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

• Fellow's Bio...

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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...

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Jeremy Brown, Simon...

See also: China Humanities Seminar

Shao-yun Yang studies the intellectual history of medieval China (between 300 and 1500 CE), with particular interest in Chinese perceptions of and interactions with other ethnocultural groups. At Denison, he teaches a two-part survey of East Asian history and upper-level courses on the history of Chinese identity; China under the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE); Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Chinese history; and the representation of...

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João Paulo Pimenta, Professor of History, University of São Paulo