Tag: UNESCO
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Nation & World
Examining COVID’s impact on Asians and Pacific Islanders
Harvard’s Sociology Department and UNESCO look at rise in various aspects of racism.
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Campus & Community
Bhabha awarded Humboldt prize
Homi K. Bhabha, director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, wins a Humboldt Research Prize.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Choice’ premiere
Written approximately 20 years after Elie Wiesel was freed from imprisonment in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps, “The Choice” is having a staged reading at Sanders Theatre on Sunday. It marks a premiere for the recently rediscovered work.
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Arts & Culture
A Paris errand
At a UNESCO ceremony in Paris, Harvard literary scholar Homi K. Bhabha underscored the global need for a “new humanism” that peacefully connects a culturally diverse world.
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Nation & World
The rights of women
UNESCO director-general cites progress on international rights, but says gender equality lags in regions like sub-Saharan Africa, where as many as 12 million girls never attend school.
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Campus & Community
Reimers appointed to U.S. National Commission for UNESCO
Fernando M. Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and director of the International Education Policy Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been appointed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to serve on the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.