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Our Celestial Railroads

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John Kaag revisits Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "The Celestial Railroad" to explore how Transcendentalism’s soaring ideals could drift into comfortable illusions—and how figures like Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and a changed Ralph Waldo...

Video: On Exile and Elsewhere

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André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name, and writer Benjamin Balint discuss themes of exile and homecoming, of time, place, identity, and art across Aciman’s works of fiction and nonfiction. André Aciman is the author of Enigma Variations, Call Me by...

Video: Written Religion: Some New Avenues in Analyzing Ancient Jewish Texts

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Professor Alexander Samely (University of Manchester) discusses new tools in analyzing ancient Jewish texts, including a database of comparative profiles of ancient Jewish texts.

Video: 50th Anniversary Symposium Panel Discussion on 'Study'

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A panel chaired by Jane I. Smith, Harvard Divinity School, with Thomas Lewis, Brown University; Marla Frederick, Harvard University; and Luis Girón-Negrón, Harvard University. Part of the CSWR 50th Anniversary Symposium. This was one of three panels on...