Events
The Institute for Critical U.S. Studies invites you to take part in the Second event in a yearlong series, "Methodologies on U.S. Studies: A Conversation," which will engage scholars from different disciplines in discussions of how different methodologies address like-minded projects on the United States . Our next Conversation will engage Maurice Wallace, Associate Professor of English and African and African American Studies, and Adriane Lentz-Smith, Assistant Professor of History, in a discussion entitled "On Being Objects of Knowledge: Historicizing Black Men and their Masculinities"
Tuesday, January 22nd from 11:30 to 1:00
room 225 Science Building (a.k.a. Old Art Museum ) on East Campus
A light lunch will be served
Please contact Caroline Light at clight@duke.edu or 668-1945 if you have any questions about this event or the 07-08 "Conversations" series.
Archive
"Race, Racism, and Methodology: How to Study Racial Matters in Contemporary America" (9-18-07)
The first event in a yearlong series, "Methodologies on U.S. Studies: A Conversation," engages Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology, African and African American Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Bob Korstad, Professor of History and Public Policy.
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"Shut Up and Teach? Faculty and Public Issues" (2-12-07)
Professor Wahneema Lubiano's Introductory remarks: "Bruce Franklin wrote, from the anti-Vietnam War years, 'imagine legislation forbidding professors of literature to get their noses out of their texts.' Or, I add in this moment, legislation forbidding singers to comment on heads of state." read more
Professor Lubiano's "Black Studies: Knowledge as Dissent"