Du Bois Lecture 2011
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UMASS AMHERST LIBRARIES HOST 17TH ANNUAL DU BOIS LECTURE
~ A Talk by Bettina Aptheker ~
Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and History
University of California, Santa Cruz
Amherst, MA - The UMass Amherst Libraries hosts the 17th Annual Du Bois Lecture, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Personal Stories/Political Reflections,” by Bettina Aptheker, on Monday, February 28, 2011, at 4:30 p.m., in the Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union, at UMass Amherst. Bettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The event is free and open to the public.
An activist, author, feminist, and professor, Bettina Aptheker, PhD, has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for more than 30 years. Her most recent book is a memoir, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel (2006). It contains many stories of her early friendship with W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois.
Dr. Aptheker’s other books include The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (1976; 2nd edition, 1999); Woman’s Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History (1982), and Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work, Women’s Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience (1989). She is the biographer of Shirley Graham Du Bois for Notable American Women, and is currently writing a critical essay on Shirley Graham Du Bois’ creative career as an opera composer, playwright, biographer, and novelist. She is also at work on a major research project: “Queering the History of the American Left: 1940s-1980s.”
The event is co-sponsored by Special Collections and University Archives and the Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst, which annually invite a distinguished speaker to discuss Dr. Du Bois’ life, work, and legacy in commemoration of his birth on February 23, 1868.
For more information, contact Rob Cox at rscox@library.umass.edu, or 413-545-6842.
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Last Edited: 13 January 2011
