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...Homi Bhaba. Wear a jacket with twenty buttons down the front and a silk scarf...
...Project encouraged audience members last night to participate in “A Delicious Revolution” in anticipation of Harvard’s upcoming “Sustainability Week.” The Humanities Center at Harvard hosted the discussion, which humanities professor and director of the Center Homi K. Bhabha moderated. The panel explored the role food plays in people’s lives as nourishment, as an expression of care, and as social and economic therapy. Before the dialogue began, guests were invited to eat from a smorgasbord of sustainable produce piled high on tables extending around...
...China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures—and Yours.” He discussed his research for about 20 minutes and then fielded questions from MIT economics professor Abhijit Banerjee, Boston University history professor Merle Goldman, Harvard Kennedy School professor Rohini Pande, and audience members. Harvard professor Homi K. Bhabha, director of the Humanities Center, moderated the lecture. Bhabha introduced the event by pointing to the Center’s goal of addressing “both regional and global” perspectives. Bhabha elicited laughter from attendees by encouraging them to “have a cocktail?...
...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...
...more creative in finding other sources of funding.” In recent years, funding problems have plagued higher education in Britain. Last week, the University of Oxford began a $2.5 billion fundraising drive in order to revitalize its programs, while Cambridge began a $2 billion campaign in 2005. Homi K. Bhabha, a senior advisor in the humanities at Radcliffe, said that he was not surprised to hear of Richardson’s appointment, as she is much “sought after.” After serving as executive dean for seven years, Richardson said that she will...