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Tag: Homi Bhabha
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Nation & World
The nature of reality
Allan Sekula, artist and essayist, discusses the nature of reality and how it’s shown in his work.
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Irony and identity
Philosopher and classicist Jonathan Lear, this year’s Tanner lecturer, begins his two-lecture look at irony and identity.
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Painting pictures in our minds
Nobel laureate in literature Orhan Pamuk nears the end of his six-lecture Norton series on the novel’s durable attractions.
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Nation & World
‘Museum of Innocence’
At a Harvard panel, curators of both the fictional and the real explore the museum’s place in culture and literature.
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Nation & World
Made in America
The Humanities Center at Harvard is staging a symposium this weekend on the publication of the 1,095-page “A New Literary History of America” (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009). A centerpiece of the symposium was today’s (Sept. 25) “20 Questions” panel with the book’s editors, Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.
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Nation & World
‘Second lives’
In the first of six Norton Lectures, Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk investigates the act of novel reading and the fleeting “second lives” readers acquire.
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Bhabha to receive honorary degree, jury Biennale
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Humanities Center Homi K. Bhabha will receive an honorary degree from the University of Paris VIII-Vincennes-Saint Denis on May 28.
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Puzzling through Yeats with Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler knows a thing or two about William Butler Yeats. She has authored three books on the Irish poet’s work, including her most recent volume, “Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form,” published in 2007.
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Alice Waters special guest at ‘smart food’ panel
In anticipation of Harvard’s upcoming sustainability celebration, a panel discussion on sustainable food took place Tuesday (Oct. 14) in the Faculty Room at University Hall. It began with a reception at which chefs doled out demitasse cups filled with a chowder of Cape Cod Bay scallops and Berkshires bacon, and wait-staff circulated trays of heavenly…
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Nation & World
Yearlong search for the ‘human’ concludes with Bhabha address
The series “Rethinking the Human,” a yearlong exploration of the very nature of what it means to be human, sponsored by the Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions, concluded last week (May 12-13) with a two-day symposium.
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Nation & World
Bhabha named senior adviser
Homi K. Bhabha has just been named senior adviser on the humanities to the president and provost. The position, a first for the University, takes effect July 1.
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Nation & World
It takes 200 (or more) to tango
Barefoot and dressed with thrift-shop elegance in a floor-length, taffeta gown with fingerless gloves and a discus-shaped hat, Marta Elena Savigliano read from her paper “Wallflowers and Femmes Fatales: Dancing Gender and Politics at the Milongas” with a tinkling Argentine accent and an air of fey imperturbability.
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Nation & World
How interpretation makes meaning
In 1973, the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, ruled that the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s right to an abortion. But where did that right come from? The Constitution…