The Harvard Gazette

Diana Gerberich

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During Wintersession, students learn to make and use the technology that revolutionized human life. The atlatl, or spear-thrower, is a 10,000-year-old tool developed independently across the globe by cultures from the Arctic to New Zealand. The workshop takes place in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. Andrew Majewski (pictured), the workshop instructor, demonstrates how to throw an atlatl during the workshop.

Hurtling back through time

Wintersession course on the atlatl gives students a hunter’s-eye view of 10,000 B.C.

Campus|

DateJanuary 26, 2018January 26, 2018

The National Folkloric Company of Cuba performs in the Tata Güines museum courtyard.

A Cuba-Harvard connection, with a beat

Jazz band makes and learns music, absorbs culture on island visit

Arts|

DateAugust 29, 2017March 12, 2018

Many women in jazz feel “caught between their love of jazz and the way their gender is often considered out of place within it,” says Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, but “we’re at a cultural turning point" in our attitudes towards female musicians.

Trumpeting women in jazz

Inroads finally seem possible in what traditionally has been a man’s musical world

Arts|

DateApril 3, 2017April 4, 2017