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W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Newsletter - October 2011
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Autumn Greetings! We're pleased to present several exciting events this month, beginning with today's colloquium presentation from Darlene Clark Hine, "Rehearsal for Freedom: Black Women Health Professionals in South Carolina before Brown." Next week we'll hear from David Bindman, editor of the Image of the Black in Western Art Book Series. And next Friday don't miss the panel discussion, "Art, Architecture, and Activism: The Sugar Hill Project". For more events, details and the latest news, please see below.
Vera Ingrid Grant
Executive Director
Visit our website for information about our events, projects, and publications.
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Art, Architecture, and Activism: The Sugar Hill Project
A Discussion at the Askwith Forum Friday, October 21, 4:00pm Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University Moderator: Steven Seidel, Patricia Bauman and John Landrum Bryant Lecturer on Arts in Education and Director, Arts in Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education Panelists: David Adjaye, Adjaye Associates principal Ellen Baxter, Broadway Housing Communities executive director Faith Ringgold, artist and writer
Location: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Longfellow Building, Appian Way, Cambridge MA Presented with the Harvard Graduate School of Education |
Harlem Renaissance Novels:
The Library of America Collection
Author Reception
Monday October 24, 3:00pm  RAFIA ZAFAR, Professor of English, African American and American Culture Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, and editor of The Library of America's Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s and Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
104 Mt Auburn St, 3R, Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Color and Construction:
The Intimate Vision of Romare Bearden
Panel Discussion:
Wednesday, November 2, 6:00pm
Sackler Auditorium
485 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02138
Reception and Gallery Viewing at 7:30
Rudenstine Gallery
105 Mount Auburn Street, 3R,
Cambridge MA 02138
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November 3rd - 5th
Afro-Latin@s Now!
Strategies for Visibility and Action
International Conference
November 15th - 17th Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series November 17th Hiphop Archive Author Talk November 18th 9th Wonder & Screening of The Wonder Year Talk and Film Screening with Music Producer 9th Wonder at the Hiphop Archive November 29th - December 1st W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series In December: Transition Magazine 50th Anniversary Celebration Image of the Black in Western Art Discussion and Presentation DOWNLOAD THE EVENT CALENDAR PDF |
Thursday, October 13, 7:00pm
Tayari Jones
reads from
Silver Sparrow
harvard.com: Harvard Book Store is very pleased to welcome novelist and new Radcliffe Institute Fellow TAYARI JONES for a reading from her newest novel, Silver Sparrow. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families-the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich yet flawed characters-the father, the two mothers, the grandmother, and the uncle-she also reveals the joy, as well as the destruction, they brought to one another's lives. Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
Monday, October 17, 4-6pm Lisa Stampnitzky (University of Oxford; Warren Fellow) Problematizing Terrorism: Experts, Rational Knowledge, and Irrational Subjects Robinson Basement Seminar Room MORE INFO AND DOWNLOAD PAPER |
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA 02138
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  Paolo Asso's colloquium:
 
Linda Heywood and John Thorton: "Pinpointing DNA Ancestry in Africa"  WBUR:
Listen to Susan Reverby "Revisiting The Guatemalan Syphilis Experiments" |
Application for 2012-2013 Resident Fellowships Now Available
http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/application-process
Deadline: January 31, 2012
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FALL COLLOQUIUM SERIES
 October 12
DARLENE CLARK HINE Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History, Northwestern University Rehearsal for Freedom: Black Women Health Professionals in South Carolina before "Brown"  October 19
DAVID BINDMAN Professor Emeritus of Art History, University College London Getting out the Image of the Black in Western Art  October 26
JOYCELYN WILSON Independent Scholar The Miseducation of Hip-Hop: Cross-Generational Methodologies for Gaining Clearer Interpretations of the Leadership Language of the Post-Civil Rights/Millennium Generation
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Coming in November
November 2nd
Jenni Case
Educating Engineers Towards a 'World Worth Living In': A Post-Apartheid South African Perspective on Global Discussions in Engineering Education
November 9th
Raymond Atuguba
Three Ways of Looking at Law in Africa
November 16th
Robert Prince
Quantitative (Mathematical) Literacy
November 30th
Robin Bernstein
Psychological Damage or Resistance? Re-Evaluating the Clark Doll Tests through the Lens of Performance Studies
All colloquia are held from Noon-1:30pm in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
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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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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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