Arts & Culture

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.

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.

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.

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.

FAS professor learns in roundabout fashion that her book about the sexual abuse of Peruvian women has become an inspiration for an award-winning film.

A Harvard Art Museum lecture series explores topics from multiple points of view, in this case concerning economic turmoil.

In this annual manifesto of studio work, theses, exhibitions, and conferences, Felipe Correa, an assistant professor of urban design, offers a lively look into the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Robert Pozen, a Harvard Business School lecturer, poses long-term solutions for solving the problems of now. From the housing slump and the stock market to the big bank bailout, this book is a blueprint for reform.

Library cataloger Marilyn Morgan is writing a book about American women and their bathing suits, and what that says about early 20th century cultural norms.

Timeless Shakespeare is actually timely, says Marjorie Garber, a well-known professor who directs the Carpenter Center, in this penetrating text devoted to 10 of the Bard’s foremost plays and the ways they’re inextricably tangled into the fabric of modern culture.

Researcher Jonathan Losos devotedly studies the anole lizard, and has compiled decades of research into a new book.

The Peabody Museum has named Stephen Dupont, a prize-winning Australian photographer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair magazine, Time magazine, and Rolling Stone, the 2010 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography.

Performers from Harvard University’s ethnically diverse student groups gather each year at Sanders Theatre to participate in the annual Cultural Rhythms showcase.

Movie night at the Schlesinger Library uses lesser-known films to cast a cinematic light on women’s issues.

A series of lectures uses art objects to open windows into understanding eras’ cultures, histories, and social values.

The longest continually performing opera company in New England performs “Tosca.”

In a discussion titled “Writing History Now,” sponsored by the Harvard University Extension School, a panel of historians examines the shifting landscape of recording history, as the Internet changes the ways that data is saved and valued.

Erin Gee performs an original composition, “Mouthpiece.”

Independent composer Erin Gee replaces recognizable text in her vocal works with sounds based on the International Phonetic Alphabet.

With vivid writing on her stories and colorful past, Williams offers an autobiography to make lazy folks blush. Professor emeritus at the Kennedy School, this lifelong lady of politics has done it all, and it’s all here.

In this relevant release, Menand, an English professor, argues that most universities are out of touch and calls for their dire makeover. Menand touches on everything from problem solving to curriculum, to faculty and diversity, and more.

Holder of dual appointments in Harvard’s Business and Law Schools, Subramanian utilizes theories of negotiating and auctioning to deliver this guide to successful transactions in today’s marketplace.

Harvard Foundation names Wyclef Jean Artist of the Year. To be honored during Cultural Rhythms Saturday (Feb. 27) at Sanders Theatre.

Harvard’s libraries and museums pull together vast materials on the Web, in tandem with Islamic Studies Program.

Robert Mnookin’s new book looks at how to negotiate.

Opera luminary Renée Fleming offered her guidance and singing expertise to a group of Harvard students at Harvard’s Paine Hall as part of the Office for the Arts’ annual Learning From Performers series.

An exhibit called “Frame by Frame” tells the story of animation’s pioneers at Harvard and reveals the present state of an art that encourages both dreaming and exposition.

A new exhibit at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies pairs historic postcards with visions of current Havana.

The Harvard Business School’s Marco Iansiti teams up with Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky to disclose collaborative knowhow on strategizing and mobilizing large-scale operational projects, using 2009’s unleashing of Windows 7 as a prime example.

Susan Clancy controversially bucks the norm with new research on child sexual abuse, which suggests that well-meaning professionals’ assumptions about abuse are wrong, and can actually do more harm than good.