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...opening in Rwanda last August, it has played Johannesburg and Cape Town, and is now set for runs in Liberia, the Balkans and Northern Ireland, before ending up way off Broadway at the basement Colonnades Theater Lab in New York City. Director and Colonnades founder Michael Lessac says his aim is to tell the story of an "evolutionary step for humanity," a time when South Africa did "something that no other country in the world has ever done: forgave the past to survive the future." With music by Hugh Masekela, a cast that includes some of South Africa's leading...
...Memorial Church initiatives this school year strive to broaden the church’s accessibility to students at Harvard as well as to the community at large. A student discussion group called the Undergraduate Fellowship Program aims to provide a casual forum for theological discussion and debate, while the podcasting of sermons has broadened the availability of services to people across the globe. Since November, between six and 12 students have gathered in the basement of Memorial Church each Wednesday at 10 p.m. to discuss theology and ethics. According to Kent M. French, a seminarian and Epps Fellow at Memorial...
...statement reads. “These findings, which will increase understanding of the place of scientific research in the art world, will be shared with the public within the exhibition as well as its accompanying catalogue.”The MFA’s study might aim to resolve ambiguities about the proper relationship between material and aesthetic modes of analysis, but they caution that it will do no such thing for the 32 paintings, whose identity remains in doubt.“This is not a funded study,” they write. “The research...
...History of Science Colloquia to a special preview screening in the Science Center on Tuesday. SECRETS AND LIES “Secrecy” was made by Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking Robb Moss and Pellegrino University Professor Peter L. Galison. It explores government secrets—not with the aim of exposing them but of giving an outline to their nebulous nature in the context of democracy and its sustainability. Though at the screening Galison jokingly called the film an “impossible project” due to the impenetrability of secrets, Moss said the intent...
...Harvard community did take notice of global health challenges on Feb 15. Over 100 students and faculty members attended a film screening and panel discussion entitled “Global Health and Journalism.” The event, sponsored by the Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH), aimed to give participants a better understanding of ignored global health crises. HIGH is a university-wide organization with the goal of teaching a new generation of leaders—scientists, economists, and politicians—to focus on public health issues. “Our aim is to engage students in issues...