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W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Newsletter - Winter Break 2012
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 This week we begin our exciting spring event schedule with Caroline Elkins presenting "Mau Mau on Trial: Historical Revisionism and the High Court of Justice." Then we hope to see you at 104 Mount Auburn Street for the opening of our spring exhibit in the Rudenstine Gallery, "Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art". Please see below for details on these events and more, as well as the latest news from the Institute, and information on our new group of resident fellows.
Abby Wolf
Interim Executive Director
Visit our website for information about our events, projects, and publications.
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Special Guest Colloquium
Wednesday, January 25, 12:00pm
Chair of the Committee on African Studies; Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Mau Mau on Trial:
Historical Revisionism and the High Court of Justice Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (map) Free and open to the public. A question and answer session will follow the lecture. Please feel free to bring a lunch.
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QUELOIDES
RACE AND RACISM IN CUBAN CONTEMPORARY ART
Discussion and Opening Reception
January 25th
4:00pm: Curators in Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Hiphop Archive, Du Bois Institute Floor 2R, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge
5:30pm: Opening Reception
Rudenstine Gallery, Du Bois Institute Floor 3R, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge
On View January 25 - May 30, 2012
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Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series
Allen C. Guelzo
Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era; Director, Civil Way Era Studies Program, Gettysburg College
Abraham Lincoln in 1862: The Year of Jubilee
Tuesday, Jan. 31: "You Got to Break Your Own Chains": The Unwanting of Abraham Lincoln
Wednesday, Feb. 1: "Man Ain't Nothin' But a Man": The Anti-Slavery World of Abraham Lincoln
Thursday, Feb. 2: "Have You Got Good Religion?": Lincoln's God and Emancipation
Lectures take place at the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge (map) .
Free and open to the public. A Q&A and reception will follow each lecture. |
Special Guest Colloquium
Wednesday, February 1, 12:00pm
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University
Affirming Opportunity in the Barack Obama Era
Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (map)
Free and open to the public. A question and answer session will follow the lecture. Please feel free to bring a lunch.
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McMillan-Stewart Lecture Series
Frederick Cooper
Professor of History, New York University
Africa in the World
Tuesday, Feb. 14: Africa and Capitalism
Wednesday, Feb. 15: Africa and the Empire
Thursday, Feb. 16: Africa and the Nation-State
Lectures take place at the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge (map) .
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The Committee on African Studies
Friday, January 27, 2pm
The Literary Magazine
in a Globalized Age with Billy Kahora, editor of Kwani? Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Monday, February 6, 5:30pm Famine in the Horn of Africa Introduction from Dr. Paul Farmer Radcliffe Gym, Harvard University
Thursday, February 9, 12:00pm
Harvard Africa Seminar
Chris Roy Professor of the History of Art, Elizabeth M. Stanley Faculty Fellow of African Art History Connoisseurship and West African Art:
Contexts and Complexities Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue
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The Harvard Film Archive
Saturday, January 28, 7pm
Filmmaker Claire Denis Presents
White Material screening with the director
After Chocolat and Beau travail, Claire Denis returns to Africa for the setting of her latest feature film, which also marks her first collaboration with Isabelle Huppert.
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/
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The Charles Warren Center for
Studies in American History
Monday, January 30, 4-6pm
Jessica Wang
(University of British Columbia)
"Physics, Emotion, and the Scientific Self: Merle Tuve's Cold War"
Presented by the Workshop on the Politics of
Knowledge in Universities and the State
Robinson Hall Basement Conference Room
Wednesday, February 15, 4-6pm
Tanisha Fazal
(Columbia University)
"Declaring War and Peace"
Presented by Harvard's International
and Global History Seminar
1730 Cambridge Street (CGIS-South), Room S-050
http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu
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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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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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Now Accepting Applications for 2012-2013 Resident Fellowships
Deadline: January 31, 2012
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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.
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Attention Harvard Students:
Job Opportunities Now Posted at the Student Employment Website |
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Webcasts
Charles J. Ogletree, "Understanding Obama"
(view)
Eddie S. Glaude Jr., "Pragmatic Reconstructions" (view)
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Transition 
Issue 107 (Feb. 2012) The African diaspora is defined as much by mutual misunderstanding as by solidarity. Issue 107, Blending Borders, intercepts and interprets these crossed signals: between a young Rwandan-American writer and the African-American artist she admires, between Indian and black South Africans, between gay communities and the culture at large, and, as ever, between "travelers" and "natives." There's a lot to consider in this truly global issue.
Transition celebrated 50 years since its founding at the New Museum in NYC. View photos from this memorable event on our Facebook page!
Editors: Tommie Shelby, Glenda Carpio, Vincent Brown
Visual Arts Editor: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
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 Du Bois Review
The spring 2012 issue (9.1) includes a special selection of six essays entitled "Varieties of Responses to Stigmatization: Macro, Meso, and Micro Factors", guest edited by DBR Editorial Board member Michèle Lamont (Harvard University) with Jessica S. Welburn (University of Michigan) and Crystal Fleming (Harvard University). The issue also includes an examination of "Seven Myths of Race and the Young Child" by Lawrence A. Hirschfeld and several review essays.
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Editors: Lawrence D. Bobo and Michael C. Dawson
Book Review Editor: Tyrone Forman
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