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The Harvard Art Museums have been awarded a $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support the upcoming Fall 2021 exhibition Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970. The exhibition will be the first to address the unknown and often unexpected ways habitats and well-being in the United States are affected by American warfare and the military-industrial complex. The grant, which was announced as part of the Warhol Foundation’s Fall 2020 grants program, provides general support for the project. Devour the Land is organized by the H...

The Macron Doctrine, or the Paris Consensus, pledges to reverse those trends. To fight back against the ills of the financialised economy, Macron offers a three-pillar solution: more Europe, a true Europe-Africa partnership, and coalitions with governments and non-governmental players. Indeed, the Macron Doctrine is notionally post-colonial. It calls for re-inventing the ‘Afro-European Axis’ and puts the onus on Europeans to ‘show that this universalism we uphold is not universalism of the dominant, as it was during colonisation, but one of friends and partners’. If the Macron Doctri...

The St Kitts Nevis Observer Miss Kianna Lawrence of Nisbett Settlement in Newcastle, Nevis. CHARLESTOWN, Nevis — Miss Kianna Lawrence of Nisbett Settlement in Newcastle, Nevis, is proud to be the first Nevisian awarded a scholarship to study in Romania. The scholarship was awarded by the Romanian Government to pursue studies in Graphic Design at the West University of Timisoara. Ms. Lawrence expressed appreciation for the opportunity to further her studies. “I am a proud recipient of the Romanian Scholarship which affords me the opportunity to pursue a Bachelors’ Degree in Graphic Des...

End Notes: And Then There’s Mauve Eleanor H. Gustafson Photograph by Caitlin Cunningham Photography; all photographs © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Did you know that the color mauve, or, rather, the pigment, was discovered in 1856 by an eighteen year- old student experimenting with the hydrocarbons in coal tar from street lamps in an attempt to discover a cure for malaria? He failed in that endeavor, but he did find a beautiful purple residue in his flasks. His is just one of the stories—others involve lice, roots, shellfish, bones, and cow urine, to name a few curious sou...

Virtual college event demonstrates “revolutionary precision” agriculture tech partnership This article is old - Published: Sunday, Dec 20th, 2020 A virtual event gave college students a taste of an innovative farming project. Coleg Cambria welcomed Aberystwyth University to its Llysfasi site, where researchers from their Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) showcased the legacy of the ground-breaking partnership forged between the two institutions in 2018. The land-based college and IBERS worked closely to deliver the PreciseAg initiative, carrying out revolut...