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First-Year Family Weekend Reception

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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...

Harvard Student Gallery Crawl

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Take a break with art! On Thursday, December 6, join fellow Harvard students on a free Gallery Crawl exploring arts spaces both familiar and unfamiliar across the Harvard campus. Meet at the Harvard Art Museums and start crawling to the Carpenter Center...

Is AI the New Frankenstein? The 1st Annual Humanities & New Media Lecture by Prof. Ken Goldberg

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200 years after Mary Shelley's masterwork appeared in print, “Artificial Intelligence” is running amok, provoking extreme claims of opportunities and threats. Many assert that AI is an “exponential technology,” a “new electricity” that will transform...

First-Year Family Weekend Reception

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First-year students 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...

Second Annual Student Gallery Crawl

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Take a break with art! On Wednesday, December 4, join fellow Harvard students on a free Gallery Crawl exploring arts spaces both familiar and unfamiliar across the Harvard campus. Meet at the Harvard Art Museums at 2:30pm and start crawling to the...

CANCELED: 2nd Annual Humanities & New Media Lecture: Prof. Johanna Drucker (UCLA)

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TO BE RESCHEDULED "Site Unscene: Medial Ideology and the Literary Interface" Who speaks in an interface? How do we understand the work done by the graphical, tactile, audio and spatial features of on-screen and ambient works of literary production? The...

Stories and Testimonials in the Time of COVID-19

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The power of stories is a cornerstone of the arts and humanities. During these times of uncertainty, when faculty, students, and staff alike are working from a distance and separated from our usual communities, it becomes more important than ever to share...

The Parable of the Beads

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We will be publishing on this blog stories and testimonials from Arts & Humanities faculty addressing issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and Harvard's response to the crisis. Today we share a short parable written by Gordon Teskey, Professor of...

The Noble Rank of English Scholar

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We will be publishing on this blog stories and testimonials from Arts & Humanities faculty addressing issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and Harvard's response to the crisis. Today we share "a moment of happy solidarity" among members of the course...

The Societal Responsibility of Educated People

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Today, a short memo from Racha Kirakosian, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures and of the Study of Religion. The desolation caused by the plague, which had eradicated 30-60% of Europe’s population, was still in living memory when, some...

The Virtual Classroom

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Young Joo Lee is the Harvard College Fellow in Media Practice in Theater, Dance & Media. This semester, she is teaching TDM167L: Digital Media Performance. Her students are using Virtual Reality in both their course meetings and their course projects. In...

Dear Harvard Project

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Join us in sending a virtual postcard to connect with the Harvard community: share a piece of yourself, contribute to an enduring artifact of this time, and bridge our current virtual worlds with the future. Share: Create a virtual postcard to share a...