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...words “curriculum vitae” set you shuddering with career anxiety, Yoel Hoffmann??s new work goes a long way to remind you of their original meaning—the “course of life.” While the content of Hoffmann??s “Curriculum Vitae” traces the curvature of a rich but not wildly unusual life, the unfettered poetry by which he conveys his experiences buoys the text into the realm of the genuinely distinctive. Hoffmann underscores his intimacy with the story, which closely parallels...
...America and the Age of Genocide,” right here in Cambridge. With the encouragement of University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, what started as a 30-page assignment grew into an 80-page term paper and ultimately a book. Power, along with dozens of other scholars, paid tribute to Hoffmann??s influential career at an 80th birthday celebration held at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies on Friday. Throughout the day, Hoffmann??s former students and colleagues hailed him as the kind of professor who has perpetually prioritized teaching undergraduates above his research. Since...
...those closest to Hoffmann??presumably the ones whose names he remembers—will gather today for a symposium celebrating his 80 years, 54 of which he has spent teaching at Harvard. The event—sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Department of Government, and the provost’s office—will feature talks by Hoffmann??s colleagues and former students...
...face of detractors like Hoffmann??who said at this month’s Faculty meeting that he had seen signs of professors “not just constrained but pushed aside by the professional administrators”—and others, the argument for further administrative hires is the increasing size and complexity of the Faculty...
...doesn’t give you a privileged view of the world. You can get it wrong at Harvard. You an also get it right at Harvard.” He named colleagues—including Walt, former Barack Obama adviser Samantha Power, Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, and Stanley Hoffmann??whose concerns about the war in Iraq had proved prescient. “I wouldn’t want my remarks to imply or suggest that I’m criticizing my colleagues and friends for a lack of realism,” he said...