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...name implies, “Visual and Environmental Studies” is an interdisciplinary department. Remember that most of our junior faculty are joint-appointed, teaching concurrently in departments such as History of Art and Architecture, Anthropology, English, and Comparative Literature. Many of our senior faculty these days are joint appointed, as well, with departments such as German and Romance Languages and English?...
...We’d like to expand our public programming. The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents a major lecture series each year, bringing major artists to CCVA to show and discuss their work. This past fall we have had Ed Ruscha, Maya Lin, and Jane and Louise Wilson. In the spring we will host Laura Mulvey, Wayne Guyton and Kelley Walker, and Julie Mehretu. This is an extraordinary opportunity for our students to meet, hear, and talk with these established artists...
Marjorie Garber, Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) and Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language, talked this week to The Crimson about the structure and direction of the department and her own roundabout journey to VES Chair.The following is a transcript of highlights of the conversation, with slight emendations for the sake of clarity.The Harvard Crimson: Have there been any serious initiatives in VES recently to make any kind of significant policy changes?Marjorie Garber: Well, I don’t know if “policy” is the right...
...ACROSS THE NATIONHarvard Film Studies concentrators join a growing number of students casting a critical eye towards one of the century’s most popular media forms. Last year, two seniors graduated in the subject from Harvard; in 2006, 12 seniors will graduate with a Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) degree in film studies. With over 635 students currently enrolled in film classes, the subject’s popularity speaks for itself and, moreover, hints at a national and international trend sweeping the university circuit: recognition of the cultural, historical, and academic importance of film. The Film Studies...
...improved her music. She’s still peddling the same coma-inducing New Age white noise your mom and Peter Jackson seem to love. Why, oh why, was this woman allowed on the “Lord of the Rings” soundtrack? The video is an apt visual complement to the song; it too is insufferably boring. As far as I can tell, the director’s premise for the shoot was “Enya putzing around in Middle Earth.”In the video, the spritely Celtodiva meanders through a forest set, (eerily reminiscent...