The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and SAGES present THE ANISFIELD-WOLF LECTURE
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Pursuing a Dream: W.E.B. Du Bois and His Encyclopedia
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Severance Hall
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois
Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is the author of many books,
including The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism, winner of the American
Book Award; and Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars; The African American Century: How Black
Americans Have Shaped Our Century, co-authored with Cornel West; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black
Man, and his memoir, Colored People. An influential cultural critic and public
intellectual, his honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, a George Polk Award for Social Commentary,
a National Humanities Medal, and Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans” list (1997).
Although addressed especially to students and faculty in Case’s SAGES core curriculum,
the lecture is open to the public. Attendance is free but registration is recommended. |
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