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Stephen Greenblatt

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"On the Nature of Things,” a poem written 2,000 years ago that flouted many mainstream concepts, helped the Western world to ease into modernity, Stephen Greenblatt recounted during a lecture titled "Aesthetic Toleration: Lucretius and the Survival of Unacceptable Ideas."

Through artistry, toleration

Greenblatt shows how heretical ideas survived from the Roman era

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DateOctober 31, 2011March 18, 2019

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

<h4>W.W. Norton, September 2011</h4><h5>Stephen Greenblatt</h5>

Arts|

DateOctober 27, 2011

Breakthrough

Harvard's legacy of intellectual discovery

Campus|

DateOctober 12, 2011March 14, 2019

Reshaping the Humanities

Campus|

DateOctober 12, 2011February 13, 2018

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

The Harvard of the dim past was small, insular, and guardedly parochial. Now it is a university of the world. Some historians say Harvard finally assumed that role in 1936, when it decided to celebrate its 300th birthday on a bright stage (seen here) presented to the world. Everything about the 1936 celebration was grand and represented “a seismic shift in institutional weight and presence,” wrote authors Morton and Phyllis Keller in “Making Harvard Modern” (2001).

Harvard at 375

Celebrating momentum in sciences, public service, diversity, arts

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DateMay 25, 2011March 5, 2019

Historian Baktybek “Bakyt” Beshimov, a 2010-2011 fellow in Harvard’s Scholars at Risk program, holds a newspaper from his native Kyrgyzstan in his office at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. It featured him dressed as the Statue of Liberty — a “spy for the West” — at a time when his opposition political views put his life at risk.

Scholars at Risk network

Program for imperiled scholars in peril

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DateMarch 3, 2011March 21, 2019

Shakespeare, the inventive conservative

Scholar Greenblatt says that even the Bard knew his creative limits

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DateNovember 1, 2010April 23, 2019

The Scholars at Risk initiative, which provides one-year fellowships for international scholars who face persecution in their native lands, is seeking nominations for 2011-12 fellows. Jacqueline Bhabha (above), the University adviser on human rights education, spoke at an Oct. 12 reception exploring the next phase of human rights scholarship at Harvard.

Aiding scholars at risk

Harvard calls for nominations to program

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DateOctober 25, 2010May 6, 2019

(Cambridge, MA. Tuesday, March 3, 2009) A performance at Memorial Church at Harvard University looked at the place of the humanities in the struggle for human rights. It featured Toni Morrison, Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble, Homi K. Bhabha, and a dance choreographed by Damian Woetzel. YoYo Ma warms up back stage. Photo by Rose Lincoln/Harvard University News Office

A march toward the arts

Silk Road Project's relocation latest indicator of the rising import of creativity on campus

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DateApril 13, 2010July 24, 2019

Stephen Greenblatt to be honored

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DateApril 24, 2008

21st century technology takes students back to 17th century

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DateMay 10, 2007

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