally intended as a documentary on the work of the Department of Legal Medicine, but was later recast as a fictional drama. Corpus...

Sponsor: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Speaker(s):

• Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library; visiting professor, City University of New York. Muhammad has been recently named a professor of history, race, and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Cost: Free

Contact Info: ...

Sponsor: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Speaker(s):

• Lawrence Ralph, 2015-2016 Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Cost: Free

Contact Info: events@radcliffe.harvard.edu

Notes:  Anthropologist Lawrence Ralph will share insights from his...

Sponsor: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Speaker(s):

• Joyce M. Bell, 2015-2016 Maury Green Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; associate professor and the Don E. Martindale Chair of Sociology, University of Minnesota

Cost: Free

Contact Info: events@radcliffe.harvard.edu

Notes:  Bell will speak about her new book, Black Power Lawyers: Unique and Unorthodox Methods. Utilizing archival...

Sponsor: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Speaker(s):

• Moderator, Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Harvard Business School
• Lydia Edwards, Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers
• Premilla Nadasen, Department of History, Barnard College
• Monique Nguyen, MataHari
• Natalicia Tracy, Brazilian Worker Center

Cost: Free

Contact Info: ...

A collaboration between Harvard librarians, scholars, and digital humanists, the Charlie Archive at Harvard Library is an evolving project that collects a broad range of materials, including ephemera. Volunteers in France and elsewhere have donated photographs, blog posts, leaflets, posters, and more associated with the Paris attacks in January 2015.

 Please join us for a panel discussion and exhibit about what the project means as a scholarly endeavor and library collection.

 Featuring: Professors Virginie Greene and Nicole Mills, Bibliographer...

Richard Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History and Dean of Humanities, Duke University

Going "There": Considering Black Visual Satire

March 29: Dis/compositions, Hazards, and Rags
March 30: The Minstrel Stain
March 31: A Colescott Shellacking and its Legacy

Richard Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History and Dean of Humanities, Duke University

Going "There": Considering Black Visual Satire

March 29: Dis/compositions, Hazards, and Rags
March 30: The Minstrel Stain
March 31: A Colescott Shellacking and its Legacy

Richard Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History and Dean of Humanities, Duke University

Going "There": Considering Black Visual Satire

March 29: Dis/compositions, Hazards, and Rags
March 30: The Minstrel Stain
March 31: A Colescott Shellacking and its Legacy

"It Seems to Me an Inhuman Traffic": Black Baroque and God's Mercy In Nueva Granada

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

Thomas B. F. Cummins, Dubarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columnian and Colonial Art, Harvard University

She was left out of Civil Rights history, erased by jazz critics, and forgotten by most Americans because no one knew how to categorize her greatness.  But throughout the 1960s, Nina Simone was both loved and feared for her outspoken vision of Black Freedom.  Her musical proclamations like "Mississippi Goddam", and her iconic style gave voice to people of all colors facing oppression, and continues to empower today with its unrelenting appeal for justice.  Now the story of America?s most overlooked musical genius is finally brought to light in the acclaimed...

Sharon Harley, Associate Professor, African American Studies, University of Maryland

• Fellow's Bio and Project Description

Re-Reading Du Bois's Life and Scholarship Through a Gendered Lens

Free and open to the public.  A Q+A session will follow each talk.  Please feel free to bring a lunch.

David Geggus, Professor of History, University of Florida

The Saint Domingue Slave Revolt and the Rise of Toussaint Louverture

February 23rd: Saint Domingue

February 24th: The 1791 Uprising 

February 25th: The Rise of Toussaint Louverture