From July 16th to July 22nd The Black Archives will organize a special summer course on Black Radical Thought with dr. Tony Bogues.
In November 2017 The Black Archives opened its first exhibition “Black & Revolutionary”: the story of Hermina and Otto Huiswoud”. Otto, born to an enslaved woman in Suriname, and Hermina from British-Guyana departed for the United States at a young age. They soon found themselves in politically active circles in the vibrant Harlem borough of Manhattan. Otto became the only black co-founder of the American Communist Party. Hermina soon became active in black and radical circles as well. Together the couple travelled all around the world. Their work as professional revolutionaries took them to New York, Moscow, Jamaica and South Africa. They eventually settled in Amsterdam and became active at the association Vereniging Ons Suriname. This is where the summer course will take place.
Black emancipation in the Netherlands
The life of the Huiswouds connected them to an international network of radical black thinkers, writers and activists, such as Anton de Kom, Sylvia Winter, C.L.R. James, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Franz Fanon and others. The story of the Huiswouds shows that there has been a long tradition of black emancipation and political organizing in the Netherlands. During the summer course we will delve into the work of these black radical thinkers.
Participants will need to read some of the work of these black radical thinkers. Every day we will have discussions from 6.30 to 9 PM. In the weekend of July 21st participants will present a product based on the work at our Books, Art and BBQ Festival. The end product can be an essay, a spoken word piece, a short film or something else.
For who? The summer course is open for students, activists, artists and scholars.
Costs? €25,- donation or more to The Black Archives.
Apply? Send a short motivation letter to [email protected].
Program*
Day 1 (Monday July 16): Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois
Day 2 (Tuesday July 17): Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Day 3 (Wednesday July 18): The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
Day 4 (Thursday July 19): Sylvia Winter & Angela Davis
Day 5 (Friday July 20): Dutch radicals: the Huiswouds and Anton de Kom
Day 6 & 7 (Saturday and/or Sunday July 21 and 22): end presentations at Books, Art & BBQ festival
*We will read and discuss a selection of chapters from these books, writers and thinkers. You will not be obliged to read the all of the books.
B. Anthony Bogues is a Caribbean political theorist, intellectual historian, writer and curator and currently Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University and the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory. He was an Honorary Research Professor at the University of Cape Town and is currently a visiting professor and curator at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Center , University of Johannesburg.
In 2012, he was also the Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Marta Sutton Weeks Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University. He has written extensively on African and African Diaspora political theory and intellectual history. As a curator he curates and writes about Haitian Art.
Check out some of his videos here
Costs? €25,- donation or more to The Black Archives.
Apply? Send a short motivation letter to [email protected].
Program*
Day 1 (Monday July 16): Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois
Day 2 (Tuesday July 17): Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Day 3 (Wednesday July 18): The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
Day 4 (Thursday July 19): Sylvia Winter & Angela Davis
Day 5 (Friday July 20): Dutch radicals: the Huiswouds and Anton de Kom
Day 6 & 7 (Saturday and/or Sunday July 21 and 22): end presentations at Books, Art & BBQ festival
*We will read and discuss a selection of chapters from these books, writers and thinkers. You will not be obliged to read the all of the books.
B. Anthony Bogues is a Caribbean political theorist, intellectual historian, writer and curator and currently Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University and the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory. He was an Honorary Research Professor at the University of Cape Town and is currently a visiting professor and curator at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Center , University of Johannesburg.
In 2012, he was also the Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Marta Sutton Weeks Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University. He has written extensively on African and African Diaspora political theory and intellectual history. As a curator he curates and writes about Haitian Art.
Check out some of his videos here
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