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W. E. B. Du Bois Institute - March Newsletter
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 Our Spring Events continue this month with Touré's 3-part Locke Lectures on the musician Prince, as well as colloquia from resident fellows Joshua Guild, Lorelle Semley, and Stephen Tuck. For the latest news, event details, and most recent webcasts, please see below.
Abby Wolf
Interim Executive Director
Visit our website for information about our events, projects, and publications.
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Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series
Touré
Cultural critic and author of Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now
I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became a Gen X Icon
Tuesday, March 20:
Prince and Gen X Apocalyptic Apathy
Wednesday, March 21:
Prince and Gen X Sexuality
Thursday, March 22:
Prince as Christ Figure
All lectures will be held from 4:00-5:30pm.
Lectures on Tuesday the 20th and Wednesday the 21st will take place in the Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge (map).
The lecture on Thursday the 22nd will take place in the Theater Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge (map).
Free and open to the public. A Q&A and reception will follow each lecture. |
All colloquium talks take place in the 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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Spring Colloquium Series
Wednesday, March 7, 12:00pm
 Joshua Guild
Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies, Princeton University
Calypso Blues: Black Music, Diaspora, and the Search for Community
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Spring Colloquium Series
Wednesday, March 21, 12:00pm
 Lorelle Semley
Assistant Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
"Evolution Revolution": A Journey from African Colonial Subject to French Citizen
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Spring Colloquium Series
Wednesday, March 28, 12:00pm
 Stephen Tuck
University Lecturer in American History, Oxford University
The Doubts of Their Fathers -- The Secular Origins of the Civil Rights Movement |
Spring Colloquium Series
April 4: Jaqueline Santos
W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
April 17-19: Sarah Tishkoff
Special Events
April 5: "Apple Pushers" Screening
April 23: "Image of the Black in Western Art" Open Workshop
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March 6th, 5:00pm
Boston University Department of African American Studies Presents:
"I Am" Student Reflections on Blackness and Identity in the United States and the African Diaspora
Moderated by Linda Heywood
more info
March 6th, 7:30pm The Program on Negotiation and the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program at HLS Present:
Michael Young
"The Secret Talks that Led to the Fall of Apartheid"
more info
March 8th - 9th 12th Graduate Student Conference on International History at Harvard University
more info
March 10th, 8:00pm The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society presents
Bill T. Jones, Tony Award Winner more infoMarch 17th, 8:00pm World Music Presents Ladysmith Black Mambazo at Sanders Theatremore infoMarch 21st, 4:00pm Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Series Rebekah Lee"Managing Uncertainty: Death and Memory in Modern South Africa"more infoApril 12th - 20th 13th Havana Film Festival, New Yorkmore info |
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge MA 02138
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QUELOIDES
RACE AND RACISM IN CUBAN CONTEMPORARY ART
Neil L. and
Angelica Zander
Rudenstine
Gallery
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute,
Floor 3R, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge
(map)
On View Until
May 30, 2012
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| Recent Events @ the Institute |
Special Guest Colloquia
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Caroline Elkins
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William Julius Wilson
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Rudenstine Gallery Curator's Talk
 "Queloides" Panel Discussion
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Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series
 Allen C. Guezlo
"Lincoln in 1862: The Year of Jubilee"
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McMillan-Stewart Lecture Series
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"Africa in the World" |
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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 Dimensions", guest edited by DBR Editorial Board member Michèle Lamont (Harvard University) with Jessica S. Welburn (University of Michigan) and Crystal Fleming (SUNY Stony Brook). 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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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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