Harvard Divinity School marked the opening of the 2022-23 academic year with its 207th Convocation. Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin delivered the address, titled "Legacies of Slavery: Bondage and Resistance." Brown-Nagin chaired the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, which issued its report earlier this year.... Read more about Video: HDS 2022 Convocation: 'Legacies of Slavery: Bondage and Resistance'
Artist and Mashpee Wampanoag tribal member Ramona Peters is very crafty with her hands. So much so that she has completed everything from detailed artifact reproductions to stunning artistic commissions, with materials including wood, metal, leather, and even porcupine quills.... Read more about New Artwork Brings ‘Living Indigenous Presence’ to Harvard Divinity School
“Our capacity to understand and dismantle contemporary injustice depends on our ability and our willingness to reckon with our past,” said Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin, during HDS's 207th Convocation ceremony.
"A successful co-management model is all about transparency, and having a consensus in sharing of ideas and ways of knowing. We are taught to take care of the land. It’s more of an act of love, not an act of a job," said Cynthia Wilson, Religion and Public Life Native and Indigenous Rights Fellow.
Through a photo documentation project in the complex area of the South Hebron Hills in Area C of the West Bank, two Harvard Divinity School fellows uncovered layered Jewish identities of activists in solidarity with Palestinians, including within themselves.
Melissa Wood Bartholomew, HDS's Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, and Erica Williams, a graduate student in divinity, led the group in a libation ceremony—a ritual practiced by cultures and religions around the world.
