First-Year students and their families meet Arts & Humanities Dean Robin Kelsey with faculty representing the many Arts & Humanities departments and programs. Learn more about the experiences and opportunities students can expect studying the humanities at Harvard.

Join New York Times-bestselling author Madeline Miller (The Song of Achilles and Circe) for a conversation about voice, literary adaptation, and the creative process. Fans of historically-informed fiction, fanfiction, and classical texts can participate in an author-led creative writing exercise and explore using adaptation in their own writing and learning.

 

Free event (no tickets or registration required). Seating is limited.

Come read The Odyssey with us!

Beginning with the Ancient Greek, traveling book by book through centuries of translations, and ending with Prof. Emily Wilson's newest rendition, read by the translator herself.

Sign up to read a 5-minute segment of this epic oral poem, and join us in this collaborative endeavor!

To sign up and find out more, visit: https://arts-hum.wixsite.com/homerathon 

Read more about Homerathon: A Marathon Reading of Homer's Odyssey

Nuclear weapons strategy in the United States is designed around “presidential first use,” an arrangement that enables one man, the president, to kill and maim many millions of people in a single afternoon. What legal or philosophical principle differentiates the moral harm or moral wrong that would be attributed to a terrorist, non-state actor or hacker who delivered a nuclear weapon from a presidential launch of a nuclear weapon? The conference will bring together international and constitutional scholars and statesmen to examine the nature of presidential first use in the United...

Read more about Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is it Legal? Is it Constitutional? Is it Just?

Freshmen and their families meet Arts & Humanities Dean Robin Kelsey with faculty representing the many arts and humanities departments and programs. Learn more about the experiences and opportunities students can expect studying the humanities at Harvard.

Music and light refreshment provided!