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...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...
...Sears said. “And we think it made a big difference in giving authority to the acceptance of gay people in the Christian community.” Former recipients of the Freedom of Worship Medal include Coretta Scott King and Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust scholar and Nobel laureate. Last night’s ceremony, held at the Chelsea Piers complex on the West Side of Manhattan, also honored Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard G. Lugar, (R-Ind.), TV journalist Bill Moyers, author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich, and former national security advisor Brent Scowcroft...
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...