Tag: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
-
Nation & World
Solving a mystery of 19th-century literary history
Scholar’s new biography nails down identity of earliest known Black American woman novelist, first theorized by Gates
-
Nation & World
Frederick Douglass as 19th-century influencer
A Wadsworth Atheneum show, curated by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Skip Gates, explores Douglass’ embrace of the emerging art of photography.
-
Nation & World
Gates recognized by University of Cambridge
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, has been conferred an honorary degree, Litt.D., from the University of Cambridge, his alma mater.
-
Nation & World
Recovering the life stories of the Zealy daguerreotype subjects
Gregg Hecimovich, a Furman University English professor, is working to recover the stories of the Zealy daguerreotypes, which depict enslaved Africans in 19th-century America.
-
Nation & World
Houghton acquires 1st edition of 1st African American novel
Through the efforts of Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Houghton Library has acquired a first edition of the first novel published by an African American in the U.S.
-
Nation & World
How the Black Church saved Black America
Henry Louis Gates’ new book on the Black Church traces the institution’s role in history, politics, and culture.
-
Nation & World
‘Black & Jewish Talk Series’ starts with ‘A Conversation’
The Center for Jewish Studies and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research debut their “Black & Jewish Talk Series” with “A Conversation.”
-
Nation & World
An unflinching look at racism as America’s caste system
Kicking off a monthly series designed to harness “the power of storytelling,” was Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.”
-
Nation & World
Gates recognized for his scholarship in the humanities
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has named Henry Louis Gates Jr. the recipient of the Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies.
-
Nation & World
The gathering storm
Experts assess the state of the nation amid a pandemic and a national reckoning with race during a talk sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and PBS.
-
Nation & World
A reading list on issues of race
Harvard faculty offer recommendations of books on race everyone should read.
-
Nation & World
African and African American Studies at 50
Influential, groundbreaking African and African American Studies Department at Harvard turns 50.
-
Nation & World
Twitter and the birth of the 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. discuss the newspaper’s landmark 1619 Project, which commemorates the 400th anniversary of slavery and reconsiders the historical record.
-
Nation & World
The story of a museum and of America
Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, recalls his challenges in founding the National Museum of African American History and Culture
-
Nation & World
Persistence, courage take the dais
Rapper Queen Latifah, poets Elizabeth Alexander and Rita Dove, Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch III, philanthropist Sheila C. Johnson, artist Kerry James Marshall, and entrepreneur Robert F. Smith were honored with this year’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medals.
-
Nation & World
‘The work of culture alters our perceptions’
The two-day “Vision & Justice” conference at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study brought together a wide range of scholars and artists for performances and discussions considering the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.
-
Nation & World
Picturing vision and justice
A meeting of experts and scholars from Harvard and beyond organized by assistant professor Sarah Lewis will “consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.”
-
Nation & World
Second life for slave narrative
Harvard scholar Robin Bernstein hopes the archival work behind the recent publication of the slave narrative of Jane Clark will inspire other such projects.
-
Nation & World
Losing King: Shock, sorrow, anger, and a voice time hasn’t silenced
Harvard scholars reflect on the life, death, and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn.
-
Nation & World
A radical archive arrives at Harvard
Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library has acquired the papers of famed activist Angela Davis.
-
Nation & World
African-American folklore inspires meeting of the minds
Harvard scholars Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar discuss the collaborative effort behind “The Annotated African American Folktales.”
-
Nation & World
Depths of slavery, heard, seen, and felt
The poetry of Phillis Wheatley adds power to a film by Harvard scholars that re-creates an 18th-century campus debate on slavery.
-
Nation & World
Black lives, in focus
The Hutchins Center honors eight medalists who have made a difference for African-Americans and for cultural understanding.
-
Nation & World
Curating a visual record
Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, assistant professor of the history of art and architecture and African and African-American studies, guest edited the magazine Aperture, producing an issue called “Vision & Justice,” the first on African-Americans, race, and photography for the magazine.
-
Nation & World
Patterson receives Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
-
Nation & World
A panoply of achievement
Seven African-American leaders receive Du Bois Medals from the Hutchins Center.
-
Nation & World
Peter J. Gomes
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 7, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister, was spread upon the records. In his four decades on campus, Reverend Gomes presided as teacher, preacher, and spiritual guide.…