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Page 1: Winter Season · 2011-03-22 · June 4th, 1944. The Germans never learned of its capture and it was secretly towed to Bermuda. From information gleaned from the boat, the Allies were

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Lecture SeriesApril 2011- March 2012

APRIL 2011Topic: “Farming Bermuda Style”Food Tasting and Tour of Wadson’s FarmDate: Sunday 10 April, 2 p.m.Speaker: Tom WadsonVenue: Wadson’s Farm, Lukes Pond Road, Southampton

There is a $15 fee for this food tasting and tourSpaces are limited, please contact the office for tickets. Please wear comfortable walking shoes.

MAY 2011Topic: “Uplifting the Human Spirit: A Talk with Sharon Wilson”Date: Thursday 12 May, 5:30 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. startSpeaker: Sharon WilsonVenue: Bermuda College, Hallet Hall, H-100

JUNE 2011In Collaboration with Vasco Da GamaTopic: “Portugal Day: From the Açores to Bermuda”Date: Saturday 11 June, 2–5 p.m.Speakers: VariousVenue: Victoria Park

JULY 2011Topic: “Bold, Beautiful Bermudian Women”Date: Saturday 9 July, 2:30 p.m.Speakers: Meredith Ebbin, Lisa Howie, and Ruth E. Thomas MBEPoetry by Jane DowningVenue: Grotto Bay

There is a $10 fee for this talkTea and sandwiches will be servedSpaces are limited; Please contact the office for tickets

AUGUST 2011Topic: “How the Past Matters” 6th Annual Dr. Kenneth E. Robinson/Cyril Packwood Memorial LectureDate: Thursday 11 August, 12:30 p.m.Speaker: Kristy WarrenVenue: Coco Reef

There is a $10 fee for this talk and lunchSpaces are limited; Please contact the office for tickets

SEPTEMBER 2011In Collaboration with the Bermuda Historical SocietyTopic: “History of the Great Sound”Date: Saturday 10 September, 2–6 p.m.Speakers: Andrew Bermingham and James E. Smith

Venue: Aboard the Coral SeaThere is a $15 fee for this tourSpaces are limited; Please contact the office for tickets

OCTOBER 2011Topic: “Designing Bermuda’s Tourist Boom: A Study in Black and White”Date: Wednesday 5 October, 7 p.m.Speaker: Dr. Duncan McDowallUniversity Historian, Queen’s University, Kingston, OntarioVenue: BUEI

Winter SeasonIn Collaboration with the Bermuda Historical Society and the Bermuda National Library

NOVEMBER 2011Film Night: “Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work”52 min., EnglishDate: Tuesday 15 November, 7 p.m.Moderator: TBAVenue: *BHCS Room, Bermuda National Library

Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, originally from Martinique, who had become a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism. Embittered by his experience with racism in the French Army, he gravitated to radical politics, Sartrean existentialism and the philosophy of black consciousness known as negritude. His 1952 book, ‘’Black Skin, White Masks,’’ offers a penetrating analysis of racism and of the ways in which it is internalized by its victims.

DECEMBER 2011Event: North Village Band ConcertDate: Friday 16 December, 5:30 p.m.Venue: TBA

JANUARY 2012 Film Night: “Breaker Morant”

104 min., English.Date: Tuesday 17 January, 7 p.m.Moderator: Andrew BerminghamVenue: *BHCS Room,

Bermuda National Library

A full-length film about the murder of Boer prisoners of war. Based on a true account of the Bushveldt Carbineers who fought in the Northern Transvaal in 1901 and, acting on orders of the British high command, summarily executed prisoners. The consultant for the film was Dr. Carl Schulenburg of Pretoria whose father was Dr. August Schulenburg, the founder of the Boer Industrial Association on Burt’s Island. The Association was responsible for the making and marketing of the Boer prisoner carvings.

FEBRUARY 2012Film Night: “Amilcar Cabral”52 min., Portuguese with English SubtitlesDate: Tuesday 21 February, 7 p.m.Moderator: TBAVenue: *BHCS Room, Bermuda National Library

Amilcar Cabral was the leader of the Liberation Movement of Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau. He was born in Guinea in 1924 and assassinated in Conakry in 1973. Regarded as a true icon of African history, this documentary provides considerable background to this revolutionary giant.

MARCH 2012Film Night: “Attack and Capture”52 min., EnglishDate: Tuesday 20 March, 7 p.m.Moderator: Andrew BerminghamVenue: *BHCS Room, Bermuda National Library

A documentary film about the capture of German submarine U505 off the coast of West Africa on June 4th, 1944. The Germans never learned of its capture and it was secretly towed to Bermuda. From information gleaned from the boat, the Allies were able to pinpoint the positions of all German U-boats in the Atlantic. The crew were kept incommunicado and against the rules of the Geneva Convention. The captain Harold Lange was a secret POW in Bermuda and was the last prisoner ever held here.

*Bermuda History and Cultural Studies Room

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