W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures Summer Semester 2002
W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
6pm c.t. - 8pm
main building, room 3002 (library)
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
- Michael Kammen (Cornell University, Ithaca): "From a Culture of Expertise to a Culture of Celebrity in 20th-Century America", May 2, 2002 (Thursday)
- Amritjit Singh (Rhode Island College/Freie Universität Berlin): "Twentieth-Century African American Fiction. The Search for Individualism and Aesthetics", May 7, 2002
- John Long (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): "Mis-Educating the Negro-Failures of the Black Middle Class? Retrospecting the 1930s", May 14, 2002
- W. J. T. Mitchell (University of Chicago): "The Surplus Value of Images (with Some Reflections on Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled')", May 28, 2002
- Antje Kley (Universität Kiel): "Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary American Autobiography", June 11, 2002
- Biodun Jeyifo (Cornell University, Ithaca): "Modernity From Below. Reflections on the 'Civilizing Process' in Europe and the 'Civilizing Mission' in the Colonies", June 18, 2002
- Insa Härtel (Universität Bremen): "Von der 'väterlichen' Autorität des Autors. Ansprüche und Einsprüche", June 25, 2002
- Samuel Weber (Northwestern University, Chicago): Towers and Caves.
Some After-Thoughts on 'Terror' and 'Media'", July 9, 2002
The W. E. B. Du Bois Week is sponsored by:
- Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) and
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of English and American
Studies