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Adoulou N. Bitang, Head of the Office of Cultural Clubs, Directorate of Students Affairs, University of Douala, Cameroon

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series

Read more about Adoulou N. Bitang, 'The Color of Technoscience: Transhumanism and The Question of Race'

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Mark Burford, Professor of Music, Reed College

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series

Read more about Mark Burford, 'Music in Crisis: Revisiting 'Race Music' through W. E. B. Du Bois'

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David Bindman, Emeritus Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art, University College London

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series Read more about David Bindman, 'The First Painting by a Black Artist in the Atlantic World?: The Portrait of Francis Williams in the Victoria and Albert Museum'

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Rita Freed, Chair Emerita, Department of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series

Read more about Rita Freed, 'King Taharqa: Finding the Man in the Legend'

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Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Research Professor of Folklore & Mythology and Germanic Languages and Literatures, Emerita

The Heroine with 1001 Faces and "Curiosity, Craft, and Care: Black Heroines in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Barbara Neely, and Angie Thomas"

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series

Read more about Maria Tatar, 'The Heroine with 1001 Faces' and 'Curiosity, Craft, and Care: Black Heroines in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Barbara Neely, and Angie Thomas'

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Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series

Read more about Vincent Brown, 'Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War'

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Mélanie Lamotte, Assistant Professor, French, Tulane University

Introduction by Francoise Lionnet, Harvard University

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Read more about Mélanie Lamotte, 'Making Race: Policy, Sex and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, c. 1608–1759'

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Namwali Serpell, Professor, English, Harvard University

Introduction by Neel Mukherjee, Harvard University

A reading from Serpell’s forthcoming novel. which tries to conjure the uncanny, ongoing experience of mourning and the longing for reunion that makes us seek those whom we've lost in others.

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Read more about Namwali Serpell, 'The Furrows: An Elegy'

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Suzanne Blier, Harvard University

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series

Read more about Suzanne Blier, 'Picasso’s Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Art Masterpiece'

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Hollis Robbins, Sonoma State University

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series

Read more about Hollis Robbins, 'Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition'

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Kim Benston,...

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Robin...

Read more about Robin Bernstein, 'The Racial Tricks of H. E. Lewis, the Negro Mesmerist'

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Jesse McCarthy, Harvard University

Introduction by Ernest Julius Mitchell, Harvard University

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series

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Braxton D. Shelley, Assistant Professor of Music, Harvard University and the Stanley A. Marks and William H. Marks Assistant Professor, the Radcliffe Institute

An Eternal Flame: Bishop G. E. Patterson and the Afterlives of Ecstasy

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Read more about Braxton D. Shelley, 'An Eternal Flame: Bishop G. E. Patterson and the Afterlives of Ecstasy'

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Read more about Omar Wasow, 'Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Media, Public Opinion and Voting'