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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

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


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,
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



Dean Marsden announces Theodore Bestor will be the next director of the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies.

The Harvard Crimson
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Spring 2013 Semester Report


 




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