The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research has named its 2026 cohort of W.E.B. Du Bois Medalists, including actress Angela Bassett, humanitarian and soccer legend Didier Drogba, and five-time Grammy-winning singer Mavis Staples.
For more than three decades, the Harvard College First-Year Arts Program has served as incoming students’ first encounter with the breadth of artistic people, places, and pursuits awaiting them on campus.
Ross McElwee has often set out to make a film about one thing, only for it to become about something else entirely.
The incoming professor of English’s fourth novel, “Beginning Middle End,” follows a mother and her 12-year-old daughter as they travel to Sicily, where the duo is figuring out how to reconstruct their lives amid their encounters with the island’s daily life, its winds, waters, and volcanoes.
What happens when a healer, working in a plague-stricken medieval village, falls in love with Death himself? Moviegoers can soon find out when a black-comedy romance, which began as a Harvard College student production, lands on the big screen. “Death Do Us Part,” co-directed by Abigail Ory ’21 and David Chávez-Grant ’21, premieres at the Rhode Island International Film Festival August 9.
When David Bakalar first set foot at Harvard, he was a 17-year-old child of immigrants commuting by bus from Lynn, Mass., his $500 “nonresident scholarship” covering tuition and a study space at Leverett House but not room and board.
Why do so many people feel lonely in a world designed for connection? As Ian Corbin sees it, Americans are experiencing a crisis of belonging, which he attributes to some fundamental misunderstandings about what humans need to flourish.
The honor is given annually to College seniors who demonstrate ‘intellectual adventure’
At Harvard, drummer Raghav Mehrotra ’26 built knowledge about the music industry — and a sizable social media following.
The four-day celebration, organized by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, features music, dance, theater performances, visual art exhibits, and hands-on art activities at venues across campus.
A recent event, hosted by the Public Culture Project, emphasized the real-world benefits of arts and humanities for unhoused and incarcerated populations.