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Fall Colloquium with Tef Poe

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Tef Poe, Hiphop Activist Universe of Insanity: Culture Shock in the Black American Experience Free and open to the public. A Q+A session will follow each talk. Please feel free to bring a lunch. Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street...

Reflections in Black: A Reframing: A Conversation Between Deborah Willis and Sarah Lewis

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Join the H utchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and ArtsThursday as we celebrate the release of Reflections in Black: A Reframing, the 25th anniversary edition of Dr. Deborah Willis’ internationally acclaimed...

Rachel Price: 'Aesthetic Archives of Cuba's Second Slavery'

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Please join us for the in-person ALARI Seminar with Professor Rachel Price (Princeton University) "Aesthetic Archives of Cuba's Second Slavery" on Friday, October 31 at 12:00 p.m in the Thompson Room, Barker Center. Moderated by Professor Alejandro de la...

Aurora Vergara-Figueroa, 'Afrocolombians: Stories of Recognition & the Pursuit of Equity'

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In-person and livestreaming at youtube.com/hutchinscenter Aurora Vergara-Figueroa is Colombia’s first Afro-Colombian Minister of National Education and former Deputy Minister of Higher Education, where she advanced equity and access in higher education...

Raven Jackson, 'Finding Transcendence in Image, Sound, and the Void'

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Raven Jackson is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer from Tennessee. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, intimacy, connection, and the body’s relationship to nature. Recently nominated for a Film...

John Thornton, 'The Transit of African Religion to the Americas'

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In-person and livestreaming at youtube.com/hutchinscenter

Ted Widmer, 'A Database of Early African and African American Music'

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In-person and livestreaming at youtube.com/hutchinscenter Ted Widmer is an historian and former presidential adviser who writes widely on history, politics and their intersection. He is Distinguished Lecturer at the Macaulay Honors College of the City...

Hollis Robbins, 'Robert Hayden: A Study of Poetic Influences'

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In-person and livestreaming at youtube.com/hutchinscenter Hollis Robbins is Special Advisor for Humanities at the University of Utah. In residence as a Hutchins Family Foundation Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year, Robbins will be completing three...

Imani Perry, 'Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People'

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In-person and livestreaming at youtube.com/hutchinscenter Imani Perry is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African American culture. She is currently the Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of...

Jordan Taliha McDonald, 'Trust Fall: Betrayal, Complicit Rhetorics, and the Race-Science Fictions of Black Fidelity'

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In-person and livestreaming at youtube.com/hutchinscenter Jordan Taliha McDonald is a Doctoral Candidate in the English Department with a secondary field in History of Science at Harvard University. Her scholarship primarily examines how literary...

Charles Blow, 'Why Political Accommodation Never Works'

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Charles Blow is a writer, journalist, and former Opinion columnist for The New York Times . In residence as the Inaugural Langston Hughes Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year, Blow will be at work on two book-length projects.