2007–2008 Events Archive

September

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Development, Evaluation, and Comparison of Prediction Rules Based on a Panel of Biomarkers"

Tianxi Cai, Harvard School of Public Health, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Heart Cells from Stem Cells"

Christine Mummery, Hubrecht Laboratory (Netherlands), 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Sunday, September 30, 2007
Alumnae/i Events
"Cultivating Children’s Self-Esteem"
Peggy J. Miller, 2006–2007 Radcliffe Institute fellow, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

5 p.m., 941 Sheridan Road, Wilmette, IL 60091, events@radcliffe.edu, 1-888-RAD-ALUM
Registration is required by September 24, 2007.

October

Monday, October 01, 2007
2007–2008 Lectures in the Sciences
"Hunting the Earth’s Magnetic Field"
Lisa Tauxe, professor of geophysics, director of the earth sciences major, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego

4:15 p.m., Lecture Hall A, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Curly Top (1935), directed by Irving Cummings

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, October 03, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Mind Bugs: The Science of Ordinary Prejudice"

Mahzarin Banaji, Harvard University, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Schlesinger Panel Discussion
“Dining Diplomacy: Japanese Cuisine and American Taste”

7 p.m, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8262.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007 - Friday, March 28, 2008
Schlesinger Exhibition
"Little Lulu Lives at the Schlesinger Library: The Marjorie Henderson Buell Collection"

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Reception on Thursday, December 6, 2007, 4 p.m. Exhibition details

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Sex Differences in Human Behavior: Biosocial Origin Theory"

Wendy Wood, Duke University, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Monday, October 15, 2007
2007–2008 Dean’s Lecture Series
"The Culture War in the Courts"
Phyllis Schlafly, attorney and author

4 p.m., Agassiz Theatre, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"In Search of Self: The Organization of Business Interests for Collective Social Policies"

Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Thursday, October 18, 2007 - Thursday, April 10, 2008
Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
"2007–2008 Boston Seminar Series"

Various times and locations, 617-495-8647

Thursday, October 18, 2007
2007–2008 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“A Sporting Chance: Billie Jean King, Title IX, and the Revolution in Women’s Sports”
Susan Ware, independent scholar, with commentary by Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University and Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

5:15 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Registration for the series is required.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Physical Views of the Biology, Geology, and Chemistry of Earth’s Carbon Cycle"

Daniel Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Friday, October 26, 2007 - Saturday, October 27, 2007
Conference
"Tango! Dance the World Around: Global Transformations of Latin American Culture"

Agassiz Theatre, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Monday, October 29, 2007
2007–2008 Lectures in the Sciences
"The Changing Carbon Cycle: How Fast Will Atmospheric CO2 Increase?"
Inez Fung, professor of atmospheric sciences, codirector, Berkeley Institute of the Environment, University of California at Berkeley

4:15 p.m., Lecture Hall A, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Aerodynamics of Falling Paper and Insect Flight"

Jane Wang, Cornell University, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

November

Tuesday, November 06, 2007
2007–2008 Dean’s Lecture Series
"The Cultural Politics of Pain, from Percodan to Kevorkian"
Keith Wailoo, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History and founding director, Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"The Mechanical Cell"

Jané Kondev, Brandeis University, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Times Square (1980), directed by Allan Moyle

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, November 14, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Reproductive Rights and Responsibility: Feminist Perspectives"

Frances Kissling, Catholics for a Free Choice, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Thursday, November 15, 2007
Schlesinger Event
"A Conversation with Byllye Avery and Judy Norsigian on Women and Health Care Reform"
Kip Tiernan, moderator

5 p.m., Sheerr Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Selling the American Way: Singer Sewing Machine Company in Japan, 1900–1940"

Andrew Gordon, Harvard University, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Thursday, November 29, 2007
Schlesinger Lecture
"Out of the Gutter: Contemporary Graphic Novels by Women"
Hillary Chute, Harvard University Society of Fellows

5 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

December

Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the Little Review (1994) and Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller (1987), directed by Wendy Weinberg (Beyond Imagining) and Deborah Dickson (Frances Steloff)

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 05, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"From Screw Threads to Corporate Social Responsibility: The International Organization for Standardization and Global Governance"

Craig Murphy, Wellesley College, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Schlesinger Library Book Sale
"Book Sale 2007"

8 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 12, 2007
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Music and Liberalism in Germany, ca. 1840"

Ryan Minor, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

January

Thursday, January 10, 2008
2007–2008 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
"Last Man to Die: Vietnam and the Soldier as Citizen"

Robert Self, Brown University and 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, with commentary by Dayo F. Gore, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
5:15 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, 617-495-8647
Rescheduled from December 13.
Registration for the series is required.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Analytical Listening through Interactive Visualization"

Elaine Chew, University of Southern California, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, and Alexandre François, University of Southern California, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"From Protein Sequence to Function"

Liisa Holm, University of Helsinki (Finland), 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Monday, January 28, 2008 - Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Alumnae/i Event
"Flipping a Coin to Protect Your Privacy"

Salil Vadhan, 2003–2004 Radcliffe Institute fellow and the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, and Barbara J. Grosz, Interim Dean
Monday, January 28: reception at 6:15 p.m., program at 7 p.m., Stanford Park Hotel, 100 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA
Tuesday, January 29: reception at 6:15 p.m., program at 7 p.m., Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA, events@radcliffe.edu, 1-888-RAD-ALUM

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Domestic Piety and Religious Change"

David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

February

Monday, February 04, 2008
Humanities Center Event
"Poetry Reading"
Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow

6 p.m., Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, 617-495-0738

Monday, February 04, 2008
2007–2008 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, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Racial Degenerates or Harbingers of Peace?: Imagining Eurasian Hybridity"

Emma Teng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
The Josephine Baker Story (1991), directed by Brian Gibson

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, February 06, 2008
Humanities Center Panel Discussion
"Drawing the Line"

6 p.m., Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, South Building, 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, 617-495-8600

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Alumnae/i Event
"What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat"
Louise Richardson, executive dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and author, What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (Random House, 2006)

Reception at 6:15 p.m., program at 7 p.m., Sailfish Club of Florida, 1338 North Lake Way, Palm Beach, FL, events@radcliffe.edu, 1-888-RAD-ALUM

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"From Novel to Opera"

Elena Ruehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and the Vicissitudes of Modern Architecture"

Hilde Heynen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Alumnae/i Event
"At the Crossroads of Success and Struggle"
John Diamond, 2006–2007 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Harvard University

6:30 p.m., Harvard Club of New York City, 27 West 44th Street, New York, NY, events@radcliffe.edu, 1-888-RAD-ALUM

Thursday, February 21, 2008
2007–2008 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“Every History Has Its History: The Creation of Feminist Origins Stories”

Lisa Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University, with commentary by Melanie Gustafson, University of Vermont
5:15 p.m., Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Room, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647
Registration for the series is required.

Friday, February 22, 2008
Fellow's Performance
"The Cypress Quartet Plays an All Ruehr Concert"

Compositions by Elena Ruehr, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8 p.m., John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University Music Building, Harvard Yard, 617-821-0532

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, 617-495-8647

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Ethiopian Contributions to the World of Music"

Mulatu Astatke, independent composer, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

March

Tuesday, March 04, 2008
2007–2008 Dean's Lecture Series and Lectures 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, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
All That Heaven Allows (1955), directed by Douglas Sirk

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, March 05, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Protein Folding and Evolution Unfolding"

Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Friday, March 07, 2008
Science Symposium
"Origins of Life: The Earth, the Solar System, and Beyond"

9 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"The (near-)Future of Time"

Michael Crescimanno, Youngstown State University, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Series
"Double Violin Concerto"

Lisa Bielawa, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Fellow's Performance
"Boston Modern Orchestra Project Concert: World Premiere of Double Violin Concerto, Co-Commissioned by the Radcliffe Institute"

Compositions by Lisa Bielawa, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Boston Modern Orchestra Project
8 p.m.
Jordan Hall
51 Gainsborough Street
Boston, Massachusetts
For tickets and more information, see www.bmop.org

April

Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Fellow's Performance
"Boston Modern Orchestra Project Concert: New York Premiere of Double Violin Concerto, Co-Commissioned by the Radcliffe Institute"

Compositions by Lisa Bielawa, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Boston Modern Orchestra Project
8 p.m.
Brooklyn Lyceum
227 Union Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
For tickets and more information, see www.matafestival.org

Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Sexual Citizenship and the Privacy Quandary in Sixties and Seventies America"

Robert Self, Brown University, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
Look Us in the Eye: The Old Women’s Project (2006) and Big Mama (2000), directed by Jennifer Abod (Look Us in the Eye) and Tracy Seretean (Big Mama)

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

Thursday, April 03, 2008 - Thursday, October 2, 2008
Schlesinger Exhibition
"Women of Spirit: Religion, Voice, and Social Justice"

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

Thursday, April 03, 2008 - Friday, April 4, 2008
Conference
"Gender and Religion: Authority, Power, and Agency"

Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600

Monday, April 07, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"What Nature Tells Us"

Rebecca Baron, California Institute of the Arts, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"A Radical German Renaissance? Myth and Reality"

Mitchell Merback, DePauw University, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Thursday, April 10, 2008
2007–2008 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender
“For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics, 1877–1932”

Lisa Materson, University of California at Davis, with commentary by Nina Silber, Boston University
5:15 p.m., Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, 617-495-8647
Registration is required.

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, 617-495-8600

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Bibliotherapy Redux: Reading, Race, and Rehabilitation in US Women’s Prisons"

Megan Sweeney, University of Michigan, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Divo/Duce: Italian Masculinity in 1920s America"

Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Friday, April 25, 2008
Fellows' Symposium
"Interactions—humans • computers • music"

Organized by Elaine Chew, University of Southern California, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, and Alexandre François, University of Southern California, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
1–6 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~mucoaco/Radcliffe/prs/interactions.html

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, 617-495-8600
A book signing with Adrienne Rich will take place immediately after the reading.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Together and Apart: Theoretical Models of Host-Symbiont Genome Evolution"

Maria Orive, University of Kansas, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

May

Thursday, May 01, 2008
Alumnae/i Event
"Computing Collaboratively: What Kathy Delaney-Smith Knows About Teamwork That Our Computers Don't"
Barbara J. Grosz, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard

Reception at 6 p.m., program at 6:45 p.m., Washington Athletic Club, 1325 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA, events@radcliffe.edu, 1-888-RAD-ALUM

Monday, May 05, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"A Poetry Reading"

Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Alumnae/i Event
"The First Years of Social Life"
Mahzarin Banaji, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Harvard University

6:30 p.m., Harvard Club of New York City, 27 West 44th Street, New York, NY, events@radcliffe.edu, 1-888-RAD-ALUM

Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library
A Letter to Three Wives (1949), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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, May 07, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Anabasis: Xenophon in America"

Tim Rood, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford (United Kingdom), 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Monday, May 12, 2008
Fellow's Performance
"The Mathematics in Music—a Concert-Conversation with Elaine Chew"

Elaine Chew, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, University of Southern California
4 p.m., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts
For more information, visit http://web.mit.edu/arts/announcements/prs/2008/0402_Chew.html

Monday, May 12, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"The Body Speaks: Capturing Martha Graham’s Dance Art"

Christine Dakin, independent artist, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., Dance Building, Studio One, 60 Garden Street, 617-495-8212

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"An AIDS Pedagogy"

Kathleen Cash, independent scholar, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Monday, May 19, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Lunch Break"

Sharon Lockhart, University of Southern California, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212

Thursday, May 22, 2008
Fellow Event
"An Evening of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Solitude of Self"

Vivian Gornick, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, and Jan Freeman
5–6:30 p.m., 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

June

Monday, June 02, 2008 - Friday, June 6, 2008
Alumnae/i Event
"Radcliffe Reunions"

Reunions 2008
Various locations, events@radcliffe.edu, 1-888-RAD-ALUM

Monday, June 23, 2008 - Friday, June 27, 2008
Schlesinger Library's Summer Seminar on Gender History
"Sequels to the 1960s"

Program: Monday, June 23, 9:15 a.m.–Friday, June 27, 1:30 p.m., 617-495-8600
Click here to see plenary lectures and special presentations schedule.