Tag: Entertainment

  • Nation & World

    Visions of power in ‘Barbie,’ Beyoncé, Taylor Swift

    Women entertainers are dominating the summer. Lecturer in women, gender, and sexuality discusses the forces at play.

    4 minutes
    Taylor Swift, Margot Robbie as Barbie, and Beyoncé.
  • Nation & World

    The ‘vast wasteland,’ reconsidered

    Fifty years ago, FCC Chairman Newton Minow famously shocked the nascent television industry out of complacency, calling American television a “vast wasteland.” On Sept. 12, he joined an all-star lineup at Harvard Law School to discuss the problems and potential of the vaster wasteland that now includes elements of the Internet.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Get ready, think big

    Ten of Harvard’s great minds gathered at Sanders Theatre on Thursday (Feb. 17) for the second annual Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion in which 10 speakers each took 10 minutes to explore a topic near and dear to their hearts.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard Thinks Big

    Ten great ideas from 10 great professors in 10 minutes or less. Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion that paired leading lecturers with eager listeners, attracted these great minds to help explore and inspire new ways of thinking, in the first session of what organizers hope will become an annual experience.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tom Cruises into lecture at Harvard Law

    According to Harvard Law Record blogger Jessica Corsi, Cruise popped into celebrity attorney Bertram Fields’ guest lecture in professor Bruce Hay’s entertainment-law class. After announcing he had never heard his buddy lecture before, Cruise took a seat in the back of the class at Langdell South and even participated in the two-hour discussion.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Law students venture into new field

    First-time online sports and entertainment law journal created by Harvard Law School students offers a new scholarly outlet

    3 minutes