W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures Summer Semester 1999
W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
Tuesday, 6pm - 8pm
main building, room 3002 (library)
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
- Stephen Nissenbaum (University of Massachusetts, Amherst/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): "The 'Christmas Riots' of 1865. Black Hopes and White Fears on the Eve of Reconstruction", April 27, 1999
- Jules Chametzky (University of Massachusetts, Amherst/University of Copenhagen): "Jewish Humor not Unlike the Blues", May 11, 1999
- Winfried Fluck (Freie Universität Berlin): "Aesthetics and Cultural Studies", May 18, 1999
- Sieglinde Lemke (Freie Universität Berlin): "W. E. B. Du Bois in Berlin", June 1, 1999
- Nahum Chandler (Johns Hopkins University/Princeton University): "Architectural Formulations. W. E. B. Du Bois and 'The Study of the Negro Problems'", June 3, 1999 (Thursday)
- Murray Krieger (University of California, Irvine): "The Ascetic vs. the Aesthetic. A Continuing Opposition in the Politics of Criticism", June 14, 1999 (Monday)
- Ulla Haselstein (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München): "Captured by Savages. Literary and Cinematic Refigurations of Cultural Difference in the Captivity Genre", June 29, 1999
- Reinhard Isensee (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): "Zwischen Konvention und Innovation. Konstruktionen adoleszenter Identitäten in der amerikanischen Jugendliteratur", July 7, 1999
The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures are sponsored by:
- Institute for the International Education of Students (IES)
- Embassy of the United States of America and
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of English and American Studies