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Harvard Du Bois Institute

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans. Founded in 1975, the Institute serves as the site for research projects, fellowships for emerging and established scholars, publications, conferences, and working groups. Named after the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard (1895), the Du Bois Institute also sponsors four major lecture series each year and serves as the co-sponsor for numerous public conferences, lectures, readings, and forums.break

http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/

  • Black Writers: Derek Walcott

    Mon, Apr 14, 2003
    Poet Derek Walcott, author of *Omeros* (1990), *Tiepolo's Hound* (2000), and *The Haitian Trilogy* (2002), reads from his work.
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  • Encarta Africana: From Du Bois to John Coltrane

    Thu, Feb 13, 2003
    Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses the comprehensive project, Encarta Africana.
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  • Two Writers Read: Helen E. Lee and Randall Kenan

    Wed, Feb 19, 2003
    Helen E. Lee and Randall Kenan read from their books.
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  • Sidney Mintz on Puerto Rico

    Thu, Apr 24, 2003
    Anthropologist Sidney Mintz discusses the political history of Puerto Rico.
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  • Sidney Mintz on Jamaica

    Tue, Apr 22, 2003
    Anthropologist Sidney Mintz discusses the history of Jamaica, as the first lecture in a three-part series on the islands of the Caribbean.
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  • Reserve Clause: Curtis Flood and Baseball

    Thu, Oct 30, 2003
    Gerald L. Early, Merle Kling professor of modern letters at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses his cultural observations on Curt Flood, the first player in Major League Baseball to challenge the infamous "reserve clause", which opened the doors to free agency.
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  • Race, Sports, and Affirmative Action

    Tue, Oct 28, 2003
    Gerald L. Early, Merle Kling professor of modern letters at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses his cultural observations on African American athletes. Early traverses a number of subjects in his writing, seemingly without effort, from a study of African American rhetoric to a meditation on boxing, from an historical survey of assimilation to an exploration of Motown.
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    Jazz and Modern Africa: Marabi Modernists

    Thu, Nov 20, 2003
    Columbia University Professor Robin Kelley explores the political and cultural tensions surrounding jazz in South Africa during the 1950s.
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  • Jazz and Modern Africa: Spiritual Strivings

    Tue, Nov 18, 2003
    Columbia University Professor Robin Kelley discusses the need for scholars to establish deep connections between jazz artists and the various movements that presumably influence them.
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  • Jazz and Modern Africa: Drum Wars

    Wed, Nov 19, 2003
    Columbia University Professor Robin Kelley discusses what it means to be an African jazz musician, and what political and commercial strings are attached to that description.
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