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Tag: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
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Arts & Culture
A ‘Passport’ to other lives, places, times
“Passports: Lives in Transition” uses expired passports, visas, and photographs to tell personal stories of global events.
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Arts & Culture
Frida the artist before Frida the icon
A course on Frida Kahlo helped students understand the context in which the Mexican painter developed her works and how she became a cult icon.
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Campus & Community
Grants back study-abroad initiatives in Italy, Canada
Plans for immersive student experiences in Canada’s far north and in Italy received grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences.
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Arts & Culture
More than language lessons
María Luisa Parra teaches a course that caters to students of Latino heritage who spoke Spanish at home but never had formal instruction in the language.
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Arts & Culture
A true giant
On the 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes’ death, the Gazette sat down with Professor Mary Gaylord to talk about the lasting influence of “Don Quixote.”
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Campus & Community
Nicolau Sevcenko dies at 61
Harvard Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Nicolau Sevcenko died on Aug. 13 at his home in São Paulo. He was 61.
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Arts & Culture
Poets, meet translators
Noted Spanish-language poets are visiting Harvard this week in a first-of-its-kind event that pairs the poets and their works with top translators in the field.
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Nation & World
Paris by neighborhood
An eight-week Harvard study abroad course, launched last year, is structured so that students discover all 20 Parisian arrondissements over a summer.
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Campus & Community
Hail fellows, well met
The Harvard College Fellowship Program has proven to be a boon to students, academic departments across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the fellows themselves, many of whom have gone on to land tenure-track faculty positions in a tough job market.
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Health
Medical texts and other fictions
In the 19th century, hysteria was considered one of the most common disorders afflicting women. Doctors advised parents to keep their daughters from riding horseback, eating vanilla, or reading novels,…
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Science & Tech
Pendulating “between euphoria and despair”
In his landmark 1845 essay, “Facundo, Civilización y Barbarie,” Argentinean author and statesman Domingo F. Sarmiento, the nation’s second president, sharply contrasted the forces at work on his young nation.…