Tag: Stephen Greenblatt

  • Nation & World

    When art advanced science

    More than a masterful artist, Albrecht Dürer strongly influenced 16th-century science with cartographic and anatomical work that gets little attention from art historians.

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    A National Book Award

    “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt’s book describing how an ancient Roman philosophical epic helped pave the way for modern thought, has won the National Book Award for nonfiction.

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    Through artistry, toleration

    “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, author Stephen Greenblatt recounted.

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    The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    In this wave-making book, Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt takes into account “On the Nature of Things,” an eerily modern poem by the ancient Roman writer Lucretius, which helped shape the great thinkers of the Renaissance, even if fewer than three copies of the poem were known to exist at the time.

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    Breakthrough

    In science and medicine and across the humanities, Harvard has a legacy of transformative intellectual breakthroughs.

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    Reshaping the Humanities

    Stephen Greenblatt Cogan University Professor

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    Ten professors named Cabot Fellows

    Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows.

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    Harvard at 375

    The University gets ready to celebrate its classic values, as well as its recent innovative momentum in the sciences, public service, diversity, internationalism, and the arts. Oct. 14 will be the launch of the official 375th anniversary.

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    Scholars at Risk network

    The Scholars at Risk network is made up of 194 universities in 23 countries, and based at New York University. It was founded in 1999 by University of Chicago legal scholar Jacqueline Bhabha, who now is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School and the University adviser on human rights education.

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    Shakespeare, the inventive conservative

    A new book by scholar Stephen Greenblatt probes topics that the playwright pushed to their limits: beauty and the cult of perfection, murderous hatred, the exercise of power, and artistic autonomy.

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    Aiding scholars at risk

    Harvard issues a call for nominations in an annual quest to offer one-year fellowships to “scholars at risk” who face persecution in their native countries.

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    A march toward the arts

    The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.

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    Stephen Greenblatt to be honored

    Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt will join seven other distinguished artists and writers to be inducted into the 250-member American Academy of Arts and Letters next month.

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    21st century technology takes students back to 17th century

    In 1998 cellist Yo-Yo Ma took to the road, and a growing number of people have followed him.

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