Lecture by Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education Harvard Graduate School of Education Harvard Club, Boston A lecture by the noted educational theorist Howard Gardner on art and beauty. At the recommendation of my dear friend and old roommate Jim, a child psychologist who got a degree from the Harvard Graduate School of […]
Lectures and Panel Discussions
Women of Will: Overview
by Tina Packer Directed by Eric Tucker With Tina Packer and Nigel Gore Presented by The Nora Theatre Company Central Square Theater Cambridge, MA October 13 – November 6, 2011 Frederick Leighton, Desdemona (1888) A dramatic and discursive overview of a compelling thesis: that the Bard’s depiction of women evolved from significantly limited stereotypes, through […]
Shakespeare’s Jew
Panel Discussion With Robert Brustein (Moderator), Tina Packer, Jeffrey Horowitz, F. Murray Abraham Arts Emerson Paramount Theatre Mainstage Boston, MA Poster for the 1911 French-Italian film, Shylock In anticipation of the arrival, this spring, of a new production of The Merchant of Venice, this panel discussion among a team of Shakespeare luminaries brought out an […]