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...people experience conversions to new religions, new political parties, new artistic tastes and even new cuisines after middle age. As Kanazawa notes, this multiplicity of views - a multiplicity you find within both cultures and individuals - is one reason economists have largely abandoned the study of values with a single Latin phrase, De gustibus non est disputandum: there's no accounting for taste. (See pictures of John 3:16 in pop culture...
Sorensen, a scholar of Latin American literature and culture, has been at Harvard since 2001. She previously taught at Columbia and served as the dean of the arts and humanities at Wesleyan University...
...author of four books related to Latin American literature, Sorensen has demonstrated a strong commitment to the humanities. She served on the Committee for General Education as it sought to formulate plans for the set of Gen Ed requirements and has also been associated with the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology, the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies, and the Task Force on the Arts...
Aaron Litvin was a Latin American Studies concentrator in the Romance Languages and Literatures department at Harvard. The idea for a film about Brazil and Japan grew out of Litvin’s senior thesis, entitled “Brazilian Okazaki, a case study of Brazilian migration to Japan.” During his time as an undergraduate, he visited Brazil and studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Okazaki, Japan...
...Born in 1930 to a wealthy Spanish mother and a black, pro-athlete father during a time when mixed-race marriages were forbidden, she blossomed into a gifted singer and dancer, going on to perform with the well-known Buena Vista Social Club and to win a 2009 Latin Grammy for her latest album “Gracias.” In an email to The Harvard Crimson translated from Spanish, Portuondo anticipates her return to the states by answering questions about performing at Harvard, her longstanding career, and the future of Cuban music...