Featured series 
Tag: Culture
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Weaving refugee’s life into histories of U.S., Vietnam
Pulitzer-winning novelist, academic Viet Thanh Nguyen to discuss colonization, otherness in Norton Lectures.
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Songs in the key of humanity
A new Harvard study suggests that people around the globe can identify lullabies, dancing songs, and healing songs — regardless of the songs’ cultural origin — after hearing just a 14-second clip.
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Harvard jazz leader, amid his Cuban roots
Harvard jazz leader and instructor Yosvany Terry returns to his musical roots in Cuba, where his destiny was formed.
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A Cuba-Harvard connection, with a beat
The Harvard Jazz Bands make and learn music, absorb culture on summer tour of Cuba.
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A cost of culture
A new study, authored by Collin McCabe, a doctoral student in Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, suggests that increased exposure to disease has played an important role in the evolution of culture in both humans and non-human primates.
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Harvard rolls out plan for the future
The Harvard Sustainability Plan, released today, sets a holistic vision and clear priorities for how the University will move toward an even healthier, more sustainable campus community. The five-year operational plan targets reductions in energy, water, and waste while also focusing on sustainable operations, culture change, and human health.
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Narrative of the body, with a nasty twist
Many modern chronic diseases result from mismatches between how our bodies evolved to be used and how we use them today, Harvard evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman writes in a new book.
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From all over
This year, Harvard Summer School’s size and span — 6,000 students; the 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and American Samoa, and more than 100 countries; an age range of 14 to 81 — demonstrate anew the University’s commitment to diversity.
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Asia Center supports summer travel for 65 students
The Harvard University Asia Center was established in 1997 to reflect Harvard’s deep commitment to Asia and the growing connections among Asian nations. An important aspect of the center’s mission…
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With inclusion as the goal
Harvard staff attended a workforce management conference to learn skills to communicate, solve problems, and innovate effectively across cultures.
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An author finds her voice
Addressing a diversity dialogue session, author Esmeralda Santiago, who was born in Puerto Rico, recalls how she grew up living in two ethnic worlds, and how she embraced her roots, in life and literature.
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Art and cost
Why should cities support the arts, and how can they do so sustainably? Experts debated those questions at the public launch of a multiyear initiative of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations that will analyze the role of the arts in strengthening U.S. cities.
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The melding of American music
Backed by an all-star band, Wynton Marsalis explored the “mulatto identity of our national music” with a rollicking performance and a thoughtful lecture on America’s porous tuneful genres at Sanders Theatre Feb. 6.
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A theology of culture
Philosopher Paul Tillich once denied there was a gap between religion and culture. Today, he might reach for another convergent ideal: utopia.
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Gates receives honor, gives lecture
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, was honored with the 2011 Media Bridge-Builder Award from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.
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Learning to love the irrational mind
Just how much should we allow “human nature” to guide our politics — and our everyday decision making? Columnist David Brooks and a trio of Harvard analysts debated new findings on the unconscious mind during a panel discussion.
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Whistling through the darkness
Authors offer perspective on finding meaning in a secular age, using literature as a lens through which to understand how people found solace in the past.
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Ye olde information overload
Before digital technology existed, scholars centuries ago beat their desks in frustration over being inundated with data too, according to Ann Blair, author of “Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age.”
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Rockefeller fellows chosen for 2011-12
The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board has awarded fellowships to six graduating seniors.
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HIO seeks international art
The Harvard International Office is seeking submissions of international art for an exhibit. The deadline is Jan. 9.
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Harvard Humanities 2.0
A $10 million gift to the Humanities Center at Harvard will help bring the traditional arts of interpretation to more students.
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The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan
Laura L. Adams, a lecturer on sociology and co-director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, delivers an insightful look into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era.
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Entrance, stage left
Julie Peters, the inaugural Byron and Anita Wien Professor, focuses on artistic cultural history, as well as the literary works themselves.
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Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature
Thornber whisks us to Asia at the turn of the 20th century, where she documents how Japan’s literature interacted with China, Korea, and Taiwan, thus challenging Japan’s cultural authority.
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Lessons from the East
On an internship from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Peter Bernard ’11 traveled to Japan where he worked at a bookstore and learned that “the culture of books and print is alive and well.”
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Islam’s mystical dimensions take flight
A new exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology explores the mystical dimensions of Islam with a series of photographs and multilayered, mixed-media compositions.
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ACT UP encore
A new exhibit at the Carpenter Center titled “ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993” examines the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power through a series of powerful graphics created by various artist collectives that were part of the influential group.
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What makes a successful society?
New research argues that the health of the population and the success or failure of many public health initiatives hinge as much on cultural and social factors as they do on doctors, facilities, or drugs.
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New Muslim cool
“New Muslim Cool” documents an American Muslim’s rise from the tough streets and hip-hop beats to a creed of mercy and forgiveness.
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Carpio rising
Worlds of poverty and wealth, constraint and liberation, bring literary scholar Glenda R. Carpio to Harvard stardom.
