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Undergraduate Book Collecting Award Winners Recognized
This year's winners of the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting were recognized at a reception in Widener Library. The Prize is awarded annually to recognize and encourage book collecting by Harvard undergraduates.
Library Acquires Original Star Trek Writers' Guide
The original, photocopied handbook from 1967, part of Houghton Library's large science fiction collection, includes intriguing details on the original TV show's ethos, characters, terminology and spaceship.
Spring Exams 2013: Library Hours & Services
Cramming at 2am? Lamont is open 24/7. Prefer a fireplace? Go to Gutman. Study break? Borrow a bike from the Law School Library. Freaking out? Check out Cooper, a therapy dog, from Countway.
Hofer Prize Winners Announced
The annual prize, named for Philip Hofer ’21, a former curator of Houghton Library, is given to students whose collection of books or works of art fulfill “the traditions of breadth, coherence and imagination” exemplified by Hofer.
Gutman Library Renovation Certified LEED Platinum
The Harvard Graduate School of Education’s 2012 renovation of Gutman Library’s first and second floor was recently recognized by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), receiving LEED Platinum certification.
Mirror With a Memory
The Harvard University Archives' exhibit displays photographs and other artifacts spotlighting Harvard in the Civil War era.
HLS and the Road to Marriage Equality
The Caspersen Room in the Harvard Law School Library is currently displaying an exhibit documenting the involvement of HLS students, faculty and alumni in the long road to marriage equality.
Alpha, Beta, Zeega
Zeega is a Harvard Library Lab project that revolutionizes interactive storytelling by allowing users to harness text, images and audio from the Web.
Portraits of a Vanished Indian Life
Two photo albums at Harvard's Tozzer Library contain more than one thousand rare images of 19th century Native Americans.
A Tuned-In Savior
Harvard graduate student Rachel Vandagriff "discovered" a treasure trove of materials related to new music champion Paul Fromm and created an exhibit at Loeb Music Library.
Biodiversity Heritage Library Receives Computerworld Laureate Award
The Biodiversity Heritage Library, co-founded by Harvard's Botany Library and Ernst Mayr Library, was named a 2013 Laureate by the Computerworld Honors Program.
Hidden Treasures
More than 400 glass models of marine creatures in the Library collection are so delicate that they rarely, if ever, go on public display.
Harvard Library Quirky Collections
Bathing trunks, breathable chocolate, musket balls: read about odd acquisitions in the Harvard Library collection.
Poetic Greetings
From 1976-96, Harvard Square pedestrians entered the Phone-a-Poem installation, dialed, and heard poems read by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman and others recorded on an answering machine.
Arresting Images
A Harvard Law School Library Exhibit demonstrates America's appetite for tawdry and salacious crime, long before O.J. or Oscar.
Library's New Page Delivery Service Optimizes Tablet Display
Read about the Harvard Library's tablet version of the Page Delivery Service, designed to provide significant benefits to Harvard's researchers.
Valentine's Day in the Harvard Library Collection
"Be mine, you nasty and ugly and crabbed old scold," states a rare 19th century hand-drawn valentine--explore (and enjoy!) Valentine’s Day through the Harvard Library collection.
The Emancipation Proclamation Now
On the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, read about its ongoing impact and the rare miniature version, printed for freed slaves, in the Houghton Library collection.
A Remembrance of Things Proust
Read about a semester-long exhibit at Houghton Library, "Private Proust: Letters and Drawings to Reynaldo Hahn," on the 100th anniversary of the publication of Proust's Swann's Way.
Harvard Film Archive Films Now Searchable Through Library Catalog
The majority of the Harvard Film Archive's records--representing more than 23,000 films and videotapes--are now searchable through the Harvard Library catalog, HOLLIS.
Harvard-Yenching Library Joins Borrow Direct
More than 400,000 items from the Harvard-Yenching Library collection are now accessible to Harvard's Borrow Direct partners, in addition to the approximately 6.5 million items from Harvard's collections previously made available to Borrow Direct partners.
Note Taking in a Clickable Age
Read about the Take Note Symposium, which included tours to see items in several Harvard libraries.
Girls Who Rock Out
"She likes death metal and bunnies at the same time." Read about Girls Rock!, a documentary that follows girls attending the Girls Rock Camp, screened at a Schlesinger Library Movie Night.
Library Lab Puts on a Show
Read about the Harvard Library Lab's Showcase, a campus-wide exhibition of 28 Library Lab projects that make original contributions to the way libraries work.
Battle Cries of Freedom
Read an article about a Countway Library Center for the History of Medicine exhibit that explores how the Civil War challenged paradigms of death, medicine and mourning.
Libraries Re-Imagined: Harvard Opens a Pop-Up Labrary in Cambridge
BostonInno stops by the Labrary, a pop-up storefront space that explores how innovations in design can help libraries evolve.
The Publishing Industry Isn't Doomed
Fast Company quotes University Librarian Robert Darnton on the democratization of publishing.
A Place to Put All Those Curiosities
The New York Times reviews an exhibit at New York's Grolier Club which features several items from the Houghton Library collection.
Cookbooks Echo with the Wisdom of Chefs Past
The New York Times writes about marginalia in cookbooks, inlcuding those of Julia Child in the Schlesinger Library collection.
Multimedia Immersion
Read about a Harvard Wintersession boot camp for faculty, students and librarians focused on using new media in research, teaching and learning.
The Rise, Ruin of a China Trader
Read about a Baker Library online exhibit on the earliest days of the China trade and the successes and ultimate failure of a New England trader.
Santo Domingo Collection Chronicles Cultural Backdrop of Sex, Drugs
The Santo Domingo Collection at Harvard features art, literature and popular culture artifacts related to achieving altered states of mind.
Chronicle: Harvard Library Innovation Lab
Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab projects featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Harvard to Contribute Special Collections Materials to Digital Public Library of America
The Harvard Library plans to share several collections with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)—becoming the first DPLA content hub.
The Art of Saving Art
Weissman conservators repair Le Corbusier and Miró works for the Carpenter Center.
Evidence of Greatness
Harvard Law School showcases the life and work of Joseph Story in an exhibit and digital suite.
Harvard Library to Adopt RDA
The Harvard Library plans to adopt Resource Description and Access (RDA), joining the three US national libraries—Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine and the National Agricultural Library and peers—in implementing the new code.
Edward Lear's Natural History
"The Natural History of Edward Lear," on display at Houghton Library, shows the famed nonsense writer’s early devotion to painting, and sketching.
Old Japan, Online
“Early Photography of Japan,” a virtual collection of more than 2,000 images from three Harvard University libraries, documents the early history of Japanese commercial photography, and reflects the Western image of traditional Japanese culture before the modernization that occurred during the Meiji period (1868–1912).
Guides to the Gallows
The Law School's "Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders" collection captures 19th century English trials and executions.
Widener’s Slavic Division Boasts Rich Collection from across the Region
Macedonian President Ivanov recently presented a gift of 130 books of Macedonia literature to the Slavic Collection during recent visit to Harvard.
Sensibly Saving Jane Austen
Two of her fragile letters, owned by Harvard, undergo painstaking repair at the Library's Weissman Preservation Center.
Provost Alan Garber on Harvard Library Launch
"I am confident that the remarkable strengths of our libraries, and particularly the people who bring them to life, will allow us to build a Harvard Library that will set the standard now and in the future."
Updike's Roots and Evolution
"John Updike: A Glimpse from the Archive" at Houghton Library explores how Updike, a boy from rural Pennsylvania, became Updike the international literary icon.
Boston Globe: Julia Child Turns 100 at Radcliffe
The Boston Globe features the Julia Child Collection at the Schlesinger Library on Child's centenary celebration.
A Julia-Worthy Feast
Materials from the Julia Child Collection at the Schlesinger Library highlight Julia's work, marriage and joie de vivre.
Harvard's Best Listeners
The Library's audio team makes high-end digital copies of audio artifacts, some in fragile or rare formats.
The New York Times: Harvard Releases Big Data for Books
The New York Times covers the Harvard Library's release of nearly 100% of its records—more than 12 million from 73 libraries.
US News and World Report: Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?
US News & World Report explores academic journals and the Library Faculty Advisory Council's warning on their cost.
Events
Building on Strengths, Broadening Horizons: Recent Additions to the Collections of Houghton Library
Over the last five years, curators at Houghton Library have continued to acquire material in support of the teaching and scholarship which are at the core of the Library’s mission. Items in this exhibition, which runs through May 13, 2014, range from an 8th-century fragment of Theodore of Mopsuestia’s commentary of the Pauline epistles to a placard from the August 1963 March on Washington whose 60th anniversary was commemorated last month; from an early 15th-century woodcut still mounted inside its original leather box to playing cards which reflect the phenomenal box office success of Gilbert and Sullivan’s fourth comic opera, H.M.S. Pinafore, which opened in 1878; from the manuscript of Gilbert White’s sermons written between 1747 and 1753 and a record of the dates each was delivered to John Updike’s typescript with autograph revisions for his review of Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night (1968).
Women at HLS: 60 Years of Transformation
Since women were first admitted to HLS in 1950, female students have slowly but surely carved out a place for themselves on campus. This exhibit, which runs through December 13, 2013, explores themes such as enrollment, sports and recreation, campus improvements, and student organizations—particularly the Women’s Law Association.
HKS Library Virtual Book Tour: Alfred Schipke
Alfred Schipke discusses his new book, The Eastern Caribbean Economic and Currency Union: Macroeconomics and Financial Systems. The virtual book tour runs through October 31, 2013.
Special Exhibit: Early Printing of the Declaration of Independence
The Harvard Law School Library is honored and delighted to display a rare and historic printing of the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s authorized edition of the Declaration of Independence. It was the means by which most citizens learned that their colony had declared independence from England. Ezekiel Russell printed this handsome broadside on or about July 16, 1776. It is likely that this is its first public viewing since 1776, when it was used to promulgate Congress’ message of independence from England. This exhibit runs through November 22, 2013.
Tour of Houghton Library
Public tours of Houghton Library are offered every Friday at 2 pm. Attendees receive a general introduction to the library, followed by a tour of the Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell and John Keats rooms, as well as the suite devoted to the Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Those wishing to take the tour should meet in the Houghton Library lobby. Reservations are not required.
Film Series: Songs of Struggle—The Radical Documentaries of Shinsuke Ogawa
Long overdue, this comprehensive retrospective devoted tothe work of a giant of documentary cinema, Shinsuke Ogawa, will bring more than a dozen of his films to North America for the first time in many years. With this series, the Harvard Film Archive hopes to re-focus attention on his extraordinary, incisive and deeply committed body of work. This series is presented with support from The Japan Foundation.
Film Screening: The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase
As a student at Harvard, Joshua Oppenheimer began his exploration of the space between documentary and fiction—and the maelstrom of stories that we tell ourselves to justify our actions. What are the effects of these stories? His Harvard thesis film, The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase, was the start of this exploration, and his first apocalyptic fever dream.
Open Session on Affinity Groups
The review committee for the Affinity Group Model will hold three open sessions—on September 30, October 3 and October 7—to gather input from the Harvard Library community as part of the evaluation process. The committee welcomes insights about the Affinity Groups and experiences working within them.
Decapitating Daisies: Photographs by Molly Quill
Molly Quill’s photo series Decapitating Daisies is a collection of intimate, explorative, graceful, and at times uncomfortable images. She shares with us moments of her summers caring for three children who, without the confines of school, were forced to create a structure for their days. In these works Quill examines ideas of childhood, family, isolation, boredom, and play, all while subtly referencing art historical tradition in their compositions. Looking through the window she has created into these intimate moments can feel like trespassing, but the viewer’s reward for taking that leap is a thoughtful and beautiful reflection on what it looks like to grow up.
Harvard Divinity School Students and Alumni in the American Antislavery Period
Selected antislavery publications from the library's collection are on display on the first floor near the circulation desk. Items include gifts from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to HDS in 1838, and some antislavery sermons and discourses delivered by HDS alumni from 1832 to 1856.
Religious Aspects of the American Civil War
A small sample of pamphlet sermons and other ephemeral materials, including hymn and prayer books used by soldiers, printed duriing the American Civil War are displayed in the Stendahl Lobby, second floor.
Trash or Treasure? Guidance on Retaining Your Office Records
Have you ever wondered "How long do I need to keep my office records? Can I throw them away when I am done with them?" This workshop provides tools and advice to help you determine how long to keep your records and what to do when you no longer need to hold onto them. Whether you feel like you’re drowning in information or you're concerned that you're keeping records too long or not long enough, this workshop is for you.
Here Comes the Bookmobile: How Mobile Libraries Made America
This presentation will explore the peculiar history of the bookmobile in the United States, from the traveling libraries of the 1890s to the digital bookmobiles of today, paying particular attention to how books on the move prompted librarians and patrons alike to rethink what it meant to be American.
CRL Webinar: Collections and Services
The Center for Research Libraries presents a 60-minute “Collections and Services” webinar. Participation in this no-cost event is open to all librarians, library staff, and faculty at CRL libraries. This event is a great way to familiarize new library staff and faculty about CRL resources for the new school year; update staff about collections, programs, and digitization activities; and orient newly enrolled CRL libraries on getting the most from their investment in CRL.
Shifts in Practice to Promote Literary Achievement in the Era of Common Core State Standards
The Ninth Annual Jeanne S. Chall Lecture and Reception with Nell K. Duke, EdM '95, EdD '99, of the University of Michigan with an introduction by Nonie K. Lesaux, professor of education, HGSE.
Tour of Widener Library
Tours of Widener Library are offered every Thursday for all currently affiliated Harvard faculty, staff, students and visiting scholars. Conducted by research and reference librarians, the tour includes an introduction to Widener's collections, orientation to the facilities, including the reading rooms and the stacks and an explanation of services available to researchers. All tours begin just beyond the Security Desk at the main (Yard) entrance of the building.
Qualified Women: Women, Performance and Political Labor in the New Deal
Join Kate Dossett from the University of Leeds and Susan Ware, general editor of American National Biography at this Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender event, cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
The Inaugural Bagley Wright Lecture on Poetry: Poetry and the Metaphysical I
Poet and scholar Dorothea Lasky will present a lecture titled "Poetry and the Metaphysical I" as part of the inaugural season of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry, a new, independent series founded by businessman and philanthropist Charlie Wright, in honor of his late father. The series seeks to provide leading poets with the opportunity to explore in depth their own thinking on the subject of poetry and poetics, and to create lasting works of criticism and poetics that will help current practitioners in the art of poetry, along with scholars and general readers, more fully understand poetry as it is written and read in our time. Lasky is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Thunderbird, and is currently an assistant professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts.
OECD iLibrary Training
Training session on the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) iLibrary e-resource. A training specialist from OECD will be leading the session. The OECD iLibrary (nrs.harvard.edu…) contains all books and papers published by the OECD since 1998—as well as a vast collection of statistics, including data going back to the early 1960s and covering more than 80 countries. OECD iLibrary has information on a wide range of topics including economics, education, environment and health.
Film Screening: Dead Birds
Directed by Robert Gardner. US, 1964. In 1961, Gardner organized an expedition to the highlands of New Guinea to film the Dani people. He stayed for six months to create this essay on the themes of violence and death most dramatically witnessed within the intense ritual warfare between rival Dani villages. The contrast between the everyday lives of the film’s subjects and the perpetual cycle of fighting encourages reflection on the role of violence in human life and culture in general. Part of Dead Birds—A 50th Anniversary Celebration.
Gallery Talk and Reception: Decapitating Daisies
Molly Quill’s photo series Decapitating Daisies is a collection of intimate, explorative, graceful, and at times uncomfortable images. She shares with us moments of her summers caring for three children who, without the confines of school, were forced to create a structure for their days. In these works Quill examines ideas of childhood, family, isolation, boredom, and play, all while subtly referencing art historical tradition in their compositions. Looking through the window she has created into these intimate moments can feel like trespassing, but the viewer’s reward for taking that leap is a thoughtful and beautiful reflection on what it looks like to grow up.
Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City and the Struggle to Educate America's Children
Sarah Carr is the author of Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America’s Children. She was previously a staff writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the New Orleans Picayune. Sponsored by Gutman Library.
The Poet's Voice: Amiri Baraka and Cathy Park Hong
The Woodberry Poetry Room's Fall 2013 Poet's Voice series begins with two poets whose commanding, audacious and kaleidoscopic works are relentlessly evolving to address the questions most pertinent to our culture and to our common humanity: Amiri Baraka (author of Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones and The Book of Monk) and Cathy Park Hong (author of Engine Empire and Dance Dance Revolution). Introduction by Prof. Michael Millner (University of Massachusetts—Lowell). A book signing will follow the event.
RTL Shares: Finding Digitized Books and Documents
Please join us for RTL Shares' third session. James Capobianco from Houghton Library will facilitate an interactive discovery of sources for digitized books online. Every level of experience is welcome, from those who have only dabbled in using Google Books to those who have extensive knowledge of obscure subject-related collections of electronic books. Steve Kuehler of Lamont Library will demonstrate Fold3, a resource for digitized documents from American history. There will be time for Q&A and for conversation.
Short Films: The Cambridge Turn—Scott MacDonald and Local Nonfiction Cinema
Over the past half-century, the Boston area has been the fountainhead of American documentary filmmaking. Cambridge in particular has been crucial in nurturing two major genres of nonfiction cinema: ethnographic filmmaking and personal documentary. Scott MacDonald, author of American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn, an exploration of the Cambridge contribution to documentary history, returns to the Harvard Film Archive to present two programs of remarkable but rarely screened short films from these two rich traditions of non-fiction cinema.
When Everything Changed
A lecture by columnist Gail Collins of The New York Times about how and why the national view of American women changed so dramatically between 1960 and today. The 2013–2014 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture. A Schlesinger Library event.
Adventures at the Intersection of Medical Journalism & Public Health
Lawrence K. Altman, MD is medical journalist/columnist for The New York Times and clinical professor of medicine at New York University and one of the few medical doctors who worked as a full-time daily newspaper reporter. He has been a member of The New York Times science news staff since 1969. In addition to reporting, he writes “The Doctor’s World” column in Science Times. He is also a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Sponsored by Countway Library.
Access Services Brown Bag Discussion
The Access Services brown-bag discussion sessions for Access Services staff continues. Anyone interested in talking about Access Services issues is welcome to attend.
Home Movie Day
For more than a decade, film archivists and the public have been convening in small spaces all over the globe and gathering around flickering images of times of yore. Grandmothers and babies, now since gone or grown, smile and wave to the camera-person as we watch them through the magical time machine of cinema. Vacations! Parties! Amateur theatricals! There is always something interesting and funny to watch, and we hope you will join us for this year's event. The event is free and open to all!
Out of Sight: Off-Site Records Storage at Harvard
This workshop will present the ins and outs of sending records to off-site storage at the Records Center. It will cover everything from how to assemble and pack a box to completing the deposit paperwork.
An Evening with Phil Solomon
Filmmaker Phil Solomon will introduce a screening of his 56-minute epic tone poem, American Falls (2000-2012), followed by a close analysis and Q&A. Commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC as a multimedia installation for the museum’s grand Rotunda, American Falls was originally screened as a single channel triptych with surround sound. Solomon’s innovative use of altered film emulsion transforms Niagara Falls into a metaphoric landscape, encouraging us to consider how a place can reflect the events that occur on its shores. Envisioning the currents of history as a collective dream, American Falls considers many of the questions inherent in our national identity, at a crucial moment in this country’s passage.
Leading Educational Change
Join Helen Malone, author of Leading Educational Change, for a discussion.
Library Lab Showcase and Movies
The Harvard Library Lab Showcase, a campus-wide exhibition of 23 funded projects that make original contributions to the way libraries work. All the projects were created by staff and faculty and developed with support from the Arcadia Fund. There won’t be any presentations—just browse the projects and meet the creators. Members of the project teams will be on hand to answer your questions, explain their ideas and show off their new tools. There will also be a showing of movies about each project.
Transversal: A Latin American Poetry Lab
Transversal celebrates and introduces four poets from Argentina, Chile and Peru whose highly innovative work has heretofore been under-translated into English. The two-day symposium will feature a series of poetry-translation workshops, exhibitions, curricular activities for Harvard students and a culminating bilingual reading of original poetry and translations specially commissioned from renowned Harvard and Brown University translators.
Film Screening: Raising Renee
Directed by Jeanne Jordan BI '93, RI '03, 2001; starring Beverly McIver RI '03. After their mother dies, artist Beverly McIver takes in her developmentally delayed sister in this documentary by Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher. The theme of this year's film series at the Schlesinger Library is "‛Cliffe Connections: Films by Radcliffe Grads and Fellows.” Admission is free and open to the public.
Collecting Type on the Page: Printing History Libraries in America
Several ambitious printing history collections were created in the United States between 1890 and 1940, during what is often considered the golden age of American type design and print production. These collections both served and reflected the increasing power of the printing industry. That of Philip Hofer was the last-begun, and it is clear that he learned from the strengths and weaknesses of the earlier foundations. This talk by Paul F. Gehl, custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, will outline the typographic ethos of America around mid-century, and then focus in on the long and cordial relationship between Hofer and his colleagues at the Newberry Library in Chicago—three successive curators of the Newberry's Wing Foundation on the History of Printing (established 1919). A Houghton Library event.
Reel Time: Eliot's Auditory Imagination
Christopher Ricks (author of T.S. Eliot and Prejudice; Decisions and Revisions in T.S. Eliot; and T.S. Eliot: Inventions of the March Hare) will share highlights from his current research on a critical edition of Eliot's poems and his latest discoveries regarding the editorial pertinence of Eliot's own recordings, including those created by the Woodberry Poetry Room in the 1930s and 40s. Free and open to the public.
Fifty Years After The Feminine Mystique: What's Changed at Home and at Work?
Scholars Stephanie Coontz and Ariela Dubler will look back at Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique of 1963 and consider whether movement toward equality since then has persisted or stalled. What changes in women’s and men’s roles at home and at work have taken place? How has law figured in the balance? Do we have new feminine—or masculine—mystiques today? Sponsored by the Schlesinger Library.
Omniglot Seminar: Pessoa and Other Poets in Portuguese
Renowned Portuguese translator Richard Zenith will read from his translations of ancient Portuguese troubadour poetry; lyric poetry by Luís de Camões; the multi-voiced work of Fernando Pessoa; and the capacious poetry of Brazil's Carlos Drummond de Andrade. He will compare his experiences translating archaic vs. contemporary linguistic registers, highly formal poetry vs. free verse and European vs. Brazilian Portuguese. And he will discuss the unique challenge of translating a poet such as Pessoa, with alter egos that wrote in radically different styles.
The Reader's Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration
The 99th George Parker Winship Lecture, by William Sherman, professor of English at the University of York and the author of Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (2008) and John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in Renaissance England (1995). Recent scholarship in the lively field of marginalia has treated readers' marks almost exclusively as a verbal phenomenon—as words, that is, next to other words. But in doing so we have lost sight of sight itself. Between medieval illumination and modern illustration, there are many traces of reading as a visual mode, signs that we have been slow to see and study and for which we are poorly served by both methodology and terminology. This illustrated lecture will consider the range of images produced by readers between 1450 and 1750, and will suggest that reading was closely bound up with seeing—and even drawing—across the Medieval/Renaissance divide.
E-Mail Management Workshop
This workshop will introduce methods for gaining control of e-mail and managing it according to Harvard records policies.
Film Screening: Orgasm, Inc.
Directed by Liz Canner RI '03. When she is hired to edit erotic films for a pharmaceutical firm that is hoping to develop a female counterpart to Viagra, Liz Canner is inspired to further explore female sexuality and greater questions of ethics in the medical industry. The theme of this year's film series at the Schlesinger Library is "‛Cliffe Connections: Films by Radcliffe Grads and Fellows.” Admission is free and open to the public.
The Poet's Voice: Louise Glück and Katie Peterson
As the grand finale event in the Woodberry Poetry Room's Fall 2013 Poet's Voice series, two Cambridge-area poets of psychological and metaphysical acuity are celebrated: Louise Glück, whose collected poems spanning 50 years of writing has recently been published, and Katie Peterson, author of two new collections, The Accounts and Permission. A book signing will follow. Free and open to the public.
Women vs. Connecticut: Insights from the Pre-Roe Abortion Battles
Join Amy Kesselman from SUNY at New Paltz and Linda Gordon RI '14 from New York University at this Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender event, cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Film Screening: True-Hearted Vixens
Drected by Mylène Moreno RI '87. This documentary follows two athletes playing in the first season of the Women’s Professional Football League. The theme of this year's film series at the Schlesinger Library is "‛Cliffe Connections: Films by Radcliffe Grads and Fellows.” Admission is free and open to the public.
How Can the Wife Submit?: African Families Negotiate Gender and Slavery in New England
Gloria Whiting of Harvard University will present, with commentary by Barbara Krauthamer from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Part of the Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender, cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Film Screening: Indelible Lalita
Directed by Julie Mallozzi RI '92. Lalita, an emigrant from Bombay to Montreal, contemplates her identity as her body is transformed by vitiligo, cancer and heart disease. Julie Mallozzi will be in attendance for questions and discussion. The theme of this year's film series at the Schlesinger Library is "‛Cliffe Connections: Films by Radcliffe Grads and Fellows.” Admission is free and open to the public.
Film Screening: Womanish Ways
Directed by Marion Bethel BI '98. Womanish Ways is a history of the woman suffrage movement in the Bahamas. Marion Bethel will be in attendance for questions and discussion. The theme of this year's film series at the Schlesinger Library is "‛Cliffe Connections: Films by Radcliffe Grads and Fellows.” Admission is free and open to the public.
What Are You Reading and What Are You Saying?: Reading and Writing Practices Between the American Revolution and the Civil War
Mary Kelley of the University of Michigan will speak at this Boston Seminar Series on the History of Women and Gender event, cosponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Film Screening: Girlfriends
Directed by Claudia Weill '69. A struggling photographer and her best friend share an apartment in Manhattan until one of them decides to marry and move out. The theme of this year's film series at the Schlesinger Library is "‛Cliffe Connections: Films by Radcliffe Grads and Fellows.” Admission is free and open to the public.
