The following presentations by current fellows at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study are free and open to the public. For more information, please call 617-495-8212.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
