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...actors. It’s just movement and creativity embodied. It affects the mind and the emotions….And my students write to me as to how it has affected them later in life, not as dancers, but as just people, in other fields.” Humanist scholar Svetlana Nikitina agrees with the assessment. She wrote of Mallardi’s course in a 2003 edition of “Journal of Aesthetic Education,” and interviewed a psychology concentrator who called the class “the best psychology course she’d ever...
...prominent Harvard religion professor and Lowell House master, Diana L. Eck, is leading the American Academy of Religion (AAR) as it challenges the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department over the visa revocation of high-profile Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan. The academy is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging that Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Egyptian opposition group Muslim Brotherhood, has been unfairly banned from visiting the country on the basis of a Patriot Act statute meant to deny entry to those who endorse terrorism. “The government is using this...
When outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, a scholar of China, introduced Lawrence H. Summers at a meeting of alumni donors back in fall 2004, he offered a telling, if elaborate, metaphor for the University president’s relationship with the Faculty.“Confucius asked, ‘How does one govern a family’—or, by extension, a university? And his answer was this, ‘You govern a family’—or a university—’as if you would cook...
TARIQ RAMADAN Swiss Muslim scholar and visiting fellow at Oxford University
...standing ovation” at the 18-member Faculty Council’s meeting yesterday, said Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin Banaji. The Faculty Council voted unanimously to name Ulrich as the leader of a five-professor group that will craft recommendations for the nascent dean search.Ulrich, a scholar of early American history who holds one of Harvard’s 19 University professorships, is already a member of the Faculty Council.“The role of the Faculty Council re[garding] the FAS Dean search is still being defined,” Ulrich wrote...