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Harvard’s ARTS FIRST Festival! Showcasing the expansive creativity and innovation of Harvard students, staff, alums and faculty. April 24-28

April 24, 2024

Welcome to Harvard’s ARTS FIRST Festival! Produced by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, this annual campus-wide event takes place April 24-28 and showcases the expansive creativity and innovation of Harvard students, staff, alums and faculty. Enjoy the dynamic imagination and cultural expression at the heart of this festival by visiting many of the university’s iconic indoor and outdoor spaces transformed by art making and open for all to explore. Year after year, ARTS FIRST draws 5,000+ audience members who are entertained, delighted and inspired by the many art forms on display on...

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CONTRADICTING THE NATION'S ARCHIVES: Revisions of "Black Mother" in Brazilian Art, A dissertation defense by Maiara Knihs

April 24, 2024

Harvard University

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Dissertation Defense

CONTRADICTING THE NATION'S ARCHIVES:

Revisions of "Black Mother" in Brazilian Art

by Maiara Knihs

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024

10am - 12pm

VIA ZOOM:

harvard.zoom.us/j/94711406058?pwd=UzNEeGdDaUplUTZhMTdTVWFpTIFCZz09

Password: 605870

This defense will be held in Portuguese...

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In the Company of AI (Cultural Computation), Professor Jeffrey Schnapp as Speaker

April 23, 2024

Abstract

AI will soon "replace all human labor," "achieve sentience," "automate all human thought processes," save or destroy civilization: these are the now-familiar claims of a hype cycle propelled to the front page of dailies over the years since the launch of ChatGPT. The reality of AI is different. However powerful and transformative, AI is aligned with and embedded in a much deeper and enduring history of technologies that prove transformative precisely because, rather than replacing human functionalities, they enable new models of human-machine...

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Congratulations to Neige Sinno, winner of the 2024 US Goncourt Prize for “Triste tigre”!

April 22, 2024

Congratulations to Neige Sinno, winner of the 2024 US Goncourt Prize for “Triste tigre”! Awarded by a jury of students from 10 US universities, the prize was conferred Sunday in a ceremony hosted by National Book Award shortlisted author David Diop écrivain.

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Susan Suleiman presents her new book at Harvard Book Store

April 19, 2024

A message from emeritus professor Susan Suleiman

Dear friends and colleagues,

I’ll be presenting my new book on the great Hungarian filmmaker István Szabó at Harvard Bookstore next Friday, April 19  at 7 p.m., in conversation with prize-wining novelist Daphne Kalotay.  During our conversation we’ll show some film clips from Szabó’s films, including a few that are hard to find on streaming platforms.  (Some of you may know some of his films without knowing his name:  Mephisto, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, won...

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Political Philosophy in Action, Gonzalo Ramos Pérez -- April 17th

April 17, 2024

What is philosophy for? What can a letter do? Political Philosophy in Action

Gonzalo Ramos Pérez (UCM/Harvard Predoctoral Fellow; Department of Philosophy and Society at the Universidad Complutense - Madrid)

 

Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: Real Colegio Complutense: Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St.

 

The rapid pace of our modern lives is kept going on by automatized behaviors, driven by a shared common sense...

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The Harlequin Eaters: Janet Beizer's book event at the Brookline Booksmith

April 17, 2024

 

Janet Beizer will be in conversation with Deidre Lynch about her new book, The Harlequin Eaters: From Food Scraps to Modernism in Nineteenth-Century France 

Brookline Booksmith in Coolidge Corner, Brookline

Wednesday April 17th at 7pm

Please join us if you're able!

Register as soon as possible at the following link so that the bookstore can set up appropriately:

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