Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
Harvard University
Monday, September 26th, 12:00pm
Lecture
Harold D. Weaver
Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Decolonization and the Cold War: African Student Elites in the USSR as Transnational Actors
Co-sponsored with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, S354, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, September 27th, 6:00pm
Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine Event
Joseph L. Graves, Jr.
Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Biological Sciences, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, North Carolina A&T State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Smashing Agassiz's Boulder
Part of the Race, Representation, and Museums Lecture Series
Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and the Harvard Museum of Natural History
Northwest Building, Lecture Hall B103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, September 28th, 12:00pm
Fall Colloquium Series
Xolela Mangcu
Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town
Nelson Mandela: Romantic Hero, Tragic Hero
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public. A Q+A session will follow the talk. Please feel free to bring a lunch.
Wednesday, September 28th, 6:00pm
Cooper Gallery Event
Artist Tour + Reception
Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art
Free and open to the public.
Friday, September 30th, 3:00pm
Book Discussion
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University
John Stauffer
Professor of English and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
The Portable Frederick Douglass
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public.
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 OCTOBER:
October 5th, 12:00pm. Fall Colloquium Series with Treva Lindsey, Hell You Talmbout: Contemporary Perspective on State Violence Against Black Women and Girls. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
October 6th, 4:00pm. Hutchins Center Honors presents the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony. Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
October 11th, 7:00pm. Reading and Q&A with Karlos Hill, Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory. Harvard Coop Bookstore, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
October 12th, 12:00pm. Fall Colloquium Series with Ivor Miller, Cuban Lukumí Bàtá: Ajúbà to Oba Ilu. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
October 12th-13th. Ash Center Conference, Race and Justice in the Age of Obama. Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA.
October 13th-15th. Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine Conference, From Missing Persons to Critical Biography: Reframing Minority Identity in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
October 17th, 7:00pm. Book talk with Elizabeth Hinton, Tommie Shelby, Khalil Muhammad, facilitated by Danielle Allen. First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge, MA.
October 17th, 7:00pm. Reading and Q&A with Clarence Major, Chicago Heat & Other Stories. Harvard Coop Bookstore, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
October 18th- 20th, 4:00pm. Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series with Charles Bonnet, The Double Capital of Kush: Kerma and Dukki Gel. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
October 19th, 12:00pm. Fall Colloquium Series with Dawn-Elissa Fischer, Decoding 'AfroAsia' in Hiphop, Anime and Manga. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
October 21st, 3:00pm. Book Discussion with Natasha K. Warikoo, The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
October 25th, 7:00pm. Book Discussion with Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
October 26th, 12:00pm. Fall Colloquium Series with Marixa Lasso, Lost Towns of the Canal Zone, Erasing Modernity at the Panama Canal. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
October 26th, 5:00pm. Matthiessen Lecture Series with Robert Reid-Pharr, Effective/Defective James Baldwin. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
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