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| Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston and New York |
Sacco and Vanzetti, a one-hour documentary funded in part by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, will open the Boston Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday, January 17, at 8 pm. Filmmaker Peter Miller and Sacco and Vanzetti scholar Mary Anne Trasciatti will field questions after the screening. A reception will follow. The MFA will also show the film on January 21, 24, 25, 27, 28 and Feb 1. Sacco and Vanzetti will have its first theatrical run at the Quad Cinema in New York City from March 23-29.
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| Watch the Fall Symposium |
The Foundation's 2006 symposium, Least Dangerous Branch? Liberty, Justice, and the United States Supreme Court, brought a distinguished group of legal scholars, jurists, and journalists together for a series of timely and provocative conversations at Boston College on October 21. Participants included David Greenberg, Renee Landers, Richard Posner, Jeffrey Rosen, Akhil Reed Amar, Marci Hamilton, Mary-Rose Papandrea, Lincoln Caplan, Jack Goldsmith, Anthony Lewis, Dahlia Lithwick, and Randall Kennedy. If you were unable to make it to the event on that beautiful Saturday in October, you can watch the entire symposium (three 45-minute sessions) at Front Row.
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| Literature & Medicine Begins |
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This month, the Literature & Medicine seminar series will begin at four Massachusetts hospitals: UMass Memorial in Worcester (fifth year), Lahey Clinic in Burlington (fourth year), Cambridge Hospital (second year), and Massachusetts General Hospital, where the program will debut under the sponsorship of the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation. Participants have reported that the program gives them a much-needed space to reflect on the human realities at the heart of their demanding work, a new appreciation of their co-workers, and a deeper understanding of the importance of patients' stories in the process of caregiving.
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| Op-Ed in The Boston Globe |
MFH Executive Director David Tebaldi was one of several contributors to The Boston Globe's special series of op-ed essays, "MASS. APPEALS, Advice for the New Governor." David's essay addressed the topic of Civic Engagement and ran on December 30, 2006.
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| Fourth Annual Commonwealth Humanities Lecture |
Orlando Patterson will present the 2007 Commonwealth Humanities Lecture on Thursday, March 29, at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington at 7:30 pm. Patterson is the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and the award-winning author of groundbreaking works in the sociology of freedom including Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, The Ordeal of Integration, and Rituals of Blood. A frequent contributor to the New York Times op-ed page, he has also written three novels and numerous anthologized short stories and critical essays. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Admission is free but seating is limited. To register, call (617) 742-6800 x120 or e-mail rsvp@massinc.org.
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| Recent Grants Awarded |
The Foundation's Board awarded grants to support 12 humanities project. Funded projects include exhibit lectures, a living history performance, a cantata performance, a community history project, documentary films, a K-12 history curriculum, family programs at a historic house museum and history exhibits.
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