| Dear friends,
Welcome to the new version of the
Cultural Agents Newsletter. We hope you
continue to enjoy it and remember to
send us your events on a weekly basis. Please keep
in mind that we will send
the publication every
Tuesday.
Warmest wishes from the cultural agents
team.
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Rethinking Challenges to
Democracy in (Post-)Civil War Colombia,
1946-1966
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Tuesday 02/17/09
CGIS
South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S250
12:00pm
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Tuesday
Seminar on Latin American Affairs
This
event is open to the public.
Speaker:
Karl, Robert, Graduate Student Associate.
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Harvard
University.
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| "Africa and World History":
History Without Horses |
Tuesday 02/17/09
Thompson
Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge
4:00pm
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Joseph C. Miller T. Cary Johnson, Jr.
Professor of History
University of
Virginia
A Q&A and reception
follows the lecture. For more information, please
contact the Du Bois Institute at
617.495.8508.
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| The Racial Geography of Early
20th Century Urban Recreation and the Origins of
the Long, Hot Summer |
Wednesday
02/18/09
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge
12:00pm
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Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.cordially
invites you to attend the W. E. B. Du Bois
Institute Colloquium
Speaker:
Andrew W. Kahrl Assistant
Professor of History, Marquette
University
A question and answer period
will follow the lecture.
Please feel free to
bring a lunch.
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| "Africa and World History":
Political Centralization and its
Costs |
Wednesday
02/18/09
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge
4:00pm
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Joseph C. Miller T. Cary Johnson, Jr.
Professor of History
University of
Virginia
A Q&A and reception
follows the lecture. For more information, please
contact the Du Bois Institute at
617.495.8508.
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
for African and African American Research, Harvard
University, 104 Mt. Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge,
MA, 617.495.8508.
www.dubois.fas.harvard.edu.
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| Prometheus Dance presents:
Opposites |
Thursday
02/19/09
Multicultural Arts Center - 41 Second
Street,
Cambridge
2:00pm
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Opposites is an engaging interactive
performance created with the aim of teaching
children about modern dance using the concepts of
opposites. Up - down, front - back, slow - fast,
loud and quiet. A chance to
dance...Opposites promises an afternoon of
excitement and energy with live percussion by
Francisco Molina, six members of Prometheus Dance
and narration by Tommy Neblett.
Come and
learn about what makes up a dance and how point of
view can affect the outcome!
$12 for adults
and $6 for children under ten.
Tickets are
available at the door or online.
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| "Africa and World History":
The African Communal Ethos in a Commercial
World |
Thursday 02/19/09
Thompson
Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge
4:00pm
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Joseph C. Miller T. Cary Johnson, Jr.
Professor of History
University of
Virginia
A Q&A and reception
follows the lecture. For more information, please
contact the Du Bois Institute at
617.495.8508.
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
for African and African American Research, Harvard
University, 104 Mt. Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge,
MA, 617.495.8508.
www.dubois.fas.harvard.edu. |
| "Corbu Pops": An Evening with
William Pope. L |
Thursday
02/19/09
Carpenter
Center
6:00pm
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The Carpenter Center presents an evening with
William Pope.L
Pope.L will give a lecture
and performance piece to celebrate the opening of
his new work "Corbu Pops".
"Corbu Pops" is a
specially commissioned piece inspired by the
Carpenter Center's own unique, modernist
architecture - Le Corbusier's only North American
builiding.
"Corbu Pops" is an erstwhile
investigation of modernism, utopia, nonsense,
blackness, purity, and factory production. Paying
close attention to the structures and systems that
create our built and lived environment, Pope.L's
work uses avant-garde strategies such as the
readymade, performance, and collage to question
the institutionalization of philosophical ideas
such as art and the psychic disturbances provoked
by industrialization and
modernity. |
| "Wallmapu, Our Territory, Our
Stories": From the Mapuche perspective
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Thursday
02/19/09
Smithsonian National Museum of the
American Indian, Auditorium, George Gustav Heye
Center. One Bowling Green, New York,
NY
6:30pm
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Wallmapu,
Our Territory, Our Stories
Speakers:
Jeanette Paillán (filmmaker) and Luis E.
Cárcamo-Huechante (Professor Harvard University).
Introduced by Gabriela Rangel (Director, Visual
Arts Americas Society) and moderated by Amalia
Córdova (Smithsonian National Museum of the
American Indian)
Join us for a screening of
clips of a historical documentary that tells the
story of the Wallmapu territory from the Mapuche
perspective. The screening will be followed by a
discussion with director Jeanette Paillán and Luis
E. Cárcamo-Huechante.
This program is
organized in collaboration with the Smithsonian
National Museum of the American Indian.
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| "Simone de Beauvoir": A
Centennial Symposium |
Friday 02/20/09
Thompson
Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge
2:00pm
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The Humanities Center at Harvard presents:
BEAUVOIR
THE INTELLECTUAL
Judith Coffin
"Beauvoir, Kinsey, and Mid-Century
Sex"
Judith Surkis "Ethics and Violence:
Djamila Boupacha and the Algerian
War"
Alice Jardine "What
Feminism?"
Moderated by Peter
Gordon
BEAUVOIR THE
WRITER
Susan R. Suleiman "Memory
Troubles: Remembering the Occupation in The
Mandarins"
Nancy K. Miller "Jean-Paul's
Tears, Simone's Baby: Reading the Early
Diaries"
Christie McDonald "The Death of
Maternity?" (on A Very Easy
Death)
Moderated by Lawrence D.
Kritzman
Open to the public. Seating is
limited.
Co-sponsored by: the
Department of Literature and Comparative
Literature, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for
European Studies, and the Department of Romance
Languages and
Literatures |
| "The Jazz Club": Live Bird
& Poetry Jam |
Friday
02/20/09
Multicultural Arts Center - 41 Second
Street,
Cambridge
7:30pm
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Live Bird: Celebrating the Life of Charlie
'Bird' Parker at 7:30 PM
Live Bird is a one-man
play celebrating the life of jazz legend Charlie
"Bird" Parker, written and performed by
playwright, actor, director and musician Jeff
Robinson.
"Robinson has Bird down cold...
Robinson does it so convincingly you'll forgive
Parker for his flaws just to be in his presence" -
David Yaffe, The Village Voice
Poetry Jam:
Jazz Poetry with the Jeff Robinson Trio at 9:30
PM
An evening of Jazz Poetry with the legendary
Jeff Robinson Trio, Regie Gibson, Roger
Bonair-Agard, and Nicole Terez; some of Boston and
Cambridge's best poets. The "Trio" recently
celebrated their twelfth year hosting the world
renowned Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam.
"The
Jeff Robinson Trio is one of the most innovative
and revolutionary bands of today that mixes the
old with a new kind of flavor." - Abiodun Oyewole,
The Last Poets
$16 General/$14
Multicultural Arts members, students, and
seniors
OR See Both Shows with a Combo Ticket:
$22 General/$20 Multicultural Arts members,
students, and
seniors |
| "Stories of Love": A Playback
Theatre Workshop |
Sunday
02/22/09
Multicultural Arts Center - 41 Second
Street,
Cambridge
7:00pm
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TRUE
STORY THEATER performs a form of improvisational
story-telling called Playback Theatre, where
volunteers from the audience describe important
moments from their lives, and actors bring them to
life through movement, music, and dialogue. Every
show is unique!
Public Performances
January-February -- please come!
"Stories
of Love"
$15 at the door (low-income discount
available)
Please note that our programs
are most appropriate for adults and older
teens.
Open PlayShops
Tues. Feb. 24,
7-9:15pm
Wed. Mar. 25, 7-9:15pm
A great
opportunity to explore playback theatre and work
on improv skills. Plus it's fun! For people of any
level--all welcome!
For more information or to
let us know that you'd like to attend, please
email us at
Info@TrueStoryTheater.org.
Suggested donation:
$15 (and feel free to bring a snack to share)
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| "Playing Doctor Well": Is
Literature the Art of Medicine? - Lecture
|
Monday 02/23/09
Boylston
Hall, Fong Auditorium - Harvard
Yard
4:00pm
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Lecture by Dr. Alice Flaherty, Neurology MGH,
HMS | |
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| Featured
Article |
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Friday, February 20, 2-6
p.m.
The Humanities
Center at Harvard presents:
Simone de
Beauvoir
A Centennial
Symposium
BEAUVOIR THE
INTELLECTUAL
Judith Coffin
"Beauvoir,
Kinsey, and Mid-Century Sex"
Judith
Surkis
"Ethics and Violence: Djamila Boupacha
and the Algerian War"
Alice
Jardine
"What Feminism?"
Moderated by
Peter Gordon
BEAUVOIR THE
WRITER
Susan R. Suleiman
"Memory
Troubles: Remembering the Occupation in The
Mandarins"
Nancy K. Miller
"Jean-Paul's
Tears, Simone's Baby: Reading the Early
Diaries"
Christie McDonald
"The Death of
Maternity?" (on A Very Easy Death)
Moderated by Lawrence D.
Kritzman
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street
Open to the public. Seating is
limited.
Co-sponsored by:
the
Department of Literature and Comparative
Literature,
the Minda de Gunzburg Center for
European Studies, and
the Department of
Romance Languages and
Literatures |
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