News and Events
Okrent on the demise of print
Pontzious on music and Mao
Jalal on Pakistan
Sinai on the economy
Shinagel on
the Lowells of Boston
Moïsi on
the geopolitics of emotion
Western on
incarceration in America
Cohen on
Vatican-Israeli relations
Kuttner on
the economic crisis
Collins on
the feminist revolution
Heymann on
policy decisions
Najam on
Pakistan today
McCarthy on
climate changes in the Artic
Pinker on
Thought
Filkins on Afghanistan
and Iraq
Upcoming Events
December 3, 2009 — The Death of Print by Daniel Okrent
2009
November 17, 2009 — Making Music with Mao’s Children by Richard Pontzious
October 22, 2009 — Pakistan: A Ticking Bomb by Ayesha Jalal
October 16, 2009 — The “Crisis” and the Aftermath: Perspectives on the Economy and Economic Policy Choices by Allen Sinai
September 10, 2009 — The Lowells of Boston and the Founding of University Extension at Harvard by Dean Michael Shinagel
May 28, 2009 — NEWS: Harvard Gazette: The ‘art’ of retirement
May 26, 2009 — NEWS: HILR sustainability efforts recognized: Renewed Energy
May 6, 2009 — The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World by Dominique Moïsi
April 14, 2009 — The Crisis of Incarceration in America by Bruce Western
March 17, 2009 — From Rome to Jerusalem: Vatican-Israeli Relations by Raymond Cohen
March 11, 2009 — Obama’s Challenge: the Economic Crisis and the New Administration by Robert Kuttner
January intersession — The Protean Powers of Music and The Deepening Financial Crisis by Sean Gallagher, Elizabeth Warren, and Robert Merton
2008
December 9, 2008 — The Feminist Revolution: American Women, 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
November 13, 2008 — Living the Policy Process: How Policy Decisions are Made by Philip B. Heymann
October 28, 2008 — In the Eye of the Storm: Pakistan Today by Adil Najam
October 2, 2008 — Rapid Climate Change in the Arctic: Why It Should Concern Us by James J. McCarthy
September 4, 2008 — The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
April 9, 2008 — Making Harvard Modern by Morton and Phyllis Keller
March 5, 2008 — US Foreign Policy after Iraq by Andrew Bacevich
January 15–17, 2008 — Reporting from Afghanistan and Iraq by Dexter Filkins
January 8–10, 2008 — The Mozart-DaPonte Operas by Robert Scanlan
2007
November 27, 2007 — The Rise of China by Ezra F. Vogel
November 1, 2007 — The King Retires: Love and Loss in King Lear by Stephen Greenblatt
September 6, 2007 — Paradoxes of Contemporary Hinduism by Wendy Doniger
May 10, 2007 — An Afternoon in Old Vienna, Matthew Ruggiero and ensemble perform Schubert’s Octet in F Major for Strings and Wind Instruments, D803
May 1, 2007 — NEWS: Harvard Gazette: Big cities are havens for aging population
April 11, 2007 — Journalism in a Time of Trouble by Daniel Okrent
February 20, 2007 — Religion in Twenty-First Century America by Diana L. Eck
2006
November 8, 2006 — The Elections of November 7, 2006 by Scott Harshbarger
October 3, 2006 — A Liberal Vision for the War on Terror by Peter Beinart
September 7, 2006 — Meeting the Intertwined Challenges of Energy and Climate Change by John P. Holdren
May 31, 2006 — NEWS: HILR featured in AARP publication: The Best Talk in Town
May 10, 2006 — Drama as a Secular Faith by Robert Brustein
April 18, 2006 — Schooling America: How the Public Schools Meet the Nation’s Changing Needs by Patricia Albjerg Graham
March 16, 2006 — Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington
2005
October 14, 2005 — Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Harry Cooper
September 27, 2005 — What is Happening to the News Media? by Ellen Hume
September 8, 2005 — Science at the Collision of Ethics and Politics: Stem Cell Research by Gareth Cook
March 16, 2005 — Iran’s Nuclear Program: A Primary Challenge on the US Foreign Policy Agenda by Brenda Shaffer
2004
December 2, 2004 — The Fernald School Rebellion: America’s Eugenic Era by Michael D’Antonio
November 17, 2004 — NEWS: Boston Globe: Thirsty for learning, seniors fill college programs
November 3, 2004 — Balancing Counterterrorism with Democratic Freedom by Vicki Divoll
October 21, 2004 — Understanding the Electorates Views of the 2004 Election by Robert J. Blendon
May 13, 2004 — Haiti: Hope or Despair? by Tracy Kidder
April 22, 2004 — Community Engagement in a Changing America by Robert D. Putnam
March 3, 2004 — The Social Function of Contemporary American Drama by Robert Scanlan
January 15, 2004 — NEWS: Harvard Gazette: New journal examines ‘Age Explosion’
2003
December 10, 2003 — Memory and Wallace Stevens by Helen Vendler