Arts & Culture

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  • Bill Gates on the humanities

    Bill Gates speaks about the how the humanities impact global issues.

  • A church of words

    Poet Jericho Brown writes often about death, looking it in the eye, but don’t make the mistake of thinking him an unhappy man.

  • From class to Cannes

    “Shelley,” a movie by Andrew Wesman ’10, is one of 13 selected from among 1,600 film school offerings that will screen at the famed Cannes Film Festival.

  • Of men, women, and space

    A Radcliffe conference tackles the tangle of how men and women handle matters of personal and public space.

  • Boulders that bowl over

    A new exhibit at Gund Hall shows how rocks are used to shape landscape design and to create art.

  • Often, we are what we were

    In his latest book, professor emeritus Jerome Kagan examines the temperaments of babies and how they can be predictors of adult behaviors.

  • Stage set for theater festival

    The American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston combine efforts to celebrate the joys of performance.

  • Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace

    John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School team up in this all-star collaboration on cyberspace. Whether the subjects are online censorship or surveillance, the wild frontier of the Web gets tamed in this tome.

  • The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse

    Siobhan Phillips, a junior fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows, revisits those well-known poetic masters — Stevens, Frost, Bishop, and Merrill — and analyzes how they transformed quotidian rituals into lyrical fodder.

  • The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being

    Government and happiness? Not so strange bedfellows, says Derek Bok, former president of Harvard and professor at Harvard Law School, who investigates how happiness research could affect policy.

  • A march toward the arts

    The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.

  • Medieval recycling

    Radcliffe Fellow Robin Fleming peers into the history of early medieval Britain through the lens of material culture.

  • Emily as art

    A Harvard artist and wordsmith takes a turn at reimaging the poems of Emily Dickinson.

  • Looking at ‘Invisible Cities’

    Harvard students, in an eclectic art show, travel to real and imagined “Invisible Cities,” which simmer beneath the surface of the real.

  • ‘Walden’ for the 21st century

    In a lecture at the Harvard Divinity School, scholar Lawrence Buell examined the continuing relevance of Thoreau’s “Walden” and the importance of voluntary simplicity.

  • Building a better brain

    New book chronicles how the mind works and how we can influence that to help ourselves succeed.

  • A Tenth of a Second: A History

    When clocks recognized a tenth of a second, the world would never be the same, says Jimena Canales, an associate professor in the history of science who melds technology, philosophy, and science in this heady history.

  • Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders

    Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, extracts wealth from his 30 years of work in comparative theology and proffers this field guide.

  • (Re)(Organize) for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business

    The customer is always right, but we’re always getting taken. Ranjay Gulati, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, prods businesses to readjust their resilience and mend the bridge connecting consumers with companies.

  • Snapshots of China

    Art historian Claire Roberts, a Radcliffe Institute fellow, discusses photography in China, and how it was used for varied goals over time.

  • Performance as art

    Performance artist Andrea Fraser discussed some of the inspiration behind her work and her current installation on view at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, during a discussion at Harvard’s Barker Center.

  • A.R.T. announces two new executive appointments

    Diane Borger has been named A.R.T. producer and Tiffani Gavin has been named the director of finance and administration at the A.R.T.

  • A celebration of substance

    The Weissman Preservation Center celebrates 10 years of treating and safeguarding rare books, manuscripts, scores, and photos for the Harvard Library system.

  • Witnesses to history

    Andover-Harvard Theological Library nears completion of major project to digitize Holocaust-related archives.

  • Cowboy’s tale

    Husband-and-wife filmmakers chronicle a dying way of life and humanity with their new film “Sweetgrass.”

  • Buddhism on the dinner plate

    New book by a Harvard nutritionist and renowned monk encourages the Buddhist sense of mindfulness in how people eat.

  • ‘Inside/Out’

    Exhibit and upcoming panel discussion probe how women have dealt with spaces over time. The exhibit is in four parts, each representing a realm within space: private, public, political, and artistic.

  • The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan

    Laura L. Adams, a lecturer on sociology and co-director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, delivers an insightful look into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era.

  • Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

    Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, a venerable critic, takes another crack at the 20th century’s greatest poets’ last works and how their style reflects their contemplations of death.

  • Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy

    D.N. Rodowick, a professor of visual and environmental studies, edits this collection of writings on Deleuze, a French philosopher and prolific writer on literature, film, and fine art.