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This month we celebrate the beginning of a new academic year! Our new fellows have arrived, and tonight is the opening reception of our new exhibit in the Rudenstine Gallery. In conjunction with the publication of the first four books of the ten-book
Image of the Black in Western Art series, the W. E. B. Du Bois
Institute and Harvard Art Museums present Africans in Black and White: Black
Figures in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints. Artists include Albrecht Dürer,
Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens -- we hope you can join us for this special reception! Next week we kick-off our Wednesday colloquia series with special guest Mark Warren. Also, please see below for media from our recent panel on Martha's Vineyard, which was possibly our most exciting and engaging Vineyard event yet! Please read on for details...
Vera Grant
Executive Director
Visit our website for information about our events, projects, and publications.
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Our Annual Martha's Vineyard Event
Locked Up, Locked Out:
Black Men in America
Watch the Webcast of Locked Up, Locked Out: Black Men in America
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 New from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
FACES of AMERICA
How 12
Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts
Boston Globe Book Review
Purchase your copy
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September 24th, 5pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Co-Sponsored with the Department of African and African American Studies and the Committee on African Studies
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Tu-Th, Oct 5-7, 4pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center
12 Quincy St, Cambridge
Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series
Harold Holzer
Abraham Lincoln and the Hand of Freedom: Maxim & Monument, Memory & Myth
Tu, Oct 5, 4pm
The Bow of Promise: Lincoln, Liberty, and the Artillery of Silence
We, Oct 6, 4pm
True to the Cause: Revisiting the Prose and Poetry of Emancipation
Th, Oct 7, 4pm
Space for One Stone: The Iconography of Freedom Reconsidered
Harold Holzeris the Co-Chairman Emeritus, U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and Senior Vice President for External Affairs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Th, Oct 21, 5:30pm Reception
Fr, Oct 22, 9am-5pm Symposium
The Lab, Northwest Science
Building, 52 Oxford St, Cambridge
Reception and Symposium
Africa in Motion
A University-wide celebration of Africa, this symposium is situated at The Lab - a brandnew, innovative space that transcends the boundaries between the arts and sciences. Africa in Motion offers a unique experience to engage with Harvard's Africanist faculty, students, and fellows. Interdisciplinary panel discussions and multimedia installations highlight the wide-ranging and robust Africanist initiatives in virtually every academic discipline at Harvard, and with partners across the continent.
Presented by The Committee on African Studies.
Co-sponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
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104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA 02138
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In the Rudenstine Gallery
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Opening
Reception
TONIGHT!
September 2nd,6:00-8:00pm
Africans in Black & White
Images of Blacks in 16th- & 17th-Century Prints Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, The Beheading of John the Baptist, 1640. Harvard Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Jakob Rosenberg.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, 2010Symposium on November 15th, 2010 |
Our Weekly Colloquia are Held Wednesdays, from Noon to 1:30, in the Thompson Room (Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge).
A Question and Answer Period Will Follow Each Talk. Please Feel Free to Bring a Lunch.
September 8th
 Mark R. Warren
Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace
Racial Justice
Books Will be Available for Purchase
September 15th
Jonathan Munby
Senior Lecturer in American Studies
and Film Studies, Lancaster University
Which Way Does the Blood River Run? Julian
Mayfield and the Politics of Oblivion
September 22nd
 David Bindman
Professor Emeritus of Art History, University
College London
Getting out the Image of the Black in Western
Art
September 29th
Adrienne Childs
Independent Scholar
Ornamental Blackness: The Black Body in European
Decorative Arts 1700-1900 |
Community and National Events Listing
To post an event, send an email to iDBI@fas.harvard.edu
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 Now Showing Until September 20th
The Life and Times of Congressman
Robert Smalls, 1839-1915
Museum of African American History
46 Joy Street, Boston, MA 02114
September 7, 5pm
CAS Annual Welcome Reception
Harvard University Committee on African Studies
Cambridge, Massachusetts
September 15, 4-6pm
Andrew Preston
"Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy"
1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS-South), Room S-050.
Charles Warren Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts
September 20, 4pm
Christopher Fennell
"African Atlantic Archaeology, Cultural Complexities and Multiscalar Dynamics"
Harvard University Committee on African Studies
Cambridge, Massachusetts
 September 20, 6:30pm
Come to the Cabaret
A panel discussion at the A.R.T.
Humanities Center at Harvard
Oberon, 2 Arrow Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts
September 23, 5:30pm
Lorenz J. Finison
"Boston's Black Bicyclists of the 1890s"
Museum of African American History
46 Joy Street, Boston, MA 02114
September 24, 2-4pm
Charles Postel
"Populism and the State: A Neo-Progressive Assessment"
1737 Cambridge Street (CGIS-North), Room K-262.
Charles Warren Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts
September 28, 4-6pm
Thomas Bender
"Rethinking American History in a Global Age: The Final La Pietra Report, Ten Years Later."
Robinson Hall Lower Library
Charles Warren Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts
September 28, 4pm
Noel Twagiramungu
"Rwanda 1994-2010: Some Keys to Understanding Post-Genocide Trends and Challenges"
Harvard University Committee on African Studies
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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