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...their original donors. As a result, some departments have trimmed their programs for students, guest lecturers, and trips to out-of-town conferences.“We are talking about small amounts of money, but major reduction of the comfort level and demoralization,” P. Oktor Skjaervo, the chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, wrote in an e-mail.And the Gunzburg Center for European Studies had to reduce spending by 20 percent last year, according to its director, Peter A. Hall. In so doing, the center eliminated an annual graduate student conference and cut back...
...more aid available, I would consider studying Portuguese or Romanian over the languages that I’m studying now,” said Christopher A. Dotson ’08, who is taking Italian and Spanish.Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) P. Oktor Skjaervo said he is less optimistic about the choice of critical languages on NSEP’s list, since it only includes living, spoken languages taught by NELC faculty.“The eligibility requirements seem discriminatory and may affect adversely the NELC concentration,” Skjaervo wrote...
Norway native P. Oktor Skjaervo, the Aga Khan professor of Iranian, recently translated Zoroastrian texts drawn from the nearly 4,000 year-old Iranian culture into Norwegian. These appeared in the Norwegian Book Clubs last January...
...Oktor Skjaervo, Khan professor of Iranian, was frantically searching for a hospital for Robert Grayson, his partner of 20 years...
...partner was already covered [by Blue Shield] but he'd wanted to go to Beth Israel, which he couldn't," Skjaervo says. "I could have [gotten him in] with domestic partner benefits...