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This month at the Du Bois
Institute we begin with a special Panel on Photography & Diaspora: A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture and Modernity and end with a three night Du Bois Lecture Series featuring Martin Kilson: Transformational Dynamics in the 20th Century Black Intelligentsia. Please join us for these events and all the wonderful programs all month long. Read further about Professor Gates' NAACP Image Award, all events, calls for papers, recents events and more, below. Visit our website for information about our events, projects, and publications.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 4PM
Photography & Diaspora A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture and Modernity
A McMillan-Stewart Lecture Presentation
4:00 PM -- Tsai Auditorium, CGIS 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Panelists: Okwui Enwezor, Lyle Ashton Harris, Kobena Mercer, Deborah Willis Moderated by: Renée Mussai
Co-sponsored by the Committee on African Studies
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Wednesday, March 10th The Supreme Court and Race
(rescheduled from February 10th)
Michael J. Klarman Kirkland
and Ellis Professor, Harvard Law School Randall L. Kennedy Professor
of Law, Harvard
Law School
Reception
5:30 p.m. ~ Program 6:00 p.m.
Stephen D. Bechtel,
Jr. Auditorium American Academy of Arts & Sciences
136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Advance registration is required
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ENCORE: the award-winning Black Audio Film Collective feature film 'Testament' (1988), directed by John Akomfrah, an experimental narrative of exile, Diaspora and dispossession. Thursday, March 11, 4PM Hutchin's Library The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
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March 30th - April 1st 4PM W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series featuring Martin Kilson Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus, Harvard University "Transformational Dynamics
In The 20th Century Black Intelligentsia"
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Spring 2010 Colloquium Series
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Weds, March 10th, 12:00 - 1:30PM
Joseph L. Jones
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Johnson C. Smith University
The Institutional Black Messiah: W. E. B. Du Bois's Political
Philosophy of Education for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
-Free and open to the public. -A question and answer period will follow the talk. -Please feel free to bring a lunch.
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Due to Spring Recess there will be no Colloquium on March 17th
We will resume our schedule on March 24th
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The Research Network on the
Definition of Slavery Conference, to be held in the Summer of 2011, seeks Graduate-Level Paper Submissions. The deadline for submissions of one-page abstract is 15 March 2010 The conference will be co-sponsored by the Du Bois Institute along with the Department of Sociology and the
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute of Harvard Law School More Information
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In the Rudenstine Gallery...
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Ever Young: James Barnor
Street and Studio Photography, Ghana/UK
Presented by Autograph ABP and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
Exhibit runs until May 26th. Gallery Hours: 9 a.m - 5 p.m.
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104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA 02138
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Professor Gates Wins NAACP Image Award in Literature (non-fiction)
for In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans
Reclaimed Their Past Find it on Amazon.com
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2009-2010 Resident Fellow Jason Sokol interviewed on NPR: Northeast Politics Once a Tangled Web for Black Candidates -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2007-2008 Resident Fellow Glenda Carpio featured in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni Quarterly: Minding the Gap: Glenda Carpio Explores Alliances and Schisms in AmericanCulture, Telling New Tales about Race and Immigration |
Community and National Events Listing iDBI is a place to find information on events, both local and national, related to African and African American Studies.
To post an event, send an email to [email protected]
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Friday, March 5, 5-7pm The Sankfoa Visual Arts Gallery Opening Featuring work by the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute's Dell Hamilton Holyoke Center Exhibition Space 1350 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 5:00-7:00pm, free and open to the public Sponsored by the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College Complete Schedule of Black Arts Fesitval Events ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, March 8, 4-6pm
Cynthia Young (Boston College; Warren Fellow)
* "Black Ops and Sleeper Cells: Race, the War on Terror and Popular Culture from Above and Below"
A presentation of the Warren Center's 2009-10 Workshop on
"Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and
Below."
History Library, First Floor Level, Robinson Hall Sponsored by the Charles Warren Center -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
March 11-13, 2010
CONFERENCE: The Hyatt on Capitol Square, Columbus, Ohio. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Friday and Saturday, March 12, 13
The tenth annual graduate student conference on international
history, presented with support from the Warren Center. "International Society and its Discontents."
Information at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/
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Monday, March 22, 4-6pm
Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburgh; Workshop Guest)
"Representing Slave Revolt in a Slave Society: Images of the Amistad Rebellion"
A presentation of the Warren Center's 2009-10 Workshop on "Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and
Below."
History Library, First Floor Level, Robinson Hall Sponsored by the Charles Warren Center
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Monday, March 29, 3-5 pm
Alex Lubin (University of New Mexico; Workshop Guest)
"Liberation Geography: Reconstructing Black, Arab, and Jewish Identities"
Note non-standard location: Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room
Sponsored by the Charles Warren Center
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Monday, March 29, 4-6pm
Lauren Coyle (University of Chicago)
* "Refiguring the Anthropology and Sociology of Money, Post-Financial Crisis: Beyond Performativity and Discursivity to Money as Capital"
Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern
Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center.
History Library, First Floor, Robinson Hall Sponsored by the Charles Warren Center -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, March 20, 6pm
The Taj Hotel, Boston -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday, March 31, 6pm Harvard Association of Asian & Asian American Faculty &
Administrators
Harvard Association of Black Faculty, Administrators, and Fellows
Harvard Association of Latino Faculty and Staff
Harvard Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Faculty and Staff
Committee
Harvard University Native American Program
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Invite you to a reception to welcome
Dr. Lisa M. Coleman
Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the President
Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 6 p.m.
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
RSVP by March 29: [email protected]
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Recent Events @ the Institute
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John Callahan, Glenda Carpio, and Adam Bradley discussing Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before the Shooting at the Harvard Book Store, February 8th, 2010.
Afro-Italian Filmmaker, Fred Kuwornu (far right), with Speakers at the Massachusetts Film Premiere of Inside Buffalo, the story of the 92nd Infantry Division in Italy during World War
II. February 11th, 2010.
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