гарвардские разборки

Harvard Professor’s Paper Claiming ‘Comfort Women’ in Imperial Japan Were Voluntarily Employed Stokes International Controversy:

Based on the title of Ramseyer’s professorship — the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies — many Korean media outlets and scholars suspected that he may be sponsored by the Japanese corporation.

как и следовало ожидать. это в дополнение к Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War. статья длинная, 344 Comments. познавательные комментарии.

см. также [Bookmark] Harvard Thesis on Comfort Women Foretells the Decline of ‘Anti-Japan Tribalism’

между тем в Гарварде разворачивается еще один скандал: Cornel West Is in a Fight With Harvard, Again. этому красавчику Summers (тот самый) не дал tenure в 2001-м:

Mr. Summers suggested that Dr. West was spending too much time on outside activities and not enough time on serious scholarship and teaching in the classroom, according to accounts at the time.

в той же статье приводятся кое-какие подробности касательное его outside activities:

Over the years, he branched out from academia to advise or campaign for presidential hopefuls like Bill Bradley, Ralph Nader, Al Sharpton and most recently Bernie Sanders. He dabbled in hip-hop and played “Councillor West” in two Matrix movies. An album he collaborated on, “Four Questions,” is up for a Grammy.

но главное, что On the way out, he called Mr. Summers a bully and “the Ariel Sharon of American higher education,” a characterization criticized as having anti-Semitic overtones. и это упоминают не раз в UC Endorses Petitions in Support of Cornel West and Against Statements by J. Mark Ramseyer:

The legislation spurred debate among the UC members, particularly Pforzheimer House Representative Sarah Bolnick ’23, who claimed West to be a controversial figure due to his stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict. West has been outspoken in his criticism of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.