Tag: Humanities

Nation & World
In support of the generalist

Andrew Delbanco, social critic and recipient of the National Humanities Award, warned in a speech that the shift of American higher education away from its liberal arts traditions undermines democratic society as universities push students into preprofessional pursuits.

April 6, 2012
Campus & Community
White House awards three medalists

Robert Darnton and Amartya Sen were among nine honored by President Barack Obama as 2011 National Humanities Medalists, while Harvard Overseer Emily Rauh Pulitzer was a recipient of the 2011 National Medal of Arts.

February 13, 2012
Campus & Community
Bhabha awarded by India president

Homi Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, has been awarded a Padma Award, India’s highest civilian award.

January 30, 2012
Arts & Culture
The wisdom of William James

Physician and Harvard Medical School Professor Arthur Kleinman delivered Harvard Divinity School’s annual William James Lecture, exploring the philosopher’s importance in the area of moral wisdom.

December 8, 2011
Campus & Community
Reshaping the Humanities

Stephen Greenblatt Cogan University Professor

October 12, 2011
Science & Tech
Data may not compute

The Dataverse Network Project, spearheaded by Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, provides archival storage for research projects whose records are on outmoded technology formats.

September 16, 2011
Campus & Community
Gift of opportunity

Harvard President Drew Faust gathered Monday (April 25) with faculty, staff, students, and other members of the University community to celebrate the largest gift dedicated to the study of the humanities in Harvard history.

April 26, 2011
Campus & Community
Faust named 40th Jefferson Lecturer

Drew Faust, eminent historian and president of Harvard University, will deliver the 2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 2.

April 5, 2011
Campus & Community
National Humanities Medals awarded

Emeritus professors Daniel Aaron and Bernard Bailyn are two of 10 winners of the 2010 National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama.

March 3, 2011
Campus & Community
Get ready, think big

Ten of Harvard’s great minds gathered at Sanders Theatre on Thursday (Feb. 17) for the second annual Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion in which 10 speakers each took 10 minutes to explore a topic near and dear to their hearts.

February 18, 2011
Campus & Community
Call for applications for two I Tatti fellowships

Villa I Tatti is currently accepting applications for two fellowships.

February 4, 2011
Campus & Community
Melvin R. Seiden, I Tatti Council member, dies at 80

I Tatti Council founding member Melvin R. Seiden died suddenly on Jan. 14.

February 4, 2011
Science & Tech
Caring for caring

The art and technology of care giving — undervalued now — “cuts to the quick” of our humanity. Caring — for others, for ourselves, even for things and places — is at the core of our humanity. But how to cope with its demands in a medical setting was the subject of a two-panel conference,…

December 8, 2010
Arts & Culture
Shakespeare, the inventive conservative

A new book by scholar Stephen Greenblatt probes topics that the playwright pushed to their limits: beauty and the cult of perfection, murderous hatred, the exercise of power, and artistic autonomy.

November 1, 2010
Arts & Culture
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.

October 5, 2010
Campus & Community
Mahindra gives $10M for Humanities Center

Anand Mahindra ’77, M.B.A.’81, has given Harvard $10 million to support the Humanities Center in honor of his mother, Indira Mahindra. The newly renamed Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard is housed in the Barker Center.

October 4, 2010
Campus & Community
Panel ponders digital divide

University administrators gather to explore the issues surrounding the expansion of digital scholarship.

June 14, 2010
Campus & Community
Language of learning

With a culturally diverse student body and more than 80 languages and several hundred courses available for study, Harvard’s commitment is unmatched nationally.

April 29, 2010
Arts & Culture
Bill Gates on the humanities

Bill Gates speaks about the how the humanities impact global issues.

April 23, 2010
Arts & Culture
Of men, women, and space

A Radcliffe conference tackles the tangle of how men and women handle matters of personal and public space.

April 20, 2010
Campus & Community
Seventeen faculty honored

Seventeen Harvard University faculty members are among the 229 leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

April 19, 2010
Science & Tech
Battling climate change on all fronts

Harvard’s research spans the gamut from the sciences to the humanities, examining key questions about this critical challenge facing humanity.

April 15, 2010
Nation & World
The Haitian apocalypse

A Harvard panel looks at the Haitian crisis through the lens of both history and medicine.

February 2, 2010
Campus & Community
Ashford Fellowship Program thrives

The Theodore H. Ashford Graduate Fellowships in the Sciences and the Theodore H. Ashford Dissertation Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences have supported 26 students in fields ranging from biophysics to film and visual studies.

December 17, 2009
Campus & Community
Sevcenko named professor of Romance languages and literatures

Nicolau Sevcenko, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on the cultural history of Brazil, was appointed professor of Romance languages and literatures in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jan. 1, 2009.

July 23, 2009
Nation & World
Still ‘two cultures’ but who’s on top?

Fifty years ago a simple lecture sparked a global debate with lasting implications. On May 7, 1959, British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow declared that the gap between “two cultures,” that of the sciences and the humanities, was a destructive divide hampering the effort to find solutions to the problems of the world.

May 14, 2009
Campus & Community
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.

May 14, 2009
Arts & Culture
National Endowment for the Humanities supports preservation of Qajar dynasty

The National Endowment for the Humanities has made a $346,733 grant to a team of Qajar historians. The purpose of this grant, which lasts from May 2009 to June 2011, is to develop a comprehensive digital archive and Web site at Harvard University that will preserve, link, and render accessible primary source materials related to…

April 9, 2009
Campus & Community
Five awarded membership to Royal Irish Academy

Five Harvard faculty members were awarded honorary membership to the Royal Irish Academy on March 16. The honorary members include Harvard President Drew Faust, Lincoln Professor of History; Arthur Jaffe, Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science; Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies; Lisa Randall, professor of physics; and Amartya…

April 2, 2009
Arts & Culture
Dance, music, literature celebrate human rights

Human rights are all about history, politics, and the law — right? Not entirely. The arts have a role to play. Literature, music, dance, and other forms of creative expression often convey oblique stories of injustice and trauma. They also inspire humans to embrace the human rights implicit in every act of creation.

March 5, 2009