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...citizen who conceives of him or herself not as belonging to the “polis,” a city to which he or she would owe loyalty, but to the universe or the world in a broader sense. The conversation is one above and across cultures??a conversation in which the very idea of essentially distinct cultures cannot be heard over, say, the Iranian shopkeepers of Appiah’s native town of Kumasi in Ghana, any more than it can be heard over a Vietnamese student of classical literature at the Sorbonne...
...defense of the existing expository writing and foreign language requirements. Some type of “Moral Reasoning” component must be continued along with these other two requirements. (And unquestionably, other existing mandates of the Core—such as a “Foreign Cultures?? course for those who do not study abroad—deserve careful consideration on a case-by-case basis as well.)By no means am I advocating that we preserve the existing Moral Reasoning requirement in its present configuration. Many of us are all too familiar with its limitations...
This weekend, South Asian cultures??both old and new—will converge upon the Harvard stage in the production, “Kalpanam: Classical Imaginations.” The program’s dance performance pieces not only typify traditional Indian dance styles—dancers will perform lively Kuchuppudi folk dances and classic Bharathnatyam dance narratives about Hindu gods—but are also accented with bits of modern flair...
...example of The Center’s new ties to other disciplines on campus, the upcoming “Two Cultures?? seminar is a collaboration between the Humanities Center and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
According to Miller, this reexamination of The Birth of a Nation is important because “Film is our global vocabulary. And it’s a language that cuts across all cultures??America is a culture of amnesia, and to me, a lot of issues pop up precisely because of that; the more we forget history, the more it seems to come back and haunt...