Du Bois Center Hosts Inaugural Symposium
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DU BOIS CENTER HOSTS INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM
~ A Talk by Lonnie Bunch III ~
Director of the Smithsonian's
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Amherst, MA - The W.E.B. Du Bois Center hosts its inaugural symposium on Thursday, March 25, 2010, at 5:30 p.m., Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union, at UMass Amherst. Lonnie G. Bunch, III, Ph.D., will speak on "The Challenge of Building a National Museum." Dr. Bunch is the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The event is free and open to the public.
A prolific and widely published author, Dr. Bunch has written on topics ranging from the black military experience, the American presidency, and all-black towns in the American west to diversity in museum management and the impact of funding and politics on American museums.
Dr. Bunch served as the president of the Chicago Historical Society, held a number of positions at the National Museum of American History, and served as curator of history and program manager for the California Afro-American Museum in Los Angeles.
Dr. Bunch has held teaching positions at universities across the country, including American University, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and George Washington University.
President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Bunch to the Commission for the Preservation of the White House in 2002. The American Association of Museums named him one of the 100 most influential museum professionals of the 20th century in 2005.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Center, established in 2009, is associated with Special Collections and University Archives in the Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Center promotes scholarship and public engagement with the wide range of issues in social and racial justice central to the thought of W.E.B. Du Bois.
For more information, contact Maurice Hobson, Du Bois Center, mhobson@library.umass.edu, (413) 545-6483.
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Last Edited: 12 March 2010
