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Tag: Homi Bhabha
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Emanuel Ax guides listeners from Beethoven to Brahms
Grammy-winning pianist Emanuel Ax visited Harvard to discuss the influence of Beethoven on Brahms.
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The topic is race, onstage and afterward
Poet Claudia Rankine’s new play places a conversation about race center stage and encourages audiences to continue to engage with the discussion after the curtain falls.
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A complicated problem, made worse by politics
The inaugural Mahindras Humanities Center conference on “Migration and the Humanities” tackled different facets of the many population movements now crisscrossing the globe.
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Junot Díaz gets personal — and political — at Harvard conference
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz read his story “The Money” at the Harvard conference Migration and the Humanities.
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Michael Ondaatje goes deep into character
Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient” and other novels, read passages from his work and took questions on his creative process during a Harvard forum.
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Detours, some fraught, on path to global citizenship
Harvard scholars participated in a Tom Ashbrook-moderated panel on global citizenship as part of Worldwide Week at Harvard.
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A shady past haunts Rushdie’s ‘House’
Salman Rushdie discussed his new novel, “The Golden House,” in a conversation with Harvard’s Homi Bhabha at First Parish Church.
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Vietnam, the ongoing memory
For students so young, an old war — captured in a history and literature course on Vietnam this fall — continues to have resonance and to provide “a punch in the gut.”
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Spielberg on Spielberg
Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg visited Harvard Tuesday and discussed his long and successful career as part of the Mahindra Humanities Center’s Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts.
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Harmony and humanity
Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock begins his post as the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard with some wisdom from Miles Davis. Hancock’s next lecture, “Breaking the Rules” will take place Feb. 12.
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The power of trans
“Trans Arts” was a two-hour panel Wednesday of poets, critics, and performers who in some cases identify with the gender opposite from the bodies into which they were born.
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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.
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A fall snapshot of Arab Spring
Short on certainties, a Harvard panel convenes nearly two years after the start of the Arab Spring to offer perspectives on the past, present, and future.
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Found in translation
French historian Roger Chartier, whose work examines the history of books, publishing, and reading, explored the creation of literary archives and the appearance in the 1750s of authorial manuscripts during a talk at Radcliffe. “Take Note” will “consider the past and future of note taking on Nov. 1 and 2.
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Death and the Civil War
Filmmaker Ric Burns, Harvard President Drew Faust, and scholars screened and discussed “Death and the Civil War,” a PBS documentary based on Faust’s book “This Republic of Suffering.”
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A work supreme
During a lecture that is part of a series of master classes sponsored by Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard Professor Ingrid Monson explored the genius behind John Coltrane’s 1965 jazz album “A Love Supreme.”
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Bhabha awarded by India president
Homi Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, has been awarded a Padma Award, India’s highest civilian award.
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Poetry in the Yard
Homi K. Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and the Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, discusses his remembrance of September 11. Professor Bhabha’s project reflects on the decade since the tragedy through a series of poems installed within Harvard Yard.
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On the Silk Road again
The Silk Road Ensemble, a group of musicians from around the world led by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, was at Harvard for a weeklong residency, helping students to compose, playing with undergraduates, exploring the link between business and the arts, and discussing arts and education.
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Harvard Remembers 9/11
The Harvard community remembers where they were on September 11th and reflects on how it has changed their lives and the world around them.
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Gift of opportunity
Harvard President Drew Faust gathered Monday (April 25) with faculty, staff, students, and other members of the University community to celebrate the largest gift dedicated to the study of the humanities in Harvard history.
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Understanding Obama
Professor James Kloppenberg, author of “Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition,” took questions from five panelists on the impact of Obama’s presidency at an event sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard.
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Hyman to step down as provost
Provost Steven E. Hyman, who spurred an expansion of interdisciplinary research at Harvard and has overseen the revitalization of the University’s libraries and many of its museums and cultural institutions, plans to leave his post after nearly a decade.
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Caring for caring
The art and technology of care giving — undervalued now — “cuts to the quick” of our humanity. Caring — for others, for ourselves, even for things and places — is at the core of our humanity. But how to cope with its demands in a medical setting was the subject of a two-panel conference,…
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The ripples of Brown v. Board
Panelists say Brown v. Board of Education is still a banner for racial equality, but its inspiration may not be matched by its actual legal impact.
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Art during wartime
Alan Riding, the former European cultural correspondent for The New York Times, discussed his new book, “And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris,” in a panel event at Harvard.
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Bringing faculty together
Provost-sponsored events seek to bring together faculty from across the University and spur cross-disciplinary ventures.
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Harvard Humanities 2.0
A $10 million gift to the Humanities Center at Harvard will help bring the traditional arts of interpretation to more students.
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Mahindra gives $10M for Humanities Center
Anand Mahindra ’77, M.B.A.’81, has given Harvard $10 million to support the Humanities Center in honor of his mother, Indira Mahindra. The newly renamed Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard is housed in the Barker Center.
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The dark corners of ‘Cabaret’
In a panel discussion, Harvard scholars and performer Amanda Palmer examined the sinister sides and social significance of the American Repertory Theater’s new production of “Cabaret.”
