| 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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| "Afro-Brazilian Religions
and National Culture": An Ethnography in
Hypermedia |
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Wednesday 02/25/09
Thompson Room, Barker
Center, 12 Quincy Street
1:30
pm
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Professor
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. cordially invites you to
attend the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
Colloquium
Vagner Gonçalves da
Silva, Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
Universidade de São Paulo,
Brazil
Afro-Brazilian Religions and
National Culture - An Ethnography in
Hypermedia
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| "Caravaggio's
The Incredulity of St. Thomas": Master Class
with Peter Burgard |
Wednesday
02/25/09
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street
6:00
pm
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The
Humanities Center at Harvard presents a Master
Class
with Peter Burgard Professor of German,
Harvard University
discussing
Caravaggio's The Incredulity of St.
Thomas
Seating is
limited
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| "Learning from Performers":
Double Bassist Edgar Meyer |
Thursday 02/26/09
New
College Theatre studio, 10-12 Holyoke Street,
Cambridge
2:30
pm
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Learning
from Performers and Co-sponsored by the Harvard
College American Music Association, Music
building and New College Theatre
studio.
In demand as both a performer and
a composer, Edgar Meyer has formed a role in the
music world unlike any other. Hailed by The New
Yorker as "...the most remarkable virtuoso in
the relatively unchronicled history of his
instrument," Meyer's unparalleled technique and
musicianship in combination with his gift for
composition have brought him to the fore, where
he is appreciated by a vast, varied audience.
His uniqueness in the field was recognized by a
MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award in 2002.
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| Author Reading and Book
Signing Party |
Thursday
02/26/09
Thompson Room, Barker Center 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge
6:00
pm
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Please
join us for an Author Reading and Book Signing
Party
Featured Authors:
Henry
Louis Gates, Jr.
Glenda Carpio
Linda
Heywood
John Stauffer
John
Thornton
Authors' books will be available
for purchase at the event
For additional
information, please contact the Du Bois
Institute at 617.495.8508 or visit our online
events calendar:
www.dubois.fas.harvard.edu/events
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TSAI Film Series - Guita
Schyfter: "Las Caras de la luna"
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Thursday 02/26/09
TSAI
Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South
S-214, Cambridge
6:00
pm
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| "Lincoln": The
Biography of a Writer |
Friday 02/27/09
The
Graduate Center, Room 4409, CUNY
4:00
pm
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An event in celebration
of the acclaimed biography of Abraham Lincoln by
Fred Kaplan, Professor Emeritus of English, The
Graduate Center, CUNY.
Co-sponsored by the
PhD program in English.
For more
information, please visit www.LeonLevyCenterforBiography.org.
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| "Colombia Colloquium": El
Chocó, Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and
Environmental Survival, an Everyday Resistance
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Friday
02/27/09
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Room 4-231
6:00
pm
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Featuring Steve Cagan, documentary
photographer and activist
This talk will
emphasize aspects of the Afro-Colombian and
indigenous rain forest cultures of El Chocó, a
northwestern department of Colombia. This
important tropical rain forest is under great
threat from the violence of the Colombian civil
war. While projecting color pictures of El
Chocó, the speaker will discuss its cultures and
the ways in which its people resist the threats
on their daily
lives.
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| "Dammi I Colori": Film by
Anri Sala |
Monday 03/02/09
Boylston
Hall - Fong Auditorium
4:00
pm
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The film documents the transformation of
Tirana, Albania, with his mayor-painter Edi
Rama.
Guest Speaker:
Professor Svetlana Boym
on Anri Sala's
work. |
| "WITNESS":
Arts, Humanities, and Human
Rights |
Tuesday
03/03/09
Memorial Church, Harvard
Yard
6:00
pm
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*Please note that this is a ticketed
event**
(further ticket information
below)
The Humanities Center at Harvard
presents
WITNESS: Arts, Humanities, and
Human Rights
Featuring:
Toni
Morrison
Yo-Yo Ma
Members of the
Harvard Faculty and a dance performance
choreographed by Damien Woetzel
*TICKET
INFORMATION*
Tickets will be available
through Harvard Box Office to the Harvard
community with valid Harvard ID beginning
Wednesday, February 18. Tickets available to the
general public beginning Wednesday, February 25.
Tickets also available by phone at 617.496.2222
for a fee. Admission is free, limit two tickets
per person.
Tickets valid until 15
minutes prior to start time (5:45
pm).
Limited parking will be available at
Broadway Garage.
Supported by the Office
of the President and Provost, American Repertory
Theatre, the Office for the Arts, and the W. E.
B. Du Bois Institute for African and African
American
Research
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| Featured
Article |
Las Caras de la
luna
Film By Guita Schyfter
TSAI Film
Series
Thursday, February 26, 2009
6:00 p.m.
TSAI Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge
Street, CGIS South S-214, Cambridge
Movie
Details:
Five women from
wildly divergent backgrounds find themselves
swapping views on feminism, politics, and
culture in this talky ensemble drama. Magdalena
(Diana Bracho) is the coordinator of Mexico
City's Latin American Women's Film Festival, and
she's brought together five women to review and
rate the year's entries. Joan (Geraldine
Chaplin) is a lesbian film writer from New York
whose views on the cinema are just as extreme as
her position on gender politics. Maruja (Ana
Torrent) is a mainstream film producer from
Spain. Mariana (Carmen Montejo) is a veteran
filmmaker whose career broke new ground for
women in the Latin American film industry.
Balsher (Carola Reyna) is a political filmmaker
exiled from her native land. And Julia (Haydee
de Lev) is a woman from Uruguay who has spent
nearly a decade and a half in prison. As the
women gather to watch a variety of different
films made by women, they often find themselves
arguing about the issues raised by the films and
about how they impact women and society as a
whole. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie
Guide
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Genre:
Drama
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