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We interrupt your glorious summer days with bits of news and notes: Must-read shorts: Wole Soyinka's "Between Truths and Indulgences" and Howard
Dodson's Message "The Schomburg and its Collections are Safe and Secure
in Harlem." More reads: Skip Gates' Faces of America is available,
plus new publications from our endowed lecture series. Upcoming in
August: book readings, panel discussions, exhibits, and more. Please
read below for all of this, plus previews of our new Fall Fellows and
our exquisite fall gallery installation: Africans in Black and White.
We hope to see many of you at our annual panel discussion on Martha's
Vineyard! Or we will see you in September...
Vera Grant
Executive Director
Visit our website for information about our events, projects, and publications.
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Annual Martha's Vineyard Event
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
LOCKED OUT, LOCKED UP
Black Men in America
Host
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director,
Du Bois Institute, Harvard University
Moderator
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Journalist
Panelists
Michelle Alexander
Associate Professor of Law, Ohio State University
R. Dwayne Betts
Poet/Advocate
Charles M. Blow
Visual Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Lawrence D. Bobo
W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences,
Harvard University
Bob Herbert
Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Location
Old Whaling Church
89 Main Street, Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard
Tickets available from August 2 on Martha's Vineyard
·Alley's General Store, West Tisbury, 508-693-0088
·Bunch of Grapes, Vineyard Haven, 508-693-2291
·C'est La Vie, Oak Bluffs, 508-693-6181
Limit 2 tickets/person, general admission, event is free
Books will be sold and signed
at a reception for ticket holders at 3 pm on the Daniel Fisher House Terrace, 99 Main
Street (adjacent to the
Old Whaling Church).
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Also on the Vineyard This Summer:
 Wednesday, August 18th, 11:00am
The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice presents its Annual Martha's Vineyard Event
Race, Religion and Reason
Featuring James
Bowman, J. Kameron Carter, Stephen L. Carter, Laura Cole, Adelaide Cromwell, Eddie Glaude, Jr., Leslie M. Harris, Melissa
Harris-Lacewell, J. Bryan Hehir, Mark Lilla, Howard Nelson, Nell Irvin Painter, and John Rector
Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center, Martha's Vineyard Regional High
School
Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, Oak Bluffs, MA
 Wednesday, August 18th, 7:30pm
Alumni Fellows Emily Bernard and Deborah Willis discuss their new book: Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs
Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, 44 Main Street, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
August 19th-22nd
Weekend Renewing America's Promise (W.R.A.P)
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Opening Party with the Department of African and African American Studies
September 9th, 2010
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Coming to the Rudenstine Gallery...
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Opening
Reception
September 2nd,6:00-8:00pm
Africans in Black & White
Images of Blacks in 16th- & 17th-Century Prints Curated byDavid Bindman, Anna KnaapThe exhibition celebrates the publication of the first books in the series The Image of the Black in Western Art by Harvard University Press, and features prints from the Harvard Art Museums and private collections.Exhibition on view
September 2nd through December 3rd, 2010
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Community and National Events Listing
To post an event, send an email to iDBI@fas.harvard.edu
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Colson Whitehead
reads from
Sag Harbor
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 New from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
FACES of AMERICA
How 12
Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts
NYU Press New Book Flash
Purchase your copy
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The Schomburg and its Collections are Safe and Secure in Harlem
A Message from Howard Dodson
View PDF
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Wole Soyinka, 1986 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and alumni Du Bois Fellow, on Africa's Role in the Slave Trade
"Between Truths and Indulgences"
Part I Part II
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Now Showing Until August 27th
Joanna Lipper Featured in Picturing Power and Potential Photography Exhibition
Presented by the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and the
International Museum of Women
401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
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Our endowed lecture series feature renowned scholars presenting new original
work which unfold over three consecutive
evenings. The talks are then published as monographs. 2010 has already seen the publication of works by Neil Foley, Paul Gilroy, Sidney Mintz, and Robert Stepto --- with publications by Kenneth Warren and Peter H. Wood on the way.
To browse and order publications from the W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series, please click here.
To browse and order publications from the Nathan I. Huggins Lecture
Series, please click here.
For lists of previous lectures, please click here.
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Endowed Lectures Coming in Fall 2010:
September 21-23
Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series
Rudolph P. Byrd
Other Voices Within the Veil:
The Emergence of the Black Queer Subject in 20th Century African American Literature & Culture
October 5-7
Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series
Harold Holzer
Abraham Lincoln and the Hand of Freedom:
Maxim & Monument, Memory & Myth
November 2-4
W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
K. Anthony Appiah
The World, The Negro, & Africa:
Themes in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois
November 30-December 2
W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
Condoleezza Rice
American Foreign Policy & the Black Experience
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