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2009 Calendar of Events
Directions
to the Academy
Stated Meetings occur monthly during the academic year and give Academy Fellows
a chance to meet and attend lectures by their colleagues. They are closed to the
general public and are held at the House of the Academy in Cambridge, MA unless
otherwise noted.
For information
on a specific event, call the Events Office at 617-576-5032.
For press
inquiries, call the Communications Office at 617-576-5043.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Book Hour - Cambridge
The New Literary History of America
Location: House of the Academy
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Speakers:
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Greil Marcus, author
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature;
Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
229th Induction Ceremony
Location: Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Stated Meeting – Cambridge
Location: House of the Academy
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Stated Meeting – Chicago
African-American Humor: Laughter as a Means of Establishing and Advancing Community
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Speakers:
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director
of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard
University
Glenda Carpio, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
and of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Stated Meeting – Cambridge
Holiday Concert – An Evening with Malcolm Bilson
Location: House of the Academy
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Performer:
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Malcolm Bilson, Frederick J. Whiton Professor of Music, Emeritus, Cornell University
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