Tag: Werner Sollors
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Campus & Community
Sacvan Bercovitch, 1933-2014
Harvard’s Sacvan Bercovitch, an influential scholar of Puritan America, dies at 81.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Temptation of Despair’
In a book event this week, Werner Sollors talked about the tumult of physical and spiritual survival amid the ruins of post-WWII Germany.
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Campus & Community
GSAS honors its leading alumni
The Centennial Medal is the highest honor awarded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, given annually during Commencement week to celebrate the achievements of a select group of Harvard University’s most accomplished alumni.
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Campus & Community
Dorrit Cohn, literature scholar, 87
Dorrit Cohn ’45, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus, died March 11. A professor of German and comparative literature, Cohn was one of three women appointed to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1971.
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Arts & Culture
Made in America
The Humanities Center at Harvard is staging a symposium this weekend on the publication of the 1,095-page “A New Literary History of America” (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009). A centerpiece of the symposium was today’s (Sept. 25) “20 Questions” panel with the book’s editors, Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.