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...avoided them like the plague.”A joint concentrator in Social Anthropology and Visual and Environmental Studies, Dovey instead focused her creative endeavors on documentary filmmaking. Her senior thesis included a film on post-apartheid black economic empowerment projects on wine farms in her native South Africa.Dovey spent her early childhood shuttling back and forth to Australia with her family due to the death threats the South African police made against her father, an academic. She moved permanently to Australia (where she has dual citizenship) when she was 14. Although she had been back to South Africa...
...screening several of his films last weekend at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA), the Hungarian filmmaker discussed his relationship to his movies and how the audience reacts to the questions raised by his films. Personal experience has been vital in driving Forgács to make his movies. He spent 39 years living behind the Iron Curtain and, in the 1990s, was deeply affected by the massacres that took place in the former Yugoslavia, just 200 miles south of his home in Budapest. His experiences with violence and persecution made Forgács reflect on the historical precedents of these...
Jennifer 8. Lee ’99 has spent the last seven years reporting for the New York Times Metro-City Room, traveling the globe, and fielding questions about her middle initial. Her first book, “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles,” was released last month. Lee, a former Crimson vice president, took a break from her current book tour to discuss Chinese food in space, the rules of journalism, and why she loves Jews.The Harvard Crimson: What was the genesis of the book? Jennifer 8. Lee: I wrote an article in 2003 about a Chinese family...
...were strict secrets on how to create Chinese porcelain, so European scientists and alchemists attempted for hundreds of years to replicate East Asian porcelain,” Hess says. “China was known as the bleeding bowl of Saxony, because Augustus the Strong, one of the administrators, spent so much of the state’s money on porcelain.” Thus, when the recipe for making porcelain was finally discovered in Meissen, Germany, the tiny porcelain figurines were quickly elevated to symbols of power and prestige in European courts.The speeches given at the symposium, which brought...
...outshot Brown, 38-18, yet still skidded to its sixth consecutive loss. Five of Harvard’s defeats have come at the hands of nationally ranked teams.Never out of striking distance, Harvard did not trail by more than two goals, and the majority of the game was spent dead even. The Crimson took the lead briefly twice but, in the end, the Bears remained unbeaten in Ivy play and improved to 9-2 overall, extending their win streak to eight games.“This is a tough one,” La Fiura said...