W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures Winter Semester 2003/2004
W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
6pm c.t. - 8pm
main building, room 3002 (library)
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
- Kerry Shawn Keys - Poetry Reading of the American Lithuanian Author, October 21, 2003
- Thomas Claviez (Humboldt Universität): "Rainbows, Fogs, and other Smokescreens. Herman Melville's Billy Budd and the Question of Ethics", November 11, 2003
- Christine N. Brinckmann (Universität Zürich): "Empathie im Dokumentarfilm. Georg Stefan Trollers Reportage über das Zuchthaus Moundsville, West Virginia", November 25, 2003
- Flora Veit-Wild (Humboldt Universität): "Walking Vaginas. The Transgression of Bodily Boundaries in African Literature", December 16, 2003
- Michael Geyer (University of Chicago, DaimlerChrysler Fellow an der American Academy in Berlin): "Sovereign Republic/Global Empire. American Democracy in a Global Age", January 20, 2004
- Robert Hemenway (University of Kansas): "Zora Neale Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance", January 27, 2004
- Karl-Heinz Magister (Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin): "Genealogies of Migration and Transnational Urban Diasporas in Colin Channer's 'West Indian' New York", February 3, 2004
- Christine Noll-Brinckmann (Universität Zürich): "Empathie im Dokumentarfilm. Georg Stefan Trollers Reportage über das Zuchthaus Moundsville, West Virginia", February 17, 2004
The W. E. B. Du Bois Week is sponsored by:
- Institute for the International Education of Students (IES)
- Embassy of the United States and
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of English and American Studies