The Humanities Center at Harvard Presents:

PROGRAM:

10:00am
Markus Krajewski, Humanities Center at Harvard
Introduction

10:30am
Markus Stock, University of Toronto, Canada
The Good Messenger: Letter, Oral Word, and (In)Difference

11:45am
Raffaella Sarti, University of Urbino, Italy
Servants Between Invisibility and Visibility

2:00pm
Walter Johnson, History Department, Harvard
The Carceral Landscape: Birds, Horses, Dogs, Forests, Fields, and Swamps

3:15pm
Thomas Brandstaetter, University of Vienna, Austria
The Lives of Mechanical Servants

4:30pm
Wendy Chun, Brown University, Providence
Yes, Sir!, or How Operators Became Programmers

Open to the public
Seating is limited

For more information:
617.495.0738
www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr
 

Made possible by the generous support of
the Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, Germany

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The Latin Network of Art for Social Transformation and Expedition Metropolis - Creative Cooperations, have decided to join efforts in the organization of the Working sessions: Focus on Art for Social Transformation: Art is a Right.  A catalyst for Political, Economic, Social and Environmental Development to exhibit the role of art and culture in social development in Europe and Latin America.
This multi-sectorial symposium on the role of art and culture in social development issues is part of a scaling up process of reflections, actions and dialogue between Europe and Latin America.

Artists engaged with youth and communities' empowerment, social leaders, researchers, private companies, foundations, politicians and other experts will be invited to exchange on the current and potential bridges that exist between art and other sectors and on its role in generating positive changes for a more sustainable society.

Working sessions will include approximately 40 participants from LatinAmerica and Europe

For program and more information, please contact:
Ines Sanguinetti at inesa@crearvalelapena.org.ar

This program in Photography & Human Rights will consist of four courses designed to explore strategies to create effective documentary projects linked with issues of human rights. The projects, to be created by the students in this program, will utilize a variety of media approaches, emphasizing new digital possibilities, to create maximum social impact. A major emphasis of the program will be on the relevance of human rights law to the documentary work, and strategizing projects that aid in the attainment of such basic rights. Concurrent with the program, the Magnum Foundation will organize lectures and film screenings on issues relating to documentary work and human rights that  feature a variety of work, including projects by Magnum photographers.
 
Faculty for the program will include, among others, Magnum photographers Susan Meiselas and Gilles Peress, digital media specialists Catherine Fallon and Elizabeth Kilroy, adjunct professor and human rights specialist Peter Lucas, and program director and associate chair, Fred Ritchin.
 
The courses for this program will be offered for credit or for non-credit.  Non-credit students will receive a certificate upon completion of the four courses:  
 
SUMMER 2009 ADVANCED DIRECTED PROJECTS: PHOTOGRAPHY & HUMAN RIGHTS 1
DIGITAL TOOLS FOR DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE
 
SUMMER 2010 ADVANCED DIRECTED PROJECTS: PHOTOGRAPHY & HUMAN RIGHTS 2
MEDIA PRESENTATION STRATEGIES
 

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research presents two 2008 Fletcher Fellowship Recipients:

Kellie Jones,
Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Family Archives: Life / Art / Writing

Stacey L. Leeds
Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law
Sovereignty and Consequences: Cherokee Legal History and Freedmen

The Fletcher Fellowships are awarded to scholars, writers, and artists whose work contributes to improving race relations in American Society and furthers the broad social goals of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v.s Board of Education Decision of 1954.

For more information please contact the Du Bois Institute at 617.495.8508 dbievent@fas.harvard.edu or visit www.dubois.fas.harvard.edu.

mahecha@fas.harvard.edu

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