events in the community and around the country

 iDBI is a place to find information on events, both local and national, related to African and African American Studies.

To post an event, please send an email to iDBI@fas.harvard.edu

For Events Sponsored by the Du Bois Institue, visit our calendar. 

June 15th - August 27th, 2010

Anchor Books Price: $15.95	Wednesday, August 4th   COLSON WHITEHEAD reads from Sag Harbor   Harvard Book Store is excited to welcome former MacArthur Fellowship recipient and award-winning author COLSON WHITEHEAD for a reading from Sag Harbor, which is newly released in paperback. Benji Cooper is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals have built a world of their own.   The summer of ’85 won’t be without its usual trials and tribulations, of course. There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through and state-of-the-art profanity to master. Benji will be tested by contests big and small, by his misshapen haircut (which seems to have a will of its own), by the New Coke Tragedy, and by his secret Lite FM addiction. But maybe, just maybe, this summer might be one for the ages. "[Sag Harbor] is Whitehead′s most enjoyable book—warm and funny, carefully observed, and beautifully written, studded with small moments of pain and epiphany. It is sometimes possible to tell that a writer is enjoying himself, or that he isn′t. Here, finally, Whitehead seems to be having the time of his life; one can almost feel him relaxing into this book as if it actually were the summer home of his youth: pulling into the driveway after a grueling drive from the city, breathing the sea air deep into his lungs, pouring himself a cocktail." —The Boston Globe Note: This event was originally scheduled for July 22, but had to be rescheduled due to illness.
CONTACT: General Info: 617.661.1515 Media: 617.661.1424 ex.1 Email: rbcass@harvard.com	Event Information DATE: Wednesday, August 4th TIME: 7:00 PM LOCATION: Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge TICKETS: This event is free; no tickets are required
	Colson Whitehead was born in New York City. His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the QPB New Voices Award and was an Ernest Hemingway/PEN Award finalist. His second novel, John Henry Days, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. He is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award. Whitehead lives in Brooklyn, New York. Photo Credit: Erin Patrice O’Brien

Now Showing Until September 20th The Life and Times of Congressman Robert Smalls, 1839-1915 Museum of African American History 46 Joy Street, Boston, MA  02114

previous events

Friday, February 5, 2010, 3-5pm
South African Justice Albie Sachs: The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
Harvard Law School

Saturday, February 6, 2010, 6-8pm
Albie Sachs: Art and Justice, The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Harvard Graduate School of Design

Saturday, February 6, 2010, 8pm
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Sanders Theater, Harvard University

Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 4-6pm
Racial Profilling: A National and Local Crises
UMass Boston Africana Studies Department

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6-8pm
African Scholars Night
A benefit dinner establishing academic scholarships for disadvantaged high-achieving students in Ghana.
Harvard African Students Association

 Monday, February 22, 4-6pm
Joshua Guild: "Shadows of the Metropolis: Urban Space and the Transformation of Black Communities in Postwar New York and London"
Charles Warren Center, Harvard University

Thursday, February 25, 5-7pm

Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman: "Black Sexual Politics and the Dilemma of Black Families in 'Post-racial'
America"

The Gender and Sexuality Seminar of the Harvard Humanities Center

 

 

Monday, March 8, 4-6pm
Cynthia Young (Boston College; Warren Fellow)
* "Black Ops and Sleeper Cells: Race, the War on Terror and Popular Culture from Above and Below"
A presentation of the Warren Center's 2009-10 Workshop on "Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below."
History Library, First Floor Level, Robinson Hall
Sponsored by the Charles Warren Center

Friday and Saturday, March 12, 13
"International Society and its Discontents."
The tenth annual graduate student conference on international history, presented with support from the Warren Center.
Information at: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/

Monday, March 22, 4-6pm
Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburgh; Workshop Guest)
"Representing Slave Revolt in a Slave Society: Images of the Amistad Rebellion"
A presentation of the Warren Center's 2009-10 Workshop on "Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora: Transnational America from Above and Below."
History Library, First Floor Level, Robinson Hall
Sponsored by the Charles Warren Center

Monday, March 29, 3-5 pm
Alex Lubin (University of New Mexico; Workshop Guest)
"Liberation Geography: Reconstructing Black, Arab, and Jewish Identities"
Note non-standard location: Robinson Hall Basement Seminar Room
Sponsored by the Charles Warren Center

Monday, March 29, 4-6pm
Lauren Coyle (University of Chicago)
* "Refiguring the Anthropology and Sociology of Money, Post-Financial Crisis: Beyond Performativity and Discursivity to Money as Capital"
Presented by the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, with support from the Warren Center.
History Library, First Floor, Robinson Hall
Sponsored by the Charles Warren Center

 Monday April 5, 4:00pm
Jeffrey Alexander and William Julius Wilson
The Political Power of Metaphor: Obama Fights the "Celebrity" Label in Campaign 2008
Harvard Culture and Social Analysis Workshop
Weiner Auditorium, Taubman Ground floor
Harvard Kennedy School, 15 Eliot St

Cambridge, Massachusetts

May Events at the Harvard Book Store

Tuesday, May 18th, 12:30pm Harvard AIDS Initiative Program on International Health & Human Rights Unity Dow is a novelist, human rights activist, and judge on the Interim Constitutional Court of Kenya.  A native of Botswana, Dow served for ten years as the first woman justice on Botswana's High Court. LOCATION: Harvard School of Public Health, FXB Building, 651 Huntington Avenue, Room 301, Boston. INFORMATION: Lunch will be provided.  For more information, please e-mail Martha Henry at mshenry@hsph.harvard.edu.

Tuesday, May 18th, 7:00pm Harvard AIDS Initiative Harvard's Lasker Professor of Health Sciences Max Essex and activist and judge Unity Dow discuss their new book, which explores the impact of HIV/AIDS on Botswana. In the year 2000, the World Health Organization estimated that 85 percent of the 15 year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of AIDS. In Saturday Is for Funerals, the authors explain why that won't happen. "A remarkable account of the human effect of a pandemic, written by two people with an intimate knowledge of Botswana and its struggle to deal with AIDS."          - Alexander McCall Smith "The authors offer an empathetic account of everyday life in a country where the disease infects one of every four adults."        - Publishers Weekly   LOCATION: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. INFORMATION: For more information, please e-mail Martha Henry at mshenry@hsph.harvard.edu, or visit http://bit.ly/9oNXg7.

Museum of African American History Museum of African American History     Boston  46 Joy Street Boston, MA 02114 617-720-2991 Hours of Operation Monday to Saturday 10:00am to 4:00 pm   Nantucket  PO Box 2637 Nantucket, MA  02584 508-228-9833 Hours of Operation June to October Monday to Friday 11:00am to 3:00pm Saturday 11:00am to 1:00pm Sunday 1:00pm to 3:00pm   Administrative Offices 14 Beacon Street Suite 719 Boston, MA 02108 617-725-0022 www.maah.org     The Museum of African American History Presents Profiles In Color         An Interview and Discussion With  Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and Chair, African and African American Studies, Harvard University Thursday, May 20, 2010 Abiel Smith School 46 Joy Street Beacon Hill, Boston Interview By Carole A.Simpson Journalist-In-Residence  Museum of African American History And Leader-In-Residence Emerson College, Journalism Department           Carole Simpson will interview Professor Higginbotham who will discuss her recently completed contemporized version of John Hope Franklin's classic African American survey, From Slavery to Freedom.   RSVP at (617) 725-0022 X 14 or rsvp@maah.org   Parking is available for $5 at the Charles River Plaza parking garage under the Holiday Inn on Cambridge Street.  Bring your parking ticket for validation.    For more information, visit  www.maah.org

May 21-23: "France Noire" Film Festival

Organized by Fellows Trica Danielle Keaton and Arlette Frund

 

 

You are cordially invited to the Program on Human Rights and Global Economy, Human Rights Caucus, and the Northeastern Law Forum: Discussions on Contemporary Issues presentation of  
The Law Forum: Discussions on Contemporary Legal Issues present
Coming Home   The Dry Storm
New England Premiere!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Northeastern University School of Law
65 Forsyth Street, 240 Dockser Hall

 
A documentary film about the struggle of local activists in the face of the demolition of nearly all public housing in New Orleans.  

Remarks by Executive Producer Catherine Albisa (NESRI) and Professor Hope Lewis of Northeastern University School of Law.  
 
There will be a reception and post-film discussion.