• Symphony in Black, 1935, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday (9:36)
• Rhapsody in Black and Blue, 1932, Louis Armstrong (10:00)
• St. Louis Blues, 1929, Bessie Smith (15:41)
• Cab Calloway’s Hi De Ho, 1933 (10:00)
• Bundle of Blues, 1933, Duke Ellington (9:00)
• Hoagy Carmichael, 1939, Hoagy Carmichael, Jack Teagarden (10:00)
• Artie Shaw’s Class in Swing, 1939, Artie Shaw (10:00)...

W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Spring Colloquium

 Beekan Guluma Erena

Writer & Scholar

Fellow’s Bio

Free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Noel Valis (Yale University), a major American critic of Spanish literature, and Anna Caballé (Barcelona University), a scholar of women’s writing, the diary, and the memoir will consider a series of autobiographical essays by some of America’s leading Hispanists. The conversation –about remembered moments of first contact with other authors and cultures–will be moderated by Christopher Maurer (Boston University).

 La reciente publicación de un volumen de ensayos autobiográficos de...

Beginning in 1916, a group of black women in Washington D.C. came together to protest ceaseless acts of terrorism against African Americans - by writing plays. These plays, which were written over many decades and never commercially produced, focus on the survivors: lynching victims' mothers, siblings and spouses. They tell the stories of women who tried to prevent the violence and how they struggled to endure in its aftermath. The April 7, 2016 reading will feature three of these little known plays: Mary Burrill's Aftermath (1919), Georgia Douglas Johnson's...

On Sunday, April 3 at 8:00 p.m., the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta will make its American debut at Symphony Hall in a special performance commemorating the fifth anniversary of the environmental disasters that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011.

Created at the initiative of students from a number of Fukushima middle schools and high schools in the aftermath of the disasters, the Sinfonietta comes to Boston following sold-out performances at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Tokyo Opera City. The...

Ben Morgan (Oxford University), Varieties of Freedom: Eckhart, Seuse, ‘Sister Catherine’, and Forms of Agency in Recent Cognitive Science. Followed by a roundtable discussion with Amy Hollywood (Harvard Divinity School), Racha Kirakosian (Harvard University), Niklaus Largier (University of California Berkeley), and Judith Ryan (Harvard University).

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Provostial Fund for Arts and Humanities, the Committee on...

The Boston Medical Library presents the 12th J. Worth Estes, M.D. History of Medicine Lecture:

Prescription Drug Abuse in American History:

Lessons from a Century of Failures and Occasional Successes

David Herzberg, Ph.D.: Associate Professor in the Department of History,...

Please join us for an intimate and inside perspective on the use of documentary film-making to communicate the past to the present by an expert in the field, Ric Burns. His Steeplechase Films most recently produced “The Pilgrims,” which aired on PBS’s American Experience last November to considerable acclaim. Using “The Pilgrims” a focal point for discussion of interpreting history through film, students will have a unique opportunity to engage Ric about the details of his process and background, and create a valuable experience in which the...

Manisha Sinha

Professor of Afro-American Studies and History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition 

Co-sponsored with the Harvard Book Store

Free and open to...

Stéphane Lojkine, University of Aix-Marseille

France and the World, Mahindra Humanities Center

- See more at: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/invention-de-l%E2%80%99esth%C3%A9tique-et-retour-du-politique-le%C3%A7ons-des-lumi%C3%A8res#sthash.Efthxywb.dpuf