Featured series 
Tag: Humanities Center at Harvard
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Nation & World
Scholarship beyond words
Harvard classes and a new journal embrace an emerging wave of doctoral learning beyond the written word that uses film, photo, audio, and other communication channels.
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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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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
Bringing faculty together
Provost-sponsored events seek to bring together faculty from across the University and spur cross-disciplinary ventures.
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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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.”
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Nation & World
Film explores military tribunal
A short film based on military tribunals held at Guantanamo Bay examines the legality and morality of the U.S. justice system.
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Nation & World
The Living Magazine
Exiled, censored, and under fire from hostile regimes, international writers make a plea at Harvard for creative freedom.
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Nation & World
Writers at Risk
A Harvard instructor, concerned about literary artists threatened overseas, proposes Writers at Risk, an academic harbor.
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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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.
