The African and African American Studies and Romance Studies Departments of Duke University present:

Doris Sommer
Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies

"El Negro Cucurto's Cardboard Coloring Book:
Argentine Independence and other Scraps to Recycle"
"Ripple Effects: The work of art in the world"

Doris Sommer will present two lectures on how art can create long-lasting social change in communities worldwide. 

For more information, please visit: http://calendar.duke.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Fall Colloquium Series presents:
Sylvie Laurent
Senior Lecturer in Literature, Sciences Po Paris

"White Like She: Cross-Over Narratives of Doubling
in Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison"

For more information, please visit: http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/events/sylvie-laurent-white-
she-cross-over-narratives-doubling-zora-neale-hurston-and-toni-morrison

Amartya Sen
Thomas W. Lamont University Professor
discusses
The Idea of Justice

SESSION ONE @ 3:30 p.m.

Philip Pettit
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values
Princeton University

Nancy Rosenblum
Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government

Thomas Scanlon
Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity

SESSION TWO @ 6:00 p.m.

20 Questions with
Homi Bhabha
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities
Director of the Humanities Center

Sugata Bose
Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs

Martha Minow
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law
Dean of the Faculty of Law

Elaine Scarry
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics
and the General Theory of Value

Daniel Schrag
Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and
Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering

Richard Tuck
Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government

Open to the public
Seating is limited

Special thanks for the Department of Philosophy

For more information, please visit: www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr

Walls on Fire: Gallery Talk

One of the most community engaging shows of the season, Paredes en Fuego/Walls on Fire features artwork made by members of IBA's Cacique Youth Arts program. Made in conjunction with artist educators from Boston art schools, community youth develop inspirational and provocative works, including video, paintings, prints and works on paper.  All proceeds of art sold from Paredes en Fuego/Walls on Fire will go directly to the youth artists who created them.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.villavictoriaarts.org/gallery_paredesenfuego2009.html

W.E.B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony

co-sponsored with the Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Politics

Bob Herbert, New York Times Op Ed Columnist
Hugh M. "Brother Blue" Hill, Performance Artist
(to be accepted by Ruth Edmonds Hill)
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Journalist
Vernon E. Jordan, lawyer and Political Advisor
Frank H. Pearl, Publisher and Philanthropist
Daniel & Joanna S. Rose, Philanthropists
Shirley M. Tilghman, President of Princeton University

For more information, please visit:
http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/events/du-bois-medal-ceremony
 

Nathan I. Huggins Commemorative Conference



Welcoming Remarks: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
and Werner Sollors
10.00-11.30: Panel moderated by Jeffrey Ferguson (Amherst College)
11.45-1.00: Round Table moderated by Randall Burkett (Emory University) 
2.00-3.30: Panel moderated by Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University)
and Martha Nadell (Brooklyn College)  
3.45-5.00: Round Table moderated by Maren Stange (Cooper Union)

Please contact the symposium organizers with any questions.
Amber Moulton-Wiseman - amoulton@fas.harvard.edu
Chérie Rivers - crivers@fas.harvard.edu 
 
This symposium is free and open to the public

This conference was made possible by generous support from the 
Department of African and African American Studies and the 
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
at Harvard University

For the complete schedule, please visit:
http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/sites/all/files/Huggins_Program.pdf

Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA

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