Global Perspectives - current issue

Spring/Summer 2008 (Issue 7):

• “Duke launches new policy: students must register for international travel”
• “Workshop focuses on challenges to international studies centers in the 21st-century university”
• “Die Another Day: Healthcare in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela” a field report by 2007 travel award recipient Edgar Mkrtchian.
• “A Fulbright Year in Israel: spreading the word on HIV/AIDS” a field report by 2007 Fulbright Scholar Adam Yoffie.
• Announcement congratulating the 15 undergrad and grad student recipients of 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholarship Awards.
• “Ideas into Action: Bridging Internationalization and Public Health in Taiwan” by Cheryl Lin.
• DUCIS news and upcoming events

DUCIS programs on iTunesU

• “North Carolina and the Global Economy” - Gary Gereffi
• “Globalization and the Artist: James Nyoraku Schefler”
• “Legitimating Beliefs: Concepts, Indicators, and Evidence” - Margaret Levi

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Global Perspectives - past issues

Spring/Summer 2007 (Issue 6):

• “Democracy, growth on the rise in Latin America; but crime, corruption remain serious issues,” by Jennifer Prather from the April 9th Phillips lecture by José Miguel Insulza, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States.
• “Interviewing HIV patients in Kenya makes African continent less abstract, more human,” a field report from DUCIS 2006 travel award recipient Corey Sobel, Trinity '07.
• Announcement congratulating the 23 undergrad and grad student recipients of 2007-2008 DUCIS and Global Health travel awards.
• “Studying Malaria in Myanmar,” a field report by 2006 travel award recipient Amanda Way, '07.
• “Canadian scholar studies influence of evangelical Christians on American politics,” by visiting Fulbright scholar in Canadian Studies, Jonathan Malloy.
• “On Reading,” by Wendy Ewald, DUCIS artist in residence, about her current exhibit at the John Hope Franklin Center exploring how children read.
• DUCIS news and upcoming events

Winter 2006 (Issue 5):

• “ACC universities collaborate on international education” A recap of the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference International Academic Collaborative (ACC-IAC) meeting, held at Duke University on Nov. 20-21.
• “Duke Faculty and Staff seek training to increase empathy, Intercultural Competency, towards international students” by Jennifer Prather.
• “Iraq’s neighbors should help broker reconciliation in Iraq” by visiting Iraqi Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad.
• “Iraq’s deadliest zone: schools” by visiting Iraqi Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad.
• “Goodbye to a Grandfather: A tale of Chile, the death of Pinochet and two grandsons ” by Professor Ariel Dorfman.
• DUCIS news and upcoming events

Fall/Winter 2006 (Issue 4):

• “Picture Mourning: Photography as companion in public and private remembrance” by Rob Sikorski
• “Key to making a successful application? Start thinking now!” by Nazaneen Homaifar, 2006-07 Fulbright Scholarship recipient
• Announcement of travel and Fulbright award competitions for 2007-08 study
• Announcement of 2006-07 Fulbright Awardees
• “POMP takes its program abroad” by Cheryl Lin
• Korean PASS Fellows pass on Duke's reputation as an ‘academic mecca’ for students, professors
• DUCIS News and Upcoming Events

Spring/Summer 2006 (Issue 3):

• Duke and DUCIS launch new Global Health Institute
• Shakespeare in Iraq (News re. Abdul Sattar Jawad, DUCIS visiting scholar and professor from Iraq)
• “Deemed exports rules cause concern for Duke and other research universities” by Jennifer Prather
• “South African activist brings an HIV positive message: We can win the battle against AIDS” by Jennifer Prather
• Ariel Dorman’s Play ‘Picasso's Closet’ opens (News re. Artist-in-Residence, Ariel Dorfman)
• FLAS grants for foreign language study

Winter 2006 (Issue 2):

• “From a global education at Duke to a hopeful mission in Uganda” by George Piwang-Jalobo
• “Homeland security ate my speech to the MLA” by Ariel Dorfman
• University Seminar: Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance
• DUCIS News & Upcoming Events

Fall 2005 (Issue 1):

• “The Rise, Fall, & Recovery of International Studies” by Gilbert W. Merkx
• 2006 DUCIS Research & Travel Award Competitions
• “Towards a Promised Land: the Works of Wendy Ewald” by Rob Sikorski
• Entering the Global Gateway
• “Engineering student receives DUCIS research award to spend summer helping Nicaragua's hospitals”
  by Michael Scott
• DUCIS News & Upcoming Events