The 2027-2028 application portal on CARAT will open by November 2026.
]]>We hope to see you on our campus in one of our community spaces. In these shared-use spaces, Radcliffe students can come to study, socialize, take a break, or caffeinate.
Don’t be surprised if you bump into Radcliffe fellows, Radcliffe-affiliated faculty, or Radcliffe staff while you’re here!
Learn more about each below.
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In response to decades of sexist pictures, suffragists constructed a visual vocabulary that challenged ideas of women’s place in society, expanded notions of citizenship, and laid the foundation for modern media politics. This exhibition presents the images that leading activists wanted the public to see—and some that they wanted to hide.
]]>Angela Y. Davis is one of the foremost figures in the struggle for human rights and against racial discrimination in the United States, and a foundational thinker in African American feminism.
]]>Radcliffe’s Emerging Leaders Program pairs Harvard undergraduates with local high school students in a mentoring relationship, working with participants to expand limited notions of leadership and build critical skills to drive social change.
On March 3, 2017, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University will host a daylong conference to explore the relationship between slavery and universities, across the country and around the world.
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The event is free and open to the public.
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The conference is presented in cooperation with the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School.
Sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in collaboration with the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
This event is free and open to the public.
Join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #CityUni.
See event website for more information.
]]>Our conference is designed to stimulate a broad-based discussion about “the urban” in the 21st century, a much more complicated concept than 19th- and 20th-century cities. This change has been much studied by social scientists, but we often overlook how these new urban centers are being experienced by their inhabitants. This Radcliffe Institute conference will take a multidisciplinary and international approach to explore the challenges and tensions that people in urban communities face today.
]]>Three prominent filmmakers and a film critic will discuss the portrayed (and real) experiences of women, men, and people of color as they seek the most fundamental rights of citizenship. Through a series of presentations and film clips, the speakers will explore how the transformative power of masterful storytelling can challenge perceptions and expectations, invite empathy and understanding, inspire dialogue, and offer insight into what it means to be a member of a community.
Free and open to the public.
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]]>Lecture by Francine Berman RI '20
Free and open to the public.
Francine Berman’s current work focuses on the social and environmental impact of the Internet of Things (IoT)—a deeply interconnected ecosystem of billions of devices and systems that are transforming commerce, science, and society. IoT technologies can be used to disrupt, exploit, bias, bully, and intrude as well as to make our lives safer, more efficient, and more convenient. Berman is exploring the larger social and environmental ecosystem needed to develop an IoT that maximizes benefits, minimizes risk, and promotes individual protections, the public good, and planetary responsibility.
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]]>It will be on view in the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery of Byerly Hall at 8 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, Monday through Saturday, from noon to 5 p.m.
On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, there will be a fellow’s presentation by A.K. Burns at 4 p.m. in the Knafel Center, followed by an exhibition opening reception at 5 p.m. in the gallery.
Free and open to the public.
The three artworks by A.K. Burns displayed in the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery span more than a decade of the artist’s diverse practice. The exhibition features a video, a series of drawings, and a vinyl record presented with a poem. The artworks share a grayscale palette that connects the work aesthetically, and each project is linked by notions of the natural and naturalized, subjugation and competition of bodies, and the ethics of power struggles.
The exhibition features new work—a two-track vinyl record, Leave No Trace (2016)—which shares with visitors a mix of ambient environmental recordings and electric guitar. Listening to the record and reading the featured poem, describing a timeline of inventions in recreational equipment, provides an opportunity to examine the connection between nature and technology.
before the wake (2014), a series that Burns created after a visit to Utah, is a reaction to Lake Powell, which was made by the damming of Glen Canyon. The images incorporate spirulina, a dietary supplement of active blue-green algae, to indicate where the land has been submerged and to pose questions about what is natural.
The exhibition offers a large-scale, black-and-white video, titled Thumb War (2004), in which player’s thumbs are locked in competition. The small-scale struggle evokes larger themes of power, gesture, and control.
A.K. Burns, an interdisciplinary artist and educator, is a recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital Award in the visual arts and has works in several public collections, including the International Center of Photography, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. Burns has two solo exhibitions currently on view in New York at the New Museum and Callicoon Fine Arts. Burns received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Featured:
Thumb War, 2004
SD Video, 03:31 min
Performers: A.K. Burns and Lanka Tattersall
Untitled (Canyon Drawings), 2014
Spirulina, polyurethane, and images ripped from a catalog of photographs by Tad Nichols
Leave No Trace, 2016
Limited edition vinyl record, vinyl, and record player
]]>I’d rather get on my knees and talk with children
I’d rather talk to strangers whose language sometimes I can’t understand
I’d rather sense people, little and not so little, beyond language
I’d rather share the beauty of silence between two souls
I’d rather protect the sensuality and the precious way children improvise the world I’d rather spend time building a shack with a four-year-old than socialize
I’d rather, you’d rather, we’d rather. . .
In here, I’ll gently ask you to take your shoes off, and if you got holes in your socks, who cares, I do very often.
And when you take your shoes off, try to also take your armor off—for here, you can roll on the carpet, lay on the bed, draw on the walls, hide in the closet, sit in silence, gaze into the joy, the sadness, the way children are in and out of the world they live in, with and without us.
—Valérie Massadian
]]>Reflective explores the relationship among decisions, actions, and results. The movements of a visitor in the intimate, darkened gallery space is detected by motion capture sensors, which alter the sound quality of the precomposed piece, making the experience more disturbing or pleasant. Each visitor experiences a unique version of the piece, which is four minutes long.
]]>As health director of the City of Detroit, Abdul El-Sayed rebuilt the Detroit Health Department following the city’s municipal bankruptcy to address the needs of its most vulnerable, breaking down health barriers to enable people to learn and earn.
That meant providing vision care to children so that they could see the blackboard, forcing Marathon Petroleum to reduce their sulfur dioxide emissions in the state’s most polluted zip code, and screening every Detroit Public School building for water lead poisoning. Now, he’s running for governor of Michigan.
Free and open to the public.
Part of the 2017–2018 Epidemics Science Lecture Series. A larger, one-day public symposium on the topic was held on Friday, October 27, 2017.
]]>Lecture by Chiara Zurzolo RI '19
Free and open to the public.
During her time at Radcliffe, Chiara Zurzolo is teaming up with neuroscientists and developmental biologists at Harvard to use a range of innovative imaging techniques in investigating the existence and relevance of TNT structures in vivo. They hope to understand whether there are opportunities for therapeutical intervention.
]]>Academics, practitioners, and artists from across all fields will investigate changing immigration trends and examine how gender, race, and social class shape the experience of immigrants and their children in the Americas.
Join the conversation on Twitter: www.twitter.com/RadInstitute #borders2013 #immigration
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We are currently accepting applications for:
Academic Year Housing Rental (click here for application)
The completed application can be returned via:
E-mail: housing@radcliffe.harvard.edu
Fax: 617-384-8307
Eligibility
All full-time fellows, faculty, visiting scholars, and staff at Harvard University and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study are eligible to apply for housing at the 83 Brattle Street Apartments.
Applications will be approved on a first-come first-served basis, with preference given to Radcliffe Institute fellows, then to Harvard University fellows and to Harvard graduate students.
Newly renovated and comfortably furnished, the 83 Brattle Street Apartments offer 1920s charm just steps from Harvard Square. A variety of sizes and price ranges are available, and leases can be written for the summer, a semester, or the academic year.
Building amenities include:
Heat and hot water
Elevator in building
Free Harvard Wi-Fi
Hardwood floors in most units
Bathrooms with granite-top vanities and ceramic tile floors
Kitchens with granite counters, solid maple cabinets, and energy-efficient appliances
Coin-operated washers and dryers on site
Furnishings
Basic house wares (including kitchen equipment, one set of bedding, and bathroom accessories)
Rules
No pets may be kept or harbored in the unit or elsewhere in the building.
Smoking is not permitted in or around the perimeter of the building.
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