Boym turns chance errors into chancy art
Svetlana Boym leads a double life. Her faculty Web page identifies her as the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature. She is the...
View ArticleLibraries, museums meet with IT
The ability to search the actual text of millions of books — instead of just titles or summaries — will change the way students and academics conduct research, revealing a host of new sources invisible...
View ArticleWest Bank youths, with cameras, visit CGIS
Four teenage participants from the Picture Balata workshop made a stop at Harvard this past Wednesday evening (April 11) as part of their two-week tour of the United States. The teenagers, Palestinians...
View ArticleHumanitarian aid professionals strategize
The public and private agencies that respond to war and disasters sometimes respond disastrously — and it’s time to do something about it. That was the basic message of a three-day Humanitarian Health...
View ArticleMexican energy controversy addressed
In early April, the Mexican government announced plans for an energy reform proposal designed to encourage private investment in the oil industry. The proposal would allow Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex),...
View ArticleExcellence in teaching is recognized
When Allan M. Brandt, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, took his son on a college visit two years ago, a well-meaning representative told him that unlike at other institutions, his son...
View ArticleHistory of human rights declaration is reviewed at CGIS
In September 1948, representatives of 18 nations at the newly minted United Nations were inspired by the tumult and horror of World War II to create a Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In...
View ArticleAchebe celebrates African literature with poetry
Chinua Achebe, the esteemed Nigerian novelist and poet, delivered this year’s Distinguished African Studies Lecture at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). Greeting the...
View ArticleDisasters, and how to cope with them
Nine out of 10 disasters in the world are related to climate change — the consequence of “a new normal of extreme weather,” said Sir John Holmes. He talked about an accelerating pace of floods,...
View ArticleLooking at ‘Invisible Cities’
During his freshman year at Harvard, Christian Starling ’10 had a panicky moment. An art project was due. What now? He found the answer under his bed — in bits of trash, paper, and random materials....
View ArticleBoym turns chance errors into chancy art
Svetlana Boym leads a double life. Her faculty Web page identifies her as the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature. She is the...
View ArticleLibraries, museums meet with IT
The ability to search the actual text of millions of books — instead of just titles or summaries — will change the way students and academics conduct research, revealing a host of new sources...
View ArticleWest Bank youths, with cameras, visit CGIS
Four teenage participants from the Picture Balata workshop made a stop at Harvard this past Wednesday evening (April 11) as part of their two-week tour of the United States. The teenagers,...
View ArticleHumanitarian aid professionals strategize
The public and private agencies that respond to war and disasters sometimes respond disastrously — and it’s time to do something about it. That was the basic message of a three-day Humanitarian Health...
View ArticleMexican energy controversy addressed
In early April, the Mexican government announced plans for an energy reform proposal designed to encourage private investment in the oil industry. The proposal would allow Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex),...
View ArticleExcellence in teaching is recognized
When Allan M. Brandt, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, took his son on a college visit two years ago, a well-meaning representative told him that unlike at other institutions, his son...
View ArticleHistory of human rights declaration is reviewed at CGIS
In September 1948, representatives of 18 nations at the newly minted United Nations were inspired by the tumult and horror of World War II to create a Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In...
View ArticleAchebe celebrates African literature with poetry
Chinua Achebe, the esteemed Nigerian novelist and poet, delivered this year’s Distinguished African Studies Lecture at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). Greeting the...
View ArticleDisasters, and how to cope with them
Nine out of 10 disasters in the world are related to climate change — the consequence of “a new normal of extreme weather,” said Sir John Holmes. He talked about an accelerating pace of floods,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Looking at ‘Invisible Cities’
During his freshman year at Harvard, Christian Starling ’10 had a panicky moment. An art project was due. What now? He found the answer under his bed — in bits of trash, paper, and random materials....
View Article
