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...houses, and how their projects can be replicated. “Buenos Aires had an enormous economic crisis towards the end of 2001. The way the city survived was that everybody became creative,” Cultural Agents Initiative Director and Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer said. “The economy was replaced by barter. People cooked together, played music together.” Barilaro began his project, Eloisa Cartonera, in Buenos Aires in 2003 by combining his artistic talent, the works of leading South American authors, and cardboard collected by garbage pickers. From these...
Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer, who has taught Borges’ work in her graduate seminar on aesthetics, wrote in an e-mail that her reaction to the news “alternates between great sadness for the loss and humor, because of course both stories perform the joke typical in Borges of purposefully confusing original with copy...
...whom eventually received invitations.Over the next three years, Reyes made a series of extended visits to the center that enabled him to interact with faculty and take advantage of the University’s research facilities. It was on one of these visits that Reyes met Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and director of the Cultural Agents Initiative. Through Sommer, Reyes became familiar with the work of another visiting Latin American fellow at Harvard.“We began conversations, and I mentioned to Pedro a reference to Antanas Mockus who was currently...
...Conservative author Christina Hoff Sommer once said that The Vagina Monologues has inspired "an army" of campus feminists who are "very elitist." Care to respond...
...mail. “Examples range from organs for transplantation to mercenary armies to for-profit prisons, schools, and hospitals.” Sandel plans to incorporate those themes into a new course he will be instructing upon his return. Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer will be dedicating much of her time to Cultural Agents, an interfaculty initiative at Harvard that explores the use of art as a social resource. “The point of...the interfaculty initiative is that art contributes to society because it explores ideas and practices,” wrote...