Tag: Susan Pharr

  • Nation & World

    Hello Kitty, hello profits

    On pop icon’s 40th anniversary, professor explains the global conquest of cute

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Crisis in Japan: The Way Forward’

    The disaster created when an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis struck Japan may be entering a new stage as the effects start to ripple through the country’s economy, politics, and society, according to a panel of Harvard analysts and Japanese officials.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Suffering, through an Asian lens

    Several Asian scholars and historians gathered at the Faculty Club Nov. 5 to discuss the cultures of suffering produced by war and tragedy, as shown in the book “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” by Harvard President Drew Faust.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard in Japan

    As President Drew Faust becomes the eighth Harvard president to visit Japan, faculty members are sending back dispatches about cultural and historical aspects of her visit.

    22 minutes