World Did winning the Nobel change your life? Harvard laureates say it gave bully pulpit, brought invitations to speak (sometimes on subjects they know nothing about), meet kings (and play poker with Steve Martin)
Nation ‘What is compelling to do right now?’ Marshall Ganz started at Harvard but took some time off — about three decades — to become Civil Rights, labor, political organizer, and finally scholar, mentor
Arts ‘Living one’s life during and after the violation of one’s humanity’ Ruth Simmons’ memoir traces everyday natural beauty, mortal peril of growing up Black in 1940s rural Texas
Nation ‘What you can do for your country’ Future Harvard president leaves Virginia for Concord Academy, set on path by JFK inauguration speech, visit by MLK
Arts & Humanities Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea <h4>University of Chicago Press, June 2010</h4><h5>By Svetlana Boym</h5> DateApril 21, 2011 Share Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Trending Is organic better? Why are ineffective oral decongestants still on store shelves? So what exactly makes Taylor Swift so great? How federal missteps opened door to COVID misinformation Tab for liver disease tied to drinking projected to double over 20 years Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature Svetlana Boym explores the cross-cultural history of the idea of freedom, discusses its limitations, and wonders how it can be newly imagined.
Arts & Humanities ‘Lost’ with Carlton Cuse Arts & Humanities ‘Lost’ with Carlton Cuse Carlton Cuse '81: “Storytelling, in whatever artistic form, is really the most powerful way we have of communicating our experiences with each other.” Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer
