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Hamilton College will commemorate Black History Month by celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk with lectures by two scholars.

Thadious Davis, the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University will give a lecture, "Raced Space and the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois's New World Social Geography," on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Adolph Reed, author and professor of political science at the New School for Social Research, will discuss, "W. E. B. Du Bois and the *Souls of Black Folk* 100 Years Later: Race and Politics in Post-Jim Crow America," on Monday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Davis is the author of several books, including Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance:  A Woman's Life Unveiled, and Faulkner's 'Negro': Art and the Southern Context. She was a Du Bois Institute Fellow at Harvard University and has received the Anna Julia Cooper Award for Feminist Scholarship from Spelman College and the College Language Association Award for Creative Scholarship.

 
Adolph Reed, professor of political science,  the New School

Reed serves on the graduate faculty of political and social science at New School University. He is the author of Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene (2000), named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of the year. He also wrote Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era (1999) and W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line (1997), which was the winner of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists' 1998 Outstanding Book Award.

Reed earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in political science from Atlanta University. He previously taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University and Yale. He is the recipient of a 2002-03 Carnegie Corporation Scholars of Vision program grant for research on a project titled "Race in American Life: What It Is, What it Isn't/How it Operates, How it Doesn't."

Both lectures are being sponsored by Hamilton's department of Africana Studies and the President's office. The Black Student Union is also a co-sponsor of the Davis lecture.

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