Featured series 
Tag: Humanities
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Arts & Culture
Brief bursts of wisdom
Aphorism lover and historian James Geary reflects on how ancient literary art form fits into age of social media
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Science & Tech
What will AI mean for humanity?
Scholars from range of disciplines see red flags, possibilities ahead
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Campus & Community
She pioneered study of hip-hop as high art
Harvard renames first-of-its-kind archive after founder Marcyliena Morgan, who died recently at age 75
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Arts & Culture
Live fast, die young, inspire Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt finds a tragic strain in the life and work of Christopher Marlowe
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Arts & Culture
Steve McQueen could lecture you, but he’s got other plans
‘I think the audience needs more, and I feel I need to give more,’ says award-winning filmmaker — presenter of this year’s Norton talks
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Arts & Culture
Marking 100 years of Norton Lectures
Panelists reflect on ‘incredible value’ of annual series as ‘megaphone’ for artists and scholars
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Arts & Culture
How fashion police have been walking beat for centuries
Houghton Library exhibit highlights the policing of women’s fashion since the 17th century.
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Arts & Culture
Funny or failure? It’s a fine line.
‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ writer on taking risks in comedy and why getting laughs is worth near-constant rejection
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Arts & Culture
Reading like it’s 1989
Report on classroom literature shows staying power for ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Of Mice and Men,’ other classics. Time to move on?
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Nation & World
Why Malcolm X matters even more 60 years after his killing
New book by Mark Whitaker examines growth of artistic, political, cultural influence of controversial Civil Rights icon
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Arts & Culture
Carving a place in outer space for the humanities
The cosmos ‘is as weird and astonishing as any great work of art,’ argues Jennifer Roberts, and navigating it requires ‘a new kind of ethics’
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Arts & Culture
From tragedy to ‘Ecstasy’
Ivy Pochoda’s feminist retelling of ‘The Bacchae’ examines freedom from inhibition with Electronic Dance Music beat
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Arts & Culture
From ‘joyous’ to ‘erotically engaged’ to ‘white-hot angry’
Stephanie Burt’s new anthology rounds up 51 works by queer and trans poets spanning generations
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Campus & Community
Hey you, hold onto your humanity. You’ll thank me later.
A little advice for the graduates — or, at least, for one of them (you know who you are)
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Campus & Community
Finding common humanity, modern lessons in antiquity, a path forward
Yurong ‘Luanna’ Jiang, Aidan Scully, Thor Reimann to deliver orations
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Arts & Culture
Talking about music doesn’t have to be difficult
Yeats poem inspires 3 songs and deep listening, discussion at Mahindra event
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Arts & Culture
Science Center Plaza is alive with the sound of music
Harvard Arts Fest brings artmaking and creativity to campus
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Arts & Culture
When talking drum becomes part of the dialogue
Visiting professor’s Venice Architecture Biennial project examines how to build renewable bridges between African, African diaspora communities
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Campus & Community
5 faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Recognized for excellence in teaching in fields ranging from geometry to politics
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Arts & Culture
Hooking first-years on the arts and humanities
Professors rethink students’ introduction to humanities with nine new courses
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Arts & Culture
Schlesinger exhibit turns spotlight on largely invisible past
Students, archivists collaborate to tell deeper story of Asian American women’s history
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Arts & Culture
Making universal connection through the intensely personal
Woodberry Poetry Room workshop project on tradition of elegy inspired by loneliness, grief of pandemic
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Arts & Culture
Discoveries on a musical path
From Benin to Cuba to the Americas, Yosvany Terry sees how tradition safeguards culture and identity
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Arts & Culture
Future doesn’t have to be dystopian, says Ruha Benjamin
In Tanner Lectures, Princeton sociologist talks AI, social justice
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Arts & Culture
What really scares Katie Kitamura
Ahead of Harvard visit, author talks performance, privacy, and horror inspiration for latest novel
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Arts & Culture
Becky G gets real at Cultural Rhythms
Artist of the Year applauds student performers for ‘leaning into authenticity’
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Campus & Community
Cutting drug costs, embracing aging, demystifying AI — and more research ideas
8 graduate students pitch their work in Harvard Horizons talks
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Arts & Culture
How to dance like somebody’s watching
Choreographer offers tips on finding release: ‘Ain’t nobody concerned if you look good’
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Arts & Culture
‘Singin’ in the Rain’ this isn’t
But palliative-care specialist who advised on ‘Night Side Songs’ says new musical about cancer patient is rich, moving
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Campus & Community
A ride on the Marrakesh Express
‘Postcard from Morocco’ brings opera back to Lowell House
