Tag: Maya Jasanoff

  • Nation & World

    Creation of ‘genre-defying, sort-of-uncategorizable’ books

    Writer Geoff Dyer talks with Maya Jasanoff about history, memory, and life on the USS George H.W. Bush with 5,000 new friends

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    Geoff Dyer in conversation with Harvard Professor Maya Jasanoff
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    Finding the truth in fiction

    Somali-British novelist Nadifa Mohamed is a guest spearker at the Writers Speak series at the Mahindra Humanities Center and the History Seminar.

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    Nadifa Mohamed.
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    Setting record straight on Queen Elizabeth II

    The death of Queen Elizabeth II presents the perfect opportunity to set the record straight and perhaps embark on long-overdue changes, said Maya Jasanoff, X.D. and Nancy Yang Professor and Coolidge Professor of History.

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    Queen Elizabeth II
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    Damon Galgut wanted to challenge his readers, especially the white ones

    Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut connects narrative choices to “very uncomfortable power dynamic” in a conversation with Harvard’s James Wood.

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    Damon Galut.
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    How to pick a literary winner

    Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, spoke with the Gazette about her role as chair of the panel that crowned “The Promise” by Damon Galgut this year’s winner.

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    Illustration of community building tall pile of books.
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    The world according to Conrad

    Professor Maya Jasanoff talks about her new book, “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.”

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    It can’t happen here, probably

    Authoritarianism appears on the rise in the United States, but fascism does not, panelists say at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

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    After Brexit, a changed future

    Harvard analysts talk about the effects of the United Kingdom’s referendum to leave the European Union on both Britain and the continent.

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    Five recognized as Harvard College Professors

    Michael D. Smith, Edgerly Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced five new Harvard College Professors in 2015.

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    Summertime, and the reading is easy

    A look at what Harvard faculty members will be reading in their downtime this summer.

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    What history gives the present

    Eight Harvard historians gathered at Emerson Hall with an ambitious goal in mind: to explain — in eight minutes or less — apiece — that “everything is history and history is everything.”

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    Nine professors named 2012 Cabot Fellows

    Eight professors were named 2012 Cabot Fellows to honor their excellent publications.

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    A time was had by all

    A fond look back at the memorable events of Harvard’s 375th year.

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    Ahead of the learning curve

    From the $40 million Hauser gift to support teaching and learning initiatives to the recent announcement of the global online platform edX, Harvard tackled the future of higher education head-on in 2011-12. As the University’s 375th anniversary draws to a close, the Gazette asked some prescient professors: “What’s the one big idea that will transform…

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    A peek into Harvard classrooms

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is launching a new video series, called “Harvard’s Great Teachers,” which will highlight Harvard’s world-class faculty and offer a sampling of the exciting and innovative teaching experienced by Harvard students.

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    A peek at Harvard’s future

    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 discussions were part of the Conversations @ FAS series, which this year asks some of Harvard’s leading scholars to imagine the faculty…

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    Jasanoff’s ‘Liberty’ recognized

    On Thursday, the National Book Critics Circle recognized Harvard Professor Maya Jasanoff with its award for general nonfiction for “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War” (Knopf).

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    Historian’s book a prize finalist

    Professor Maya Jasanoff is one of three finalists for the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize for “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” published by Knopf.

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    Jasanoff’s book wins honor

    Harvard History Professor Maya Jasanoff has been named the winner of a Recognition of Excellence Award as part of the 2011 Cundill Prize in History at McGill University for her book “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.” The prize recognizes history books that have a profound literary, social, and academic impact.

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    Fleeing America

    In “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” historian Maya Jasanoff reveals the lesser-known history of loyalists after the Revolution.

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    ‘Remarkable teachers’

    Historian Maya Jasanoff and chemist Tobias Ritter are this year’s winners of the Roslyn Abramson Award, given annually to assistant or associate professors for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

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