Cultural Agents Initiative Newsletter
Week of
March 4th to 10th
2009

In This Issue
"The Past at Stake": The Commemoration of Slavery in the Black French Narratives
"Imagining Color in Proust and Murasaki"
Culturas en el Aire / Cultures on the Air: A symposium on Indigenous Radio
"Learning From Performers": A Conversation with Conductor ALAN GILBERT"
"Art as a Tool for Social Engagement"...Children Surviving Land Mines in Colombia
Featured Article I
Featured Article II
"The Past at Stake": The Commemoration of Slavery in the Black French Narratives
Wednesday 03/04/09
Thompson Room, Barker Center 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
12:00 pm
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Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. cordially invites you to attend the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Colloquium 

Abdoulaye Gueye, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Ottawa, Canada

A question and answer period will follow the lecture.
Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Visit the Du Bois Web site to learn more about the
Institute and its events.
"Imagining Color in Proust and Murasaki"
Thursday, 03/05/09
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street
6:00pm
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The Humanities Center at Harvard presents

Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value

Seating is limited. Open to the public.
Culturas en el Aire / Cultures on the Air: A symposium on Indigenous Radio
Friday 03/06/09 - 2:00 - 7:00pm
The Tsai Auditorium (S-010), Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street

Saturday 03/07/09 - 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
DRCLAS, Room S-250, Second Floor, 1730 Cambridge Street
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CULTURES ON THE AIR!
Opening Remarks by Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante (Associate Professor, Harvard) and by José Luis Falconi (Associate Director, Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard)

Friday

2:15-3:00 pm 
Indigenous Voices from the North and Beyond

Title: Hawaiian Perspectives on Indigenous Politics and Community Radio from Native New England and Beyond

By J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Native Hawaiian, Associate Professor, American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University; Host and Producer of the Radio Program "Indigenous Politics: From New England and Beyond," Middletown, CT)

Moderator and Discussant: Amy E. Den Ouden (Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston)

3:00-4:15 pm
Title: 17 Years of Indigenous Radio: Nationally and Internationally
By Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota, First Voices Indigenous Radio, WBAI Pacifica Radio, New York City)

Title: Indigenous Radio and North-South Solidarity: The Case of the Popular Minga in Colombia

By Mario Murillo (Associate Professor, School of Communication, Hofstra University; Radio Host WBAI Pacifica Radio, New York City)

Moderator and Discussant: Margarita Martinez (Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker, Colombia; Nieman Fellow, Harvard)

4:15 pm  Coffee

Indigenous Voices From The South

4:30-5:25 pm

Title: "Wixage Anai": Más que sólo hacer radio ["Wixage Anai": More Than Doing Radio]

By Elías Paillán (Mapuche, Observatorio Ciudadano; Reporter and Former Producer and Host of the Radio Program "Wixage Anai," Chile)

Moderators: Nicole Legnani (Graduate Student, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard) and Professor Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante

Other Voices: On the Community Agency of Indigenous Radio

5:30-6:45 pm

Roundtable: Mark Camp (Director of Operations, Cultural Survival), Bruce Curliss (Nipmuc, Outreach Project Director, Educational Outreach WGBH), Joanne Dunn (Executive Director for the North American Indian Center of Boston), Kelsey Leonard (Shinnecock and Unkechaug-Poosepatuck, Harvard College Class of 2010, Joint Concentrator in Sociology and Anthropology), and Danko Mariman (Mapuche student, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Moderator and Discussant:  Theodore Macdonald (Fellow, University Committee on Human Rights Studies, and Lecturer in Anthropology and Social Studies at Harvard)

Sponsored by the Provostial Funds for Arts of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Cultural Agents Initiative, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)), and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard. This event is open to the public.

Saturday

9:30-12:00 pm

What's Next?: A Planning Workshop on Indigenous Radio

Sponsored by the Provostial Funds for Arts of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Cultural Agents Initiative, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)), and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard. This event is open to the public.
 
"Learning From Performers": A Conversation with Conductor ALAN GILBERT
Friday, March 6th, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
New College Theatre, 10-12 Holyoke St.
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Learning From Performers (Office for the Arts at Harvard) in association with the Harvard University Department of Music presents a conversation with conductor ALAN GILBERT

Hosted and moderated by Anne C. Shreffler, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music; Chair, Department of Music

"Alan Gilbert has a demonstrated talent for devising programs that juxtapose old and new works in engrossing contexts." New York Times

Admission free (tickets/RSVPs not required)

Information: 617.495.8676, www.fas.harvard.edu/~ofa
Alan Gilbert '89 was named music director of the New York Philharmonic in 2007; his appointment begins in the 2009-10 season. He will be one of the youngest music directors in the orchestra s history, and the only native New Yorker to hold the post. Since 2004 Gilbert has been principal guest conductor of Hamburg s NDR Symphony Orchestra. He was recently named conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was chief conductor and artistic advisor from 2000 to 2008.
"Art as a Tool for Social Engagement"
Children Surviving Land Mines in Colombia
Monday 03/06909
Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street
6:00pm
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"Art as a Tool for Social Engagement": Children Surviving Land Mines in Colombia

A lecture by

Alvaro Jiménez
Director of the Colombian Campaign Against Land Mines

Introduction by

Jennifer Leaning MD, SMH
Co-Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Professor of the Practice of International Health, Harvard School of Public Health. Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Discussion lead by

Doris Sommer
Director, Cultural Agents Initiative
Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and AfricanAmerican Studies

Presented by
The Cultural Agents Initiative and  Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Sponsored by
The Humanities Center at Harvard

Seating is limited. Open to the public
 

Featured Article

"Art as a Tool for Social Engagement"


Children Surviving Land Mines in Colombia

Monday, March 9, 2009 6 p.m.

Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street
Seating is limited. Open to the public
Featured Article

Cultures on the Air

A symposium on Indigenous Radio

Friday 03/06/09
2:00 - 7:00pm
The Tsai Auditorium (S-010), Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street

Saturday 03/07/09
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
DRCLAS, Room S-250, Second Floor, 1730 Cambridge Street

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