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...past month, the University has announced two new leases, one to the Earthwatch Institute, a citizen science organization, and one to the Silk Road Project, an organization that promotes artistic innovation...
...terms that the Press uses to describe its project confront the standard top-down model of literary education. They call the creative interpretation of literature “intervention,” and teachers “facilitators.” “If this is a revolution,” says Doris Sommer, a Professor of Romance Languages and Literature and African and African American Studies, “it’s in the spirit of [Marxist thinker Antonio] Gramsci—of reformism through cultural practices, because it gets people to read and write...
...Press is part of the Cultural Agents Initiative, a project which advocates for active humanities, and of which Sommer is the Faculty Director. “What we’re saying here is that the humanities are a field that can create and promote effective interventions, because it trains and promotes judgments and an exercise of possibilities. Most humanists would be averse to thinking of the humanities as a field for preparing you for other things—that the humanities should be fixed on purposelessness, on disinterested art. The whole mission of Cultural Agents... is about reviving, linking...
...Pericles,” the HSC’s annual spring Visiting Director’s Project, will be playing at the Adams Pool Theatre from April 29 to May 1. Each year the company invites a professional director from the Boston area to select and direct a Shakespeare play. This year’s pick is Adam Stone. “Adam absolutely gets this play, and knows how to use humor to really bring out the absurdity of the script,” Federman says. Stone saw potential in the tension and energy of Shakespeare?...
...same time, an important part of his education has come from exploring and pushing his own artistic horizons on the stage. “A big part of my ambition while I’ve been here is to try and make sure that every project that I took on has been challenging me in a different way than anything has challenged me before,” Cutmore-Scott explains. “I’ve loved trying stuff that I am not really sure I can do. Like playing in Hasty Pudding was very much...