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The Mission of the Harvard Foundation The HARVARD FOUNDATION Journal FALL 2014 HARVARD UNIVERSITY VOL. XXXIV, NO.1. United Nations Secretary-General Honored as Harvard Foundation 2014 Humanitarian of the Year U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sandra Naddaff Dean of Harvard Summer School Dr. S. Allen Counter, Director of the Harvard Foundation, and Derek C. Bok, President Emeritus of Harvard University, congratulate U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon William F. Lee ’72 Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation In this issue: Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award Student-Faculty Discussion: Crisis in the Middle East: Representations of Islam Student Panel Discussion: Intercultural Solidarity Student-Initiated Projects: Harvard College student leaders and Harvard Foundation Fall Semester Grants interns engage in roundtable discussion with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at Wadsworth House 2 HARVARD FOUNDATION JOURNAL, FALL 2014 Table of Contents FALL 2014 VOL. XXXIV, NO.1. Director’s Letter 3 Understanding Digital Violence 4 The Crisis in the Middle East: 5 Representations and Persepectives of Islam Intercultural Solidarity: 6-7 How People of Color Can Support Each Other Humanitarian Award Ceremony 8-13 U.N Secretary-General Honored at Harvard: A Student Perspective 14 Students Meet with U.N. Secretary-General at Wadsworth House 15 Student Grant Summaries 16-17 The insignia of the Harvard Foundation consists of five interconnecting circles in the colors black, brown, red, white and yellow, symbolizing the major recognized ethnic groups of the human race under the Harvard motto Veritas (“Truth”). The symbol, “the unbroken circle of humanity,” was designed by Dr. S. Allen Counter in 1981.. The Harvard Foundation Journal has been produced semi-annually since 1982. The publication is designed to inform the Harvard family about the intercultural programs sponsored by the Harvard Foundation throughout the year that address a variety of salient topics related to race, culture, ethnicity, and religion. The Harvard Foundation Journal is produced by the Harvard Foundation staff, interns, and director. For more information please contact: The Harvard Foundation 2 Thayer Hall, Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617-495-1527 | Fax: 617-496-1443 | [email protected] HARVARD FOUNDATION JOURNAL, FALL 2014 3 Director’s Letter To the students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation: hank you for your contributions to the success of the Harvard Foundation in the fall semester of the 2014-2015 academic year. Our monthly Student-Faculty Advisory Committee meetings included student Tparticipants from more than 50 College-recognized ethno-cultural groups at each meeting, and were con- structive, productive, and consistent with the Foundation’s mission. In the fall semester, the Harvard Foundation received over 60 grant applications for a total of $62,000 to support proposed ethno-cultural student projects. From these applications, the Foundation sponsored 51 student-initiated projects, providing a total of $25,000 in support. These included Dharma’s panel discussion on pressing issues related to the Indian economy, government, and environment to expose both Indian and Ameri- can undergraduates to new perspectives on India; a vigil held by Native Americans at Harvard on Columbus Day to honor their ancestors and their long and courageous history, with songs performed on a native drum; the Nigerian Students Association’s annual Nigerian Independence Day Gala that featured a video of NSA alumni recounting their Harvard experiences as well as performances by student groups and individual students, and an array of Nigerian food; and the purchase of costumes and props for the Asian Dance troupe, including red Wushu fans for the popular traditional pieces “Dance of Dragons.” Each of the student-initiated cultural projects was conducted in one of the Harvard’s Houses or lecture halls. The student grants program was coordinated by Tiffany Ramos and Avni Nahar, Foundation student interns and co-chairs of the Student of Advisory Committee The students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation were saddened and deeply concerned about some violent email threats made against our Asian-American students in the fall semester by an unknown, external source. The Harvard community respects and values our Asian-American students and condemns such unac- ceptable acts of bias and intimidation of students at Harvard. We strive to enable our Asian-American students, and students of all ethnic backgrounds, to find Harvard a safe and non-threatening environment in which they can pursue their academic studies without fear, intimidation, or distraction. One of the major programs of the fall semester was a panel discussion titled “The Crisis in the Middle East: Representations and Perspectives of Islam.” The event was co-sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program. The participants were Ali Asani, professor of Indo -Muslim and Islamic religion and cultures; Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Life and Thought; and Ousmane Kane, the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Religion andSociety. The student par- ticipants were Yacine Fares ’15, president of the Harvard Islamic Society, and Hassaan Shahawy ’16, president of the Harvard Palestinian Students Association. The highlight of the semester was the annual Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award and lecture. Harvard Foundation students and faculty chose His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, as the Humanitarian of the Year for 2014. The senior faculty advisors for this project were Professors John E. Dowling, James J. McCarthy, William Gelbart, Benedict Gross, Harry R. Lewis, William A. Graham, Sandra Naddaff, and University Marshal Jackie O’Neill. Harvard Foundation interns greeted the Secretary-General upon his arrival. The first program of the day was a faculty luncheon and discussion of United Nation programs with the Secretary-General and a diverse group of Harvard faculty and House masters, held at the Harvard Faculty Club. This program was followed by a roundtable discussion at Wadsworth House with College student leaders covering a variety of United Nations initiatives under the Secretary-General’s leadership. Continued on page 18 4 HARVARD FOUNDATION JOURNAL, FALL 2014 UNDERSTANDING DIGITAL VIOLENCE n the evening of Wednesday, October 29, Harvard Foundation interns and race-relations Otutors at Winthrop House hosted a dinner for Carla Martin, a lecturer in the Department of African and African-American Studies. The dinner was catered by Winthrop House dining services. The event was a response to emailed death threats that targeted pre- dominantly female-identified students of Asian back- grounds. The event sought to contextualize digital acts of violence, especially as they are deployed against people based on identity markers like race and gender. The event drew House members to discuss the changing dynamics of targeted digital violence given in- novations in social media, cyber communication, and digital technology as a whole. Many of the themes sprout- ed from the way students reacted to the email threats. Martin, who teaches “Exploring Race and Community in the Digital World,” started the discussion by talking about her experience and research, and how they apply to issues students face on campus. She continued the discussion by answering questions and promoting a dialogue. Martin spoke briefly about the College administration’s response to the death threats and shed a bit of light on the thought process behind it. Winthrop House race-relations tutors Carl Miller and Kera Street helped facilitate the discussion by seasoning it with their own experiences and guided questions. Miller talked about the overall expanding scope of social media and the privacy concerns that raises, citing a time when he found a photo of himself in the back- ground of someone’s Facebook photo. Martin focused the discussion on an academic perspective of the online landscape. Because the Web is unregulated and basically uncharted, it makes for murky jurisdiction. The anonymity makes it very susceptible to cyberviolence and threats in a way that is uniquely challenging. It is difficult to navigate what is and is not permissible legally, let alone socially and morally. Adding a layer to that discourse is the fact that what consti- tutes evidence online is unclear, e.g. do search and seizure laws protect online property, and are a Tweet or an Instagram photo collage considered intellectual property? Jordan Weiers ’16, a Winthrop House resident who attended the event, remarked, “In light of all of the cyber threats occurring on Harvard’s campus recently, it is valuable to get an academic perspective going forward and to think about ways that laws can be changed to hold people responsible for cyberviolence.” Many of the students in attendance felt that the discussion was very meaningful and added a useful dialogue to the campus discourse surrounding the ongoing cyberthreats levied against members of the community. “Professor Martin’s talk was an awesome opportunity for us here at Winthrop House. Her perspective and the discussion it opened up really gave us room to seriously think about how power and violence are de- ployed against women and people of color in a digitized society,” said Street. “A major takeaway for me was that these dynamics, in a lot of ways, simply mirror the unfortunate dynamics of race and gender relations in our society. Despite that, however, I am encouraged. All is not lost. As long as we keep talking about this stuff; as long as we keep addressing it head-on, we put ourselves in the position to not just accept this culture, but en- gage it, challenge it, subvert it, and change it. By no means is a task like this easy, but it is absolutely necessary if our society, online and offline, is going to be a place where anyone, regardless of color or gender or sexual orientation or any identity marker, can flourish without threat of violence.” This discussion sparked a series of events in Winthrop House about race and culture.
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