Video: Lectures

2010–2011


2010–2011 Dean’s Lecture Series
“The Art of Choosing”
Sheena Iyengar, S. T. Lee Professor of Business, Columbia Business School; author of The Art of Choosing

2010–2011 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities
“Can We Keep Up? Theater’s Incredible Ability to Evolve”
John Tiffany, 2010–2011 Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Independent Artist (United Kingdom)

2010–2011 Rama S. Mehta Lecture
“Economic Empowerment as a Tool for Social and Political Empowerment of Women in Africa”
Joyce Banda, Vice President of Malawi

2010–2011 Dean’s Lecture Series
“Alice in Time”
Dame Gillian Beer, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature Emeritus, University of Cambridge

 

2009–2010


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

 

2008–2009


2008–2009 Lecture in the Sciences
“Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria”
Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University

2008–2009 Dean’s Lecture Series
"Eliminating Disparities in Healthcare: The Role of Healthcare Professionals"
Lisa A. Cooper, professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

2008–2009 Dean’s Lecture Series and Lecture in the Sciences
“Skin Stem Cells: Biology and Clinical Promise”
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor in Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, the Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

2008–2009 Dean’s Lecture Series
"Can't You See I'm Busy? Computers That Know When to Interrupt"
Barbara J. Grosz, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

2008–2009 Rama S. Mehta Lecture
"Stone Her to Death? Why? Defending Women within Sharia Courts"
Hauwa Ibrahim, 2008–2009 Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Aries Law Firm, Nigeria

2008–2009 Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities
"The Health of Poetry"
Gwyneth Lewis, 2008–2009 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Inaugural National Poet of Wales in 2005–2006

2008–2009 Lectures in the Sciences
"Reading Between the Spectral Lines: Revealing Interactions Within Living Cells"
Carol Robinson, professor of biological chemistry, University of Cambridge, England

2008–2009 Dean’s Lecture Series
“Freedom from Imagination”
Susan Stewart, Annan Professor of English, Princeton University

2008–2009 Dean’s Lecture Series
“'The Mother Too Hath Her Title': John Locke on Motherhood and Equality”
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University School of Law

2008–2009 Lecture in the Sciences
"Cancer Chemotherapy: An Unfolding Story"
Luke Whitesell, 2005–2006 Grass Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research