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Alexandra M. Kluzak
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‘Dream Count’ Review: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Latest Characters Grapple with Shades of the Unknown
“Dream Count” brings its women’s struggle with the unknown to a poignant head, resulting in a complex exploration of identity and belonging.
Artist Pulls Out Of Carpenter Center Talk Citing ‘Capitulatory’ Stance from Harvard on Trump’s Demands
Two artists abruptly backed out from their scheduled talk at Harvard in protest of what they saw as a willingness to capitulate by Harvard leadership to the demands of the Trump administration.
New Director Sarah Ganz Blythe on Reenvisioning Harvard Art Museums
For Director of Harvard Art Museums Sarah Ganz Blythe, museums have always been a place that gave her “a way to understand the world.”
Tamara Lanier Decries University’s Refusal To Turn Over Daguerreotypes in Book Talk
Tamara K. Lanier, who is suing Harvard for emotional distress over its possession of daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors, repeated her demand for Harvard to return the photographs and admonished the University for allegedly failing to reckon with its legacy of slavery at a Tuesday talk.
‘No Limit on the Research’: Bleich Defends Legacy of Slavery Initiative After Resignations, Layoffs
Vice Provost for Special Projects Sara N. Bleich forcefully defended Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative in a Friday interview following departures from the initiative and criticism of the University’s decision to outsource the research of its Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program.
‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Review: A Terrifying Critique of Modern Materialism
The show's social critique is more terrifying than the games themselves.
Antiguan Ambassador Condemns Slavery Remembrance Program Layoffs, Demands Reparations in Letter to Garber
Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the United States, Ronald M. Sanders, condemned Harvard’s decision to lay off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, urging the University to step up its reparative efforts in a Tuesday letter to University President Alan M. Garber ’76.
Harvard Art Museums Receive Bequest of 64 Edvard Munch Artworks
The Harvard Art Museums received a bequest of 62 prints and two paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, an addition that makes the museum’s collection of Munch’s work one of the largest in the United States.
Harvard Professor Vincent Brown Quits Legacy of Slavery Memorial Committee After University Lays Off Research Team
Harvard professor Vincent A. Brown resigned from a committee within the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative on Monday, condemning the University’s decision to lay off Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program staff in a scathing resignation letter.
Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program Identified 913 Enslaved People, 403 Living Descendants Before Layoffs
The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative identified at least 913 individuals enslaved by Harvard faculty, staff, and leadership and at least 403 of their living descendants, according to an internal report from December.
Columnist Charles Blow To Leave New York Times, Accept Inaugural Langston Hughes Fellowship at Harvard
Author and journalist Charles M. Blow will leave The New York Times and receive the inaugural Langston Hughes fellowship at Harvard, hosted by the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
In Antigua and Barbuda, Legacy of Slavery Initiative Identifies Hundreds More Enslaved by Harvard Affiliates
Researchers met with Prime Minister Gaston A. Browne and Governor General Rodney E.L. Williams of Antigua and Barbuda on Wednesday to discuss identifying descendants of people enslaved by Harvard affiliates in the island nation.
Artist Profile: Max B. Allison ’25 Explores The Intersection of Art and Technology
For Conflux, Allison developed code to allow a user’s brain waves to control music generated by a synthesizer.
Actors’ Shakespeare Project Crafts An ‘Emma’ We Can All Root For
Vital and her cast and crew paint a sympathetic portrait of a woman constrained by societal norms but who valiantly strives to achieve her desires nonetheless.
Rational or Too Rebellious: The Ethics of Radically Reinterpreting History
Provocatively titled “Lover of Men,” a recent documentary builds a case that Lincoln was gay.
