Alexandra Perloff-Giles

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“How do conceptions of medicine, say, or mathematics, change over the long term when we move from Greek to Arabic to Latin sources?” asked Mark Schiefsky, who is digitizing ancient texts. “To address such questions in a comprehensive way requires taking a huge corpus of material into account. Modern information technology offers many new tools and approaches for such analysis, which are only now beginning to be applied in the humanities on a large scale."

Digitizing the classics

Professor moves Greek texts, Arabic translations online

Arts|

DateMarch 24, 2011July 25, 2019

“People like Futurism founder Filippo Tommaso Marinetti chose Africa as the stage on which to perform the speed, modernity, action, and violence of his Futurist poetics,” notes Giuliana Minghelli, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures. “That is quite intriguing. Why Africa?”

Italy and Africa, entwined

Students study colonial era up close

World|

DateDecember 2, 2010April 1, 2019

Shakespeare, the inventive conservative

Scholar Greenblatt says that even the Bard knew his creative limits

Arts|

DateNovember 1, 2010April 23, 2019

Brazil’s public intellectual

Now a Harvard professor, Nicolau Sevcenko finds time to reflect

Arts|

DateOctober 21, 2010March 5, 2019