Tag: Davíd Carrasco

  • Nation & World

    There’s more to life than money, but still …

    Eight faculty members share insights on what to do, what not to do, and how to figure out what matters most.

    8 minutes
    2023 mortarboard.
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    As teen, he was embarrassed by his migrant worker mom’s job

    Filipino Jeromel Dela Rosa Lara recalls how his mother’s job embarrassed him as a teen and he was “ashamed” to tell classmates and friends, but says he now understands the plight of millions like her around world, and wants to help.

    5 minutes
    Jeromel Dela Rosa Lara
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    Seeing like anthropologist through camera’s lens

    Ryan Christopher Jones brings an anthropologist’s eye to his work as a freelance journalist. After finishing his liberal arts degree at the Extension School, he’ll be pursuing a Ph.D. in anthropology at Harvard this fall.

    6 minutes
    Ryan Christopher Jones.
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    Enduring memories of Toni Morrison

    Divinity School Professor Davíd Carrasco shared stories from his 32-year friendship with late writer Toni Morrison.

    5 minutes
    Toni Morrison.
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    Pain, joy, and wisdom

    Four Harvard professors engage students in a weekly dialogue that looks at wisdom as it relates to how we experience the world, and the strategies we need to have a moral life amid uncertainty. 

    5 minutes
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    Honoring Mexican discovery

    A Harvard delegation traveled to Mexico to take part in the inaugural talk of the Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series.

    3 minutes
    Eduardo Matos Moctezuma discusses discoveries at Templo Mayor in a lecture the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
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    Examining U.S.-Mexico ties in the age of Trump

    Harvard’s expert in Latin America, Davíd Carrasco, spoke with the Gazette about Mexico, which has taken center stage in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, and the long relationship between the two neighboring countries.

    8 minutes
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    The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths

    For African Americans and Hispanics, damaged neighborhoods undercut education, health, jobs — the keys to overcoming inequality and succeeding.

    12 minutes
    Illustration of white businessman catching a dollar and colleagues of color catching coins.
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    For Harvard professors, these are a few of their favorite things

    Harvard professors reflect on a few of their favorite things, and what makes them so.

    15 minutes
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    First model for Harvard in Mexico

    The long-running Harvard Chiapas Project, led by the popular Evon Vogt, represented Harvard’s first sustained bi-national academic link to the Republic of Mexico.

    17 minutes
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    Literary devotion

    Author Russell Banks talks about the search for spiritual meaning, in life and fiction, ahead of delivering the Divinity School’s 2014 Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality. The lecture will be held Nov. 5 at Sanders Theatre.

    12 minutes
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    Harvard’s Mexican connections

    Harvard’s relationship to Mexico is deep, diverse, and longstanding. Here’s an overview of those connections.

    8 minutes
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    A faith in global care

    Harvard University Professor Paul Farmer, whose nonprofit Partners In Health has improved lives in some of the world’s poorest places, said he was inspired early by the liberation theology movement.

    4 minutes
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    Good, but never simple

    Delivering Harvard Divinity School’s Ingersoll Lecture at Sanders Theatre, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison discussed concepts of good and evil in her work and that of her contemporaries.

    5 minutes
    Toni Morrison.
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    Apocalypse now? Hardly

    During a sometimes tongue-in-cheek lecture on Wednesday, Professor David Carrasco discussed the historical origins of humankind’s periodic preoccupations with the apocalypse.

    3 minutes
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    The sacred Toni Morrison

    The Harvard Divinity School has organized a series of working groups to explore the religious dimensions of the work of author Toni Morrison in the lead-up to her Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality.

    4 minutes
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    Empowering a growing minority

    Now in its third year, the Latino Leadership Initiative brought 41 students from eight universities to Harvard for a week of leadership training, reflection, and strategizing on projects they will implement when they return to their largely Latino communities.

    5 minutes
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    Changing the world, in under 9 minutes

    The inaugural event “One Harvard: Lectures that Last” featured short talks by a dozen speakers representing Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools. The session was designed to reveal the crosscurrents of innovation that can flow from discipline to discipline, and to expose students to fresh ideas.

    5 minutes
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    How interpretation makes meaning

    In 1973, the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, ruled that the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s right to an abortion. But where did that right come from? The Constitution…

    3 minutes