Arts & Culture
Catching flux
Stephen Dupont, an award-winning photographer who traveled repeatedly to Papua New Guinea as a Robert Gardner Fellow, is displaying his works showing the intersection of traditional Papuan life and the industrialized world in a new exhibit at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Tags: Alvin Powell, Art & Photography, Arts & Culture, Papua New Guinea, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Photography, Robert Gardner Fellowship, Stephen Dupont
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‘Gangnam Style’ by the Yard
The singer Psy spoke at Memorial Church about his life, his time in the United States, and the runaway success of “Gangnam Style.”
Tags: Alexander Zahlten, Arts & Culture, Carl J. Eckert, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, K-Pop, Korea, Korea Institute, Learning From Performers, Music, Office for the Arts at Harvard, PSY, Seoul, South Korea, Valerie Vande Panne, YouTube, “Gangnam Style”
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Boldly going to Houghton
A newly acquired writer’s guide for the science fiction fantasy TV show “Star Trek” at Harvard’s Houghton Library offers aspiring scriptwriters everything they would need to know before crafting a script for the ’60s cult classic.
Tags: "Star Trek Into Darkness", Arts & Culture, Capt. James T. Kirk, Colleen Walsh, Houghton Library, Literature & Poetry, Mr. Spock, U.S.S. Detroit, U.S.S. Enterprise, ‘Star Trek, “The Star Trek Guide”
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Pages out of time
Time & Time Again, a new exhibit centered on Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, uses artifacts to illustrate shifting conceptions of making and marking time, from the cyclic sun and stars to linear springs and gears.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Corydon Ireland, Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, History, Language & Culture, Jean-Francois Gauvin, Juan Andres Leon, Sara J. Schechner, Time & Time Again, Yao Li
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‘Forever free,’ with caveats
Scholars gathered at Harvard to discuss the Emancipation Proclamation and African-American service during the Civil War.
Tags: African Meeting House, Arts & Culture, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Boston African American National Historic Site, Corydon Ireland, Danny Glover, David Blight, Deborah Willis, Eric Foner, History, Language & Culture, Houghton Library, John Stauffer, Museum of African American History, Peter H. Wood, Radcliffe, Richard J. Powell, Toussaint Louverture
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Citizens United and beyond
In this year’s Tanner Lectures, Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post suggested common constitutional ground in the campaign finance reform debate.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Campaign Finance, Citizens United, Corydon Ireland, History, Language & Culture, Obert Tanner, Robert C. Post, Tanner Lecture
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Oh, the humanities!
Humanities programs are in trouble in universities across the world — but hope prevails.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Corydon Ireland, Diana Sorensen, Drew Faust, History, Language & Culture, Homi K. Bhabha, Howard Gardner, Lawrence S. Bacow, Lynn A. Hunt, Mahindra Humanities Center, Office of the President, Sheldon I. Pollock, Stefan Collini
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Digitizing a movement
A team of Harvard scholars is cataloging, and transcribing, and digitizing thousands of 18th- and 19th-century anti-slavery petitions held in the Massachusetts State Archives.
Tags: Arts & Culture, Center for American Political Studies, Colin Manning, Daniel Carpenter, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS, Harvard College, Harvard University, Henry Louis Gates Jr., History, Language & Culture, Manning, W.E.B. Du Bois
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‘Pippin’ meets Tony
When artistic director Diane Paulus gave the classic “Pippin” a facelift for 2013-13 lineup of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), people took notice. Now “Pippin” has been nominated for 10 Tony Awards, including best director of a musical for Paulus.
Tags: A.R.T., American Repertory Theater, Arts & Culture, Diane Paulus, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Pippin, Theater, Film & Dance, Tony Awards
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Making poetry sing
Radcliffe fellow and classically trained pianist Tsitsi Jaji uses her musical expertise and knowledge of comparative literature to explore how composers of African descent set poetry to music for solo voice and piano.
Tags: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Arts & Culture, Colleen Walsh, Cornell University, Literature & Poetry, Oberlin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Tsitsi Jaji, Zimbabwe
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