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Radcliffe Gymnasium; photo by Richard Mandelkorn
September
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Why Was Darwin’s View of Species Rejected by Twentieth-Century Biologists?”
James Mallet, 2009–2010 Helen Putnam Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University College London (England)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
October
Friday, October 2, 2009 – Friday, February 26, 2010
Schlesinger Exhibition
“‘To Know the Whole World’: Women’s Travel Writings from the Schlesinger Library, 1819–1972”
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Exhibition details
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Building Crashing Thinking”
Peter Galison, 2009–2010 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Give the Ballot to the Mothers (1996) and The Lottery (1969)
Followed by a discussion with Elizabeth Singer More, PhD candidate in history, Harvard University
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Thursday, October 8, 2009 – Friday, October 9, 2009
Symposium
"Celebrate 10 Years! Crossing Boundaries at the Radcliffe Institute"
Thursday, 1–5:30 p.m., Friday 9 a.m.–1 p.m.; Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Registration is required.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Phylogenetic Analysis of World Rhythms”
Godfried Toussaint, 2009–2010 Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, McGill University (Canada)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, October 15, 2009 – Thursday, April 22, 2010
Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
"2009–2010 Boston Seminar Series"
Various times and locations, 617-495-8647
Thursday, October 15, 2009
2009–2010 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Historicizing Social Citizenship in the United States: Gender, Disability, and Comparative Perspectives”
Felicia Kornbluh, University of Vermont, with commentary by Laura L. Frader, Northeastern University
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
Monday, October 19, 2009
2009–2010 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities
“Fluxus Around the Clock”
Alison Knowles, 2009–2010 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Artist (United States)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Searching for Earths”
Debra Ann Fischer, 2009–2010 Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Yale University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Tasting and Talking Terroir: Ecologies of Value in American Artisan Cheese”
Heather Paxson, 2009–2010 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
November
Monday, November 2, 2009
2009–2010 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture
"Women and Health: A Comprehensive Focus for Global Health"
Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health; T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Packing a Suitcase (ca. 1950s), Beautiful Japan (1918), and Home Movies from the Schlesinger Library Collection
Followed by a discussion with Jeremy Blatter, PhD candidate in history of science and film and visual studies, Harvard University, and Melissa Dollman, Audiovisual Cataloger, Schlesinger Library
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Lost Properties of the Twentieth Century”
Ravit Reichman, 2009–2010 Lisa Goldberg Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Brown University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
December
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Functional Biomimetics: Art and Science”
Joanna Aizenberg, Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Radcliffe, Harvard University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, December 3, 2009
2009–2010 Dean’s Lecture Series
“The Cultural Impact of the Book of Revelation”
Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Monday, December 7, 2009
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
The Dione Lucas Cooking Show (1950s), Julia Child at Marshall Field’s (1980), Buying Food (1950), and Seeds of Promise: The Critical Roles of Third World Women in Food Production (1987)
Followed by a discussion with Laura Shapiro, Author, Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America (Viking Adult, 2004) and Julia Child: A Life (Viking Adult, 2007)
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Arab-Jewish Identity: Memory, Poetry, and Singularity”
Reuven Snir, 2009–2010 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Haifa University (Israel)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, December 10, 2009
2009–2010 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“How Are the Daughters of Eve Punished? Rape and the American Civil War”
Crystal Feimster, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with commentary by Nina Silber, Boston University
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Schlesinger Library Book Sale
“Cookbooks and Books on Women’s Studies”
10 a.m.–6 p.m., Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“A Poetry Reading”
Katie Peterson, 2009–2010 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Deep Springs College
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
January
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Riffs on Real Time”
Leslie Hewitt, 2009–2010 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Artist (United States)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
February
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989) and Jeannette Rankin, The Woman Who Voted No (1982)
Followed by a discussion with Marilyn Morgan and Emilyn Brown, Manuscript Catalogers, Schlesinger Library
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Arnold Schoenberg’s ‘A Survivor from Warsaw’ in Postwar Europe”
Joy H. Calico, 2009–2010 Burkhardt Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Vanderbilt University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“The Mouthpiece Cycle: Non-semantic Works for Voice”
Erin E. Gee, 2009–2010 Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Composer (United States)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“The Gender Paradox: Javanese Women and the Appeal of Conservative Islam”
Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, 2009–2010 Hrdy Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Boston University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
March
Monday, March 1, 2010
2009–2010 Dean’s Lecture Series
Title to be announced
Rosalie Abella, Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“How Subduction Defines the Earth and Its Tectonic Plates”
Leigh Royden, 2009–2010 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
We Dig Coal: A Portrait of Three Women (1981) and We’re Here to Stay: Women in the Trades (1986)
Followed by a discussion with Susan J. von Salis, Associate Curator of Archives, Harvard University, and producer of We’re Here to Stay: Women in the Trades
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Monday, March 8, 2010 – Friday, October 8, 2010
Schlesinger Exhibition
Title to be announced
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Mud Matters”
Ann Pearson, 2009–2010 Radcliffe Alumnae Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, March 18, 2010
2009–2010 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“'Grandeurs Which I Had Heard Of’: Women Travelers and Print Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic"
Carolyn Eastman, University of Texas at Austin, with commentary by Cornelia Dayton, University of Connecticut
5:30 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
Monday, March 22, 2010
2009–2010 Dean’s Lecture Series
Title to be announced
Steven D. Levitt, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Photography and China”
Claire Roberts, 2009–2010 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Australian National University/Powerhouse Museum (Australia)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
April
Thursday, April 1, 2010
2009–2010 Dean’s Lecture Series
Title to be announced
Carolyn Porco, Director of Flight Operations and Cassini Imaging Team Leader, Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS), Space Science Institute
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Early Medieval History and the Lost Word of Things”
Robin Fleming, 2009–2010 Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Boston College
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
The American Look (1958), Coney Island (1940s), and films featuring Radcliffe College
Followed by a discussion with Olga Touloumi, PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Violent Customary Practices, Islam, and Tribal Culture”
Humaira Awais Shahid, 2009–2010 Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Cosponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, Khabrain Group of Newspapers (Pakistan)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, April 15, 2010 – Friday, April 16, 2010
Conference
“Gender and Space”
Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“A Poetry Reading”
Jericho Brown, 2009–2010 American Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of San Diego
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Thursday, April 22, 2010
2009–2010 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Making 'False Delicacy’ True: The Passions of Female Moral Reformers, 1935–1845”
April Haynes, Massachusetts Historical Society and American Antiquarian Society, with commentary by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Smith College
5:30 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration for the series is required.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Science Symposium
“Patterning in Nature”
Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
May
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Adding Prime Numbers”
Ben J. Green, 2009–2010 Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Cambridge (England)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Right Out of History: The Making of Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party (1980), directed by Johanna Demetrakas
Followed by a discussion with Joanne Donovan, Audiovisual and Photograph Cataloger, Schlesinger Library
6 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Do You Know Who I Am? The Rise and Fall of the New India”
Siddhartha Deb, 2009–2010 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, New School
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Friday, May 28, 2010
Alumnae/i Event
“Radcliffe Day”
Time and location to be announced
