2021

2022 Feb 23

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'

12:30pm

Location: 

Virtual Colloquium

Note new start time: 12:30pm est

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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

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2021 Nov 02

Martha S. Jones, 'Thick Women and the Thin Nineteenth Amendment'

4:00pm

Location: 

Virtual Lecture

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Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History and the SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University

Thick Women and the Thin Nineteenth Amendment

Part of the Virtual W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series

Professor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential...

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2021 Sep 29

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

12:00pm

Location: 

Virtual Colloquium

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Mélanie Lamotte, Assistant Professor, French, Tulane University

Introduction by Francoise Lionnet, Harvard University

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

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2021 Apr 23

'Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019' Panel Discussion

1:00pm

Location: 

Virtual Reading Series

Register in advance for this webinar: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iGSEDzTmTla0KBROgrcC7g

Panel Discussion with:

  • Keisha N. Blain, University of Pittsburgh
  • Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University

Moderated by Jarvis R. Givens, Harvard University

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research...

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2021 Mar 26

Steven Nelson, 'Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation'

1:00pm

Location: 

Virtual Reading Series

Watch this webinar: https://youtu.be/aQeLFAUgbG0

Steven Nelson, Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at National Gallery of Art, Washington

In conversation with Suzanne Blier, Harvard University

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series

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2021 Mar 12

Adrienne Childs, 'Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition'

1:00pm

Location: 

Virtual Reading Series

Watch recording: https://youtu.be/WjVsi1fAjEw

Adrienne Childs, Independent scholar, Art historian and Curator

In conversation with Paul Kaplan, SUNY Purchase 

Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series

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