Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Radcliffe opens doors of discovery

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced 49 artists and scholars who have been selected as its 2013-2014 fellows, among them are 15 Harvard faculty.

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Making poetry sing

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Radcliffe fellow and classically trained pianist Tsitsi Jaji uses her musical expertise and knowledge of comparative literature to explore how composers of African descent set poetry to music for solo voice and piano.

Tags: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Arts & Culture, Colleen Walsh, Cornell University, Literature & Poetry, Oberlin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Tsitsi Jaji, Zimbabwe

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The price of women’s immigration

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Author Sonia Nazario told a Radcliffe conference that people don’t generally know that large numbers of women who immigrate to the United States illegally to get jobs and support their families back home leave their own children behind to do so.

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Mapping blackness in creativity

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Art historian Steven Nelson inaugurated the Richard Cohen Lecture Series at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute with a look at how black American artists draw from centuries of the African diaspora.

Tags: African Arts, Art & Photography, Arts & Culture, Corydon Ireland, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Conwill, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Richard Cohen, Robert Farris Thompson, Steven Nelson, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute

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Radcliffe Gymnasium renamed

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

At a celebratory event on Wednesday, the Radcliffe Gymnasium was renamed the Knafel Center in honor of Sidney R. Knafel ’52, M.B.A. ’54, and in recognition of the center’s increasing role in promoting intellectual exchange across Harvard’s Schools and with the public.

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Insignificant, with a lousy future

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss described a universe with mysterious particles popping in and out of existence, in which the discoveries of dark energy and dark matter have made mankind more insignificant than ever.

Tags: Alvin Powell, Big Bang, Cosmology, Dimitar Sasselov, Engineering & Technology, HarvardScience, Lawrence Krauss, Lizabeth Cohen, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

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Engaging in a new community

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

The innovative international scholar Tamar Herzog has been appointed the Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She also will become the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Tags: Campus & Community, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Faculty, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Michael D. Smith, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Tamar Herzog

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Borders, books, and the Balkans

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Harvard Gazette

Albanian novelist Gazmend Kapllani, a Radcliffe Fellow this year, draws inspiration for his writing from his nation’s ink-dark past under harsh Communist rule.

Tags: Albania, Arts & Culture, Bektashi Order, Corydon Ireland, Enver Hoxha, Gazmend Kapllani, Golden Dawn, Literature & Poetry, North Korea, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Ramiz Alia, “A Short Border Handbook, “Tales of Extreme”