Tag: Elaine Scarry

  • Nation & World

    How college rocked my world

    The Transcript Project aims “to recognize the curiosity-driven intellectual journey that college is meant to be,” according to Dean Robin Kelsey.

    4 minutes
    Paul Lewis '18,
  • Nation & World

    Rose petals for the lost

    Recently the Harvard Art Museums acquired the evocative “A Flor de Piel,” a room-sized tapestry by contemporary Colombian artist Doris Salcedo made of thousands of dyed rose petals stitched together to form a giant burial shroud. For the director of Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, this was a first.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A poet’s own epitaphs

    Two months after his death, poet Seamus Heaney returned to Harvard, in spirit, for a celebration by friends who loved him “on and off the page.”

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Following the missteps of giants

    Blunders by otherwise great scientists took center stage at the Barker Center on Sept. 25 when a faculty panel posed questions to Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute Senior Astrophysicist Mario Livio about his latest book on the subject.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A time was had by all

    A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.

    16 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard College Professorships for 5

    Honor provides support for research, recognizes outstanding teaching of undergraduates.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Beauty as a Call to Justice” – Elaine Scarry

    Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value; Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Rule of Law, Misrule of Men

    Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, confronts the Bush administration’s legislative crimes, and calls for prosecutorial action to restore democracy.

    1 minute