W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Newsletter
December 2009
This month we present the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony; co-sponsor a Nathan Huggins Symposium and our Holiday Party with the Department of African and African American Studies.  See also below - a final Fellows Workshop.  Please note our Resident Fellowship applications for 2010-11 are available - with a new teaching option! Deadline 1/31/09.
Visit our website for up-to-the-minute information about our events, projects, and publications.
Featured Event
W. E. B. DU BOIS
MEDAL CEREMONY

Du Bois Medal
Friday, December 4th, 5:00 P.M.
TODAY!
Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Politics,
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138

Honoring:
Bob Herbert, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist
Hugh M. "Brother Blue" Hill, Performance Artist

(to be accepted by Ruth Edmonds Hill)
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Journalist
Vernon E. Jordan, Lawyer and Political Advisor
Frank H. Pearl, Publisher and Philanthropist
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose, Philanthropists
Shirley M. Tilghman, President of Princeton University


Webcast of Last Year's Ceremony
List of Previous Winners
Fellows' Workshop


"It's Just A Phase"

Notes on Glass, Closets, and Biopower


W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow, C. Riley Snorton, will host a workshop on Wednesday, December 9th
(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.

Resident Fellow Applications
2010 - 2011
Resident Fellowships
 
Applications Available
NEW TEACHING OPTION!

Due Date: January 31, 2010
Visit Us!

104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA  02138
Nathan I. Huggins Symposium
Huggins Symposium
Coming Up!          The Holiday Party
 HOLIDAY DBI invite
 
  Recent Events @ the Institute
Spivak delivering her 3-part Du Bois Lectures
Gayatri Spivak takes questions from a packed audience during her lecture series, "Du Bois at Large."
Laurent Workshop

Sylvie Laurent hosts the year's first Fellows' Workshop in the Du Bois Institute's Hiphop Archive.
Students touring the Du Bois Institute

8th-Graders from Brooklyn, New York during a tour of the Institute.  In the center is Kwame Shabazz from the Department of Economics, who joined DBI Fellows Cameron Leader-Picone and Sylvie Laurent for a personal discussion with the students on studying at Harvard.


 Photos by Marcus Halevi