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...students traveling to India in the future, Harvard’s South Asia Initiative (SAI)—a group of programs promoting scholarship, research and travel to the region—intends to make the journey a little easier...
Much of Bloom’s scholarship is quite unorthodox in its claims. For example, his 1998 work, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, argued that Shakespeare “essentially invented human personality as we continue to know and value...
Noting that he has “limped off too many canonical battlefields,” Bloom insists that he has only three criteria for what he reads and teaches: “aesthetic splendor, intellectual power, wisdom.” At this point in literary scholarship he suspects “the profession is pretty much split down the middle” between aestheticists like himself and more postmodern theorists...
Although the university has been central in the world of American art scholarship for centuries, its formal relationship to the field has been awkward at best. Some of the biggest names were trained in fair Cambridge and classes on the topic have been taught since the 1930s. Nevertheless, it is only in the past couple of decades that a formal push towards recognition and cultivation of American art history has really come to fruition...
...early Friday evening, a throng of excited academics (whom eager graduate students leading the sign-in recognized as the “top names in the field”) prepared for the first step in what organizers hope will be a long tradition of collaborative scholarship at Harvard...