Tag: Harvard Divinity School
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Zooming through the grad Schools
A look at how virtual classes are going at Harvard’s graduate Schools, whose needs and missions are different from the College’s.
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At graduate Schools, reinvention on the fly
Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools have had to adjust quickly to the new realities brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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‘Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns?’
E.J. Dionne explains how progressives and moderates can come together against the “threat to basic democratic values” posed by the Trump presidency.
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An update of changes on campus as pandemic spreads
Changes across Harvard’s campus reflect the need to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Diversifying Schlesinger’s records
A recently acquired archive highlights the library’s decades-long work of celebrating the efforts and achievements of women.
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Danger in creating an English-language library in Gaza
Harvard Scholar at Risk and poet Abu Toha created the first English-language library in Gaza.
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Learning by heart
Seonjoon Young returned to her home state of Colorado to bring her trauma-informed training into the classroom.
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Curating the future
An exhibit of indigenous-language materials is now housed in Tozzer Library. The exhibit will run until June 2020.
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Keeping home close after you leave it
Exhibit explores themes of immigration, home, and belonging with art.
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Hindu monastics at Harvard
Three Hindu monastics share their thoughts on Harvard Divinity School and the world they will return to.
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Five lessons from Toni Morrison
Harvard Divinity School pays tribute to the late Toni Morrison during its convocation.
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Paulsell named interim Pusey Minister
Harvard President Larry Bacow announced the appointment of Harvard Divinity School Professor Stephanie Paulsell as interim Pusey Minister at the Memorial Church.
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Remembering Anne Monius, 54
Anne E. Monius, professor of South Asian religions at Harvard Divinity School, passed away Aug. 3, at the age of 54. An Oct. 11 memorial gathering will be held at Loeb House.
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Executive education with a soul
For the second year in a row, Harvard Divinity School offers an executive course that draws on history and religious traditions around the world to help participants become agents of change.
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Chicken soup for the soul
Harvard Divinity School graduate Israel Buffardi experienced an unconventional journey to his Unitarian Universalist ministry.
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Finding rhythm in reverence
M.Div. candidate Aric Flemming is taking a year off to immerse himself in music, both spiritual and secular.
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Walton named dean of Wake Forest School of Divinity
The Rev. Jonathan Walton will step down from his role as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church in order to become dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Walton, who assumed leadership of the church in 2012, will leave this summer.
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Divinity School professor retains her grade-school wonder
Harvard Divinity School Professor Anne Monius’ determination to get to Harvard started on a grammar school field trip. Today she inspires students to love learning as much as she does.
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Religious relevance found in works of a dedicated atheist
Scholar Stephanie Paulsell discusses her forthcoming book, “Religion around Virginia Woolf,” in which she explores religious elements in the work of one of literature’s most noted atheists.
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Slavery alongside Christianity
A student-mounted exhibition probes the ties and tensions between slavery and Christianity during centuries of American bondage.
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Where the present meets the past
During Israel visit, Harvard Divinity School students tracked movements of the historical Jesus.
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Faith-based approach in battling malaria
Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard Chan School came together to discuss how education, trust, and acknowledging the role of faith in community members’ lives is crucial to helping curtail malaria in Africa.
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The poetic perspective
Amanda Gorman, the inaugural U.S. youth poet laureate and a Harvard junior, wrote a poem for Harvard President Larry Bacow’s inauguration based on the University’s history, Bacow’s love of running, and his approach to the job that emphasizes the long-term nature of achievement and the importance of working together toward change.
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Where ideas, tensions converge
Mayra Rivera draws on her cross-disciplinary background in her role as Harvard’s faculty chair of the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights.
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Gawande confronts the inevitable
Death, imperfection, and rock ’n’ roll were all part of surgeon-author Atul Gawande’s conversation with Dean David Hempton at HDS convocation.
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Terry Tempest Williams, in thought
In an interview, environmental writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams talks about what she learned during a year as a writer in residence at the Harvard Divinity School.
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‘Secular sermons,’ straight to your phone
A discussion with “Ministry of Ideas” host Zachary Davis, M.T.S. ’19, about the unique power of podcasts and the need for greater religious literacy in America.
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From heart-sick and road-weary to Harvard
After James Venable graduates in May with his bachelor’s degree, he heads to Yale Divinity School to work on a master’s degree in divinity, with plans to return to Harvard for a master’s in theological studies, and go on to Princeton for a doctorate in African-American religion.