Tag: Homi K. Bhabha

  • Nation & World

    Fifty-seven stories

    Masha Gessen’s lecture “How We Think About Migration,” was delivered Wednesday at Paine Hall. It was the first of two lectures on “How Do We Talk About Migration” that Gessen delivered as part of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

  • Nation & World

    Tracing migration’s impact

    A symposium at the Harvard Global Institute examined the ethical, legal, social, cultural, and economic implications of migration.

  • Campus & Community

    Humanities and science come together at conference

    The sixth annual National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC), considered the largest student-run undergraduate research symposium in the nation, brought an estimated 200 undergraduates from across the U.S. and abroad to Harvard’s campus Jan. 19–21.

  • Science & Tech

    The shifting landscape in biosocial science

    During Tanner Lectures, Professor Dorothy E. Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, will explain how society leaned on flawed judgments about race.

  • Campus & Community

    Bhabha awarded Humboldt prize

    Homi K. Bhabha, director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, wins a Humboldt Research Prize.

  • Campus & Community

    Humanizing the humanities

    Leaving a legacy of curriculum innovation and diplomacy, Dean of Arts and Humanities Diana Sorensen steps down after 10 years of elevating the division.

  • Arts & Culture

    Slavery’s chilling shadow

    Toni Morrison delivered the first of six Charles Eliot Norton Lectures to an adoring crowd at Sanders Theatre on Wednesday. Morrison is the 58th scholar given the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry.

  • Arts & Culture

    Morrison’s first Norton Lecture set for March 2

    Toni Morrison will deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, which will be held throughout March and April at Sanders Theatre. Hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Morrison is the 58th scholar to be given the arts and humanities honor, officially named the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry.

  • Arts & Culture

    Walt Whitman’s war

    A Harvard panel assesses Walt Whitman’s vivid and pictorial ‘Drum-Taps,’ a collection of Civil War poems out in print for the first time in 150 years. Professor Elisa New will explore “Drum-Taps” (along with Melville’s war poems) in a new HarvardX online American poetry course, which launches May 8.

  • Arts & Culture

    Seeing, feeling, being

    A symposium will investigate what makes us human, and go beyond philosophy to do it.

  • Arts & Culture

    Toward total war

    Experts on World War I gathered for a conference on the “great seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century.

  • Arts & Culture

    Dimensions of war, including peace

    A new Harvard-wide seminar program, slated for three years, takes on a constellation of interdisciplinary issues around violence and nonviolence.

  • Nation & World

    Leaders or followers?

    Author William Deresiewicz answers questions about his controversial new critique of elite colleges and universities.

  • Arts & Culture

    Deep into a bloody history

    A Cambodian filmmaker, now a Scholar at Risk at Harvard, looks back at “Enemies of the People,” his documentary on Cambodia’s killing fields of 1975-79.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘The Temptation of Despair’

    In a book event this week, Werner Sollors talked about the tumult of physical and spiritual survival amid the ruins of post-WWII Germany.

  • Arts & Culture

    Trials of empathy

    Empathy, Rowan Williams argued in his first Tanner Lecture, is a tool for seeing the self.

  • Arts & Culture

    A Paris errand

    At a UNESCO ceremony in Paris, Harvard literary scholar Homi K. Bhabha underscored the global need for a “new humanism” that peacefully connects a culturally diverse world.

  • Arts & Culture

    Mapping the future

    To reverse a decades-long decline in arts and humanities concentrators at Harvard College, three reports from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences propose new courses, art spaces, a networked curriculum, and other steps to bolster the field on campus.

  • Arts & Culture

    Oh, the humanities!

    Humanities programs are in trouble in universities across the world — but hope prevails.

  • Arts & Culture

    The quest for common ground

    Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and other panelists probed the factors that can lead to “cultural citizenship,” including migration trends, exclusionism, and individual openness.

  • Arts & Culture

    Violence, meet nonviolence

    Starting in 2014 at the Mahindra Humanities Center, a three-year, interdisciplinary seminar and lecture series, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will investigate the interdependence of violence and nonviolence.

  • Campus & Community

    High honor for Bhabha

    Harvard literary scholar Homi K. Bhabha was honored by the Republic of India for his work in education and literature at a ceremony in New Delhi on April 4.

  • Arts & Culture

    Bhabha, matchmaker of disciplines

    Homi K. Bhabha is a marriage counselor of sorts — a literary scholar with a wide range of intellectual appetites whose role is to bring together a diversity of scholars.