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...especially thinking of the poignant scene in which Prospero breaks his staff and drowns his book in the sea, thus relinquishing the magical powers that have made him the ruler of the island. Prospero, who will return to Milan to reclaim power, is too much a scholar and a mystic to really succeed in earthly politics. He will never be more at home than he has been on his island. So why does he give...
...close to a pre-professional concentration.LEGITIMATION “More than a lot of humanities concentrations, you can go get a job doing [what you did in VES] when you get out of here,” says VES professor John D. Connor ’92, a film scholar and the director of undergraduate film studies. “It’s closer to being a pre-professional field than being a historian of 19th century American history.“Take a class in design, become a graphic designer; make movies, become a cinematographer...
Reams have been written on thedifferences between Islamic and Western societies, but for sheer pithiness, it's hard to beat a quip by my former colleague, a Pakistani scholar of Islamic studies. I'd strolled into his office one day to find him on the floor, at prayer. I left, shutting his door, mortified. Later he cheerfully batted my apologies away. "That's the big difference between us," hesaid with a shrug. "You Westerners make love in public and pray in private. We Muslims do exactly the reverse...
Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor of Law, is an anti-abortion scholar and well-known supporter of Catholic creed. She joined the Law School faculty as a visiting professor in 1974 and became a full professor in 1986. She teaches and writes on human rights and comparative and international...
...Great Migration.” He is slated to give two more lectures for Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research this week at this year’s Nathan I. Huggins lectures, an annual series that features a distinguished scholar in the field of African-American history. Hahn will lecture again today on slave rebellion and tomorrow on the black nationalist Marcus Garvey in the Barker Center...