Over the course of millennia, plants and animals have developed and perfected mechanisms for motion, survival, and dispersal with astounding grace, speed, and versatility. As part of the 2018–2019 Fellows' Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Panče Naumov RI '19 investigates how do they do it and asks, What can we learn from them?
The artist Willie Cole (18:10) discusses Beauties, his haunting full-scale prints made from crushed and hammered ironing boards, each named after a woman from the artist's cultural and ancestral history.
Willie Cole: Beauties is on view March 27, 2019 through June 29, 2019 in the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery of Byerly Hall at 8 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, Monday through Saturday, from noon to 5 PM.
Five poets read selected, multilingual works and participate in a moderated discussion about worlds reinvented and belonging reimagined.
This event is part of the Roosevelt Poetry Readings at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Roosevelt Poetry Readings are made possible by a donation to help bring poets of recognized stature to the Institute.
Sara Bleich—a professor of public health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—gets a little help from young shoppers in a game designed to show why good nutrition is not always our first choice and how food policy can actually influence our overall health.
Alondra Nelson discusses the Obama administration's Office of Science and Technology Policy and, in particular, the evolution of the Precision Medicine Initiative in the United States.
Nelson is the president of the Social Science Research Council and a professor of sociology at Columbia University.
This is a 2018–2019 Kim and Judy Davis Dean's Lecture in the Social Sciences.
As part of the 2018–2019 Fellows' Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Beth A. Simmons RI '19 shares her work on a continuously evolving project that attempts to document and explain the paradox of hardening international borders between states in an era of globalization.
Cynthia Breazeal (26:53), Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences in the MIT Media Lab and Codirector of the Center for Future Storytelling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Founder and Chief Scientist, Jibo, Inc.