Yuval Sharon's adaptation of John Cage’s "Europera 5" capped off the 2025 Berlin Family Lectures.

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Your opera

Graduate student performers embody anarchy at the opera to cap off the 2025 Berlin Family Lectures.
A visitor to the Media Arts, Data, and Design Center tries out the VR painting app Tilt Brush.

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The nimble minds of MADD

Media Arts and Design program spurs creativity and careers in the College.
Kim Jung Mi’s "Now" (1973) is Ethan Waddell’s favorite early psychedelic album from Korea.

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Korea remixed

Ethan Waddell, PhD’24, on how Korean authors use popular music to comment on culture
The Huntington's botanical gardens span 130 acres.

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arts and humanities at work

From visitor to leader

Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, AM’99, found her calling in museum education.
The Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project, led by faculty director Wei-Cheng Lin, digitally reconstructed this Chinese Buddha Hall dated to 1444.

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Two perspectives on cultural preservation

Lenore Grenoble and Wei-Cheng Lin, AM’99, PhD’06, reconstruct Arctic languages and Buddhist artifacts, respectively.
Front row (from left): Sean Kelsey, Anna Martine Whitehead, and Hans Thomalla. Back row (from left): Amanda Lanzillo, Yoonbin Cho, Soyoon Ryu, Alexander Cowan, and Sarah Edmands Martin.

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New faculty fall 2025

The Division of the Arts & Humanities welcomes 10 new faculty members.

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Lenore Grenoble studies languages in Arctic communities undergoing the effects of climate change and urbanization.

Melting permafrost

Lenore Grenoble on climate change, urbanization, and language loss in the Arctic
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Deborah L. Nelson, Dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities

From the dean
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Shin Joong Hyun & Yup Juns, whose 1974 debut album is shown here, was a seminal South Korean rock group.

School of rock

Ethan Waddell, PhD’24, on what Korean rock can teach us about music today