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...undergraduates as pre-professionals who need to become specialized early, which is a mistake: the laborious exhilaration of learning a profession should not push aside the broadening of the minds and horizons of the undergraduates, which will make them deeper and subtler specialists later. Thanks to the charismatic Homi Bhabha, the Humanities Center is helping to lower the often artificial barriers among disciplines...
English professor Homi K. Bhabha, director of the Humanities Center, said that the humanities play an important role for other disciplines as well...
...faces from the United Nations, exaggerated views of political oppression in China, and the Tibetan slant in recent media coverage. “I was particularly happy to have a very articulate expression of the points of view of the Chinese government and the Chinese people,” Bhabha said following the event. “It’s very unusual to have that in this sort of forum, and I think it’s very beneficial.” Although opinions were far from reaching a consensus, the panel did generally agree that political oppression...
...Bhabha described a national search, in which the committee sat down with multiple candidates face-to-face, some of them more than once. But the Humanities Center director said ultimately the question was “what would be the best fit for Radcliffe,” and Grosz stood out as “a scientist who is interested in the arts...
...leader that really listens and decides in a very consultative as well as a deeply thoughtful way,” said Bhabha, who served as a Radcliffe fellow in 2004-2005. “She is a person of great integrity, both intellectually and personally...