Jimmy the Camera
Photography has played a major role in portraying an image of the American AIDS crisis. The unique work of Laurie Simmons, especially her photograph that places AIDS victim Jimmy DeSana in a camera...
View ArticleScience on Stage
Dr. John Mathew combines his passions for science, history, and theater into his academic pursuits at Harvard as well as the freshman seminar course that he leads. Mathew is well-known among students...
View ArticleGlenn Ligon and Gertrude Stein: Beyond Words
William Simmons discusses the nuanced links between literature and the visual arts manifest in Glenn Ligon’s landmark sculpture Untitled (negro sunshine) in the Harvard Art Museums.
View ArticleThe Long March to Political Legitimacy
Daughter of the Party, which tells the story of an underground Party member whose husband has just left on the Long March, displays a cautious attitude towards sparking revolutionary outbursts, and a...
View ArticleThe Sex Dichotomy That Doesn’t Exist: Love and Lust in Egon Schiele’s Female...
Lily Calcagnini, Harvard College ’18 Abstract There are notable gaps in the scholarly discussion surrounding Egon Schiele, an Expressionist painter in early twentieth-century Vienna, because he has not...
View ArticleTo Be, or Not to Be: That is the Ethical Question
Katherine Hung ’19 Terminal illness deprives its victims of their independence. It erodes their dignity and causes inexorable suffering. At times, terminally ill patients seek to end their prolonged...
View ArticleThe 1956 Soviet Invasion of Hungary: Security and the Deterrent Demonstration...
Max Kuhelj Bugaric ’19 Introduction The 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary is an interesting case from the perspective of both diplomatic history and international relations theory.[1] I argue that...
View ArticleA Picture Warrants a Thousand Words: Fashion, Female Agency, and What’s in an...
Lily Calcagnini ’18 Abstract This paper explores how women of different socioeconomic standing utilized their clothing and knowledge of what was in vogue to fight for female empowerment in...
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