Stories about "American Cultural Studies"
Martha of Marfa: An American cultural studies major in the New West
Monday, March 16, 2015 3:28 pm
A photographer and writer, Martha Schnee '15 is weaving her American cultural studies thesis from images, creative nonfiction writing and interviews with 13 diverse residents of Marfa, Texas.
Filmboard to screen, panel to discuss ‘Selma’
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:02 am
"Selma," director Ava DuVernay's acclaimed depiction of Martin Luther King Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights for African Americans, shows at Bates College Feb. 27-March 1.
MLK Day keynote: Black Lives Matter movement is a sign of hope
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:19 pm
What does the Black Lives Matter movement really want? In his keynote address during Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College, historian Peniel Joseph had an answer.
Marcus Bruce ’77, Mays Distinguished Professor, looks at Du Bois and the Paris Exposition
Friday, October 31, 2014 3:44 pm
Marcus Bruce '77 gives a lecture titled "The Ambassadors: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Paris Exposition of 1900 and African American Culture" on Nov. 5.
Screenings, lectures expand on museum exhibition exploring jazz-art-film connections
Monday, August 25, 2014 10:18 am
The Museum of Art exhibition "Convergence: Jazz, Films and the Visual Arts" expands with films, panels and lectures beginning with a talk by the founder of Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies on Sept. 5.
Pickens book explores embodied experience in African American, Arab American writing
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 2:09 pm
Do the people you touch make you the person you are? If you are breathing, can your oppressors claim that you do not exist? Questions like these drive Therí Pickens' new book.
For MLK Day 2014, award-winning journalist offers ‘Dream’ analysis
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 2:57 pm
Gary Younge painted a picture of events behind the 1963 March on Washington and King's speech that, paradoxically, made it all seem both inevitable and fortuitous.
2014 MLK Day observance examines March on Washington, ‘Dream’ speech; Sen. King to speak
Monday, January 6, 2014 2:06 pm
Bates will live-stream the keynote address and the annual Benjamin Elijah Mays Debate with Morehouse College.
Noted photographer Chester Higgins Jr. to offer presentation
Friday, April 26, 2013 4:18 pm
Chester Higgins Jr., a photographer for the New York Times whose images have appeared in exhibitions all over the world, visits Bates to give a talk titled Dancing with My Spirit on May 1.
Biographer of the Rev. Benjamin Mays ’20 to speak at Bates
Friday, March 22, 2013 11:30 am
Bates presents award-winning Benjamin Mays biographer Randal Maurice Jelks on March 25.