W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures Winter Semester 1999/2000
W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
Tuesday, 6pm - 8pm
main building, room 3002 (library)
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
- Bettina Friedl (Universität Hamburg): "Wearable Art. The Complication of Art through Fashion in the Sixties", November 2, 1999
- Ruth-Ellen Joeres (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis): "The Ambiguity of Representation", November 16, 1999
- Heinz Ickstadt (Freie Universität Berlin): "Deconstructing Reconstructing Order. The Different Faces of American Modernism", November 30, 1999
- Rüdiger Kunow (Universität Magdeburg): "Writing Places. Space and Representations in Postcolonial American Literature", December 14, 1999
- Peter Schneck (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): "The Pragmatist Eye. Perception as Practice in American Culture", January 11, 2000
- Ellen Friedman (Trenton College of New Jersey): "The End of Patriarchy in Contemporary American Fiction", January 25, 2000
- Alice Kessler-Harris (Columbia University, New York): "Piggybacking Sex and Race. The Cultural Politics of Economic Opportunity in Late Twentieth Century America", February 8, 2000
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