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Like an ideal love interest, short films are both seductive and accessible. Entries into the Harvard Shorts Film Festival, however, had a different set of criteria. The film submissions had to fall into one of three categories—“scholarly exploration,” “course and departmental trailers,” and “use of library resources”—and the winners, to be announced tomorrow, stand to receive up to $750 for their films...
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, first envisioned the festival several years ago when he began assigning students to make short films for his class on the history of medicine. He was immediately struck by students’ engagement in the project and found that students would spend more time making the movies than they would have writing term papers...
Fascinated with the student reaction, he started using short films as weekly section assignments in Culture and Belief 11: “Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe,” which he began teaching in Fall 2008. Students worked on the assignments with an enthusiasm that surprised Kuriyama. “They were no longer just for professors, but for classmates—that’s a very powerful thing,” he says. “You take good ideas and incorporate them into your...
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...would anyone ever call someone a vegetable? It’s just a funny question,” says Latif F. Nasser, a second-year graduate student in History of Science, describing the inspiration behind the three-part scholarly short he submitted to the festival. The film explores the phenomenon of giving people labels as vegetables—for example, coma patients in vegetative states and bums as “coach potatoes...