The Bassett Affair

Centennial Commemoration

Calendar of Events

Date, Time, Place	Event
2003	President Nannerl O. Keohane's comments about the Bassett Affair
August 29 Mary Lou Williams Center	"I Have a Dream" Speech (film) Sponsored by the Mary Lou Williams Center
September 21 4:00 pm Duke Chapel	"A Prayer for Peace" Sponsored by the Mary Lou Williams Center
October 28	Launch of the Bassett Affair Web Site Sponsored by the Duke Libraries
October 29	Houston Baker on Booker T. Washington Sponsored by the Mary Lou Williams Center
October 30 3:00 pm East Union Building	"Intellectual Dissent: Past and Present" Symposium celebrating 100 years of the South Atlantic Quarterly Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, the South Atlantic Quarterly, and the Office of the Provost
November 9 7:00 pm Faculty Commons	"The Souls of Black Folk, 1903-2003" Sponsored by the Mary Lou Williams Center
November 10 4:00 pm Multicultural Center, Bryan Center	"The Darker Nations: the Anti-Imperialist Comrade" Sponsored by the African & African-American Studies
November 11 4:00 pm North Gallery, Duke University Museum of Art	"Piqueteras: Social Revolt & Activism in Argentina " Sponsored by the Literature Program and the Franklin Humanities Institute
November 12 12:00 pm Franklin Center, Room 240	"Living Pictures, Dead Souls: Coming to Grips with DuBois' Classic" Sponsored by the Mary Lou Williams Center
November 13-14 White Lecture Hall	"Palestine America: A Conversation" Sponsored by the South Atlantic Quarterly, the Literature Program, and the Franklin Humanities Institute
November 18 3:30 pm Franklin Center, Room 230	"Art & Dissent: Nurturing Optimism for Immediate Use" Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, Latin American Studies, and Cultural Anthropology
November 24-December 5 Franklin Center, Basement	"Shadow Surveillance" (multimedia project) Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute
December 1 3:00 pm Franklin Center, Room 240	"The Idea of Mass Destruction" Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Center for Global Studies and Humanities
December 1 4:30 pm White Lecture Hall	"The Bassett Affair After a Century" Reflections by Robert Durden, Houston Baker, and Bill Chafe Sponsored by the Duke University Dept. of History
December 1 6:00 pm	100th anniversary commemoration of the trustees' decision in the Bassett Affair marked by the ringing of the Chapel Carillon and the tower bell on East Campus
December 2 8:00 pm Shaefer Theatre	"Performing Academic Freedom" Sponsored by the Duke University Dept. of Theatre Studies and the Franklin Humanities Institute
December 3 12:00 pm Franklin Center, Room 240	"Dissent & Descent: Corporeal Imaginaries & What We Are Struggling For" Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Center for Global Studies and Humanities
December 4 7:00 pm White Lecture Hall	Postponed until Spring John Spencer Bassett Lecture by Prof. William Van Alstyne, William R. and Thomas C. Perkins Professor of Law Sponsored by President Keohane and Provost Lange
December 4 8:00 pm Duke University Museum of Art	Postponed Reception following the Van Alstyne Lecture Sponsored by President Keohane and Provost Lange
2004
January 9-February 27 Franklin Center Gallery	"A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. DuBois and the Photographs from the Paris Exposition" (exhibit) Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute

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