Tuesday 03/10/09 to Friday 03/13/09
Harvard University
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Hiphop Archive Presents:
 
Hiphop Worldwide: More Than A Nation & End It Now!: The Africa/US AIDS Mural Project (AMP)



The History of Hip Hop Dance Forms
Lecture & Demonstration by Popmaster Fabel
4:00pm - 5:00pm @ Hiphop Archive

Expect The Unexpected - Rennie Harris / Floorlords                                  
7:00pm - 8:45pm @ Rialto Restaurant


Global Hiphop Film Festival - Part 1             
Special Guest: Brian "B+" Cross
11:00am @ Hiphop Archive

Book Signing - Adam Bradley   
7:00pm @  Harvard Bookstore

Chuck D: A Nation of Millions  
8:00pm - 10:00pm @ Barker Center: Thompson Room


End It Now! Planning Breakfast Meeting  
Registration Required @ Hiphop Archive
8:00am - 10:00am

End It Now! - Marvelyn Brown - Author of "Young,
Beautiful & HIV Positive"
4:30pm - 5:30pm @ Hiphop Archive

Hiphop Worldwide: More Than A Nation Panel    
8:00pm - 10:00pm @ Barker Center: Thompson Room
Ian Condry, Davey D, Dawn Elissa Fischer, Murray Forman, Scott Heath, Giuseppe Pipotone, Remi Warner    


End It Now! Planning Breakfast Meeting  
Registration Required @ Hiphop Archive

Global Hiphop Film Festival - Part 2
Special Guest: Joshua Asen, Director
"I Love Hiphop In Morocco"
11am @ Hiphop Archive

Rap Sessions: Is America Really Post Racial
4pm - 6 pm @ Harvard Law School - Ames Court Room
Jabari Asim, Lisa Fager Bediako, Rosa Clemente, Eddie Glaude, Bakari Kitwana, Sybil Wilkes

 Email info@hiphoparchive.com For More Information

Thursday 03/12/09
Bunker Hill Community College
12:00 pm
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Featuring the work by:

Coco Berkman    Blair Boudreau   Susan Axe-Bronk   Catherine Carter   Priscilla Claus

Barbara Ford-Doyle   Linda Dunn      Esther Garcia-Eder     Tamar Etingen   

Virginia Fitzgerald          Katharine Furst      Randy Garber     Judy Hochberg   

Jennifer Hughes     Lynne Johnson     Charlotte Kaplan    Christiane Corcelle-Lippeveld  

Fiona Logusch     Angie Melchin      Rachel Mello      Jackie Miller      Carolyn Muskat  

Ellen Shattuck-Pierce      Nancy Popper      Amy McGregor-Radin      Rani Sarin 

Danielle Shaheen      Erin Smith      Jeanne Williamson


Thursday, March 12th, 6:00 - 8:00p.m.


March 9th through April 17th


Thursday, March 26, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. "Let's Talk About Prints

Dir., University Committee on Human Rights Studies

Associate, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Arts and humanities engage individuals and groups in ways that can become social resources. We will see the connection between aesthetics and social effects in a few notable existing cases and in new cases that we will create in collaborations among class participants with extramural mentors. Stubborn social problems sometimes yield to artful interventions even when conventional means fail, because art's signature activity is to interrupt deadening habit and to innovate within constraints and limitations. We'll see that three themes recur through our readings and discussion: 1) pleasure in one's creative work is a motor of social intervention; 2) admiration for others' creativity is a principle stronger than tolerance as an anchor for democracy; 3) active citizenship amounts to adapting rules and resources through responsible play.
Therefore, investigation and critique are only first stages for Cultural Agents; the next steps are to create effective responses to crises through performative, literary, and interpretive arts, especially as they engage civil society and government. Among the philosophical leads for this course on Cultural Agents are Friedrich Schiller, John Dewey, Antonio Gramsci, and Jacques Rancière. 
"Cultural Agents" explores the arts through aesthetic effects that ripple out from preparations for creative interventions and from initial appreciation of an artwork. The course features theoretical readings and creative learning to stimulate reflection that should refine theory and inform practice. Students will consider how the aesthetic qualities of defamiliarization and the counterfactual imagination can make change thinkable and then feasible through art's effects and side-effects.

W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research presents:
 

Paul Finkelman,  William McKinley Distinguished
Professor of Law and Public Policy Albany School of Law

The Supreme Court and The Peculiar Institution: Marshall, Story, Taney, and the Defense of Slavery
 
Tuesday, March 17, 4 P.M.
Chief Justice Marshall and Slavery: A Slaveholding Chief Justice Discovers the Limits of National Power

Wednesday, March 18, 4 P.M.
Joseph Story of Slavery: The Enigma of an Antislavery Man who Became a Proslavery Justice

Thursday, Thursday 19, 4 P.M.
Chief Justice Taney and Slavery:
Defending the Cornerstone at all Costs

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.

Dir., University Committee on Human Rights Studies

Associate, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer, Harvard Law School