Du Bois Institute Newsletter
March 2010
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.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, March 9th, 4PM

copyright James Barnor/Autograph ABPPhotography
&
Diaspor
a
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

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
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

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"

Kilson Titles and Locations

Spring 2010 Colloquium Series
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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Spring 2010 Colloquium Schedule PDF
Due to Spring Recess there will be no Colloquium on
March 17th 

We will resume our schedule on March 24th


CALL FOR PAPERS
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
In the Rudenstine Gallery...
Ever Young: James Barnor

James Barnor: Ever Young

Street and Studio Photography, Ghana/UK

Presented by Autograph ABP and the
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute

Autograph ABP

Exhibit runs until May 26th.    Gallery Hours: 9 a.m - 5 p.m.
Visit Us!

104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA  02138
In the News
Image AwardsProfessor 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

Faces of America Logo
FACES OF AMERICA in the News
Fellow's Corner
NPR2009-2010 Resident Fellow Jason Sokol interviewed on NPR: Northeast Politics Once a Tangled Web for Black Candidates
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Glenda Carpio on Cover of Colloquy2007-2008 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 American
Culture, Telling New Tales about Race and Immigration
iDBI
iDBI
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]
Black Arts Festival
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
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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
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March 11-13, 2010
CONFERENCE: The Hyatt on Capitol Square, Columbus, Ohio.
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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
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Saturday, March 20, 6pm
FACE Africa 1st Annual Gala
A Clean Water Benefit
The Taj Hotel, Boston
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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]
Recent Events @ the Institute
3 Days Before
John Callahan, Glenda Carpio, and Adam Bradley discussing Ralph Ellison's Three Days Before the Shooting at the Harvard Book Store,
February 8th, 2010.


Inside Buffalo Speakers
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.