W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures Winter Semester 2009/2010
W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
6:30pm - 8pm
Main Building, Room DOR 24 1.501
Unter den Linden 6 , 10099 Berlin
Flyer W.E.B. du Bois Lectures WS 09/10
26.10.
Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia)
"Queer Historiography"
3. 11.
Ruth Mayer (Hannover)
"The Glittering Machine of Modernity: The Chinatown in American Silent
Film"
24. 11.
David Goldfield (University of North Carolina)
"The Obama Presidency and Race in America"
15. 12.
Una Chadhuri (NYU)
"Dead on Stage: Animal Bodies and an Aesthetic of Livingness"
12. 1.
Herwig Friedl (Düsseldorf)
"Out of Bounds: American Visions of the Thinker and of Thinking"
26. 1
Aaron Jaffe (University of Louisville, Kentucky)
"The Unpleasant Profession of Varian Fry: Modernist Poetry, Cultural Value,
and Administration"
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