Tag: Conference

  • Campus & Community

    ‘The Wave of Change’

    High school students from six states gathered at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) in June for a conference on religious diversity and tolerance. Co-sponsored by the Interfaith Action’s Youth Leadership Program and Harvard University’s Pluralism Project, the daylong conference, called ‘T.I.D.E. (Teenage Interfaith Diversity Education): The Wave of Change,’ featured workshops, dialogue, games, and other activities.

  • Nation & World

    Notorious U.S. Supreme Court decision is revisited

    Dred Scott. You don’t have to be a lawyer or historian to have that name conjure up feelings of horror and injustice.

  • Science & Tech

    Libraries, museums meet with IT

    The ability to search the actual text of millions of books — instead of just titles or summaries — will change the way students and academics conduct research, revealing a host of new sources invisible to current search methods, a Harvard University Library official working on the Google project said on March 28.

  • Nation & World

    HGSE sponsors alumni of color conference

    In a crowded banquet hall at the Cambridge Center Marriott, William Demmert Jr. Ed.D.’73 — a Tlingit who grew up in southeast Alaska — finished up a detailed lecture on Native American languages, culture, and early childhood education. And as soon as the talk ended, the 72-year-old writer and researcher was on the crowded dance…

  • Nation & World

    Young scholars show findings at HGSE Student Research Conference

    In a basement classroom in Larsen Hall on Friday (Feb. 23), there was everything young learners need: chalkboards, a screen, bright lights, sturdy chairs – and good teachers. In this case, four good teachers – all of them Ed.M. students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). The four were among 230 young scholars…

  • Campus & Community

    Conference in China remembers Benjamin Schwartz

    A major international conference was held Dec. 16-18 at East China Normal University in Shanghai on the occasion of the late Professor Benjamin Schwartz’s 90th birthday. The conference brought together distinguished scholars from the United States, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia to celebrate and honor the scholarly interests and accomplishments of Schwartz,…

  • Nation & World

    HBS models look for new markets while serving the global poor

    At $55 a copy, “Business Solutions for the Global Poor” (John Wiley & Sons, 2007) won’t be a hot seller in what economists call the base of the pyramid (BOP). That’s the informal, localized, and little-known stratum of the global market in which 80 percent of humanity – living on an average of $700 a…