Ellen P. Cassidy

The Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Mahindra Humanities Center, and Harvard University Press hosted a discussion commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the Norton Lectures on Thursday.

At the end of his first year as Harvard’s Arts and Humanities dean, Philosophy professor Sean D. Kelly has been thinking big about how to make the humanities work for career-driven undergrads — and taking small steps to support faculty in the division. But some bigger changes have been put on hold as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences tightens its budget following the Trump administration’s moves to axe federal funding.

One of Sean D. Kelly’s first promises as Harvard’s new Dean of Arts and Humanities was that he would facilitate the creation of new introductory courses for the division, which he felt lacked its Computer Science 50 or Economics 10. One year later, they’re here.

Harvard will offer a new freshman intro course to the Arts and Humanities, Human Sciences 15, next spring as part of an ongoing push to rethink its humanities curriculum.

Three Harvard faculty members debated whether generative AI would be a useful tool — or a perilous shortcut — in scholarship and teaching at a March 13 panel.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said Democrats in Congress may need to pull support for spending ahead of a looming government shutdown in an effort to be “good negotiators” at an Institute of Politics forum on Thursday.

The Curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Ann Marie Lipinski, will step down from her role at the end of the academic year after 14 years leading Harvard’s center for journalism, the foundation announced Thursday.

Humanities 20, Harvard’s interdisciplinary art history colloquium, will no longer be offered under the Arts and Humanities division-wide “HUMAN” label and will instead be changed to HAA 10, a History of Arts and Architecture introductory course, starting this fall.

Less than two weeks after winning back the White House, President-elect Donald Trump has nominated several Harvard affiliates to cabinet-level positions in his next administration.

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