On August 25, 2026, Pre-Texts welcomed incoming Mid-Career Fellows from Harvard Kennedy School and Pre-doctoral Fellows from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with a Pre-Texts session — participants from Kenya, Spain, Colombia, Israel, Mexico, and the United States.
The text, from Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, launched the tour of interpretation and reflection. The destination: the galleries of the Harvard Art Museums, where each fellow searched for a work that spoke to their own interpretation of the encyclical — and stood before it, text in hand, to share close readings of artwork and text. Read More
