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The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University isa scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced workacross a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, and creativearts. Within this broad purpose, the Radcliffe Institute sustainsa continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society.on the inside front and back covers: Apple tree detail from frosted glass in the newly renovated Byerly Hall.on the cover: Composer Lisa Bielawa RI ’08 uses the MuSA.RT system during a January presentation in theRadcliffe Gymnasium. See page 18 for more information.

At the end of 2007, the Institute marked the retirement of RadcliffeArchivist Jane Knowles, who helped researchers uncover and learn aboutRadcliffe’s rich history for more than three decades. To honor her role inpreserving Radcliffe history, her colleagues and friends have established abook fund in her name.intellectual possibilities blossom through academicpartnershipsRadcliffe again hosted a variety of public lectures, conferences, and symposiathat drew to the Institute faculty and students from across Harvard as wellas the public. Three of this year’s major events were held in cooperationwith other Harvard groups. We partnered with the Humanities Center andthe David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies on a conference onthe cultural heritage of the tango. Our annual conference on gender, thisyear on gender and religion, was cosponsored with the Harvard DivinitySchool. The year’s science symposium about the origins of life in our solarsystem and beyond was a collaboration with Harvard’s Origins of LifeInitiative. The Schlesinger’s stimulating program of public events includeda lecture by Glenda E. Gilmore RI ’01 of Yale University about Pauli Murray,whose papers are housed at the library, and a standing-room-only poetryreading by Adrienne Rich ’51, who gave her papers to the library.Radcliffe’s historical strengths—opening doors and serving as a convening and catalyzingforce for creators and thinkers—have left it supremely well-positioned as a leaderamong institutes for advanced study and an important source of new scholarly, scientific,and artistic ventures within Harvard University.The Institute also enriched the intellectual environment for Harvardstudents more directly. Fifty-eight undergraduates gained valuable researchexperience by collaborating with fellows in the Radcliffe Research Partnershipprogram. Fellows gained from these interactions as well. ComposerLisa Bielawa reported that working with student research partners influencedher approach to the double violin concerto she produced during herfellowship. “I found a way to incorporate a whole research phase for thepiece, involving historically and ethnographically diverse traditions of musicalornamentation/embellishment,” she said. We expanded from the sciencelectures to the Dean’s Lectures our program that brings students togetherwith distinguished speakers at lunch. These meetings allow students to speak4 www.radcliffe.edu

with experts from various fields about their careers as well as their work.The fellowship program also hosted three graduate students to whom wegave Dissertation Completion Fellowships.In 2007–2008, we supported eleven Exploratory Seminars and fourAdvanced Seminars, on topics as varied as interfaith initiatives led bywomen and the next generation of statistical models for speech and audiosignal processing. We again received very positive feedback from seminarparticipants, many of whom have plans under way to publish papers or tocontinue collaborative work resulting from their efforts.administration and financeI’m pleased to report that the Institute is in a strong financial position, thanksto the wonderful generosity of Radcliffe alumnae/i and friends, to the workof our Advancement staff, and to the guidance and oversight of our financialteam. Over the past year, alumnae/i and friends contributed more than $9million in gifts, pledge payments, matching gifts, and bequests. I’m especiallydelighted to report that funding is now complete for the Radcliffe AlumnaeFellowship, which will support a fellow who is a member of Harvard’s ladderfaculty. Special thanks to the classes of ’53 and ’58 and to the more than twohundred alumnae/i who contributed to this endowed fellowship.Several other administrative advances were accomplished this pastyear, thanks to our talented and dedicated staff. We made a significantinvestment in Web technology that improves our ability to distribute Radcliffenews and lays the foundation for enhancing our Web image throughnew designs and by keeping pace with technical standards. We also beganplanning the renovation of Fay House. This renovation will respect thespecial place Fay House holds in Radcliffe history while using the spaces itprovides more efficiently and making it environmentally sound andsustainable.As we approach the ten-year anniversary of Radcliffe’s becoming aninstitute for advanced study, it is wonderful to see that Radcliffe’s historicalstrengths—opening doors and serving as a convening and catalyzing forcefor creators and thinkers—have left it supremely well-positioned as a leaderamong institutes for advanced study and an important source of new scholarly,scientific, and artistic ventures within Harvard University.barbara j. groszDean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced StudyAugust 2008radcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–20085

Institute Fellows2007–2008172 3 4 5 68910111213 14151617181920 212223242526272829 303132 33“Thank you for the chance to be like a student again—learningsomething new every day, asking questions about far-ranging topics,meeting new, wonderful people. It was a great privilege.”maria e. orive34 3536373839 404142 434445 464748495051

“This has been a special year. It has transformed me in immeasurable ways.”jane wang38 maria e. orivethe carl and lily pforzheimerfoundation fellowUniversity of Kansasevolutionary and organismic biologyTogether and Apart: Theoretical Models ofHost-Symbiont Genome Evolution39 tim roodSt. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford(United Kingdom)classical studiesAnabasis: Xenophon and the March of the TenThousand40 daniel rothmanjeanne rosselet fellowMassachusetts Institute of Technologyearth and planetary sciencesPhysics of Earth’s Carbon Cycle44 kay kaufman shelemay *Harvard UniversitymusicologyEthiopian Christian Creativity in TransnationalPerspective45 martin summersburkhardt fellowUniversity of Texas at AustinhistoryRace, Madness, and the State: A History ofAfrican American Patients at St. Elizabeth’sHospital, 1855–197046 megan sweeneybunting fellowUniversity of Michigancultural studies‘The Undergr0und Book Railroad’: Cultures ofReading in Women’s Prisons50 kate wheelerfrieda l. miller fellowshipTufts UniversityfictionThe Guru’s Wife51 wendy woodhelen putnam fellowDuke UniversitypsychologyPsychology of Gender: Evolutionary and SocialStructural Influences on Mate Preferences* Ethiopian music cluster** Interactive music visualization cluster*** Fall only41 elena ruehrWalter Jackson Bate FellowMassachusetts Institute of Technologymusic compositionCantata Averno42 robert selfBurkhardt FellowBrown UniversityhistoryThe Politics of Gender and Sexuality in theAmerica from Watts to Reagan43 qin shaoThe College of New JerseyhistoryDemolition: Housing Reform and Conflict inUrban China, 1980–200547 emma j. tengburkhardt fellowMassachusetts Institute of Technologychinese studiesThe Chinese Eurasian: East-WestInterracialism at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury48 magda teteremeline bigelow conland fellowWesleyan UniversityhistoryAn Anatomy of Religious Violence: Jews andChristians in Premodern Poland49 jane wangCornell Universityphysics, applied mathematics, and fluiddynamicsEvolution of Efficient Locomotion in Fluids:Falling Leaves and Insect Flightradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–20089

September 20077–13Fellows’ Arrival and Orientation19Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Development, Evaluation, and Comparison of PredictionRules Based on a Panel of Biomarkers,”Tianxi Cai, Harvard School of Public Health26Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Heart Cells from Stem Cells,”Christine Mummery, Hubrecht Laboratory (Netherlands)30Alumnae/i Event“Cultivating Children’s Self-Esteem,”Peggy J. Miller, 2006–2007 Radcliffe Institute fellow,professor of psychology at the University of Illinoisat Urbana-ChampaignFellows Collaborate with Harvard Students and withOne AnotherRadcliffe fellows will tell you that an enormous benefit of a year atthe Institute is the opportunity to collaborate with Harvard students.Megan Sweeney—an assistant professor at the University ofMichigan who was a Bunting fellow at Radcliffe last year—is effusiveon this subject. “The Research Partnership was one of the bestaspects of my fellowship experience. My partner was extraordinaryand provided incredibly helpful assistance. The program is aunique aspect of Radcliffe and one of the reasons that I am glad Iaccepted this fellowship rather than another one.”In 2007–2008, more Harvard students participated in the RadcliffeResearch Partnership program than ever before: fifty-eight studentswere hired to work with twenty-eight fellows. At the beginning ofthe academic year, fellows submit proposals describing their projects.The fellowship program then advertises for student partners inthe Harvard Crimson, the Harvard student houses, and the StudentEmployment Office, among other places. After being matched withfellows, students are allowed to work a maximum of twenty hours.They not only receive pay for their work, but also acquire valuableresearch experience.Sometimes fellows will select more than one student researcher,thereby receiving more assistance and providing students with theexperience of working on a research team. Kay Kaufman Shelemay,the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard, describes herexperience last year of working with three student partners: “It wasindeed a real partnership. We discussed issues in ethnographicinterviewing, and the students met a few of the individuals whoseinterviews they were transcribing. We tended to meet together asa team, which helped the students get to know one another andmade it fun when we attended a concert or did other activitiestogether. All three students were involved with the conferences weorganized and were given copies of the paper drafts to read inadvance.”Collaboration among fellows is of course a central part of the Radcliffefellowship experience. Fellows work closely with one another inresearch clusters (see page 18), and cross-disciplinary connectionsoccur at the weekly fellows’ presentations, at lunchtime discussionsabout their research, and in informal writing groups. Fruitful discussionsalso occur while fellows are exploring the New England regiontogether or attending local events.Reflecting on the past year’s fellowship class, Judith Vichniac, directorof the fellowship program, says, “Of all the fellowship classes I’veworked with, this one was the most social.” For example, every weekafter the fellows’ presentation, a group would go off to have dinnertogether. Vichniac describes a community potluck dinner, held at theRadcliffe dean’s residence, Greenleaf House, and featuring food fromall over the world, as a high point of fellows’ socializing.Radcliffe Fellow Vivian Gornick Lectures on the JewishAmerican NovelWell known for her eight books of nonfiction, 2007–2008 Radcliffefellow Vivian Gornick delivered the Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture inArt and the Humanities in early February. In a lecture titled “SaulBellow, Philip Roth, and the Death of the Jew as Metaphor,” Gornicksaid that in the years after 1950, Bellow and Roth were furiousat being marginalized, but channeled their rage into linguistic energy—“aggressionin the daring of the prose,” as she characterized it.But over the next three decades, Gornick said, they increasinglydirected their rage toward women, frequently the women closest tothem. At the same time, social reality changed and Jews were nolonger disenfranchised. By the late 1980s, Gornick argued, becauseBellow’s and Roth’s explosive language wasn’t offset by compassionfor others, “Jewish American writing at its richest and mostsignificant” came to a close.judith vichniacvivian gornick ri ’08 megan sweeney ri ’08research partners wangui mugai ’09 and martin summers ri ’0810www.radcliffe.eduradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–200811

October 20071Lectures in the Sciences“Hunting the Earth’s Magnetic Field,”Lisa Tauxe, professor of geophysics, director of the earthsciences major, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,University of California at San Diego3Movie Night at the Schlesinger LibraryCurly Top (1935), directed by Irving CummingsRadcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Mind Bugs: The Science of Ordinary Prejudice,”Mahzarin R. Banaji, Harvard University9 –March 28, 2008Schlesinger ExhibitionLittle Lulu Lives at the Schlesinger Library: The MarjorieHenderson Buell CollectionArthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History ofWomen in America9Schlesinger Panel Discussion“Dining Diplomacy: Japanese Cuisine and American Taste,”Alison Arnett, Boston Globe; Ted Bestor, HarvardUniversity; Masaharu Morimoto, Morimoto restaurants;Ken Oringer, Clio restaurant and Uni sashimi bar;moderated by Merry White, Boston University10Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Sex Differences in Human Behavior: Biosocial OriginTheory,” Wendy Wood, Duke University15Dean’s Lecture Series“The Culture War in the Courts,”Phyllis Schlafly, attorney and author17Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“In Search of Self: The Organization of Business Interests forCollective Social Policies,”Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University18–April 10, 20082007–2008 Boston Seminar Series on the History ofWomen and Gender18Boston Seminar Series on the History of Womenand Gender“A Sporting Chance: Billie Jean King, Title IX, and the Revolutionin Women’s Sports,” Susan Ware, independent scholar,with commentary by Eileen McDonagh, NortheasternUniversity and Institute for Quantitative Social Science,Harvard University24Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Physical Views of the Biology, Geology, and Chemistry ofEarth’s Carbon Cycle,”Daniel Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology26–27Conference“Tango! Dance the World Around: Global Transformationsof Latin American Culture”Pablo Aslan, bassist and composer; Homi K. Bhabha,Harvard University; Alicia Borinsky, Boston University;Juan Eugenio Corradi, New York University;Deborah Foster, Harvard University; Florencia Garramuño,Universidad de San Andrés; Osvaldo Golijov, composer;Merilee Grindle, Harvard University; Barbara J. Grosz,Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Matthew B. Karush,George Mason University; Yo-Yo Ma, cellist; Sylvia Molloy,New York University; Federico Miguel Monjeau, Universidadde Buenos Aires; Marta Elena Savigliano, Universityof California at Los Angeles; Mariano Siskind, HarvardUniversity; Diana Sorensen, Harvard University;Julie Taylor, Rice University29Lectures in the Sciences“The Changing Carbon Cycle: How Fast Will AtmosphericCO2 Increase?” Inez Fung, Berkeley Institute ofthe Environment, University of California at Berkeley31Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Aerodynamics of Falling Paper and Insect Flight,”Jane Wang, Cornell UniversityTango as a Catalyst for Discussing Gender, Politics,and Cultureclass and the influence of violence and mass politics as the tangodeveloped within an urbanizing society.It was a two-day extravaganza on tango, held on October 26 and 27in Agassiz Theatre and featuring scholars, composers, musicians,and dancers. There was impromptu music by cellist Yo-Yo Ma andpianist Octavio Brunetti during a Saturday afternoon panel discussionand empanadas and wine to go with the dancing and music bybassist and composer Pablo Aslan and ensemble later that evening,when the Radcliffe Gymnasium was transformed into a milonga, aplace where the tango is danced.One of the minds behind the conference, titled “Tango! Dance theWorld Around: Global Transformations of Latin American Culture,”was that of Homi K. Bhabha, a senior advisor in the humanitiesto the Radcliffe Institute and the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor ofthe Humanities in the University’s English department. By allaccounts, the event was a huge success.Tango was a catalyst for discussion about a broad array of topics:gender and politics in tango, the history of tango music, tango andthe writing of Jorge Luis Borges, and tango as a cultural form inmusic, dance, and film.The session featuring Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Octavio Brunetti, cellistCarlos Prieto, and composer Osvaldo Golijov was a wide-rangingconversation that touched on tango’s nineteenth-century origins inAfrican immigrant communities in Buenos Aires; the influenceof music in Latin American society; the societal impact of the sistema,Venezuela’s ambitious youth orchestra training program;Piazzolla’s revolutionary creation of “nuevo tango” music; and theemotional and spiritual longing expressed in tango dance, music,and lyrics.Harvard professor Merilee Grindle, director of the David RockefellerCenter for Latin American Studies, led a discussion on tango aspolitics. “If politics has to do with conflict and the negotiation ofconflict, then clearly tango is political,” Grindle said, referring notonly to the dynamics of the dance itself, but also to the themeof class conflict implicit in the tango’s association with the workingOn the same panel, Alicia Borinsky, a professor of Latin Americanand comparative literature at Boston University, described the whiteslave trade that brought young women from Paris to Argentina towork as prostitutes in the 1920s. Reflecting on the recurring referencesto love and suffering in tango lyrics, she said, “Tango teachesus that one always pays for one’s pleasure and is never rewardedfor one’s suffering.”The conference was cosponsored by three Harvard programs: theRadcliffe Institute; the Humanities Center, which Bhabha directs;and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, withsupport from the Consulate General and Promotion Center ofArgentina in New York.Stephen M. Kosslyn Becomes Senior Advisor inPsychology and NeuroscienceThe author of more than 250 scientific papers and author or coauthorof fifteen books, including Clear and to the Point: Eight PsychologicalPrinciples for Compelling PowerPoint Presentations (OxfordUniversity Press, 2007), Stephen M. Kosslyn joined the RadcliffeInstitute as a senior advisor in July 2007. The John Lindsley Professorof Psychology and chair of the psychology department, heis helping the Radcliffe Institute form links with the Department ofPsychology and with the Center for Brain Science, where he serveson the steering committee. Effective July 2008, Kosslyn also servesas divisional dean for the social sciences in the Faculty of Artsand Sciences.“Stephen Kosslyn is widely admired for his research on the natureof visual mental imagery and applications of psychological principlesto visual design,” said Barbara J. Grosz, dean of the RadcliffeInstitute. “I’m delighted that he is working with us.”“The Radcliffe Institute is a remarkable, unusually exciting place,”said Kosslyn. “I’m impressed by the opportunities there to sparknovel, synergistic work that potentially can affect society at large.”carlos prietoosvaldo golijovyo-yo mastephen m. kosslyn12www.radcliffe.eduradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–200813

November 20076Dean’s Lecture Series“The Cultural Politics of Pain, from Percodan to Kevorkian,”Keith Wailoo, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey7Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“The Mechanical Cell,” Jané Kondev, Brandeis UniversityMovie Night at the Schlesinger LibraryTimes Square (1980), directed by Allan Moyle14Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Reproductive Rights and Responsibility: FeministPerspectives,” Frances Kissling, Catholics for a Free Choice15Schlesinger Event“A Conversation with Byllye Avery and Judy Norsigian onWomen and Health Care Reform,” Byllye Avery, BlackWomen’s Health Imperative; Judy Norsigian, coauthor ofOur Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women (Simon &Schuster, eighth edition, 2005); moderated by Kip Tiernan,Rosie’s Place, Boston Food Bank, and Community Worksin Boston28Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Selling the American Way: Singer Sewing MachineCompany in Japan, 1900–1940,” Andrew D. Gordon,Harvard University29Schlesinger Lecture“Out of the Gutter: Contemporary Graphic Novels byWomen,” Hillary Chute, Harvard University Societyof FellowsLecturers Visit Radcliffe to Discuss the Politics of Pain,the History of Human Rights, the Beauty of Biology, and“Activist” JudgesThe Radcliffe Institute is all about visitors, from the fellows whocome for an academic year to make great strides in their work tothe lecturers and conference speakers who visit briefly to stimulatediscussion on important topics. In its Dean’s Lecture Series of2007–2008, the Institute hosted presentations by four visitingspeakers: a Nobel Prize–winning biologist, a conservative activistknown for her role in blocking ratification of the Equal RightsAmendment during the 1970s, and two academic historians.Historian Keith Wailoo delivered a Dean’s Lecture in November,titled “The Cultural Politics of Pain, from Percodan to Kevorkian,” inwhich he focused on the history of pain management from 1950to 1999. Wailoo listed several factors that he believes complicate thetreatment of pain: the impossibility of objectively measuring it, thefear of addiction, political trends, and cultural and religious values.He described, for example, how Percodan was hailed as a “nonaddictive”alternative to morphine and was widely used in the1960s. By 1970, however, fears about addiction—“people eatingPercodan like popcorn”—had caused the drug to be classifiedas a Schedule II controlled substance, along with morphine. In the1980s, religious conservatives voiced concerns that an “addictedclass” was claiming Social Security disability and called for a purgingof illegitimate claimants from the rolls. “One can argue thatpain medicine, more than any other kind of medicine, is subject tothe back-and-forth of whichever way the political and social windsare blowing,” Wailoo said. “Pain medicine really exists in a realmof its own.” Wailoo is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Historyand the founding director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity atRutgers, The State University of New Jersey.The other historian who presented a Dean’s Lecture, Lynn Hunt,spoke in April on the history of human rights, which is also the subjectof her latest book, Inventing Human Rights: A History (Norton,2007). A professor at the University of California at Los Angeles,where she teaches French and European history and the history ofhistory as an academic discipline, Hunt described how French societyexperienced a powerful awakening to the universal nature ofhuman feelings during the eighteenth century. She attributed thisawakening to the general climate of revolution surrounding theFrench and American revolutions, the development of portraiture inart, and the practice of listening to music. But, in Hunt’s view, therise of the epistolary novel was the most significant factor in thedevelopment of human rights in France. “Novels made the pointthat all people are fundamentally similar because of their inner feelings,”Hunt explained. They created widespread support for codifyingthe “rights of man.”Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, director of the Max Planck Institute forDevelopmental Biology and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiologyor Medicine, delivered a Dean’s Lecture in early March titled“On Flies and Fishes and the Origin of Vertebrates.” Nusslein-Volhard quoted the German poet Goethe at the beginning and endof her talk in excerpts that stressed the wonder and beauty of nature.She compared insects and vertebrates, noting the differences inbody plans and models of development. For example, vertebrateshave a soft outer skin that adds cells and can continually expand,while insects must shed their skins from time to time as they grow.“Insects are usually better protected against infection than softskinnedvertebrates,” she explained. “This is why Drosophila andnematodes are such wonderful laboratory objects: They don’t getcolds.”Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly AM ’45 spoke in the Dean’sLecture Series in mid-October, in a talk titled “The Culture War inthe Courts.” The 1953 appointment of Supreme Court Chief JusticeEarl Warren marked the beginning of an evolution toward whatSchlafly called an “imperial judiciary” in the United States. She gaveexamples from six areas where she believes the courts and“activist” judges have “over-reached”: property rights, parents’rights, pornography, marriage, abortion, and religion. Over the pasthalf-century, she said, “some of our most far-reaching social, political,and economic decisions have been made by judges rather thanby our elected representatives.”keith wailoolynn huntchristiane nüsslein-volhardphyllis schlafly am ’4514www.radcliffe.eduradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–200815

December 20075Movie Night at the Schlesinger LibraryBeyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the Little Review(1994), directed by Wendy Weinberg, and Frances Steloff;Memoirs of a Bookseller (1987), directed by DeborahDicksonRadcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“From Screw Threads to Corporate Social Responsibility:The International Organization for Standardization andGlobal Governance,” Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College12Schlesinger Library Book SaleRadcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Music and Liberalism in Germany, ca. 1840,”Ryan Minor, State University of New York at Stony BrookAn Eventful Year at the Schlesinger LibraryBeginning in the fall, when the library celebrated its acquisition of theMarjorie Henderson Buell Collection with an exhibition titled LittleLulu Lives at the Schlesinger Library, the library’s 2007–2008 calendarwas filled with a variety of events, including conferences, seminars,lectures, and a celebration honoring a beloved staff member.2008) draws heavily on the papers of Pauli Murray, one of thelibrary’s most popular collections. During a lifetime of civil rightswork, Murray organized and led desegregation sit-ins in Washington,DC; became the first African American to earn a doctorate from YaleLaw School; and, at age sixty-six, became the first African Americanwoman in the United States to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.Jane Knowles Retires“Although she leaves the archives in good hands, Jane is really irreplaceable,”says Nancy F. Cott, the Carl and Lily PforzheimerFoundation Director of the Schlesinger Library. “No one else hasher thorough grasp of the College collections and of so much moreabout the Schlesinger Library’s history. She has linked countlessalumnae to the College they attended, and also has shown extraordinaryand genuine concern for the well-being of the whole Radcliffecommunity. We will miss her terribly.” On December 7, Knowles’scolleagues gathered in the Radcliffe Gymnasium to honor her.Library Cosponsors Seminar Series with MassachusettsHistorical SocietyGiving scholars and students the opportunity to discuss newresearch on any aspect of the history of women and gender in theUnited States, the Boston Seminar Series on the History of Womenand Gender held four sessions in 2007–2008. The SchlesingerLibrary and the Massachusetts Historical Society were cosponsors.Susan Ware AM ’73, PhD ’78 gave a lecture in October, Robert SelfRI ’08 made a presentation in January, Lisa Tetrault spoke in February,and Lisa Materson presented in April. This seminar series willcontinue in 2008–2009.Pauli Murray’s Civil Rights MovementGlenda E. Gilmore RI ’01, a Yale University historian, gave aSchlesinger Library–sponsored lecture in February about her newbook, for which she conducted extensive research at the library.Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950 (Norton,Women of Spirit: Religion, Voice, and Social JusticeThe library focused on women’s contributions to religion and socialjustice in both its spring exhibit, called Women of Spirit, and thespring issue of the library newsletter. Marilyn Dunn, executive directorof the library, said this emphasis arose from two sources: theRadcliffe Institute’s sixth annual conference on gender, held inApril, which addressed gender and religion; and one of the goals ofthe library’s strategic plan, which is to increase the Schlesinger’sholdings pertaining to religious women.Adrienne Rich Delivers Rothschild LectureThe first poet to deliver the Schlesinger Library’s Maurine andRobert Rothschild Lecture spoke to a crowd of approximately fourhundred in the Radcliffe Gymnasium on April 28. Adrienne Rich ’51,who donated her papers to the library in 1999, was introduced byElizabeth Alexander RI ’08, a poet herself and a professor of AfricanAmerican studies at Yale University. Rich read many of her poems,including the title poem of her latest book, Telephone Ringing in theLabyrinth (Norton, 2007).Summer Seminar on Gender History: Sequels to the1960sThe library sponsored its second Summer Seminar in late June, onthe social and political movements of the 1960s. The five-day seminarfeatured fourteen speakers, including Evelynn M. Hammonds,dean of Harvard College and the Barbara Gutmann RosenkrantzProfessor of the History of Science and of African and AfricanAmerican Studies, and Nancy A. Hewitt, Professor II of History andWomen’s Studies at Rutgers University. glenda e. gilmore ri ’01robert self ri ’08, evelynn m. hammonds, andnancy a. hewitt at the summer seminaradrienne rich ’51jane knowlespauli murray16www.radcliffe.eduradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–200817

January 200810Boston Seminar Series on the History of Womenand Gender“Last Man to Die: Vietnam and the Soldier as Citizen,”Robert Self, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow,Brown University16Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Analytical Listening through Interactive Visualization,”Elaine Chew, University of Southern California, andAlexandre François, University of Southern California23Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“From Protein Sequence to Function,”Liisa Holm, University of Helsinki (Finland)28–29Alumnae/i Event“Flipping a Coin to Protect Your Privacy,”Salil Vadhan, 2003–2004 Radcliffe Institute fellow andHarvard University; Barbara J. Grosz, Radcliffe Institutefor Advanced Study30Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Domestic Piety and Religious Change,”David Frankfurter, University of New HampshireScience and Humanities Clusters Explore Music,Culture, and VisualizationTwo research clusters were in residence at the Radcliffe Institute in2007–2008. The humanities cluster included two scholars whohave studied Ethiopian culture and religion for three decades andhave also been friends and colleagues for that long. EthnomusicologistKay Kaufman Shelemay, the Gordon Watts Professor of Musicand a professor of African and African American studies at HarvardUniversity, and Steven Kaplan, a professor of African studies andcomparative religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, collaboratedwith musician Mulatu Astatke, the third member of the cluster,which was titled “Ethiopian Christian Creativity in TransnationalPerspective.”He subsequently gave the original score of the song to the RadcliffeInstitute Fellowship Program, and it is now displayed in the musicstudio of Byerly Hall.The science cluster also had a focus on music, but employed a dramaticallydifferent approach. Elaine Chew, who held the Edward,Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute,and her husband Alexandre François develop tools to model whatpeople do when they play or listen to music. Their cluster, called“Analytical Listening Through Interactive Visualization,” used a systemthey developed called “Music on the Spiral Array. Real Time”(MuSA.RT) to create geometric shapes representing the structureof music. It’s the first system to model and visualize the structureof live music.musicians of the st. mary’s ethiopian orthodox church in washington, dcelaine chew ri ’08 alexandre françois ri ’08composer lisa bielawa ri ’08 uses the musa.rt systemduring a january presentation in the radcliffe gym.Shelemay and Kaplan explored how Ethiopian culture—includingmusic and the practice of Orthodox Christianity—has survived andchanged among Ethiopians living in the United States. They haverecorded oral histories of Ethiopians in Washington, DC, and haveinterviewed Astatke together. “Mulatu lives what we are studying,”says Kaplan, who is researching a book on Ethiopian Christianity inits American diaspora. Shelemay is also writing a book, aboutEthiopian music and musicians in the United States, in which sheexplores how performers adapt Ethiopian musical traditions andinfluence the growth of community in diaspora.“This subject is timely and enticing to us not just because we knowand love Ethiopia,” says Shelemay, “but because Ethiopian people,history, and contributions are almost universally neglected. Theysimply don’t fit into any discourse. Perhaps they will show us howto create a new discourse.”Astatke, who originated the musical hybrid Ethiojazz, became amajor figure in Ethiopia’s music scene in the late 1960s. During hisRadcliffe fellowship, he wrote music and debuted a section of hisnew work The Yared Opera, which mingles recordings of EthiopianChristian chants with the live accompaniment of violins, synthesizers,and drums. Among the new pieces Astatke played at the operadebut in Sanders Theatre was one he wrote called “The Radcliffe.”Chew and François’s goals are to help people understand what amusician does when performing and to help musicians make decisionswith more knowledge. Chew is a faculty member at theAndrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering at the University ofSouthern California. She is the first honoree of the Viterbi EarlyCareer Chair and the founder and head of USC’s Music Computationand Cognition Laboratory.“Basically, I am a musician,” Chew says. “Everything I’m doingstems from this fact. I have a lifetime of work cut out for me exploringmusic in mathematical and scientific terms.” François, a computerscientist with an interest in neuroscience, says he hopes tomake programming more useful and less daunting to those inother fields, such as music scholars.Throughout the year, Chew and François gave their first seriesof joint presentations, and in April, they convened a symposium atRadcliffe on new work in interactive music systems.Both clusters found that the study of dynamic human activityrequires a creative, cross-disciplinary approach, and both groupscollaborated on work that may breed a new field or transformestablished disciplines.kay kaufman shelemay ri ’08 mulatu astatke ri ’08 steven kaplan ri ’0818www.radcliffe.eduradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–200819

February 20084Humanities Center Event“Poetry Reading,” Elizabeth Alexander, Yale UniversityJulia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities“Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the Death of the Jew asMetaphor,” Vivian Gornick, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institutefellow and independent writer6Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Racial Degenerates or Harbingers of Peace? ImaginingEurasian Hybridity,” Emma J. Teng, Massachusetts Instituteof TechnologyMovie Night at the Schlesinger LibraryThe Josephine Baker Story (1991), directed by Brian GibsonHumanities Center Panel Discussion“Drawing the Line,” Jack Goldsmith, Harvard University,author of The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Insidethe Bush Administration; Ron Suskind, author of The OnePercent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its EnemiesSince 9/11; commentators include Louise Richardson,Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; moderated byHomi K. Bhabha, Harvard University11Lectures in the Sciences“Regional Expressions of Global Warmth: Lessons from thePliocene,” Christina Ravelo, University of California atSanta Cruz12Alumnae/i Event“What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containingthe Threat,” Louise Richardson, Radcliffe Institutefor Advanced Study and author of What Terrorists Want:Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat(Random House, 2006)13Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“From Novel to Opera,” Elena Ruehr, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology20Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and the Vicissitudes of ModernArchitecture,” Hilde Heynen, Katholieke UniversiteitLeuven (Belgium)Alumnae/i Event“At the Crossroads of Success and Struggle,” John Diamond,2006–2007 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Harvard University21Boston Seminar Series on the History of Womenand Gender“Every History Has Its History: The Creation of FeministOrigins Stories,” Lisa Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University,with commentary by Melanie Gustafson, Universityof Vermont22Schlesinger Lecture“Guts, Greyhounds, and Gandhi: Pauli Murray’s Civil RightsMovement, 1935–1973,” Glenda E. Gilmore, 2000–2001Radcliffe Institute fellow, Yale University, and author ofDefying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919 –1950(Norton, 2008)Fellow’s Performance“The Cypress Quartet Plays an All Ruehr Concert,”compositions by Elena Ruehr, 2007–2008 RadcliffeInstitute fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology27Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Ethiopian Contributions to the World of Music,”Mulatu Astatke, independent composerSchlesinger Library’s New Manuscript CollectionsInclude Shere Hite PapersShere Hite became famous in the 1970s when she published TheHite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality (Macmillan,1976), based on anonymous responses to questionnaires in whichwomen described their sexual experiences. She went on to publishThe Hite Report on Male Sexuality (Knopf, 1981), The Hite Report onthe Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy (Bloomsbury, 1994), andThe Hite Report on Women Loving Women (Arcadia, 2007).Now, after a four-year effort, during which Kathryn Allamong Jacob,the library’s Johanna-Maria Fraenkel Curator of Manuscripts, traveledto Paris to secure the highly desirable international collection,the Schlesinger is home to Hite’s questionnaires, correspondence,and a variety of other records. The papers have not been processed,so they’re not yet open to researchers, but one can imagine theirimportance to cultural historians of the 1970s and beyond.The papers of sociologist and feminist Alice S. Rossi, a founder andboard member of the National Organization for Women and formerpresident of the American Sociological Association, were alsoacquired this past year. Rossi was the editor (with Ann Calderwood)of Academic Women on the Move (Russell Sage Foundation, 1973)and The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir (BantamBooks, 1973), and also wrote books in sociology, such as Of HumanBonding: Parent-Child Relations Across the Life Course, with Peter H.Rossi (A. de Gruyter, 1990).The library acquired photographs, diaries, correspondence, andother materials from Ann P. Meredith, an artist, filmmaker, writer,and community organizer. Meredith has exhibited her work widelyand photographed both the World Conference to Review andAppraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade onWomen: Equality, Development, and Peace, in Nairobi, in 1985, andthe United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, in Beijing,in 1995.Zines Strengthen the Library’s Holdings in PopularCultureIn its 2007 strategic plan, the library decided to strengthen its holdingsin popular culture to allow for a fuller view of women’s history.“By studying the library’s books, periodicals, and papers, one canchart popular culture for more than two hundred years,” saysMarilyn Dunn, the library’s executive director. Some of the edgiestpublications the library acquires that document popular culture arezines, small-circulation booklets that carry no advertising, such asDoris, published by Cindy Crabb in Athens, Ohio. Marylene Altieri,the library’s curator of books and printed materials, says, “Wecollect women’s and girls’ zines because they offer uncensored,frank, and creative views of their lives.” Altieri and several of herSchlesinger colleagues have formed a popular culture committeethat locates and acquires zines and other nonmainstream materials.Access to Schlesinger Materials Increases DramaticallyThe library has made great progress in eliminating its backlog ofunprocessed books and manuscripts and has added numerousphotographic records to Harvard’s Visual Information Access (VIA)catalog. In 2005, no Schlesinger photographs could be accessed inVIA, and today researchers have access to almost fifty thousandrecords and digital scans there.The library has also worked to increase its visibility and engagementwith potential users by offering instruction sessions for studentsenrolled in Harvard courses. Over the past year, instructionsessions increased in number by more than 33 percent. Among thecourses the library hosted were a freshman seminar titled Investigatingan American Quilt, taught by Laurel Ulrich of the Harvardhistory department, and History of Women’s Education in the UnitedStates, taught by Sally Schwager of the Harvard Graduate Schoolof Education.In an effort to make the library’s services and collections moreaccessible, the Schlesinger extended its hours beginning in September2007. The library is now open two evenings a week (Wednesdayand Thursday until 10 pm) and Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm.researchers working in the libraryshere hite prints her first batch of questionnairesphotographs by ann p. meredith, taken at the nairobi world conference in 198520www.radcliffe.eduradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–200821

March 20084Dean’s Lecture Series and Lecture in the Sciences“On Flies and Fishes and the Origin of Vertebrates,”Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Max Planck Institute forDevelopmental Biology (Germany) and winner of the 1995Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine5Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Protein Folding and Evolution Unfolding,”Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute for BiomedicalResearchMovie Night at the Schlesinger LibraryAll That Heaven Allows (1955), directed by Douglas Sirk7Science Symposium“Origins of Life: The Earth, the Solar System, and Beyond,”Donna G. Blackmond, Imperial College London;David Catling, University of Bristol; Barbara J. Grosz,Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Gerald F. Joyce,The Scripps Research Institute; Scott M. McLennan, StateUniversity of New York at Stony Brook; Ann Pearson,Harvard University; Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard University;Martin Schoonen, Stony Brook University; Sara Seager,Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lucy M. Ziurys,University of Arizona12Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“The (near-)Future of Time,” Michael Crescimanno,Youngstown State University19Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Double Violin Concerto,” Lisa Bielawa, Boston ModernOrchestra Project29Fellow’s Performance“Boston Modern Orchestra Project Concert: World Premiereof Double Violin Concerto, Co-Commissioned by the RadcliffeInstitute,” compositions by Lisa Bielawa, 2007–2008Radcliffe Institute fellow, Boston Modern OrchestraProjectBiologists, Chemists, and Planetary Scientists Explorethe Origins of LifeLectures in the Sciences Address Climate Change andthe Earth’s Magnetic Fieldchristina raveloHow did life emerge in the first place? This question, which continuesto interest and perplex scientists, was the starting point for theRadcliffe Institute’s 2007–2008 science symposium, held in earlyMarch and titled “Origins of Life: The Earth, the Solar System, andBeyond.” The daylong event, cosponsored by Harvard’s Origins ofLife Initiative, featured several leading scientists, two of whomannounced early results of their research. The symposium was supportedby the Marjorie Cabot de Enriquez Fund.Dimitar Sasselov, a professor of astronomy at Harvard and directorof the Origins of Life Initiative, emphasized the cross-disciplinarynature of the Origins research team, then in its second year ofresearch. “Our approach is to inquire as to the possible pathwaysfrom chemistry to life,” he said. In keeping with that approach, thesymposium convened leading biologists, chemists, and planetaryscientists to explore pathbreaking information about planetaryprocesses and the possibility that the origins of life are groundedin them.Donna G. Blackmond, a professor of chemistry at Imperial Collegein London, explained that simple molecules set the stage for chemicalreactions that eventually led to the creation of life. Blackmondand colleagues in Spain and Holland have investigated chirality—the right- or left- “handedness” of molecules—to understand howthat handedness is set and enforced. Using crystals in solution,they were able to glean new information about why nearly all organismsare based on left-handed chirality. Her finding about chiralitywas one of the unpublished results announced at the symposium.The other sneak peek at research results was Sara Seager’s previewof the Hubble Space Telescope’s detection of methane and watervapor in the atmosphere of a planet called HD 189733b—an importantstep forward in the search for the origins of life. Seager is theEllen Swallow Richards Associate Professor of Planetary Scienceand an associate professor of physics at the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology.Two presentations in the Institute’s Lectures in the Sciencesfocused on global climate change. Inez Fung, a professor of atmosphericsciences at the University of California at Berkeley, gave alecture in late October titled “The Changing Carbon Cycle: How FastWill Atmospheric CO2 Increase?” She described the disaster shesees in the image of the United States at night from a satellite: “Idon’t see the lights,” she said. “I see fossil-fuel emission.” Fungwas not optimistic about the changing carbon cycle—the processby which carbon circulates among the atmosphere, oceans, andliving organisms. Warming weather and drought have taxed thenatural carbon cycle, she said, and the capacity of the earth’s landmassesand oceans to store the carbon dioxide generated byhuman activity is waning.Christina Ravelo, a professor of ocean sciences at the University ofCalifornia at Santa Cruz, looked to the past for clues to the future ofglobal climate change. Her February Lecture in the Sciences, titled“Regional Expressions of Global Warmth: Lessons from thePliocene,” was cosponsored by Harvard’s Earth and Planetary SciencesDepartment Colloquium Series. Ravelo studies the earlyPliocene warm period, about 4.5 to 3 million years ago, when theaverage temperature was three degrees warmer than today, sealevel was twenty to twenty-five meters higher, and the Greenland icecap was gone.Another Lecture in the Sciences was given by Lisa Tauxe, a professorof geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography,whose early October talk was titled “Hunting the Earth’s MagneticField.” Tauxe is one of the world’s leading paleomagnetists, devotedto studying the earth’s magnetic field as it existed in the past.She travels the globe investigating the puzzling shifts and reversalsin the planet’s magnetic field. “I love this,” she said, “because it’sso difficult.”dimitar sasselovdonna g. blackmondlisa tauxeinez fung22www.radcliffe.eduradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–200823

May 20081Alumnae/i Event“Computing Collaboratively: What Kathy Delaney-SmithKnows About Teamwork That Our Computers Don’t,”Barbara J. Grosz, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study5Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“A Poetry Reading,” Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University6Alumnae/i Event“The First Years of Social Life,” Mahzarin R. Banaji,2007–2008 Radcliffe Institute fellow, Harvard University7Movie Night at the Schlesinger LibraryA Letter to Three Wives (1949), directed byJoseph L. MankiewiczRadcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Anabasis: Xenophon in America,” Tim Rood, St Hugh’sCollege, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)12Fellow’s Performance“The Mathematics in Music—A Concert-Conversation withElaine Chew,” Elaine Chew, 2007–2008 Radcliffe InstituteFellow, University of Southern CaliforniaRadcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“The Body Speaks: Capturing Martha Graham’s Dance Art,”Christine Dakin, independent artist14Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“An AIDS Pedagogy,” Kathleen Cash, independent scholar19Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series“Lunchbreak,” Sharon Lockhart, University of SouthernCalifornia22Fellow Event“An Evening of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Solitudeof Self,” with Vivian Gornick, 2007–2008 Radcliffe Institutefellow and independent writer, and Jan Freeman,Boston GlobeRadcliffe Institute Deans and Fellows Speak atAlumnae/i Events Across the CountryOne way the Radcliffe Institute keeps alumnae/i informed about thework of the Institute is through a series of events in various cities.In early May, Barbara J. Grosz, dean of the Institute, spoke to alumnae/iand friends in Seattle on the topic of computing collaboratively;she also spoke to Harvard alumnae/i at the Microsoft Corporation.Later in the month, Mahzarin R. Banaji RI ’08, the Carol K. PforzheimerProfessor at the Radcliffe Institute, spoke at the HarvardClub of New York about the first years of social life. And earlier in theyear, in February, Louise Richardson, executive dean of the Institute,addressed alumnae/i in Palm Beach about how to stop terrorism.Fellows on tour in 2007–2008 were psychologists Mahzarin Banajiand Peggy J. Miller RI ’07, sociologist John Diamond RI ’07, andcomputer scientist Salil Vadhan RI ’04. In addition to Seattle, NewYork, and Palm Beach, Radcliffe speakers traveled to San Francisco,Palo Alto, and Wilmette, Illinois.Seminars Convene Harvard Faculty Members andColleagues from Other UniversitiesEvery year since 2002, the Radcliffe Institute has sponsored facultyledseminars on topics as broad as discrimination in the workplaceand as specialized as statistical models for speech and audio signalprocessing. In Exploratory and Advanced Seminars, scholars fromHarvard and other universities convene in small groups for one- tothree-day collaborations. The Institute hosted eleven ExploratorySeminars and four Advanced Seminars in 2007–2008.Fifteen scholars from around the country gathered in late April totake stock of research findings on the corporate and public policiesthat are used to combat race and gender inequality in the workplace.Frank Dobbin RI ’07, a sociology professor at Harvard, ledthis Exploratory Seminar, which concluded that on many scores,such as the employment of mothers and the relative wages ofAfrican Americans, little has changed in a decade or more.The goal of the group, as it evolved over the two days, was to beginassembling a compendium of strategies—as revealed in research—that have proved successful in reducing inequality at work. By comparingnotes from different disciplines, the group compiled animpressive list of findings. For example, regulatory uncertaintyincreases employers’ efforts to reduce discrimination, most likelybecause of employer anxiety. Also, several studies suggest thatgreater on-the-job contact with people of other races can lead to thelowering of job segregation and inequality.The seminar ended with plans to refine the list of corporate andpublic policy interventions that have reduced inequality and tomake these research findings known to judges, federal regulators incharge of civil rights and affirmative action laws, and humanresource experts and corporate executives.An Advanced Seminar titled “Beyond Creative Incorporation: CulturalInnovation in the Ethiopian Diaspora” was led by two RadcliffeInstitute fellows, Kay Kaufman Shelemay RI ’08, the G. GordonWatts Professor of Music and a professor of African and AfricanAmerican studies at Harvard University, and Steven Kaplan RI ’08, aprofessor of African studies and comparative religion at the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem. They invited an interdisciplinary group ofeleven scholars to join them in discussing such diaspora issues astransnational artists’ networks and song lyrics and the impact ofthe Internet in shaping diaspora and homeland consciousness.One recurring theme in the seminar was the importance of newtechnologies and their transformative effect on creativity and conceptsof community. Following their seminar, Shelemay and Kaplanarranged with the journal Diaspora to publish the papers presentedat Radcliffe in late 2009 or early 2010.exploratory seminars (in chronological order)“Higgsless Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in the Large Hadron Collider–Era” led byElizabeth H. Simmons RI ’01 of Michigan State University“China and the Making of European Modernity, 1600–1800: New Lines of Research inHistory, Economics, Literature, and Art” led by Eun Kyung Min RI ’05 of Seoul NationalUniversity and Robert Markley of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign“Women’s Interfaith Initiatives After 9/11” led by Diana L. Eck of the Faculty of Artsand Sciences and Divinity School at Harvard University“The War on Drugs: How to Understand It, How to Move Beyond Its Failures” led byAlma Guillermoprieto RI ’07 and Juanita Leon, a 2006–2007 fellow at the NiemanFoundation for Journalism at Harvard University“Stochastics and Dependence in Finance, Risk Management, and Insurance” led byYoonjung Lee and Xiao-Li Meng of the statistics department at Harvard Universityand Rustam Ibragimov of the economics department at Harvard University“Next-Generation Statistical Models and Inference for Speech and Audio SignalProcessing” led by Patrick J. Wolfe of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciencesat Harvard University“On History and Deep Time” led by Daniel Smail of the history department at HarvardUniversity and Andrew Shryock of the anthropology department at the Universityof Michigan“Discrimination at Work” led by Frank Dobbin RI ’07 of the sociology department atHarvard University“Reducing Tacit Support for Terrorism” led by Phillip Heymann of the HarvardLaw School“IP Without IP” led by Mario Biagioli of the history of science department at HarvardUniversity and Rochelle Dreyfus of the New York University School of Law“Performing Marks” led by Elizabeth D. Lyman and Daniel Albright of the Englishand American literature and language department at Harvard University and ClaireMacDonald, founding editor of Performance Researchadvanced seminars“A New Literary History of America” led by Werner Sollors of the English and theAfrican and African American studies departments at Harvard University; LindsayWaters, editor for the humanities at Harvard University Press; and critic and authorGreil Marcus“Vision and Its Instruments, ca. 1350–1750: The Art of Seeing and Seeing as an Art” ledby Alina Payne of the history of art and architecture department at Harvard University“From Promise to Reality: Appropriate Contexts for the Use of Mycorrhizal Fungi asOrganic Fertilizers” led by Anne Pringle of the organismic and evolutionary biologydepartment at Harvard University“Beyond Creative Incorporation: Cultural Innovation in the Ethiopian Diaspora” led byKay Kaufman Shelemay of the music and African and African American studiesdepartments at Harvard University and Steven Kaplan of the comparative religion andAfrican studies departments at the Hebrew University of Jerusalemmahzarin r. banaji ri ’08 peggy j. miller ri ’07salil vadhan ri ’04eun kyung min ri ’05alma guillermoprieto ri ’07 xiao-li mengdaniel s. smailwerner sollorsjohn diamond ri ’07diana l. eckpatrick j. wolfealina payne26www.radcliffe.eduradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–200827

June 20082–6Alumnae/i EventRadcliffe Reunions6Radcliffe DayDonna E. Shalala, Radcliffe medalist23–27Schlesinger Library’s Summer Seminar on Gender History“Sequels to the 1960s,” Ti-Grace Atkinson, founder of TheFeminists; Marisela R. Chávez, California State Universityat Dominguez Hills; Nancy F. Cott, Radcliffe Institute forAdvanced Study and Harvard University; Evelynn M.Hammonds, Harvard University; Diana Mara Henry,freelance photographer; Nancy A. Hewitt, RutgersUniversity; Erin Kelly, Tufts University; Judith Newton,University of California at Davis; Barbara Ransby,University of Illinois at Chicago; Robert Self, BrownUniversity; Reva Siegel, Yale Law School; Marc Stein,York University; Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University;Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State UniversityRadcliffe Day 2008Braving chilly, damp weather, alumnae/i and friends turned out indroves on June 6 to celebrate their ties to one another and to Radcliffeand to honor outstanding alumnae and Radcliffe MedalistDonna E. Shalala. In inspiring remarks at the Annual Luncheon,Shalala spoke about the history of women’s accomplishments,which she called a narrative of amazing courage, strength, and sacrifice.“You may have had the shoulders of giants to stand on,” shesaid, “but many of your past honorees as well as the men andwomen in this room today have had only themselves to rely on, notonly to help move the narrative forward but to make sure that otherscould follow in our steps. No one—no one—would ever accuseme of being a giant, but I hope that my shoulders are big enoughfor others to continue to stand on.”President of the University of Miami and former US Secretary ofHealth and Human Services, Shalala has combined scholarship andpublic policy to improve the lives of all Americans. In bestowing theRadcliffe Institute Medal on her, Barbara J. Grosz, dean of the Institute,said, “We admire you as a champion of improved health servicesfor children, veterans, and disadvantaged Americans, and foryour work in helping to advance women and minorities througheducation and in their careers.”In her own “state-of-the-Institute” address, Grosz reported that thepast year has been a successful one “by every measure.” She citedaccomplishments of Radcliffe fellows and mentioned the prizesthey have won, listed several achievements and acquisitions of theSchlesinger Library, and referred to women who have graduatedfrom the Institute’s leadership ranks. Those leaders are Drew GilpinFaust, former dean of Radcliffe and now president of Harvard;Louise Richardson, executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute, whowas recently named principal and vice-chancellor of the Universityof St Andrews; and Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74, Radcliffe’s formerassociate dean for advancement and planning and now vice presidentfor alumni affairs and development at Harvard.What Are the Challenges, Risks, and Obligations forWomen in 2008 and Beyond?The Radcliffe Alumnae Awards Symposium, held in the Loeb DramaCenter, featured six panelists speaking on the broad topic of thechallenges, risks, and obligations women face now and in the future.Those receiving Alumnae Recognition Awards were Margaret Kemeny’68, one of America’s first female cancer surgeons and director ofthe Queens Cancer Center of Queens Hospital; Anne Manson ’83,the first woman to conduct at the Salzburg Festival, where she ledthe Vienna Philharmonic; and Francine Prose ’68, AM ’69, author ofthe best-selling Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who LoveBooks and for Those Who Want to Write Them (HarperCollins, 2006)and fifteen books of fiction.Two alumnae received Graduate Society Awards: Rounaq Jahan ’68,PhD ’70, a senior research scholar at the Southern Asian Instituteand adjunct professor of international affairs at the School of Internationaland Public Affairs, both at Columbia University; andHarriet Ritvo ’68, PhD ’75, the Arthur J. Conner Professor of Historyat the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of ThePlatypus and the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the ClassifyingImagination (Harvard University Press, 1998).The Jane Rainie Opel ’50 Young Alumna Award was presented toRebecca Onie ’98, JD ’03, cofounder and executive director of ProjectHEALTH, a national nonprofit organization that works to break thelink between poverty and poor health.Distinguished Service Awards were presented to Mary CunninghamBailey ’48, Elisabeth R. Nelson Hatfield ’58, Elise Odmann Parker’48, HRPBA ’49, Eleanor Wilson Williams ’58, ’83, and SusanWilliamson ’58.The day began with a moving presentation by Ellen Gordon Reeves’83, EdM ’85 at the Commemorative Service in Memorial Church.donna e. shalala left to right: rebecca onie ’98, jd ’03,harriet ritvo ’68, phd ’75, rounaq jahan ’68, phd ’70,and anne manson ’83ellen gordon reeves ’83, edm ’85margaret kemeny francine prose ’68, am ’69left to right: eleanor wilson williams ’58, ’83,elisabeth r. nelson hatfield ’58, mary cunningham bailey ’48,and elise odmann parker ’48, hrpba ’4928www.radcliffe.eduradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–200829

Financial SummaryRadcliffe Institute for Advanced StudyFiscal Year July 1, 2007–June 30, 2008The Institute remains in a strong financial position. During2007–2008, we increased Schlesinger Library staff, as well asfellow and program support, and completed the renovation ofByerly Hall. The market value of our endowment grew by 7 percentto $622 million as of June 30, 2008. Since unrestricted endowmentrepresents 63 percent of total endowment, the Institute has astable and flexible base for operations.Income from all sources increased by 9 percent over 2006–2007with growth in endowment income offsetting a decline in currentuse gift income. Endowment income increased by 14 percent asa result of pledge payments, new gifts, and bequests received during2006, and aided by a more generous Harvard payout policy.Endowment income now provides 86 percent of our total income.Operating expenses increased by 8 percent over 2006–2007. Thelargest increase (12 percent) was in program support and isdescribed below. Radcliffe programs now constitute 53 percent ofour costs.Costs for the Schlesinger Library grew by 22 percent and nowrepresent 18 percent of our expenses. The increase reflects growthin staff related to the strategic plan, which includes a large shorttermgrowth to address the backlog in processing acquisitions.This growth has been spread over two years, with additional hiresexpected in 2008–2009.The fellowship program grew by 8 percent and now represents 28percent of our expenses. A planned increase in stipends and aslight increase in the number of fellows accounts for most of thisgrowth. The remainder is due to higher program costs, includingimplementation of an on-line application system, greater use ofundergraduate research partners, and higher travel costs to bringfellows to Radcliffe. All these costs will be continuing.After operating expenses and capital costs, including capital projectfunding and principal payments on debt, the Institute endedthe year with a surplus in unrestricted funds. Operating expensesoperating revenue (in thousands)2007–2008 Total%Grants and Contracts 6 (0%)Gifts 1,983 (8%)Endowment Income 20,485 (86%)Other Income 1,330 (6%)Total Operating Revenue 23,804expenses by function (in thousands)Fellowship Program 5,218 (28%)Schlesinger Library 3,611 (18%)Outreach and Education 1,467 (7%)External Relations 2,419 (12%)Administration 2,217 (11%)Facilities 2,285 (12%)Other, including depreciation, 2,440 (12%)debt serviceTotal Operating Expenses 19,657include $ .6 million interest on debt. Debt principal payments were$ .5 million. As of June 30, 2008, the Institute had loans payableof $18.7 million (compared with $11.3 million on June 30, 2007).The additional debt represents part of the Byerly Hall renovations.The Institute contributed $5.2 million to funding capital projects in2007–2008, including Byerly Hall and several smaller projects.As we begin a new chapter of the Institute’s history, with a newdean and with the fellows finally located in Radcliffe Yard, ourfinances provide a solid foundation for new programs and initiatives.The generosity of alumnae/i and friends continues to helpmake this possible, and the Institute’s leadership and staff are managingour resources wisely.30www.radcliffe.edu

A Year of TransitionAdvancement HighlightsIt gives me great pleasure to thank Radcliffe’s many friends who supportedthe scholarly and creative work of the Institute last year. Ourgratitude is all the more profound because this was a year of transitionfor us, and the loyalty of our supporters resonated strongly.In all, new gifts and pledges to the Institute totaled $12,285,678.The year yielded several highlights:lllllThree fellowships were endowed, further strengthening a coreprogram of the Institute. One, the Radcliffe Alumnae Fellowship,was created through a broad fundraising effort by more than twohundred donors. It will be awarded to a member of the HarvardFaculty of Arts and Sciences and will promote the advancementof women faculty members in FAS.Several important funds were established to support a wide rangeof Institute activities, both at the Schlesinger Library and in otherprogrammatic areas. Philanthropy of this kind ensures our abilityto take advantage of opportunities as they arise and to remainflexible in an ever-changing world.The Radcliffe reunion classes of 1948, 1958, and 1968 togetherpledged more than $2 million to the Institute. Not only did Radcliffewomen step forward to make important gifts, but severalHarvard men from the Class of 1968 joined in with extraordinarygenerosity. All three classes established funds at the SchlesingerLibrary, helping to fulfill its mission of documenting the experienceof women in America. We are grateful to the membersof these classes who included a gift to Radcliffe as part of theirreunion celebration.Annual giving remained strong, securing more than $2 millionfor the Institute’s current use. We very much appreciate thosewho provide this ongoing funding for our essential operationsand thank the enthusiastic Harvard students whose phone callsgenerate so much of this support.Finally, after a long and fascinating search, we recruited SharynBahn to succeed Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 as associate dean foradvancement. The fact that we have continued to meet ourfundraising goals after Drew Faust became Harvard’s presidentand Tamara moved to her new position speaks to the strength ofthe institution they both helped to build.Again this year, the work of the Institute was shared with audiencesaround the country. Then Interim Dean Barbara J. Grosz introducedSalil Vadhan RI ’04 when he delivered a lecture titled “Flippinga Coin to Protect Your Privacy” in San Francisco and PaloAlto. She also addressed the Harvard Club of Seattle in the springon the topic of her own research in computer science. The HarvardClub of New York again provided a welcoming platform for Radcliffefellows, including John Diamond RI ’07 and Mahzarin R.Banaji RI ’08, the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the RadcliffeInstitute, both of whom addressed large audiences of Harvardalumnae/i. Gatherings in Chicago and Palm Beach also welcomedInstitute fellows and scholars. Marilyn Dunn, executive director ofthe Schlesinger Library, gave presentations about the library’sWorld War II collections to the Ann Radcliffe Society and to thefiftieth and sixtieth reunion classes.It has been a pleasure for me this past year to oversee the Advancementoperations of the Institute in addition to my role as executivedean. The enthusiasm of our alumnae/i and friends and the commitmentof our Advancement staff have been deeply gratifying.I would like to thank you for your generosity, your attendance atInstitute events, and your informal but critical role as ambassadorsfor the Institute.I am also delighted to welcome Sharyn Bahn to the Radcliffe Institute.Tamara’s was a tough act to follow, but Sharyn—who comesto us from the American Repertory Theatre, and from a developmentcareer in academia, the arts, and public television—is well positionedto follow in her footsteps. I am confident that you will enjoyyour interactions with her and that she in turn will enjoy theopportunity to keep you informed about the many exciting activitieshere in Radcliffe Yard.louise richardsonExecutive Deanradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–200831

Grants and Acquisitionsarthur and elizabethschlesinger libraryon the historyof women in americagrantsThe Carol K. Pforzheimer StudentFellowships, Research SupportGrants, and Dissertation SupportGrants listed below were supportedby the following funds:Alice Stone Blackwell EndowmentFundMary Lizzie Saunders Clapp FundEileen McDonagh FundCarol K. Pforzhimer StudentFellowship FundEliza Taylor and George W. RansomMemorial FundThe Oral History Grants were fundedby the Pforzheimer Fund for theSchlesinger LibraryThe Carol K. Pforzheimer StudentFellowshipsAlexandra Berry ’09“Nelson Rockefeller and an EarlyExperiment by Women of ParticipatoryDevelopment in Brazil”Ellora Derenoncourt ’09“From ‘Women-Led’ to a Women’sMovement: Retheorizing theChagossian Struggle for the Right toReturn as Global Women’s Anti-Imperialist Resistance”Ben Ganzfried ’09“A History of Vegetarianism”Grace Gu ’09“Anthropological Inquiry into theCultural Relevance of Terror in theWillamette Valley Wine Industry”Ana Huang ’09“Proper Lesbians Don’t Wear Pants:Negotiating Butch-Femme Roles inUS Lesbian Culture”Laura James ’09“The Construction of a FeministLiterary Identity as Defined by, andagainst, the Concept of Ethnicity”Emily Kaplan ’09An illustrated, semi-autobiographicalnovellaBrittney Moraski ’09Preliminary thesis reading andresearch on mental illness, womanwriters, and domestic ideologiesin the twentieth century (particularlyin the 1950s)Wangui Monica Muigai ’09“African American Women andHistorical Discussions of Abortion”Emily Alyssa Owens ’09“A Discursive Genealogy of theImpossible Black Lesbian Subject”Mariah Fieldsmith Peebles ’09“The Women’s Health Movement andOur Bodies, Ourselves”Alexandra Perkins ’10“Women, Empire, and the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights”Indira Phukan ’09“From Augustus to Hillary Clinton:The Transformation of Methods ofCommunication with Constituents,Subjects, and Citizens”Frances Tompkins ’09“Beyond the Summer Urban Program:The Long-Term Impact of ServiceExperience on Career Choice andDevelopment”Research Support GrantsMartha Jane Brazy, University ofSouthern AlabamaJune Jordan biographyJennifer Gilley, Penn State University“Feminist Print Publishing in theUnited States”Diana Mara Henry, IndependentScholar/Artist“‘Women on the Move’: Experienceand Perception of the First NationalWomen’s Conference, Houston, 1977”Julia L. Mickenberg, University ofTexas at Austin“The New Woman Tries on Red:Russia in the American FeministImagination, 1905–1945”Laura J. Praglin, University ofNorthern Iowa at Cedar Falls“‘Dear Sharer of Many Problems’:The Correspondence of Ida M.Cannon and Richard Clarke Cabot,1905–1939”Sherie Randolph, University of Illinoisat Urbana–Champaign“‘Alliance of the Alienated’: Florynce‘Flo’ Kennedy and Black FeministPolitics in Postwar America”Lori Rotskoff, Barnard College“Progress in the Playroom: Feminism,Motherhood, and NonsexistChildrearing, 1965–1985”Kirsten Swinth, Fordham University“Bringing Home the Bacon and FryingIt Up Too: A Cultural History of theWorking Mother in America,1950–2000”Simon Wendt, University ofHeidelberg“Gender, Memory, and Nation:A History of the Daughters of theAmerican Revolution”Dissertation Support GrantsAgatha Beins, Rutgers University“Free Our Sisters, Free Ourselves!Locating US Feminism throughFeminist Publishing, 1968–1980”Jo E. Butterfield, University of Iowa“Imagining Women’s Human Rights:International Feminist Activism,Gender Politics and the Birth of theCold War”Eleanor Capper, University ofLiverpool“Caroline Ware and the Politics ofWomen and Consumerism,1932–1968”Allison Elias, University of Virginia“Creating Corporate Policy: ClericalWorkers, Feminism, and EmploymentPolicy, 1960–1980”Lily Geismer, University of Michigan“Don’t Blame Us: GrassrootsLiberalism in Massachusetts,1960–1990”Kate Hallgren, City University ofNew York“Patriotic Mothers and TroublesomeDaughters: Mothers’ Activism,Popular Culture and the Great War inAmerica, 1914–1933”Adrian Jones, University of Sydney“Resistance, Rejection, andReparation: Anne Sexton and thePoetry of Therapy”Jessica Lee, University of Washington“As We See It and As We Make It: TheAcademic Roots of Radical Feminism”Grace V. Leslie, Yale University“US Women’s Transnational Activism,1935–1975”Manon Parry, University ofMaryland/National Library ofMedicine“Broadcasting Birth Control: A Historyof Health Communication for FamilyPlanning”Adrienne Phelps Coco, University ofIllinois at Chicago“A Brooklyn Enigma: TheControversial Disabilities and MysticalAbilities of Mollie Fancher, 1850–1916”Katrina Ann Sinclair, University atBuffalo“Title IX: Change through PublicPolicy and the Actors That Made ItPossible”Andrea L. Turpin, University ofNotre Dame“Gender and Religion in the AmericanAcademy, 1837–1910”Leandra Zarnow, University ofCalifornia at Santa Barbara“Bella Abzug and the Promise ofProgressive Change in Cold WarUnited States”Oral History GrantsHershe Michele Kramer and EstelleColeman, Peace EncampmentHerstory Project“West/Southwest Interview Tour”Kim Liao, Emerson College“A Woman between Two Worlds:Reconstructing the Life of Anne Liao”Jenna Marie Mellor ’08“From Orgasms to Organizing!: Sex-Positive Feminism of the TwentiethCentury and Beyond”V. Anna Willman, UmpquaCommunity Action Network“An Oral History of the ConfidenceClinic”Brittney Yancy, University ofConnecticut“Sisters! Revolution Is Here!:Women’s Leadership and the BlackPower Movement”acquisitionsPersonal and Family PapersBobbi Ausubelldirector of radical experimentaltheater groupDolores Bargowskilfeminist, writer, Women MakeMovies, the FuriesBarker familylMethodists, family correspondence,1797–1894Jane BlanshardlRadcliffe College graduate andteacher of English and English as aSecond LanguageMiss CampbelllcookbookKate Carneylactor, playwright, and teacherCharlotte E. Carrlgovernment official, welfare advocate,labor supporter, and firstsalaried head of Hull HouseCarrie Donovanlfashion editorHelen Beggs Eisoldlcorrespondence, World War IIEva FleischnerlCatholic theologian in Christian-Jewish relationsForbes familylcorrespondence, 1867–1925Kinereth D. Genslerlpoet, editor, and teacherE. J. Grafflauthor and journalistIsabella Halstedlcommunity activist and volunteerWilliam R. Henrylsocialist, newspaper compositor,and lawyer; husband of suffragistBessie Louise HammondShere Hitelcultural historian, researcher insexuality, and feministJames C. Whitten Collection on theHistory of Vegetarianismlpostcards, autographs, and lettersof well-known vegetarians and otherephemera, 1884–2001Janet T. KeeplRadcliffe College Class of 1942Karen LangelBusinesswoman and memoiristNancy Debra Levinlwomen’s sports advocateHelen E. Baker Mackaylcorrespondence, 1876–1914Jane MandelbaumlCamp Waziyatah, 1962–1966Betty Hosmer Mawardilhome economics, recipesLouise Walker McCannellphilanthropist and civic activistJulie Melroseleditor, freelance journalist, feminist,and community organizerAnn P. Meredithlphotographer, artist, filmmaker,writer, and community organizerMarisue MullinsldiariesRuth E. Nemzofflstate legislator, professor, andconsultantLee OrlofflmenusAnne Sheehan PressmanlRadcliffe College scrapbook, 1940sSusan Houston Reidlletters to family while student atRadcliffe College, Class of 1962Rice familylcookbooksAlice S. Rossilsociologist and feministJan Perlmuter SakslCamp Moy-Mo-Da-Yo scrapbook,1950sCharlotte SalisburyNancy J. SalzerldiariesAlice Turner Schaferlprofessor of mathematicsJoy R. Simonsonlwomen’s rights activist andgovernment officialMarion Ballou SmithlOut of Vermont Kitchens cookbookStoddard familylcorrespondence, 1818–1950Elizabeth Ann SwiftlForeign Service officer and formerhostage in IranLila Hotz Luce Tynglsocialite and first wife of publisherHenry Robinson LuceCarmen Delgado Votawlfeminist and civil rights leaderJane Horton Wellslconsultant, administrator, andfeministElizabeth Westlpostcard collectionWinnielcookbookOrganizational RecordsClearinghouse on Women’s Issues(Washington, DC, incorporated 1974)D. & E. Bailie (account book,1876–1885)Mautner Project (National LesbianHealth Organization)Persephone Press (feminist press inWatertown, Massachusetts, foundedin 1976)Recipes of the Month ClubVeteran Feminists of America (DVD ofconference proceedings)Womankind Educational andResource Center32 www.radcliffe.eduradcliffe institute i i i i annual report 2007–2008 33

adcliffe institute dean’s councilNancy Aronson ’56Albert J. Beveridge III LLB ’62A’Lelia P. Bundles ’74Perrin Moorhead Grayson ’72Rita E. HauserRichard Hunt PhD ’60George M. Lovejoy, Jr. ’51Suzanne Young Murray ’62Diana Nelson ’84Katharine C. Sachs ’70Nancy-Beth Gordon Sheerr ’71Prudence Linder Steiner ’58, AM ’76,PhD ’80Deborah Fiedler Stiles ’69, JD ’74Susan S. Wallach ’68, JD ’71Leah Zell Wanger ’71, AM ’72, PhD ’79schlesinger library councilEdith Aronson ’84, EdM ’97Joan ChallinorPhyllis (Patty) Trustman Gelfman ’56Linda J. Greenhouse ’68John W. Ingraham ’52, MBA ’57Ralph M. James MBA ’82Priscilla Fierman Kauff ’62Barbara N. Kravitz ’52, EdM ’53Eileen L. McDonaugh ’66Diana M. MeehanPaula J. Omansky ’56, HRPBA ’57,LLB ’62Elizabeth Fleischner Rosenman ’54Marilyn Wood Hillradcliffe institute alumnaeoutreach advisory committeeCaroline Minot Bell ’77Janet Corcoran ’79, MCRP ’83Amey Amory DeFriez ’49Jennifer Flinton Diener ’67, MBA ’72Jessica Dormitzer ’92Ann Eldridge ’57, MAT ’59Janet Wolk Gold HRPBA ’56Victoria Hamilton ’75, MBA ’79Carla Herwitz ’52, LLB ’55Joan Keenan ’45, HRPBA ’47Anne Knight ’66, AM ’71Sandra Kolb ’68Renee Landers ’77Michele Levy ’87Janet Pearl ’87Joan Pinck ’50, BI ’69Ellen Reeves ’83, EdM ’86Marlene Rehkamp ’82, JD ’85Amy Russo ’79Enid Maslon Starr ’51, HRPBA ’52Harriet Backus Todd ’64Anson Wright ’80, SM ’84, SM ’05image creditsWebb ChappellElaine ChewLui Gino De GrandisKathleen DooherLeah FastenHarvard University News OfficeJon ChaseJustin IdeKris SnibbeMarilyn HeldmanDerek KouyoumjianTony RinaldoSchlesinger LibraryMarjorie Henderson Buell CollectionDoris 24 cover, by Lauren Roche,courtesy of Cindy CrabbShere Hite PapersAnn P. Meredith PapersPauli Murray PapersMartha Stewart10%52www.radcliffe.edu

institute calendar 2008–2009 Academic YearFor up-to-date information on eventsand exhibitions at the RadcliffeInstitute, check the on-line calendar:www.radcliffe.edueventsoctoberFellows’ Presentation SeriesNext-Generation Implications of Open AccessPaul Ginsparg, 2008–2009 Benjamin White Whitney Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute, Cornell UniversityWednesday, October 15, 3:30 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212Dean’s Lecture SeriesEliminating Disparities in Healthcare: The Role of Healthcare ProfessionalsLisa A. Cooper, Johns Hopkins Medical InstitutionsThursday, October 16, 4 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600Fellows’ Presentation Series“Thunderstruck Not Lightning-struck,” A ReadingElizabeth McCracken, 2008–2009 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Independent Writer, United StatesMonday, October 20, 3:30 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212Fellows’ Presentation SeriesThe Genetics of Species FormationDaven Presgraves, 2008–2009 Grass Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of RochesterWednesday, October 22, 3:30 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-82122008–2009 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and GenderSecond/Third Wave Feminism: The Case of Helen Gurley BrownJennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin College, with commentary by Alice Jardine, Harvard UniversityThursday, October 23, 5:30 pm, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, RadcliffeRoom, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical SocietyDean’s Lecture SeriesCan’t You See I’m Busy? Computers That Know When to InterruptBarbara J. Grosz, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard UniversityMonday, October 27, 4:15 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600ConferencePostcolonial WarsThursday, October 30–Friday, October 31, time to be determined, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard,617-495-8600novemberFellows’ Presentation SeriesBuilding a Better Beast: Towards a Theory of Moral ResponsibilityManuel Vargas, 2008–2009 Radcliffe Institute fellow, University of San FranciscoWednesday, November 5, 3:30 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212Movie Night at the Schlesinger LibraryFreaks (1932), directed by Tod BrowningA discussion with Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix, follows the film.Wednesday, November 5, 6 pm, Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Womenin America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647Fellows’ Presentation SeriesColored Television: Religion, Media, and Racial Uplift in the Black Atlantic WorldMarla Frederick, 2008–2009 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard UniversityWednesday, November 12, 3:30pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212Lecture in the SciencesLuke Whitesell, 2005–2006 Grass Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, University of Arizona and Whitehead Institute,Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMonday, November 17, time and location to be determined, 617-495-8600Fellows’ Presentation SeriesConnecting Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Architecture Through BiomimeticsJoanna Aizenberg, 2008–2009 Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard UniversityWednesday, November 19, 3:30pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212Rama S. Mehta LectureHauwa Ibrahim, 2008–2009 Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Aries Law FirmNovember 24, 4pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600tear here

march february decemberJulia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the HumanitiesThe Health of PoetryGwyneth Lewis, 2008–2009 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Welsh National PoetTuesday, December 2, 4pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600Fellows’ Presentation SeriesStability and Instability in Repairing Broken ChromosomesJames Haber, 2008–2009 Helen Putnam Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Brandeis UniversityWednesday, December 3, 3:30pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212Movie Night at the Schlesinger LibraryShort educational films from the 1940s–1960s aimed at girlsA discussion with Melissa Dollman, Schlesinger Library, and Amy Sloper, Harvard Film Archive, follows the film.Wednesday, December 3, 6pm, Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Womenin America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647Fellows’ Presentation SeriesIn Praise of Mediocrity: The Defense of Imperfection in Late Medieval EnglandNicholas Watson, 2008–2009 Katherine and Peter Sachs Faculty Associate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, HarvardUniversityWednesday, December 10, 3:30pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212Fellows’ Presentation SeriesTransition: The Politics of Racial and Ethnic ChangeKim Williams, 2008–2009 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, John F. Kennedy School ofGovernment, Harvard UniversityWednesday, December 17, 3:30pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8212Movie Night at the Schlesinger LibraryLa Corona (2008), directed by Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega, and Perfect Image? (1988), directed by MaureenBlackwoodWednesday, February 4, 6pm, Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Womenin America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-86472008–2009 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and GenderLois Brown, Mount Holyoke College, and Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts at AmherstThursday, February 12, 5:30 pm, Massachusetts Historical Society, Seminar Room, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, 617-495-8647Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical SocietyLecture in the SciencesBonnie Bassler, Princeton UniversityMonday, February 23, time and location to be determined, 617-495-8600Movie Night at the Schlesinger LibraryDogfight (1991), directed by Nancy SavocaA discussion with Andrea Walsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, follows the film.Wednesday March 4, 6 pm, Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women inAmerica, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647ConferenceGender and the LawThursday, March 12–Friday, March 13, time and location to be determined, 617-495-8600Dean’s Lecture SeriesElaine Fuchs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller UniversityThursday, March 19, time and location to be determined, 617-495-86002008–2009 Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and GenderA Domestic Market: Reframing International Marriages in the Age of US ExpansionismAmy G. Richter, Clark University, with commentary by Frank Costigliola, University of ConnecticutThursday, March 19, 5:30 pm, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, RadcliffeRoom, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical SocietyUnless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public and occur in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Schedule is subjectto change without notice. For more information about these or other events or exhibitions, please call the number provided witheach listing or check www.radcliffe.edu.tear here

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