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Spring 2008 Lectures & Panel Discussions

February

Monday, February 4, 2008
Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities
"The Rise and Fall of the Jewish-American Novel"
Vivian Gornick, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow and independent writer

4 p.m.
Radcliffe Gymnasium
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
For more information, call 617-495-8600.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Humanities Center Panel Discussion
"Drawing the Line"

6 p.m.
Tsai Auditorium
CGIS, South Building
Cambridge, Massachusetts
For more information, call 617-495-0738.

Monday, February 11, 2008
2007–2008 Lectures in the Sciences
"Regional Expressions of Global Warmth: Lessons from the Pliocene"
Christina Ravelo, University of California at Santa Cruz

4:30 p.m.
Geological Museum, Room 100
24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts
For more information, contact 617-495-8600.

Friday, February 22, 2008
Schlesinger Lecture
"Guts, Greyhounds, and Gandhi: Pauli Murray’s Civil Rights Movement, 1935–1973"
Glenda E. Gilmore, 2000–2001 Radcliffe Institute fellow, author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950 (W. W. Norton, forthcoming January 2008), and Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University

2 p.m.
Radcliffe Gymnasium
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
For more information, call 617-495-8647.

March

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
2007–2008 Dean's Lecture Series and Lecture in the Sciences
"On Flies and Fishes and the Origin of Vertebrates"
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, director, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany) and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

4:15 p.m.
Lecture Hall D, Science Center
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts
For more information, call 617-495-8600.

April

Monday, April 14, 2008
2007–2008 Dean's Lecture Series
“Inventing Human Rights”
Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, University of California at Los Angeles

4 p.m.
Radcliffe Gymnasium
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
For more information, call 617-495-8600.

Monday, April 28, 2008
2007–2008 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture
"A Poetry Reading with Commentary"
Adrienne Rich, poet

4:15 p.m.
Radcliffe Gymnasium
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A book signing with Adrienne Rich will take place immediately after the reading.
For more information, call 617-495-8600.