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Culture belongs to everyone (and no one)

Scholar and author Martin Puchner goes way back in time to better understand arguments we’re having today

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DateMarch 23, 2023

Martin Puchner.

A family’s secret language, a reckoning with a Nazi past

Professor and memoirist Martin Puchner sees parallels to nation’s current turmoil

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DateDecember 1, 2020December 1, 2020

Gloria Benedikt and Mimmo Miccolis practice steps from “Dancing with the Future,” a multimedia production that explores how humans might cooperate with future generations to solve global problems.

Dancing with the future

Production merges science with art to explain mechanisms of cooperation

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DateSeptember 21, 2018January 23, 2019

Departing FAS Dean Michael Smith’s investment in world-class scholars is paying big dividends, colleagues say.

A model faculty

FAS dean’s investment in world-class scholars is paying dividends

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DateAugust 9, 2018August 10, 2018

Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, discusses his new book "The Written World," about how literature shaped civilization.

Storytelling as a global force

Professor Martin Puchner serves as literary guide in ‘The Written World’

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DateDecember 7, 2017March 4, 2019

In just two years, the Theater, Dance & Media Department (TDM) has seen extensive growth in concentrators and output. During rehearsal for "Far Away," TDM's latest theater production, Director Annie Tippe (left) and Assistant Director Sarah Grammar '18 give direction to actors.

A concentration’s first growth spurt

Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media program turns 2, and has ambitions

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DateMay 24, 2017May 24, 2017

Accolades were bestowed upon Diana Sorensen (at podium), who is stepping down as Harvard's dean of arts and humanities. In the 10 years since being appointed, Sorensen has supported nearly a dozen new and enhanced curricular and outreach efforts.

Humanizing the humanities

Diana Sorensen, who has led Harvard’s Division of Arts and Humanities for 10 years, steps down

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DateApril 27, 2016February 28, 2019

Visiting professor from the Yale University School of Drama David Chambers (photo 1) is teaching a class this fall as part of the Theater, Dance & Media concentration. Chambers called Harvard’s new program “thrilling.” Students from Harvard’s arts community joined Diane Paulus (photo 2), artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, onstage at Farkas Hall last Thursday as part of the official welcoming of the new concentration. President Drew Faust (photo 3) said it will play a critical role in making the arts “an integral part of the cognitive life of the University.”

New arts concentration gets warm welcome

Students, faculty hail creative fusion of Theater, Dance & Media

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DateOctober 5, 2015May 17, 2019

In the Oberon Theater on Arrow Street, Marcus Stern teaches directing. The class attracts student directors interested in theater, television, and film, as well as actors, dramaturges, and designers investigating all aspects of theater. Actor Derek Speedy ’18 (left) and director Juliana Sass ’17 are pictured as their scene is critiqued. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer

Theater, Dance, and Media

FAS approves a new concentration in the arts

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DateApril 7, 2015April 17, 2019

At Houghton Library, Harvard Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt (far right), guides Humanities 10a students through a look at first editions and other treasures.

Glimpsing Dublin from the wine-dark sea

‘Hum 10’ guides students through literary masterworks

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DateDecember 12, 2014March 15, 2019

Harvard Professor Martin Puchner, editor of the newly revised six-volume "Norton Anthology of World Literature," makes a point in his Barker Center office.

World literature, sized right

Harvard professor leads Norton Anthology team that presents key writings of myriad cultures

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DateJune 18, 2012July 19, 2019

Maya Jasanoff and her faculty colleagues gathered at the Tsai Auditorium on Feb. 16 and March 7 to consider how the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) may look in a generation. The February session included, among others, Jasanoff (from left), Harvard faculty Martin Puchner, and Ann Pearson.

A peek at Harvard’s future

Conversations @ FAS explores impact of digital revolution

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DateMarch 9, 2012June 12, 2019

Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Ann Blair was named a Cabot Felllow for her book “Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age.”

Ten professors named Cabot Fellows

Faculty honored for their excellent publications

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DateAugust 9, 2011July 24, 2019

Amanda Palmer (center) and a group of Harvard scholars explored some of the dark, sinister, and sexualized sides of the popular musical “Cabaret.” Adding a historical perspective to the discussion was Harvard Professor Charles Maier (right), who noted that as Germany became increasingly polarized in the wake of the Great Depression, the cabarets’ role of master of ceremonies was eliminated. Harvard professors MartIn Puchner (far left) and Carol Oja (not pictured) also participated in the panel discussion.

The dark corners of ‘Cabaret’

Panel probes musical’s unsettling collision of revelry and tragedy

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DateSeptember 21, 2010June 19, 2019

Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces 2010-11 full professors

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DateMay 13, 2010July 25, 2019