W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures Summer Semester 2011
W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures
Time: Tuesday, 18.30 - 20.00
Location: Dorotheenstr. 24 (Hegelplatz)
Room 1.501
10099 Berlin-Mitte
April 13
Farah Mendlesohn (Middlesex University)
"Escaping the Influence of Narnia"
May 8
Aaron Jaffe and Edward P. Comentale
Book presentation: "absolute(ly) Big Lebowski" (orange press) (Saint George's Bookstore)
May 24
Art Redding (York University, Toronto)
"War and the Intellectuals: Randolph Bourne and Beyond"
June 21
Tavia Nyong'o (NYU)
"The Danger of Safety: Black Aesthetics in Precarious Times"
June 28
Heike Paul (Universität Erlangen)
"Black Diaspora and 19th Century Abolitionism out of Canada"
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