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W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Newsletter - September 2011
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We kicked off the fall term at the Du Bois Institute with our Special Guest Colloquium Speaker Series which featured John Stauffer, Randall Kennedy, and Elizabeth Alexander. We've also enjoyed a visit from Julian Bond, who awarded Isabel Wilkerson with the 2011 Horace Mann Bond Book Award at our opening party. Our new fellows are here (see below for their bios) and their colloquium series begins today with Angela Ards. You'll see several exciting events in the next few weeks, and this is just the beginning! Please join us!
Vera Ingrid Grant
Executive Director
Visit our website for information about our events, projects, and publications.
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Harvard Kennedy School, Women and Public Policy Program Presents:
SISTER CITIZEN SHAME, STEREOTYPES, AND BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA Melissa Harris-Perry
Professor of Political Science, Tulane University Thursday, September 22, 11:40am - 1:00pm Taubman Building 5th Floor NYE ABC Kennedy School Campus 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Free and open to the public Co-sponsored with: Harvard College Women's Center |
The Department of African and African American Studies Presents:
"Interrogating the Afro-Latin American Experience" Speaker Series __________________
Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 4:00PM Frank Guridy University of Texas, Austin Neither Race Men nor Tragic Mulatas: Afro-Puerto Ricans and the Imperial Transition, 1898 - 1917 Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 1st Floor 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Reception Follows Lecture
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Friday, October 7, 2011, 12:00PM Alejandro de la Fuente University of Pittsburgh Racial Democracy in Latin America: Lessons from the Cuban Revolution Location: Tsai Auditorium - CGIS-South 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA Reception at 1:30 PM |
New Perspectives on the Life and Work of Eric Williams Conference On the Centenary of the Birth of Eric Williams 
September 24-25, 2011 St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford For further information contact Erica Williams Connell: ewmc@ewmc-tt.org or tel (305) 271-7246, (305) 905-9999 Co-sponsored by St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK; W. E. B. Du Bois Institute; Eric Williams Memorial Collection Research Library, Archives & Museum, University of the West Indies, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK |
Randall Kennedy & Touré in Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. September 29, 2011, 6:00 pm  
Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School professor, and Touré, cultural critic, discuss racial politics in the "age of Obama" Location: The Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle St, Harvard Square, Cambridge MA, tel 617 876-6837, info@brattlefilm.org Co-sponsored with the Harvard Book Store Tickets available at harvard.com |
Romare Bearden:
The Visual Culture of Collage
October 12, 2011, 6:00 PM Exhibition Opening and Reception Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery W. E. B. Du Bois Institute 104 Mt Auburn St, 3R, Cambridge MA 617.495.8508 |
Wednesday, September 21, 4:30 - 6:00 pm Professor Jill Lepore Reading Tea Leaves: Historians, Journalists, and American Politics Lippmann House, 1 Francis Avenue, Cambridge |
Thursday, September 22, 2011 Opening of "Creative Survival: African American Foodways in Rhode Island" Johnson & Wales University Culinary Arts Museum, 315 Harborside Blvd. Providence, RI 02905 This groundbreaking exhibit will open with a lecture, and food tasting on Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 5:30pm at Johnson and Wales' Culinary Arts Museum, 315 Harborside Blvd., Providence, RI. The event, funded by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH), is free and open to the public. Nationally-known New York restaurateur and cookbook author, Norma Jean Darden, who co-wrote Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine, will give a keynote talk about food as memory and memoir. The exhibit explores the never-before-told story of African American cooking in Rhode Island from South County plantations to East Side of Providence farms, from church suppers to soul food restaurants. It showcases the ingenuity of Black food in slavery, survival and celebration. |
Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts
Institute Presents:
Music by Maureen Reyes Lavastida And Works From Berklee's Exchange with Cuba The concert will feature live performances and multimedia works by composers from Berklee's recent exchange with Cuba including: MAUREEN REYES, LILLIA BETZ, CHRISTIAN LEE, MADAI LICOR, SIGRIED MACÍAS, ARIANNIS MARIÑO, MONICA O'REILLY, and DAVID PLACERES The concert will be followed by a discussion on the exchange and a short video documenting Berklee in Cuba. Concert: Thursday, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m. Berklee School of Music 1A, 1140 Boylston Street. 02215 Free and open to the public.
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Black Documentary Collective (BDC) at Harlem Stage
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Daisy Bates:
First Lady of Little Rock
Q&A with director Sharon La Cruise
Moderated by filmmaker & BDC member Carol Bash
Wine & Cheese Reception to follow
$10 -- purchase tickets here
Harlem Stage, 150 Convent Avenue, New York, NY
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Sojourner Truth Jubilee
Sunday, September 25, 2011  First Churches, 129 Main Street, Northampton, MA |
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Monday September 26, 2011, 5:15-7:00 pm
Islam in Nigeria: A Conversation in Preparation of the Visit of the Sultan of Sokoto
On October 3, 2011, Muhammadu Sa'adu Abubakar III, the 20th Sultan of Sokoto, will visit Harvard University. In preview of this distinguished visit, four experts discuss the historical, cultural, and religious significance of Islam in Nigeria, and the role of the sultan in particular. Reception to follow.
Presenters include: Hauwa Ibrahim, Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies and Islamic Law at Harvard Divinity School; Jacob Olupona, Professor of African Religious Traditions at Harvard Divinity School; and M. Sani Umar, Professor of Religion at Northwestern University.
LOCATION: Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138
INFORMATION:
For more information please contact Lexi Gewertz at
agewertz@hds.harvard.edu
or call (617)495-4476
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Cuban Studies Program Special Event:
Último Jueves @ Harvard
Desarrollo Social, Crecimiento y Participación en América Latina y el Caribe
Thursday, September 29, 4-6pm
Moderator: Rafael M. Hernández
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room, S-020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(This event will be held in Spanish.)
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Wednesday, October 5, 4-6pm Julian Go (Boston University) America's Patrimonial Empire Presented by Harvard's International and Global History Seminar. 1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS-South), Room S-050, Cambridge, MA 02138 |
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA 02138
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  Review of Inaugural Colloquium with Professor John Stauffer: "Black Confederates: Their numbers in Civil War were small, but have symbolic value"
 Congratulations to Professor Roland Fryer, Former Associate Director of the Du Bois Institute, for being awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Grant!: "Three named MacArthur Fellows: Harvard's Fryer, Greiner, and Nock honored with 'genius' grants"
Watch an Interview with Professor Fryer at WBUR.org  Also, congratulations to Tiya Miles, undergraduate alumni of Harvard's Department of African and African American Studies ('82), on being awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship!
 
Ada Ferrer in the Interrogating the Afro-Latin American Experience Speaker Series: "Professor Speaks on Significance of Haitian Revolution" |
Fellows Linda Heywood and John Thornton featured on ABC radio: "The Goodlife, St James and the Kongo"
Fellow Anna-Lisa Cox's featured in the Detroit Free Press: "Rural west Michigan Covert Township integrated quietly in the 1860s" |
FALL COLLOQUIUM SERIES
 September 21
ANGELA ARDS Assistant Professor of English, Southern Methodist University The Faithful, Fighting, Writing Life of June Jordan  September 28
PAOLO ASSO Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Africa in Roman Epic  October 5
MATTHEW HUNT Associate Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University The First Black President? Cross-Racial Perceptions of Barack Obama's Race
DOWNLOAD THE FULL COLLOQUIUM CALENDAR All colloquia are held from Noon-1:30pm in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Please feel free to bring a lunch.
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ATTENTION HARVARD STUDENTS:
Paid Research Positions with Du Bois Institute Fellows are now available on the Student Employment Website: seo.harvard.edu
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| Recent Events @ The Institute |
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Julian Bond
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Horace Mann Bond Book Award
Presented to Isabel Wilkerson for "The Warmth of Other Suns"
September 7, 2011
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John Stauffer
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Special Guest Colloquia:
John Stauffer
Black Confederates in History and Myth
August 31, 2011
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Special Location: Harvard Faculty Club
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Randall Kennedy
The Persistence of the Color Line
September 7, 2011
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 | | Fellow Darlene Clark Hine asks a question |
Elizabeth Alexander Cemetery for the Illustrious Negro Dead: A Prehistory of African American Studies September 14, 2011
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Transition
Transition 106, forthcoming this fall, is our 50th Anniversary Issue. We celebrate Transition's storied history and our founding in Uganda in 1961 by Rajat Neogy, joyfully invoking familiar names: Wole Soyinka, Paul Theroux, Ali Mazrui, F. Abiola Irele, Ilan Stavans, and Michael Vazquez. But the purpose of this special issue is not to tell a seamless story about Transition's journey from Africa to the Diaspora. On the contrary, we are especially interested in the moments when the seams rip and the patterns change. It is in these gaps that we find the unresolved questions that continue to drive the magazine today, and that necessitate further exploration. Contemporary writing, photography and artwork from Uganda are also featured, with a foreword by Elizabeth Palchik Allen.
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Editors: Tommie Shelby, Glenda Carpio, Vincent Brown
Visual Arts Editor: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
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 Du Bois Review
The Fall issue of the Du Bois Review (8.2, Forthcoming) features a previously unpublished essay by W.E.B. Du Bois entitled "The Social Significance of Booker T. Washington," with an introductory essay by Robert Brown. The issue, entitled "The Upward path: Du Bois Revisited," also features a symposium on Du Bois as a political philosopher, guest edited by Jack Turner; a critical analysis of the Moynihan Report and its aftermaths by Herbert J. Gans; review essays of William Julius Wilson's More Than Just Race and the author's response; andother important research. A complete table of contents will be available at the Cambridge Journals website soon.
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Editors: Lawrence D. Bobo and Michael C. Dawson
Book Review Editor: Tyrone Forman
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October 12th - Opening and Reception for "Romare Beaden: The Visual Culture of Collage" at the Rudenstine Gallery
October 21st - "Art, Architecture, and Activism: The Sugar Hill Project" at the Askwith Forum, featuring Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Steven Seidel, David Adjaye, Ellen Baxter, and Faith Ringgold |
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Freedom Rising: Emancipation
and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.
150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
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The 54th Massachusetts Regiment at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina, July 18, 1863. Mural at the Recorder of Deeds building, District of Columbia, 1943
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Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, the Houghton Library, and the Departments of African and African American Studies and American Civilization are joining with the National Park Service's Boston National Historical Park and Boston African American National Historic Site and with the Museum of African American History to celebrate the impact of the Proclamation and the recruitment of black soldiers in a hemispheric-wide context. Among the activities will be a keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner.
To join in the celebration or for more information contact Donald Yacovone, Research Manager, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. yacovone@fas.harvard.edu
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