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The Du Bois Forum is pleased to announce its fourth annual gathering, set to take place July 18-20, 2025
The Du Bois Forum, an annual retreat and year-round fellowship dedicated to the Black intellectual and artistic traditions inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois, will host its fourth annual gathering from July 18-20, 2025, across multiple historic sites in the Berkshires. Sponsored by Tufts University, the Forum has been supported by partnerships with Great Barrington’s Du Bois Freedom Center (the first museum dedicated to Du Bois’s life and legacy in North America) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as Jacob’s Pillow, the NAACP of Berkshire County, Kripalu, Harvard, Yale, Williams College, Amherst College, Boston University, and Johns Hopkins University. This year’s forum coincides with a major milestone in Great Barrington: the unveiling of the first statue of W.E.B. Du Bois in his hometown, just steps from his birthplace along the Housatonic River. Learn more about The Du Bois Forum.
Boston Athenaeum, December 16, 2024
CPH hosted a Du Bois Forum Fellows’ Roundtable. The event featured performances and an overview of the Du Bois Forum, as well as commentary by special guests.
Tisch Library, December 4, 2024
On December 4, 2024, the CPH, in partnership with the Center for the Humanities, the Tufts Archival Research Center, and the Office of the Provost, hosted an event in Tisch Library to introduce our new exhibit on display at the Library, "Deep Roots: Slavery, Colonialism, & their Legacies at Tufts University." Provost Caroline Genco and members of the SCL team introduced the audience to the research project and some of the ways the team has engaged with the research.
Amenia, NY July 18-19, 2024
The Du Bois Forum hosted its third annual gathering of writers, artists, and scholars in the Berkshires, July 18-20, 2024.
Williams College of Music and Art, April 12, 2024
Dr. Kendra Field, presented a public lecture at 5:30 p.m. titled “The Stories We Tell: Understanding the Long History of African American Genealogy” that will explore the long history of African American genealogy from the Middle Passage to the present.
Tisch Library at Tufts University, April 2, 2024
Professors Kendra Field and Kerri Greenidge, alongside scholar and museum director Kyera Singleton (Royall House and Slave Quarters) participated in the Tufts Community Symposium, Co-Creating Knowledge: Exploring possibilities for community-based research partnerships. The three hosted a conversation about their collective work as public historians of slavery, freedom, and African-American communities. More information available here.
WGBH, February 29, 2024
On February 29, Dr. Kerri Greenidge joined WGBH's Culture Show host Jared Bowen to talk about what went into mapping historic African American sites in Boston and beyond.
ABC News, February 29, 2024
Dr. Kendra Field spoke to media outlets about rare findings in connection with the 10 Million Names Project. More about this story available from ABC News.
Whiting Foundation, December 19, 2023
Dr. Kendra Field is honored with the 2023 Whiting Foundation Grant Winner in non-fiction.
Tufts Dental School, November 8, 2023
On November 8th, the CPH, along with the History Department, the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, the Tufts Archival Research Center and the Office of the Provost hosted a symposium at Tufts Dental School in Boston, to introduce the Slavery, Colonialism and Their Legacies at Tufts (SCL) Project.