Tag: Susan Pharr

  • Nation & World

    Hello Kitty, hello profits

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

  • 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.

  • Arts & Culture

    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.

  • 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.