The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the Papers of June Jordan at the Schlesinger Library, this panel discussion features scholars, poets, and activists... Read more about The Difficult Miracle: The Living Legacy of June Jordan

The Racial Imaginary and American Poetry: A Lecture with Claudia Rankine

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Claudia Rankine is an American poet, chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University. In this talk, Rankine... Read more about The Racial Imaginary and American Poetry: A Lecture with Claudia Rankine

The Wrong Family Holocaust Story: Survival of Polish Jews in Stalin's Russia

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CGIS South Building, Belfer Case Study Room (Room S020), Harvard University Campus, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Ellen G. Friedman’s presentation centers on the largely unknown story of Polish Jews who were saved from Hitler by Stalin. This story is at the center of her new book, The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story. Of the 3.3 million Jews in Poland before WWII, only about 350,000 survived, most of them by being banished to remote areas in the USSR. The reasons for the obscurity of this Holocaust narrative relate to its being the “wrong” story. Not about concentration camps, this story was buried by historians and by Polish Jews, themselves, who felt they were low on the “hierarchy of...

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Who Would Choose to Be LGBT and Nigerian!?

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Ifeoma Fafunwa RI ’18 is the creator of the popular stage play HEAR WORD! Naija Women Talk True. In this presentation, Fafunwa will speak about her latest production... Read more about Who Would Choose to Be LGBT and Nigerian!?

US Foreign Policy from the Inside Out

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

Former United Nations representative and member of President Obama’s cabinet Samantha Power will offer a comprehensive overview of US foreign policy.... Read more about US Foreign Policy from the Inside Out

Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

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Emerson Hall, 25 Quincy St, Cambridge

A discussion of origin stories with Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University), Meredith Reiches (University of Massachusetts Boston), and Richard... Read more about Garden Party: From Genesis to The Descent of Man

Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

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First Parish in Cambridge, 1446 Massachusetts Ave

The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Office of the President at Harvard present the Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Bryan... Read more about Social Justice Action: How We Change the World

“Let the Indian Paint His Own Picture”: Alice Fletcher and Cultural Representation Paradoxes

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Family Secrets and American History

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

This panel brings together notable authors and academics to discuss the not-quite-secret stories of American families that, once... Read more about Hidden in Plain Sight: Family Secrets and American History

Egypt's Old Kingdom

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Abusir, the “Place of Osiris,” is a necropolis (burial site) near the Old Kingdom’s city of Memphis, known for its pyramids and sun... Read more about Egypt's Old Kingdom

Feminist Archaeology: Exhibition Opening Talk with Jennifer Bornstein

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

Jennifer Bornstein RI’15 is an internationally exhibited artist who works in diverse media, including video, 16-millimeter film, sculpture,... Read more about Feminist Archaeology: Exhibition Opening Talk with Jennifer Bornstein

Decoding Maya Hieroglyphs with 3D Technology

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

The Peabody Museum has conducted archaeological research in the Maya site of Copan, Honduras, since the 1890s. One of... Read more about Decoding Maya Hieroglyphs with 3D Technology

Does the Left Have a Future?

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge

Nearly everywhere in Europe and the United States, the left is mired in crisis: its intellectuals and activists strike defensive poses and... Read more about Does the Left Have a Future?

Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is it Legal? Is it Constitutional? Is it Just?

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Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

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Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is it Legal? Is it Constitutional? Is it Just?

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Science Center, Hall C, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

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