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...After initially denying the demands of students and faculty for the creation of an Afro-American studies concentration??instead of the creation of a committee—University administrators finally reneged on their decision on April 22, 1969 after protests by student and faculty. While this creation story is well-publicized both in Harvard history and on the Af-Am department’s Web site, what is largely obscured in the department’s history is the way these debates continued to inform the creation of the struggling department throughout the seventies and early eighties...
...According to the current chair of Af Am, Thomas Professor of History and of African-American Studies Evelyn Higginbotham, the name change came about naturally in 2003 when Af Am faculty and the Committee of African Studies decided to bring a proposal for an African studies concentration??long in the works—before then-University President Lawrence H. Summers and the Faculty...
...degree, a “literary theory and philosophy taught course,” may sound like a more intense version of the literature concentration, but Vasiliauskas plans on taking a different approach to her studies than the faculty in Dana Palmer House does.“The literature concentration??in a very good, productive way, but nevertheless—instrumentalizes literary theory for the purposes of doing readings of works of literature or works of art,” she says. Her studies in England will focus “in a sustained way?...
...failings were the result of being compromised or sabotaged. For an entire quarter’s worth of classes, I failed to realize that I was following the schedule of an imaginary study card—attending French unofficially and “skipping” my ex-concentration??s tutorial. In truth, my troubles stemmed from an inability to keep my wits about me when faced with the my.harvard.edu web portal, which—let’s be serious—is pretty pathetic for a child of the digital...
...Ruth isn’t having a one-night stand with Harvard. She is scheduled to appear this morning at Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1000, “Introduction to WGS: Women, Men, and Beyond: Gender and Sexuality in an International Frame,” the concentration??s introductory course. Then she will speak at a public event at 4 p.m. in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium, entitled “Dr. Ruth Talks Sex: With Yourself, With Others, and Not at All.” Dr. Ruth is at Harvard as part...