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 This month at the Du Bois Institute we feature W. J. T. Mitchell for
three nights of Du Bois Lectures on "Teachable Moments: Race Media and
Visual Culture"; Lydia Diamond for a co-sponsored "Writers in the Parlor"
talk; a Du Bois Fellows Workshop hosted by Celeste-Marie Bernier; and our
continued spring Colloquium series. Also below see photos from the
Martin Kilson Du Bois Lectures last week - "a Command Performance!" - as
well as the lovely Harvard Book Store moment with Nell Painter, reading
from her new book, "The History of White People." We also kick off our
Cinema@DBI Series this month - "Urban Cosmopolitanism" - a film program
designed to complement the ongoing James Barnor Exhibit - "Street and
Studio Photography, Ghana/UK" - currently in our Rudenstine Gallery. Won't
you take a Friday afternoon to visit the gallery and see a film? Photos
and a web cast of the Panel on Photography and Diaspora, also centered
on the James Barnor exhibit, have arrived. You're just a click away from
the full discussion! See more details on all of this below.
Visit our website for information about our events, projects, and publications.
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April 20th - April 22nd 4PM
 W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
W. J. T. Mitchell
Gaylord Donnelly Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago
"Teachable Moments: Race, Media & Visual Culture"
Lectures begin at 4pm in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
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April 29th 4PM
 Writers in the Parlor
Lydia Diamond
A Huntington Playwriting Fellow, Resident Playwright at Chicago
Dramatists, and Former Du Bois Institute Fellow
Reading from her play, "Stick Fly"
Thomspon Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Co-Sponsored by the Department of
English at Harvard University and the Spencer Fund
All talks are free and open to the public, and will be followed by a question and answer session. Recordings of our talks can be viewed for free online at our webcasts page.
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Spring 2010 Colloquium Series
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Wednesday April 7, 12pm
Zimitri Erasmus
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Cape Town
Creolisation: A conceptual orientation against ethnological thinking
 Wednesday April 14, 12pm
Deborah Willis
University Professor and Chair of Photography & Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Posing Beauty
 Wednesday April 21, 12pm
Dominique Malaquais
Senior Researcher in Art History, Sciences-Po Paris
Barnburner: Soul of a Fight
 Wednesday April 28, 12pm
Adam Haupt
Senior Lecturer, Center for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape
Town
Hip-Hop Activism and the Networked Public Sphere
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
-Free and open to the public.
-A question and answer period will follow the talk.
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Recent Events @ the Institute
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March 9
Photography & Diaspora
A Critical
Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture and Modernity
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March 29
Nell Irvin Painter gives a book reading, followed with a signing, at the Harvard Book Store
 "The History of White People" |
March 30 - April 1
Martin Kilson delivers the W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
 "Transformational Dynamics in the 20th Century Black Intelligentsia" |
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA 02138
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 Robert Stepto Discusses his new book, A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama.
Pu  blished by Harvard University Press (coming this May), the book stems from Professor Stepto's three-part W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures, delivered in April 2009. |
 The Cinema @ DBI Film Series continues this month with Lumumba: Death of a Prophet on Friday, April 23rd, followed the next week by Mandabi. Film screenings are held in the Du Bois Institute's Hutchins Family Library and are free and open to public. Co-Sponsored by the Committee on African Studies. Popcorn will be served.
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April 26, 2010
Fellows' Workshop Hosted by Celeste-Marie Bernier
COMING IN MAY...
May 12, 2010
FELLOWS BOOK PARTY
Celebrating Recent Publications by our 2006-2007 Resident Fellows
Featuring: Susan M. Reverby, Patricia Hills, C. S. Manegold, Patricia Sullivan, and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
May 21-23, 2010
Film Festival Organized by Arlette Frund and Trica Keatonn
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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 iDBI@fas.harvard.edu
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Tuesday April 6, 3:30pm
Gregory Craig
My Life as a Public Interest Lawyer
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, Harvard University
Langdell Hall North Classroom, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tuesday April 6, 4pm
Anjulet Tucker
"We're Movin' On Up!" Afro-Pentecostal Schools as Mechanisms for African American Social Mobility
African American Studies Program, Boston University
138 Mountfort Street, Brookline, Massachusetts
Thursday April 8, 5pm
Caroline Levander
Gendering Hemispheric American Studies
Gender and Sexuality Seminar of the Harvard Humanities Center
Room 024, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge Massachusetts
April 8-10
From Slavery to Freedom to the White House: Race in 21st Century America
A Conference in Honor of John Hope Franklin
Duke Law School
April 9-10, 2010
Responses to Discrimination and Racism: Comparative Perspectives
Center for European Studies at Harvard University
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative for International Affairs
For more detail and to pre-register, please visit the conference website
 April 13
Harvard Africa Seminar with
David Bloom and Salal Humair
Economic Development in Nigeria: A Demographic Perspective
Harvard Committee on African Studies
CGIS South, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA
April 15-17
Fearless: Risk Takers, Rule Breakers, and Innovators in African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora
Howard University
 April 22-23
African Languages in the Disciplines
Presented by the African Language Program in the Department of African and African American Studies, Co-sponsored with the Committee on African Studies
Harvard University
On Exhibit until April 30
John Wilson: Prints and Drawings
Martha Richardson Fine Art, 38 Newbury Street, Boston
May 21-23
France Noire / Black France
Film Festival
Forum des Images
Paris, France
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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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