Harvard Event Highlights Power of Stories to Combat Hate
The April 27 event was initiated to celebrate Harvard making the Shoah Foundation’s visual history archive available to its community.
In listening to the testimonies of those who have endured unspeakable tragedies, “we become emissaries and ambassadors to other communities.” That was the key takeaway from “What is stronger than hate? Lessons from testimony, media, and scholarship,” an event hosted by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the USC Shoah Foundation. The April 27 event was initiated to celebrate Harvard making the Shoah Foundation’s visual history archive available to its community.
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The University of Haifa conferred an honorary doctorate upon Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow on Monday night, during which he praised the “Start-Up Nation” for “creating, aggregating, and acting as a magnet for human capital.”
Bacow received the honorary doctorate in recognition of his global leadership in higher education, redefining the critical role universities play in developing and sustaining communities and his advocacy for the importance of diversity within education.
In receiving his doctorate, President Bacow praised the “start-up nation” for its ability to draw talent from around the world through the opportunities that exist within the country.
The Undergraduate Council voted to endorse a pair of statements during its Sunday night meeting â one supporting a petition to grant tenure to Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel R. West â74, and another to condemn statements made by Harvard Law professor J. Mark Ramseyer.
The first piece of legislation demands the University âreopen pathways for Professor Westâs tenure and further commit to advancing racial justice in substantive ways.â
West recently threatened to leave Harvard for the second time after he said the University dismissed his request to be considered for tenure. He held Harvardâs highest faculty rank, University Professor, before leaving Harvard in 2002 following a high-profile spat with then-University president Lawrence H. âLarryâ Summers. West returned as a Professor of the Practice in 2017, a position that lacks tenure.