Events

J.K. Rowling, author of the world-renowned “Harry Potter” novels, will be the principal speaker during the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard University’s 357th Commencement on June 5, 2008.

Geraldo Rivera discussion on the growth in the Hispanic population, the immigration debate and his new book HIS PANIC. Lecture from 4:00-5:30PM and reception immediately following. To attend, please register by emailing your information to prevent@hsph.harvard.edu.

Featuring

Davíd Carrasco

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Evelynn M. Hammonds

Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, Harvard University

John L. Jackson

Richard Perry University Associate Professor of Communication and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

David Kyuman Kim

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Connecticut College

Stacey Floyd-Thomas

Associate Professor of Ethics and Director Black Church Studies at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University

Moderated by

Ronald Thiemann

Bussey Professor of Theology, Harvard Divinity School

For information contact Terence Keel at tkeel@fas.harvard.edu

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Joan C. Williams, University of California

Tony Kushner is best known for his two-part epic, Angels In America.  He also co-wrote the Oscar nominated screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s Munich, and his books include The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present, and Wrestling With Zion:  Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon.  He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, and three Obie Awards.

The purpose of the Tanner Lectures is the advancement of scholarly and scientific learning in the field of human values. That purpose embraces the entire range of moral, artistic, intellectual, and spiritual values, both individual and social -- the full register of values pertinent to the human condition, interest, behavior, and asperation.

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is a nonprofit corporation administered at the University of Utah (www.tannerlectures.utah.edu). They are funded by an endowment and other gifts received by the University of Utah from Obert Clark Tanner and Grace Adams Tanner.

For more information please contact tanner_lectures@harvard.edu.

Moderator: Sanford Kwinter, Panelists include: Andrea Leers, Amale Andraos, Mack Scogin, Alex Anmahian, Sheila Kennedy

Professional design partnerships between male and female designers are by now common practice. However, the issue of women partnering with men and with other women holds certain assumptions, ones that in many cases espouse a lingering double standard for men and women in design today. This panel seeks to open up this discussion and address the idea of gender roles and different types of professional partnerships within the design practice.

http://studentgroups.gsd.harvard.edu/wid

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The Biomedical Science Careers Program (BSCP) will hold the ninth biennial BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS STUDENT CONFERENCE for postdoctoral fellows; medical, dental and graduate students; post-baccalaureates; college and community college students; and high school seniors and juniors. The conference will take place at The Boston Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday, April 5, 2008 from 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. All postdoctoral fellows, medical, dental, graduate and out-of-town post-baccalaureates, college and community college students are also welcome to join us (There is no registration fee for the conference but pre-registration is required) on Friday evening, April 4, for dinner and keynote address by Henri Termeer, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Genzyme Corporation. Dinner will be followed by interactive workshops.

Students interested in receiving an application form and tentative agenda need to e-mail us their current postal mailing address as soon as possible at: fahri_ercem@hms.harvard.edu.

Moderator: Ana Maria Duran, Panelists include: Farshid Moussavi, Winka Dubbeldam, Hashim Sarkis, Smita Srinivas

This panel is invited to respond to the particulars of how international practice is shaping spaces that affect change for women worldwide, and on how the internationalization of design practice is affecting women who are trying to compete for work, win commissions, and practice cross-culturally.

http://studentgroups.gsd.harvard.edu/wid

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Panelists will include: Denise Scott Brown, Beatriz Colornina, Beverly Willis, Monica Ponce deLeon

Toshiko Mori, Moderator

The panel is invited to take a closer look at how we approach the question of women as a constituency in the design fields today. The discussion will focus on the current lack of cohesion largely brought about by our reluctance towards a collective identity and our desire to be recognized for our work and not our gender, as possible impediments for our problems. It is our hope that this panel will open up channels for discussion and heklp pose questions that have heretofore been stifledby these inadequate and stagnent positions.

Women in Design works to increas the visibility of practicing women designers and to further incoporate their experiences into our education at the GSD. It offers a supportive network and a critical forum in which students discuss topics ranging fromstudying at the GSD to operating in the professional environment. Other activites, including conversations with faculty and visiting designers, connect current students to practicing designers and address issues students fae when they transition to the professional world.

http://studentgroups.gsd.harvard.edu/wid

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Carol Gilligan is a weiter best known for her book in a Different Voice. She was a member of the Harvard Faculty for thirty-four years and held the university's first chair in gender studies. Gilligan's first nobvel, released this January, is set in Cambridge, MA, in the mid-1980's, where the narrator, Kyra, is an architecture professor at the GSD who works to design a new city off the Massachusets coast.

http://studentgroups.gsd.harvard.edu/wid

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Join Professor Ben Barres for a personal and intellectual analysis of the obstacles faced by women in academic science and what individuals and institutions can do to increase opportunities in the sciences for women. Professor Barres brings a unique perspective to this discussion: Professor Barres is transgender, and has experienced life as both a female and as a male scientist. His seminal article in the Journal Nature, “Does gender matter?” posits the challenge: “To paraphrase Martin Luther King, a first-class scientific enterprise cannot be built upon a foundation of second-class citizens. If women and minorities are to achieve their full potential, all of us need to be far more proactive. So what can be done?”

Ben Barres, MD, PhD is a Professor of Neurobiology, Developmental Biology, and Neurology at Stanford University. Dr. Barres earned a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard, an MD from Dartmouth, and a BS in Biology from MIT. He is Associate Chair of Neurobiology at Stanford Medical School.

This event is sponsored by the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, The Harvard College Women’s Center, the Committee on Degrees in Women, Gender and Sexuality, The Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering, The Women’s Network of Harvard, and the Postdoctoral Affairs Office (anyone else?). For more information about this event, please call 5-4292 for more information of email hcwc@fas.harvard.edu

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Webcast of the Presentation (Real Player)

For information contact Terence Keel (G2) at tkeel@fas.harvard.edu

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Webcast of the Presentation (Real Player)

Mark your calendars for this great event, as four successful women share their career stories to show you how it's done. They'll discuss

• How they decided where they were going,
• How they got there, and
• The challenges they faced along the way, and how they tackled them.
After the panel, you'll have time to talk one-on-one with them as well as other alumnae in your field(s) of interest.
Our panelists include:

Alice Yang '03
Five years at the non-profit organization Partners In Health have flown by for Alice. How did she find such a compelling job right out of college, and why is she now contemplating graduate school?

Eugenia Balodimas Friedlander '88
Eugenia has found her calling as a self-employed developer of a wellness and yoga social-networking website and wellness product. But first she was a Washington lobbyist. Did taking time off to be a mom have something to do with her finding her path to entrepreneurship?

Essence McGill '94
What's it like to be in corporate law and travel around the world for your job? And how can you combine an active social life with time for non-work activities? This international corporate lawyer will share secrets to a well-balanced life.

Leslie Shaff '67, HMS 84, HBS 2006
Leslie is a multi-degree mother who went back to HMS 20 years after graduating from Harvard, and then 20 years later, went back to HBS. Now administrative director of a local hospital, she'll talk about bringing all her expertise together through the business side of medicine.

To reserve your space for this event, please RSVP to the Harvard College Women's Center at hcwc@fas.harvard.edu by February 4th, or by calling 617 495 4292.

We hope to see you there!

Emma J. Teng is an associate professor of Chinese studies in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Section and an affiliate of women’s studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests include Chinese frontiers and contact zones and constructions of race, ethnicity, and gender in Chinese and Asian American literature. She is the author of Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683–1895 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2004).
 
At Radcliffe, Teng will work on a comparative study of Chinese and Chinese American representations of Chinese-Western interracialism—interracial marriage and biracial identity—at the turn of the twentieth century. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of racial theory, literature, and visual texts, she will examine divergent understandings of race, culture, nationality, and gender-informed constructions of the Eurasian as a biracial subject among Chinese and Chinese American authors. A central focus of the project will be literary works, including memoirs, written by Eurasian authors. Her work asks how we might reevaluate discourses of hybridity in contemporary cultural politics from historical and cross-cultural perspectives. Teng seeks to bridge the divide between Asian and Asian American studies by critically engaging the intersections and tensions between the two fields.
 
Teng earned her AB and PhD in East Asian languages and civilizations from Harvard University. She has received fellowships from the J. Paul Getty Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Her residence at Radcliffe is supported by a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars from the ACLS.

For more information, call the Institute Reception Desk, 617-495-8212.