Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Harvard University
Please join us for these upcoming events…
THIS WEEK:
Wednesday, January 27th, 12:00pm
W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Spring Colloquium
Vijay Iyer
Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts, Harvard University
I Feel You: Music, Empathy, and Difference
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring a lunch.
NEXT WEEK:
Tuesday, February 2nd, 6:00pm
Opening Reception
Art of Jazz: Form/Performance/Notes
“Art of Jazz: Form/Performance/Notes,” a new three-part exhibition at The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art held in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums, explores the interaction between jazz music and the visual arts. With more than 70 pieces ranging from early Jazz Age objects to mid- century jazz ephemera to contemporary works by established African American artists, the exhibition traces how jazz was embraced internationally as an iconography for Black expression and visual dialogue.
Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, 102 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 7:00pm
Film Screening and Discussion
“Field Niggas”
Screening of Field Niggas followed by Q&A with Director Khalik Allah, moderated by Tommie Shelby, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University.
Presented by Film Series at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in partnership with the Hutchins Center and Harris House at Harvard University.
University of Massachusetts Boston, Campus Center Ballroom "C" - 3rd Floor, Boston, MA
Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 12:00pm
W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Spring Colloquium
Sanyu Mojola
Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
Race, Health and Inequality: Producing an HIV Epidemic in the Shadow of the Capitol
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring a lunch.
AT THE COOPER GALLERY:
On View February 3rd to May 8th, 2016
The Cooper Gallery and Harvard Art Museums Present
Art of Jazz: Form/Performance/Notes
Curated by David Bindman, Suzanne Blier, and Vera Ingrid Grant
· Register Your Group - Interested in securing a group tour for Art of Jazz? If your party has 10 or more members, please register. Weekly tours are also offered Thursdays at 1 pm.
Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center, 102 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
Open Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm
Closed: Sunday, Monday, and on official Harvard University holidays
ART TOURS:
The Art of the Hutchins Center
Fridays at 1:00pm
Join Dr. Sheldon Cheek, Senior Curatorial Associate for The Image of the Black Archive & Library, as he leads a guided tour of The Art of the Hutchins Center. Our collection includes work by Isaac Julien, Romare Bearden, Lyle Ashton Harris, Suesan Stovall, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, and an extensive assortment of black film posters. The tour ends with a visit to the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, a vital and unique space at Harvard.
104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 3R, Cambridge, MA 02138. Tours begin in the reception area on floor 3R.
COMING IN FEBRUARY:
February 8th, 7:00pm. Book Talk with alumna fellow Celeste-Marie Bernier, Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
February 10th, 12:00pm. Spring Colloquium with Kerry Chance, Living Politics. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
February 16th, 4:00pm. Ralph Ellison-Amiri Baraka Debate with Greg Tate and Greg Thomas. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
February 17th, 12:00pm. Spring Colloquium with Roshan Galvaan, Disrupting Traditions: Developing Contextually Relevant Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy Knowledge in South Africa. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
February 18th, 5:00pm. Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar with Kristin Nicole Dukes, #SayHerName: Examining Perceptions & Representations of Black Women. Part of the Gender and Sexuality Seminar onArresting Violence: Reconceptualizing Justice. Plimpton Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
February 19th and 20th. Black Portraiture{s} II: Revisited. New York University, Washington Square, New York, NY.
February 23rd-25th. Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series with David Geggus, The Saint Domingue Slave Revolt and the Rise of Toussaint Louverture. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
February 24th, 12:00pm. Spring Colloquium with Regina Bradley, Chronicling Stankonia: Recognizing America's Hip Hop South. Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA. Note change of location.
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