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...Aspirations in the Arts and Humanities are not an indulgent form of free play for the benevolent or indulgent imagination,” Director of the Humanities Center Homi K. Bhabha said in his opening remarks for “Witness,” an event organized by the Center, featuring Toni Morrison and Yo-Yo Ma. “Rather [artistic] interpretation is an act of empathetic intersession, a way of giving voice to another place, person, or period, and setting the stage in their interest.”Co-sponsored by the Office of the President and Provost...
...selection, Beer said that Darwin was preoccupied with similarities of consciousness between creatures. He believed that his greatest discovery was that all animals were kin, and wondered whether an awareness of the continuity of related species could assuage the pain of death. Humanities Center Director and Professor Homi K. Bhabha called the literary critic a “magnificent archaeologist of the soul of the scientist.” Beer said that in Darwin’s writings he used imaginative language to achieve a “reverse anthropomorphism” that nurtured empathy between humans and other living...
...Susana Malcorra, an under-secretary-general in field support, focused on the difficulties the U.N. faces when it tries to preserve order after peace settlements are reached. “Peackeeping uncovers some of the most important international problems of our time,” said moderator Jacqueline Bhabha, the director of the University’s Committee on Human Rights Studies. Malcorra called for a reevaluation of the current U.N. intervention model because of new challenges. “More and more so, the U.N. has become a target in itself,” she said. Harland and Gaouette...
...mission of the Harvard Scholars at Risk Program is to afford Harvard fellowships to those who experience persecution in their own countries to give them...a safe intellectual environment,” said Jacqueline Bhabha, director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies and a creator of the program...
...Article 8 of the convention to point out that the agreement recognized genocide but never gave a way to prevent or punish it. “As a document it has become largely insignificant,” Meierhenrich said. Executive Director of the University Committee on Human Rights Jacqueline Bhabha, also noting flaws, said that the anniversary was not one to be celebrated. “We have moved ourselves into a worse direction as far as the treatment of survivors,” Bhabha said. “I think we fail dramatically, in terms of our response...