The Haitian Crisis: A Symposium
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Friday, January 29th, 4:00 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
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The Haitian Crisis: A Symposium
Panelists
Junot Diaz: Pulitzer Award-winning author of
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
P. Gregg Greenough, MH, MPH: Research Director Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jennifer Leaning: Director, Francis-Xavier Bagnoud Center
for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Patrick Sylvain: African Languages Program, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Marie-Louise Jean-Baptiste, MD: Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance
Co-sponsored by Harvard University's
Committee on African Studies
Department of African and African American Studies
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
Free and open to the public.
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Ever Young: James Barnor, Street and Studio Photography, Ghana/UK |
Thursday, January 28th, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
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Ever Young: James Barnor,
Street and Studio Photgraphy, Ghana/UK
Exhibition Opening, Thursday, January 28, 2010
Film screening of John Akomfrah's Testament (1988), 4 p.m.
Gallery Reception, 6 p.m.
Autograph ABP and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute jointly present the first exhibition in the United States of photographer James Barnor's work.
This is a seminal collection that features a range of archival photographs, including street and studio portraits with elaborate backdrops, fashion shoots in glorious colour, and social documentary images from the late 1940s
to the 1970s depicting a burgeoning modernity as the Gold Coast becomes Ghana. Barnor's archive was produced during a career spanning more than sixty years. It not only covers a remarkable period in history but also bridges continents and photographic genres,
creating a transatlantic narrative marked by his passionate interest in people and cultures. Through the medium of portraiture, Barnor's photographs represent societies in transition: Ghana moving towards its independence and London becoming a cosmopolitan,
multicultural metropolis.
Autograph ABP is a charity that works internationally to educate the public in photography, with a particular emphasis on issues of cultural identity and human rights. They achieve this through formal and informal education
programs, exhibitions, publishing and the creation of an archive of culturally diverse photography that is accessible to the public for research. For more information, please visit their website at: www.autograph-abp.co.uk
For more information on the exhibition, please visit: http://www.dubois.fas.harvard.edu/news-and-events/spring-rudenstine-gallery-ever-young-james-barnor-street-and-studio-photography
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Special PPP Workshop hosted by Cultural Agents
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On Tuesday, January 26th,
Cultural Agents hosted a special Paper Picker Press (PPP) workshop for a group of 10 children who were victims of violence and the Columbian conflict. We are privileged to have this opportunity to share the PPP with them
during their visit to Boston.
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