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Centennial Medalists 2015
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that...
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Animating Music
What do we see when we listen to music? In 1940, Walt Disney’s Fantasia famously drew Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite as dancing flowers, and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring as a T-rex on the rampage....
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Explaining the Armenian Genocide
When the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on Germany’s side in 1914, more than 15 million individuals—an ethnic mix of Kurds, Turks, and other groups—lived in Anatolia. Among them was a population of...
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Lighting Up Mount Auburn Street
As the Harvard Art Museums announced their long awaited re-opening with a series of community celebrations—catered events, held beneath the cathedral heights of the glass ceiling designed by Renzo...
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Arts and Sciences’ Inflection Point
Students of learning and teaching at Harvard will find two especially interesting disclosures in the new annual report from Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith, covering the...
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The Civil War’s Personal Histories
Harriet Beecher Stowe—the best-known subject in the new exhibit on the Civil War at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Schlesinger Library—is known largely for her public writings. But in the...
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The New Histories
In May 1968, the university’s students wanted to change the world. Left-thinking ideologies like Maoism and socialism were in their minds, and “Vietnam” was on their lips. They went on strike, skipping...
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Dumbarton Oaks Fêtes New Programs and Spaces
The music ofRoomful of Teeth, the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble who performed at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection on Sunday, serves as perhaps an apt metaphor for how discrete disciplines...
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Tibetan Literature, Digitized
This summer, Harvard Library has begun to upload onto its digital storage system 10 million pages of Tibetan literature that survived China’s convulsive Cultural Revolution, the movement between 1966...
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Loeb Classical Library 1.0
When James Loeb designed his soon-to-be-launched series of Greek and Roman texts at the turn of the twentieth century, he envisioned the production of volumes that could easily fit in readers’ coat...
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The Humanities Village People
Rachel Gibian’15 will spend a considerable part of her summer in the stacks of the Schlesinger and Houghton libraries, digging up primary documents about women who were active abolitionists during the...
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Joseph Conrad’s Crystal Ball
Many call Rudyard Kipling the scribe of the British Empire, but novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) may have best rendered its waning years and foreshadowed its demise. Around the turn of the last...
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Toward Cultural Citizenship
One day in the early spring of 2013, Alexander Rehding asked the students in his graduate seminar to join him in experiencing the sound of silence. As he led them through an exercise in deep listening,...
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The Jesus’s Wife Fragment: The Scientific Evidence
In September 2012, Hollis professor of divinity Karen L. King made international headlines when she revealed the existence of a fragmentary, apparently ancient, text in which Jesus refers unequivocally...
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This spring, Elaine Scarry is teaching two courses: a purely literary class on the three Brontë sisters, and “The Problem of Consent,” drawing examples from literature, medicine, political philosophy,...
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“A More Perfect Heaven”
By his thirties, Nicolaus Copernicus had developed a theory that would turn the universe inside out, but for three decades, he kept his ideas almost entirely to himself. As a young man, he had...
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“Bodies of Knowledge”
The title page of Andreas Vesalius’s monumental 1543 anatomy textbook, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), depicts a public dissection. In an amphitheater, the famous...
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“Biological Time Travel”
From glowing fish to bacteria that can count, synthetic biologists are now able to create life forms never before seen on earth. “Historians and Ecclesiastes be damned,” says Sophia Roosth, assistant...
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“Hearing Through the Body”
Whether a train’s whistle or a cell-phone’s ring, sound is a fundamentally physical phenomenon, grounded in the vibrations of material objects. In a Monday evening lecture, “Hearing Through the...
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Fellows’ Travels
The Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) fellows’ courses of action range widely: from raising awareness of sex trafficking in Boston to deploying a mobile app for real-time evaluation of food’s...
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