Ladies and Gentlemen,
I saw this on the African American Studies Listserv. They got it from
ABSLST-L.
Tomorrow, April 2, 2003, at 12 o'clock NOON (EST), there will be a discussion
of teaching WEB Du Bois. Advance questions are encouraged and may be posted
now.
See <http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2003/04/dubois/> for more info, to
post questions in advance, and/or to view a transcript of the proceeding
afterward.
Friday will be the 100th Anniversary of his book, "Souls of Black Folks."
Thanks,
Karen E. Sutton
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LIVE DISCUSSION: TEACHING W. E. B. DU BOIS
What is the intellectual legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois? What are
professors' experiences in teaching "The Souls of Black
Folk" and other works by Du Bois? Join us for a live
discussion of this topic on Wednesday, April 2, at noon, U.S.
Eastern time. Advance questions are encouraged and may be posted
now.
SEE http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2003/04/dubois/
Join us here on Wednesday, April 2, at noon, U.S. Eastern time.
Long treated mainly as a founding father of the civil-rights movement, W. E.
B. Du Bois has been rediscovered as one of the most versatile figures ever
to emerge from academe. A historian, sociologist, novelist, and journalist,
Du Bois was the public intellectual par excellence. This year marks the
centenary of his book The Souls of Black Folk and his essay "The Talented
Tenth" -- landmark works in African-American literature and intellectual
history. Another work of his, The Negro Church, a sociological study
published in 1903, is being reprinted for the first time. What is the state
of Du Bois's legacy in the 21st century? What is the relation among the world
views found in his work, with its mixture of Victorian sensibility,
Pan-Africanism, and Marxist ideology? Was Du Bois an elitist at heart, or a
radical democrat -- or possibly both? And how do faculty members today teach
Souls, and what reactions do they receive from students?
» The Centennial of 'Souls' (4/4/2003)
David Levering Lewis, a professor of history at Rutgers University at New
Brunswick, has won the Pulitzer Prize twice -- once for W. E. B. Du Bois:
Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (1993) and again for W. E. B. Du Bois: The
Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (2000), both published
by Henry Holt. He is also the author of Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus
Affair (Morrow, 1973), When Harlem Was in Vogue (Knopf, 1981), and The Race
to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for
Africa (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987), and is the editor of The Portable
Harlem Renaissance Reader (Viking, 1994) as well as W. E. B. Du Bois: A
Reader (Henry Holt, 1995). On April 11, he will deliver the keynote address,
"W. E. B. Du Bois: From Prophet to Pariah and Back," at a centennial
symposium on The Souls of Black Folk to be held at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison. Mr. Lewis will respond to questions and comments about
Du Bois on Wednesday, April 2, at noon, U.S. Eastern time. Advance questions
are encouraged and may be posted now.
A transcript will be available at this address following the discussion.
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