Tag: Schlesinger Library
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Campus & Community
Biography of a place
Harvard course asks students to write a history of the Radcliffe Quadrangle.
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Science & Tech
The myth of the ‘math person’
Anxiety illuminated by author and Radcliffe grad Sheila Tobias resonates with students, teachers almost 50 years later.
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Nation & World
Schlesinger adjusts plans for Roe v. Wade commemoration to new reality
Schlesinger exhibit, conference to examine history, future now that Supreme Court has overturned landmark ruling.
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Nation & World
How Roe got to be Roe
Schlesinger Library holdings document long, pitched dispute over abortion in archival documents, photos, letters, voices of women.
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Nation & World
How Title IX transformed colleges, universities over past 50 years
It upended intercollegiate sports but also forced shifts in hiring, promotion, admissions, reckoning on sexual harassment, assault.
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Arts & Culture
Mira Nair comes full circle with donation of archive
The acquisition represents a key step in Schlesinger Library’s efforts to capture a broad range of women’s voices and perspectives.
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Nation & World
Challenge of archiving the #MeToo movement
The Schlesinger Library’s #MeToo archive, which opened to researchers on July 1, captures the tweets, websites, and online articles that powered the movement.
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Arts & Culture
Angela Davis in black and white and gray
A new exhibit at Radcliffe, curated from Angela Davis’ personal archive, chronicles the life of a complicated activist and scholar
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Arts & Culture
Research and everyday life
Harvard students are keeping busy with summer research projects across multiple disciplines.
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Arts & Culture
‘Now I am the memory that’s left’
Patricia J. Williams changed the focus of her fellowship after the death of her mother last fall as she realized, “Now I am the memory that’s left.”
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Arts & Culture
In 1932, this opera was a hit. Why has no one seen it since?
A workshop at Radcliffe showcased “Tom-Tom,” an opera by African-American composer Shirley Graham that hasn’t been performed since its 1932 premiere.
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Nation & World
Probing the past and future of #MeToo
The long history behind the #MeToo movement and its future impact were the focus of a discussion with Harvard scholars at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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Arts & Culture
Feminism and fairy tales
Radcliffe film series spotlights the feminine power in many traditional fables and folk tales.
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Nation & World
For Faludi, a rare internal gaze
“Suspicious of the privileging of the personal,” author and journalist Susan Faludi, who’ll speak at the Schlesinger Library soon, has written an unexpected look at her own life.
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Campus & Community
Cohen to step down as Radcliffe Institute dean
Lizabeth Cohen, who has led the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2011, announced she will step down from that post next June. She plans to return to teaching and research in Harvard’s Department of History following a year’s sabbatical.
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Campus & Community
Plenty to see here
Whether you’re interested in science, history, politics, art, technology, comedy, cooking, or sports, there’s something happening at Harvard this fall for you.
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Arts & Culture
The life behind Wonder Woman
Two collections of William Moulton Marston, a Harvard graduate, psychologist, and inventor of the lie detector machine whose Wonder Woman comics promoted the triumph of women in a male-dominated world, arrived at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Schlesinger Library.
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Arts & Culture
A family of common zeal
Of the many items in a new Radcliffe exhibit devoted to a family of social reformers, one in particular points to the attitudes and assumptions they repeatedly overcame. It’s a…
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Arts & Culture
Guarding the dazzle of the past
The Gazette visited the Weissman Preservation Center to see how conservators preserve Harvard’s rare and unique collections.
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Campus & Community
Pinning their hopes on buttons
Catchy slogans, iconic symbols, and striking colors are the makings for memorable political buttons.
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Arts & Culture
Blended voices, each with a personal charge
Five poets are celebrated in “‘A Language to Hear Myself’: Feminist Poets Speak,” a Schlesinger Library exhibit running from Feb. 29 to June 17, with an accompanying performance March 1.
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Arts & Culture
Putting an artist in her place
A new exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums reviews the work of pop artist and activist Corita Kent.
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Arts & Culture
More than help for their hair
Schlesinger Library receives letters from African-American servicewomen grateful for hair products that eased their lives while on assignment.
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Arts & Culture
The personal Civil War
Drawn from a series of family correspondence, letters, diaries, and journals, a new exhibit at the Schlesinger Library offers firsthand accounts of men, women, soldiers, and slaves caught up in the Civil War.
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Arts & Culture
Chicago on Chicago
Judy Chicago speaks about feminism and art education at the Radcliffe Institute. A video of the discussion is available.
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Arts & Culture
Food, gender, culture
Harvard Summer School is big, young, diverse, and challenging — qualities summed up nicely by a course on food, gender, and American culture.