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...medieval studies programs, and a former member of the Celtic languages and literatures department, Ziolkowski is no stranger to the smaller humanities disciplines. He currently directs the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in D.C., which dedicates itself to such specialties as Byzantine, garden and landscape, and pre-Columbian studies...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Casting Numbers Aside | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...months, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (MFA) will unveil its new wing devoted to the Art of the Americas. The new wing, designed by Norman Foster, will contain over 50 new galleries spread over four floors. Visitors will begin on the ground floor with the Pre-Columbian era and work their way up until they get to the modernist masters like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline on the top floor, alongside African-American artist Jacob Lawrence and Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam. Objects from South, Central, and North America will be presented as forming a coherent whole, a particular...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Artifacts Take Their Rightful Place as Art | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...thought Machu Picchu was out of reach! In “Pathways through the Andes,” you’ll explore the arts, history, and culture of the Andean region from pre-Columbian period all the way to colonial times. If you don’t feel like schlepping all the way down to Peru, take this course and save the spine of some innocent alpaca. | Tu., Th. 1-2:30. Link...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping Week, Day One: Uniquely Yours | 1/24/2010 | See Source »

...close and San José agonizes in the heat.” Muted violence is doubly frightening; harder to confront, yet perversely easier to live with, it becomes an atmosphere, lurid and inert. It’s this atmosphere that permeates “The Armies,” Columbian writer Evelio Rosero’s latest novel. Like the best literary treatments of trauma, “The Armies” utters its violence quietly, with the clear-eyed intensity of a fever dream...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Violence Penetrates Society, the Psyche in ‘Armies’ | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...said. Each participant attended for different reasons, some from a few T-stops away and some from other states or countries. Camila Henao, a senior at the Universidad de los Andes in Columbia, came with a delegation from the school’s Foundation for Columbian Women, at the urging of their director, a Harvard alumnus. Others were eager to learn about how the recent financial crisis would affect their own career planning. “Especially with the economy the way it is right now, I just wanted to see what options are still out there and what...

Author: By Sara L. Wright, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Business Conference Champions Women | 10/5/2008 | See Source »

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