AFRICA: A Legacy in Memory

The 2004 Africa: A Legacy in Memory Lecture Series was free and open to the public and 
held on the campus of Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
      
      
  
  
Saturday, April 3:  Keynote Address, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
            The keynote address, "W.E.B. Du Bois and the 
            Encyclopedia Africana", will be given by Dr. Henry Louis 
            Gates, Jr., Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for  
            African and African American Research at Harvard 
            University. The lecture is a history of W.E.B. Du Bois's 
            (Harvard A.B., 1890, A.M., 1891, Ph.D., 1895) three failed 
            attempts to edit a black Encyclopedia Britannica, and our 
            efforts to bring Du Bois's dream to fruition.
      TIME:  11:00 a.m.
      LOCATION:  Anne Simley Theatre
      COST:  Free, but tickets are required. A limited number of 
            tickets are available. Tickets for remote access at other 
            campus locations are also available. To reserve a ticket 
            call 651-523-2459. One ticket per person. Tickets will be 
            availble for pick-up at the venue on April 3.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
Chair of African and African American Studies
Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African 
    American Research

Professor Gates is co-editor with K. Anthony Appiah of the encyclopedia Encarta Africana published on CD-ROM by Microsoft (1999), and in book form by Basic Civitas Books under the title Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999). He is the author of Wonders of the African World (1999), the book companion to the six-hour BBC/PBS television series of the same name. Professor Gates is the author of several works of literary, criticism including Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the ‘Racial’ Self (Oxford University Press, 1987); The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (Oxford, 1988), 1989 winner of the American Book Award: and Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (Oxford, 1992). He has also authored Colored People: A Memoir (Knopf, 1994), which traces his childhood experiences in a small West Virginia town in the 1950s and 1960s; The Future of the Race (Knopf, 1996), co-authored with Cornel West; and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (Random House, 1997). Professor Gates has edited several anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (W.W. Norton, 1996); and The Oxford-Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers (Oxford, 1991). In addition, Professor Gates is co-editor of Transition magazine. An influential cultural critic, Professor Gates’ publications include a 1994 cover story for Time magazine on the new black Renaissance in art, as well as numerous articles for The New Yorker. Professor Gates earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge. He received a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University in 1973 in English Language and Literature. Before joining the faculty of Harvard in 1991, he taught at Yale, Cornell, and Duke Universities. His honors and grants include a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” (1981), the George Polk Award for Social Commentary (1993), Chicago Tribune Heartland Award (1994), the Golden Plate Achievement Award (1995), Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans” list (1997), a National Humanities Medal (1998), and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999).

Friday, April 16: Professor William J. Dewey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
TOPIC: The People of the Eland and their 27,000 Year Art Tradition: The Rock Art of the San People of Southern Africa
TIME: 12:40 p.m.
LOCATION: Drew Science Building, Lecture Auditorium, Room 118
COST: Free and open to the public, although a limited number of seats are available. Gallery Talk TOPIC: Iron Working Across Africa
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Drew Fine Arts Center Galleries
COST: Free and open to the public, although space is limited. Professor William J. Dewey Contributing Scholar, Material Differences catalogue Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Professor Dewey teaches African Art History in the Department of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Since 1983 when he conducted dissertation fieldwork in Zimbabwe focusing on Shona blacksmiths, he has visited and interviewed blacksmiths in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Zambia, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Madagascar. A recreation of traditional Shona iron smelting is featured in his 1990 video, Weapons for the Ancestors.

Thursday, April 22: Evan M. Maurer, Director and President, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
TOPIC: The Influence of African Art on the Age of Modernity
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Drew Science Building, Lecture Auditorium, Room 118
COST: Free and open to the public, although a limited number of seats are available. Thursday, April 29: Dr. Roslyn A. Walker, Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa, Dallas Museum of Art *CANCELLED*
TOPIC: Women's Imagery from the Continent of Africa Art Regrettably, Dr. Walker's lecture has been cancelled. Dr. Roslyn A. Walker Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas, Dallas Museum of Art

Dr. Walker has recently been appointed Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art where she is also the Margaret McDermott Curator of African Art. She is the former director of the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., where she curatored for more than twenty years. The following website gives further information about Dr. Walker's career: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/research/RAI/stewardsofthesacred/rawalker.html





				The 2004 Africa: A Legacy in Memory Lecture Series was free and open to the public and held on the campus of Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Saturday, April 3: Keynote Address, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The keynote address, "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Encyclopedia Africana", will be given by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The lecture is a history of W.E.B. Du Bois's (Harvard A.B., 1890, A.M., 1891, Ph.D., 1895) three failed attempts to edit a black Encyclopedia Britannica, and our efforts to bring Du Bois's dream to fruition. TIME: 11:00 a.m. LOCATION: Anne Simley Theatre COST: Free, but tickets are required. A limited number of tickets are available. Tickets for remote access at other campus locations are also available. To reserve a ticket call 651-523-2459. One ticket per person. Tickets will be availble for pick-up at the venue on April 3. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Chair of African and African American Studies Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Professor Gates is co-editor with K. Anthony Appiah of the encyclopedia Encarta Africana published on CD-ROM by Microsoft (1999), and in book form by Basic Civitas Books under the title Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999). He is the author of Wonders of the African World (1999), the book companion to the six-hour BBC/PBS television series of the same name. Professor Gates is the author of several works of literary, criticism including Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the ‘Racial’ Self (Oxford University Press, 1987); The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (Oxford, 1988), 1989 winner of the American Book Award: and Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (Oxford, 1992). He has also authored Colored People: A Memoir (Knopf, 1994), which traces his childhood experiences in a small West Virginia town in the 1950s and 1960s; The Future of the Race (Knopf, 1996), co-authored with Cornel West; and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (Random House, 1997). Professor Gates has edited several anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (W.W. Norton, 1996); and The Oxford-Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers (Oxford, 1991). In addition, Professor Gates is co-editor of Transition magazine. An influential cultural critic, Professor Gates’ publications include a 1994 cover story for Time magazine on the new black Renaissance in art, as well as numerous articles for The New Yorker. Professor Gates earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge. He received a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University in 1973 in English Language and Literature. Before joining the faculty of Harvard in 1991, he taught at Yale, Cornell, and Duke Universities. His honors and grants include a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” (1981), the George Polk Award for Social Commentary (1993), Chicago Tribune Heartland Award (1994), the Golden Plate Achievement Award (1995), Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans” list (1997), a National Humanities Medal (1998), and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999). Friday, April 16: Professor William J. Dewey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TOPIC: The People of the Eland and their 27,000 Year Art Tradition: The Rock Art of the San People of Southern Africa TIME: 12:40 p.m. LOCATION: Drew Science Building, Lecture Auditorium, Room 118 COST: Free and open to the public, although a limited number of seats are available. Gallery Talk TOPIC: Iron Working Across Africa TIME: 4:00 p.m. LOCATION: Drew Fine Arts Center Galleries COST: Free and open to the public, although space is limited. Professor William J. Dewey Contributing Scholar, Material Differences catalogue Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Professor Dewey teaches African Art History in the Department of Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Since 1983 when he conducted dissertation fieldwork in Zimbabwe focusing on Shona blacksmiths, he has visited and interviewed blacksmiths in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Zambia, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Madagascar. A recreation of traditional Shona iron smelting is featured in his 1990 video, Weapons for the Ancestors. Thursday, April 22: Evan M. Maurer, Director and President, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts TOPIC: The Influence of African Art on the Age of Modernity TIME: 7:00 p.m. LOCATION: Drew Science Building, Lecture Auditorium, Room 118 COST: Free and open to the public, although a limited number of seats are available. Thursday, April 29: Dr. Roslyn A. Walker, Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa, Dallas Museum of Art *CANCELLED* TOPIC: Women's Imagery from the Continent of Africa Art Regrettably, Dr. Walker's lecture has been cancelled. Dr. Roslyn A. Walker Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas, Dallas Museum of Art Dr. Walker has recently been appointed Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art where she is also the Margaret McDermott Curator of African Art. She is the former director of the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., where she curatored for more than twenty years. The following website gives further information about Dr. Walker's career: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/research/RAI/stewardsofthesacred/rawalker.html