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Incarceration, Inequality, and Imagining Alternatives
Citizenship is a public declaration of equality. Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology and the Daniel and Florence…
The Economics of Metonymy
Konstantinos P. Kavafis–known to the English-reading world as C. P. Cavafy–has been internationally recognized as an important poet…
Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel
This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel…
The Problem of Violence and the Will to Punish
More than 2.2 million Americans are incarcerated. Hundreds of thousands of people (mostly men) are released from U.S.…
Digital Giza: Visualizing the Pyramids
Peter Der Manuelian, Harvard University, discusses the most famous archaeological site in the world, the Pyramids on the…
Eric Mazur on Peer Instruction
Eric Mazur is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He has…
3D immersive technologies and the Giza Necropolis
Peter Der Manuelian, Harvard University, explores new approaches to “cataloging” the site, highlighting efforts at the Museum of…
The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists through the 1949 Crisis
In this interview, DavidWang, Harvard University, uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form…
Harvard New Literary History of Modern China
David Wang, Harvard University discusses Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and…
Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule
David Wang, Harvard University, discusses colonialism and modernity in East Asia from the perspective of subjects very different from…