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 November begins in Cambridge with a chill in the air and Appiah at the helm. Come to the Du Bois Lectures beginning today at 4PM. Three afternoons of K. Anthony Appiah: first he will present on: "The World, the Negro, and Africa: Themes in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois;" Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 4PM, followed up on Thursday evening with a reading from his new book: The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen at the Harvard Book Store at 7PM. Coming up and not to be missed: the "Image of the Black in Western Art" Symposium; the Fellows Workshop; Edwidge Danticat; a Lyrical Workout Session at the Hiphop Archive, and much more. We end the month with the start of the Condoleezza Rice Lectures on "American Foreign Policy and the Black Experience." I think that's full circle. Please enjoy our newsletter below that provides all the details and we hope to see you soon!
Vera Ingrid Grant
Executive Director
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Tu-Th, Nov 2-4, 4pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center
12 Quincy St, Cambridge
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
Tu, Nov 2, 4pm
The World
We, Nov 3, 4pm
The Negro
Th, Nov 4, 4pm
Africa
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Th, Nov 4, 7pm
Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave,
Cambridge
Book Reading/Signing
K. Anthony Appiah
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
In the last few centuries, new democratic ideals have circled the globe, emancipating women, slaves, and the powerless. In The Honor Code, Appiah explores a striking paradox: the engine of these changes that made the modern world was the very ancient sense of honor. He examines the end of the duel in aristocratic England, struggles over footbinding in 19th-century China, the uprising of ordinary people against Atlantic slavery, and confronts the horrors of honor killing in contemporary Pakistan, where rape victims are murdered by their relatives. He offers an account of honor, drawing on historical investigations, and shows how honor is an essential component of every movement for moral reform.
K. Anthony Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.
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 Su, Nov 14, 4-6pm Film Screening
Reflecting Skin screening and discussion with filmmaker and novelist Bonnie Greer
Thompson Room, Barker Center
12 Quincy St, Cambridge
Mo, Nov 15, 2-5pm Symposium
Thompson Room, Barker Center
12 Quincy St, Cambridge
Mo, Nov 15, 5pm Reception
Du Bois Institute's Rudenstine
Gallery, 104 Mt. Auburn St, 3R,
Cambridge
M. Victor Leventritt Symposium
The Image of the Black in Western Art
Moderator
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Harvard University
Panelists
David Bindman
Harvard University and
University College London
Paul Kaplan
State University of New York, Purchase
Joseph Koerner
Harvard University
Elmer Kolfin
University of Amsterdam
Jeremy Tanner
University College London
Symposium held in conjunction with the publication of the first books in the series The Image of the Black in Western Art by Harvard University Press, and the exhibition Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints, on view in the Rudenstine Gallery from
September 2 through December 3, 2010.
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University Press, and the Harvard Book Store.
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We, Nov 17, 7pm
First Parish Church, 3 Church St,
Harvard Square, Cambridge
Cambridge Forum Series
Edwidge Danticat
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Introduction by
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Presented with the Harvard Book Store.
Edwige Danticat is author of several books, including Brother, I'm Dying, the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Autobiography.
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 Th, Nov 18
Hiphop Archive, 104 Mt. Auburn St,
Floor 2R, Cambridge
Hiphop Archive Scholarship Series
Lyrical Workout Session
Lyrical Workout Session is the first in the Hiphop Archive Scholarship Series. It features an Open Lyrics Reading by
Harvard Faculty and special guests, a signing for the newly
released book The Anthology of Rap, and lyrical analysis activities that will spark dialogue.
2-4pm Open Lyrics Reading
Students and Faculty will read from The Anthology of Rap
Hiphop Archive Lobby Space, 104 Mt. Auburn St., Floor 2R.
4-6pm Author Meets the Critics
The Anthology of Rap, Edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois. Critics: Cheryl Keyes, Jamaica Kincaid, and Emmett G. Price III.
The Hiphop Archive, 104 Mt. Auburn St., Floor 2R.
6-7pm Reception and Book Signing
Hutchins Family Seminar Room, 104 Mt. Auburn St., Floor 2R.
For more information: 617-496-8885
E-mail inquiries: info@hiphoparchive.org
www.hiphoparchive.org
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 Fr-Sa, Nov 19-20
University of Massachusetts
Boston, Campus Center
100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston
Symposium
The Forgotten Epidemic HIV/AIDS: Crisis in Black America
This symposium explores how and why, in the U.S., HIV/AIDS
has become an overwhelmingly Black disease. Presenters
include people living with HIV, government officials, health care providers, scientists/researchers, faith-, youth- and community based organizations.
Presented by the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research (HU CFAR), The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), national and local partners. Co-sponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and the Hiphop Archive.
For more information: 617-384-9048
E-mail inquiries: cfar@harvard.edu
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 Tu, Nov 30, 4pm
JFK Forum, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
We-Th, Dec 1-Dec 2, 4pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center
12 Quincy St, Cambridge
W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
Condoleezza Rice
American Foreign Policy & the Black Experience
Tu, Nov 30, 4pm
The National Interest, Africa and the African Diaspora: Does U.S. Foreign Policy Connect the Dots?
We, Dec 1, 4pm
Multiethnic Democracy: Is the American Experience
Unique?
Th, Dec 2, 4pm
Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad
Condoleezza Rice is the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Former U.S. Secretary of State.
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 Resident Fellow Omar Wasow discussing the recent spike in Boston homicides on the Callie Crossley Show |
FALL 2010 FELLOWS' WORKSHOPS
Liberalism Without Legs:
Porgy, the Negro Vogue, and the Cultural Cold War
Presented by Todd Carmody
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin
Monday, Nov 8, 2010, 12:00-2:00pm
-read abstract-
What has Marxism Contributed (or not contributed)
to Theories of African American Liberation?
Presented by Mark Solomon
Professor Emeritus of History at Simmons College
Monday, Dec 6, 2010, 12:00-2:00pm
-read abstract-
All workshops will be held in the Hutchins Library
at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute.
RSVP required. Call 617-495-8508
or email: dbi_desk@fas.harvard.edu.
Papers will be distributed upon your reservation.
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Previous Fellows' Workshop
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Wednesdays, Noon-1:30, Free and Open to the Public
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
THIS WEEK:
 November 3rd Todd CarmodyPostdoctoral Fellow, Freie Universität BerlinTrading in Sorrow: Racialized Feeling and Transatlantic Black PerformanceThis project examines the circulation of African American spirituals in Germany from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the global economies of historical memory, reification, and solidarity, in which the sorrow songs take on local meaning. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, I begin by tracing the legacy of the Fisk Jubilee Singers' nineteenth-century European tours to the German performances of contemporary African American gospel groups. Subsequent chapters will examine Paul Robeson's celebrity in communist East Germany and black-Jewish analogies under the Nazis and in post-Holocaust memorial culture. Contributing to recent work on cosmopolitanism and transnational American studies, this project suggests that the cultural distance traveled by the spirituals illustrates both the potential and the precariousness of a universalizing politics grounded in the particularity of racialized suffering. LATER THIS MONTH:November 10 Tobe LevinGuest Lecturer and Collegiate Professor, University of Maryland University College in EuropeThe Making of an African Diaspora Memoir: "Blood Stains. A Child of Africa Reclaims her Human Rights" with the author Khady KoitaNovember 17 Tomas Fernández RobainaGuest Lecturer and Researcher, Biblioteca Nacional, HavanaRacism in the Cuban Cartoon
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In the Rudenstine Gallery
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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
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