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...main aims was to move understanding of ecology beyond the environmental,” said Gareth G. Doherty, the conference director and a doctoral student at the GSD. The keynote speakers of the event were Rem Koolhaas, a professor at the GSD, and Homi Bhabha, the director of the Center for the Humanities. The event began with a roundtable discussion and proceeded with five panel discussions and a variety of informal Saturday lunchtime discussions. Sold out within weeks of its announcement, the conference attracted guests from around the world, and enthusiasm was high, according to Mostafavi. “After...
...importance of sacred traditions and thought within the modern world was the topic of discussion during a well-attended open forum and question and answer session with noted professors Charles Taylor, Michael J. Sandel, and Homi Bhabha last night. More than 120 people crowded into the Barker Center’s Thompson room to attend the event organized by the Harvard University Press’ Executive Editor for the Humanities Lindsay E. Waters and professors Bhabha and Steven Biel, who are also the directors of the Humanities center at Harvard. An Emeritus professor of political philosophy at McGill University...
...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...
...mechanistic natural 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...
...that, like all institutional reforms at Harvard, the implementation of Task Force’s findings will take time.PEERING AROUNDEnglish professor and Task Force head Stephen J. Greenblatt and several other members declined to offer details on the their unreleased report, but English professor and Humanities Center Director Homi K. Bhabha, who is also a member of the Task Force, said the results of their investigation would be based on an examination of peer institutions’ arts programs, student input, and previous arts initiatives at Harvard.“We’ve been looking closely...