W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures Summer Semester 2009
W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
6:30pm - 8pm
main building, room DOR 24 1.601
Unter den Linden 6 , 10099 Berlin
Evan Heimlich
UC Riverside
Against Supersessionism: History as a Continuum
April 28, 2009
Vaughn Rasberry
University of Chicago
Richard Wright and the Totalitarian Century
May 5, 2009
Howard Wolf
SUNY Buffalo
Far Away Places: Travel Writing and Lessons in Exile
May 19, 2009
Paula Moya
Stanford University
Doing Race in the Era of Obama
June 9, 2009
Edward Blum
San Diego State University
“His Soul on Fire”: Finding the Soul in W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
June 16, 2009
Harry Brod
University of Northern Iowa
The People of the Comic Book: It’s a Man! It’s a Jew! It’s a Supermensch!
June 23, 2009
Leslie Sanders
York University, Toronto
Negotiating the (Multicultural) Nation: Austin Clarke and Dionne Brand
July 14, 2009
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