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Gerald Curtis
Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

Moderator: Susan Pharr 
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of...

Philippe Girard, Professor of History and Department Head, McNeese State University

October 29th: Isaac Sasportas

Lecture 3: Isaac Sasportas was a Haitian-born Sephardic Jew. Inspired by the French Revolution¹s embrace of religious and racial equality, he conceived an elaborate plan in 1799 to export the Haitian Revolution to nearby Jamaica and to free Britain¹s slaves‹the closest that the New World ever got to a second Haiti. His ultimate failure reveals why the Haitian Revolution remained a one-off event....

Philippe Girard, Professor of History and Department Head, McNeese State University

October 28th: Joseph and Marie Bunel

Lecture 2: Joseph Bunel was a Haitian diplomatic envoy who visited Philadelphia in 1798 and who is generally regarded as the first black ambassador to the United States‹except that he was not. His unique role as Louverture and Dessalines¹s white ambassador, along with that of his wife Marie (who was black and yet remarkably uninvolved in the Revolution), show us that, when...

Philippe Girard, Professor of History and Department Head, McNeese State University

Profiles in Courage: Four Forgotten Figures of the Haitian Revolution

• October 27th: Jean-Baptiste Belley
• Lecture 1: Jean-Baptiste Belley was a black freedman who traveled from Haiti to France in 1794 to convince the French parliament to pass a law abolishing slavery. Amazingly, he succeeded (becoming the first black deputy in the French parliament in the process), only to meet a tragic end as...

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Floretta Boonzaier, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Cape Town

• Fellow's Bio and Project Description

Reading the Past in the...

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Victor Fowler, Writer and Poet

• Fellow's Bio and Project Description

Long-time Brothers: Black Cubans in the North American Black imagination, 1868-1968...

Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion

About the Author

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús is associate professor of African American religions at Harvard Divinity School. A cultural and social anthropologist, she studies media, circulation, and religious travel...

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The Hutchins Center, Harvard Book Store, and Mass Humanities welcome Professor in U.S. History at Trinity College Dublin DANIEL GEARY and author and essayist BENJAMIN HEDIN for a moderated discussion with The Reverend EUGENE F. RIVERS III of Geary's and Hedin's books Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy and In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now.

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Kellie Jones, Associate Professor in Art History and Archaeology and the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University

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Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

• Faculty Bio

What Have We Learned about Culture and Black Youth?...

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The Hutchins Center and Harvard Book Store welcome investigative journalist and political correspondent for The Nation ARI BERMAN for a discussion of his latest book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.

The adoption of the...

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Lydia H. Liu, Wun Tsun Tam Professor...

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Emma Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of...