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With radiation, worries about food:
Harvard student probes Japanese concerns over safety two years after nuclear meltdown.
By Alvin Powell
Harvard Staff Writer
Nicolas Sternsdorff Cisterna, a doctoral student in social anthropology at Harvard, has been living in Japan since 2011, trying to better understand people’s perceptions of food safety.
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Ancient Iraq revealed: Harvard illuminates ‘richest archaeological landscape in the Middle East’
By Peter Reuell
Harvard Staff Writer
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After nearly a century away, Harvard archaeology has returned to Iraq.
Jason Ur, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, earlier this year launched a five-year archaeological project — the first such Harvard-led endeavor in the war-torn nation since the early 1930s — to scour a 3,200-square-kilometer area around Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq, for signs of ancient cities and towns, canals, and roads. |
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The Sacred Toni Morrison:
HDS series probes aspects of religion in Nobelist author’s writings
By Colleen Walsh, Harvard Gazette
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Toni Morrison’s complex style can prove challenging to some readers, but the celebrated writer makes no apologies for her prose. When media mogul Oprah Winfrey once remarked that she didn’t understand the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1987 novel “Beloved,” Morrison simply replied, “Read it again,” recounted Davíd Carrasco, Harvard’s Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America.
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Michael Herzfeld’s film "Roman Restaurant Rhythms" (Berkeley Media, 2011) will be screened at the Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival in Nuoro,
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| Sardinia, Italy; Herzfeld will then present a keynote address at a conference in Nicosia, Cyprus on “The Rights to the City, The Right to the State.” |
Sardina International Film Festival
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Dean Marsden announces Theodore Bestor will be the next director of the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies.
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The Harvard Crimson
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
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Events this Week
Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series
"Responses to Racism Under Neo-Liberalism: The United States Compared"
a talk by Michele Lamont
(Sociology and AAAS, Harvard University)
Monday, April 29th
William James Hall 1550
4:15 p.m.
Department of Anthropology Dissertation Defense
"Digital Jianghu: Independent Documentary
in a Beijing Art Village"
presented by John Paul Sniadecki
Tuesday, April 30th
CCVA, Main Lecture Hall
Film screening at 1:00 p.m.
Presentation at 2:30 p.m.
Department of Anthropology Dissertation Defense
"Public Culture and Cultural Citizenship at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival"
presented by Toby Lee
Tuesday, April 30th
William James Hall Room 301
5:00 p.m.
Department of Anthropology Dissertation Defense
"Be-longing: Fatanis in Makkah and Jawi"
presented by Muhammad Arafat Mohamad
Thursday, May 2nd
Yenching
Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue.
11:00 a.m.
The East Asian Archaeology Seminar Presents
“Adaptation and Invention During the Spread of Agriculture to Southwest China”
a talk by Jade Guedes (Harvard University)
Thursday, May 2nd
Haller Hall, Geological Museum Rm. 102
24 Oxford St., Cambridge
3:30 p.m.
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