Tag: Jill Radsken
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Demystifying the workplace
Harvard welcomes Boston Public School students to speak to staff about their goals and gain perspective about college and career.
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Curating a classic ‘Genji’ exhibit at the Met
Harvard’s Melissa McCormick takes “The Tale of the Genji,” one of the world’s first novels, from classroom to gallery.
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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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New faculty: Bruno Carvalho
Romance languages and literature scholar of culture and the built environment, Bruno Carvalho is leading an effort to create a secondary field in urban studies.
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Big Fish in a web pond
John Fish ’21 started his YouTube channel as part of a technology communications class during his senior year of high school in Waterloo, Ontario. Coincidentally, it was up and running…
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Coed Hasty Pudding makes its debut
This year marked the first in the group’s 171-year history that women took the stage as part of the Hasty Pudding cast. Six men and six women make up this year’s onstage talent in the original student musical “France France Revolution!”
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How violence pointed to virtue
Richard Wrangham’s new book examines the strange relationship between good and evil.
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Heard the one about the comedy writer?
Nell Scovell ’82 schools Harvard students in the art and science of joke writing.
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New faculty: Teju Cole
Teju Cole, author of “Open City” and “Every Day Is for the Thief,” will teach creative writing as the first Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice.
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Lurking in your favorite song, the law
Professor and author Derek Miller discusses the origins and history of copyright law and the goals of the Music Modernization Act.
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A fond faculty farewell
Harvard President Bacow, former leader Faust headline a faculty sendoff for former Dean Michael Smith of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Mourning Devah Pager
An academic ‘force of nature,’ Harvard sociologist Devah Pager is remembered for her trailblazing scholarship, extraordinary mentorship.
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Bringing ‘Coco’ to campus
Harvard’s Office for the Arts will welcome producer Darla Anderson and cultural consultant Marcela Davison Aviles for a conversation about their work on the Academy Award-winning Pixar film “Coco.”
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‘We did all we could, but we could have done more’
Accepting the Robert Coles “Call of Service” award at Harvard, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz reflected on the aftermath of deeply damaging Hurricane Maria.
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Watching ‘Scandal’ in a Faulkner state of mind
For “Faulkner, Interracialism and Popular Television,” Harvard’s Linda Chavers pairs the white Southern writer’s work with the TV series “Scandal” from African-American writer-producer Shonda Rhimes.
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New faculty: Ellis Monk
Ellis Monk, assistant professor in Harvard’s Department of Sociology, focuses on social inequality through a comparative global lens, with particular attention to race in the United States and Brazil.
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When her life is over, she’ll have lived
Harvard senior Elsie Tellier has responded to her lethal disease with courage, sadness, and compassion. But not bitterness.
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The great eight
Bestowed by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, eight laureates received the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at Sanders Theatre for their contributions to African and African-American history and culture.
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From the page to the stage
Composer and writer Min Kahng talks about how he created his musical “Four Immigrants” in advance of his Harvard visit.
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Harvard files motion backing student testimony at trial
Harvard files court motion supporting student testimony at admissions trial. Students and alumni hope to offer their perspectives on the importance of diversity.
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New faculty: Shawon Kinew
Q&A with Shawon Kinew as part of a series introducing new faculty members.
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Keeping first-years informed
The Harvard program First-Year Librarians in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is an effort to strengthen connections between students and staff.
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A model faculty
Departing FAS Dean Michael Smith’s investment in world-class scholars is paying big dividends, colleagues say.
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Second life for slave narrative
Harvard scholar Robin Bernstein hopes the archival work behind the recent publication of the slave narrative of Jane Clark will inspire other such projects.
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Horror’s human side
Fiction writer and Briggs-Copeland lecturer Laura van den Berg talks about her new novel, “The Third Hotel.”
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Remembering — and rereading — Stanley Cavell
Harvard philosopher Stanley Cavell, who died in June at age 91, was remembered by former students and colleagues as an extraordinary writer and teacher.
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Praise for Gay as a scholar and a leader
Scholars and staff welcomed the appointment of Claudine Gay as the new Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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A cast fit for an Egyptian king
Harvard students have created a replica of the ‘Dream Stela’ that rests between the paws of the Great Sphinx in Giza.
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When a House is a bountiful home
Harvard roommates from varied backgrounds say that, in the College’s House system, their differences draw them together.