Tag: Languages

  • Nation & World

    The language of learning

    With the odds against her, Eni Dervishi saw beyond her small town in Albania and used languages as her stepping stones.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From Swahili to Bemba to Twi

    With more than 25 languages offered each semester, the African Language Program at Harvard is the world’s foremost.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Calvert Ward Watkins

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 4, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Calvert Ward Watkins, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. A larger-than-life Indo-Europeanist, Professor Watkins’s scholarship, including contributions to the American Heritage Dictionary,…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Teaching as ‘a secular pulpit’

    After a quarter century, David Damrosch left Columbia to pursue his passions in literature and languages at Harvard.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Out of Africa

    Harvard Africa Focus opens series of panels, lectures, and performances highlighting the continent’s life and culture.

    4 minutes