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"To Repair This Imperfect World" - Harvard Magazine covers 2021 HILT Conference

September 29, 2021
"This year’s event—again conducted virtually via Zoom—encouraged Harvard educators to reflect on their experience teaching remotely during a pandemic that “exacerbated issues” like social and healthcare inequality “that have existed in society for many, many years,” said panelist and senior lecturer in molecular and cellular biology Alain Viel." Read moreRead more about "To Repair This Imperfect World" - Harvard Magazine covers 2021 HILT Conference

The Good Life, According to Data by Tyler J. VanderWeele [Common Good, Issue 6]

September 29, 2021

Tyler J. VanderWeele's (Program Director) new contribution to "Common Good" entitled "The Good Life, According to Data" is now out (Issue 6). In this piece, Prof. VanderWeele explains the Program's approach to the subject of flourishing.

We are in fact trying to bring together the humanities and the empirical social sciences. And so we have on our program staff not only sociologists and psychologists and epidemiologists and statisticians, but also philosophers, theologians, and historians. We really think that knowledge about human...

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Γνωρίστε την ασκούμενη του προγράμματος Θερινής Πρακτικής Άσκησης στο Μουσείο Βασίλη και Ελίζας Γουλανδρή για το 2021

September 29, 2021

Η Θερινή Πρακτική Άσκηση στο Μουσείο Βασίλη και Ελίζας Γουλανδρή στην Αθήνα διαρκεί 5 εβδομάδες και αποσκοπεί στο να εξοικειώσει τον φοιτητή ή τη φοιτήτρια από προγράμματα μεταπτυχιακών ή διδακτορικών σπουδών του πανεπιστημίου Harvard με τις δραστηριότητες που υλοποιούνται στο πλαίσιο λειτουργίας ενός μουσείου. Σχεδιασμένο με στόχο να ενθαρρύνει την καλλιτεχνική εκπαίδευση μέσω μιας διεπιστημονικής προσέγγισης, το πρόγραμμα...

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Meet the B&E Goulandris Foundation Museum Summer 2021 Intern

September 29, 2021

Guest post by Suzanne Paszkowski

This summer, I had the opportunity to develop an educational project for the B&E Goulandris Foundation in Athens as part of the summer internship program organised by the CHS and the B&E Goulandris Foundation. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, this internship was done remotely. Over the course of 5 weeks, I worked closely (though virtually) with the museum staff to develop a project for students and museum visitors to curate virtual exhibitions using the...

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