Tag: Susan Pharr
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Nation & World
Hello Kitty, hello profits
On pop icon’s 40th anniversary, professor explains the global conquest of cute
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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.
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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.
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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.