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W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Newsletter - November 2011
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A bit of magic for you this evening: Four outstanding scholars on Romare Bearden, moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., followed by the opening of the Rudenstine Gallery: over 20 original Bearden works on view. Please join us! Also this month, Afro-Latin@s Now! begins in NYC; Special events in the Hiphop Archive; and our Huggins and Du Bois Lectures. Take a moment to read news, features and/or top rated articles on the Root.com by our Fellows, check out pictures of the Sugar Hill and Library of America events, or stop by one of our colloquia. You will find much more below. We hope you are off to a great November, too.
Vera Ingrid Grant
Executive Director
Visit our website for information about our events, projects, and publications.
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Color and Construction:
The Intimate Vision of Romare Bearden
Panel Discussion:
Wednesday, November 2, 6:00pm
Moderator: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Panelists: Mary Schmidt Campbell, Jacqueline Francis, Diedra Harris-Kelley, and Patricia Hills
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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International Conference
Th, Nov 3, 6 pm - Opening Plenary Panel and Reception, The Schomburg Center, New York City
Fr, Nov 4, 8:30 am - Panel Discussions, The CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
Sa, Nov 5, 12 pm - Family and Youth Day, El Museo del Barrio, New York City
For locations and registration information, visit afrolatinoforum.org
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November 10, 2011, 5:00 PM
From Attica to Abolition: An Evening to Honor Edwin (Eddie) Ellis
Hosted by Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Panelists: Soffiyah Elijah, Edwin (Eddie) Ellis, Kaia Stern,Christopher Stone Austin Hall, Ames Courtroom, Harvard Law School 1515 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA |
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Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series
Charles J. Ogletree
Jesse Climenko Professor of Law;
Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
Understanding Obama
Tuesday, Nov. 15: From Barry to Barack Wednesday, Nov. 16: The Emergence of Race Thursday, Nov. 17: The Conundrum of Race
Lectures take place at the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge.
Free and open to the public. A Q&A and reception will follow each lecture. |
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"Author Meets the Critics"
 November 17, 4-6 PM
hiphoparchive.org
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Talk and Film Screening
 November 18, 4-7 PM
hiphoparchive.org
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W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Department of Religion, and Chair, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University
Pragmatic Reconstructions: the Prophetic, the Heroic, and the Democratic
Tuesday, Nov. 29: The Prophetic Wednesday, Nov. 30: The Heroic Thursday, Dec. 1: The Democratic
Lectures take place at the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge.
Free and open to the public. A Q&A and reception will follow each lecture. |
Alina Payne and Michael Hays invite you to
Hashim Sarkis
Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies
A Second Functionalism: Form, Flexibility, and the Architecture of Schools in the United States during the 1950s
Wednesday November 9th, 6:30 PM
Sackler Museum Room 515 485 Broadway Harvard University |
| Panel Discussion hosted by the Harvard and Slavery Research Project
Harvard and Slavery: Seeking a Forgotten History
Featuring presentations by students, comments by Craig Wilder, Professor of History of MIT, and a discussion moderated by Evelyn Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard
Wednesday, November 16th, 5:15pm-7:00pm
Gund Hall (Graduate School of Design)
Portico Rooms, 121-123
48 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
more info 48 Quincy St
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The History Department presents
New Directions in Latin American History
Speaker Series
Professor Byron Hamann
The Marked Soul: Time and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Valencia and New Spain November 14th, 4:00 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Professor Nara Milanich A History of Family Rights in Twentieth-Century Latin America November 29th, 4:00 pm
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Professor Maria Elena Martinez Antonio de León y Gama and the "Enlightened" Creole Science of Race in Eighteenth-Century New Spain December 1st, 4:00 pm
CGIS S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge 48 uincy St
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104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA 02138
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FALL COLLOQUIUM SERIES
 November 2
Jenni Case
Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
Educating Engineers Towards a "World Worth Living In": A Post-Apartheid South African Perspective
 November 9
Raymond Atuguba
Senior Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ghana
Three Ways of Looking at Law in Africa
 November 16
Robert Prince
Deputy Director of the Academic Development Programme, University of Cape Town
South African Higher Education: The Future is Certain, the Past is Unpredictable, or is it?
 November 30
Robin Bernstein
Guest Lecturer and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Psychological Damage or Resistance? Re-Evaluating the Clark Doll Tests through the Lens of Performance Studies
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All colloquia are held from Noon-1:30pm in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring a lunch. |
 Congratulations to Resident Fellow Stephen Tuck
for being awarded the Religion and American Culture Caucus (RAAC) Paper Prize for 2011 for his paper, entitled, "The Doubts of Their Fathers: The Secular Origins of the Civil Rights Movement"
View Stephen's Bio |
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From Alumni Fellow Claudine Raynaud
Call for Papers:
Writing Slavery after Beloved: Literature, Historiography, Criticism
Université de Nantes, France
March 16-17, 2012
more info
Updated Deadline for proposals: November 15th, 2011
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Application for 2012-2013 Resident Fellowships Now Available
Deadline: January 31, 2012
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| Recent Events @ the Institute |
Art, Architecture, and Activism: The Sugar Hill Project
Panel Discussion
Friday, October 21, 2011
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 Harlem Renaissance Novels: The Library of America Collection
Author Reception
Monday, October 24, 2011
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Transition
How is it possible to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of a magazine that has spanned three countries, two continents, and several long stretches of silence?
Visit our website to find out, and join us on December 8 in NYC for our 50th Anniversary Event at the New Museum. SUBSCRIBE Editors: Tommie Shelby, Glenda Carpio, Vincent Brown
Visual Arts Editor: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw Twitter Facebook
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 Du Bois Review
Our Fall issue (8.2) is online, featuring 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," features three free articles as well as 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. View the table of contents.
SUBSCRIBE
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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