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September
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Direct Faith and Direct Sales in Mexico"
Peter S. Cahn, 2008–2009 Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Oklahoma
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, September 22, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Lying About Lord Byron"
Benjamin Markovits, 2008–2009 Constance E. Smith Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, England
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
“Catholic Political Mobilization and Antisemitic Violence in Fin-de-Siècle France: The Case of the Union Nationale”
Vicki Caron, 2008–2009 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Cornell University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
October
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Next-Generation Implications of Open Access"
Paul Ginsparg, 2008–2009 Benjamin White Whitney Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute, Cornell University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, October 20, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"’Thunderstruck Not Lightning-struck,’ A Reading"
Elizabeth McCracken, 2008–2009 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Writer, United States
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"The Genetics of Species Formation"
Daven Presgraves, 2008–2009 Grass Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Rochester
3 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"New Directions in Nanoscience"
Katharina Al-Shamery, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
November
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Building a Better Beast: Towards a Theory of Moral Responsibility"
Manuel Vargas, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, University of San Francisco
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Colored Television: Religion, Media, and Racial Uplift in the Black Atlantic World"
Marla Frederick, 2008–2009 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Connecting Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Architecture Through Biomimetics"
Joanna Aizenberg, 2008–2009 Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
December
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Stability and Instability in Repairing Broken Chromosomes"
James Haber, 2008–2009 Katherine and Peter Sachs Faculty Associate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"In Praise of Mediocrity: The Defense of Imperfection in Late Medieval England"
Nicholas Watson, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Harvard University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Transition: The Politics of Racial and Ethnic Change"
Kim M. Williams, 2008–2009 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow at Radcliffe, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
January
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Theater after Film"
Martin Harries, 2008–2009 Burkhardt Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, New York University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Unraveling the Dark Side of the Universe"
Priyamvada Natarajan, 2008–2009 Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow and Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Yale University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"The Neurobiology of Social Behavior in Fruit Flies"
Kathleen Siwicki, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Swarthmore College
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
February
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Mischievous Lovers, Hidden Moors, and Cross-Dressers: The Meaning of Passing in Colonial Bogotá"
Joanne Rappaport, 2008–2009 Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Georgetown University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"The Evolutionary Mechanics of Movement and Communication in the Sea"
Sheila Patek, 2008–2009 Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of California at Berkeley
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Strangers in a Strange Land: Chinese Laborers in France during the Great War"
Guoqi Xu, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Kalamazoo College
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Britain’s War on Poverty"
Jane Waldfogel, 2008–2009 Marion Cabot Putnam Memorial Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Columbia University School of Social Work
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
March
Monday, March 2, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"From Manuscripts to Performance: The Prolific and Passionate Women Composers of Italy (1568–ca. 1768)"
Laury Gutiérrez, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, La Donna Musicale (United States)
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide"
Mona Lena Krook, 2008–2009 Hrdy Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Washington University in St. Louis
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Navigating Body, Self, and Society across Adolescence: A Mental Health Crisis in Fiji"
Anne E. Becker, 2008–2009 Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard Medical School
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, March 16, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"The True Flower"
Chiori Miyagawa, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Bard College
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"A Leaf, a Twig, or National Literature?"
Jing Tsu, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Yale University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, March 30, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Songs without Words"
Kay Rhie, 2008–2009 Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music at the Radcliffe Institute, Cornell University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
April
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"On Rewriting the Cultural History of Russian Jewry"
Steven Zipperstein, 2008–2009 Vera M. Schuyler Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Stanford University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, April 6, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"A Poetry Reading"
Gail Mazur, 2008–2009 The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Emerson College
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, April 13, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Toni Stone’s Challenge to Baseball and America"
Martha Ackmann, 2008–2009 Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute, Mount Holyoke College
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Remembering the American War in Viet Nam"
Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2008–2009 Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Southern California
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"The History of the Creative Imagination"
Koen Vermeir, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine"
Wendy Cadge, 2008–2009 Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Brandeis University
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
May
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Landmark-based Robust Speech Recognition"
Carol Espy-Wilson, 2008–2009 Sargent-Faull Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Maryland at College Park
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"Panic at the Pump: Energy Policy in Historical Perspective"
Meg Jacobs, 2008–2009 Jeanne Rosselet Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
Monday, May 18, 2009
Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series
"A Poetry Reading"
Sarah Messer, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
3:30 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212
