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September
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Adventures in Teaching Science and Cooking”
Michael P. Brenner, 2011–2012 Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
October
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Neurological Entanglements: The Case of SSRIs, Suicidal Ideation, and Pediatric Depressions”
Elizabeth A. Wilson, 2011–2012 Helen Putnam Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Emory University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Systems of Creation: The Emergence of Life from Nonliving Matter”
Stephen Mann, 2011–2012 Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow and Wyss Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Bristol (United Kingdom)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“The Story of Islamic Architecture”
Nasser Rabbat, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Stillness and Change”
John Aylward, 2011–2012 Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music at the Radcliffe Institute, Clark University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
November
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Quest for Other Worlds: Diversity and Origins”
Ray Jayawardhana, 2011–2012 William Bentinck-Smith Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Toronto (Canada)
Re’em Sari, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“The Iconography of the Talmud: The History of a Page”
David Stern, 2011–2012 Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Pennsylvania
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, November 14, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Experiments in Audio and Interactive Documentary”
Kara Oehler, 2011–2012 Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Media and Place (MAP) Productions/metaLAB (at) Harvard
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Speak No Evil (A Novel)”
Uzodinma Iweala, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Independent Writer
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, November 28, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“The Betrayers”
David Bezmozgis, 2011–2012 Lisa Goldberg Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Writer (Canada)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Partial Absorption”
John Plotz, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Brandeis University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
December
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Female Labor, Marriage Mobility, and Footbinding in Rural China, 1900–1950”
Laurel Bossen, 2011–2012 The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, McGill University
Melissa J. Brown, 2011–2012 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Minnesota Population Center
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Sarmiento, Translator”
Matías Piñeiro, 2011–2012 David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Universidad del Cine (Argentina)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
January
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Yorkshire Writers: Provincial Literary Communities in Late Medieval England”
Ralph Hanna, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
February
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“In the Company of Women: Desire, Subjectivity, and the Surrealist Imagination”
Whitney Chadwick, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, San Francisco State University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Habitable Worlds”
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, 2011–2012 Maury Green Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Emory University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Moon of Alabama: From the Third Reich to Tranquility Base, via the Segregated American South”
Diane McWhorter, 2011–2012 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Scholar (United States)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Vernacular Poetics of Metaphor”
Cristina Maria Cervone, 2011–2012 Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Scholar (United States)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Egg to Organism: Visualizing the Concepts”
Benny Shilo, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
March
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“The Power Geometry of Globalized Parenting”
Pei-Chia Lan, 2011–2012 Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Death, Mobility, and the Moral Imaginary in South Africa”
Rebekah Lee, 2011–2012 Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Goldsmiths College, University of London (United Kingdom)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Muddy Footprints”
Susanne Freidberg, 2011–2012 Burkhardt Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Dartmouth College
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
April
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Near Burn and Burden”
Reginald Dwayne Betts, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, University of Maryland
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Tumbling Downhill: The Ripple Effects of Unemployment and Underemployment in the United States”
Amy Goldstein, 2011–2012 Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Washington Post
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, April 16, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Reflections on the Private Act of Writing and the Public Act of Citizenship”
Chimamanda Adichie, Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow and Radcliffe-African Studies Fellow, Independent Writer (Nigeria)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Olympic Urbanism: From Rome to Rio”
Judith Grant Long, 2011–2012 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard Graduate School of Design
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Creating Justice for the Poor in the New Metropolis”
Margaret Weir, 2011–2012 Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, University of California at Berkeley
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
May
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Wit and Its Engineering: Poetry and Cartography in Early Modern France”
Tom Conley, 2011–2012 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Reading from the Novel ‘One Hundred Philistine Foreskins’”
Tova Reich, 2011–2012 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Independent Writer (United States)
4 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
