Featured series 
Tag: Humanities
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Arts & Culture
Bot’s literary analysis wasn’t ‘brilliantly original’ — is that beside the point?
Writers Claire Messud, Laura Kipnis debate AI’s merits as a reading companion
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Arts & Culture
‘Dark things can be quite illuminating’
Horror writing instructor defends prestige of ‘genre that bites back’
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Arts & Culture
Does academic writing have to be boring?
English professor, journalist says first step to better prose is being aware that no one has to read you
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Campus & Community
Ukraine’s first lady shares history with Harvard
Olena Zelenska presents Harvard Library with books, shows appreciation for its contribution to Ukrainian studies
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Arts & Culture
Lace up gloves, enter ring, and write
Novelist and boxer Laura van den Berg says the two practices have a lot in common
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Work & Economy
What skeptics get wrong about liberal arts
In podcast episode, an economist, an educator, and a philosopher make the case it’s as essential as ever in today’s job market
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Campus & Community
Gathering in community
The 26th annual Harvard Powwow was a family affair for renowned American Indian scholar Tink Tinker of Osage County and his great-niece Lena Tinker ’25, Osage Nation. “I so appreciate…
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Arts & Culture
Making creation a career
Alumni in the arts share insights and lifelong impact of campus involvement
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Arts & Culture
Art and Big Ideas are not strange bedfellows
Both spring from hard questions, benefit from interdisciplinary feedback, former Radcliffe fellows say
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Arts & Culture
Was Romeo ‘love-bombing’ Juliet?
Globe relationship columnist sorts timeless elements of youth, love, social divisions of 16th-century classic in new A.R.T. production
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Arts & Culture
In Harry Smith exhibit, Carpenter Center captures a life that defies categorization
Artist’s eclectic, connected body of work explores his wide interests — and influence
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Arts & Culture
French officer rushes wife, young children out of Salonica as Nazis near
In novel rooted in family lore, Claire Messud trails three generations of family with Algerian roots, lives shaped by displacement, war, social and political upheaval
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Arts & Culture
We know about the wars. What about the flowers?
Exhibit tracing multicultural exchanges over three centuries finds common threads and plenty of drama, from crown envy to tulip mania
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Arts & Culture
Arts First to kick off biggest festival yet
Departing longtime leader reflects on two decades of growth
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Arts & Culture
Are humanities stuck in ivory tower? Should they be?
Two literature scholars wrestle over whether and how professors can engage with pressing political, social issues of day
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Arts & Culture
Storytelling through body language
Veteran of Blue Man Group teaches students art of building a character without saying a word
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Arts & Culture
Writing today for a distant tomorrow
Visiting Professor Valeria Luiselli will contribute to the Future Library
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Arts & Culture
Many splendored? Sometimes, but it’s always intriguing
Staff, faculty offer Valentine’s tips for books that cover what we talk about when we talk about love
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Arts & Culture
Jorie Graham confronts past, present, and future
“Mortality got my attention. And it was — as we are told to believe but rarely do — a gift,” says the acclaimed poet, whose latest collection, “To 2040,” looks at the many crises shadowing what she calls “the human project.”
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Campus & Community
5 faculty members named Harvard College Professors
They are recognized for excellence in teaching in fields ranging from biophysics to cultural studies.
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Science & Tech
Imagine a world in which AI is in your home, at work, everywhere
Harvard’s AI+Art project aims to get people thinking about how artificial intelligence may impact our lives in the future.
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Campus & Community
Suzannah Clark named director of Mahindra Humanities Center
Suzannah Clark, the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Harvard College professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named the next director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, effective July 1.
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Arts & Culture
What a (spirited) drag
A live drag performance and extensive transformation accompanied a deep conference discussion at Radcliffe of gender and identity.
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Campus & Community
Senior looks back as he moves forward
As his final year at Harvard begins its cycle, Matthew DeShaw ’18 finds more questions to be answered, more lessons to be learned.
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Arts & Culture
Scholar’s eye for fashion
Harvard senior Lily Calcagnini’s history and literature concentration places fashion front and center in cultural theory.
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Work & Economy
Finance meets humanities — really
Economist Mihir Desai sets aside his usual academic work in a new book in which he uses plain language and stories drawn from literature and art to explain the basic principles of finance and show how deeply they are rooted in the humanities.
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Campus & Community
Drew Faust to step down as Harvard president
Drew Faust, who became Harvard’s 28th president in 2007, has announced that she will step down on June 30, 2018.
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Arts & Culture
Hitting the books after hitting a wall
Miguel Garcia ’17 found meaning and salvation in his humanities studies after a bout with mental illness forced him to take a sabbatical in his Junior year.
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Health
Poking at consciousness
Biologist Brian D. Farrell gave a lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History exploring the roots of consciousness.
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Arts & Culture
Making magic out of 26 letters
Harvard’s creative writing program is growing in creativity and size.
