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...visual representations of history and identity are of course riddled with historical contingencies. As the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Byron Rushing notes, “We must account for the messages conveyed by the Commonwealth’s most widespread symbols,” and no doubt confronting the artifacts of the past is something all societies must do. The point of the bill—to establish a commission to discuss these semiotic issues—is a healthy expression of our willingness to articulate our orientation with the past. Hopefully, though, the commission will find that...
...Cuno and Ebbinghaus, the future of antiquities lies in replacing the current minefield of export regulations with another system: partage, a process by which institutions that sponsor excavations receive a share of the finds. In the first half of the 20th century, the archeological museums of universities like Yale and Harvard and art museums like the MFA used partage to acquire their most important pieces. In the 1920s and 1930s, a team from Harvard excavated a site called Nuzi in modern Iraq, finding thousands of cuneiform tablets that detailed daily life. These remain on display in Harvard?...
...preemptive war!” The march was one of several events the group has organized as the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War approaches. HAWC also plans to distribute black armbands around campus, coordinate a “die-in” at noon this Friday, and co-sponsor an anti-war rally with the Harvard Democrats, the Harvard Libertarians, and other campus groups on March 19. When the event began, Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd walked by and reprimanded the demonstrators for protesting without a permit. “She came...
...This is our affiliated group,” said Gabriel M. Scheinmann ’08, Harvard Hillel student development chair. “We’ll let them use the space, but we’re not going to endorse or sponsor it, and we’re making that clear...
...just lower your gun. The third, seventh, and 17th time it happens, it becomes normal,” he says. “This is how things that you thought were absurd become normal.”The exhibit, which opened last Saturday at Harvard Hillel and is sponsored and hosted by the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA), portrays the daily life of Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied Palestinian territories.On Saturday, a crowd of nearly 200 moved from table to table, viewing each collection of photographs portraying a different facet of Israeli military life.With the exhibit running...