Humanities videos

Humanist prognosis:
Nancy Rappaport describes how her undergraduate degree in literature fit into her life's work: assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and child psychiatrist.
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Mathematics in motion:
Pandit Chitresh Das explains Kathak dance during a demonstration at the Sackler Museum.
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Music with Levin:
Harvard Professor Robert Levin opens up the world of music to students.
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Gumboots:
Harvard dance troupe celebrates history and rhythmic self-expression by paying tribute to the struggle of South African gold miners under the apartheid regime.
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The Silk Road Project:
The Silk Road Ensemble, founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, brings together ancient musical traditions of Asia and the West.
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Kim Wilson:
The founder and front man of the Fabulous Thunderbirds speaks to - and performs for - students in the Extension School course 'The History of the Blues in America.'
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Harvard collection:
Lois Orswell, a woman of relatively modest means, amassed a collection of more than 350 modernist paintings, sculptures, and drawings, which are now at the Fogg Art Museum.
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A day in the life: As we accompany Elvira G. Di Fabio, senior preceptor in Romance languages and literatures, on a typical day, it becomes vividly clear that the life of a humanist is spent, perhaps not surprisingly, as much with humans as with books. Slide show