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WGS Standing Committee Member Steph Burt Offers Course on Taylor Swift

November 30, 2023

Professor Steph Burt's brand-new course on Taylor Swift is making national headlines.

In ENG 183ts, students will "learn how to study fan culture, celebrity culture, adolescence, adulthood and appropriation; how to think about white texts, Southern texts, transatlantic texts, and queer subtexts," according to the the course website.

Burt studies 20th and 21st century poetry,...

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"Harvard School of Dental Medicine Affiliates Discuss Disparities in Oral Health Care at Webinar" - Harvard Crimson covers VPAL Signature Event

November 30, 2023
VPAL Signature Event: Oral Health Equity Now: Policy, Progress, and Research Insights with Dr. Catherine Hayes & Dr. Hawazin Elani was held on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. The event is covered in this Harvard Crimson articleRead more about "Harvard School of Dental Medicine Affiliates Discuss Disparities in Oral Health Care at Webinar" - Harvard Crimson covers VPAL Signature Event

Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way Win Juan Linz Best Book Prize

November 29, 2023
Faculty Associate Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies at Harvard University, is the recipient (along with coauthor Lucan Way) of the 2023 Juan Linz Best Book Prize, Democracy & Autocracy section of the American Political Science Association, for the book Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press). The book was also shortlisted for the 2023 Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world’s best nonfiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues.
Nat Keohane Analyzes the Prominent Issues Central to COP 28 in New Episode of “Environmental Insights”

Nat Keohane Analyzes the Prominent Issues Central to COP 28 in New Episode of “Environmental Insights”

November 28, 2023

CAMBRIDGE MA. – With the start of the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP 28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change just days away, environmental economist Nat Keohane is expressing optimism that the new global stocktake will provide incentives for participating nations to step up their collective efforts to slow the rise of global temperatures.... Read more about Nat Keohane Analyzes the Prominent Issues Central to COP 28 in New Episode of “Environmental Insights”