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Viewers watch presentations from the class “Media Archaeology of Place.” The students' task was to “excavate” learning in a new way, by searching for “the media archaeology” of Boston. They used old and new media that revealed regional portraits not seen before.

Scholarship beyond words

New media is becoming a touchstone in some dissertations

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DateFebruary 3, 2011July 26, 2019

Los Angeles-based artist Liz Glynn ’03, this year’s Sert Practitioner, created a witty replica of a Le Corbusier chair — in concrete — on display at the Carpenter Center through Feb. 20. It’s called “On the Museum’s Ruin (Morris Hunt – Corbusier – Piano),” 2011.

The master’s chair

Visiting artist gets help from students on ‘Corbusier Furniture Project’

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DateFebruary 2, 2011April 12, 2019

Victor Wong ’11 (left), who aspires to political career in his native New York City, wasn’t a big fan of cheese to start with, but now, he said, “I have a greater appreciation for it.”

Do you speak Cheese?

Hands-on lessons in food literacy

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DateJanuary 24, 2011March 21, 2019

Stephan Wolohojian, the Landon and Lavinia Clay Curator and head of the division of European and American Art at the Harvard Art Museums, discussed the Barberini Faun plaster model at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. All the evidence points to the Harvard model being “a working model,” said Wolohojian, and not a cast for reproduction. It was the kind of working object made of clay, rope, and other handy material that “rarely survived in a chaotic sculptor’s studio,” he said. “This plaster is a rare and precious survivor.”

Art in the making

Model of ancient Barberini Faun ‘a rare and precious survivor’

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DateDecember 20, 2010March 6, 2019

It is important to keep the dialog about care giving broad, said Arthur Kleinman, the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard. That means talking about care of the body, mind, children, and family — in both the long and the short term. Kleinman was among the panelists at a three-day conference that focused on caring giving.

Caring for caring

Conference investigates humanistic, technical dimensions of care giving

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DateDecember 8, 2010March 15, 2019

Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow (at podium) said she set out to write a book that acknowledged the limitations but celebrated the achievements of the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The result was “In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Educational Landmark," which was the cornerstone of a two-panel discussion at Harvard on Dec. 4.

The ripples of Brown v. Board

Analysts discuss checkered legacy of ruling that targeted school segregation

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DateDecember 6, 2010March 18, 2019

Graham Allison, who directs the Belfer Center, moderated a Harvard Kennedy School Forum panel on the future of nuclear weapons. The gist: There is real reason to fear because, given that there are thousands of bombs, global terrorists could exploit a security gap. “All we’re talking about is just one,” said Rolf Mowatt-Larssen (far right), a senior fellow at the Belfer Center who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for 23 years. “We’ve got to be right all the time [about security]. The terrorists only have to be right once for us to fail.” Other panelists included former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson (left) and Matthew Bunn (center), a co-principal investigator for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Project on Managing the Atom Scholars.

Nuclear weapons, primal fears

Panel says the threat is real, and the ways to battle it imperfect

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DateDecember 2, 2010

Scholars venerable

Harvard’s emeritus faculty operate, in many ways, as the University’s living memory

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DateDecember 2, 2010May 30, 2019

“Sam’s legacy is … vibrant in the current thinking of his students,” said Graham Allison, who moderated a panel on Huntington at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. The panelists — all Harvard Ph.Ds who were either Huntington’s students or influenced by him — acknowledged his qualities as a teacher, debater, and scholar. The panel included (from left) Graham Allison, Fareed Zakaria, Gideon Rose, Francis Fukuyama, and Eliot Cohen.

Giant steps

Scholars see lasting power in Huntington’s work, ideas

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DateDecember 1, 2010March 29, 2019

“I remember thinking: Why do boys dress like this?” observed panelist-critic Jamaica Kincaid, referring to the crosses, tags, chains, and other dangling glitter associated with hip-hop street culture. But then droopy pants and backward ball caps penetrated white culture in the suburbs, she said. “Now white children like black children and are pretending to be black children.”

Hip-hop Harvard

Two young scholars produce new anthology of rap lyrics

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DateNovember 23, 2010April 2, 2019

War is an unpredictable, nonlinear interplay of policy and strategy, Adm. Mike Mullen said in a Harvard talk, and “sense and adjust” is the way to proceed.

Attention!

Harvard hosts Admiral Mullen

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DateNovember 18, 2010April 18, 2019

“The American system of justice, particularly in our state courts, is in crisis. It is a crisis that if left unchecked will undermine the very principles of fairness and equality that sustain our democracy,” said Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, when delivering the Paul Tillich Lecture at the Memorial Church. Marshall, who announced her retirement in July, has agreed to delay her departure until a nominee to the court is confirmed.

Protecting justice

Marshall warns of dwindling resources, politicized courts

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DateNovember 17, 2010April 16, 2019

Holly Hutchison, the administrator for the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology, publishes a blog on the red-tailed hawks at Harvard. Hutchison is one of dozens of unofficial Harvard nature watchers who contribute to a bi-monthly sightings report.

Wild Harvard

If you look carefully around campus, creatures are roaming

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DateNovember 4, 2010May 2, 2019

“Old books and e-books do not represent opposites,” said Robert Darnton, a scholar of French history and director of the University Library at Harvard. “They are more complementary than contradictory objects.”

The whither and why of books

Conference examines the place of venerable, vulnerable print in a rapidly evolving digital future

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DateNovember 3, 2010March 5, 2019

In a first-floor conference room at the Schlesinger, a temporary exhibit called “A Taste of History,” features a selection of cookbooks from the library’s famous collection. The exhibit is just one part of a two-day conference titled "Why Books?".

‘Why Books?’

Harvard is field of battle for print’s fate in a digital age

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DateOctober 29, 2010May 31, 2019

Artists Wael Shawky (from left), Lamia Joreige, Peggy Ahwesh, William E. Jones, Harun Farocki, moderator Antje Ehmann, and Kota Ezawa participate in a panel discussion on the question of how wars of the present and the experience of war can be adequately represented.

Visions of war

Carpenter Center show examines new ways of covering conflict

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DateOctober 26, 2010May 15, 2019

The Scholars at Risk initiative, which provides one-year fellowships for international scholars who face persecution in their native lands, is seeking nominations for 2011-12 fellows. Jacqueline Bhabha (above), the University adviser on human rights education, spoke at an Oct. 12 reception exploring the next phase of human rights scholarship at Harvard.

Aiding scholars at risk

Harvard calls for nominations to program

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DateOctober 25, 2010May 6, 2019

“It’s safe to say the past couple of years have been the most significant period for U.S. economic policy since the 1930s, the most serious economic setback since the Great Depression,” said Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., during the annual Glauber Lecture at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

American banks: On the mend

But FDIC chief says no firm is now ‘too big to fail’

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DateOctober 22, 2010July 30, 2019

At the Lehman Hall luncheon, a sold-out audience sat on folding chairs, ate a $5 vegetarian meal, and listened as Mollie Katzen unspooled lessons in menu strategies, kitchen lore, nutrition, home cooking, and the joy of fresh food. Lunch was vegetarian, including tofu cutlets, black bean burgers, bulgur pilaf, and steamed squash with a maple-mustard glaze.

Getting fresh with Mollie

Harvard hosts famed cookbook author Katzen

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DateOctober 21, 2010March 5, 2019

“The river was foul,” said Harvard crew coach Harry Parker when describing the Charles upon his arrival in 1960. “Now, it’s wonderful.”

A river runs through it

Harvard’s long and complex ties to the Charles

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DateOctober 20, 2010May 21, 2019

At Leverett House, John "Jay" Ellison (right), secretary of the Administrative Board at Harvard University, met with House masters and administrators, Harvard University Police Department representatives, and others to discuss the importance of treating drug use as a health and safety issue. This is one in a series of talks to be held at Houses.

Concerns over drugs, safety, health

Harvard officials visit Houses, outline the problems of illegal substances

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DateOctober 8, 2010July 18, 2019

Images from Edessa, Greece, and the dramatic Edesseos River Valley — landscapes being used to model sustainable urban development in a studio course at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Sustaining the cities

Working group wrestles with how to make growing urban areas livable

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DateOctober 7, 2010March 5, 2019

Deborah Martin Kao spoke on Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) at the first event in this year’s series of In-Sight Evenings at the Harvard Art Museums. Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, called Stieglitz “an artist who is bigger than life.”

When photography became art

Series opens with discussion of the ever-inventive Stieglitz

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DateOctober 5, 2010April 30, 2019

Homi Bhabha (above), director of the Humanities Center at Harvard, says that the $10 million gift to the center by Anand Mahindra '77, M.B.A. '81, "emphasizes the global reach of the humanities. The humanities are a global project.”

Harvard Humanities 2.0

Center gains lift in a gift of $10 million from a Harvard alumnus

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DateOctober 5, 2010May 17, 2019

Radcliffe Fellow Erica Caple James, a Harvard-trained medical anthropologist at MIT, delivers her fellows talk on "Charity, Security, and Disparities: Haitian Quests for Asylum."

Cause for concern

Radcliffe fellow troubled by ties between government, charities

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DateOctober 1, 2010June 6, 2019

Gordon Brown’s prescription

Former prime minister presents a blueprint for stable economy

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DateSeptember 24, 2010July 25, 2019

Reducing dependence on foreign oil and reducing greenhouse gases are the two major challenges of U.S. energy systems, Steven Koonin, undersecretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy, told a Harvard audience. To meet these challenges, he said, the government’s best role is to mitigate risk in the energy industry and to leverage innovation.

Pondering energy’s future

One key, U.S. scientist says, is to foster innovation

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DateSeptember 22, 2010June 13, 2019

Anne Sweeney, Ed.M. '80, co-chairman of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney/ABC Television Group: "This is one of those moments when we desperately need parents in the equation."

TV races toward its future

Industry exec shows how it's evolving into on-demand experience

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DateSeptember 21, 2010

Writing was “independently invented several times in human history” and yet it was invented “in strikingly similar ways,” explained linguistic anthropologist Marc Zender. Zender's talk opened “Visible Language,” a semester-long lecture series sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Language made visible

Researchers celebrate writing’s ‘diverse oneness’

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DateSeptember 20, 2010

Century of scientific breakthroughs

How 1500s art reflected rapid change across many fields

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DateSeptember 17, 2010

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New media is becoming a touchstone in some dissertations

Visiting artist gets help from students on ‘Corbusier Furniture Project’

Hands-on lessons in food literacy

Model of ancient Barberini Faun ‘a rare and precious survivor’

Conference investigates humanistic, technical dimensions of care giving

Analysts discuss checkered legacy of ruling that targeted school segregation

Panel says the threat is real, and the ways to battle it imperfect

Harvard’s emeritus faculty operate, in many ways, as the University’s living memory

Scholars see lasting power in Huntington’s work, ideas

Two young scholars produce new anthology of rap lyrics

Harvard hosts Admiral Mullen

Marshall warns of dwindling resources, politicized courts

If you look carefully around campus, creatures are roaming

Conference examines the place of venerable, vulnerable print in a rapidly evolving digital future

Harvard is field of battle for print’s fate in a digital age

Carpenter Center show examines new ways of covering conflict

Harvard calls for nominations to program

But FDIC chief says no firm is now ‘too big to fail’

Harvard hosts famed cookbook author Katzen

Harvard’s long and complex ties to the Charles

Harvard officials visit Houses, outline the problems of illegal substances

Working group wrestles with how to make growing urban areas livable

Series opens with discussion of the ever-inventive Stieglitz

Center gains lift in a gift of $10 million from a Harvard alumnus

Radcliffe fellow troubled by ties between government, charities

Former prime minister presents a blueprint for stable economy

One key, U.S. scientist says, is to foster innovation

Industry exec shows how it's evolving into on-demand experience

Researchers celebrate writing’s ‘diverse oneness’

How 1500s art reflected rapid change across many fields

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