• Professor William Julius Wilson interviewed by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for the Du Bois Review
    April 3, 2009 - 12:00pm
    Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University and Author of, "More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City"
    William Julius Wilson
    Alphone Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    Martin Kilson Reading Room, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge
    334
  • Melissa Harris-Lacewell - W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
    April 2, 2009 - 5:00pm
    Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Princeton University
    Melissa Harris-Lacewell
    Of the Meaning of Progress: Measuring Black Citizenship
    Lecture 3: I am Obama: Forging a New Black Citizenship
     
    Co-sponsored with the Committee on African Studies

     

    Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge Street
    315
  • Melissa Harris-Lacewell - W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
    April 1, 2009 - 5:00pm
    Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Princeton University
    Melissa Harris-Lacewell
    Of the Meaning of Progress: Measuring Black Citizenship
    Lecture 2: Faith of Our Mothers: Women Bearing the Burdens of Citizenship
     
    Co-sponsored with the Committee on African Studies

     

    Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge Street
    314
  • Melissa Harris-Lacewell - W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
    March 31, 2009 - 5:00pm
    Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Princeton University
    Melissa Harris-Lacewell
    Of the Meaning of Progress: Measuring Black Citizenship
    Lecture 1: Subjects or Citizens: Feeling Black in Post-Katrina America
     
    Co-sponsored with the Committee on African Studies

     

    Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge Street
    313
  • Paul Finkelman - Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series
    March 19, 2009 - 4:00pm
    President William Mckinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, Albany School of Law
    Paul Finkelman
    The Supreme Court and The Peculiar Institution: Marshall, Story, Taney, and the Defense of Slavery
    Lecture 3: Chief Justice Taney and Slavery: Defending the Cornerstone at all Costs

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    311
  • Paul Finkelman - Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series
    March 18, 2009 - 4:00pm
    President William Mckinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, Albany School of Law
    Paul Finkelman
    The Supreme Court and The Peculiar Institution: Marshall, Story, Taney, and the Defense of Slavery
    Lecture 2: Joseph Story and Slavery: The Enigma of an Antislavery Man Who Became a Proslavery Justice

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    310
  • Paul Finkelman - Nathan I. Huggins Lecture Series
    March 17, 2009 - 4:00pm
    President William Mckinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, Albany School of Law
    Paul Finkelman
    The Supreme Court and The Peculiar Institution: Marshall, Story, Taney, and the Defense of Slavery
    Lecture 1: Chief Justice Marshall and Slavery: A Slaveholding Chief Justice Discovers the Limits of National Power

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    309
  • Du Bois Institute Book Party - Author Reading and Signing
    February 26, 2009 - 6:00pm
    Author of "Lincoln on Race and Slavery" and "Finding Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past"
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    Author of "Ethnic Modernism"
    Werner Sollors
    Author of "Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery"
    Glenda Carpio
    Author of "Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln"
    John Stauffer
    Author of "Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Founding of the Americas, 1585-1660"
    Linda Heywood
     
    A Celebration of New Publications by Harvard Faculty and Du Bois Fellows

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    303
  • Joseph Miller - W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
    February 19, 2009 - 4:00pm
    T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia
    Joseph Miller
    African and World History
    Lecture 3: The African Communal Ethos in a Commerical World

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    302
  • Joseph Miller - W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series
    February 18, 2009 - 4:00pm
    T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History, University of Virginia
    Joseph Miller
    African and World History
    Lecture 2: Political Centralization and Its Costs

     

    Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
    301