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November 2009
Next week the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute hosts Professor Gayatri Spivak, who will deliver a series of talksnext week;  DBI Fellow Sylvie Laurent hosts a Workshop; Our webcasts include new additions: Peter H. Wood and Kobena Mercer. Plus! news; photos; and upcoming events.
Visit our website for up-to-the-minute information about our events, projects, and publications.
Featured Event
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
University Professor and
Director of the Institute for
Comparative Literature and Society
at Columbia University

in the
W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series


Du Bois at Large
Tuesday, November 17: 
"Du Bois & The General Strike"
Wednesday, November 18:
"Du Bois & Gramsci"
Thursday, November 19: 
"Du Bois & Women's Work"


4:00pm in the Thompson Room
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Fellows' Workshop
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Eminem: Talkin' black, talkin' back, brainwashed from rock and rap

W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow, Sylvie Laurent, will host a two-day workshop - the morning of November 20 & 21, 2009
(by invitation only).  The DBI workshop initiative began last year, to bring scholars from different programs at Harvard together for an interdisciplinary discussion of a distributed research paper. This is now an regular feature of the DBI Fellowship experience.
For more information contact dbi_desk@fas.harvard.edu.
  Recent Events @ the Institute
Wire Cast  Pat Hills - Leventritt Lecture
Cast of the "Wire" visit before AAAS/Baker House Panel (Left)
Pat Hills delivers the Leventritt Lecture on Lawrence (Right)
Reception at the Rudenstine Gallery (Below)

Rudenstine Reception - Jacobs
 Photos by Marcus Halevi
Visit Us!

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New Webcasts!
Peter Wood webcast thumbnailPeter H. Wood
Professor Emeritus of History
 Duke University
Into the Light: Liberating Winslow Homer's "Near Andersonville"


Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series





Alain Locke
Lecture Series
In The News
Miranda K. Lippold-johnson photo of Henry Louis Gates- Crimson
See The Crimson's coverage of Skip's reading last night in SandersTheater. He read from his memoir, Colored People, which was the selection for the Cambridge Public Library's "Cambridge READS" program.



"Brother Blue, Cambridge's Street Storyteller, Dead At 88"

Coming in December...
Nathan I. Huggins Symposium
Abstracts Due: November 15, 2009


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