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...soft, warm breaths of this dying breed.TIBETAN LANTERN SLIDESWhile analog photography may be a drag, the complications of the process give “Vanished Kingdoms” its distinctive quality.The Wulsins, after their trek through inner Asia, outsourced many of their monochrome negatives to a workshop in Beijing. There, workers transferred the negatives to so-called “lantern slides” before coloring them in by hand.Thirty-one of these hand-colored slides constitute “Vanished Kingdoms.” They document the Wulsins’ nine-month, 1,300-mile Central China Expedition...
...doesn't work as intended. Studies show that any training generates a backlash and that mandatory diversity training in particular may even activate a bias. Researchers also see evidence of "irresistible stereotypes," or biases so deeply ingrained that they simply can't be taught away in a one-day workshop...
...sexual assault—an effort that has been transformed, under the direction of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR), into a standard aspect of the Harvard student experience.BURDEN OF PROOFNowadays Harvard broaches the subject at the start of freshman year, requiring freshmen to attend mandatory workshops run by OSAPR.But before the office was established, the administration dealt with the issue through the Administrative Board, a mechanism students criticized.“In hindsight I feel that they were less helpful than they could have been,” remarked an unnamed student who had brought...
...they can be the first to try out the curriculum, which is intended to spark a thirst for knowledge particularly among students in inner city schools, he said. Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism awarded him a Special Lifetime Achievement Award at its ninth annual competition and workshop on journalism, race, and ethnicity. The school’s associate dean of prizes and programs, Arlene N. Morgan, said that the committee chose to honor Gates for his body of work, including the documentary “Finding Oprah’s Roots,” about the genealogical...
...Palleroni and his student team will head back to New Orleans to begin work on the Katrina Furniture Project's first neighborhood workshop at the edge of the Ninth Ward, just six blocks from the faulty levees. For now the project is funded by universities and private foundations. But eventually, Palleroni hopes to create a viable business in which locally built furniture - all made from recycled wood - would be sold nationwide, providing jobs for local residents who will make each piece by hand and pocket the profits. He's also teaming up this summer with Brad Guy, a researcher...