On the Origins of the Arts
Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture
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Humanities
Harvard Portrait: Amanda Claybaugh
Meet the expert on nineteenth-century novels and reformist writings.
4.19.12
An Interpretive Artist of Urban Space
Jesse Shapins preaches the power of database coding to shape expression in multiple media.
4.9.12
Forecasting Harvard’s Future
Faculty of Arts and Science professors project 400th anniversary
3.12.12
Digital Display
A smorgasbord of Harvard online ventures at South by Southwest Interactive
3.9.12
The Humanities, Digitized
The Digital humanities at Harvard encompass a vast array of new tools and scholarly creations
2.20.12
Mysteries and Masterpieces
Adam Kirsch reads the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library—the latest stage in the “American conquest of the Middle Ages”
12.16.11
Spheres of Knowledge
An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.
10.19.11
Sundials in Early Modern Europe
Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials
10.11.11
The Seven Liberal Arts
Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts
10.11.11
Inventions in Early Modern Europe
Images from Stradanus’s “Nova reperta,” a series of engravings representing technological innovations of the modern age from the perspective of a practicing artist
10.11.11
Reading Is Elemental
How to preserve the humanities
8.19.11
Peter Der Manuelian
Meet Harvard’s resident Egyptologist.
6.16.11
Swerves
Stephen Greenblatt traces the influence of Lucretius, through De Rerum Natura, on modern thought.
6.16.11
Talking About War—During a War on Osama bin Laden
President Drew Faust’s Jefferson Lecture takes on an unexpected timeliness.