Tag: Department of the Classics

  • Campus & Community

    Ihor Ševčenko

    The news of Ihor Ševčenko’s death, on the day after Christmas 2009, elicited a spontaneous international reaction that befitted his stature as a towering intellect and hugely admired scholar in the fields of Byzantine and pre-modern Slavic studies.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Ernst Badian, professor of history emeritus, 85

    Professor Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus, died on Feb. 1.

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Language of learning

    With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.

    7–11 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Ihor Ševčenko

    Ihor Ševčenko, prominent Byzantinist and Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard, died Dec. 26 at age 87.

    6–10 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Scholars resuscitate dead languages

    The goal of a Harvard academic research project is to develop advanced computer technology that will help scholars mine myriad scientific texts in a variety of languages, but also to connect the dots between them. In this way, it can broaden the scope of scholarship, but also sharpen the scholar’s ability to probe deeply into…

    1–2 minutes