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Navajo Scholars, Advocates Discuss Cultural Preservation at Peabody Museum Event

November 16, 2023

Navajo scholars and advocates spoke about their professional and personal experiences preserving Navajo cultural heritage in an event organized by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology that featured Cynthia Wilson, a fellow at the Religion and Public Life program at Harvard Divinity School, and Wade Campbell, an assistant professor of archaeology and anthropology at Boston University.

Davíd Carrasco y Eduardo Matos Moctezuma en México en 2019. Foto de Ryan Christopher Jones

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Sobre La Creación De Colaboraciones Transfronterizas Fructíferas

August 17, 2020

La Cátedra Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, la primera serie de conferencias que lleva el nombre de un ciudadano mexicano en los 400 años de la historia de la Universidad de Harvard, se lanzó hace tres años como parte de una colaboración entre instituciones culturales mexicanas y Harvard.

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Professor Giovanni Bazzana poses with students during a trip to Israel

Where the Present is a Continuation of the Past

October 30, 2018

History books are filled with accounts of the past, shaped by the perspectives of those who wrote them. A reader’s imagination may conjure events across the miles and millennia based on those accounts, but at best their own life experiences and interests may influence their sense of history. A fuller picture is guided by scholars in classrooms where lessons are shaped by a lifetime devoted to the study. And few historical events are as widely studied—and discussed—as those found in the Bible.... Read more about Where the Present is a Continuation of the Past