Tag: Corydon Ireland

  • Nation & World

    To win a contract, win a contest

    A new class at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, “Design Competitions,” used the academic setting this semester to look at a competitive activity familiar (and exhausting) to architects and planners worldwide.

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    Body exhibit

    A new exhibit, “Body of Knowledge,” offers a five-century foray through the culture and history of anatomy and dissection, from the days of autopsies in private homes to the present debate over using digital ways to study the body without saws and knives. The exhibit will offer a special viewing May 3, 11 a.m. to…

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    The urban ocean

    A new course on how oceans are “urbanizing” underscores a decade-long Harvard theme: that cities have to cope with the multiple challenges of water — of there being too much or too little.

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    Deep into a bloody history

    A Cambodian filmmaker, now a Scholar at Risk at Harvard, looks back at “Enemies of the People,” his documentary on Cambodia’s killing fields of 1975-79.

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    A Q&A forum with the president

    Harvard President Drew Faust answered a wide range of student questions in an open meeting hosted Wednesday by the Harvard Undergraduate Council.

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    ‘The Temptation of Despair’

    In a book event this week, Werner Sollors talked about the tumult of physical and spiritual survival amid the ruins of post-WWII Germany.

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    At 125, Johnston Gate gets a facelift

    Johnston Gate, Harvard’s main portal since it was finished in 1889, is getting a landscaping facelift to celebrate its 125 years.

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    Lessons, warnings in a centuries-old peace

    Historians will gather at Harvard on April 11 to mark the 200th anniversary of the Congress of Vienna.

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    Books meet bytes

    Experts came together at Radcliffe to peer into the future of digital library collections.

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    Less energy, more creativity

    Two teams of students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design provided a close look — part celebration, part cerebration — at two house designs that won international competitions.

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    Collectively peculiar

    In an inaugural exhibition from the Harvard University Archives, staffers bring a few dozen awesome oddities into the light of day.

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    Museum as study subject

    Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum opened in 1903 as the Germanic Museum, but since then, in a restless shifting of fates that characterizes many museums, has experienced displacements in space, role, and identity.

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    Tiny stages, grand creativity

    The Harvard Theatre Collection is among the oldest and largest of its kind in the world. Within the climate-controlled subterranean reaches of Houghton Library are shelves, drawers, and boxes full of theater, dance, movie, and music items.

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    Out of disaster, a new design

    A team of students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, just back from Japan, took home first prize in an international competition for solutions to sustainable recovery in a region of Japan devastated by a triple disaster in 2011.

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    Big skies, dusty trails

    “Fortunes of the Western,” a new series at the Harvard Film Archive, draws back the curtain on the golden age of Westerns following World War II. The series continues through March 22.

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    Spotlight on black identity

    A new take on Black History Month at Harvard initiates a conversation about evolving black identity, through the lenses of Africa and art history.

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    Bernard Berenson, recalled

    Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, a treasure of Italian Renaissance scholarship since 1961, has launched an oral history site on its origins with Bernard Berenson, Class of 1887, and its transition from villa to a center for scholars.

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    A Harvard education, without worry

    Harvard is marking the 10th anniversary of a revolutionary financial aid program that eliminates the cost of the College for those in need, and reduces it for struggling middle-class families.

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    Art, turned on its ear

    Photographer and arts historian Deborah Willis launches the Hutchins Center’s spring series of noontime lectures with a look at modern artists and their radical, racial alterations of iconic art.

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    ‘The Thinking Hand’

    A visit by a master of traditional Japanese carpentry launches an unusual Harvard exhibit of tools, techniques, and woods that have been used for centuries.

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    Architectural fever dreams

    Master’s degree students in architecture present thesis topics in a traditional daylong January event that draws critical crossfire and praise.

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    ‘The weapon of love’

    On Sunday, the eve of the national holiday for Martin Luther King Jr., an authority on King’s preaching will deliver a sermon at Harvard on behalf of the martyred icon of civil rights, who had deep ties to Harvard and to New England.

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    In the ‘Library Test Kitchen’

    A final class exhibit at the Harvard Graduate School of Design shows off prototypes of things you might find in the library of the future.

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    Sweet hymns of joy

    Harvard had a role in the creation of a few of the holiday season’s most durable carols and light tunes, including the haunting English words to “O Holy Night.”

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    Ministry of friendship

    On most days, around noon, Richard Griffin ’51 makes his way from the Malkin Athletic Center to the café at Dudley House. Griffin was once a Jesuit priest, and Harvard’s Roman Catholic chaplain during the tumultuous years 1968 to 1975, a time of campus antiwar protests and social upheaval.

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    Sustainability, by degrees

    From urban wind farms to school gardens and better rice cultivation, a crush of capstone projects presented this week at Harvard Extension School offer strategies for slowing down environmental ills.

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    Signature signatures

    Long, tall, short, and small, the signatures of the famous are housed in many Harvard albums and archives.

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    Happily ever after, sometimes

    A Scholars at Risk panel investigates the universal uses of narrative and the hard-wired human need for storytelling.

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    The power of trans

    “Trans Arts” was a two-hour panel Wednesday of poets, critics, and performers who in some cases identify with the gender opposite from the bodies into which they were born.

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    Gripes between bites

    A Pusey Library exhibit, “Dining and Discontentment,” is just one of many at Harvard that illustrate the power of investigating material artifacts in order to understand the past.

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