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Davíd Carrasco

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In 2013, Professors Arthur Kleinman and Davíd Carrasco co-created “Quests for Wisdom: Religious, Moral, and Aesthetic Experiences in the Art of Living.” “Maybe the human predicament is not about survival or how do we survive, but it’s that we always survive — we endure anything and everything,” said Kleinman (pictured) in Harvard Hall.

Pain, joy, and wisdom

Interdisciplinary course goes deep to look for answers to difficult, fundamental questions

Arts|

DateNovember 2, 2017November 3, 2017

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma discusses discoveries at Templo Mayor in a lecture the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

Honoring Mexican discovery

Lecture series pays homage to noted archaeologist for work on understanding Aztec culture

Arts|

DateOctober 27, 2017October 30, 2017

David Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America, talks about the centuries-old relationship between Mexico and the U.S. and the central role it plays in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

Examining U.S.-Mexico ties in the age of Trump

Carrasco outlines cultural, political complexities in centuries-long history

World|

DateSeptember 9, 2016September 12, 2016

Illustration of white businessman catching a dollar and colleagues of color catching coins.

The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths

For African Americans and Hispanics, frail neighborhoods undercut education, health, and jobs — all keys to thriving

World|

DateMarch 14, 2016June 23, 2020

For Harvard professors, these are a few of their favorite things

Campus|

DateDecember 3, 2015

On the road in Chiapas in 1957 is Frank C. Miller, Ph.D. ’60, the first graduate student to join the Harvard Chiapas Project. (photo 1). Evon Z. Vogt (photo 2), dressed for fieldwork in Zinacantan in 1965, with his wife and collaborator Nan Vogt to his right and to her right future anthropologist Victoria Reifler Bricker, Ph.D. ’68. Summer 1960: The first undergraduates to join the Harvard Chiapas Project (photo 3). Seated in front, left and right, are future anthropologists (and spouses) Jane Fishburne Collier ’62 and George A. Collier ’63, Ph.D. ’68. Evon Vogt is second from left in the back row.

First model for Harvard in Mexico

Chiapas Project, led by charismatic Evon Vogt, studied Maya lifestyle, trained generations of anthropologists

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DateNovember 26, 2014March 25, 2019

After Nobel laureate Toni Morrison (2012), Russell Banks is the second award-winning author to deliver the Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality in three years. "I think that in some ways as I’ve grown older and I begin to reach an age where I can look back over a span of half a century or more of writing, I can see that the course of my writing has made me more compassionate and forgiving and less judgmental than when I was younger," Banks said.

Literary devotion

Russell Banks talks about fiction as discovery ahead of HDS lecture

Arts|

DateOctober 29, 2014

Mexico City architect Jose Castillo, M.Arch. ’95, D.Des. ’00, on the rooftop of an affordable housing complex that his firm designed. Building in a megacity of 21 million, he said, is always “a struggle towards equity.”

Harvard’s Mexican connections

Intertwined programs, involved people make distance drop away

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DateOctober 3, 2014April 16, 2019

Paul Farmer (photo 1), Harvard’s Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, spoke about liberation theology and his latest book during at a discussion at the First Church in Cambridge with David Carrasco, the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, and Divinity School student Lauren Taylor (photo 2).

A faith in global care

Paul Farmer, Partners In Health founder, was inspired by liberation theology

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DateFebruary 12, 2014March 15, 2019

Toni Morrison.

Good, but never simple

Toni Morrison illuminates concepts of virtue, and its opposite

Arts|

DateDecember 7, 2012August 7, 2019

Professor David Carrasco's talk covered similarities in end-of-the-world predictions: “There’s an urgency, a totality, and the sense that the message has come from another level of reality to us."

Apocalypse now? Hardly

Professor examines periodic preoccupations with world’s end

Arts|

DateNovember 29, 2012April 3, 2019

A Harvard Divinity School working group, led by Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America Davíd Carrasco (pictured) and Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies, will convene on Fridays to discuss Toni Morrison's work in the lead-up to the author’s Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality on Dec. 6 in Sanders Theatre.

The sacred Toni Morrison

HDS series probes aspects of religion in Nobelist author’s writings

Arts|

DateSeptember 20, 2012August 7, 2019

Empowering a growing minority

Latino Leadership Initiative trains students in community organizing

World|

DateJuly 2, 2012July 11, 2019

During the inaugural “One Harvard: Lectures that Last,” Harvard Business School Professor Rebecca Henderson said, People don’t know what may happen with
climate change, but “that means we are running a roulette wheel, that we are running the risk of seriously destabilizing the world’s climate.” Henderson was one of a dozen speakers representing Harvard’s 12 graduate and professional Schools at the event.

Changing the world, in under 9 minutes

Dozen speakers from Harvard Schools outline concerns, possible solutions

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DateApril 4, 2012July 25, 2019

How interpretation makes meaning

Arts|

DateOctober 18, 2007August 10, 2016