INTERDISCIPLINARY CAMPUS INITIATIVES
New Faculty Lunches
The Humanities Center is sponsoring these informal events as an opportunity for faculty to get to know new colleagues and their work. We hope that they will become regular occasions for lively conversations across the disciplines.
2006-07
- October 5: Frank Fehrenbach, History of Art and Architecture
- October 19: Catherine McKenna, Celtic Languages and Literatures
- November 2: Robin Bernstein, Women, Gender and Sexuality; History and Literature
- November 16: Cheryl Chen, Philosophy
- November 30: Carolyn Abate, Music
- December 14: Walter Johnson, History
- February 22: Uta Poiger, History
- March 8: Daniel Smail, History
- March 22: David Elmer, Classics
- April 5: Oliver Simons, German
- April 19: Mylene Priam, Romance Languages and Literatures
- May 3: Mariano Siskind, Romance Languages and Literatures
2007-08
- October 4: Joseph Koerner, History of Art and Architecture
- October 18: Sean Kelly, Philosophy
- November 1: Robert Darnton, History
- November 15: Adelheid Voskuhl, History of Science
- November 29: Melissa McCormick, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- December 13: Matthew Kaiser, English
- February 7: Jonathan Bolton, Slavic
- February 21: Christopher Krebs, Classics
- March 6: Emma Rothschild, History
- March 20: Karen Thornber, Comparative Literature
- April 3: Janet Browne, History of Science
- April 17: Markus Wilczek, German
- May 1: Shigehisa Kuryiama, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
2008-09
- September 24: David Damrosch, Comparative Literature
- October 9: Asad Ahmed, Anthropology
- October 23: Bret Anthony Johnston, English
- November 20: Sindhumathi Revuluri, Music
- December 4: Maya Jasanoff, History
- February 12: Jeannie Suk, Law School
- February 26: Michael Frazer, Government; Social Studies
- March 12: Stephen Burt, English
- April 2: Emma Dench, Classics; History
- April 16: Andrew Jewett, History; Social Studies
- April 30: Joanna Nizynska, Slavic
2009-10
- October 1: Kelly O'Neill, History
- October 15: Joshua Greene, Psychology
- October 29: Eric Berrbohm, Government; Social Studies
- November 12: Gennaro Chierchia, Linguistics
- December 3: Suzannah Clark, Music
- February 11: Joanne Ven Der Woude, English; History and Literature
- February 25: James Robson, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- March 11: R. Marie Griffith, Divinity School
- March 25: Julie Stone Peters, English; Comparative Literature
- April 8: Duana Fullwiley, Anthropology; African and African-American Studies
- April 22: Sylvaine Guyot, Romance Languages and Literatures
New Faculty lunches are open to Harvard University faculty and advertised via email. If you have questions about this year's schedule or would like to RSVP, please contact Sarah Razor.
Between Two Cultures
 Launched in the fall of 2005, Between Two Cultures is an experiment in intellectual exchange across the sciences and the humanities: a University-wide faculty seminar exploring the moral, political, and scientific implications of new developments in biotechnology. This joint initiative of the Humanities Center and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute was undertaken with the encouragement and support of Provost Steven Hyman.
October 2005: Leon R. Kass, the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute, joined us for a discussion of his essay, "A Cloning and the Posthuman Future."
December 2005: Doug Melton (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute) provided a primer on stem cell research, and Michael Sandel (Government Department and Director of the Stem Cell Institute's Program on Ethics, Public Policy, and Biotechnology) led a discussion of some of the ethical, social, and cultural implications of the biological revolution.
October 2007: Eric R. Kandel (University Professor of Physiology and Psychiatry at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) discussed his book In Search of Memory, The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. The session was chaired by Steven Hyman (Provost of Harvard University and Professor of Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School).
November 2007: Raymond Kurzweil (Kurzweil Technologies) on his book The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology with discussant Stuart Shieber (Harvard University). Chaired by Barbara Grosz.
December 2007: K. Anthony Appiah (Princeton University), and Marc David Hauser (Harvard University) on "Can Empirical Science Shed Light on Ethics?" Chaired by Evelynn Hammonds (Harvard University).
February 2008: Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University) on "Science and Religion." Chaired by Michael Sandel (Harvard University).
April 2008: Sherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on "Cyberintimacies/Cybersolitudes." Chaired by Homi Bhabha (Harvard University).
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