WEDNESDAYS AT THE CENTER
Each Wednesday during the academic year
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch served beginning 11:45 a.m.
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at The Center is a topical weekly noontime series in which distinguished scholars, editors, journalists, artists, and leaders speak informally about their work in conversation with those who attend. Presented by Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, all events in the series are free and open to the public. A light lunch is served. No reservations are necessary, and vouchers to cover parking costs in the Duke Medical Center parking decks are provided. For more information, please contact Pamela Gutlon, Director of Operations, John Hope Franklin Center (p.gutlon@duke.edu).
NEW! As part of Duke's partnership with iTunes University, audio and video podcasts of Wednesdays at the Center programs are now available for viewing and downloading here (for audio) and here (for video). The catalog begins with Fall 2006. Generally, podcasts are available 4-6 weeks after the date of the program. You do not need to be affiliated with Duke to access these podcasts.
SPRING 2008 PROGRAMS
| January 16 | Transnationalism Contested: Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and Caramelo José David Saldívar, Professor of English and Literature & Director, Latino/a Studies, Duke University Presented by Latino/a Studies at Duke University |
| January 23 | Researching the Novel: The Problem of Serendipity Stephanie Grant, author of Map of Ireland + Visiting Writer, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University Presented by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute |
| January 30 | Sites of Conscience: Activating Historic Sites for Human Rights Liz Sevcenko, Director, International Coalition of Historic Sites of Conscience Presented by the Duke University Program in History, Public Policy and Social Change, the Charles S. Murphy Fund, the Duke Human Rights Center, and the Archive for Human Rights |
| February 6 | North Carolina in the Global Economy Gary Gereffi, Professor of Sociology & Director, Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness, Duke University Presented by Duke University Center for International Studies |
| February 13 | African-American Self-taught Artists of the American South: Renderings of Their Everyday Lives Ginger Young, Curator, Ginger Young Gallery Presented by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies |
| February 20 | Building Schools in Kenya: Two Perspectives Sherryl Broverman, Chair, Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER), Kenya, Associate Professor of the Practice of Biology & Director, Global Health Certificate Program, Duke University Patrick O’Sullivan, Founder, Build African Schools Presented by Information Science + Information Studies |
| February 27 | Queering Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play Jennifer Devere Brody, Associate Professor of English, African American Studies, and Performance Studies, Northwestern University & Spring 2008 Visiting Professor of African & African-American Studies, Duke University Presented by the Program in the Study of Sexualities |
| March 5 | Towards an Ethnography of Freedom Megan Moodie, Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University Presented by the 2007-08 Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Portents and Dilemmas: Health and Environment in China and India and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute |
| March 19 | Beyond Hallie and Whoopi: Black Women and American Cinema – A Conversation Esther Iverem, author of We Gotta Have It: 20 Years of Seeing Black at the Movies Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African and African-American Studies, Duke University Presented by the Center for the Study of Black Popular Culture |
| March 26 | ** CANCELLED ** CANCELLED ** CANCELLED ** Remembering Past Atrocity: Monuments, Memorials and Museums in Comparative Perspective Louis Bickford, Director, Policymakers and Civil Society Unit, International Center for Transitional Justice Presented by the Archive for Human Rights, the Charles S. Murphy Fund, the Duke Human Rights Center, and the Duke University Program in History, Public Policy and Social Change |
FALL 2007 PROGRAMS
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| September 12 | The Image: Between the Instant and Time Alain Fleischer, Director of Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France Presented by the Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Visual Studies Initiative |
| September 19 | A Poetics of Sacrifice in Toni Morrison’s Fiction Yvette Christiansë, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Fordham University + Distinguished Scholar in Residence, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Presented by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute |
| September 26 | Ghost Planes: the US Policy of Extraordinary Rendition and North Carolina’s Role Stephen Grey, Journalist + Author of Ghost Plane Presented by the Duke Human Rights Center, Duke Islamic Studies Center, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Department of Religion, ACLU, Duke student chapter of the ACLU, Duke Human Rights Coalition, and Duke Law School’s Guantanamo Defense Clinic |
| October 3 | Institutional Cultures: The Dynamics of Ethical Change in Business, Higher Education, Religion and the Military Noah Pickus, Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University Suzanne Shanahan, Associate Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics + Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke University Presented by the Office of the Provost & the Provost’s Common Fund |
| October 10 | Uneven Transitions: How Indigenous Peoples Contributed to Mexico's Democratization and Why They Got Little in Return Guillermo Trejo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duke University Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
| October 17 | Performance Gaps in Grades and in Health: Socioeconomic and Health Disparities of Children Leah Devlin, State Health Director, NC Division of Public Health Presented by the Policy and Organizational Management Program |
| October 24 | What Do Empire, Migration, and Air Traffic Have in Common? A Constructal Theory of Social Flow Networks Gilbert Merkx, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Development, Duke University Presented by the Duke University Center for International Studies |
| October 31 | A Place for Memory: Building a History of Human Rights in Argentina Patricia T. de Valdez, Executive Director of Memoria Abierta Presented by the Duke Human Rights Center and the Archive for Human Rights at Duke |
| November 7 | DukeEngage: A Pilot Program in Yemen Eric Mlyn, Director of DukeEngage, Duke University Mbaye Lo, Instructor of Arabic, Duke University Presented by DukeEngage, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies |
| November 14 | Recycle: Appropriations of Cultural Production Neil De Marchi, Professor of Economics, Duke University Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African-American Studies, Duke University Annabel J. Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University Presented by the John Hope Franklin Center and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute |