Bringing faculty together
With more than 9,000 faculty members studying everything from cancer to Sanskrit, it might seem hard to find common ground at Harvard. “We usually live in our departments, we usually work out of our offices,” said Homi Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and director of the Humanities Center at Harvard. “When the University community is brought together there is a socialization that takes place that has the ability to lead to interdisciplinary work or joint teaching.” Such is the goal of a new series of faculty events sponsored by the Office of the Provost, designed to periodically gather faculty in one place and get them talking. The first event of the academic year was held in September, with more than 200 faculty members gathering at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for a talk with world-renowned chef Ferran Adria. Over bites cooked by local chefs, Adria spoke of the critical...