Wednesday, February 06th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
North Carolina in the Global Economy
Gary Gereffi, Professor of Sociology & Director, Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness, Duke University
More details to follow. ABOUT WEDNESDAYS AT THE CENTER Wednesdays at the Center is a topical weekly series presented by Duke's John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. All Wednesdays at the Center programs take place on Wednesdays at noon, in room 240 at the John Hope Franklin Center. The series is free and open to the public. A light buffet lunch is served at no cost - no reservations are necessary. The John Hope Franklin Center is located on Duke's West Campus at the northwest corner of Trent Drive and Erwin Road. Parking is available at the nearby Duke Medical Center parking deck, and free parking vouchers are provided at the end each program. For a complete schedule of Spring 2008 programs in the series, please see the listing below. To learn more about the Franklin Center and Franklin Humanities Institute, visit www.jhfc.duke.edu and www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi. For logistical questions about the Wednesday series, please contact Pamela Gutlon (p.gutlon@duke.edu), Director of Operations of the Franklin Center.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Tuesday, February 05th, 2008 :: 06:30 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library- (Book Sale + Reception to Follow)
FACULTY BOOKWATCH PROGRAM
Faculty Bookwatch on Greer, Mignolo, Quilligan's REREADING THE BLACK LEGEND
REREADING THE BLACK LEGEND:The discourses of racial and religious difference in the renaissance empires. Edited by: MARGARET R. GREER, WALTER D. MIGNOLO, MAUREEN QUILLIGAN. Panelists: Lewis Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Judaic Studies + Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies, Temple University Margaret R. Greer, Professor of Spanish + former Chair of Romance Studies, Duke University Leslie Peirce, Silver Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University with Walter D. Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies, Literature, and Cultural Anthropology + Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University Maureen Quilligan, Florence R. Brinkley Professor + former Chair of English, Duke University About the Featured Book: The phrase “The Black Legend” was coined in 1912 by a Spanish journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black mark of its violent conquest of the Americas. Challenging this stereotype, REREADING THE BLACK LEGEND contextualizes Spain’s uniquely tarnished reputation by exposing the colonial efforts of other nations whose interests were served by propagating the “Black Legend.” A distinguished group of contributors here examine early modern imperialisms including the Ottomans in Eastern Europe, the Portuguese in East India, and the cases of Mughal India and China, to historicize the charge of unique Spanish brutality in encounters with indigenous peoples during the Age of Exploration. The geographic reach and linguistic breadth of this ambitious collection will make it a valuable resource for any discussion of race, national identity, and religious belief in the European Renaissance. About the Faculty Bookwatch Series Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke University Libraries, Faculty Bookwatch is a series intended to celebrate and to encourage scholarly conversations on important recent books by Duke humanities faculty. Each program consists of a panel discussion on the book with speakers representing different fields and disciplines, with addition remarks by the featured author(s). For more information on the series, please visit: http://jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/bookwatch/index.php. Book Sale and Reception to Follow.
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/bookwatch/index.php
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 - Saturday, March 01st, 2008 :: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, First Floor Art Gallery
Art Show Opening & Reception
Luigi Nono: Sketches and Scores for Prometeo
Luigi Nono Sketches and Scores for Prometeo. Tragedia dell’ascolto (Prometheus. A Tragedy of Listening). Curated by Diego Cortez. Show runs through March 1, 2008 *** RARE EXHIBITION OF SKETCHES AND SCORES BY ITALIAN COMPOSER LUIGI NONO WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30TH: PUBLIC OPENING FROM 6 PM UNTIL 7.30 PM AT THE FRANKLIN CENTER, DUKE UNIVERSITY, 2204 ERWIN ROAD, DURHAM. The second half of the 20th century was a time of exciting experimentation in music composition. Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Mauricio Kagel in Europe, and Morton Feldman and John Cage in the U.S. and numerous others were reshaping the very notion of composition. Venetian composer Luigi Nono (1924-1990) was at the center of this artistic revolution. His works are intricate blends of manufactured, recorded and live sounds that employ the entire performance space in their execution. His major work, Prometeo. Tragedia dell’ascolto (Prometheus. A Tragedy of Listening) (premiered, 1984), is a two-hour exploration of the cultural history of the West and the growth of a new utopia from the West’s cultural rubble. The piece is a musical expression of political theory, showing with great insistence that music can engage with the political as can speech and writing. The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies is pleased to present a major group of visual sketches and scores that Nono made in 1980-84 while writing Prometeo. Photo and video documentation will accompany the exhibition. A public opening of Luigi Nono: Sketches and Scores for Prometeo will take place on Wednesday, January 30th from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Nono was interested in exploring the tension between the visual and the aural. The drawing works in the show capture a sense of listening while setting them up in conversation with Prometeo. Nono’s works recall works on paper by American artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly. The exhibition was curated by Diego Cortez, a free-lance curator in New York. Cortez is currently the Tina Freeman Curator of Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Sites of Conscience: Activating Historic Sites for Human Rights
Liz Sevcenko, Director, International Coalition of Historic Sites of Conscience
Liz Sevcenko is founding Director of the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience, a network of historic sites that foster public dialogue on pressing contemporary issues. She works with over 1300 initiatives in more than 90 countries to design programs and practices that reflect on past struggles and inspire citizens to become involved in addressing their contemporary legacies. Before launching the Coalition, she had over ten years of experience developing public history projects designed to catalyze civic dialogue in New York and around the country. Her project ?Mapping Memories,? in which visitors were invited to contribute their memories to a changing map of New York City and discuss conflicting claims to urban space, was produced at the Museum of the City of New York, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Eldridge Street Project, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, as well as at community centers and street fairs. She has partnered with public artist Shimon Attie on projects in New York and Boston exploring the hidden histories of urban landscapes. As Vice President for Programs at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, she developed exhibits and educational activities that connect the dramatic stories of the neighborhood?s immigrants past and present. She also developed national and community initiatives to inspire civic dialogue on cultural identity, labor relations, housing, welfare, immigration, and other issues these stories raise. Ms. Sevcenko has a B.A. from Yale University and is completing her PhD in history at New York University. She has most recently published ?The Making of Loisaida? in Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City." ABOUT WEDNESDAYS AT THE CENTER Wednesdays at the Center is a topical weekly series presented by Duke's John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. All Wednesdays at the Center programs take place on Wednesdays at noon, in room 240 at the John Hope Franklin Center. The series is free and open to the public. A light buffet lunch is served at no cost - no reservations are necessary. The John Hope Franklin Center is located on Duke's West Campus at the northwest corner of Trent Drive and Erwin Road. Parking is available at the nearby Duke Medical Center parking deck, and free parking vouchers are provided at the end each program. For a complete schedule of Spring 2008 programs in the series, please see the listing below. To learn more about the Franklin Center and Franklin Humanities Institute, visit www.jhfc.duke.edu and www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi. For logistical questions about the Wednesday series, please contact Pamela Gutlon (p.gutlon@duke.edu), Director of Operations of the Franklin Center.
Sponsored by 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
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 :: 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Alumni Memorial Common Room , Room 152 Langford, Duke Divinity School
Lecture
Second Annual Peter Storey Conversation: Reflections on History,Politics and Theology
Professor Peter Storey
Professors Kenneth Carder and William Chafe in conversation with Professor Peter Storey Sponsored by Duke University’s Concilium on Southern Africa, the Duke University Center for International Studies, the Office of Black Church Studies at the Divinity School, the Dewitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy Living History Program, and the Department of African & African American Studies. Parking available in the Bryan Center pay parking lot. Light refreshments will be served after the talk.
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
Digital Humanities, Metadata, and the Need for Control
Brett Barney
Digital humanities is a showcase for control freaks. The struggle for control goes much deeper than the well-publicized furor over the Google Books project; it is constitutive of the field of digital humanities itself. The allure of exerting control over more texts (or greater control over a relatively small set of texts) is what has driven scholars to create the major pioneering digital humanities projects. I intend to discuss grant-funded research for one of those projects, the Walt Whitman Archive, and the ways that research highlights the need to acknowledge control as a fundamental component at all stages of a digital editing process—beginning with the creation of the markup standards themselves. With the Whitman Archive's work on the Interoperability of Metadata grant as a backdrop I will offer some words of caution, some words of encouragement, and some speculation about how the best projects might be able to best manage their control issues in the future. Bio: Brett Barney became interested in digital humanities when he was hired as a research assistant for the Walt Whitman Archive in 2000. Since joining the staff of the Center's predecessor the following year, he has worked on a variety of projects, including the Willa Cather Archive and the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online. He is Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and project manager and Senior Associate Editor of the Walt Whitman Archive. He is nearing completion of a digital edition of the interviews of Walt Whitman, and he continues to nurture project ideas for digitizing the work of several lesser-known writers from the colonial and early Federal periods—aspirations that began during a doctoral program focused on postcolonial theory and nationalism in early American literature. Publications include: -Critical Histories: Walt Whitman. ProQuest (forthcoming). [editor/compiler] -"Gwendolyn Brooks" (headnote). The Thomson Anthology of American Literature, Volume 4, Ed. Henry Hart. Boston: Thomson/Gale, 2007. (forthcoming) -"Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture." A Companion to Walt Whitman. Ed. Donald Kummings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 233-256. -"Ordering Chaos: An Integrated Guide and Online Archive of Walt Whitman's Poetry Manuscripts." Literary and Linguistic Computing 20 (June 2005): 205-217. [co-author with Mary Ellen Ducey, Andrew Jewell, Kenneth M. Price, Brian Pytlik Zillig, and Katherine L. Walter] -"Whitman and Traditional Literary History: A Recently Recovered Dialogue." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 20:1 (Summer 2002). 30-35. -"'Each Part and Tag of Me Is a Miracle': Reflections after Tagging the 1867 Leaves of Grass." Walt Whitman Archive. View the Tech & New Media Tuesdays website and schedule. http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html
Sponsored by Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS)
For more information, contact Cristin Paul at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html#jan29_2008
Monday, January 28th, 2008 :: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus
Lecture
Gender, Rape, & Abortion: Working for Reproductive Rights and Dignity for Women in Mexico
Verónica Cruz Sanchez, 2006 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH WINNER
Free parking available on the Main Quad, East Campus. Map: http://rlhs.studentaffairs.duke.edu/images/East.pdf Verónica Cruz Sanchez is the founder and head of Las Libres, the only organization to tackle the issue of access to abortion after rape in the conservative Mexican state of Guanajuato, where unsafe abortion is one of the highest causes of death among women of reproductive age. In Guanajuato, abortion has been legal in cases of rape for over thirty years. However, due to official negligence, obstruction, and a wealth of administrative hurdles, few if any rape victims in Guanajuato have ever obtained a state-provided abortion. Verónica leads the fight against this injustice by connecting rape victims with medical and legal aid, training youth to hold health workshops for peers, and challenging policy makers to ensure real access to abortion as allowed under the law. Free & Open to the Public. The talk will be in Spanish with English translation by Marianne Mollman Event co-sponsors: IPAS; the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies; the Duke in Madrid Program; UNC School of Law; Duke Program in Women’s Studies; Duke Center for Human Rights; Baldwin Scholars; Duke Women’s Center; Duke Department of Romance Studies; Duke Program in Latino/a Studies; Duke Department of History; Duke Spanish Service Learning; UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas; Mi Gente; Duke University Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine; Duke Institute for Critical U.S. Studies Context Info: see “The Second Assault” http://hrw.org/reports/2006/mexico0306
For more information, contact Caroline Light or Tamera Marko at clight@duke.edu or tmarko@duke.edu .
URL: http://hrw.org/reports/2006/mexico0306
Monday, January 28th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 028
ISIS- ChucK: Teaching Programming with Music; Lapt
ChucK: Teaching Programming with Music; Laptop Orchestras as Classrooms with Ge Wang
Abstract: We present the ChucK computer music programming language as a pedagogical tool for teaching programming and music at the same time (and letting the two subjects motivate and reinforce each other). We demonstrate aspects of the language suitable for teaching in both Computer Science and Music Technology classrooms, pointing features, ideas, and approaches we've taken in courses at Princeton University and Stanford University. In this context, we describe our adventures with the "laptop orchestra": a new type of large-scale, computer-mediated music ensemble and classroom. The laptop orchestra consists of 12 or more sets of laptops, humans, special hemispherical speakers, sensors, and software, and presents new challenges in music technology, instrument design, composition, performance, and pedagogy. We present our ongoing experiences with the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) and soon, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk?) and discuss the laptop orchestra's potential to serve as a unique and truly integrated platform for teaching music through technology, and computing through music. Bio: Ge Wang received his B.S. in Computer Science in 2000 from Duke University, PhD (soon) in Computer Science (advisor Perry Cook) in 2007 from Princeton University, and is currently an assistant professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). His research interests include interactive software systems for computer music, programming languages, sound synthesis and analysis, music information retrieval, new performance ensembles (e.g., laptop orchestras) and paradigms (e.g., live coding), visualization, interfaces for human-computer interaction, interactive audio over networks, and methodologies for education at the intersection of computer science and music. Ge is the chief architect of the ChucK audio programming language and the Audicle environment. He is a founding developer and co-director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) and is currently establishing a Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Ge is also a co-creator of the TAPESTREA sound design environment and of various audio visulization tools. Ge composes and performs via various electro-acoustic and computer-mediated means. Ge will also be presenting at the Visualization Friday Forum <http://vis.duke.edu/FridayForum/> on Friday, January 25, 2008.
Sponsored by Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS)
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Thursday, January 24th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
2204 John Hope Franklin Center , Room 240
Seminar
Globalization and the World City System: Region, Role, and Position since 1981
Keynote Speaker: Arthur S. Alderson, Indiana University
Each Seminar will be followed by a short reception allowing individuals conversations with the speakers. Professor Anderson's Biography can be viewed at http://www.indiana.edu/~asasoc/ The GGD Seminars are sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies with funding or support from the US Department of Education, Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Social Science Research Institute, Duke Law School, and Sanford Institute for Public Policy
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
240 John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at the Center
Researching the Novel: The Problem of Serendipity
Stephanie Grant, Visiting Writer, Franklin Humanities Institute
Stephanie Grant will give a brief talk which examines the ways in which historical research can enhance -- and sometimes hinder -- the creative process. Grant will focus on her experiences researching her second novel, Map of Ireland, forthcoming from Scribner in March, 2008. Map of Ireland is a contemporary re-telling of Huck Finn set during the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools in 1974. The novel places female friendship and sexuality at the center of a foundational American myth about race. Stephanie Grant is currently Visiting Writer at the Franklin Humanities Institute. Stephanie is a graduate of New York University’s creative writing program where she studied with Mona Simpson. Her first novel, THE PASSION OF ALICE, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1995, and was nominated for Britain’s Orange Prize for Women Writers and the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. In 1998, she was the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her second novel, MAP OF IRELAND, has received four awards to support its writing and development: The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award, and, an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/lectures/index.php#grant
Monday, January 21st, 2008 :: 07:00 PM
Home of Sandria Freitag and David Gilmartin
Colloquium
Global Hopes, Neo-liberal Dystopias: Gurgaon, Dubai and the 'New' South Asia
Chad Haines, American University in Cairo
To download reading (when available) and for directions to the event, please click on the link below.
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag at sandria.freitag@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/csas/readings.php
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 :: 09:00 PM - 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 230/232 - (IMPS)
ISIS Game Night
ISIS Game Night
ISIS is hosting the third Game Night of the 2007-2008 school year. Come out to the Interactive Multimedia Project Space (IMPS) in the Franklin Center and enjoy Playstation 3, Wii, XBOX 360 with Guitar Hero, Playstation: PS2, PC, Atari gaming along with board games. We will have pizza, soda and information about ISIS. The event is FREE, so bring a friend and have a good time
Sponsored by Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS)
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
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
Prof. Saldívar's talk focuses on some of the transnational stories (historias) and novels written by Sandra Cisneros. It begins by considering how Cisneros thematizes the plight of Greater Mexico's beleaguered multiculture in The House On Mango Street and Caramelo and then defends it against the charges of failure. The presentation ends by turning toward the issues of figural language and border identities in Cisneros' fiction. José David Saldívar, trained in English and Comparative Literature at Yale University and Stanford University during the late 1970s and early 1980s, is best known for his literary historical analysis of the inter-American novel, US-Mexico border cultural studies, and critical social theory. His numerous publications include the ground-breaking books The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Duke, 1991), Criticism in the Borderlands (co-edited with Hector Calderon, Duke 1991), and Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (California, 1997). His recent research concerns the War of 1898, the Cultures of US Imperialism, Critical Social Theory, and the articulated formations of American Studies, Latinamericanism, and Commonwealth Studies. He is also beginning to write a biography of el rey de rock en español, Carlos Santana.
Sponsored by Presented by Latino/a Studies at Duke University
For more information, contact Jenny Snead or Pamela Gutlon at jennysw@duke.edu or p.gulton@duke.edu .
URL: http://latino.aas.duke.edu/
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 :: 04:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Objects, Others, and US
Bill Brown Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor Chair, Department of English language and Literature, University of Chicago
Presented by Recycle, the 2007-08 John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar Parking available at the Pickens Clinic Lot on Trent Drive after 4 PM (#6 on map here: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php) Questions? E-mail fhi@duke.edu or visit http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/lectures/index.php About the Speaker Bill Brown is Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Department of English Language & Literature at the University of Chicago, where he also teaches in the Department of Visual Arts and the Committee on the History of Culture. He is co-editor of the journal Critical Inquiry. His past research has focused on popular literary genres (e.g. science fiction, the Western), on recreational forms (baseball, kung fu), and on the ways that mass-cultural phenomena (from roller coasters to kodak cameras) impress themselves on the literary imagination. His current work operates at the intersection of literary, visual, and material cultures, with an emphasis on what he terms "object relations in an expanded field." Asking how inanimate objects enable human subjects (individually and collectively) to form and transform themselves, his recent writings - notably in "Thing Theory," his contribution to the 2001 Critical Inquiry special issue on Things, which he also edited - have pondered how things and thingness might become new objects of critical analysis. He is the author of The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of Play (Harvard, 1996), Reading the West: An Anthology of Dime Novels (Bedford Books, 1997), and A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (Chicago, 2003).
For more information, contact Chris Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/lectures/index.php
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Ewin Road, Room 130/232 - (IMPS)
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays Special IMPS Room
SIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays Special IMPS Room and Gaming Demo
Come out and see the Interactive Multimedia Project Space (IMPS), how to run it, and the games we use in our classes. View the Tech & New Media Tuesdays website and schedule. <http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html>
Sponsored by Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS)
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html#jan15_2008
Thursday, December 06th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Roundtable on Academic Publishing Global & Local
ACADEMIC PUBLISHING GLOBAL AND LOCAL: Perspectives on/from the middle east, east asia, latin america, the united states, and europe on scholarly publishing in multiple languages and for diverse audiences. Roundtable Participants: STEVE COHN - (Moderator), Director, Duke University Press. miriam cooke Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature, Duke Univeresity HSIUNG PING-CHEN Dean of College of Liberal Arts, National Central University / Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan ELAINE MAISNER Senior Editor (Latin American Studies), the University of North Carolina Press WILJAN van den AKKER Dean of the Humanities, Utrecht University, Netherlands Directions + Parking: The John Hope Franklin Center is located at 2204 Erwin Road, on the corner of Erwin and Trent. Free parking is available after 4 PM at the Pickens/Duke Family Medicine Lot (entry on Trent Drive, directly across from the Franklin Center). For more information, visit http://jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php. The Pickens lot is labeled #6 in this map.
Sponsored by Part of the Scholarly Publishing Series organized by the Franklin Humanities Institute in collaboration with the Duke University Press. Made possible by a multi-year grant from the Mellon Foundation.
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/
Tuesday, December 04th, 2007 :: 06:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, room 240
Lecture
Alterity and Alternatives: A Conversation with Judith Halberstam and Elizabeth Povinelli on Queer Theory
Moderated by Ara Wilson . Refreshments Provided (parking available at Pickens/Duke Family Medicine Lot across the Street after 4 PM) For map and directions, visit: http://jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php. ~~~~~~ About the Speakers JUDITH HALBERSTAM is Professor of English and Gender Studies at University of Southern California, and Distinguished Guest Faculty at the Duke English Department in Fall 2007. Halberstam works in the areas of popular, visual and queer culture with an emphasis on subcultures. Halberstam’s first book, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), was a study of popular gothic cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries and it stretched from Frankenstein to contemporary horror film. Her 1998 book, Female Masculinity (1998), made a ground breaking argument about non-male masculinity and tracked the impact of female masculinity upon hegemonic genders. Halberstam’s last book, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005), described and theorized queer reconfigurations of time and space in relation to subcultural scenes and the emergence of transgender visibility. This book devotes several chapters to the topic of visual representation of gender ambiguity. Halberstam was also the co-author with Del LaGrace Volcano of a photo/essay book, The Drag King Book (1999), and with Ira Livingston of an anthology, Posthuman Bodies (1995). Halberstam regularly speaks on visual culture and publishes journalism in venuse like BITCH Magazine and The Nation; she recently wrote catalogue essays for Austrian artist Inez Doujak, and Australian performance group, The Kingpins. ELIZABETH POVINELLI is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University, where she is also Co-director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture. From November 26 through December 7, she is Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke (please click on link for information on other programs during Professor Povinelli's residency). Her writing has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism - grounding this critical task in theories of the translation, transfiguration and the circulation of values, materialities, and socialities within settler liberalisms. Her first two books - Labor's Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action (1994) and The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism (2002) - focused on impasses within liberal systems of law and value as they meet local Australian indigenous worlds, and the effect of these impasses on the development of legal and public culture in Australia. Her most recent book, The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (2006), examines how a set of ethical and normative claims about the governace of lowve, sociality, and the body circulate in liberal settler colonies in such a way that life and death, rights and recognition, goods and resources are unevenly distributed there. Her work diverges from most contemporary approaches to sexuality, gender and the legacy of European colonialism in so far as it brackets sexuality in the first moment and, instead, look at how the distinction between individual freedom and social bondage subtends and animates most theories and practices of sexuality in postcolonial liberalisms. With George Chauncy, Povinelli co-edited the GLQ Special Issue Thinking Sexuality Transnationally (1999). She is also a former editor of the journal Public Culture and currently associate editor of Social Analysis. ARA WILSON is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Cultural Anthropology, and Director of the Program in Sexualities at Duke. Author of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok (2004), Wilson's work contributes to the feminist ethnography of globalization by providing theoretically engaged descriptions of transnational sites and processes. Her approach combines attention to political economy, critical studies of culture, and post-colonial critiques of Eurocentrism. Using long term fieldwork in Bangkok, Thailand, she explores how sexuality, gender and ethnicity are produced and transformed through the modernity of the non-Western world. She is working to develop ways to analyze gender/sexuality at a global scale, in part by studying such international events as the 1995 Beijing UN Conference on Women or the World Social Forum. Her current book project, Sexual Latitudes, considers the implication of globalization as a stage for sexual politics. She is also in the early phases of a project on medical tourism to Thailand.
Sponsored by Presented by the Program in Sexualities, Franklin Humanities Institute, Department of English, and the Center for Lesbian , Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Life
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Geneen Auditorium - The Fuqua School of Business
Lecture
Abundance of Disease, Absence of Health Workers
Francis Omaswa, World Health Organization
Free and open to the public. Welcome by Victor Dzau, Chancellor of Health Affairs and Michael Merson, Director of the Duke Global Health Institute Dr. Francis Omaswa is the Executive Director of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) that was officially launched in May 2006. GHWA is a partnership that is dedicated to identifying and providing solutions to the global health workforce crises and the secretariat is provided by the World Health Organization (WHO). Before joining GHWA in June 2005, Dr. Omaswa was the Director General for Health Services in the Ministry of Health in Uganda for a period of seven years during which time he was responsible for coordinating major reforms in the health sector in Uganda which included the introduction of the Swaps and decentralization. Prior to that, Fr. Omaswa was the Chief Surgeon, Head of the Quality Assurance program and Director of the Uganda Heart Institute, in the Ministry of Health and Makerere University in Uganda. Dessert and coffee will be served after the talk. Please register at http://survey.oit.duke.edu/ViewsFlash/servlet/viewsflash?cmd=showform&pollid=DukeGlobalHealth!no29_recept For more information and to register for the full conference, visit www.afhcconf.com
Sponsored by Duke's Fuqua School of Business Health Sector Management Program and the Duke Global Health Institute
For more information, contact Geelea Seaford / globalhealth.duke.edu .
URL: http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/programs/health/conferences/afhcconf/index.html
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Breedlove Room, 240 Perkins Library, West Campus, Duke University
Seminar
Domestic Courts and Global Governance: The Politics of Private International Law
Keynote Speaker: Christopher A. Whytock, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy. Please visit www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm to download background reading. Contact r.sikorski@duke.edu to subscribe to the seminar listserve.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 :: 05:00 PM - 06:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty
Priscilla Wald, PhD
Refreshments will be served. Free parking available in the Pickens Clinic lot across from the John Hope Franklin Center. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Accounts of newly surfacing diseases appeared in scientific publications and the mainstream media in the West with increasing frequency following the introduction of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the mid-1980s. They put the vocabulary of disease outbreaks into circulation, and they introduced the concept of "emerging infections." While these accounts were neither monolithic, nor static, their repetition of particular phrases, images and story lines produced a formula that was amplified by the extended treatment of these themes in the popular novels and films that proliferated in the mid-1990s. Collectively, they drew out what was implicit in all of the accounts: a fascination not just with the novelty and danger of the microbes, but also with the changing social formations of a shrinking world. These stories have consequences. As they disseminate information, they affect survival rates and contagion routes. They promote or mitigate the stigmatizing of individuals, groups, populations, locales (regional and global), behaviors and lifestyles, and they change economies. They also influence how both scientists and the lay public understand the nature and consequences of infection, how we imagine the threat and why we react so fearfully to some disease outbreaks and not others at least as dangerous and pressing, as well as which problems merit our attention and resources. Priscilla Wald is Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (1995) and the forthcoming Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and The Outbreak Narrative, both from Duke University Press, and of numerous essays on popular representations of genomics, which is the subject of a book in progress. She is editor of the journal American Literature and on the editorial board of the journal Literature and Medicine for which she is co-editor of a forthcoming special issue on Genomics in Literature, the Visual Arts, and Culture. She works on the intersections of literature, law, science, and medicine, and is an affiliate of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine.
For more information, contact Trent Center by phone at 919-668-9000 .
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays featuring Jason Graves - The Art and Science of Music
Jason will talk about the creative challenges of composing music for a living and how technology has evolved and influenced my creative process. Bio: As a graduate of the University of Southern California’s prestigious film scoring program, Jason Graves was given the rare opportunity to study under film composers Elmer Bernstein, Christopher Young, and Disney Legend Buddy Baker, as well as Ron Jones, Jack Smalley, and famed Hollywood orchestrator Will Schaefer. Jason has composed music for national and international commercials (Honda, Toyota, Walt Disney, Activision), television shows (CBS, FOX, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Spike TV), movie trailers (Hollywood Pictures, Gramercy Pictures), and feature films (Sony Pictures, Paramount Studios). He has composed and conducted for the Hollywood Studio Orchestra at Capitol Records and Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, as well as the Northwest Sinfonia in Seattle and orchestras in Salt Lake City. With more than one hundred television shows to his credit, Jason has won three Telly’s, an Addy, nine Silver Reels, a Gold Case Award, and more than thirty other state and national communications awards. He wrote music for The Discovery Channel’s Mega Movie Magic, which won a Cable ACE Award. Jason also won 2nd Prize in Turner Classic Movies’ 2005 Young Film Composer Competition, of which there were more than 500 entries. His ties to Los Angeles has allowed Rednote personal connections with top Hollywood film composers when working on film-based video games, including relationships with Elmer Bernstein (Wild Wild West), Hans Zimmer (King Arthur), John Debney (Zathura), and most recently Harry Gregson-Williams (Flushed Away). Jason has composed more than fifty videogame scores, including Blacksite: Area 51, Transformers, Star Trek Legacy, Rayman, The Gauntlet, Price of Persia, Heroes of Might and Magic, Blazing Angels, The Sims, Pac-man, and Jaws Unleashed. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=126886888
Sponsored by Information Science + Information Studies - (ISIS)
For more information, contact Cristin Paul at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html#nov27_2007
Monday, November 26th, 2007 :: 01:30 PM
Room 204, Science Building-(Old Art Museum), Duke East Campus
Lecture
Recognizing Digital Divisions, Circulating Socialities
** PUBLIC LECTURE ** This lecture critically examines the postcolonial digital archive. Using examples form from Indigenous digital archives in Australia, the talk examines the attempts of critical cultural makers to embed in the operating systems of archives alternative modes of social life, specifically, alternative modes of circulation, access, and control of information.
Sponsored by Recycle, the 2007-08 Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar, and the Department of Cultural Anthropology
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
Friday, November 16th, 2007 :: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Readings
A Reading by 3 Contemporary Turkish Poets
Lale Müldür , Güven Turan and Seyhan Erözçelik
Parking available across street in Pickens lot after 4:00pm. The poetry of Lale Müldür, Güven Turan and Seyhan Erözçelik scintillates with the tensions and excitement of Istanbul as the fusion point of liberated Eastern Europe and emerging Turkic Republics after the fall of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the new millenium. The three poets visiting Duke University reflect these gigantic historical movements in their poetry. For instance, Lale Müldür, in her poem "Waking to Constantinople," imagines a synthesis between the Byzantine/Christian past of the city, extending back for one thousand years, as well as its Islamic past, calling for a new name for the city. In his poem, "Coffee Grinds," the poet Seyhan Erözçelik brings the Central Asian, Shamanistic tradition of fortune-telling by creating the hopeful, meandering magical cadences of these fortune readings in his poetry. In the filigree delicacy of his poetry, the poet Güven Turan presents a vision of cosmic nature, stripped of any boundaries.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies with support from the U.S. Dept. of Education
For more information, contact Erdağ Göknar at goknar@duke.edu .
Friday, November 16th, 2007 :: 08:30 AM - 04:30 PM
CMC 1024 H. M. Michaux, Jr., School of Education Building, NCCU
Conference
SOUTH ASIA CONFERENCE: Crisis of Democracy, Governance Failure, Religious Extremism and Consequence on the Regional Business and Economy
COUNTRY FOCUS: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan OPENING REMARKS:Beverly Jones, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, NCCU SESSIONS: • Crisis in Democracy/Political Instability • Governance Failure • Rise of Religious Extremism • Economic and Business Consequences SESSION CHAIRS AND PANELISTS: • Yasmin Saikia, History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill • Stanley Kochaneck (session chair), Political Science, Pennsylvania State University • Sandria Freitag, North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies • Robert Moog, Political Science, North Carolina State University • Charles Kennedy, Political Science, Wake Forest University • David Gilmartin (session chair), History, North Carolina State University • Bijoy Sahoo (session chair), Finance, North Carolina Central University • Asim Chakrabarty, Voice of America • Anis Ahmed, Voice of America • Ali Riaz (session chair), Political Science, Illinois State University • ABM Nasir, Economics, North Carolina Central University . Contact: ABM Nasir @ (919) 530-7372 (anasir@nccu.edu or nasnc@yahoo.com); Sandria B. Freitag @ (919) 668-2143 (sandria.freitag@duke.edu)
Sponsored by School of Business, North Carolina Central University (NCCU), North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies (NCCSAS), Association of Economic and Development Studies on Bangladesh (AEDSB)
For more information, contact ABM Nasir by phone at 919-530-7372 or by email at anasir@nccu.edu .
Friday, November 16th, 2007 :: 02:00 AM
Bryan Center, Griffith Auditorium
Lecture
The Technology and Engineering of the Maltese Falcon
Tom Perkins
3:00 PM (reception at 2:00 PM). Directions to Brian Center - http://map.duke.edu/building.php?bid=7791. Tom Perkins is one of Silicon Valley's pioneers, with a career spanning entrepreneurship, the management of major corporate activities and most importantly, venture capital. In 1972 he formed America's premiere venture capital business with co-founder Eugene Kleiner. The partnership and the follow-on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers series of partnerships have created some of the most interesting and innovative businesses in the world. Prior to Kleiner Perkins, he started a company in the mid-1960's (University Laboratories) to manufacture lasers based upon his original inventions in optics. The company was successful and merged into Spectra-Physics becoming a major part of that firm's growth. Later he was the first General Manager of the Hewlett Packard Company's computer divisions and is credited with establishing the foundation for the enormous growth which that business has enjoyed. Tom Perkins is a graduate of MIT in Electronic Engineering and Harvard University in Business Administration. He is now or has been a Director of the following public corporations: Acuson (Chairman), Applied Materials, Compaq Computer, Corning Glass Works, Genentech (Chairman), Hewlett Packard Company, Hybritech, LSI Logic, The News Corporation, Philips Electronics NV, Spectra-Physics, Symantec and Tandem Computers (Chairman). He is the author of a satirical novel "Sex and the Single Zillionaire" published in hardcover by Harper Collins in February '06 - paperback '07 and "Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins" to be published in hardcover by Gotham (division of Penguin) in November '07. He is the designer and owner of the world's largest privately owned sailing yacht, named the Maltese Falcon which is the first "clipper yacht," or fully automated square rigger. This vessel, which has been on the front cover of over twenty yachting magazines, is considered to be a pioneering break-through.
Sponsored by inDuke and co-sponsored by Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS).
For more information, contact Cristin Paul at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html#tomperkins
Thursday, November 15th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Breedlove Room, 240 Perkins Library, West Campus, Duke University
Seminar
The Fate of Young Democracies
Keynote Speaker: Ethan B. Kapstein, INSEAD, Paris
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy. Please visit www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm to download background reading. Contact r.sikorski@duke.edu to subscribe to the seminar listserve.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Thursday, November 15th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 02:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, room 240
Lecture
COLONIALITY & GENDER
Maria Lugones and Madina Tlostanova
For reading material see: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/programs.html#shiftingthegeo-graphy Dr. María Lugones is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture at the University of New York, at Binghamton, where she is conducting an ongoing seminar on "Decolonial thinking" ( http://cpic.binghamton.edu/decolonial.html ). Dr. Lugones' fields of interests, research and teaching include ethics, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, philosophy of race and gender, Latin American philosophy, popular education and U.S. Latino Politics. Among her recent publications are, "Problems of translation in Postcolonial Thinking." Anthropology News April 2003, with Joshua Price; "The Inseparability of race, class, and gender." Latino Studies Journal . Vol. I #1, Fall 2003, with Joshua Price; "Impure Communities" in Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader , edited by Philip Anderson; Blackwell, 2002; Peregrinajes/Pilgrimages: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions. New York : Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2003. Dr. Lugones' presentationwill be based on her recent published article, "Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System" Hypatia - Volume 22, Number 1, Winter 2007, pp. 186-209; http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/hypatia/v022/22.1lugones.html Dr. Madina Tlostanova is Visiting Scholar at the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics at the People's Friendship University of Russia, in Moscow . Dr. Tlostanova's fields of interests, research and teaching, include trans-cultural subjectivities and aesthetics, as expressed in literature, cinema, arts, the culture of the quotidian; racism in the global context and particularly in the post-socialist world and the Russian ex-colonies - Central Asia and Caucasus; gender issues in non-eastern contexts; feminist theory and Eurocentrism. Among her recent publications are "The Imperial Chronotope: Istanbul-Baku-Khurramabad", in Cultural Studies 21/3, 2007; "The Imagined Freedom: Post-Soviet Intellectuals between the Hegemony of the State and the Hegemony of the Market", South Atlantic Quarterly , 105/3, 2006; "Life in Samarkand: Caucasus and Central Asia vis-á-vis the West and Islam",Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Knowledge , V/1, 2006; "Theorizing from the Borders, Shifting to Geo- and Body Politics of Knowledge", European Journal of Social Theory , 9/2, 2005, with Walter Mignolo. Dr. Tlostanova is currently working on a book-length manuscript on gender, race and religion in Central Asia and the Caucasus . Dr. Tlostanova's talkwill be based on a recent article "'Why Cut the Feet in Order to Fit the Western Shoes?': Non-European Soviet Ex-colonies and the Modern Colonial Gender System" (manuscript, used with permission) which is a chapter of her book in progress .
Sponsored by The Center For Global Studies and the Humanities and Co-sponsored by Women's Studies
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/programs.html#shiftingthegeo-graphy
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 :: 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Lecture
COLONIALIDAD/LATINIDAD DISCUSSION SERIES WITH MARIA LUGONES
A joint initiative of the Working Group on "Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge" (a working group of The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies). This special edition will run through the scholarly year 2007 - 2008. cosponsored by: The Working Group of The Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies (UNC/Duke) Latino/a Studies (Duke University) and the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities (Duke University) Dr. María Lugones is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture at the University of New York, at Binghamton, where she is conducting an ongoing seminar on "Decolonial thinking" ( http://cpic.binghamton.edu/decolonial.html ). Dr. Lugones' fields of interests, research and teaching include ethics, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, philosophy of race and gender, Latin American philosophy, popular education and U.S. Latino Politics. Among her recent publications are, "Problems of translation in Postcolonial Thinking." Anthropology News April 2003, with Joshua Price; "The Inseparability of race, class, and gender." Latino Studies Journal . Vol. I #1, Fall 2003, with Joshua Price; "Impure Communities" in Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader , edited by Philip Anderson; Blackwell, 2002; Peregrinajes/Pilgrimages: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions. New York : Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2003.
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
Recycle: Appropriations of Cultural Products
Neil De Marchi, Professor of Economics, Duke; Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African-American Studies, Duke; Annabel Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays featuring Sara Wood
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html#nov13_2007
Saturday, November 10th, 2007 :: 09:30 AM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130/132
Panel Discussion
Philosophical, Ethical and Cultural Dimensions of Health and the Environment
The Sawyer Seminar Location: 2204 Erwin Road, John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies (JHFC) Room 130/132 (first floor). Panelists: Jeffrey Plank (Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Virginia) Charles Courtney (Professor, Drew University) Barbara Sundberg Baudot (President, Triglav Circle and Coordinator of the NHIOP Research Center for International Affairs) Jacques Baudot (United Nations, Coordinator of the World Social Summit, the Copenhagen Seminars, and the International Forum for Social Progress) Jacques Baudot served the United Nations Secretariat for 30 years. An expert on social development and policy, poverty, and inequality?he wrote extensively for reports of the UN Secretary General. He also served as UN Budget Director, Controller of the UN, Coordinator for the World Summit for Social Development. He became Coordinator of the Copenhagen Seminars for Social Progress for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and thereafter returned to the UN as Coordinator of the International Forum for Social Development. He edited the book Building a World Community: Globalization and the Common Good, [University of Washington Press, 2002], and co-edited Flat World, Big Gaps, [Orient Longman et al, 2007]. Barbara Baudot is Professor and Chair, Politics Department, Saint Anselm College, Coordinator of the Center for International Affairs at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, and founder and Coordinator of the Triglav Circle, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status with the United Nations. As an economist she served in several capacities in the United Nations and as a consultant to various international bodies on environmental issues. Her latest books include Candles in the Dark: A New Spirit for a Plural World, [University of Washington Press, 2003] and co-editor of People and Their Planet: Seeking a Balance [Macmillan, 1999]. Charles Courtney (Ph.D. Northwestern) taught philosophy at Drew University for forty years before retiring in 2004. His specialties are phenomenology and philosophy of religion. Since the mid-60s he has been actively involved with the Fourth World Movement. Currently, he is President of the US Branch of the Movement. For the past several years he has been a member of the Triglav Circle. He has a growing interest in the connection between human rights and eradicating poverty, and that has been the focus of most of his recent writing. Jeffrey Plank is Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Virginia. He leads strategic planning and coordinates institutional priorities in the sciences and technology, especially the development and capitalization of larger scale multi-disciplinary research groups, including inter-institutional collaborations that now reach to southern Africa. He has held capital campaign leadership positions at Georgia Tech, the University of Chicago, and UVA. Plank also has organized and/or serves as a strategic planning consultant to regional and international historic preservation, field science, and has been involved in the workshop for the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies? planning.
For more information, contact Daniel V. Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
Friday, November 09th, 2007 :: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Patio of Languages Building
A Bit of Cheese!
National French Week - (November 5-11, 2007) A Bit of Cheese!
End your work week with a selection of fine French cheeses!
Sponsored by French Language Program
For more information, contact Marion Monson at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html
Thursday, November 08th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road. Room 130-132
Lecture
Cultural Distinction and the Cultural Mix of Genres
Bernard Lahire
Bernard Lahire is a professor of sociology at the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines and director of the research group on socialization for the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). This visit is made possible by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Sponsored by Organized by the Center for French and Francophone Studies
For more information, contact Marion Monson at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html#November
Thursday, November 08th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130/132
Seminar
Remembering, Forgetfully: Nehanda in Zimbabwean History and Memory
Keynote Speaker: Ruramisai Charumbira, Assistant Professor of History, Denison University
Sponsored by Concilium on Southern Africa
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/
Wednesday, November 07th, 2007 :: 09:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 230/232 (IMPS)
ISIS November Game Night
ISIS November Game Night
<http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html/#gn110707> ISIS is hosting the second Game Night of the 2007-2008 school year. Come out to the Interactive Multimedia Project Space (IMPS) in the Franklin Center and enjoy Playstation 3, Wii, XBOX 360, Playstation: PS2, PC, Atari gaming along with board games. We will have pizza, soda and information about ISIS. There is no charge, so bring a friend and have a good time.
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Wednesday, November 07th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Richard White Lecture Hall-(East Campus)
Film
Iraq in Fragments Film and Presentation by Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad
**FREE FOOD** Please join the students of FVD 108 (Conflict, Resolution, and Film) for a screening of "Iraq in Fragments," an Academy Award nominated documentary film, followed by a discussion with Abdul Sattar Jawad. Professor Jawad, who spent two years at Duke as a scholar-in-exile, will speak on events in his home country. ABOUT IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS: This film delves into the larger political issues afflicting the country through three very personal stories. Part one follows Mohammed, an 11-year-old auto mechanic in the mixed Sheik Omar neighborhood in the heart of old Baghdad. . . Through Mohammed's eyes the film captures a growing disenchantment with the U.S.-led occupation, as well as tensions between Shia and Sunni Iraqis. Mohammed's Baghdad is a city caught between an idealized past, a dangerous present, and an uncertain future. Part two was filmed inside the Shiite political/religious movement of Moqtada Sadr, traveling between Naseriyah and the holy city of Najaf. As tensions mount inside the country, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS reveals the inner workings of Iraqi local politics, as the Sadr movement pushes for regional elections and enforces its interpretation of Islamic law. Assuming control over the region, armed Islamicists storm open markets and imprison merchants suspected of selling alcohol, while the detainees and their impoverished families plead for mercy from this new authority. As the U.S. provokes an armed uprising among Sadr's followers, moderate views are swept aside. Part three follows Iraqi Kurds as they assert their bid for independence, rebelling against past atrocities of Baghdad rule, viewing these developments through the eyes of brickmakers and childhood friends on a farm south of Arbil. An elderly farmer ruminates on his family, his people and God - mindful of the legacy they share - while his teenage son tends sheep and dreams of medical school, despite his father's desire that he serve God. IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS captures voices of independence and nationalism, sentiments both secular and religious, revealing a community where politics and faith are personal, public and forever closely intertwined. IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded prizes for Best Documentary Directing, Best Documentary Editing and Best Documentary Cinematography, marking the first time in Sundance history that a documentary received three jury awards. It went on to win the Nestor Almendros Award at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, the Nesnady + Schwartz Documentary Film Competition at the Cleveland International Film Festival, the FIPRESCI International Critics Award at Thessaloniki, and the Grand Jury Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar® this year. Professor Jawad is now a visiting professor at Harvard University and has held the following positions: * Chair, Dept of Mass Communications, University of Baghdad. * Chair, Dept of English, College of Arts, University of Bagdad. * Dean of College of Arts, Mustansiriyya University, Baghdad. * Visiting Professor, Yarmouk University, Applied Sciences University, Jerash University, Jordan. * Visiting Professor, Duke University, John Hope Franklin Center for International Studies.
Sponsored by Students in FVD 108 and co-sponsord by the Arab Student Organization, the Muslim Students Association , Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Kimberly Soliman .
Wednesday, November 07th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
International House
Film
Kaamelott - National French Week (November 5-11, 2007)
In French with subtitles.
Join King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in this irreverant spoof of the famous legend. This is a great way to brush up on your French slang!
Sponsored by French Language Program
For more information, contact Marion Monson at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/
Wednesday, November 07th, 2007 :: 03:30 PM
Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus
Lecture
The Population & Social Dynamics of the Tuli Elephants
Jeanetta Selier, Resident Biologist at Mashatu Game Reserve, Botswana
Ms. Selier is currently the Resident Biologist at Mashatu Game Reserve in the Tuli Region of Africa located in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. She has been involved with elephant research amongst the Tuli elephants for the past eight years.
Sponsored by The Comcilium on Southern Africa-(COSA) and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke (OLLI)
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
Wednesday, November 07th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
DukeEngage: A Pilot Program in Yemen
Eric Mlyn, Director, DukeEngage; Dr. Mbaye Lo, Instructor of Arabic
Sponsored by DukeEngage, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Tuesday, November 06th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays featuring Matt Kirschenbaum
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html#nov6_2007
Monday, November 05th, 2007 - Friday, November 09th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
See URL address or description for event titles, locations, dates and correct times
Film
3RD ANNUAL QUÉBEC CINEMA WEEK
STARDOM (2000)
Denys Arcand,DirectorMonday, Nov 5
7:00 PM
Teer Engineering LibraryA comic, yet troubling look at the world of celebrities. Stardom focuses on Tina Menzhal (Pare), a model who hits it big and grows dependent on the media hype surrounding her every move.
Runtime: 100 minutes
GAZ BAR BLUES (2003)
Louis Bélanger,
Director/Writer/Actor
Joining us from QuébecQ & A following the film
Tuesday, Nov 6
8:00 PM
Griffith TheaterThis is the story of Mr. Brochu, whose friends like to call "the Boss". He runs his small-town gas station the best he can (not unlike the one the director's father ran) and tries to stay happy no matter what happens. But his three sons are getting restless--one is off to photograph the end of the Berlin Wall, and another keeps hitting the road with some band--and his own body is every bit as disloyal. "The Boss" is starting to have Parkinson's disease, a metaphor for decline that's also an essential part of the film's real-life feel.
Runtime: 115 minutes
LOST AND DELIRIOUS (2001)
Léa Pool, Director
Wednesday, Nov 7
2:00 PM
Griffith Theater
Lost and Delirious is about the friendship of three teenagers and how they
experience it in a private school. Throughout the film, the lost girls
question their relationships with one another and the authority of others,
while desperately attempting to seek out true love and meaningful emotional
connections in their confused adolescent life.
Runtime: 104 minutes
DÉLIVREZ-MOI (2006)
Welcoming back for a return visit...
Denis Chouinard, DirectorQ & A following the film
Wednesday, Nov 7
8:00 PM
Griffith Theater
After serving 10 years for killing her lover Marco, Annie regains custody
of her daughter, but the girl wants nothing to do with her. Desperate and
haunted by memories of Marco, Annie sinks into growing confusion between
past and present. Surprises await when she returns to the island where the
murder took place.
Runtime: 103 minutes
Le goûT des jeunes filles
(2004)
Dany Laferrière
Director/Writer
Thursday, Nov 8
7:00 PM
125 Hudson Hall NOT TEER ENGINEERING LIBRARY.
Based on the autobiographical novel by Dany Laferrière, Le goût des jeunes
filles is the story of 15-year-old Haitian Fanfan (played by Lansana
Kourouma) and his unforgettable weekend. Montreal director John L'Ecuyer
had only a $1.5-million budget to bring this story to the screen and, in
his own words, was shooting with "broken equipment" in a foreign country
(Guadeloupe substituting for Haiti) with a cast and crew who largely spoke
different dialects of French. The result is like the little cousin of City
of God, clumsier but obviously heartfelt and very evocative of a specific
time and a place.
The year is 1971 and "Papa Doc" Duvalier's death is causing social unrest,
awaking old pains in Fanfan's mother (Mireille Métellus). Her husband was
murdered by government thugs, making her overprotective of her son. One
night, trouble finds Fanfan anyway, when he and his hoodlum friend Gégé
(Uly Darly) butt heads with some Tontons-Macoutes militia soldiers, forcing
the boys into hiding. But sometimes bad things can lead to good fortune, as
Fanfan finds out when he takes refuge at his neighbour's house and
discovers the world of sexy young women.
Runtime: 88 minutes
BON COP/BAD COP
Eric Canuel, Director/Writer
Friday, Nov 9
7:00 PM
Teer Engineering Library
Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a Canadian comedy-thriller buddy cop film about English
Canadian and French Canadian police officers who reluctantly join forces.
The dialogue is a mixture of English and French. The title is a translation
word play on the phrase "Good cop/Bad cop", and the film's tagline is
"Shoot First, Translate Later."
Runtime: 116 minutes
Sponsored by Center for Canadian Studies at Duke University
For more information, contact Janice Engelhardt at janice.engelhardt@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Saturday, November 03rd, 2007 :: 10:30 AM
Duke University Richard White Auditorium
Conference
TURKEY: LITERARY AND POLITICAL INTERSECTIONS - An Institute for Critical Theory Conference
Program 10:30-10:45 Opening Remarks Fredric Jameson?Institute for Critical Theory, Duke University 10:45-11:15 Introduction Contexts and Intertexts in Modern Turkish Literature Erda? Göknar?Turkish Studies, Duke University 11:15-12:30 Session 1 The Writer-Manqué: Orhan Pamuk and His Predecessors Jale Parla?Comparative Literature, Istanbul Bilgi University 12:30-1:00 Lunch Break 1:00-2:15 Session 2 Military Coup Narratives and the (Dis)articulations of the Political in Contemporary Turkish Novel Sibel Irzik?Cultural Studies, Sabanci University, Istanbul 2:15-3:30 Session 3 Re(Orient)ation in Turkish-German Literature and Criticism Azade Seyhan?German and Comparative Literature, Bryn Mawr College 3:30-4:30 Roundtable miriam cooke?African & Asian Literatures, Duke University Michael Hardt?Literature, Duke University Firat Oruc?Literature, Duke University Kenneth Surin?Literature, Duke University Serhat Uyurkulak?Literature, Duke University 4:30-5:30 Reception at Women?s Studies Parlors Co-sponsors: Franklin Humanities Institute Center for International Studies Asian & African Languages and Literatures Department Slavic and Eurasian Studies Department Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Christina Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/
Friday, November 02nd, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130
Seminar
The Vision of the Throne of God from Ibn Masarra to Ibn Arabi
Keynote Speaker: Pilar Garrido
Sponsored by DISC-Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Kimberly Soliman at disc@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/news/
Thursday, November 01st, 2007 - Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Please see URL address for event titles, locations, dates & correct times
XXI Latin American Film Festival
XXI Latin American Film Festival
PUBLIC INVITED AND FREE ADMISSIONS! ALL FILMS IN ORIGINAL LANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. WELCOME TO THE TWENTY FIRST LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL! Throughout these years we have shared with our audiences both classics and new releases from the different genres of a rich and prolific Latin American cinema production. Since 1986, when only three films were shown, the Festival grew to encompass 16 to 35 screenings. Our audiences have been exposed to a wide range of critical and responsible narratives of the region. In response to the demographic changes in North Carolina, we have also screened multiple films and speakers on issues such as migration, globalization and new political landscapes in the Americas. http://duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/filmfestival/filmfestival.htm http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/
Sponsored by Outreach Offices of the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University
For more information, contact Natalie Hartman .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/
Thursday, November 01st, 2007 :: 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 028
Lecture
Gendering Islam: Exotic Beauty:(Self) Commodification of Women and Modernization in Central Asia
Madina llostanova, Duke University Franklin Center Visiting Scholar, Ph.D. Professor: Department of Comparative Politics, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Lecture: 6:00 - 7:15pm Dinner: 7:15 - 8:30pm RSVP: Kimberly Soliman@duke.edu by noon on October 31, 2007 Free Parking Available In Pickens Clinic Lot -(Trent & Erwin Road) after 4pm
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Kimberly Soliman at kimberly.soliman@duke.edu .
RSVP requested by Wednesday October 31st 2007 .
Thursday, November 01st, 2007 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Duke University, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Seminar
The University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy presents Migrant Remittances and Exchanges Rate Regimes
Keynote Speaker: David Andrew Singer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Singer's seminar reading paper is available at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm Seminar Faculty Chairs: Judith Kelley, Duke University and Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina Series sponsors: Duke University Center for International Studies with funding or support from the US Department of Education and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs. Please join us tomorrow evening for the University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy with David Andrew Singer. Professor Singer will lead a discussion based on his current research on Migrant Remittances and Exchange Rate Regimes. David Andrew Singer is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. Professor Singer studies international political economy, with a focus on international financial regulation, the influence of global capital flows on government policymaking, international institutions and governance, and the political economy of central banking. His research appears in the journal International Organization as well as a recent book, Regulating Capital: Setting Standards for the International Financial System (Cornell University Press). His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Professor Singer is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2004. Before joining the MIT faculty, he was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame (2004-2006), and also worked in corporate finance and technology venture development. --- We hope you can join us. If you are coming from beyond the Duke campus, and need parking -- please park in the Bryan Center parking garage IV. Parking vouchers will be available at the seminar, please request parking vouchers from Dan Smith prior to the seminar, to avoid paying a fee at the garage lot. Directions to the parking garage IV are at: http://map.duke.edu/parking.php?pid=P001. Visitors coming from UNC Chapel Hill may utilize the Robertson bus, which drops off passengers in front of Duke Chapel, about a 2 minute walk from Perkins library. Information, including schedules, can be found here: http://www.robertsonscholars.org/index.php?type=static&source=68
Sponsored by The Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Thursday, November 01st, 2007 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Lecture
Evidence-based Technology Management for Environmental Health Risks: Lessons from energy and air pollution research in developing countries
Majid Ezzati, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health - Harvard School of Public Health
Majid Ezzati is Associate Professor of International Health in the Department of Population and International Health and the Department of Environmental Health, at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research is centered around understanding the determinants of, and risk factors for, health and disease at the population level, especially as they change through technological innovation and technology management. His current research focuses on two main areas: Air pollution and health in developing countries and major health risk factors and their role in current and future disease burden globally or in specific countries and regions. Light refreshments served. REGISTER AT: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/Ezzati11-1-07.htm
Sponsored by Duke Global Health Institute and the Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Geelea Seaford by phone at 919-681-7718 or by email at gseaford@duke.edu .
URL: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/Ezzati11-1-07.htm
Registration required by Thursday November 01st 2007 .
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
240 Franklin Center
Lecture
Trends in Interpretations of Early Indian History
Romila Thapar, Professor Emeritus of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University
This lecture will be drawn from Dr. Thapars current work on historical traditions in ancient India, contesting the generalization that Indian civilization lacked a sense of history.
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, NCCSAS
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
A Place for Memory: Building a History of Human Rights in Argentina
Patricia T. de Valdez, Executive Director of Memoria Abierta
Sponsored by Duke Human Rights Center and the Archive for Human Rights at Duke
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Memoria Abierta
Patricia Valdez, Director of Memoria Abierta
Lunch is provided - Parking is free with a voucher (in the medical center lot). - Free and open to the public. Patricia de Valdez, director of the Argentina-based "Memoria Abierta," a physical and digital memorial to Argentina’s Guerra Sucia, will be talking about her work as part of the Wednesday at the Center series and is the first part of The Past is Political: Public Memory, Policy Choices and Human Rights, a speaker series exploring sites of conscience and how memory and history can serve to further human rights work and shape public policy. "Memoria Abierta," or Open Memory, is a ground-breaking effort to not only collect and display objects from Argentina's period of state terrorism, but also to use memory-gathering activities as a way to strengthen a social conscience that values active memory and influences Argentine political culture and the construction of identity and the strengthening of democracy.
Sponsored by Archive for Human Rights, the Duke Human Rights Center, the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Duke University Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change
For more information, contact Patrick A. Stawski by phone at 919-660-5823 or by email at patrick.stawski@duke.edu .
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 :: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
240 Franklin Center
Seminar
Elements of a Historical Tradition in Selected Early Indian Texts
Keynote Speaker: Romila Thapar, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, FHI
A seminar for faculty and graduate students. Dinner will be provided at the conclusion of each meeting. Free parking is available across the street at the Pickens Clinic on Trent Drive. (Participants must sign up ahead of time and keep up with the specified readings, about 100 pp. each week.)
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag .
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays featuring Mauro Maldonato
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html#oct9_2007
Saturday, October 27th, 2007 :: 03:00 PM
Goodson Chapel, Westbrook Building, Duke Divinity School
Lecture
The Historian in the World: A Conversation with John Hope Franklin and Romila Thapar
Free and Open to the Public. Two world-renowned historians reflect on the role of the historian in their respective societies and their own involvements in national and local debates around historical truth, political identity, and social reform. Moderated by Srinivas Aravamudan, Director, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and Professor of English, Duke University About the Speakers JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University. A graduate of Fisk University, he received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in History from Harvard University. During his 70-year academic career, Franklin taught at a wide range of universities - including North Carolina Central University, Howard University, Brooklyn College, and the University of Chicago - and also played an influential role with such organizations as the Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships, the National Council of the Humanities, and the U.S. Delegation to UNESCO. Professor Franklin's numerous publications include The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 (1943), The Emancipation Proclamation (1963), the collection Race and History: Selected Essays 1938-1988 (1989), and Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (with Loren Schweninger, 1999). His landmark survey of black history, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans, first published in 1947, is now in its eighth edition and continues to be widely used in college classrooms. His studies unearthed numerous long-neglected yet indisputably essential parts of the American past, challenging historians to rethink how they conceptualize American history as a whole. In addition to honorary degrees from more than one hundred colleges and universities, Dr. Franklin has won the Charles Frankel Prize for contributions to the humanities, the Organization of American Historians' Award for Outstanding Achievement, the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many other honors and distinctions. In 2006, he was awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity by the United States Library of Congress. ROMILA THAPAR is Professor Emeritus of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and currently Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. One of the world’s foremost experts on ancient Indian history, Thapar received her doctoral degree from London University in 1960 and returned to a newly independent India to pursue her teaching and scholarship. Her research on ancient India has evolved new ways of reading evidence from archaeology, mythology, literature, philosophy, ritual texts, folklore, and other sources. First published in 1966, Thapar’s History of India, Vol.1, has been in print ever since. Thapar’s subsequent books - including Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations (1978), Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History (2003), Somanatha: The Many Voices of History (2005) - have secured her reputation as one of the most distinguished and productive scholars in her field. In the course of her illustrious career, Thapar has held many visiting posts in Europe, the United States and Japan. She is an Honorary Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She has honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, the University of Oxford and the University of Calcutta. In 2004, she was appointed as the first holder the US Library of Congress's Kluge Chair in the Countries and Cultures of the South. In the citation presented by Oxford University while conferring on her an honorary doctorate of letters in 2002, she was lauded as “an historian who is indefatigable in the pursuit of knowledge and prolific in its publication, and who, is above all a devoted partisan of the truth.”
For more information, contact Christina Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/10/conversation.html
Friday, October 26th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
240 John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
Theater and Philosophy: Socrates on the Modern Stage
Martin Puchner, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
For more details, visit: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/lectures/index.php#puchner
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Department of English, Program in Literature, Department of Theater Studies
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/lectures/index.php#puchner
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130-132
Lecture
A Portrait of Marcel Proust's Mother
Evelyne Bloch-Dano is the author of the recent biography Madame Proust. Her work captures the life and times of Marcel Proust’s mother, from her German-Jewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocer’s son to her lifelong worries about her son’s sexuality, health problems, and talent. As well as offering intimate glimpses of the Prousts’ daily life, Madame Proust also uses the family as a way to explore the larger culture of fin-de-siècle France, including high society, spa culture, Jewish assimilation, and the Dreyfus affair. Throughout, Bloch-Dano offers sensitive readings of Proust’s work, drawing out the countless interconnections between his mother, his life, and his magnum opus. Event in English. [Book description based on Powell's Books website] These events are organized with support from the Alliance Française of Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill. Evelyne Bloch-Dano's US tour has been organized by the General Delegation of the Alliance Française of Paris in the United States. Other co-sponsors for these events include the Department of Romance Studies, the Program in Literature and the Department of History at Duke University.
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies and organized with support from the Alliance Française of Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill
For more information, contact Marion Monson/Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu/cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html#October
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Faculty Bookwatch
Henrik Ibsen & the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy, Toril Moi (James B. Duke Professor of Literature & Romance Studies, Duke)
Panelists: Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke), Fredric Jameson (Literature, Duke), Martin Puchner (English & Comparative Literature, Columbia)
For more details, visit: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/bookwatch/index.php
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University Libraries, and the Program in Literature
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/bookwatch/index.php
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Public Talk
Blazing pelts and burning passions: Transnational environmentalism and nationalism across the Himalayas
Dr. Emily Yeh
Biography Emily T. Yeh is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on environmental governance, political ecology of natural resource use and conflict, and the cultural politics and political economy of development, particularly in Tibetan areas of China. Her projects have explored the role of markets, state policies, and ideologies of nature and nation in structuring often highly unequal environmental and economic outcomes. She has also conducted research on environmental history, the cultural politics of identity, and most recently, the emergence of Tibetan environmentalisms and environmental identities through trans-local and transnational collaborations. Her publications have appeared in journals including The China Quarterly, Development and Change, Environment and Planning A, and Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Most recently, she is the author of "Tibetan Indigeneity: Translations, Resemblances, and Uptake in Orin Starn and Marisol de la Cadena's, Indigenous Experience Today.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies& The Sawyer Seminar on Portents & Dilemmas: Health & Environment in China & India
For more information, contact Ralph Litzinger at rlitz@duke.edu .
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130/132
Lecture
Translation luncheon with author Evelyne Bloch-Dano - (translating Madame Proust)
Two events with author Evelyne Bloch-Dano: Thursday, Oct. 25 - 12:00 pm 130-132 John Hope Franklin Center Translation luncheon Bilingual conversation with author Evelyne Bloch-Dano and Professor Alice Kaplan on the issues encountered in translating Madame Proust. A light lunch will be provided. and... Thursday, Oct. 25 - 4:30 pm 130-132 John Hope Franklin Center A Portrait of Marcel Proust Evelyne Bloch-Dano is the author of the recent biography Madame Proust. Her work captures the life and times of Marcel Proust’s mother, from her German-Jewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocer’s son to her lifelong worries about her son’s sexuality, health problems, and talent. As well as offering intimate glimpses of the Prousts’ daily life, Madame Proust also uses the family as a way to explore the larger culture of fin-de-siècle France, including high society, spa culture, Jewish assimilation, and the Dreyfus affair. Throughout, Bloch-Dano offers sensitive readings of Proust’s work, drawing out the countless interconnections between his mother, his life, and his magnum opus. Event in English. [Book description based on Powell's Books website]
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies and organized with support from the Alliance Française of Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill.
For more information, contact Marion Monson/Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu/ cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html#October
RSVP requested by Monday October 22nd 2007 .
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Performance
Globalization and the Artist Lunch Series
James Nyoraku Schefler - Musician, Japanese bamboo flute (shakuhachi)
Japanese obento lunchboxes will be provided. Please rsvp to cindy.carlson@duke.edu to reserve your lunchbox. Please indicate any food restrictions. We recommend parking in one of the Medical Center parking decks; we will provide a parking coupon for the garages, during the lunch, upon request. *** The Evolving Shakuhachi “The Evolving Shakuhachi” explores the arc of a 1,000 year-old tradition. From its origins as a Zen Buddhist tool for meditation and spiritual practice, through the courts of Imperial Japan, to today’s contemporary concert scene, the deep and penetrating sounds of this bamboo flute have captured the imagination of listeners and composers throughout the world. Composer, performer and shakuhachi Grand Master James Nyoraku Schlefer will introduce and perform examples of traditional and modern music for the Japanese bamboo flute, tracing the trajectory of its history within the context of ancient and contemporary society. *** Biography James Nyoraku Schlefer is a leading performer and teacher of shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) in New York City. He received the Dai-Shi-Han (Grand Master's Certificate) in 2001, one of only a handful of non-Japanese to receive this high level award. In Japan he has worked with Aoki Reibo, Yokoyama Katsuya, Yoshio Kurahashi, Yoshinobu Taniguchi, and Mitsuhashi Kifu and his primary teacher in New York was Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin. He holds a Master's degree in Western flute & musicology from Queens College and currently teaches music history courses at the City University of New York. He has performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, BAM, the World Financial Center, and the Metropolitan, Brooklyn and Philadelphia Museums. Schlefer has three solo recordings: Wind Heart (which traveled 120,000,000 miles aboard MIR), Solstice Spirit (1998), and Flare Up (2002.) His music has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered." Nyoraku is a member of the Japanese music group Ensemble East, which performs traditional and modern music for Japanese instruments, including the shamisen and the koto . He has performed and lectured at the Juilliard School, Manhattan and Eastman Schools of Music, Vassar, Haverford, Brown, Union, Moravian, Colby, Colby-Sawyer and Hunter Colleges, SUNY New Paltz, and at music festivals in the U.S., Asia and Europe. His performances include lectures about the origin, history, and development of this very special music. Schlefer began his musical career as a Western flutist and continues to perform on this instrument. He has composed works for solo shakuhachi, shakuhachi ensemble, and for koto and taiko ensemble. In 1999 he received a grant from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust for a new work to accompany dance. A dedicated and respected teacher, Nyoraku Sensei is head of the Kyo-Shin-An teaching studio in New York City. He has edited books of traditional notation and written an etude book for shakuhachi technical development.
Sponsored by DUCIS, Duke Dance Program, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, and the UNC Department of Art
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski or Daniel Smith at r.sikorski@duke.edu or dan.smith@duke.edu .
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
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 Adrian Bejan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 :: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
240 Franklin Center
Seminar
Elements of a Historical Tradition in Selected Early Indian Texts
Keynote Speaker: Romila Thapar, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, FHI
A seminar for faculty and graduate students. Dinner will be provided at the conclusion of each meeting. Free parking is available across the street at the Pickens Clinic on Trent Drive. (Participants must sign up ahead of time and keep up with the specified readings, about 100 pp. each week.)
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag .
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 :: 03:00 PM
Room 4045, Duke Law School
Lecture
The Legal Struggle for Affordable AIDS Medicines
Fatima Hassan, (Duke Law LLM '02) Senior Attorney and Former Deputy Head of the AIDS Law Project in South Africa
Fatima will share her remarkable experiences as an attorney with the AIDS Law Project in supporting affordable treatment forHIV/AIDS in South Africa. Fatima gave this talk at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy back in the spring and we are thrilled that she has agreed to speak again while here at Duke as a Fleishman Fellow. The room has limited seating capacity (55) so please come early if you want to be guaranteed a seat. Fatima Hassan is a senior attorney and former deputy head of the AIDS Law Project (ALP). During her student years she was an active member of a number of student organisations that were aimed at political change. She graduated from WITS in 1994 with an LL.B and completed her articles at the WITS University Community Law Clinic. Thereafter she joined the ALP in 1996 where she conducted public interest litigation, education, training and legal reform in the area of HIV/AIDS and non-discrimination. In 2000 Fatima joined the Constitutional Court of South Africa for a year to complete a research clerkship with Justice Kate O’Regan. She was awarded the Franklin Thomas Fellowship by the Constitutional Court to pursue an LLM at Duke University, which she completed in 2002. On her return she continued to work for the ALP. Since then she has been the attorney of record in several key cases against government, big business and pharmaceutical companies involving issues of non-discrimination and access to affordable and sustainable treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS. She is currently co-ordinating the ALP and TAC’s monitoring of the ARV treatment programme including coordinating the Joint Civil Society Monitoring Forum. She is an active member of the Treatment Action Campaign. She is an honorary research fellow of the University of the Witwatersrand
Sponsored by The Concilium on Southern Africa at Duke University and the Duke Law School's AIDS and the Law Clinic
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays featuring Marsha Kinder
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html#oct23_2007
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins), Duke West Campus
Lecture
Emancipating Futures Past: Aimé Césaire, Strategic Utopia, and the Political Untimely
Gary Wilder, Associate Professor of History at Pomona College
(lunch will be provided) In his talk, Wilder will outline his reading of Negritude as a critical theory and then discuss Aimé Césaire's postwar projects for decolonization without national independence. The talk is drawn from a new book project on Negritude, decolonization, and utopia, provisionally entitled Freedom Time. On Monday, October 22nd, from 4:30-7:00 p.m. in 305 Languages, there will also be an informal discussion with Gary Wilder about his book The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2005). All students and faculty are welcome. Gary Wilder is an Associate Professor of History at Pomona College. He was recently awarded a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.
Sponsored by Duke Depts of Romance Studies and History, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, African & African American Studies, Global Studies
For more information, contact Prof. Laurent Dubois at ld48@duke.edu .
URL: http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Host: Carl Ernst, Chapel Hill
Colloquium
The Sense of Indian History and Its Evidence
Romila Thapar, Distinguished Fellow, FHI
To download readings when available, click link below. Click here for directions to the event: http://www.unc.edu/~cernst/directions.html
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag at sandria.freitag@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/csas/readings.php
Sunday, October 21st, 2007 - Sunday, January 13th, 2008 :: 08:00 AM
North Carolina Museum of Art
Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism - National French Week - (November 5-11, 2007)
Please see web address for correct time- Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism, an exhibition of 40 paintings, includes many of the finest examples of mid- and late- 19th-century French and American landscapes in the Brooklyn Museum's collection. Ranging in date from the 1850s to the early 20th century, the works presented offer a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by such leading French artists as Gustave Courbet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet and their most significant American counterparts, including Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. This exhibition has been organized by the Brooklyn Museum.
For more information, contact Marion Monson or Eric C. Halicki at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming.shtml
Friday, October 19th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
Duke University, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Lecture Hall 04, Duke Campus
UNC-Duke Working Group on the Environment in Latin
"Conflict, Illicit Crops, and Environmental Degradation in Colombia"
Dr. Manuel Rodríguez-Becerra, Professor on Environmental Policy and Public Policy in the School of Management of Universidad de Los Andes
(Reception will follow)- How have narco-trafficking activities and armed conflict in Colombia effected the environment? What impacts have narco-trafficking activities had on the Colombian tropical forests and the communities that inhabit them? Can conservation and sustainable use of forests ecosystems become assets to attain social stability and peace? Manuel Rodríguez-Becerra is currently Professor on Environmental Policy and Public Policy in the School of Management of Universidad de Los Andes. From 1976 to 1990, he was General Secretary, Dean of the School of Management, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Vice-president of this University. From 1990 to 1993 he was General Director of the National Institute of Natural Resources and the Environment, INDERENA, where he coordinated the development of Law 99 of 1993 which gave way to the National Environmental System; in 1994 he was designated the first Environment Minister of Colombia. He chaired the Intergovernmental Panel of Forests of the United Nations (1995-97), the United Nations Forum on Forests (2004-2005) and was a member of the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development. He represents the environmental sector in the National Planning Council of Colombia (2002-2010), and is President of the National Environmental Forum (1997-present), an alliance of eight non-governmental organizations, including Andes University, oriented to contribute to environmental policy building in Colombia. He is on the board of directors of various national and international NGOs.
Sponsored by WGELA, UNC-Duke Consortium on Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
For more information, contact Angela Gillingham or Ian Varley at ang6@duke.edu or iav3@duke.edu .
URL: http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 :: 06:59 PM
Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium
Documentary
“Celebrating Identity: Three Fiestas in Laredo, Texas”
NORMA CANTU, Ethnographer & Novelist
DIRECTIONS: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/about/here.html Part of Engaging Documentary: Community Values and Artistic Visions. In this first presentation of the Engaging Documentary series, Norma Cantú will focus on three fiestas the quinceañera, a coming-of-age celebration; the matachines folk dance drama tradition; and the secular George Washington birthday celebration in her hometown, Laredo, Texas. She will examine resistance to the hegemonic powers of Mexico and the United States and the hybrid nature of the confluence of cultures. Each fiesta can be read as a hybrid text that reveals what Gloria Anzladúa claims is “the wound that will not heal”: the U.S.–Mexico border. Even in celebratory expressions, there are hints of the ways that this community has had to battle for its own cultural survival. Norma E. Cantú Norma E. Cantú is a professor of English and U.S. Latina/o Literatures at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Author of the award-winning Canícula Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera and co-editor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change and Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, she is working on a novel titled Champú, or Hair Matters, and an ethnographic work, Soldiers of the Cross: Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz. Her scholarly and creative work focuses on life along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. http://cds.aas.duke.edu/
Sponsored by Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University with additional support from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of English, and Latino/a Studies
For more information, contact Lynn McKnight by phone at 919-660-3663 .
URL: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/engagingdocumentary.html
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Breedlove Room, 240 Perkins Library, West Campus, Duke University
Seminar
Strengthening International Courts and the Early Settlement of Disputes
Keynote Speaker: Peter Rosendorff, New York University, Wilf Family Department of Politics
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy. Please visit www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm to download background reading. Contact r.sikorski@duke.edu to subscribe to the seminar listserve.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 - Friday, November 30th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center Gallery - 1st Floor
Opening Exhibition
"elin o'Hara slavick: Oma / Auma"
Opening Reception, Thursday November 30, 5:30pm - 7:00pm My Oma, Gerda Lukas, died in 2006 at the age of 95. The color photographs were taken at the Red Cross Haus Am Killesberg in Suttgart, Germany the day after she died. The black and white photographs were taken over fifteen years ago in East Germany and last summer in what was once East Germany, in the poorest county, north of Berlin. Both series touch upon loss, defeat and the time between transitions from socialism to capitalism, from the past to the present, from failure to reconstruction. Trauma begs for representation.
Sponsored by Duke Univeristy Center for international Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Tickets: Free Admissions
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 - Friday, November 30th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, New Media Space-(Basement Gallery)
Opening Exhibtion
Mud, Twigs, Tin, and Wood:The Art of Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, and James Arthur Snipes Curator: Ginger Young, Ginger Young Gallery
Opening Reception, Thursday Nov 30. 5:30 - 7:00pm Without benefit of a single art class or conventional supplies, each of these three artists pays rich testament to his life as an African-American male in twentieth-century Alabama. Jimmy Lee Sudduth, age 97, uses a mixture of mud, natural pigments, and paint to capture his town, his family, and the homes where he worked as a gardener. Mose Tolliver, who died in 2006, rendered everyday moments on found wood with lyricism and beauty. James Arthur Snipes delights in portraying his friends and neighbors on tin and framing them with twigs. Each of their works is intensely personal, an enduring visual memoir of everyday life.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Tickets: Free Admissions
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
A World Cut in Two: Global Injustice and the Traffic in Organs
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Chancellor's Professor of Medical Anthropology Director, Organs Watch University of California, Berkeley
Parking available at the Pickens Clinic Lot on Trent Drive after 4 PM (#6 on map here: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php) About the Speaker Nancy Scheper-Hughes is currently Chancellor’s Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley where she directs the doctoral program in medical anthropology: “Critical Studies in Medicine, Science and the Body.” In recent years Scheper-Hughes has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Manchester University (UK), and at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Her research and writings focus on suffering, ‘everyday violence’ and death as these are experienced on the margins of the third world. She is best known for her award winning ethnographies: /Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland/ (2000, new edition) and /Death without Weeping: the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil/ (1993), both published by University of California Press, and for her provocative essays, including “The Mindful Body”, “AIDS and the Social Body”, “Parts Unknown: Undercover Research in the Organs Trafficking Underworld”; “The Primary of the Ethical: Toward a Militant Anthropology”, “Peacetime Crimes”, “Small Wars and Invisible Genocides”, “Death Squads and Democracy in Brazil”, “Undoing: the Politics of Remorse in South Africa”, “The Heidelberg Pub Massacre”, “The Last White Christmas” (South Africa 1993) and “The Genocide Continuum”. She has also published several edited volumes including, /Commodifying Bodies/ ( with Loic Wacquant, 2003, Sage ) and /Violence in War and Peace/ (with Philippe Bourgois, 2004, Basil Blackwell). Scheper-Hughes is the recipient of many grants, awards, and book prizes including a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship, the Margaret Mead Award, the Wellcome Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Wellcome Foundation (UK) for contributions to medical research, the Pitre Prize for Ethnohistory (Palermo, Italy) and the Staley Prize from the School for American Research, “recognizing innovative work that goes beyond traditional frontiers and dominant schools of thought to add new dimensions to our understanding of the human species”. /Death without Weeping/ was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. For the last decade Scheper-Hughes has been involved in a multi-sited, ethnographic and medical human rights oriented study of the global traffic in organs. As Director of the university-based Organs Watch Project (originally funded by the Soros Foundation) Scheper-Hughes traveled to the sites and scenes of human trafficking for transplant organs in a dozen countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Southeast Asia. She investigated the criminal networks that bring together desperate buyers and equally desperate kidney sellers, surgeons, and local organs brokers. She has collaborated with Ministries of Health, international transplant societies, the WHO, the Council of Europe, members of Parliament and other government leaders as well as with police in their efforts to interrupt human trafficking and black markets in organs to supply what is politely called “international transplant tourism”. As a senior fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University last year (2006-2007) Scheper-Hughes completed a book manuscript, /A World Cut in Two: the Global Traffic in Organs/ that analyses the emergence and spread of organs commerce as an uncivil practice, a new form of sacrificial violence, as well as a lens on late modern conceptions of life, death, human frailty, futility, kinship, reciprocity, scarcity, and need. She argues that global transplant practices, especially illicit ones, give a unique view of who we are at the present time, how we imagine ourselves and our bodies in relation to others, intimate family members and strangers. Finally, she questions traditional professional ethics (both anthropological and medical) and calls for a passionately engaged and ‘militant anthropology’ based on a radical view of ethical obligations to the body of the other.
Sponsored by Presented by Recycle, the 2007-08 John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar
For more information, contact Christina.Chia@duke.edu at fhi@duke.edu .
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
Performance Gaps in Grades and in Health: Socioeconomic and Health Disparities of Children
Leah Devlin, State Health Director, NC Division of Public Health
Sponsored by Policy and Organizational Management Program
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 :: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
240 Franklin Center
Seminar
Elements of a Historical Tradition in Selected Early Indian Texts
Keynote Speaker: Romila Thapar, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, FHI
A seminar for faculty and graduate students. Dinner will be provided at the conclusion of each meeting. Free parking is available across the street at the Pickens Clinic on Trent Drive. (Participants must sign up ahead of time and keep up with the specified readings, about 100 pp. each week.)
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag at sandria.freitag@duke.edu .
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays featuring Kenneth Price
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html#oct16_2007
Monday, October 15th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Seminar
Abdullah Ibrahim and 'Mannenburg': Icon and Anthem
Keynote Speaker: John Mason, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia
John Edwin Mason received his Ph.D at Yale University in 1992, served on the faculty at the University of Florida from 1992-1995 and is currently Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia where he has been since 1995. He served as Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Economic History at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa in 1990. His most recent major publications include "'Anything but a Novelty': Women, Girls, and Drag Racing," in Mark D. Howell and John D. Miller, eds., American Speed, (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming), "Mannenberg': Notes on the Making of an Icon and Anthem," African Studies Quarterly, 9, 3 (Fall 2007) and "Social Death and Resurrection: Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa", (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003). ***************************************************** A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP by Thursday, October 11th PARKING: Vouchers will be provided for the Duke Medical Center parking decks on Trent Drive and at the corner of Fulton Street and Erwin Rd. There is NO parking behind the Franklin Center DUKE BUS: Take East-Central-West (C2) bus and get off on Flowers Drive behind Trent Hall
Sponsored by COSA, the Concilium on Southern Africa, Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and the Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
240 John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
Recognizing Historical Traditions in Early India
Romila Thapar, FHI Distinguished Scholar in Residence
This lecture will be drawn from Dr. Thapar's current work on historical traditions in ancient India, contesting the generalization that Indian civilization lacked a sense of history.
For more information, contact Christina Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/residencies/index.php
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 :: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
240 Franklin Center
Seminar
Elements of a Historical Tradition in Selected Early Indian Texts
Keynote Speaker: Romila Thapar, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, FHI
A seminar for faculty and graduate students. Dinner will be provided at the conclusion of each meeting. Free parking is available across the street at the Pickens Clinic on Trent Drive. (Participants must sign up ahead of time and keep up with the specified readings, about 100 pp. each week.)
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag at sandria.freitag@duke.edu .
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 230/232
Lecture
"An Atavistic Cutting Edge? Conceptualizing Creative Work in the Cultural Industries"
Matthew Wheelock Stahl, Assistant Professor of Media and Communication, Muhlenberg Collage
http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/ ------------------------------------------------------------ http://isis.duke.edu
Sponsored by ISIS program, Professor Tim Lenoir, and the 2007-08 FHI Seminar, "Recycle", the Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen or Victoria Szabo at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu or victoria.szabo@duke.ed .
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
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
Sponsored by Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Friday, October 05th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Photographer and Installation Artist
Globalization and the Artist Lunch Series
Alfredo Jaar
Lunch provided. The Franklin Center is located at 2204 Erwin Road, at the corner of Trent Drive. Parking is available in the Medical Center garages. Parking coupons will be provided at the close of the lunch. Biographical information: Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Venice, São Paulo, Johannesburg, Sydney, Istanbul and Kwangju Biennales as well as Documenta in Kassel. Major solo exhibitions include the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Whitechapel in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and was chosen a Mac Arthur fellow in 2000. *** And, to prepare for the Friday conversation, we suggest that you attend his talk on Tuesday evening over at UNC: Alfredo Jaar Tuesday, October 2, 5:30pm Hanes Art Center Auditorium, #121 free and open to the public reception to follow We would like to thank the UNC Department of Art for making possible Jaar's trip to the Franklin Center.
Sponsored by DUCIS, Duke Dance Program, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, and the UNC Department of Art
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Wednesday, October 03rd, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
305 Languages Bldg
Lecture
Hélène Merlin-Kajman : Les femmes et le féminin dans les Maximes de La Rochefoucauld
Event in French - A historian and sociologist, Hélène Merlin-Kajman teaches French Literature at the Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. This lecture, open to the public, is part of Professor Michèle Longino's seminar on the Classical Age and the Law of Genre.
Sponsored by French and Francophone Studies and organized by the Department of Romance Studies
For more information, contact Cathy Knoop by phone at 919-660-3102 or by email at cknoop@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html#October
Wednesday, October 03rd, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
East Duke Building Parlors
Panel Discussion & Reception with Elle Flander
Contextualizing Representations of Sexual Politics in the Middle East, a panel discussion and reception with Elle Flanders, Rebecca Stein (Duke Anthropology), and Negar Mottahedeh (Duke Literature), moderated by Ara Wilson (Duke Sexuality Studies)
Tuesday October 02nd 2007 06:30PM 104 Howell Building at UNC-Chapel Hill Screening of Zero Degrees of Separation and Recept The Duke Program in the Study of Sexualities, the UNC-CH Minor in Sexuality Studies, with funding from the Robertson Scholars Program, present the first events of a Transnational Sexualities series Elle Flanders , Director of the award winning film Zero Degrees of Separation The center for Canadian Studies is pleased to co-sponsor this event. Please join us for a two part event with filmmaker and photographer Elle Flanders, director of the award winning film Zero Degrees of Separation. 1. SCREENING WHAT: Screening of Zero Degrees of Separation with a reception (Q&A with the director to follow) WHEN: October 2, 2007 TIME: 6:30 PM reception, 7:00 PM screening, and a discussion to follow WHERE: 104 Howell Building at UNC-Chapel Hill 2. PANEL WHAT: Contextualizing Representations of Sexual Politics in the Middle East, a panel discussion and reception with Elle Flanders, Rebecca Stein (Duke Anthropology), and Negar Mottahedeh (Duke Literature), moderated by Ara Wilson (Duke Sexuality Studies) WHEN: October 3, 2007 TIME: 4:30PM reception, with panel to follow WHERE: East Duke Building Parlors NOTE: Attending the film screening is encouraged but is not necessary for attending the panel. Zero Degrees of Separation breaks away from the sensationalistic media coverage of the violence in the Middle East by examining the current conflict through the eyes of two mixed Palestinian and Israeli gay couples.Courageous and outspoken, their relationships are as complex and volatile as the politically-charged world around them. Selim, a Palestinian, and Ezra, an Israeli, fight for the right to live together in Jerusalem. Already stigmatized for their socially taboo relationship, they live under constant threat of Selim's deportation, despite a family connection to the city. Edit and Samira, a lesbian couple, try to figure out how to bridge the divide between their cultures. Faced with modern injustices of work visas, checkpoints, harassment and family separation on a daily basis, they remain surprisingly hopeful and compassionate.Their stories are skillfully interwoven with archival footage that depicts an idealized Israel of the 1950's. These rare, haunting images, taken by the filmmaker's own grandparents, depict a fledgling nation brimming with pioneering joyous youth, immigrants, refugees and endless open vistas of the Holy Land. Through modern eyes, these same images now evoke larger questions of humanity, conflict and nationalist aspiration.Zero Degrees of Separation is an award winning film, achieving award recognition at the follow festivals: the USA Columbus International Film and Video Festival, the 28th French International Women's Film Festival, the India Mubai International Film Festival, the USA San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, the Spain Barcelona Mostra Internacional de Films de Donnes, and the Canada Toronto Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival. Born in Montreal in 1966, and raised in Canada and Israel, Elle Flanders is a filmmaker and photographer based in Toronto and New York City. Her recent feature-length documentary, Zero Degrees of Separation, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and has toured extensively, winning awards internationally. Bird on a Wire, a dual-screen film projection with a live music performance, also premiered at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival, with subsequent screenings in Toronto and Taipei. It will continue to tour in New York, London and Ramallah in 2007. Flanders is currently in development on a new experimental documentary, 12 months/2 square miles. Her photo installation, What Isn't There, is an ongoing project that has been in the making for the past fifteen years, and was recently exhibited in Toronto. Please contact Erin Norris at Duke at erin.norris@duke.edu or Elyse Crystall at UNC-CH at ecryst@mindspring.com for more information Please contact Erin Norris if you cannot make the UNC 10/2 film screening and would like to see the film. For more information, contact Erin Morris at erin.morris@duke.edu.
For more information, contact Erin Norris at erin.norris@duke.edu .
Wednesday, October 03rd, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
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, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke University
Sponsored by Office of the Provost & the Provost’s Common Fund
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Tuesday, October 02nd, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Nasher Art Museum, 2001 Campus Drive
Lecture
Critical Perspectives on Development, Environment & Public Health in China & India
Walden Bello
Biography Walden Bello is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines and one of the world's leading scholar-activists. His recent work has provide a critical perspective on the financial subjugation of developing countries and promoting alternative models of development that would make countries less dependent. In 1995, he was cofounder of Focus on the Global South, of which he is now executive director. Focus seeks to build grassroots capacity to tackle wider regional issues of development and capital flows. He has taken a leading role in the protests of the WTO in Seattle, Genoa, Cancun, and Hong Kong. He was denied entry to Singapore for the World Bank-IMF annual meeting, In 2003 Bello received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, for "outstanding efforts in educating civil society about the effects of corporate globalization and how alternatives to it can be implemented." Bello has been deeply involved in a range of issues in Southeast Asia. He was National Chair of the Akbayan party, one of the fastest growing parties in the Philippines. He is a member and was Chair of the board of Greenpeace South East Asia and is a board member of Food First, the International Forum on Globalization, and the Transnational Institute. Bello is the author of over 15 books. The most recent one in the US is The Anti-Development State." He has published articles in numerous scholarly journals and in the popular press..
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies & The Sawyer Seminar on Portents & Dilemmas: Health & Environment in China & India
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski by phone at 919-684-2867 or by email at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Tuesday, October 02nd, 2007 :: 06:30 PM
104 Howell Building at UNC-Chapel Hill
Screening & Reception with Elle Flanders-(2-pa
The Duke Program in the Study of Sexualities, the UNC-CH Minor in Sexuality Studies, with funding from the Robertson Scholars Program, present the first events of a Transnational Sexualities series
Elle Flanders, Director of the award winning film Zero Degrees of Separation
The center for Canadian Studies is pleased to co-sponsor this event. Please join us for a two part event with filmmaker and photographer Elle Flanders, director of the award winning film Zero Degrees of Separation. 1. SCREENING WHAT: Screening of Zero Degrees of Separation with a reception (Q&A with the director to follow) WHEN: October 2, 2007 TIME: 6:30 PM reception, 7:00 PM screening, and a discussion to follow WHERE: 104 Howell Building at UNC-Chapel Hill 2. PANEL WHAT: Contextualizing Representations of Sexual Politics in the Middle East, a panel discussion and reception with Elle Flanders, Rebecca Stein (Duke Anthropology), and Negar Mottahedeh (Duke Literature), moderated by Ara Wilson (Duke Sexuality Studies) WHEN: October 3, 2007 TIME: 4:30PM reception, with panel to follow WHERE: East Duke Building Parlors NOTE: Attending the film screening is encouraged but is not necessary for attending the panel. Zero Degrees of Separation breaks away from the sensationalistic media coverage of the violence in the Middle East by examining the current conflict through the eyes of two mixed Palestinian and Israeli gay couples.Courageous and outspoken, their relationships are as complex and volatile as the politically-charged world around them. Selim, a Palestinian, and Ezra, an Israeli, fight for the right to live together in Jerusalem. Already stigmatized for their socially taboo relationship, they live under constant threat of Selim's deportation, despite a family connection to the city. Edit and Samira, a lesbian couple, try to figure out how to bridge the divide between their cultures. Faced with modern injustices of work visas, checkpoints, harassment and family separation on a daily basis, they remain surprisingly hopeful and compassionate.Their stories are skillfully interwoven with archival footage that depicts an idealized Israel of the 1950's. These rare, haunting images, taken by the filmmaker's own grandparents, depict a fledgling nation brimming with pioneering joyous youth, immigrants, refugees and endless open vistas of the Holy Land. Through modern eyes, these same images now evoke larger questions of humanity, conflict and nationalist aspiration.Zero Degrees of Separation is an award winning film, achieving award recognition at the follow festivals: the USA Columbus International Film and Video Festival, the 28th French International Women's Film Festival, the India Mubai International Film Festival, the USA San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, the Spain Barcelona Mostra Internacional de Films de Donnes, and the Canada Toronto Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival. Born in Montreal in 1966, and raised in Canada and Israel, Elle Flanders is a filmmaker and photographer based in Toronto and New York City. Her recent feature-length documentary, Zero Degrees of Separation, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and has toured extensively, winning awards internationally. Bird on a Wire, a dual-screen film projection with a live music performance, also premiered at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival, with subsequent screenings in Toronto and Taipei. It will continue to tour in New York, London and Ramallah in 2007. Flanders is currently in development on a new experimental documentary, 12 months/2 square miles. Her photo installation, What Isn't There, is an ongoing project that has been in the making for the past fifteen years, and was recently exhibited in Toronto. Please contact Erin Norris at Duke at erin.norris@duke.edu or Elyse Crystall at UNC-CH at ecryst@mindspring.com for more information Please contact Erin Norris if you cannot make the UNC 10/2 film screening and would like to see the film.
For more information, contact Erin Morris at erin.morris@duke.edu .
Tuesday, October 02nd, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Room 200, Rubenstein Hall, Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Seminar
Affirmative Action and Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa
Keynote Speaker: Asanda Saule, Journalist with the South African Broadcasting Corporation and Media Fellow, Fall 2007
Asanda Saule started working at the South African Broadcasting Corperation (SABC) for their flagship current affairs radio station, SAfm, as a producer. She then moved to SABC television, where she works as a bulletin writer. Her background is in journalism and international relations and before SABC she completed an internship with the South African Institute for International Relations as well as with daily and weekly newspapers. A light lunch will be served. Room 200, Rubenstein Hall, Sanford Institute of Public Policy Corner of Science Drive and Towerview Drive, Duke University Campus PARKING: There is a pay parking lot on Science Drive at the bottom of Whitford Drive or in the Bryan Center
Sponsored by The Concilium on Southern Africa
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/
RSVP requested by Thursday September 27th 2007 .
Monday, October 01st, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, on the West Campus of Duke University
Film
La moustache
(E. Carrère; France; 2005) (director)
Marc (Lindon) and Agnes (Devos) are an attractive, successful Parisian couple, together for years. One evening, before joining friends for dinner, Marc decides on a whim to shave off the mustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but she seems not to notice. At dinner, their friends fail to remark upon the change. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a mustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry? Based on Emmanuel Carrère's 1996 novel. -- Synopsis from movieweb.com
Sponsored by French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video/Digital Program
For more information, contact Hank Okazaki at hokazak@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Monday, October 01st, 2007 :: 06:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center , 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Arabic & Hebrew: Semitic languages in the Modern World
Sasson Somekh, Arabic Univeristy of Tel Aviv
For more information, contact Olga Richmond at olga.richmond@duke.edu .
Friday, September 28th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Rm# 240
Performance
Globalization and the Artist Lunch Series
Keith Thompson - Choreographer and dancer, danceTACTICS performance group
Biography Keith A. Thompson, Choreographer, teacher, dancer, has worked with Dan Wagoner & Dancers, Jacob’s Pillow Men Dancers, and Creach/Koester Company, danced internationally for the Trisha Brown Company from 1992-2001, served as Trisha’s Rehearsal Assistant from 1998-2001 and continues to represent TBC in the sharing of Technique and Repertory both at the Trisha Brown Studio in New York City as well as festivals, schools, and workshops around the world. He is immersing himself in the creation of his own work with his company ‘danceTactics performance group by Keith A. Thompson. His choreography has been featured in the American Dance Festival Faculty Concert, 2005 D.U.M.B.O. Dance Festival (Brooklyn, NY), Cool NY Dance Festival (Brooklyn, NY), Dance Theater Workshop Guest Artist Series 2006 (New York, NY); and the Dance Boom Festival at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia: in early 2005 served as choreographic assistant to Dianne McIntyre on the choreodrama “Open the Door Virginia” at the Theater of the First Amendment in Virginia. Thompson completed his MFA Research Fellowship in Dance from Bennington College in 2003 and has served on faculties of Shenandoah University, George Mason University and Temple University. Currently he is full time with Dance Faculty at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. The Franklin Center is located at 2204 Erwin Road, at the corner of Trent Drive. Parking is available in the Medical Center garages. Parking coupons will be provided at the close of the lunch
Sponsored by DUCIS, Duke Dance Program, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, and the UNC Department of Art
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Thursday, September 27th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Breedlove Room, 240 Perkins Library, West Campus, Duke University
Seminar
IOs as Norms Platforms: The World Bank’s Influence on Environmental Practice at the Islamic Development Bank
Keynote Speaker: Daniel L. Nielson, Brigham Young University
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy. Please visit www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm to download background reading. Contact r.sikorski@duke.edu to subscribe to the seminar listserve.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Thursday, September 27th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Duke University, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Seminar
IOs as Norms Platforms: The World Bank's Influence on Environmental Practice at the Islamic Development Bank
Keynote Speaker: Daniel Nielson, Brigham Young University
Seminar Faculty Chairs: Judith Kelley, Duke University and Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina Please join us next Tuesday for the University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy with Daniel Nielson. Professor Nielson will lead a discussion based on his current research explaining IOs as Norms Platforms: The World Bank's Influence on Environmental Practice at the Islamic Development Bank. Daniel L. Nielson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. His research has focused on International Development, International Political Economy, Comparative Political Economy and Latin American Politics. Prior to joining the BYU faculty in 2004, Nielson was a visiting scholar and post-doctoral fellow in Duke's department of political science in 2000 and 2001. Professor Nielson was the recipient of a three-year National Science Foundation grant for "Analyzing Development Finance Using PLAID (Project-Level Aid) Data" and has published in journals including International Studies Review, Canadian Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of International Relations and Development, as well as co-authoring Delegation and Agency in International Organizations and Latin American Environmental Policy in International Perspective. If you are coming from beyond the Duke campus, and need parking -- please park in the Bryan Center parking garage IV. Another event has reserved the Bryan Center lot, please request and pick-up parking vouchers from Dan Smith (Franklin Center 104) prior to the seminar, to avoid paying an entry fee. Directions to the parking garage IV are at: http://map.duke.edu/parking.php?pid=P001. Visitors coming from UNC Chapel Hill may utilize the Robertson bus, which drops off passengers in front of Duke Chapel, about a 2 minute walk from Perkins library. Information, including schedules, can be found here: http://www.robertsonscholars.org/index.php?type=static&source=68
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies with funding or support from the US Department of Education and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
Ghost Planes: The US Policy of Extraordinary Rendition and North Carolina's Role
Stephen Grey, Author of Ghost Plane
Wednesday at the Center is free and open to the public from 12:00 - 1:15pm and lunch is provided. Parking in Medical Center lot free with voucher. Ghost Planes: the US Policy of Extraordinary Rendition and North Carolina's Role. STEPHEN GREY, Author of Ghost Plane 1:30-3:30 PM Conversation with MAHER ARAR – via live video-conference from the University of Ottawa with STEVE WATT, ACLU attorney and CHRISTINA COWGER, North Carolina Stop Torture Now 3:45-5:00 PM Readings from Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak ARIEL DORFMAN and DUKE STUDENTS Reception to follow Ghost Plane and poems from Guantánamo: the Detainees Speak will be on sale from 1-3 PM at the John Hope Franklin Center, courtesy of the Regulator Bookshop. Panels will be web streamed http://jhfc.duke.edu/today/livevideo.php and at Duke's Bryan Student center. A live audience will also take part at the University of Ottawa
Sponsored by 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
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon or Rob Sikorski at p.gulton@duke.edu or r.sikorski@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/today/livevideo.php
Monday, September 24th, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, on the West Campus of Duke University
Film
Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places)
(A. Resnais; France, Italy; 2006) (director)
Sophie is Thierry's sister and roommate; she spends most of her time trying to find a boyfriend. Thierry is a real estate agent who shows Nicole several apartments. Nicole is looking for a three-bedroom to share with her fiance, Dan, but Dan has little interest in helping her, in fact, his only concern lately is getting drunk and his only acquaintance is the bartender, Lionel. Lionel listens to other people's problems, while his own are enormous. He cares for his sick and hateful father, and when he goes to work at night, Charlotte, a caregiver he has hired, takes over. Charlotte has a few tricks up her sleeve to keep Lionel's cantankerous father in check. The six collide and influence each other's lives in significant ways as they navigate the cold winter months in Paris. -- Synopsis from Yahoo Movies UK
Sponsored by French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video/Digital Program
For more information, contact Hank Okazaki at hokazak@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Monday, September 24th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke West Campus
Book Reading
Reading from Her Novel Unconfessed
Yvette Christiansë
Yvette Christiansë Reading from Her Novel Unconfessed Finalist, 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a Distinguished First Book of Fiction Yvette Christiansë is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. Her poetry, prose, and scholarly writings have been published in South Africa, Australia, Canada, and the United States. In addition to Unconfessed (Other Press, 2006), she is the author of Castaway (Duke University Press, 1999), a book of poetry. Professor Christiansë will be the first of six FHI Distinguished Scholars in Residence in 2007-2008. In addition to this reading, she will be featured in Wednesdays at the Center on September 19, the 200 Years after the Abolition of the British Slave Trade symposium on September 21, and a seminar with the Concilium on Southern Africa on September 27. She will also conduct a pair of creative writing workshops for Duke undergraduate students. For a full schedule of Professor Christiansë's activities during her residency, or to learn more about other Scholars in Residence in 07-08, please visit: www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/residencies. Priase for Unconfessed: "A gorgeous, devastating song of freedom that will inevitably be compared to Toni Morrison’s Beloved. But it deserves to stand on its own." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Little has been written about what it was like to be a slave in South Africa under the early white settlers. This debut novel tells it through the first-person, present-tense narrative of Sila, once a slave, now a prisoner on Robben Island off Cape Town in the 1820s....the history is authentic, and Sila's brave, desperate voice reveals the vicious brutality as well as surprising discoveries of love and friendship. Readers of Toni Morrison's classic Beloved will recognize the story of a mother driven to save her children at any cost." -- Booklist, Hazel Rochman "...Christiansë is able to create an enveloping air of mystery in her slow revelations of the specific nature of Sila's crime and punishment. This mastery of suspenseful plotting shows in both the present action and the flashbacks...The pages of Unconfessed are full of powerful images of an institution capable of engendering horrendous evil; yet it is one that cannot entirely defeat hope and love." -- The New York Times Book Review, Uzodinma Iweala
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tickets: Free and open to the public
Monday, September 24th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, room 240
Special ISIS tech and New Media (MONDAY)
Special ISIS Tech and New Media Monday featuring Bill Seaman
Title: Recombinant Poetics, Pattern Flows and Neosentience Seaman will present an artist talk that will cover differing aspects of his research. He has been exporing generative emergent approaches to meaning production through Recombinant Poetic technological systems. He has articulated an embodied approach to multi-modal sensing and meaning production, and new approaches to interface design that he describes as Pattern Flows. Most recently Seaman and Rössler have been researching the creation of a model for a Neosentient computer/robotic system. Seaman is currently working on a series of poetic installations, scientific research papers and a book in collaboration with the scientist. He is also collaborating with Artist/Computer Scientist Daniel Howe on works exploring AI and creative writing/digital media, as well as on a work that explores intelligent generative/associative multi-media installation - the Bisociation Engine, and The Architecture of Association. Bill Seaman <http://digitalmedia.risd.edu/billseaman/> received a PH.D. from the Centre for Advanced Inquiry In Interactive Arts, University of Wales, 1999. He holds a MSvisS degree from MIT, 1985. His work explores an expanded media-oriented poetics through various technological means. Seaman is Department Head and Graduate Program Director of Digital+Media at Rhode Island School of Design. Seaman's works have been in many international shows where he has been awarded two prizes from Ars Electronica in Interactive Art (1992 &1995, Linz, Austria); International Video Art Prize, ZKM, Karlsruhe; Bonn Videonale prize; First Prize, Berlin Film / Video Festival for Multimedia in 1995; and the Awards in the Visual Arts Prize. Seaman was given the Leonardo Award for Excellence in 2002. Selected exhibitions include 1996, Mediascape Guggenheim, NYC - the premiere exhibition of the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany; 1997, Barbican Centre (London); 1997, C3 - Center for Culture & Communication, Budapest; 1998, Portable Sacred Grounds, NTT-ICC Tokyo; 1999, Body Mechanique, The Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, ; 2004, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University; 2005, Itau Cultural Center ; 2006, Harris Museum, UK. Seaman contributed a video set for SLEEPERS GUTS by Ballett Frankfurt. He has collaborated with Regina van Berkel on two major dance/performance/installations. Formerly TechTuesdays, the goal of the biweekly Tech & New Media Tuesdays lunch forum is to create a shared dialogue around innovative uses of technology that spans Duke's faculty, graduate student, and IT development communities. In doing so, Tech & New Media Tuesdays seeks to fuel increased collaboration and integration among Duke's technology developers by allowing members to pool resources and expertise. Each Tech & New Media Tuesday session features a 30-40 minute project presentation followed by an open discussion. Lunch is provided at each meeting. Parking vouchers are provided for the Medical Center parking decks. View the Tech & New Media Tuesdays website and schedule. <http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html> View the Information Science + Information Studies website. <http://www.isis.duke.edu/>
For more information, contact Cristin Paul at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Thursday, September 20th, 2007 - Friday, September 21st, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
Plenary Address (Thursday, 4:30 PM): Perkins Rare Book Room | Panels (Friday, 9 AM - 5 PM): Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Symposium
200 Years after the Abolition of the British Slave Trade: New Scholarly Directions
Plenary speaker: Robin Blackburn, University of Essex
Symposium panelists: Christopher Brown (History, Columbia), Vincent Brown (History, Harvard), Vincent Carretta (History, Maryland), Yvette Christianse (English & Comparative Literature, Fordham / FHI Distinguished Scholar in Residence); Laurent Dubois (Romance Studies, Duke), Saidiya Hartman (English & Comparative Literature, Columbia), and Duke faculty as chairs and respondents.
Sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/panels/index.php
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 :: 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Meeting
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Consortium UNC/Duke & the Working Group on "Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge
Professor José Saldívar, Director of the Center for Latino/as Studies
"Coloniality and Latinidad: A Conversation with José Saldívar" Professor José David Saldívar is joining Duke University as Director of the Center for Latino/a Studies. Professor Saldívar is coming from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was the Class of 1942 Professor of Ethnic Studies and English. He is a leading figure in Chicano and Latina Studies and author of classic books such as The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, Literary History (Duke 1991)and Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies ( California 1997). Professor Saldívar joined the project known as modernity/coloniality/de-coloniality ("the de-colonial project") in early 2000. He has contributed enormously through two workshops he co-organized at Berkeley (with professors Ramón Grósfogel and Nelson Maldonado-Torres) and as co-editor of two volumes with the outcome of the workshops - Latin@s in the World System. Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century US Empire, was published in 2005 (Paradigm Press) and Unsettling Post-Colonial Studies: Coloniality, Border Thinking and Transmodernity is forthcoming (Duke University Press). Professor Saldívar's presentation will be based on his forthcoming book. Reading material will be distributed in advance.
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
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
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Monday, September 17th, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, on the West Campus of Duke University
Film
Indigènes (Days of Glory)
(R. Bouchareb; France, Morocco, Algeria, Belgium; 2006) (director)
Director Rachid Bouchareb teams with screenwriter Olivier Morelle to offer a revealing look at the brave contributions made by North African soldiers who fought for France during World War II in this emotionally-charged war drama starring Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Sami Bouajila, and Bernard Blancan. The year was 1943 and France had been bending to the will of Nazi Germany for three long years. In order to break Hitler's powerful grip, the first French Army was recruited in Africa. Comprised of 130,000 North Africans who were willing to put their lives on the line in order to defeat the Nazi death machine, the fearless fighters were contemptuously dubbed indigènes (natives) by many French, despite their remarkable sacrifice. From the noble Abdelkader (Bouajila), who is fighting strictly for the cause; to the money motivated Yassir (Naceri); the impoverished Saïd (Debbouze); and die-hard romantic Messaoud (Roschdy Zem), who longs to finally visit the country he has dreamt about from afar, the selfless efforts of these remarkable men ultimately transcend their superiors' contemptuous disregard for their service by providing invaluable aid during one of the world's darkest hours. -- Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Sponsored by French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video/Digital Program
For more information, contact Hank Okazaki at hokazak@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Monday, September 17th, 2007 :: 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Science Building, Room 204 (East Campus)
Lecture
“Getting Bangalorized: Excitement and Dispossession in the Making of Asia’s Newest ‘World City
Professor Michael Goldman
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Friday, September 14th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Seminar
Sexually-Transmitted Diseases and Crises of Caregiving in Contemporary Botswana
Keynote Speaker: Fred Klaits, Duke University Writing Program
Frederick Klaits, a cultural anthropologist, is a postdoctoral fellow in the University Writing Program at Duke. His research in Botswana has centered on local efforts to sustain relationships of love and care in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His book manuscript, “Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana’s Time of AIDS”,currently under review at the University of California Press, is a social biography of a healing church in Gaborone exploring the significance of faith at a time of widespread death. Klaits has published in the Journal of Southern African Studies, Africa, and Botswana Notes and Records. ***** ***** There is no parking available behind the Franklin Center. Please use the Duke Medical Center multistory parking lots on either Trent Drive or Erwin Road. Parking coupons will be available after the talk.
Sponsored by The Concilium on Southern Africa
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/
Thursday, September 13th, 2007 - Friday, September 14th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
Screening of Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace (dir. Michael Apted, 2006)
Thu – Fri :: Sep 13 :: 7pm + 9:30pm (2 shows each night) :: Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus Screening | Amazing Grace (dir. Michael Apted, 2006) Part of the Franklin Humanities Institute's symposium on "200 Years after the Abolition of the British Slave Trade: New Scholarly Directions." Event URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/panels/index.php. Contact: fhi@duke.edu. * On Thursday and Friday, September 13 and 14, the FHI is co-sponsoring 4 FREE screenings of the 2006 Michael Apted film, Amazing Grace, about the life of the British Abolitionist William Wilberforce. These screenings are "teasers" of sorts for 200 Years after the Abolition of the British Slave Trade, a major symposium which will take place on September 20 and 21 (http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/panels/index.php).
For more information, contact Chris Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/panels/index.php
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 :: 09:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 230/232 (IMPS)
ISIS September Game Night
ISIS September Game Night
ISIS is hosting the first Game Night of the 2007-2008 school year to welcome everyone back. Come out to the Interactive Multimedia Project Space (IMPS) in the Franklin Center and enjoy Playstation 3, Wii, XBOX 360, Playstation: PS2, PC, Atari gaming along with board games. We will have pizza, soda and information about ISIS. There is no charge, so bring a friend and have a good time!
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM
Nasher Auditorium, Nasher Museum of Art
Lecture
Digital Wanderings: From Immersion to Critical Fusion
Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun (Mo Ben) is a media artist born in 1957. His work explores the potentiality of various media from video to virtual reality, web and wireless art, public space large scale art installations and interactive exhibitions. Benayoun's work has been widely exhibited all over the world and has received numerous international awards and prizes. Co-founder in 1987 of Z-A (Paris) a pioneer CG and VR lab, Maurice Benayoun, between 1990 and 1993, writes with François Schuiten and directs The Quarxs, the first HDTV CG series widely awarded and broadcast in m ore than 15 countries. In 1993, he is prize-winner of the Villa Medicis Hors Les Murs of the Foreign Ministry for his Art After Museum project, a contemporary art collection in virtual reality. For more information, visit: www.benayoun.com.
Sponsored by Interface, the 2006-07 Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar and the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/lectures/index.php#benayoun
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
The Image: Between the Instant and Time
Alain Fleischer, Director, Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France
Exploration in English of Alain Fleischer's artistic work as a filmmaker and photograper.
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Visual Studies Initiative
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-684-3060 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html#September
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, West Campus, Duke University
Seminar
Democracy-Enhancing Multilateralism
Keynote Speaker: Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy. Please visit www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm to download background reading. Contact r.sikorski@duke.edu to subscribe to the seminar listserve.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
Unrecyclables: Some Thoughts on the Medieval Reuse of Ancient Gems
Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr College
About the Speaker: Dale Kinney's research specialty is medieval art and architecture from the fourth through 12th centuries, with a focus on Rome. Some of her most recent articles can be found in Word & Image (2002), Reading Medieval Images (2002), and Making Medieval Art (2003). She has won numerous fellowships in support of her research, including fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has served as editor of the journal GESTA (1997-2000), and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the College Art Association (2002-2007).
Sponsored by Recycle, the 2007-08 Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/lectures/index.php#kinney
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 :: 11:30 AM
204-A East Duke Building
Film
Alain Fleischer: "Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains: A Utopia Made Real"
Presentation in English on the history and the artistic and pedagogic stakes of the one-of-a-kind institution of Le Fresnoy.
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies and co-sponsored by the Visual Studies Initiative.
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html#September
Monday, September 10th, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, on the West Campus of Duke University
Film
L'iceberg
(D. Abel, F. Gordon, B. Romy; Belgium; 2005) (director)
Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably with her family in the suburbs. In other words, Fiona is happy… until one day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in fridge. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was missing. But when Fiona develops an obsession for everything cold and icy: snow, polar bears, fridges, icebergs – she drops everything, climbs into a frozen goods delivery truck and leaves home. For a real iceberg. -- Synopsis from firstrunfeatures.com Iceberg image
Sponsored by French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video/Digital Program
For more information, contact Hank Okazaki at hokazak@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Thursday, September 06th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Seminar
Informal Lunch Seminar discussion with Shenya Belsy and Jennifer Holdaway
Keynote Speaker: Shenyu Belsky of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Jennifer Holdaway, the Social Science Research council
Portents and Dilemmas: Health and Environment in China and India, A Duke University Mellon-Sawyer Seminar In an era characterized by the frenetic movement of people, goods, and capital within nation-states and across national borders, questions of public health, environmental crisis, and human well-being have become more urgent than ever. This year’s Sawyer Seminar, Portents and Dilemmas: Health and Environment in China and India, will examine how two of the world’s fastest growing economies are now at the center of debates on global health and the environment. This seminar will bring together scholars and activists working in China, India, and elsewhere to discuss, debate, and map how cultural and political struggles have long been, and continue to be, linked to the question of how to study, define, and care for diverse human populations and the environments they inhabit. Our first event of the year will take place on Thursday, Sept 6 at 12 noon in Room 240, Franklin Center. Please join us for an informal lunch seminar discussion with Shenyu Belsky of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Jennifer Holdaway, the Social Science Research council who will speak on their ambitious programs built around environmental and public health in China. Portents and Dilemmas: Health and Environment in China and India, A Duke University Mellon-Sawyer Seminar In an era characterized by the frenetic movement of people, goods, and capital within nation-states and across national borders, questions of public health, environmental crisis, and human well-being have become more urgent than ever. This year’s Sawyer Seminar, Portents and Dilemmas: Health and Environment in China and India, will examine how two of the world’s fastest growing economies are now at the center of debates on global health and the environment. This seminar will bring together scholars and activists working in China, India, and elsewhere to discuss, debate, and map how cultural and political struggles have long been, and continue to be, linked to the question of how to study, define, and care for diverse human populations and the environments they inhabit. Our first event of the year will take place on Thursday, Sept 6 at 12 noon in Room 240, Franklin Center. Please join us for an informal lunch seminar discussion with Shenyu Belsky of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Jennifer Holdaway, the Social Science Research council who will speak on their ambitious programs built around environmental and public health in China.
Sponsored by Duke University Mellon-Sawyer Seminar
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Wednesday, September 05th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
How Capitalism Became Ethical, 1600-1848
Deirdre N. McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago
Deirdre N. McCloskey has been since 2000 UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was Visiting Tinbergen Professor (2002-2006) of Philosophy, Economics, and Art and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Trained at Harvard as an economist, she has written fourteen books and edited seven more, and has published some three hundred and sixty articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, ethics, and law. Her latest books are The Secret Sins of Economics (Prickly Paradigm Pamphlets, U. of Chicago Press, 2002), The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives [with Stephen Ziliak; University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2008], and The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Capitalism (U. of Chicago Press, 2006).
Sponsored by Recycle, the 2007-08 Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/lectures/index.php#mccloskey
Tuesday, September 04th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center , 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
The Dialectics of Collective Intelligence
Harry Halpin, Research postgraduate at the University of Edinburgh
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html
Monday, September 03rd, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, on the West Campus of Duke University
Film
"Paris, je t'aime"
Screen Society and the Center for French and Francophone Studies present (dirs. Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Emmanuel Benbihy, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, and Gus Van Sant, 2006, 120 min, France, French, English, Spanish, Arabic & Mandarin with English subtitles, Color, 35mm) Made by a team of contributors as cosmopolitan as the city itself, this portrait of the city is as diverse as its creators' backgrounds and nationalities. With each director telling the story of an unusual encounter in one of the city's neighborhoods, the vignettes go beyond the 'postcard' view of Paris to portray aspects of the city rarely seen on the big screen. An outstanding host of actors including Natalie Portman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Fanny Ardant, Elijah Wood, Nick Nolte, Bob Hoskins, Juliette Binoche, Emily Mortimer, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Rufus Sewell, Barbet Schroeder, Ludivine Sagnier, Gena Rowlands, Miranda Richardson and Steve Buscemi, grace these vignettes with their larger-than-life personas. Their performances add even deeper resonance to this affectionate love letter to one of the world's most transcendent cities.
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video/Digital Program
For more information, contact Hank Okazaki at hokazak@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Richard White Auditorium, East Campus
Screening
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes
(dir. Christian Delage, 2006, 90 min, France, in English, German, Russian, French with English subtitles/narrated in English by Christopher Plummer, B/W, DVD)
Screening will be followed by Q&A with the director. Director Christian Delage’s documentary, Nuremberg, reconstructs the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, using rare footage from the National Archives (including newsreels shot by John Ford). The film, narrated by Christopher Plummer, also includes contemporary interviews with survivors and former prosecutors. “[The film] is gripping from its very first moments, when we watch rare footage of Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Julius Streicher, Albert Speer, and others entering the dock and taking their seats. From there we're immersed in a quiet, procedural drama of such monumentality that it threatens to burst the confines of the room. And when the commandant of Auschwitz is asked if he killed two million Jews, and he answers, simply, Yes, it has a cumulative impact beyond description. A story we think we have seen, but haven't.” – Jacob Burns, Film Center
Sponsored by French and Francophone Studies and co-sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program, the Duke Human Rights Center and the Department of History.
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html#September
Friday, August 10th, 2007 :: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Franklin Center 240
Performance
Rezwana Choudhury Bannya, POSTPONED!!!
Bannya is the best-known Rabindra Sangeet artiste of Bangladesh, noted for her glorious voice and the extraordinary ability to create onstage an illusory world of bhava and rasa of Tagore’s songs that touch the solitude of the listener. She has been very popular since the early years of a newly-independent Bangladesh. Over the years she has reached the highest level of popularity and is treated with great awe and admiration by music-lovers in Bangladesh, India and wherever there are Bangalees in the world.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for South Asia Studies
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag at sandria.freitag@duke.edu .
Friday, July 27th, 2007 :: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
lecture and Short Documentary Film by Shahriar Kab
The State of Human Rights in the Changing Political Horizon in Bangladesh and Documentary Film S.O.S
Everyone Is Welcome Lights Refreshment will be Provided Sponsored by: North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies (http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/csas/index.php) and Duke Islamic Studies Center (http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/) For More Information Contact: 451-3153; 427-9972; 668-2143 Biography of Shahriar Kabir: Shahriar Kabir (1950) is a Bangladeshi journalist, filmmaker, human rights activist, and author of more than 70 books, which include both fiction and non-fiction, focusing mainly on human rights, communalism, fundamentalism, history and the Bangladesh war of liberation. He joined the liberation war of Bangladesh while studying Bengali language and literature at University of Dhaka. After the war he joined Weekly Bichitra in 1972, then the largest circulated news weekly of Bangladesh, owned by the government. In 1992, Kabir played the major role in formation of ‘Ekattorer Gahatak Dalal Nirmul Committee’ (HCommittee to Resist Killers & Collaborators of the liberation War of ’71) in January 1992, headed by Jahanara Imam, in order to try the war criminals of Bangladesh Liberation war. The BNP government took the matter very seriously, charging 24 top leaders of Nirmul Committee for sedition, followed by Shahriar Kabir’s dismissal from Weekly Bichitra, where he was serving as the executive editor. Afterward, Kabir became a freelance journalist, full time author, human rights defender and independent filmmaker. As a HRD Shahriar Kabir’s major contributions include launching a library movement to educate the younger generation on the history and spirit of the liberation war, i.e. secular democracy and human rights. At present there are 85 libraries, established mostly in remote areas of Bangladesh. He took lead to form “South Asian People’s Union against Fundamentalism & Communalism” (SAPUAFAC) along with Prof. Kabir Chowdhury and Justice KM Sobhan of Bangladesh, IK Gujral (former prime minister), PA sangma (former speaker of Indian Parliament), Prof. Amlan Dutta of India, Air Marshal (retd.) Ashghar Khan, Prof. Hamza Alavi, poet Ahmed Salim of Pakistan and Daman Dhungana, former speaker of Nepal’s parliament. At present Shahriar Kabir is the general secretary of SAPUAFAC. He is also the acting president of "Forum for Secular Bangladesh". Shahriar Kabir has been imprisoned twice in 2001 and 2002, charged for sedition, during the tenure of four party alliance govt. led by BNP & Jamate Islami, for protesting against government-sponsored minority persecution and was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International while several international journalist forums and human rights defenders campaigned for his release. He has survived three attempts on his life by the followers of Jamate Islami since 2000, while Jamat Leaders declared him "Murtad" (a person eligible to be killed). Kabir is the recipent of numerous awards for his contribution to Bengali literature, which include Bangla Academy Award, Shishu Academy Award and Lypzig International Bookfair Award. He has addressed at least sixty international conferences, seminars and workshops on issues of peace, communal harmony and human rights. He is also an archivist of international repute, currently working as “South Asian Representative of International Institute of Social History” of the Netherlands, considered to be the largest social history archive of the world.
Sponsored by NC Center for South Asia Studies and Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact 451-3153; 427-9972; 668-2143 .
Wednesday, May 02nd, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 03:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, room 240 - Free and Open to the Public
A Public Forum
Seeing, Feeling, Believing - Theories of Perception in Neuroscience and the Clinic
David Schwartz, Barry F. Saunders, Joseph Dumit and Mark Olson
PROGRAM 12:00 PM Lunch 12:30 DAVID SCHWARTZ Research Analyst, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine Aesthetics from the Perspective of Empirical Science: Determinants of Preference in the Domains of Music, Landscape, and Narrative Structure 1:35 BARRY F. SAUNDERS Assistant Professor of Social Medicine + Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Religious Studies + Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine & Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Diagnostic Intrigue and the Tomographic Gaze 2:40 JOSEPH DUMIT Director of the Program in Science & Technology Studies + Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis Circuits in the Brain and How They Got There (and maybe where the ghosts and demons and subjects went) 3:30 Respondent: MARK OLSON Director of New Media and Information Technology, John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Duke University + Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Communications, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Disucssion with Audience to Follow For more information about the Sawyer Seminar, please visit: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/sawyer/index.php
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute’s 2006-07 A.W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Human Being, Human Diversity, and Human Welfare: A Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Study in Culture, Science, and Medicine
For more information, contact Christina Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
RSVP requested by Monday April 30th 2007 .
Saturday, April 28th, 2007 :: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Duke University, Trent Hall, room 223B
Workshop Series
An Informal Converstaion with Panelists, Commentators, Audience & Organizers
Shifting the Geo-graphy & Bio-graphy of Knowledge workshop on Diasporas, Trans-cultural Dialogues, Genealogies of Thoughts
Sponsored by The Center for Global Studies & the Humanites in association with Asian & African Languages & Literatures
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
Friday, April 27th, 2007 :: 03:30 PM - 05:15 PM
Duke University, Trent Hall, Room 223B
Workshop Series
Commentaries by Eunice Sahle (Odum Institute for Research in the Social Sciences) and Elena Yehia (graduate student, Cultural Anthropology) along with general discussion.
Shifting the Geo-graphy & Bio-graphy of Knowledge workshop on Diasporas, Trans-cultural Dialogues, Genealogies of Thoughts.
Sponsored by The Center for Global Studies & the Humanites in association with Asian & African Languages & Literatures
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
Friday, April 27th, 2007 :: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Duke Univeristy, Trent Hall, Room 223B
Workshop Series
"Dialogical Encounters in Social Imaginaries: Ghazali and Malik Bennabi"
Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University
Shifting the Geo-graphy & Bio-graphy of Knowledge workshop on Diasporas, Trans-cultural Dialogues, Genealogies of Thoughts
Sponsored by The Center for Global Studies & the Humanities in association with Asian & Africian Languages & Literatures
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_american_academy_of_religion/v074/74.1moosa01.html
Friday, April 27th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, room 240
AWARDS CEREMONY
Awards ceremony for the winners of the Write Us a Poem Contest VIII
On behalf of the Health Arts Network at Duke and the Osler Literary Roundtable, you are cordially invited to attend an awards ceremony for the winners of the Write Us a Poem Contest VIII beginning at noon on Friday, April 27th in room 240 of the John Hope Franklin Center. The winners will be on hand to read their poems with a reception to follow. Here is what our contest judge, Kathryn Stipling Byer, Poet Laureate of North Carolina had to say about the entries to the contest:: I've judged many poetry contests over the years but never have I felt so completely pulled into the emotional landscape of the work as I have while reading these poems. Perhaps my own very recent experience during my father's last days in the hospital, and two blessed days at home where he wished to be when he left us, has made me more urgently prepared to hear voices that speak to these issues of life and death--and love, always love, no matter the pain and grief. And yet at times I had to put the poems aside. Their unflinching attention to these matters became too much for me, one who has not yet been able to write about her own similar experiences. Maybe it seems right that a nurse's poem helped me realize what these poems do, and what all poetry ultimately does. Just as the healer feeds the fire of the patient's soul, so does poetry feed that same fire, fanning it into a blaze that shines the imagination's gift into the midst of bedpans, biopsies, and pain. "What will you make of this?" life asks of us when we encounter experience that threatens to overwhelm us. These poets have made something strong and memorable and lasting from their experiences, whether in a hospital bed or standing beside it, and I am honored to have been given the gift of living with their words while "judging" this contest.
For more information, contact Grey Brown by phone at 919-684-6223 .
Friday, April 27th, 2007 :: 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Duke Univeristy, Trent Hall, Room 223B
Workshop Series
"Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of Cultural Production"
Shu-mei Shih, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles
Bio-graphy of Knowledge Workshops on Diasporas, Trans-cultural Dialogues, Genealogies of Thoughts
Sponsored by The Center for Global Studies & the Humanities in association with Asian & African Languages & Literatures
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/differences/v013/13.2shih.html
Friday, April 27th, 2007 :: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Duke Univeristy, Trant Hall, room 223-B
Workshop Series
Shifting the Geo-graphy & "The Forgetfulness of Historiography & the Europeanization of Europe: Michele Amari's Muslims of Sicily"
Roberto Dainotto, Duke University
Bio-graphy of Knowledge Workshops on Diasporas, Trans-cultural Dialogues, Genealogies of Thoughts
Sponsored by The Center for Global Studies & The Humanites in association with Asian & African Languages & Literatures
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nepantla/v001/1.2dainotto.html
Friday, April 27th, 2007 - Saturday, April 28th, 2007 :: 12:00 AM
On 4-27-07-UNC Chapel Hill and on 4-58-07-John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Rm# 240
Workshop
Marketing Muslim Women: A Duke-UNC Workshop
Marketing Muslim Women: A Duke-UNC Workshop April 27-28, 2007 April 27, 2007 – 2:30pm to 5:30pm – UNC-Chapel Hill April 28, 2007 – 9:00am to 5:30pm - 240 Franklin Center
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Mashal Saif at mashal.saif@duke.ed .
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Griffith Film Theater
Film
Godzilla
Ishiro Honda (director)
In Japanese with subtitles. Runtime: 98 minutes.
Original Japanese version. They Came From Beyond: International Science Fiction Films
Sponsored by Center for International Studies, Film/Video/Digital Program & Asian Pacific Studies Institute
For more information, contact Hank Okazaki at hokazak@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/film/screensociety/SciFi2007.html
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Info Session
Fulbright Info Session
Dr. Darla K. Deardorff, Fulbright Advisor, Duke University
For more information, contact Darla Deardorff by phone at 919-668-1928 or by email at d.deardorff@duke.edu .
Monday, April 23rd, 2007 :: 07:30 PM
John Hope Frankin Center, room 240
Film
Assata: A Reflection on Freedom
Amanda Pickens (director)
You’re invited to the premiere of Assata: A Reflection on Freedom (approx. 30 minutes) Thesis project of International Comparative Studies senior Amanda Pickens Reception follows (In Amanda’s words: “The film explores the story of Assata Shakur, an ex-Black Panther wrongly accused of murdering a New Jersey State trooper. Shakur is tried, convicted, and escapes prison after receiving political asylum from Fidel Castro. The documentary deals with her story and how it relates to what revolutionary, terrorist, and freedom really means to us.")
Sponsored by International Comparative Studies
For more information, contact Marcy Little at marcy.little@duke.edu .
Thursday, April 19th, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (2001 Campus Drive)
Lecture
The Social Life of Learning in the Net Age
John Seely Brown
John Seely Brown, visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, presents keynote address for the first conference of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC). Lecture will be followed by reception with cash bar and performance by Steve Burnett (Theremin and Chapman stick).
Sponsored by Duke University, the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Renaissance Computing Institute in Chapel Hill. Additional support provided by the Mellon Foundation via their grant to the Franklin Humanities Institute*s 2006-7 Sawyer Seminar
For more information, contact jonathan.tarr@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.hastac.org
Thursday, April 19th, 2007 - Saturday, April 21st, 2007 :: 08:00 AM
Duke University and the Marriott Civic Center -Please see start times @ www.hastac.org.
Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface
"Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface"
HASTAC ("haystack": Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its first international conference, "Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface" Space is limited so register now at: events.duke.edu/hastac Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface is an unprecedented three-day mashup of ideas, demos, art, and conversation, driven by digital visionaries and practitioners from across domains and disciplines. This conference is co-sponsored by Duke University, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. A detailed conference program is posted online at www.hastac.org. (Hotel information is available on the registration site. Reserve now because hotels fill up quickly here this time of year.) Keynote addresses: REBECCA ALLEN, Professor of New Media at UCLA, Intimate Interface: The Interface Between Art and Technology JAMES BOYLE, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School, Creative Commons, Science Commons, and Open Source JOHN SEELY BROWN, former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), The Social Life of Learning in the Net Age CATHY N. DAVIDSON AND DAVID THEO GOLDBERG, MacArthur Foundation Project on Digital Media and Learning, The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age JOHN UNSWORTH, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, The Foundations and Futures of Digital Humanities Program includes demos, exhibits, and performances--on theremins, with videoscapes and soundscapes, in Virtual Reality, and in Second Life. Plus refereed papers and panels covering topics such as race in cyberspace, theorizing interface, genealogies of old and new media, funding the digital future, games and narratives, and the future of the Internet and Web 3.0. The full version of the conference program is located at http://www.hastac.org/informationyear/conference Space is extremely limited so register today at http://events.duke.edu/hastac [Local Audiences Please Note: There will be five special events that do not require registration. These are free and open to the public on a space available basis.]
For more information, contact Jonathan Tarr at jonathan.tarr@duke.edu .
URL: http://events.duke.edu/hastac
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 :: 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
028 John Hope Franklin Center
Working Group Meeting
Human Rights Working Group/Grad Seminar
HR Working Group
For more information, contact Nancy Hare Robbins .
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 :: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Nasher Museum of Art
Lecture
SOFTWARE TAKES COMMAND, or life after After Effects
Lev Manovich <www.manovich.net> is the author of the DVD "Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database" (The MIT Press, 2005), and "The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001)" which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." Manovich is in demand to lecture on new media around the world. Between 1999 and 2007 he presented over 230 lectures, seminars and master classes in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. He is a Professor in Visual Arts Department, University of California - San Diego where he also directs a Lab for Cultural Analysis. Manovich was born in Moscow where he studied fine arts, architecture and computer science. He moved to New York in 1981, receiving an M.A. in Cognitive Science (NYU, 1988) and a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from University of Rochester (1993). Manovich has been working with computer media as an artist, computer animator, designer, and programmer since since 1984. His art projects have been presented by, among others, Chelsea Art Museum (New York), ZKM, the Walker Art Center, KIASMA, Centre Pompidou, and the ICA (London).
Sponsored by The Department of Arts, Art history and Visual Studies jointly with ISIS and The Nasher Museum of Art
For more information, contact Robin Crow at robin.crow@duke.edu .
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Duke University
Seminar
Modern Macroeconomics and Political Science
Keynote Speaker: David W. Soskice, Duke University
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Monday, April 16th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Lecture
The Politics of Entanglement
Sarah Nuttall, Research Staff at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research)
Dr. Sarah Nuttall is on the Research Staff at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research). She is a South African Rhodes Scholar, obtained her D.Phil at Oxford in 1994 and lectured in English at the University of Stellenbosch from 1997 to 2001. She was a Visiting Professor at the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria, from March to June 2000, a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, from January to March 2001, and a Visiting Professor in English and African American Studies at Yale University from September to December 2003. She is co-editor of: Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia (Rautledge, 1996); Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa (OUP, 1998); and Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies (OUP, 2000), editor of Beauty and Ugliness: African and Diaspora Aesthetics (2004) and author of a forthcoming volume of essays on South African Literatures. Parking available in the Pickens lot on Trent Drive
Sponsored by The Concilium on Southern Africa at Duke University and the Department of English
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
Sunday, April 15th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM
Carolina Theater
Screening
Greensboro: Closer to the Truth
This year is the 10th anniversary of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Adam Zucker's film "Greensboro: Closer to the Truth" will highlight this year's Southern Sidebar series, which presents films about life in the South. The film examines the fallout from the fatal shootings during the 1979 Greensboro clash between protesters who gathered for a "Death to the Klan" rally and a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis. The program is on Sunday, April 15th at 4:00 at the Carolina Theater followed by a panel discussion that will include Adam Zucker, the filmmaker, Marco Williams (Banished) and Goddfrey Cheser along with some other filmmakers that will offer their insight into making these films and truth and reconciliation. Hodding Carter is likely to moderate the panel. Unconfirmed but likely will be Jim Hunt, Jim Goodmon and others that will participate. The film is free and open to the community
Sponsored by VP Interdisciplinary, AAAS, European Studies, French and Francophone, Canadian Studies, ICUS, FHI, and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon or Tammy Brown at p.gulton@duke.edu or tammy.brown@fullframefest.org .
Friday, April 13th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Durham Arts Council
Documentrary Gaming
Full Frame Festival: Documentrary Gaming
This panel examines the exciting (and sometimes disturbing) world of interactive nonfiction gaming. We bring experts to look at the interesting repercussions of experiencing the real world this way. Moderated by Tim Lenoir (Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society at Duke University). Panelists include Anne Garreta (Visiting Professor in Literature at Duke University), Jigar Mehta (Playing the News), Marcin Ramocki (8 Bit), Justin Strawhand (8 Bit), among others. Following the screening of Playing the News Tickets go on sale through at <https://sbs.fullframefest.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.fullfram efest.org> www.fullframefest.org on April 2. Advance tickets are $15 each. Day of show tickets are $10 each and are available as soon as the Box Office opens on the day of the screening. Students with a valid ID can purchase Day of Show tickets for $8. The Festival has reserved a limited number of Day of Show tickets for every screening at Full Frame.
For more information, contact Todd Shoemaker at todd.shoemaker@fullframefest.org .
Tickets: see description
Friday, April 13th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Richard White Auditorium- please see description for schedule
GTRC Report Play and Release Party
What to Do With a Brick
For directions to Richard White Auditorium on East Campus. see: http://www.duke.edu/web/film/directions/Direast.html For parking see: http://www.maps.duke.edu/parking.php?pid=P030&bid=7214 <http://www.maps.duke.edu/parking.php?pid=P030&bid=7214> Parking in East Lot is free after 5 pm. *For more about the GTRC Working Group, see the story in Duke Today: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/02/greensboro.html
Sponsored by GTRC Working Group, Critical US Studies Institute, the Concilium on Southern Africa (COSA), the Duke Human Rights Initiative, the Duke University Center for International Studies, and the Living Policy Forum
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
Friday, April 13th, 2007 - Saturday, April 14th, 2007 :: 09:30 AM
240 John Hope Franklin Center
Symposium
Race * Space * Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedom in the Atlantic World and Beyond
Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago & David Scott, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
For conference description, speaker listing, and program schedule, please visit: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/racespaceplace/
Sponsored by African and African American Studies, Critical US Studies, Duke University Center for International Studies, Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Women*s Studies
For more information, contact racespaceplace@earthlink.net .
Friday, April 13th, 2007 - Saturday, April 14th, 2007 :: 09:00 AM
John Hope Franklin Center , 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Symposium
RACE, SPACE, PLACE: THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF FREEDOMS IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD AND BEYOND
PLEASE SEE WEBSITE FOR SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION We are pleased to announce that registration for Race, Space Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World and Beyond. These Sessions are open to the public and people interesting in attending should register, so that we can have an idea of the numbers to facilitate catering and other symposium business. Folks should click on registration, and fill in the form as required and submit. Should they have any questions, please contact us via the email address on the site.http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/racespaceplace/index.php
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Africian & African American Studies, Critical U.S. Studies, Department of English, Duke in Madrid, DISC, Office of the Vice-Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Women's St
For more information, contact http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/racespaceplace/index.php .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/racespaceplace/index.php
Thursday, April 12th, 2007 :: 05:00 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, West Campus, Duke University
Lecture
Quae vide—See these things: The Photography of Muriel Hasbun
Latino/a Studies at Duke presents Quae vide—See these things: The Photography of Muriel Hasbun Bio: Salvadoran-American photographer, Muriel Hasbun explores the intricacies and emotional reverberations of identity through art, and uses photography and personal histories as the vehicles for exchange. Through an intergenerational, transnational and transcultural lens, she crafts a language that expresses a shared humanity, while erasing the borders that maintain our “Otherness.” Hasbun’s work has been exhibited at FotoFest (2006), the Corcoran Museum of Art (2004); the 50th Venice Biennale (2003); the Centro de la Imagen (1999); and the 29ème Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie (1998). Her photographs are in numerous public and private collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Muriel Hasbun is a 2006-07 Fulbright Scholar. She is Associate Professor of Photography and the Coordinator of Fine Art Photography at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC. See work, bio, and more at: www.murielhasbun.com
Sponsored by Department of Romance Studies; Institute for Critical US Studies; Mi Gente: Latino Student Association; the Visiting Artist Series of the Dept of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies; and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
For more information, contact Jenny Snead Williams by phone at 919-684-4375 or by email at jennysw@duke.edu .
Thursday, April 12th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Seminar
Challenges and Opportunities in Global Health: A View from the Fogarty International Center
Keynote Speaker: Roger Glass, MD, PhD, Fogarty International Center and National Institutes for Health
University Seminar on Global Health
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Thursday, April 12th, 2007 - Sunday, April 15th, 2007 :: 12:15 PM
Check the Web for Schedules, Ticketing, and Other Information
Film Festival
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
http://www.fullframefest.org/
For more information, contact Lynn McKnight by phone at 919-660-3663 .
URL: http://www.fullframefest.org/
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Rd
Lecture
Global Warming: Some Science and Solutions
Robert B. Jackson, Center on Global Change, Duke University
Wednesdays at the Center Professor Jackson will examine some of the scientific evidence for global warming. He will then discuss some of the environmental consequences and possible solutions, including various ongoing efforts at Duke that contribute to those efforts.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 :: 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Room 201 Sanford Institute
Lecture
Lunch talk: South Africa in Africa: trends and prospects in a changing African political economy
John Daniel
John Daniel served with the Human Sciences and Research Council of South Africa, as research director in the Democracy and Governance programme and the head of the Publications Department. He has a BA degree from the University of Natal and a MA and PhD in political science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. Before undertaking graduate studies, John worked (1966-68) for the national student trade union as President of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). John has taught at universities in the USA, Swaziland, Netherlands and South Africa, most recently at the University of Durban-Westville where he held the chair in political science. He also spent six years in the 1980s as the Africa editor of Zed Books in London. From 1996-98, John was seconded to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a member of the research staff..
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Building, UNC Chapel Hill
Lecture
The Practice of Representation: Portraiture in Photography
Fazal Sheikh
Sponsored by Art Department, UNC Chapel Hill; Center for Documentary Studies, Duke Univ.; John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies, Duke Univ.
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski .
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM
Upper East Side, East Union Building, East Campus
Lecture
"Last Words" by Diana Fuss
Why is poetry so fascinated by the drama of the deathbed and the power of last words? Hundreds of British and American lyrics take as their central subject the dying words of the unhappily condemned, mortally ill, or piously prepared. This talk aims to map the richness of an unsung elegiac tradition of last word poems, in which poets imagine the dying hour to address a specifically literary problem: the challenge of dying a linguistically meaningful death. Professor Diana Fuss has taught at Princeton since 1988. She is the author of Essentially Speaking (1989), Identification Papers (1995), and The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms that Shaped Them (2004). In 2005, The Sense of an Interior won the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize for outstanding scholarly book of the year. Professor Fuss is also the editor of several volumes: Human, All Too Human (Selected Essays of the English Institute), Pink Freud, and Inside/Out, which won both the ALA and VLS best book awards. She has also published on a variety of topics, from fashion photography to literary corpses. A past recipient of NEH and ACLS Fellowship Awards, Professor Fuss currently holds a Guggenheim Fellowship. While on sabbatical in 2006-2007, she is writing a collection of essays on poetry and mourning. In 2001, Professor Fuss won the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. She also is a Senior Fellow at the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell.
Sponsored by The Program in Literature and co-sponsored by The Department of English, Women’s Studies
For more information, contact Maria Maschauer by phone at 919-684-5255 or by email at mamascha@duke.edu .
URL: http://literature.aas.duke.edu/news/
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, room 240
Lecture
Lunchtime Discussion with Leandro Katz at The John Hope Franklin Center
Leandro Katz will discuss a work-in-progress entitled VORTEX. Based on La Vorágine by José Eustasio Rivera, a seminal novel of Latin American modernism set in part in the tropical jungles of Colombia, VORTEX addresses both the lyrical imaginary of Rivera's text and its revelations of the atrocities committed against the indigenous communities of the Putumayo River.
Sponsored by The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
For more information, contact William Noland at william.noland@duke.edu .
RSVP requested by Tuesday April 10th 2007 .
Monday, April 09th, 2007 :: 07:30 PM
The Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium
Film
Leandro Katz will screen El Dia Que Me Quieras (The Day You'll Love me)
Presentation by artist/filmmaker ,Leandro Katz (director)
Katz will screen El Día Que Me Quieras (The Day You'll Love Me), a non-narrative film investigating death and the power of photography. The film meditates on the last photos taken of Ernesto Che Guevara as he lay dead on a table surrounded by his captors. Katz will also discuss Project for the Day You'll Love Me, his related series of installations about Che's final, tragic campaign in Bolivia in 1967. "Visually exquisite and deeply moving...Leandro Katz's film is at once an elegy to the passing of the age of revolution in Latin America and an investigation into the history and mythos surrounding the infamous photograph of the beatific corpse of its central icon: Ché Guevara." Jeffrey Skoller, AFTERIMAGE, Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism RELATED EVENT: TUESDAY, APRIL 10th, 12:00 - 1:30 Lunchtime Discussion with Leandro Katz at The John Hope Franklin Center Leandro Katz will discuss a work-in-progress entitled VORTEX. Based on La Vorágine by José Eustasio Rivera, a seminal novel of Latin American modernism set in part in the tropical jungles of Colombia, VORTEX addresses both the lyrical imaginary of Rivera's text and its revelations of the atrocities committed against the indigenous communities of the Putumayo River. co-sponsored by The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies (for lunch, rsvp to william.noland@duke.edu)
Sponsored by Sponsored by the the Visiting Artist Fund of the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studiesand co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Nasher Museum of Art
For more information, contact http://users.rcn.com/leandrok/ .
URL: http://users.rcn.com/leandrok/
Monday, April 09th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM
Room 3041 Duke Law School, Science Drive, Duke University
Lecture
Challenges for the Americas and the Role of the OAS
Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States
Katherine and S. Davis Phillips International Lecture. Commemorates the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Duke Center for International Studies. Parking Available in the visitor lot on Science Dr. near Whitford Dr.
Sponsored by Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs
For more information, contact Katie Joyce by phone at 919-681-1698 or by email at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
Monday, April 09th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
240 John Hope Franklin Center
Workshop
From Dissertation to Your First Book
Ken Wissoker, Editorial Director, Duke University Press; Courtney Berger, Assistant Director, Duke University Press
This event is part of the Scholarly Publishing Series co-organized by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke University Press. Supported by a generous multi-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke University Press
For more information, contact christina.chia@duke.edu .
Monday, April 09th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, room 240
Lecture
Gorter Distinguished Scholar Lecture: From Fundamentalism to Post-Fundamentalism
Hassan Hanafi, Cairo University
James P. Gorter Distinguished Lecture Series Parking for this event will be available in the Pickens lot
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Kelli Anderson by phone at 919-668-1653 or by email at kelli.anderson@duke.edu .
Friday, April 06th, 2007 - Saturday, April 07th, 2007 :: 10:00 AM
Global Education Center at UNC-Chapel Hill
Conference
Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference
Islam and the Challenge of Pluralism: Muslim Encounters with the Other All day event: The First event on Friday is a movie that starts at 10:00am and the last event on Saturday is the closing address and that ends at 4:30.
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Mashal Saif at mashal.saif@duke.edu .
Thursday, April 05th, 2007 :: 05:00 PM
Mary Lou Williams Center (201 West Union Bldg)
Seminar
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop
Keynote Speaker: Jeff Chang; Joan Morgan; Danny Hoch; Mark Anthony Neal
This event is part of the Total Chaos Hip-Hop Forum Series, an unprecedented set of panel talks on hip-hop arts across the country. The Series accompanies the release of Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop, a companion anthology to Jeff Chang's Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation.
Sponsored by Institute for Critical U.S. Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Caroline Light by phone at 919-668-1945 or by email at clight@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/icuss/
Thursday, April 05th, 2007 :: 10:00 AM - 06:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
Re-Imagining Muslim Ethics Symposium
various
Join the Islamic Studies Center in a series of lectures about the role of ethics in Islam as they host distinguished scholars from around the world.
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Dr. Kelly Jarrett at kjj1@duke.edu .
Thursday, April 05th, 2007 - Friday, April 06th, 2007 :: 09:00 AM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Symposium- DISC Muslim Futures Spring 2007 Program
Muslim Ethics Symposium: Re-Imagining Muslim Ethics
Muslim Ethics Symposium: Re-Imagining Muslim Ethics April 4-6, 2007 Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 4:00-5:30pm, 240 Franklin Center Symposium: Thursday, April 5, 2007- 10:00am – 5:00pm and Friday, April 6, 2007- 9:00am – 12:30pm Featured Speakers: Kevin Reinhart, Dartmouth College; Mawlana Waris Mazhari, editor, Tarjuman-Darul Uloom, Delhi Hassan Hanafi, Cairo University, Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Mashal Saif at mashal.saif@duke.ed .
Wednesday, April 04th, 2007 :: 07:30 PM
136 Social Science Building, Duke University West Campus
Performance
RASH: a special performance about Rwanda
Jenni Wolson, Witness
A one-woman solo play from New York about Rwanda after genocide. RASH is the story of a Scottish woman's trip to Rwanda as a UN human rights observer, written and performed by Jenni Wolfson and directed by Jen Naila.
Sponsored by Duke Human Rights Consortium, Cultural Anthropology, the International Law Society and the Center for Race Relatiosn
For more information, contact Duke Human Rights Initative at rights@duke.edu .
Wednesday, April 04th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
McClendon 5th Floor
Lecture
Women in Islam
Panelists
Do you think women are second-class citizens in Islam? Ask our all-women panelists questions as they discuss their personal experiences being a woman in Islam.
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Dr. Kelly Jarrett at kjj1@duke.edu .
Wednesday, April 04th, 2007 :: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Lilly Library, Thomas Room
Film
Partial Stories of "Displacement"
Azadeh Saljooghi (director)
This film locates women's lives in historical-political contexts, captures displacement beyond geographical dislocations, and invites audiences to view displacement as an empowering rather than a crippling modern phenomenon. The understanding that emerges from displacement comes from six women, including the four who directly share their stories with us and self-identify as Palestinian-American, African-America, Afghani-American, and Native-American, plus the two others as Romanian and Turkish. These powerful narratives are interwoven with poems by Wislawa Szymborska, Derek Walcott, and prose written by the filmmaker.
Sponsored by Program in Literature, Focus Muslim Cultures, Baldwin Scholars, Film Video and Digital, Lilly Library
For more information, contact Negar Mottahedeh .
Wednesday, April 04th, 2007 :: 06:00 PM
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room - Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture & History
Lecture
Samuel Huntington’s Language Problem: The Case for the Polyglot
Professor Renato Rosaldo, Director of Latino Studies at New York University
Book-signing after the talk Renato Rosaldo teaches anthropology at NYU where he has served as the > inaugural director of Latino Studies. He also taught for many years at > Stanford University. He is the author of Culture and Truth (1989) and > Ilongot Headhunting, 1883 - 1974 (1980), and a collection of poems > Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña (2003) that won an > American > Book Award, 2004. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of the > American Academy of Arts and Sciences. >
Sponsored by UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series
For more information, contact mdeguzman@earthlink.net at mdeguzman@earthlink.net .
Wednesday, April 04th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, room 240
Opening Reception for DISC Muslim Futures Spring
Muslim Ethics Symposium: Re-Imagining Muslim Ethics
Muslim Ethics Symposium: Re-Imagining Muslim Ethics April 4-6, 2007 Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 4:00-5:30pm, 240 Franklin Center Symposium: Thursday, April 5, 2007- 10:00am – 5:00pm and Friday, April 6, 2007- 9:00am – 12:30pm Featured Speakers: Kevin Reinhart, Dartmouth College; Mawlana Waris Mazhari, editor, Tarjuman-Darul Uloom, Delhi Hassan Hanafi, Cairo University, Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Mashal Saif at mashal.saif@duke.ed .
Wednesday, April 04th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at the Center
Street Level and Jet Stream: The Local, the Global, and the Contemporary Curator
Trevor Schoonmaker, Curator of Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum, Duke University
Sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute & the John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Wednesday, April 04th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Lecture
Street Level and Jet Stream: The Local, the Global, and the Contemporary Curator
Trevor Schoonmaker, Nasher Museum of Art
Wednesdays at the Center
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, April 03rd, 2007 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Duke University
Seminar
The Effects of Participation in International Human Rights Discourse on State Behavior
Keynote Speaker: Ann Marie Clark, Purdue University
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Monday, April 02nd, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 West Pettigrew St, Durham, NC
Lecture
The Practice of Representation: Portraiture in Photography
Emmett Gowin
Sponsored by Art Department, UNC Chapel Hill; Center for Documentary Studies, Duke Univ.; John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies, Duke Univ.
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski .
Monday, April 02nd, 2007 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
From Fundamentalism to Post-Fundamentalism
Hassan Hanafi, Cairo University
James P. Gorter Distinguished Lecture Series
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Kelli Anderson by phone at 919-668-1653 or by email at kelli.anderson@duke.edu .
Monday, April 02nd, 2007 :: 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Lecture
Memory's Enactments: Texts, Monuments, and Performance
Paulla Ebron, Stanford University
Politics of Memory Speaker Series
Sponsored by Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Friday, March 30th, 2007 - Friday, April 06th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Please see description for correct start times, dates and location of each event
Lecture
ISLAMIC AWARENESS WEEK '07: Walk with me... Taking Steps towards Understanding Islam Monday (April 2nd) - Misconceptions of Jihad What? Watch and discuss the provocative film Paradise Now (Golden Globe winner for best foreign language film) as it follows the last days of Palestinian childhood friends Said and Khaled who are recruited for suicide attacks. When? 7: 00 pm Where? Mary Lou Center Tuesday (April 3rd) - Jesus in Islam. We Love Jesus Too! What: Listen to an engaging lecture by interfaith activist D.I. von Briesen When: 7:00 pm Where: Von Canon A Wednesday (April 4th) - Women in Islam What: Do you think women are second-class citizens in Islam? Ask our all-woman panelists questions as they discuss their personal experiences being a woman in Islam. When: 7:00 pm Where: McClendon 5th Floor Thursday (April 5th) - Re-Imagining Muslim Ethics Symposium What? Join the Islamic Studies Center in a series of lectures about the role of ethics in Islam as they host distinguished scholars from around the world. When: 10:00 - 6:30 pm Where: John Hope Franklin Center
Sponsored by The Muslim Student Association at Duke
For more information, contact Kelly Jarrett by phone at 919-668-2143 .
Thursday, March 29th, 2007 :: 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Room 201 Sanford Institute
Lecture
Lunch talk: 'n Boer Maak Altyd ‘n Plan: Agribusiness and the ANC after Apartheid
Lauren Jarvis
Lauren Jarvis is a Hart Fellow alumna who spent a year in Stellenbosch, South Africa working with Women in Farms, a local organization that works to empower women farm workers to improve their living and working conditions and achieve gender equality in the workplace, the home, the farming community and in broader society. Co-sponsored by the Hart Leadership Program
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 :: 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
028 John Hope Franklin Center
Working Group Meeting
Human Rights Working Group/Grad Seminar
HR Working Group
For more information, contact Nancy Hare Robbins .
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
240 John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at the Center
How the Rich Wreck the Planet
Hervé Kempf, Environmental Editor, Le Monde
The ecological crisis has reached an intensity never before seen in history. Human societies cannot face this crisis because it is intimately linked to a social crisis caused by an irresponsible capitalism that is opposed to the necessary changes. The link between the ecological and the social explains this reluctance, as in this relationship oligarchy plays an essential and destructive part, notably in its cultural model of consumerism. The solution to the ecological crisis depends on questioning wealth and the status of that oligarchy. This lecture is based on Hervé Kempf*s critically acclaimed book, /Comment les riches détruisent la planète/ (How the Rich Wreck the Planet).
Sponsored by Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 :: 07:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Mary Lou Williams Center 201 West Union Building
Film
New Orleans Music in Exile
Robert Mugge (director)
In English Runtime: 112 minutes.
The Institute for Critical U.S. Studies invites you to join Mark Anthony Neal, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, and Darrell Stover, cultural historian and poet, for dinner and a screening of "New Orleans Music in Exile," followed by conversation about Hurricane Katrina's continued impact on culture and community in New Orleans. "New Orleans Music in Exile" is a 112 minute documentary by music documentarian Robert Mugge (http://www.robertmugge.com/index.html) that explores the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina on the music community of New Orleans. Robert Mugge creates an emotional portrait of horror, heartbreak, and hope as the musicians who lived through the disaster pick up the pieces and try to rebuild their lives. New Orleans artists comment on how broken levees, flood, looting, and black mold wreaked havoc on music and life in this colorful city. Film includes commentary from Dr. John, Cyril Neville, Kermit Ruffins, Irma Thomas and members of Cowboy Mouth, The Iguanas, and the Rebirth Brass Band.
Sponsored by Critical U.S. Studies
For more information, contact Caroline Light by phone at 919-668-1945 or by email at clight@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/icuss/
Monday, March 26th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, room 240
Lecture
ANTI-TERROR LEGISLATION & RIGHTS AND THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA
Gerald Baier, Ph.D. Department of Political Science University of British Columbia Vancouver (Currently on academic leave as Bicentennial Professor, The Macmillan Center, Yale University) Refreshments will be served. Parking available in Pickens Bldg. lot across street Teaching and research interests are in Canadian politics with a focus on the Constitution, federalism and public law. He is a regular commentator on federal politics in national and local media. His past research has explored the role of judicial decision-making in the shaping of federalism in Canada, Australia and the United States. He is presently investigating how national standards emerge outside of areas of national jurisidiction in those same three federations.
Sponsored by Center for Canadian Studies
For more information, contact Janice Engelhardt at janice.engelhardt@duke.edu .
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 - Saturday, March 24th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM
UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University
Conference
Race, Representation, and Citizenship in the America
Keynote Speaker: Michael Hanchard, Johns Hopkins University
Symposium will examine the impact of race on notions of citizenship and national belonging in Latin America and the Caribbean and explore how African-descended communities have sought to transform their diverse modes of cultural and political representation
Sponsored by Afro-Latin Issues and Perspectives Working Group, UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University
For more information, contact Reena Goldthree at rg3@duke.edu .
Registration required by Wednesday March 14th 2007 .
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 :: 02:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center Room 130/132
Lecture
Metaphors of Globalization
Lisa Lowe, UC San Diego
Sponsored by Asian/Asian American Studies and Asian and African Languages and Literature
For more information, contact Olga Richmond by phone at 919-668-2603 or by email at richm021@duke.edu .
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 :: 01:30 PM - 05:00 PM
240 John Hope Franklin Center
Conference
Tiger Woods ©: American Empire, Global Golf, and the Making of a Megacelebrity
Keynote Speaker: see schedule
Sponsored by Arts and Sciences Research Council, Institute for Critical U.S. Studies, African and African American Studies, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Cultural Anthropology, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Orin Starn .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/icuss
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, room 240
Lecture
Representations of Muslim Women: The Power of Choice
Debra Mubashir Majeed, Beloit College
James P.Gorter Distinguished Lecture Series
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Kelli Anderson by phone at 919-668-1653 or by email at kelli.anderson@duke.edu .
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 :: 10:00 PM - 02:00 AM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 230/232
ISIS Game Night
ISIS Game Night
ISIS is hosting its fourth Game Night of the 2006-2007 school year to welcome everyone back from Spring Break. Come out to the new Interactive Multimedia Project Space (IMPS) in the Franklin Center and enjoy XBOX 360, Playstation: PS2, PC, and Atari gaming. We will also have pizza, soda and information about ISIS. There is no charge, so bring a friend and have a good time!
Sponsored by ISIS - Information Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 :: 08:30 PM
Griffith Film Theater
Film
Wild Blue Yonder
Werner Herzog (director)
In English Runtime: 81 minutes.
They Came From Beyond: International Science Fiction Films
Sponsored by Center for International Studies and Film/Video/Digital Program
For more information, contact Hank Okazaki at hokazak@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/film/screensociety/SciFi2007.html
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Griffith Film Theater
Film
First on the Moon
Aleksey Fedorchenko (director)
In Russian with subtitles. Runtime: 72 minutes.
They Came From Beyond: International Science Fiction Films
Sponsored by Center for International Studies and Film/Video/Digital Program
For more information, contact Hank Okazaki .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/film/screensociety/SciFi2007.html
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
Room 240, Franklin Center
Info Session
Fulbright Info Session
Dr. Darla K. Deardorff, Fulbright Advisor, Duke University
For more information, contact Darla Deardorff by phone at 919-668-1928 or by email at d.deardorff@duke.edu .
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 :: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity School
Lecture
The First Annual Rev. Peter Storey Conversation -Truth and Reconciliation: Lessons of Caution and Promise from Greensboro and South Africa for Durham
Conversants: Rev. Peter Storey, Professor Emeritus of Duke Divinity School, former Methodist Bishop of South Africa Rev. Dr. William Barber II, President, NAACP-NC Prof. Muktha Jost, Commissioner of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission Moderated by: Jay Kameron Carter, National Humanities Center Fellow 2006-07, Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies
Sponsored by Sponsored by COSA, the Concilium on Southern Africa, the Duke Divinity School, Duke Chapel and the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission Working Group
For more information, contact Margaret Mathes or Catherine Admay at mmathes@div.duke.edu .
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at the Center
Stalin, the German Shepherd: Memory, Trauma, and the Gulag
Jehanne Gheith, Associate Professor and Chair of Slavic and Eurasian Studies & Co-director of International Comparative Studies, Duke University
Professor Gheith*s talk is based in a larger project of multiple life history interviews with Gulag survivors she conducted over the course of several years, in which she explores the Gulag as cultural haunting. This lecture will discuss that fact that the Gulag is typically left out of western histories of traumatic memory in the twentieth century and argue that this omission is connected to 1) the silence around the Gulag in Russia and 2) the fact that the dominant models for traumatic memory are based on the Holocaust, an experience that does not fit for Gulag survivors. Many trauma theorists place narrative (telling the story) at the center of healing from trauma. Yet, for some fifty years after the height of Stalin?s purges, Gulag survivors risked severe punishment if they discussed their experiences in the labor camps so that this kind of narrative approach was not open to them. One of the major effects of the enforced silence is that absent the narrative option, Gulag survivors developed creative, non-narrative ways to deal with their memories and experiences.
Sponsored by International Comparative Studies
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Duke University
Seminar
Banking Alone: The Decline in International Monetary Cooperation and Implications for Global Economic Governance
Keynote Speaker: Henrik Enderlein, Duke University and Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM
Nasher Museum of Art
Lecture
Mellon Annual Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities - West of What?
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor, Philosophy & the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
What are we talking about when we talk about *the West*? Morocco may not spring to mind - but it is just eight miles from the Spanish mainland. How could Spanish culture - which we think is European and thus Western - have remained unshaped by an Arab world that abuts it here so closely? How could Moslem rule in Spain from the early eighth to the late fifteenth centuries have left no trace, if we are heirs to the Romans, whose empire in Western Europe was gone by the time they arrived? The Balkans - which is what we once more call the countries that once were Yugoslavia - are in Europe, too; but they have long had mosques and minarets and muezzins as well as the onion domes of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Is Russia Western? Most of it is North or East of Turkey. Democracy is fragile there; liberalism the talk of comical characters in Tolstoy novels; capitalism barely begun. Her religious traditions come from Byzantium not Rome. Of course, Constantinople was as much an heir to Rome as any city. So is Turkey Western, because, as the song says, Istanbul is Constantinople? And if not, is that just because it is Moslem? Are the Christians of Lebanon and Syria and Armenia Western because they are Christian, then? Or Eastern because they are Arabs? What about the Christians of Africa? Or Latin America? Or South Korea? These puzzles suggest we should take a different tack. Is the West, perhaps, a place Europe and the regions - the Americas, Australia, New Zealand - that its people colonized? But then isn*t that just a euphemism for the white race plus a few hangers-on? If not, is the West an intellectual inheritance open to anyone? Plato, so to speak. Or a political alliance? NATO. Is it the rump of Christendom? Or just the rump of the traditions that developed in Rome? Or is the real West Christianity after the Reformation? Northwest Europe, Weberian Protestantism and the ethic that created capitalism and modern private life. And, in that case, is *the West* really just certain modern institutions and practices of everyday life? There are many strands to disentangle in trying to work out what it is about the idea of the West that misleads us. I will try to identify five mistakes we regularly make in thinking about the West.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Seminar
Global Pediatric HIV-1: New Directions and Challenges in Prevention and Treatment
Keynote Speaker: Grace John-Stewart, University of Washington School of Medicine
University Seminar on Global Health
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS TechTuesdays - A biweekly lunch forum
ISIS TechTuesdays featuring John Taormina
John Taormina, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke
John Taormina, Curator of Visual Resources for the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke, will discuss the new imaging system Duke is implementing (MDID-Madison Digital Image Database) to replace Luna Insight for its teaching and digital image repository. The system, supported by Arts and Sciences IT office, is available for access by the campus community.
Sponsored by ISIS - Information Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Monday, March 19th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, room 240
Panel Discussion for Art Exhibition
Panel Discussion on the Work of Wendy Ewald
Panel discussion on the work of Wendy Ewald with Diego Cortez, Art Advisor and Freelance Curator; Philip Brookman, Chief Curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; and Eric Gottesman, photographer
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Monday, March 19th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth St
Book Signing
The Qur'an : A Biography by Bruce Lawrence
Duke professor Bruce Lawrence will discuss and sign copies of his book. This event is free and open to the public. Part of the Books That Changed the World series, "The Qur'an: A Biography" describes the origins of the faith in seventh-century Arabia and explains why the Qur'an is both memorized and recited by devout Muslims. In assessing the Qur'an's huge influence on today's societies and politics, Lawrence emphasizes that it is a book that demands interpretation and one that can be properly understood only through its history.
For more information, contact Bruce Lawrence at bbl@duke.edu .
Monday, March 19th, 2007 - Friday, May 25th, 2007 :: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center Main Gallery
Exhibition
Wendy Ewald: On Reading
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Robin Crow by phone at 919-668-3451 or by email at robin.crow@duke.edu .
Monday, March 19th, 2007 - Friday, May 25th, 2007 :: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center / New Media Space
Exhibition
Christian Karkow: Ex Machina 1 - A Retrospective
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Robin Crow by phone at 919-668-3451 or by email at robin.crow@duke.edu .
Monday, March 19th, 2007 :: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Art Exhibitions Opening Receptions
Opening Receptions for Wendy Ewald's "On Reading" and Christian Karkow's "Ex Machina" Exhibits
Wendy Ewald and Christian Karkow
Opening Receptions, Monday, March 19 5:30-7:30PM Wendy Ewald: On Reading March 19 - May 25, 2007 Main Gallery, John Hope Franklin Center Christian Karkow: Ex Machina I - A Retrospective March 19 - May 25, 2007 New Media Space, John Hope Franklin Center Panel discussion on the work of Wendy Ewald, Monday, March 19 7:00 PM Franklin center, room 240 with Diego Cortez, Art Advisor and Freelance Curator; Philip Brookman, Chief Curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; and Eric Gottesman, photographer
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 .
Thursday, March 08th, 2007 :: 05:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, room 240
Panel Discussion
"All the News That's Fit to Print?: Hip-Hop, Urban Culture and Mainstream Print Journalism"
A Panel Discussion Featuring Kelefa Sanneh, music critic, The New York Times Scott Poulson-Bryant, former staff writer, Vibe Magazine and author of Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in American Bakari Kitwana, former editor, The Source Magazine and the author of Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes and the New Reality of Race in America Moderated by Joan Morgan, Visiting Instructor, Duke University and author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist
For more information, contact P. Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 .
Thursday, March 08th, 2007 :: 11:45 AM - 01:15 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Lecture
The Dwelling of Culture (South Africa)
Hylton White, New School for Social Research
Light lunch will be provided. Parking vouchers available for Duke Hospital lots #2 and #3 on map found at http://jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php
Sponsored by Concilium on Southern Africa, African and African American Studies Program
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
RSVP requested by Wednesday March 07th 2007 .
Wednesday, March 07th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at the Center
Patterns in Health Care Consumption: Do You Get What You Pay For?
Barak Richman, Associate Professor, Duke Law School & 2006-7 Provost*s Common Fund Award Recipient
Sponsored by the Provost*s Common Fund and Office of the Provost
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, March 06th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Duke University
Seminar
Diffusing Quality: Trade, FDI, and the Cross-national Adoption of ISO 9000 Quality Standards
Keynote Speaker: Aseem Prakash, University of Washington-Seattle
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jfhc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Tuesday, March 06th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS TechTuesdays featuring Sarah Ellis & Richard Lucic
Sarah Ellis & Richard Lucic
Coming soon...
Sponsored by ISIS - Information Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Monday, March 05th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Rd, Durham, NC
Lecture
Practice of Representation: Portraiture in Photography
Judith Joy Ross
Sponsored by Art Department, UNC Chapel Hill; Center for Documentary Studies, Duke Univ.; John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies, Duke Univ.
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski .
Friday, March 02nd, 2007 :: 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM
Franklin Center room 240
Lunch talk
Lunch with Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor, United Nations
Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecturer Shashi Tharoor will talk informally over lunch about his perspectives on new opportunities for Indian world leadership and other topics posed by the attendees. (RSVP requested) In 2006, Tharoor was the official candidate of India to succeed UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and came second out of seven contenders in the race. Tharoor served as UN Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information from 2002 to 2007. Over his 28-year career at the UN, Tharoor also served with the High Commissioner for Refugees, was responsible for peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia and served as executive assistant to Annan. Tharoor is the author of nine books, as well as numerous articles, short stories and commentaries. Tharoor asks that attendees look at his website in advance of the lunch: http://www.shashitharoor.com/index.shtml
Sponsored by Sanford Institute of Public Policy
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag at sandria.freitag@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.shashitharoor.com/index.shtml
RSVP requested by Wednesday February 28th 2007 .
Friday, March 02nd, 2007 - Sunday, March 04th, 2007 :: 09:00 AM
Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Conference
Imperialist Order Transformed? Global Perspectives on the Legacies of World War I
Themes: Doubts About European Modernity; Effects on International Governance; Race, Ethnicity, and Bio-Politics; The Socio-Cultural Impact of War Experiences and Migration; Imperialism and Empire - Ruptures and New Formations
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/WWIConference.htm
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 :: 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
028 John Hope Franklin Center
Working Group Meeting
Human Rights Working Group/Grad Seminar
HR Working Group
For more information, contact Nancy Hare Robbins .
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at the Center
Making It Matter: Contextualizing the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Allen Johnson, Greensboro News & Record; Joyce Johnson, Jubilee Institute of the Greensboro Beloved Community Center; Emmanuel Katongole, Duke Divinity School; Caroline Yezer, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke
This panel seeks to examine the work of truth commissions through the lens of The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the first US-based TRC. The GTRC was modeled on the South African and Peruvian experience and meant to examine the events of November 3, 1979, when the Klan shot five anti-Klan marchers in this North Carolina city. The Commission set out to heal and reconcile the community, bring clarity to the events themselves, acknowledge people’s feelings about the events and help to facilitate positive changes in social consciousness and community institutions. This panel includes a witness to the events of November 3, Joyce Johnson, who also helped found a Greensboro community center; the editorial page director of the Greensboro News and Record, Allen Johnson, also a Greensboro native; and an anthropologist who has studied the Peruvian TRC, Carolyn Yezer. The panel will be moderated by Duke Divinity School’s Dr. Emmanuel Katongole, who has studied truth and reconciliation processes in his native Uganda and Rwanda.
Sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Initiative, the GTRC Working Group at Duke, & the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Monday, February 26th, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Richard White Lecture Hall
Film
La grande vadrouille (Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At)
Summer 1942. During the Nazi Occupation in France, a Royal Air Force Wellington bomber gets lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The crew, Reginald (with the big moustache), Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachute out right over the city. They are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, and the grumbling conductor of the Opéra National de Paris, Stanislas Lefort. Involuntarily, Lefort and Bouvet get themselves involved in the manhunt against the aviators, led by Major Aschbach. They have to help the flyboys to go back to England with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathizers.
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies
For more information, contact Marion Monson .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Monday, February 26th, 2007 :: 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Lecture
Dances of Memory, Dances of Oblivion: Memory, Performance and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa
Christopher T. Nelson, UNC Chapel Hill
Politics of Memory Speaker Series
Sponsored by Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
Screen-Memories: Temporality, Perception, and the Archive in Cybernetic Thought
Orit Halpern, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-7 Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar; Assistant Professor, Historical Studies, the New School of Social Research
This talk will chart a relationship between contemporary theories of archiving and interactivity in digital systems to previous modernist concerns with perception, representation, and memory. It traces out how early engineers and architects of human-machine interaction, such as Norbert Wiener and Warren McCulloch, were informed by and reformulated different theoretical and technical practices from within 19th and early 20th century film, psychology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Using cybernetics and communication science as a starting point, this work begins charting an archeology of our contemporary relationship to the interface, the databank, and the network. This event is part of CURRENT RESIDENTS, a new lecture series designed to highlight the work of short-term residents at Duke.
Sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/current_residents/index.php
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Poetry Reading
The War Works Hard
Dunya Mikhail
Facing increasing threats an harassment from the Iraqi authorities for her writings, Mikhail fled Iraq in the late 1990's. In 2001, she was awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. Mikhail received a degree in English literature from Baghdad University, and has worked as Literary Editor for the Baghdad Observer. She has published four collections of poetry in Arabic. She has also appreard in magazines and recently had a poem published in the London Times as part of an article about the "art of war".
Sponsored by Asian & Africian Languages & Literature, Duke Islamic Studies Center, The Focus Program and Women's Studies
For more information, contact Kelly Jarrett by phone at 919-668-2143 .
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Duke University
Poetry Reading
Iraqi Poet Poetry Reading
Dunya Mikhail
Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail will be reading from her recent book "The War Works Hard".
Sponsored by Asian & African Languages & Literature, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Focus Program, Women's Studies
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at the Center
New Environmental Policy Actors? Cross-Border Regions in North America
Debora VanNijnatten, Associate Professor of Political Science + Director of the North American Studies Program, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
A new environmental regime is emerging in North America from the bottom-up. Since the early 1990s, many environmental policy observers expected (or hoped) to see the development of a trilateral, continental environmental regime, emerging out of the 1993 North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation and its institutional offshoot, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Others expected to see new and existing bilateral institutions on the Canada-U.S. and U.S.-Mexico border, which received a higher profile in the 1990s, flex their environmental policy muscle. Still others assumed that national governments, feeling threatened by these emerging and existing transboundary institutions, would fend off the intruders by fiercely defending their environmental policy turf. In fact, none of this has happened. Instead, it is subnational governments (U.S. states, Canadian provinces and Mexican states), acting through cross-border cooperative mechanisms, that are the primary locus of environmental policy initiative and innovation in North America. This lecture will explore the rise of *environmental constituent regions* in North America, and reflect on the implications of this trend for the resolution of transboundary environmental problems.
Sponsored by The Center for Canadian Studies
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS TechTuesdays - A biweekly lunch forum
ISIS TechTuesdays featuring Kyle Johnson, Jessica Mitchell & Peter North
Kyle Johnson, Jessica Mitchell & Peter North
Kyle Johnson, Director of Information Technology Services for Duke University Student Affairs, and Peter North, a senior in Duke's Trinity School, will be presenting on the collaboration between the ISIS 200 Research Capstone students and Student Affairs that resulted in the new eFlyer electronic events flyering system for Duke student events.
Sponsored by ISIS - Information Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at crisint.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Monday, February 19th, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Griffith Theater (Bryan Center)
Film
Un héros très discret (A Self-Made Hero)
Monday, Feb. 19 Griffith Theater Un héros très discret (A Self-Made Hero) (Jacques Audiard, 1996) Irony abounds in this French comedy that tells the tale of an unsophisticated, rather dim-bulbed country lad who follows the advice of a former French freedom fighter and tries to change himself into a hero of the recently ended French Resistance. Poor Albert is no stranger to deceit. For his first 12-years, his mother led him to believe that his father was a war hero. He is devastated to learn that his father really died of alcoholism. During the war, Albert does all he can to avoid fighting for the Resistance, even though the Nazis control his village. He marries and moves in with his wife's family, innocent of the fact that the whole time he is there, they are concealing downed British fliers. The night their town is freed, Albert leaves for Paris where he meets Dionnet, "The Captain," a bona-fide Resistance hero. It is he, who teaches Albert how to successfully change his identity. After much practice and memorization, Albert finally has a new identity and goes to work as a secretary for Mr. Jo, a former double agent. Albert stays in a boarding house, where a resident prostitute teaches him about lovemaking. Meanwhile, Albert becomes recognized as a courageous patriot, a role he manages to sustain only a little while before it all falls apart and the painful truth is finally revealed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies
For more information, contact Marion Monson .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Monday, February 19th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Lecture
Reflections on Jihad and Just War
Taieb Belghazi, University of Rabat, Morocco
James P. Gorter Distinguished Lecture Series
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Kelli Anderson by phone at 919-668-1653 or by email at kelli.anderson@duke.edu .
Monday, February 19th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
Reflections on Jihad and Just War
Taieb Belghazi, University of Rabat, Morocco
James P. Gorter Distinguished Lecture Series
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Kelli Anderson by phone at 919-668-1653 or by email at kelli.anderson@duke.edu .
Monday, February 19th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Rd
Lecture
Oaxaca/Chiapas/USA: Video Production, Culture, & the Politics of Contemporary Indigenous Movements
Alexandra Halkin, Chiapas Media Project
Also with Juan Jose Garcia Ortiz of Ojo de Agua Comunicacion Indigena video collective. Conversation & video screening. Lunch will be provided. English with Spanish Translation available.
Sponsored by Duke Latino/a studies Initiative & the Visiting Artists Series of the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
For more information, contact Jenny Snead Williams at jennysw@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/latstudies
Friday, February 16th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Lunch Conversation
Conversation with Poet, Essayist, and Translator
Nathanial Tarn
Artists in Conversation
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Thursday, February 15th, 2007 :: 05:00 PM - 09:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Symposium
Past Tense/Future Perfect: Reading Race, Genomics, and Ancestry.
Charmaine Royal, Karla Holloway, Alondra Nelson
Free and Open to the Public 5:00 PM: Charmaine Royal, Assistant Professor and Director, GenEthics Unit National Human Genome Center, Howard University- Genetic Ancestry Testing in African Americans: Cure for the Identity Crisis? 6:00 PM: Buffet Dinner 6:30 PM: Karla Holloway, William R. Kenan Professor of English and Professor of Law, Duke University- Theorizing Genomics: Cultures of Race, Gender , and Privacy. 7:30 PM: Alondra Nelson, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Sociology, Yale Univeristy- African American Root-Seeking in the Age of Genomics *Concluding Discussion to Follow* Past Tense/Future perfect: Reading Race, Genomics, and Ancestry is the second of three public symposia organized by the A.W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Human Being, Human Diveristy and Human Welfare: A Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Study in Culture, Science ad Medicine, convened by Duke faculty members Timothy Lenoir and Priscilla Wald, and hosted by the Franklin Humanities Institute.
Sponsored by 2006-7 Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Human Being, Human Diversity, and Human Welfare.
For more information, contact Robin Crow at robin.crow@duke.edu .
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
White Lecture Hall
Film
Seksmisja (Sex Mission)
Juliusz Machulski (director)
In Polish with subtitles. Runtime: 120 minutes.
They Came From Beyond: International Science Fiction Films
Sponsored by Center for International Studies and Film/Video/Digital Program
For more information, contact Hank Okazaki at hokazak@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/film/screensociety/SciFi2007.html
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240 John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at the Center
The Next Iran or the Next Spain? Turkey at the Crossroads
Hakan Altinay, Executive Director, the Open Society Institute-Turkey
Turkey*s future - as an Islamist state or a secular member of the European Union - is the subject of fierce debate. The January murder of Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink underscored the tensions of the country*s current predicament, whose outcome has global significance. Altinay is a key voice in this debate, and he will discuss how he sees current affairs in what could be the European Union*s largest member state. In his work with the Open Society Institute, Altinay has worked to expand civil initiatives in Turkey, promoting the country*s accession to the European Union and greater respect for human rights. Altinay has also served as the Caspian and Black Sea Coordinator of International Research & Exchanges Board and the Asia and the Near East Director of Pathfinder International. In these positions, Altinay worked in Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Ukraine, and Viet Nam.
Sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Initiative, the Duke University Center for International Studies, the Duke Center for Islamic Studies, and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Seminar
Dealing with Terrorism - Stick or Carrot?
Keynote Speaker: Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Seminar
The New Long March: STDS and HIV Come to China
Keynote Speaker: Myron S. Cohen, MD, UNC School of Medicine
University Seminar on Global Health
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Monday, February 12th, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Griffith Theater (Bryan Center)
Film
Lacombe Lucien
Monday, Feb. 12 Griffith Theater Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle, 1974) Set in occupied France, the film opens in the summer of 1944 as Lucien, our troubled, bull-headed teen hero, expresses an interest in assisting the local resistance movement. He is turned down and, after a chance encounter, signs up as a collaborator for the Gestapo instead. Easily seduced by the power and apparent glamour of the position, he fingers one of his villagers (an old teacher) and relishes a newfound sense of belonging that allows him to forget his old life. The Gestapo also allows Lucien to give in to his most nihilistic urges. When he develops a strained relationship with a Jewish tailor - and falls for his beautiful daughter - he becomes increasingly compromised and is forced into examining his real identity. ~ Chris Wiegand, BBC
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies
For more information, contact Marion Monson .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Monday, February 12th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM
Franklin Center 240
Reading Group
Material Objects and Performance Reading Group
Reading of Rachel Dwyer*s <Filming the Gods>
To download the reading for this event, click on the link below.
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag at sandria.freitag@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/csas/readings.php
Monday, February 12th, 2007 :: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Mary Lou Williams Center
Lecture
Shut Up and Teach?: Faculty and Public Issues
Pedro Lasch, Wahneema Lubiano, Mark Anthony Neal, Diane Nelson, Charlie Piot, Maurice Wallace
Against a current of criticism and attempts at intimidation directed at faculty who comment on larger social and political issues, and following the events of last spring, this forum addresses connections between faculty interests and local, national, and international politics. *Shut Up and Teach?* is both quotation and revision of the recently released Dixie Chicks' film title (*Shut Up and Sing*) – their response to a campaign of intimidation directed at them for criticizing George Bush. *Shut Up and Teach?* is our way of questioning what it is that we think faculty are being asked to do. For more details, please see event flyer at http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/icuss/pdfs/shutup4.pdf
Sponsored by African and African American Studies and Critical U.S. Studies
For more information, contact Caroline Light by phone at 919-668-1945 or by email at clight@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/icuss/events.php
Monday, February 12th, 2007 :: 03:00 PM
Duke Law School 4047
Lecture
Making Human Rights in the Vernacular: Plural Legalities and Traveling Rights in India, China, and the USA
Sally Engle Merry, New York University
Sponsored by Center for International Studies Human Rights Working Group
For more information, contact Human Rights Working Group at mah2@duke.edu or acl5@duke.edu .
Monday, February 12th, 2007 :: 01:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Lecture
Politics of Memory Lecture Series: The Generation of Postmemory
Marianne Hirsch, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University
Professor Hirsch was born in Romania and educated at Brown University. Before moving to Columbia, she taught for many years at Dartmouth College. Her publications include Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory (1997), The Family Gaze (ed., 1999), and Time and the Literary (co-ed., 2002). Currently, she is writing a book with Leo Spitzer: Ghosts of Home: Czernowitz and the Holocaust. She is editor of the PMLA. Organized by the Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Duke University Center for International Studies with additional support from the African and African American Studies Program, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Women’s Studies Program.
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Monday, February 12th, 2007 :: 01:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Lecture
The Generation of Postmemory
Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University
Politics of Memory Lecture Series
Sponsored by Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Wednesday, February 07th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at the Center
Transnational Asian Erotics: Investigating the Interface of Area/Identity/Sexuality Studies
Anne Allison, Cultural Anthropology, Duke; Sean Metzger, English and Theater Studies, Duke; Tomiko Yoda, Asian & African Languages & Literature, Program in Literature, and Women*s Studies, Duke; Ara Wilson, Sexuality Studies, Duke (Moderator)
Professors Allison, Metzger, and Yoda will provide an overview of their new work on media, sociality, and desire in Asia and its global circuits, including research on anime and manga, cyber sexuality, and queer Asian cinema. Their work raises questions about reconceptualizations and intersections of Area Studies, Asian Studies, and Sexuality Studies in response to critical rethinking of core categories of these fields. Faculty presentations will be followed by Q&A and discussion with the audience. Moderated by Professor Ara Wilson, Director of the Sexuality Studies Program, Duke University.
Sponsored by the Sexuality Studies Program
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, February 06th, 2007 :: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS TechTuesdays - A biweekly lunch forum
ISIS TechTuesdays featuring Jane M. Gaines
Jane M. Gaines
Coming soon...
Sponsored by ISIS - Information Science + Informatin Studies
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Monday, February 05th, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Griffith Theater (Bryan Center)
Film
L'armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)
Jean-Pierre Melville is widely worshipped for his gangster sagas, such as Le Samouraï and Le Cercle Rouge, but this tale of the French Resistance, though no less stylish (hats and dark suits still abound), has an added pulse of the heartfelt. It stars Lino Ventura as a stalwart of the underground movement who slips the shackles of the occupying Germans and rejoins his small band of fellow-heroes. Not that their heroism is remotely flamboyant; what concerns Melville is the courage of the stoical, the phlegmatic, and the formidably organized. His direction honors that efficiency with a series of set pieces (one in a barber shop, another at Gestapo headquarters, a third in the face of a firing squad) in which the suspense grows almost intolerable. The movie, though made in 1969, has never been released here before. To miss it now would be a gross dereliction of duty. ~ Anthony Lane, The New Yorker. Original cinematographer Pierre Lhomme personally supervised this superb new 35mm color restoration.
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies
For more information, contact Marion Monson .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Friday, February 02nd, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road
Lunch Talk on Contemporary Chinese Art
Documenting the Present: 3 Artists from "Between Past and Present"
Andrew Maerkle, Deputy Editor, Art Asia Pacific
Lunch will be provided**** Maerkle will discuss the work of three artists and how they have developed their practices since appearing in "Past and Future" three years ago. Cao Fei, Xu Zhen and Zhang Dali all explore the overlaps between documentation and performance. Cao Fei addresses ideas of community, as in her Siemens Art Program project What are you doing here (2006), for which the artist collaborated with workers on a Siemens subsidiary assembly line in southern China. Xu Zhen's recent multi-media installation 8848-1.86(2005) presents evidence of an exhibition the artist made with a team of expert climbers to the summit of Mount Everest, from which they sawed away a 1.86 meter chunk that they brought back for display. Among an older generation of artists, Zhang Dali has turned to photo archives to explore Chinese state-controlled media's legacy of using analog techniques such as airbrushing, retouching and cropping to alter public consciousness during Mao Zedong's rule.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies Artists in Conversation
For more information, contact Robin Crow .
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at the Center
Biodiversity, Peoples, Deforestation, and Oil
Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University
Stuart L. Pimm is the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, as well as Extraordinary Professor at the Conservation Ecology Research Unit at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is an expert on endangered species conservation, biodiversity, species extinction, and habitat loss. Pimm and his research teams seek out the species and ecosystems that are in most urgent need of protection. They work with local organizations and governments to provide the best possible advice on solving conservation problems. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications, many of them in Nature and Science, and has written four books, the most recent being the critically acclaimed *World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth.* The Institute of Scientific Information recognized him in 2002 as being one of the world*s most highly cited scientists. In 2004 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2006 he was awarded the Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences--the *Nobel* equivalent in environmental sciences. He has taught at Duke University for just over four years.
Sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Duke University
Seminar
International Negotiations: The Multilateral Agreement Making Process
Keynote Speaker: Nicole M. Simonelli, Duke University
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
240 John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
The Future of Bodies and Communities in a Hypertechnological Age
Michael Chorost, Author of REBUILT: MY JOURNEY BACK TO THE HEARING WORLD, winner of the 2006 PEN/USA Award for Creative Nonfiction
Michael Chorost is an internationally known authority on cochlear implants and social issues raised by advances in medical technology. In addition to his prize-winning book, he has also published extensively in newspapers and magazines - his 2005 feature article in Wired magazine, *My Bionic Quest for Bolero,* was reprinted in BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE WRITING 2006. This lecture will pose the question: so far, neurotechnological devices like cochlear implants are only for the disabled, but what happens when it becomes possible to enhance the nondisabled? Dr. Chorost will discuss some daring proposals on how that could be done, such as communicating via brain implants - an idea that has become more thinkable, due to conceptual and practical innovations, than it was five years ago. But he*ll address a key problem their proponents leave unaddressed: the likelihood that they would diminish face-to-face community interaction even more. The consequences of this extend beyond loneliness and anomie; recent research has shown that physical social interaction is vital for the brain*s proper biochemical regulation. He*ll discuss some social experiments going on in the Bay Area that seek to address the increasingly unmet need for tangible face-to-face community, and the effect they have on their members. These communities focus on the body and the emotions in an organized, sustained way. These need not be thought of as oppositional to brain-implant communications technologies, but potentially synergistic with them to create communities with a degree of intimacy that most Americans can only dream of now.
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute; Interface, the 2006-7 FHI Seminar; Human Being, Human Diversity, & Human Welfare, the 2006-7 Mellon-Sawyer Seminar; and the SSPACISS Laboratory.
For more information, contact Christina Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 :: 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, room 240
Lecture
“Culture Experiments: Japanese Feedback in the Noise of Transnational Circulation”
David Novak, Visiting Assistant Prof, Sarah Lawrence
Ethnomusicology Job Talks by: David Novak (Visiting Assistant Prof, Sarah Lawrence) Entitled “Culture Experiments: Japanese Feedback in the Noise of Transnational Circulation” Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Talk at 1:15 pm John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240 “Playing Off Site: Improvising Local Aesthetics in the Transpacific Silences of Experimental Music” Wednesday, January 31, 2007 4:30 pm Biddle Music Building, Room 102 Hosted by the Dept of Music
Sponsored by Dept of Asian and African Languages and Literature
For more information, contact Kimberly Soliman .
Monday, January 29th, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Richard White Lecture Hall
Film
Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) followed by Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog)
Monday, Jan. 29 Richard White Auditorium ***TONIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE*** These films will be screened in DVD format. Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) (René Clement, 1952) One of the first films to see the horrors of war through the eyes of children, Forbidden Games was a critical smash, winning prizes from the New York Film Critics, the British Academy, and the Venice Film Festival. Adapted by Francois Boyer, director Rene Clement, and two others from Boyer's novel, the story focuses on Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a five-year-old refugee from Paris taken in by a peasant family after her parents are killed during a bombardment of a civilian convoy. Michel Dolle (Georges Pujouly), the family's 11-year-old son, becomes her best friend, and they create a cemetery in which Paulette's dog is interred, along with other animals and insects, some of whom the children kill themselves. The Dolle family is too busy feuding with the Gouards, their neighbors, to notice the absence of the children. Eventually, authorities locate Paulette and insist that she be placed in an orphanage for legal adoption. Unsentimental and yet heartbreaking, Forbidden Games demonstrates the strategies of children who witness war to deal with the constant presence of death. It's also a bitter condemnation of the selfishness of adults who could offer their charges more love and protection. ~ Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide Followed by... Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog) (Alain Resnais, 1955, documentary) Though only a short subject, this groundbreaking documentary remains one of the most influential and powerful explorations of the Holocaust ever made. Director Alain Resnais bluntly presents an indictment not only of the Nazis but of the world community, and the film is all the more remarkable for its harsh judgment considering the time in which it was made, less than a decade after the end of the war, when questions of responsibility were not yet being addressed. Juxtaposing archival clips from the concentration camps across Germany and Poland with the present-day denials of the camps' existence, the film seeks to once and for all expose the horrifying truth of the Final Solution, as well as to address the continuing anti-Semitism and bigotry that existed long after the war's end. An invaluable resource and testament to history, this film was a profound influence on all films to address issues of the Holocaust, from Judgment at Nuremberg and Shoah to Schindler's List. Night and Fog remains an essential and indispensable document of the 20th century. ~ Robert Lane
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies, Spring 2007
For more information, contact Marion Monson .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Monday, January 29th, 2007 :: 01:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Lecture
The Stages of Memory and the Monument after 9/11 From Berlin to New York
James E. Young, Professor of English and Judaic Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Professor Young is author of Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust (1988), The Texture of Memory (1993) and At Memory's Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (2000). In 1997, Young was appointed by the Berlin Senate to the five-member Findungskommission for Germany's National Memorial to the Europe's Murdered Jews and was a member of the jury for the World Trade Center Site Memorial competition.
Sponsored by Department of Cultural Anthropology and the Duke University Center for International Studies with additional support from the African and African American Studies Program, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Women’s Studies Program.
For more information, contact Robin Crow .
Thursday, January 25th, 2007 :: 04:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center,Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road
Seminar
Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health: Why We Can't Wait
Keynote Speaker: Jim Young Kim, Professor and Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Professor and Director, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
Part of the University Seminar on Global Health- Spring 2007 Series
Sponsored by The Duke University Center for International Studies-(DUCIS)
For more information, contact Robin Crow .
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 :: 10:00 PM - 02:00 AM
John Hope Franklin, Room 230/232
ISIS Game Night
* FREE* ISIS Game Night
SIS is hosting its third Game Night of the 2006-2007 school year. Come out to the new Interactive Multimedia Project Space (IMPS) in the Franklin Center and enjoy XBOX 360, Playstation: PS2, PC, and Atari gaming. We will also have pizza, soda and information about ISIS. There is no charge, so bring a friend and have a good time!
Sponsored by ISIS - Information Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at the Center
Symbols, Models, and Facts: Biographical Clues to Wittgenstein*s Talk about Picturing
Susan Sterrett, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Duke University
Professor Sterrett will speak on work from her book /Wittgenstein Flies a Kite: A Story of Model of Wings and Models of the World/: Some items of special significance in Wittgenstein*s childhood and youth, such as gramophone records, musical scores, toy planes and kites, played a role in his unusual and striking work, *Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus*. For, as an adult, he was involved in research in music and flight, and these more sophisticated accounts of representation of the objects so significant in his childhood and youth became intellectual *found objects* he employed to new purpose in his thinking about finding a correct theory of symbolism.
Sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 :: 04:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road
Seminar
The Neglected Tropical Diseases: New Tools and Promises for Their Control
Keynote Speaker: Peter Hotez, MD,PhD, FAAP, Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center
Part of the University Seminar on Global Health-Spring 2007 Series
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies-(DUCIS)
For more information, contact Robin Crow .
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 :: 03:30 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Faculty Bookwatch
Celebration and Discussion of Anne Allison*s MILLENNIAL MONSTERS: JAPANESE TOYS AND THE GLOBAL IMAGINATION
Anne Allison, Robert O. Keohane Professor and Chair of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Please join us in celebrating the publication of Anne Allison*s new book, MILLENNIAL MONSTERS (Univerisity of California Press, 2006). This program will feature a panel discussion of Prof. Allison*s book with: Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Distinguished Professor Communications Studies and Cultural Studies, UNC-CH; Henry Jenkins, John E. Burchard Professor Humanities, MIT; and Tomiko Yoda, Associate Professor of Asian & African Languages and Literatures (AALL) and Literature. Professor Allison, who is currently a fellow in Interface, the 2006-7 Franklin Humanities Institute*s Seminar, will join in the discussion.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke University Libraries
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS TechTuesdays
ISIS TechTuesdays featuring Paul Jones
Paul Jones
Paul Jones, founder of sunsite.unc.edu and director of ibiblio.org, will present "Participatory Digital Libraries - Past and Futures; the ibiblio trends," in which he will talk about experiences and futures of Contribtor-run Digital Libraries and Digital Repositories with some particular focus on the ibiblio tends. This will be somewhat of an update of his paper "Open (source)ing the doors for contributor-run digital libraries.[PDF]" Communications of the ACM. Volume 44 , Issue 5 (May 2001). Also at http://ibiblio.org/pjones/presskit/ACM-p45-jones.pdf or if you prefer the Japanese language version http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/presskit/p45-jones.jp.pdf. View the TechTuesdays website and schedule at http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html
Sponsored by ISIS - Information Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Monday, January 22nd, 2007 :: 01:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Lecture
Jean Plantu:Editorial in Caricatures
Monday, Jan. 22 - 1:30 pm John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240 Jean Plantu: Editorial in Caricatures Editorial cartoonist Jean “Plantu” Plantureux, whose art has illustrated the front page of “Le Monde” since 1985, discusses and demonstrates the French tradition of political cartoons in a program organized in collaboration with the Alliance Française of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill. Local news caricature artists will also participate in this interactive intervention. Event in English.
For more information, contact Marion Monson .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html
Friday, January 19th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Artists in Conversation
Artists in Conversation featuring Iona Rozeal Brown
Iona Rozeal Brown
Brown’s paintings are an unprecedented mixture of anonymous courtesans, geisha and other Japanese subjects. She explores the theme of afroasiatic allegory, addressing the global influence. Series presented by the Center for International Studies. Lunch provided – no RSVP necessary.
Sponsored by Center for International Studies-(DUCIS)
For more information, contact Robin Crow .
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 :: 04:30 PM
240 John Hope Franklin Center
Roundtable Discussion
Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age
Steve Cohn, Director, Duke University Press; Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School; Paolo Mangiafico, Digital Consultant, Duke University Libraries
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke University Press
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 :: 01:15 PM - 03:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130/132
Lecture
The Tourist City: Historical Revisionism and Urban Re-inscription in Lost Memories 2009 and Seoul
Youngmin Choe, UC-Berkeley
Sponsored by Asian and African Languages and Literature
For more information, contact Mindy Marcus at mmarcus@duke.edu .
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 :: 05:00 AM
Bryan Center's Reynolds Theatre
Lecture
2007 Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics on "The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations"
Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
he annual Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics brings a distinguished speaker to campus to address moral issues of broad social and cultural significance. On January 18, 2007, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks will deliver the 2007 Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics on "The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations." This event is free and open to the public. The lecture will take place at 5:00 pm (doors open at 4:30 pm) at Duke University in the Bryan Center's Reynolds Theatre - parking is available in the Bryan Center parking lot. Sir Jonathan Sacks is the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. Through his frequent broadcasts and his regular newspaper columns, Chief Rabbi Sacks has reached wide public audiences on the central problems facing modern civilization in an age of globalization, cultural conflict and challenge to tradition. In The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations (2002), he sought to anchor tolerance, human dignity and reconciliation in the principle of diversity and find its sources in the biblical text and traditions. Throughout his work as both scholar and rabbi, he explores the healing power of religious tradition for a world torn by cultural conflict, for strained communities and a ravaged environment.
Sponsored by Office of the President, the Provost’s Common Fund, Jewish Life at Duke, Duke Chapel, the Divinity School, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of Religion, the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Department of Philosophy, the Sanford Institute
For more information, contact Kenan Institute for Ethics at kie@duke.edu .
URL: http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/prog_details.asp?actID=53
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 :: 08:00 PM
Griffiths Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
Screening/Faculty Bookwatch
Screening of Spirited Away-(2003, dir. Hayao Miyazaki) & Faculty Bookwatch Featuring Anne Allison
Screening | Spirited Away (2003, dir. Hayao Miyazaki) Free screening in conjunction with Faculty Bookwatch featuring Anne Allison on Jan. 23
Sponsored by FHI, Duke University Libraries, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, and Film/Video/Digital Program.
For more information, contact Robin Crow .
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
204 Perkins Library Building (Breedlove Room) West Campus
Seminar
Globalization and Constitutional Convergence Seminar
Keynote Speaker: David S. Law, UC San Diego
Part of the University Seminar in Global Governance and Democracy hosted by the Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS). Please visit www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm to download background reading. Contact shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu to subscribe to the seminar listserv.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies-(DUCIS)
For more information, contact Robin Crow .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS TechTuesdays
ISIS TechTuesdays-Emerging Semantic Web Trends: Transparent and Trustworthy Applications and Semantically-Enabled Scientific Date Integration
Deborah McGuinness
Sponsored by ISIS
For more information, contact Cristin Paul .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu
Tuesday, December 05th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Seminar
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Keynote Speaker: Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University
Seminar Title: The American Imperium and Soft Power in World Politics
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/
Friday, December 01st, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Carr Hall, Room 229
Lecture
The Promise of Pictorial History: maps, mother goddesses and martyrdom in modern India
Sumathi Ramaswamy
First in a series of <Material Objects and Performance Events Reading Group>. To download the reading for this event, go to the link below.
Sponsored by North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies
For more information, contact Sandria Frietag at sandria.frietag@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/csas/colloquium/nextcolloq.php
Thursday, November 30th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM
Perkins Library Rare Book Room
Lecture
The Kenan Institute for Ethics presents ISLAM IN AMERICAN POST 9/11
As part of the Changing Institutional Cultures Lecture Series 2006/2007 The Kenan Institute for Ethics presents ISLAM IN AMERICA POST 9/11 Thursday, November 30 7:00 pm Perkins Library Rare Book Room Kambiz GhaneaBassiri is Assistant Professor of Religion and Humanities, Reed College and the Temporary Director of Academic Affairs, Dar Al Hadith Al Hassania, Morocco. A Carnegie Scholar, he is the author of Competing Visions of Islam in the United States: A Study of Los Angeles (1997) and is completing a book on the history of Islam in America. Peter Skerry is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Counting on the Census? Race, Group Identity, and the Evasion of Politics (2000), Mexican-Americans: The Ambivalent Minority (1993; winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and is completing a book at the Russell Sage Foundation on the social and political integration of Muslims in contemporary America. He has written for The New Republic, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Co-sponsors: The Provost's Common Fund The Department of Religion The Duke Islamic Studies Center The Program in American Values and Institutions
For more information, contact The Kenan Institute for Ethics by phone at 919-660-3033 or by email at kie@duke.edu .
URL: http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/PDF/20061130_Ghan_Skerry.pdf
Thursday, November 30th, 2006 :: 05:30 PM - 08:30 PM
The John Hope Franklin Center, room 240
Conversation and Commentaries
A Conversation with Gianni Vattimo: The End of Philosophy At The Age of Democracy
Professor Vattimo, Roman Coles, William Hart, and Whaneema Lubiano
Professor Vattimo's presentation will be followed with commentaries by: Roman Coles (Political Sciences, Duke) William Hart (Religion, The UNC at Greensboro) Whaneema Lubiano (AAAS and Literature, Duke). The conversation will be moderated by Walter Mignolo (Center for Global Studies and the Humanities) The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University is pleased to announce A Dialogue with Gianni Vattimo: Philosophy, Democracy and Critical Cosmopolitanism with the participation of : Rom Coles, Political Theory, Duke University; Wahneema Lubiano, African and African-American Studies and Literature, Duke University; William Hart, Religion, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro. This event will take place on Thursday, November 30, 2006 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm in the John Hope Franklin Center, room 240, Duke University. Preceding Professor Vattimo's conversation at Duke, he will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
Sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/news.html
Thursday, November 30th, 2006 :: 04:30 PM
Room 130/132 John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture - Current Residents Series
Mapping Dystopia: Arabic Sculpture and the Postcolonial Condition
Zahra Ali, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, English Department, Duke University
The achievements of modern Arabic visual arts are understudied. This lecture offers semiotic readings of the sculptures and paintings of Sami Mohammad , one of the pioneers of Arabian Gulf secular art . It , moreover, maps the sociopolitical context of the motifs and stylistics Mohammad employs in his representation of the dystopia of the postcolonial civic subject. Like major Arab literary writers, Mohammad turns art into a highly articulated form of cultural dissent. Dr. Zahra Ali is a native of Kuwait. Currently she is a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Duke University, The English Department. She is an associate professor at Kuwait University, College of Arts. In 1981 She received an M.A from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, and in 1985 a PH.D from Brown University. She has published articles on cultural and aesthetic issues, narratology and West-East literary interactions which addressed Iris Murdoch/s novelistic art, the influence of the grotesque on the Lebanese poet Khalil Hawi, and the influence of Nietzsche and Yeats on the Arabic prose poem. Her book Sami Mohammad and the Semiotics of Abstraction: Kuwaiti Folk Art as Muse, which received the State of Kuwait National Merit Award, analyzes aesthetically and socioculturally the abstract art of Sami Mohammad, and it explores its active engagement with both AlSadu , i.e., the Bedouin feminist art of wool weaving,and post-oil modernity in Kuwait. Dr. Ali was Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Research, and Graduate Studies (College of Arts), from 2000-2005. She has also been consultant editor of Al-Thagafa Al-Alamia( World Culture) a bimonthly Arabic journal published by Kuwait/s National Council for Culture, Arts & Letters.
Sponsored by The Franklin Humanities Institute and The Center for Islamic Studies
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
Thursday, November 30th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
2114 Campus Drive, Duke Campus
Lecture
"Tertulia" presentation on Caribbean Carnival -- "Land of Fete: Public Culture, Identity, and Citizenship"
Nicole Castor, Program in African and African American Studies, Duke University
Thursday, November 30, 2006, 12:00 - 1:30 pm Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2114 Campus Drive, Duke Campus "Tertulia" presentation on Caribbean Carnival -- "Land of Fete: Public Culture, Identity, and Citizenship" Presentation by Professor Nicole Castor of Duke's Program in African and African American Studies. "Land of Fete" is part of a larger project based on three years of ethnographic research in Trinidad that analyzes public culture and identity formation in Carnival fetes, Orisha public rituals, and Emancipation commemorations. She will briefly present some thoughts on the Carnival festival complex and the role of race and diversity in relation to national identity in contemporary Trinidad. Lunch will be served. RSVP to Natalie Hartman to reserve a lunch. Please Contact: Natalie Hartman 681-3983 njh@duke.edu for more information.
Sponsored by Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
For more information, contact Natalie Hartman by phone at 919-681-3983 or by email at njh@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.ilas.unc.edu/events/display_events.asp
RSVP requested by Monday November 27th 2006 .
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
William C. Rhoden, Sports Columnist, The New York Times, Author of $40 Million Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program (MALS), African and African American Studies Program, Center for Documentary Studies, the John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African American Documentation, Institute for Critical US Studies, and the Department of History. From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built. William C. Rhoden has been a sportswriter for the New York Times since 1983, and has written the ?Sports of the Times? column for more than a decade. He also serves as a consultant for ESPN?s SportsCentury series, and occasionally appears as a guest on their show The Sports Reporters. In 1996, Rhoden won a Peabody Award for Broadcasting as writer of the HBO documentary Journey of the African-American Athlete. A graduate of Morgan State University in Baltimore, he lives in New York City?s Harlem with his wife and daughter. For more information about William Rhoden and his book, visit: http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=73532
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, MALS Program, African and African American Studies Program, Center for Documentary Studies, The John Hope Franklin Collection of African & African American Documentation, Institute for Critical US Studies, Dept. of Hist
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Seminar
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Keynote Speaker: Nicole Simonelli, New York University and Duke University
Seminar Title: International Negotiations: The Multilateral Agreement Making Process
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 :: 05:00 PM
University Room, Hyde Hall, UNC
Lecture
"The Post-Enlightenment University"
Gianni Vattimo
World renowned intellectual Gianni Vattimo will give a public lecture "The Post-Enlightenment University" at 5 pm. on Tuesday, November 28 in the University Room, Hyde Hall, UNC. There will also be a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, November 29 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the University Room, Hyde Hall. Sponsored by: The University Program in Cultural Studies, The Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH), UNC Graduate and Professional Student Federation, The Department of Romance Languages and Literature, The Provost’s LGBTQ Advisory Board and the UNC-CH Program in Sexuality Studies, The Center for European Studies, The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (Duke University), The University Center for International Studies, The Working Group on Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge, The Working Group on Nation Building and Popular Culture (both of The UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), The Department of Communication Studies Graduate Student Association, The Department of English and Comparative Literature, and The Institute for Critical Theory (Duke University).
For more information, contact the University Program in Cultural Studies by phone at 919-962-4955 or by email at upcs@unc.edu .
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS TechTuesdays - A biweekly Lunch Forum
ISIS TechTuesdays featuring Ricardo Pietrobon
Ricardo Pietrobon, Duke University Professor of Surgery
Duke University Professor of Surgery, Ricardo Pietrobon, MD, PhD, will be presenting on "Research about Research: Studying research problems and proposing solutions." Dr. Pietrobon's presentation will focus on ongoing studies of common problems occuring in research teams and research policy environments, their study from an interdisciplinary perspective, and proposed solutions using web applications.
Sponsored by ISIS - Informatin Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Monday, November 20th, 2006 :: 08:00 PM
Richard White Auditorium
Film
Traces, empreintes de femmes (K.L. Ndiaye, 2003, Senegal)
In African Film Series
The wall paintings of the Kassenas women in Burkina Faso, near the border with Ghana, are famous for the beauty of their patterns and the harmony of their colors. In looking at this subject, Katy Lena Ndiaye has chosen to compare and contrast tradition with modernity, seen through the intertwined portraits of three old women and their "grand-daughter", whom they are initiating in their ancestral art. She has made a film whose aesthetic is fully under control, a genuine portrait of an artistic community preoccupied with the issue of how to hand down traditions, of education and memory in an Africa undergoing fundamental change.
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies/ Co-Sponsored by the Program in Women's Studies and the Department of African and African-American Studies
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html#asf
Friday, November 17th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
240 John Hope Franklin Center
Symposium
Global Heatlh & Social Justice
Susannah Sirkin (Physicians for Human Rights), Robert Cook-Deegan (Duke University), Matthew Sparke (University of Washington)
First of three public symposia presented by the 2006-07 A.W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Human Being, Human Diversity and Human Welfare: A Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Study in Culture, Science and Medicine. For more information, please visit symposium website.
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/sawyer/symposia.php
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 :: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium
The Cinema Century Working Group
Robert Reinert and Reactionary Modernism in Weimar Germany
The Department of English ("The Cinema Century" Working Group) presents in the Nasher Museum “Robert Reinert and Reactionary Modernism in Weimar Germany” Jan-Chris Horak, Adjunct Professor, Critical Studies, UCLA Former director, Filmmuseum, Münchner Stadmuseum (Munich, Germany) Former Senior Curator, Film Collections, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film (Rochester, New York) Wednesday, November 15, 2006 Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium 6:00 - 7:30 pm co-sponsors: Germanic Languages and Literature Program in Literature Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Center for International Studies Franklin Humanities Institute Film/Video/Digital Program
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski by phone at 919-684-2867 or by email at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Seminar
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Keynote Speaker: Gary Goertz, University of Arizona
Seminar Title: The Evolution of Regional Economic Institutions into Security Institutions, or The Demise of Realist Military Alliances
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS TechTuesdays-A biweekly lunch forum
ISIS TechTuesdays featuring Paolo Mangiafico
Paolo Mangiafico, Duke University Libraries
Paolo Mangiafico, Digital Consultant for the Duke University Libraries, will discuss current digital archiving issues faced by the Library. Paolo will focus on issues around preservation of "born digital" materials, particularly in universities, with the hope of demonstrating some preliminary pilot projects underway with OIT to address these issues.
Sponsored by ISIS - Information Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Monday, November 13th, 2006 :: 08:00 PM
Richard White Auditorium
Film
Nha Fala (F.Gomes, 2002,Guinée-Bissau)
In African Film Series
Before leaving for Europe to pursue her studies, Vita, a young African woman promises her mother that she will never sing. A family legend has it that any woman in her family who sings is cursed and will die. In Paris, Vita meets Pierre, a young musician and falls in love. Full of joy, she lets herself go and sings. Vita is horrified by what she has done, but Pierre, overwhelmed by her talent, convinces her to make a record. The record is an overnight success. Fearing her mother will learn that she broke her promise, Vita decides to return home… To die! Aided by Pierre, Vita stages her own death and resurrection, showing family and friends that anything is possible, if you have the courage to dare.
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies/Co-Sponsored by the Program in Women's Studies and the Department of African and African-American Studies
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html#asf
Thursday, November 09th, 2006 :: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Hip-Hop Studies Week at Duke , November 7-9, 2006
Critical Readings in Hip-Hop Studies
Timothy West and Mark Anthony Neal
The purpose of Hip-Hop Studies Week @ Duke is to critically examine the emergence of Hip-Hop Studies as a legitimate field of study. There are more than 150 colleges and universities that currently offer courses with significant content related to hip-hop culture and with the creation of a Hip-Hop Archive, founded at Harvard by anthropologist Marcylina Morgan and currently residing at Stanford University, combined with the Smithsonian's recent announcement that it intends to mount an exhibit on Hip-Hop culture, this conference could not be better timed. While the development of hip-hop as a musical genre and cultural phenomenon has been researched and written about extensively, our interest is to examine issues critical to everyday life in contemporary American society. With a particular focus on the intersections a sex, race, gender, class and sexual preference in contemporary popular culture the conference offers a unique opportunity for faculty and staff for whom these issues are critical components to the instruction and services they provide. Sponsored by: John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Institute for Critical US Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute, Cultural Anthropology, Women's Studies at Duke, Office of the Provost, Division of Student Affairs, English Department, Duke University Center for International Studies, African and African American Studies, Film/Video/Digital Program.
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Wednesday, November 08th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM
White Lecture Hall, Room 107
Hip-Panel Discussion
Drop It Like it's Hot: Sex, Race, Gender and Hip-Hop
Byron Hurt, Joan Morgan, and Timothy West
Hop Studies Week at Duke , November 7-9, 2006 Central Islip, NY native Byron Hurt is the producer of the "underground classic" award-winning documentary film, I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America and the producer and director of Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a documentary film about machismo in rap music and hip-hop culture which debuted this year at the Sundance and Full Frame festivals. Hurt is also the associate director of Mentors in Violence Prevention-Marine Corps (MVP-MC). Founded in 1996, MVP-MC is the first system-wide gender violence prevention program in the history of the United States military. Hurt was one of the original members of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) staff at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. The MVP Program, created in 1993 by Jackson Katz, is designed to inspire greater male participation in the effort to reduce men's violence against women, and to encourage men to speak out against rape and all forms of gender violence. As a filmmaker, Byron uses to film to address the construction of masculinity within hip-hop and popular culture. The purpose of Hip-Hop Studies Week @ Duke is to critically examine the emergence of Hip-Hop Studies as a legitimate field of study. There are more than 150 colleges and universities that currently offer courses with significant content related to hip-hop culture and with the creation of a Hip-Hop Archive, founded at Harvard by anthropologist Marcylina Morgan and currently residing at Stanford University, combined with the Smithsonian's recent announcement that it intends to mount an exhibit on Hip-Hop culture, this conference could not be better timed. While the development of hip-hop as a musical genre and cultural phenomenon has been researched and written about extensively, our interest is to examine issues critical to everyday life in contemporary American society. With a particular focus on the intersections a sex, race, gender, class and sexual preference in contemporary popular culture the conference offers a unique opportunity for faculty and staff for whom these issues are critical components to the instruction and services they provide. Sponsored by: John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Institute for Critical US Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute, Cultural Anthropology, Women's Studies at Duke, Office of the Provost, Division of Student Affairs, English Department, Duke University Center for International Studies, African and African American Studies, Film/Video/Digital Program.
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
Wednesday, November 08th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center- Hip-Hop Studies Week
A Discussion With Joan Morgan, award-winning Journalist, author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip-Hop Feminist
Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist and author and a provocative cultural critic. Formerly the Executive Editor of Essence, she is the author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost, a fresh, witty, and irreverent novel that marks the literary debut of one of the most original, perceptive, and engaging young social commentators in America today. Her work appears in numerous college texts, as well as books on feminism, music and African-American culture. A native of Jamaica, Joan brings a third wave feminist perspective to the study of hip-hop.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Institute for Critical US Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute, Cultural Anthropology, Women's Studies at Duke, Office of the Provost, Division of Student Affairs, English Depart
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
Tuesday, November 07th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM
White Lecture Hall, East Campus, Room 107
Film Screening & Discussion
Beyond Beats and Rhymes: Masculinity and Hip-Hop-A film by Byron Hurt-(Discussion and Q&A with filmmaker)
The purpose of Hip-Hop Studies Week @ Duke is to critically examine the emergence of Hip-Hop Studies as a legitimate field of study. There are more than 150 colleges and universities that currently offer courses with significant content related to hip-hop culture and with the creation of a Hip-Hop Archive, founded at Harvard by anthropologist Marcylina Morgan and currently residing at Stanford University, combined with the Smithsonian's recent announcement that it intends to mount an exhibit on Hip-Hop culture, this conference could not be better timed. While the development of hip-hop as a musical genre and cultural phenomenon has been researched and written about extensively, our interest is to examine issues critical to everyday life in contemporary American society. With a particular focus on the intersections a sex, race, gender, class and sexual preference in contemporary popular culture the conference offers a unique opportunity for faculty and staff for whom these issues are critical components to the instruction and services they provide.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center, Institute for Critical U.S. Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute, Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, Program in Women's Studies, Office of the Provost, Division of Student Affairs, Dept. of English, Center for International Studi
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon by phone at 919-668-1925 or by email at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/film/screensociety/Fall2006Schedule.html
Friday, November 03rd, 2006 :: 08:00 PM
Goodson Chapel, Westbrook Building, Divinity School
Performance
Les Voix Humaines concert
Susie Napper and Margaret Little have been thrilling audiences with their performances of exotic masterpieces of the 17th and 18th centuries for over two decades. The Montreal-based duo are renowned for their passionate performances offering fresh insight into music that is shrouded by the mists of time. Their program will include music by the two greatest French masters who wrote for the viol, Sieur de Sainte-Colombe and his brilliant pupil Marin Marais, the most influential gambist at the court of Louis XIV. French chamber music of this time reveals an intimacy in musical expression and makes use of a language at once moving and discreet, evoking a world where freedom and intimacy go hand in hand. Organized by Duke Performances.
Sponsored by The Center for French and Francophone Studies at Duke University
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html
Tickets: 15.00 Call: 919-660-1700
Friday, November 03rd, 2006 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Lecture
Henri Béhar: The poetics of Dada (tentative title)
Lecture in French. Henri Béhar is a Professor of Literature at the Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is a prominent member of the Centre de Recherche sur le Surréalisme, and has published several books on the Dada and Surrealist movements.
Sponsored by The Center for French and Francophone Studies at Duke University
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html
Friday, November 03rd, 2006 :: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
028 John Hope Franklin Center
Seminar
Seminar Discussion of *Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos*
Keynote Speaker: Anani Dzidzienyo and Suzanne Oboler, Brown University and University of Chicago
Seminar Readings are available on the Critical US Studies website: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/icuss/
Sponsored by Latino/a Studies, Critical US Studies, African & African American Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and Mi Gente
For more information, contact Jenny Snead Williams by phone at 919-684-4375 or by email at jennysw@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/latstudies/
Thursday, November 02nd, 2006 - Friday, November 03rd, 2006 :: 05:30 PM
11-2-06@5:30pm at Franklin Center, Room 240, 11-3-06@10:00am to 12:00 at Franklin Center, Room 028
Public Talk
Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos
Suzanne Oboler and Anani Dzidzienyo
Please mark your calendars for the public talk on Thursday, Nov 2 at 5:30pm in Franklin Center 240, followed by a light reception. The next morning, Friday, Nov 3rd, we offer a seminar for faculty, staff, and graduate students from 10am – 12:00pm at Franklin Center 028. Readings for the seminar discussion will be made available one week prior. For directions to the Franklin Center on Duke campus, visit http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php. UNC-CH and community friends are welcome. More details on both events to follow. Oboler is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at University of Illinois, Chicago and is founding editor of the journal, Latino Studies. Dzidzienyo is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. For a description of Neither Enemies Nor Friends, visit: http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403965684 For more info on Latino/a Studies, visit http://www.duke.edu/web/latstudies/.
Sponsored by Latino/a Studies and co-sponsored by African and African American Studies, Critical U.S. Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
For more information, contact Jenny Snead Williams by phone at 919-684-4375 or by email at jennysw@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403965684
Thursday, November 02nd, 2006 :: 04:00 PM
Duke University, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Room 04
Lecture
Rhetoric and Reality Behind the Foreign Policy Push for Liberal Democracy in the Middle East
Dr. Diana Villiers Negroponte, U.S. Institute of Peace History Project
Sponsored by The Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture on International Studies, Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Nancy Hare Robbins at nancy.robbins@duke.edu .
Thursday, November 02nd, 2006 :: 04:00 PM
Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Room 04
Lecture
The 2006 Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture in International Studies
Dr. Diana Villiers Negroponte U.S. Institute of Peace History Project speaking on Rhetoric and Reality Behind the Foreign Policy Push for Liberal Democracy in the Middle East Dr. Negroponte is a scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace examining the emergence of the science of conflict resolution and its relation to the American peace community. Previously, she taught at Georgetown and Fordham Universities. She is a member of the Board of Freedom House, an NGO created after World War II to advance democratic principles and the rule of law. She practiced international trade law for many years, interrupting this work to accompany her husband on his diplomatic missions to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines and the United Nations. A keen observer of current foreign policy, she is active within the Council on Foreign Relations and the Women's Foreign Policy Group. The Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture in International Studies was established by Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans & Dr. James H. Semans and their family to honor Mrs. Semans' father, who had a distinguished career as a diplomat in the service of the United States and was an original signer of The Duke Endowment.
Sponsored by DUCIS
For more information, contact Nancy Hare Robbins by phone at 919-684-6454 or by email at nhare@duke.edu .
Wednesday, November 01st, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
Free Design and The Open-Source Hardware Movement
Chuck Messer, Tackle Design
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center and the ISIS (Information Science + Information Studies) Program
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
Monday, October 30th, 2006 :: 08:00 PM
Richard White Auditorium
Film
Madame Brouette (M.S.Absa, 2002, Senegal)
Mati, a divorced mother of a young daughter, makes a living selling bric-a-brac from a wheelbarrow and dreams of opening a snack bar. But she falls for the charms of Naago, a policeman, and it's only when the Tajaboom festival (at which women and men switch roles) arrives that her opportunity for escape emerges.
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies /Co-sponsored by the Program in Women's Studies and the Department of African and African-American Studies
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Monday, October 30th, 2006 :: 02:50 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, room 240
Lecture
Faïza Guène: Kiffe kiffe demain - Lecture in French
Daughter of Algerian immigrants, Faïza Guène, a writer and aspiring filmmaker, grew up in Les Courtillières, one of Paris' large public housing projects in the northeastern suburbs. She attends the University of St. Denis and has just completed her first short film. Her first novel, Kiffe kiffe demain (Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow) recounts the life of a heroine named Doria. The book was published in France in August 2004. It was an instant hit. About Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow: The Paradise projects are only a few metro stops from Paris, but here it's a whole different kind of France. Doria's father, the Beard, has headed back to their hometown in Morocco, leaving her and her mom to cope with their mektoub—their destiny—alone. They have a little help-- from a social worker sent by the city, a psychiatrist sent by the school, and a thug friend who recites Rimbaud. It seems like fate’s dealt them an impossible hand, but Doria might still make a new life. She'll prove the projects aren't only about rap, soccer, and religious tension. She’ll take the Arabic word kif-kif (same old, same old) and mix it up with the French verb kiffer (to really like something). Now she has a whole new motto: KIFFE KIFFE TOMORROW.
Sponsored by The Center for French and Francophone Studies at Duke University
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html
Friday, October 27th, 2006 :: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Room 226, Perkins Library, Duke University, West Campus
Lecture
Protectors, Predators, and Purveyors: Pirates and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Peter Shapinsky, University of Illinois at Springfield, Department of History
Sponsored by APSI, Asia Pacific Studies Institute
For more information, contact Debbie Hunt by phone at 919-684-2604 .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/APSI
Friday, October 27th, 2006 - Friday, February 23rd, 2007 :: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center Gallery
Exhibition
Miao Xiaochun: Urban Landscapes
Opening Reception Friday, October 27, 2006 6:00 - 7:30 PM : Franklin Center Main Gallery Curator's Statement - Wu Hung Born in 1964, Miao Xiaochun received his art education at Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany, after studying art history in Beijing’s Central Academy of Art and working as a freelance painter for five years. He returned to China in 1999 to teach at the newly established Department of Photography and New Media at his alma mater. As a result of this background, his photographs betray a painter’s eyes, and also attest to a strong attraction to new visual technology. Since the late 1990s, Miao Xiaochun has created a large body of works which represent the dramatic urban transformation in China and his experience in foreign and Chinese cities. The six images in this exhibition represent some major development after 2002, when he began to make constructed photographs with the help of a computer. The four vertical compositions reveal strong impact of a traditional “vertical scroll” painting, which often embodies shifting viewpoints along the axis. These photographs include the image of a life-size mannequin as the artist’s alter-ego. Dressed as an ancient Chinese gentleman, he is both fascinated and puzzled by what he confronts in contemporary China. The two large, horizontal pictures are selected from Miao Xiaochun’s latest works. The artist has replaced the ancient statue with his own image in Jump, whereas Orbit takes Beijing’s exuberant street life as its sole subject. Both examples reveal a new, intense interest in combining a grant composition with infinite, minute details. According to the artist, such details can effectively animate a still image because they guide the viewer’s gaze traveling through a large cityscape and generate movement within a representation.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Robin Crow by phone at 668-684-3451 or by email at robin.crow@duke.edu .
Friday, October 27th, 2006 - Saturday, December 09th, 2006 :: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center/New Media Space-Basement Gallery
Exhibition
Travis Lester: Storms Spell Trouble for Marin
Opening Reception Friday, October 27, 2006 6:00 - 7:30 PM : Franklin Center New Media Space About Travis Lester http://www.travislester.com/ Travis Lester is a California-based painter whose powerful canvases explore human identity and the “interior landscape.” Filling her paintings with bold colors, provocative images and anguished figures she questions and challenges the ways in which society molds human identity. Lester’s sorrowful, vulnerable figures bear entrapment and suffering but the energy and rawness of the paintings suggests anger and an unwillingness to be subjugated. Working with acrylics, oil sticks, collage, and other media, Lester parodies the obsession with a codified assurance of success, the insane and unthinking cooperation with one’s own spiritual destruction. In that vein, she takes on the Western ideal of the family and how it can function as both refuge and jail. Referencing ancient mythological characters as archetypal representations of unchanging dynamics in contemporary relationships, Lester questions both inherited patterns of oppression and the roles we willingly embrace. Lester also explores issues of power and gender, often painting the uterus and ovaries right onto the female form. She uses the uterus as a visual metaphor, a platform on which she can question the roles laid out for women and the ways in which they are defined, validated, and penalized culturally by an ability to give birth. In Lester’s work the uterus symbolizes the numerous vehicles through which destructive patterns are repeated. At the same time, it is also an emblem for female power and creativity. Despite such weighty subjects humor is evident in the faces of the figures, in the boisterous splashes of color and in the barbed and droll phrases often scrawled across the paintings. The human figures in Lester’s paintings struggle to break free from and reject artificially and self-imposed boundaries. It is the humorous element that suggests that it is in these all too human struggles that strength and freedom are found.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Robin Crow by phone at 919-668-3451 or by email at robin.crow@duke.edu .
Thursday, October 26th, 2006 :: 01:00 AM - 02:15 PM
North Pavilion Lower Level Lecture Hall
Lecture & Film
Islam in Perspective
Dr. Ebrahim Moosa, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion and Director of the Center for Study of Muslim Networks at Duke University
*The Duke Clinical Research Institute's Enriching Global Understanding (EGU) team presents the following event:* *Dr. Ebrahim E. I. Moosa*, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion and Director of the Center for Study of Muslim Networks at Duke University, will present a special lecture at the DCRI in observance of the holy month of Ramadan. The lecture will cover the significance of the Muslim holy month and the Muslim way of life and will include a 30-minute documentary on Islam plus a Q&A session. Light refreshments will be provided or bring your lunch. Dr. Moosa is the author of /Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination /(University of North Carolina Press, 2005) and editor of the last manuscript of the late Professor Fazlur Rahman, /Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism /(Oxford: Oneworld, 2000). He serves on several distinguished international advisory boards and is associated with some of the foremost thinkers, activists, and role-players in the Muslim world and beyond. His interests are in Islamic thought, with a special focus on Islamic law, ethics, and critical theory. Currently, Dr. Moosa is directing a Ford Foundation-funded project titled, /Mapping Knowledge, Shaping Muslim Ethics, /at the Center for the Study of Muslim Networks that he directs. To view more of Dr. Moosa’s biographical data, visit _http://www.duke.edu/religion/home/moosa/moosa.html_. For questions about the program or for more information, contact Mohammad Rashdi at 668-8637 or _rashd001@dcri.duke.edu_ <mailto:rashd001@dcri.duke.edu>.
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Kelly Jarrett by phone at 919-668-2143 or by email at kjj1@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/religion/home/moosa/moosa.html
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 :: 10:00 PM - 02:00 AM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 230/232
ISIS Game Night
ISIS Game Night
ISIS is hosting its second Game Night of the 2006-2007 school year. Come out to the new Interactive Multimedia Project Space (IMPS) in the Franklin Center and enjoy XBOX 360, Playstation: PS2, PC, and Atari gaming. We will also have pizza, soda and information about ISIS. There is no charge, so bring a friend and have a good time!
Sponsored by ISIS- Information Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History
Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Director of Research, Communications, and Programs, Office of Faculty Governance, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Please visit http://www.superscenic.com/Events/calendar.htm to view dates and locations of Anne's readings and signings all around North Carolina and Virginia.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.superscenic.com/
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Seminar
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Keynote Speaker: Kevin Morrison, Duke University
Seminar Title: Oil, Non-tax Revenue and the Redistributional Foundations of Regime Stability
Sponsored by Duke University Center For International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/
Monday, October 23rd, 2006 :: 08:00 PM
Richard White Auditorium
Film
Abouna (M.-S. Haroun, 2002,Chad)
In N’Djamena, the dry, dusty capital of Chad, an errant father abandons his family, an event quite common in this poor country. When he fails to show up to referee their soccer match, 15-year-old Tahir and his younger brother, Amine, set out to look for him, though it soon becomes clear that he is gone for good. The boys’ mother, feeling abandoned and unable to cope, places them in the care of a Koranic school far from home. Unhappy in the authoritarian and sometimes brutal environment, the boys plan to escape and search for their father, until Tahir falls in love with a mute local girl.
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Friday, October 20th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Performance
Artists in Conversation
Nin Lu, Pianist & Hsiao-mei Ku, violinist
Please join us for a lunchtime conversation with Nin Lu, pianist & Hsiao-mei Ku, violinist. Lunch will be provided, rsvp requested to r.sikorski@duke.edu Born in China, pianist Ning Lu is on the faculty of the School of Music, University of Utah. He made his profession debut and first recording at age nine. He has trained both in China and the US and is the winner of many awards in China and the US including First Prize in the National Competition in China and the Grade Prize in the second Annual Audio-Video Recording International Piano Competition in New York where he gave his first Carnegie Hall recital in 1996and has performed in the UK, Switzerland, Israel, Taiwan, Japan, China as well as at numerous venues and festivals in the US. Hsiao-mei Ku made her debut as a violinist on National TV in China at age 11. She performed widely as a violin soloist in China where she won the Government Award for Best Performance before coming to the States. She received her Master degree in Music from Indiana University. She has been a member of the Ciompi Quartet since 1990 and served as assistant concertmaster and soloist for the Eastern Music Festival. She is on the faculty at Duke University and is a Visiting Professor of at the Guangzhou Xinghai Conservatory. Her first solo album will appear from Naxos in 2007.
Sponsored by Duke University for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski by phone at 919-684-2867 or by email at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
RSVP requested by Thursday October 12th 2006 .
Thursday, October 19th, 2006 :: 03:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2404 Erwin Road, Durham
Lecture
Burial and Travel: Representational Shapes of a Mobile Islam
Engseng Ho, Frederick S. Danzinger Associate Professor, Harvard University
For more information, contact Kelli M. Anderson at kelli.anderson@duke.edu .
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
Having More Kids Than They Should? Hispanic Fertility and the Politics of Incorporation
Emilio Parrado, Professor of Sociology
Sponsored by Latino/a Studies
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 :: 03:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham.
Symposium
Ethics on the Edges of Tradition
Ebrahim Moosa, Duke; Dan Davies, Cambridge; Heidi Ravven, Hamilton College; David Burrell, Notre Dame
How can religious and philosophical traditions help us sharpen our questions in the practice of ethics? How do we navigate contemporary questions in ethics in conversation with key thinkers in Judaism and Islam, like Ghazali, Maimonides and Spinoza? After symposium at 6:30, Iftar (breaking of Ramadan fast), followed by dinner. RSVP Requested.
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center, and Duke Department of Religion, Center for Judaic Studies. With funding from the Ford Foundation.
For more information, contact Kimberly Soliman by phone at 919-668-1955 or by email at kimberly.soliman@duke.edu .
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS TechTuesdays - A biweekly Lunch Forum
ISIS TechTuesdays featuring Fred Stutzman
Fred Stutzman, UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library
Fred Stutzman, a doctoral student at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science, will be speaking about his work on ClaimID.com, a project that allows individuals to control their online information. Fred's research interests include social software and networks, identity production in digital worlds and cultural effects of social computing. Abstract: "The Social Revolution: How our Connections will Change Technology" The web has long been a medium of personal expression. Newsgroups, mailing lists, personal websites and blogs have enabled our conversation, our sharing, our creation of identity. Recently, socially-enabled technologies, and social networking in particular, have transformed the ways we think about our content and identity production. Sites like Facebook, Myspace, Flickr and Last.fm, adopted by hundreds of millions, are revolutionizing industry and creating socially-enabled models that will be followed for years to come. As with any web technology, these social changes have come in the blink of an eye, and they are very generationally-targeted. In this talk, we'll explore social technology: what is is, how it is applied, why it works, and why it fails. We'll explore a number of popular applications, exploring how social architecture adds value to technology. Most importantly, we'll explore the lasting implications of this social revolution - how it will change technology, and the expectations of our users for years to come.
Sponsored by ISIS - Information Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Cristin Paul by phone at 919-668-1934 or by email at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
Monday, October 16th, 2006 :: 06:59 PM
Griffith Theater, Bryan Center
Film
L'esquive (A.Kechiche, 2003)
The second film of Kechiche draws its restless energy from its setting in the Parisian projects, recently the scene of widespread rioting by marginalized young second-generation immigrants. Tunisian-born Kechiche gets inside the head of a shy teenager (Osman Elkharraz), who overcomes the taunts of his friends to act in a school production of a classic 18th century play, if only to perform opposite the girl of his dreams. L’Esquive swept the French César Awards, winning Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Female Newcomer (Sara Forestier).
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Friday, October 06th, 2006 - Saturday, October 07th, 2006 :: 12:00 AM - 07:00 PM
Friday: Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2404 Erwin Road, Durham. Saturday: International House, 2022 Campus Drive, Durham.
Conference
Afro-Latinidad: Racism, Oil and Beauty in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil)
Keynote Speaker: Livio Sansone and Angela Figuereido, Centro de Estudios Afro-Orientais da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Friday at the Franklin Center, 12:30 pm lunch; 1:00 to 3:00 pm: The politics of black beauty in Salvador, Bahia and issues that relate racism to beauty; and 3:15 to 5:15 pm: The Bahian Counterpoint of Sugar and Oil: On the transition from the first to the second global commodity and its consequences for social and race relations in Bahia. Saturday, Informal conversation with speakers at the International House, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Sponsored by Department of African and Afro-American Studies, UNC; African and Afro-American Studies, Duke University; Afro-Latin American Working Group; Department of Romance Studies; Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
Wednesday, October 04th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
HASTAC: InFormation InCommon
Cathy N. Davidson, Mark Olson, and Victoria Szabo
Cathy N. Davidson, Interim Director and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English Mark Olson, Director or New Media and Information Technologies, John Hope Franklin Center Victoria Szabo, Program Director, Information Science + Information Studies/ISIS Sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute ----- A discussion of the international consortium HASTAC:( Humanities, Arts, Science Technology Advanced Collaboratory) with clips from the recent HASTAC webcast, Katrina: After the Storm, sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. The discussion will focus on Duke's role in the full year of distributed programing for the InFormation Year, culminating in a major international conference to be held at Duke in April. Please visit www.hastac.org for more information.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
Tuesday, October 03rd, 2006 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Seminar
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Keynote Speaker: Valerie Bunce, Cornell University
Seminar Title: The Diffusion of Democratization Through Electoral Revolutions in the Postcommunist World
Sponsored by Duke University Center For International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/
Tuesday, October 03rd, 2006 :: 11:45 AM - 01:00 PM
Sanford Institute, room 201
Lecture
Covering Highstakes Politics--the Jacob Zuma Story and Other South
Ben Said, Clive Menell Media Fellow
Ben Said is a South African television reporter working for eTV, an independent channel. He has been a journalist for 12 years, mainly in television and radio. His interests include South African politics and international relations. He is at Duke this fall as the Clive Menell Media Fellow at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He has recently closely covered the rise of Jacob Zuma as a serious contender to be the next President of South Africa. Zuma is a sharply divisive figure in South Africa. A leader in the struggle that toppled apartheid, he portrays himself as a friend of the poor. But his opponents see him as corrupt, uneducated, a hypocrite on HIV/Aids and a poor manager. Zuma, until July 2005 the Deputy President, has recently been acquitted of a charge of rape and this week two counts of corruption were struck off the court roll on account of prosecutorial delay. But last year the circumstantial evidence was strong enough for a judge to declare Zuma's relationship with a convicted associate "generally corrupt" and for President Mbeki to relieve him of his office as Deputy President. Ben Said will explain just how a man with this record stands on the brink of the Presidency and how this issue is harming governance and the ruling ANC. Ben is also willing to take any other questions you may have bearing on the media and high stakes politics in South Africa. A light lunch will be served.
Sponsored by COSA, the Concilium on Southern Africa, Duke University, the De Witt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. With special thanks to Laurie Bley
For more information, contact Katie Joyce by phone at 919-681-1698 or by email at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
RSVP requested by Tuesday September 26th 2006 .
Monday, October 02nd, 2006 :: 08:00 PM
Griffith Theater, Bryan Center
Documentary
Screen/Society--French & Francophone film series--"Mondovino"
Mondovino (J. Nossiter, 2004) - Wine has been a symbol of Western civilization for thousands of years. Never has the fight for its soul been as desperate. Never has there been so much money and pride at stake. But the battle lines are not what you'd expect: local versus multinational, simple peasant versus powerful captains of industry. In the world of wine, it is never the usual suspects. (Unlike is has been advertized some places, there will NOT be a wine-tasting, sorry!)
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video /Digital Program, with support from the Center for European Studies and the Center for Documentary studies
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html
Friday, September 29th, 2006 :: 08:00 PM
Outdoor Event on the New Bryan Center Student Plaza- (Rain site: Reynolds Theater)
Performance
Rodrigo y Gabriela, Dublin-based Mexican acoustic guitarists
Durham, NC - Rodrigo (Sanchez) and Gabriela (Quintero), two fast-fingered, Dublin-based, Mexicans with a unique sound created on acoustic guitars, will perform at Duke University on September 29, 2006. Hear them live at Duke prior to their US TV debut on CBS's Late Late Show on October 6. Having performed to sold-out crowds in Europe, this young guitar duo is embarking on their first solo tour of the U.S. this fall, in association with the release of their self titled album scheduled for release in the U.S. next month. The duos repertoire flies beyond familiar Latin folk guitarists styles because of the metal connection: their reworkings of Led Zeppelins Stairway to Heaven and Metallicas Orion are musts, and the presence, on Ixtapa, of the fiery Hungarian gypsy violinist, Roby Lakatos, is inspirational. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with timeless Hispano classical influences. The fire in it comes from their life-long passion for metal music.
Sponsored by Latino/a Studies
For more information, contact Jenny Snead Williams by phone at 919-684-4375 or by email at jennysw@duke.edu .
Tickets: $15 Reserved Seating; $5 Duke Students
Friday, September 29th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 06:15 PM
Multicultural Center, Bryan Center
Workshop
Coloniality at Large: From the Peripheries of the European Union (Romania, Hungary, and Ireland)
Manuela Boatca, Nicholas Allen, Jozsef Borocz
A workshop featuring Manuela Boatca (University of Eischtatt, Germany), Nicholas Allen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and Jozsef Borocz (Rutgers University, New Brunswick). The workshop will be followed by an informal conversation at UNC on Saturday, September 30th from 10 am to 1 pm (Conference Room, International Studies, UNC—across the street from the Planetarium). Contact the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities for full workshop schedule, paper abstracts, and other information (www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/).
Sponsored by The Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke and the Working Group on Globalization, Modernity, and Coloniality at the Duke-UNC Consortium on Latin American Studies
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/news.html?cal=cgsh
Thursday, September 28th, 2006 :: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 028
Working Group/Reading Club
Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission Report Working Group-1st gathering
This is a working group/”reading club” dedicated to considering the Commission’s Report and its implications for Duke University.
Sponsored by Sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Initiative (DHRI)
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
URL: http://http://www.duke.edu/web/rightsatduke/blogs.html
Thursday, September 28th, 2006 :: 04:30 PM
Perkins Library Rare Book Room
Reading/Signing
The Sea Captain's Wife: a True Story of Love, Race, and War in the 19th Century.
Martha Hodes, History, New York University
Martha Hodes will read from her recently published book The Sea Captain's Wife: a True Story of Love, Race, and War in the 19th Century. Light refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by Library's Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture with the Department of History, the African & African American Studies Program, the Program in Women's Studies and the Institute for Critical U.S. Studies.
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at christina.chia@duke.edu .
Thursday, September 28th, 2006 :: 04:00 PM
108 East Duke Building
Lecture
Conceptions in Contemporary African Art
Salah Hassan, Director, Africana Studies and Professor, Art History Cornell University
Sponsored by African and African American Studies and the Department of Art and Art History
For more information, contact Connie Blackmore by phone at 919-684-5140 or by email at blackmor@duke.edu .
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
Portraying a Social Disaster: How the Media Makes Sense out of Chaos
Jon Pessah, Grant Farred, Angela Jarman
This panel will critically examine the media's scripting of our community's recent Social Disaster, and the specific ways in which nuance and complexity are sacrificed in the name of expediency and intelligibility. As we must ask about the Social Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, how do we negotiate the damage that is done, not just by the "incident" itself, but by its representations? The panel will feature Grant Farred (Associate Professor of Literature, Duke); Jon Pessah, (Deputy Editor, ESPN The Magazine); and Angela Jarman (BA Women's Studies, 2006, Duke).
Sponsored by Institute for Critical US Studies (ICUSS)
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
Monday, September 25th, 2006 :: 08:00 PM
Griffith Theater, Bryan Center
Film
De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté - The Beat That My Heart Skipped
In French
Twenty-eight-year-old Tom (Romain Duris) seems destined to follow in his father's footsteps as a Parisian property shark, lost in a sleazy and sometimes brutal milieu. But a chance encounter with his late mother's music agent leads him to believe that he can become, like his mother, a concert pianist. In earnest, he starts preparing for the audition with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who has just arrived from China. She doesn't speak a word of French; music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle. Winner of numerous awards, including BAFTA, Berlin and César.
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
Tickets: Free and open to all
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Wednesdays At The Center
Mood Swings: The Aesthetics of Ambient Emergence
N. Katherine Hayles and Todd Gannon
Sponsored by Interface, the 2006-2007 John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Seminar
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Keynote Speaker: Duncan Snidal, University of Chicago
Seminar Title: The Choice of International Institutions: Cooperation, Alternatives and Strategies.
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 :: 05:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Career Information Session
State Department Careers and Internships
Renee Earle, U.S. State Department, Duke University
Do not miss this opportunity to meet with Renee Earle, the 2006-2008 Diplomat-in-Residence at Duke, and learn about the diverse range of careers available at the State Department. If you are unable to attend, or would like more information about the U.S. Department of State, visit the State Department website at careers.state.gov and click on: Keep Me Informed.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Renee Earle at renee.earle@duke.edu .
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, room 240
Lecture
ISIS TechTuesdays featuring Wayne Miller, Ken Hirsh, & Melanie Dunshee
Wayne Miller, Ken Hirsh, & Melanie Dunshee
ISIS TechTuesdays featuring Wayne Miller, Ken Hirsh, & Melanie Dunshee Wayne Miller (Director of Educational Technologies, Duke Law School), Ken Hirsh (Director of Computing Services, Duke Law School), and Melanie Dunshee (Deputy Director of the Law Library) will present on their innovative open access model for Duke University Law journals.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke/fhi/
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Wednesdays at the Center
Reflections on Mourning
Panel Discussion
A panel discussion on the "Picture Mourning" exhibit, featuring Karla FC Holloway, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English,Law, and Women's Studies; Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies; and James Tulsky, Associate Professor, Division of General Medicine.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center Gallery
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Seminar
University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy
Keynote Speaker: Jude Hays, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seminar Title: Globalization, Domestic Institutions and the New Politics of Embedded Liberalism. Background reading for the seminar will focus on: Government Spending and Public Support for Trade in The OECD, and can be found at www..jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm
Sponsored by Duke University Center For International Studies
For more information, contact Shelley Stonecipher at shelley.stonecipher@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 :: 05:30 PM
Kenneth T. Schiciano Auditorium, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
Lecture
Challenges in Health & Education: Tanzania and the World
His Excellency Benjamin W. Mkapa
His Excellency Benjamin W. Mkapa presents the von der Heyden endowed lecture Challenges in Health & Education: Tanzania and the World on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 5:30pm in the Kenneth T. Schiciano Auditorium, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University Open to the public. Parking available in the Bryan Center parking lot.
For more information, contact Christy Parrish by phone at 919-684-2910 or by email at christy.parrish@duke.edu .
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 - Friday, September 29th, 2006 :: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Mars Gallery in Duke North
Art Exhibit
"Musing" and "Catch the Springfield Clark County Spirit" by Cristin Paul
Cristin Paul, Program Coordinator for ISIS at the John Hope Franklin Center
ISIS Program Coordinator Cristin Paul has received 2 awards for black and white photographs she entered in the Duke Employee Art Show. "Musing" won First Prize and "Catch the Springfield Clark County Spirit" won an Honorable Mention. They can be seen, along with the other entries, in the Mars Gallery in Duke North (follow the hallway to the right of the elevators until you see the glass cases on the left). Cristin's temporary website can be viewed here: www.duke.edu/~cmryman.
For more information, contact Robin Crow by phone at 919-668-3451 or by email at robin.crow@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/~cmryman
Monday, September 11th, 2006 - Saturday, October 14th, 2006 :: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center Gallery
Exhibition
Picture Mourning
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Robin Crow by phone at 919-668-3451 or by email at robin.crow@duke.edu .
Sunday, September 10th, 2006 :: 03:00 PM
Freeman Center for Jewish Life
Lecture
Shmuel Trigano: The Future of Jews in France - Lecture in English
Shmuel Trigano is a professor of religious and political sociology at Paris X- Nanterre and acts as president of l’Observatoire du monde juif as well as director of the Collège des études juives of the Alliance israélite universelle. He has published numerous works including L’E(xc)lu (Denoël, 2003), La démission de la République: Juifs et musulmans en France (P.U.F., 2003), Qu’est-ce que la religion? (Flammarion, 2001), Le monothéisme est un humanisme (Odile Jacob, 2000), and most recently L'avenir des Juifs de France (Grasset, 2006). Lecture organized by the Department of Religious Studies at UNC and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke.
Sponsored by Department of Religious Studies at UNC and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke
For more information, contact Marion Monson by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at marion.monson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html
Friday, September 08th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
D106 LSRC
Forum
Visualization Friday Forum: Stanford's iTunes Project
Victoria Szabo, Information Science + Information Studies, Duke University
Victoria Szabo, Program Director of Information Science + Information Studies recently joined Duke from Stanford, where she helped lead Stanford's equivalent of the Duke Digital Initiative. Come learn the trade secrets (and pedagogical underpinnings) of Stanford's iTunes collaboration with Apple. This session will describe how the project was conceptualized for various campus audiences, and how it fostered collaboration among folks who normally never saw or spoke to one another. We'll pay special attention to how the idea of serving the 'millennial student' catalyzed discussion among librarians, teaching and learning staff, tech infrastructure and networking folks, faculty, parents, administrators, alums, development officers, as well as random members of the online community.
For more information, contact Robin Crow by phone at 919-668-3451 or by email at robin.crow@duke.edu .
URL: http://vis.duke.edu/FridayForum/06Fall.html
Wednesday, September 06th, 2006 :: 12:00 AM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center - Room # 240
Wednesdays at the Center
Mirror to America
John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center, John Hope Franklin Scholars Program, African and African American Studies Program, and The Department of History
For more information, contact Grant Samuelsen by phone at 919-684-6469 or by email at grant.samuelsen@duke.edu .
Wednesday, June 07th, 2006 - Thursday, June 08th, 2006 :: 09:30 AM - 06:00 PM
Rooms 230 and 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Conference
Thinking Through New Media: Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
This is an international graduate student conference dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of digital technologies and their impact on art, culture, science, commerce, society, and the environment. The purpose of the Thinking Through New Media workshop is to build an interdisciplinary graduate student community around new media scholarship and to introduce participants to HASTAC (pronounced “haystack”), ISIS, and RENCI.
Sponsored by Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC); Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS); and the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
For more information, contact Cristin Paul at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://isis.duke.edu/events/TTNM/
Friday, May 19th, 2006 - Saturday, May 20th, 2006 :: 09:00 AM
Room 240, John Hope Frankin Center
Conference
Mapping Difference
The conference proposes to investigate the categories and structures that have exercised a generative power over the production of knowledge about the world over the last three centuries. Drawing on a range of disciplines, specializations, and locations, workshop participants will look at the way in which categories used to generate a knowledge of the world at one historic moment are often reemployed, transformed, captured in others for ends unanticipated by their progenitors. The workshop will also address a variety of structures--academic, cultural and political--and their power to describe, organize, direct and indeed constitute coherent understandings at moments of change, collective mobilization, anxiety and resistance to change. While at a superficial level connections between these structural changes and attempts at new cultural landscapes may not be obvious, the organizers of this workshop suggest that they operate at a deeper level that can be elucidated through global/comparative analyses of specific themes. The conference will try to address causal connections, specific ligatures of wide-ranging changes and categorial innovations with regional/national history. The program will begin at 9 AM on May 19 with the panel discussion *Towards a Totalization of Schemes of Knowledge Production,* featuring Thierry Labica (University of Xian), and Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). After lunch the program will continue at 2:45 PM with a discussion of *Anti-universalist Universalism in the Orients of Europe,* featuring Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), and Firat Oruc (Duke University). For a full schedule of events please visit the APSI events website.
Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and the Department of History
For more information, contact Debbie Hunt by phone at 919-684-2604 or by email at ddhunt@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/APSI/events/conferences.html
Friday, April 28th, 2006 - Saturday, April 29th, 2006 :: 02:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Seminar
Shifting the Geo-graphy and Bio-graphy of Knowledge
Keynote Speaker: Taieb Belghazi (University of Rabat, Morocco) and Gertrude M. James Gonzalez de Allen (Spelman College, Atlanta)
The seminar will open on 4/28 with an address at 2 PM by Taieb Belghazi entitled *Subaltern Geopolitical Praxis in the New Global Arrangements: Harragas & hard Rockers in Morocco.* miriam cooke and Leo Ching will respond. The seminar will continue on April 29 at 10 AM with a lecture by Gertrude M. James González de Allen entitled *Transnational Transgressions: Reflections on the Shifting Dimensions of Afro-Latin Identity.* Robert L. Adams and Talia Weltman will respond. Abstracts are available at http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/programs.html
Sponsored by Center for Global Studies and the Humanities and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Research
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/programs.html
Friday, April 28th, 2006 :: 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM
John Hope Franklin Center, Basement 028
Lecture
Academic discussion about the New Left in Mexico & Latin America and its relationship to immigration issues in the U.S.
Talía Vazquez Alatorre
Talía Vazquez Alatorre is Migrant Outreach Coordinator for center left PRD Presidential Candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a likely winner of this year*s election in Mexico. We invite all faculty, and students, as well as members interested in the academic dimension of these issues, to join us for this event. We will also be celebrating to welcome Jenny Snead Williams in her new position as full-time coordinator of Latino/a Studies at Duke, and take this as a house warming for the Initiative*s new home at the Franklin Center.
Sponsored by Latino/a Studies Initiative at Duke
For more information, contact Jenny Snead Williams by phone at 919-681-3981 or by email at jennysw@duke.edu .
Monday, April 24th, 2006 :: 03:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
Reflections on Activism, Global Health & Human Rights
Pooja Kumar, Rhodes Scholar and Duke graduate (2001)
Ms. Kumar is a 2001 graduate of Duke University where she was an A.B. Duke Memorial Scholar and magna cum laude. She created her own Program II on International Health Policy and Social Values. She is currently a third-year medical student at Harvard and a Rhodes Scholar, Oxford where she received an MSc in 2005. Her work experiences have included stints with McKinsey and Company, Médicins San Frontières, World Health Organization, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Harvard School of Public Health, International Rescue Committee, UNCIEF, Save the Children, and Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, India. While at Duke she received a Hart Fellowship (2001), the Benenson Award in Photography (2001), the John Hope Franklin Award for documentary photography (2000), and a DUCIS Undergraduate award for international research (2000).
Sponsored by the Duke Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski by phone at 919-684-2765 or by email at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Monday, April 24th, 2006 :: 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Seminar
Whitehead Today: Whitehead*s Poetical Mathematics
Keynote Speaker: Sha Xin Wei, Concordia University, Montreal
A distinguished group of scholars will discuss the significance of Alfred North Whitehead*s philosophy of organism in a wide range of areas of contemporary concern. The discussion will consist of a series of webcast symposia taking place at Stanford University (Friday, April 21), Duke University (Monday, April 24) and the University at Buffalo, SUNY (Friday, April 28), and will focus on the relevance of Whitehead*s work to current issues in science and technology studies. We intend that these discussions seed additional collaborative projects related to considerations of Whitehead. Join us at the John Hope Franklin Center, Room 230, 1 PM, April 21, 24, and 28 to view each session, or register free and take part in the webcast sessions from your own laptop or PC. Respondents to the April 24 session speaker will be Arkady Plotnitsky (Purdue University) and Henry Stapp (UC Berkeley).
Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, the Jenkins Collaboratory at Duke University, and the Franklin Humanities Institute, University at Buffalo, SUNY, in association with HASTAC
For more information, contact Sara Gronewold at sgrone@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/jenkins/whitehead/registration.htm
Registration required by Monday April 24th 2006 .
Monday, April 24th, 2006 :: 11:00 AM - 02:45 PM
Room 130, John Hope Franklin Center
Workshop on Tony Judt*s *Postwar: A History of Eur
Tony Judt Workshop: Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945
Malachi Hacohen and Herbert Kitschelt, History and Political Science, Duke University
The Center for European Studies is sponsoring a discussion of Tony Judt's *Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945.* This discussion is being held in preparation for an invitation for Judt to visit Duke in the coming fall 2006 semester.
Sponsored by Center for European Studies
For more information, contact Sharon Peters at sharon.peters@duke.edu .
Friday, April 21st, 2006 :: 02:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
Refugees Returning to Liberia: From Liability to Leadership
John Cairns, Board Member, Center for the Victims of Torture & Duke Law (1966)
Join us to learn more about the important role of non-governmental organizations in conflict resolution, reconciliation and country reconstruction. Mr. Cairns will discuss, as well, how individuals can involve themselves. John Cairns is a Duke law graduate (1966) and serves on the board of the Center for Victims of Torture http://www.cvt.org/main.php) while his wife, Sonia Cairns, is chair of the American Refugee Committee board (http://www.arcrelief.org/site/PageServer). Cairns is a shareholder in the firms of Briggs and Morgan, Profession Association, based in its Minneapolis office. His work is with public and private entities, including the formation of non-profit organizations.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Friday, April 21st, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Room 130/32, John Hope Franklin Center
Artists in Conversation
Poetry & Translation
Rosemarie Waldrop, Juliette Valéry, and Emmanuel Hocquard, American and French poets and translators
Lunch will be provided; rsvp to r.sikorski@duke.edu. Parking is available in the Medical Center parking garages; coupons will be provided.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies with additional support from the Center for European Studies, the Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Desert City Poetry Series
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
RSVP requested by Monday April 10th 2006 .
Friday, April 21st, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Room 130-2, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
Poetry & Translation
Rosemarie Waldrop, Juliette Valéry and Emmanuel Hocquard
Part of the Duke University Artists in Conversation series.
Sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the Center for French and Francophone Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
RSVP requested by Friday April 21st 2006 .
Thursday, April 20th, 2006 :: 04:00 PM
Room 130-2, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
China, For Example
Teemu Ruskola, American University, Washington College of Law
This presentation will take as its point of departure the introduction of Western international law into China in the nineteenth-century. It will examine the implications of that process for understanding law, sovereignty, and knowledge, with reference also to earlier cultural encounters between China and Europe, such as the Jesuit missionary enterprise.
Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
For more information, contact Elizabeth K. Gill by phone at 919-684-2604 or by email at gillek@duke.edu .
Thursday, April 20th, 2006 :: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 130, John Hope Franklin Center
Workshop
Morphologies: Race in Digital Culture: Workshop on Latino/a Studies
Jennifer Gonzalez, Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Jennifer Gonzalez is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work examines contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, museums and material culture studies, and public and activist art in the U.S. since 1960. Recently, she co-authored Christian Marclay (Phaidon Press, 2005) and co-edited Shock and Awe: War on Words (The New Pacific Press, 2004). Her essays have appeared in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2003), Art/Women/California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections (2002), and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). A former Whitney Museum of Art fellow, she has received numerous grants, including two from the Ford Foundation.
Sponsored by Critical U.S. Studies
For more information, contact Caroline Light at carolinelight@hotmail.com .
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 :: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
East Duke 108, Duke University
Lecture
¿Qué Es Mas Macho?: Race and Masculinity in Contemporary Chicano/Latino Art
Jennifer Gonzalez, Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Jennifer Gonzalez is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work examines contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, museums and material culture studies, and public and activist art in the U.S. since 1960. Recently, she co-authored Christian Marclay (Phaidon Press, 2005) and co-edited Shock and Awe: War on Words (The New Pacific Press, 2004). Her essays have appeared in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2003), Art/Women/California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections (2002), and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). A former Whitney Museum of Art fellow, she has received numerous grants, including two from the Ford Foundation. A related workshop will be held the next day on April 20th, 10:30 am – 12:00, in Room 130 of the John Hope Franklin Center.
Sponsored by Latino/a Studies working group and the Institute for Critical U.S. Studies
For more information, contact Caroline Light at carolinelight@hotmail.com .
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 :: 02:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
*Frames* Symposium
Framing Memory, Belonging, and Exclusion
Bayo Holsey, Orin Starn, and Tina Campt
Bayo Holsey will discuss *Fashioning Globality: The Future of Atlantic Pasts.* Linda Rupert will discuss *Missing Atlantic Diasporas on the *Other Side* of a Dutch Colonial Map.* Tina Campt will speak on *Framing the Archive: Reflections on a Black German Sounding Gallery.* The lectures will be followed by a discussion moderated by FHI Director Srinivas Aravamudan. This event is part of the 2005-2006 Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar*s year-end event: Frames: Imagining Indigeneity and Diaspora.
Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Anne Whisnant by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at anne.whisnant@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at The Center and *Frames* Symposium
Making History of at the National Museum of the American Indian
Paul Chaat Smith, Associate Curator, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C
Paul Chaat Smith will be introduced by Orin Starn, Professor of Anthropology at Duke. This event is also part of *Frames: Imaging Indigeneity and Diaspora,* the year-end celebration of the Franklin Humanities Seminar on *Epistemologies of Belonging.* 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. Hosted by Duke University*s John Hope Franklin Center and coordinated by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, all events in the series are free and open to the public. A light lunch is served beginning at 11:45 a.m. No reservations are necessary, and vouchers to cover parking costs in the Duke Medical Center parking decks are provided.
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute and the Franklin Seminar
For more information, contact Anne Whisnant by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at anne.whisnant@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/calendar.php?subcal=wed
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Screening and panel discussion
Screening Diasporic Visions
Leela Prasad and Karin Shapiro
Two documentaries will be screened, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers. The works are *Back and Forth: Two Generations of Indian Americans at Home* by Leela Prasad and *Double Vision: Stories of South Africans in North Carolina* by Karin Shapiro. This event is part of the 2005-2006 Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar's Year-End Event: Frames: Imagining Indigeneity and Diaspora.
Sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the John Hope Franklin Center.
For more information, contact Anne Whisnant by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at anne.whisnant@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/
Friday, April 14th, 2006 - Saturday, April 15th, 2006 :: 09:15 AM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Conference
Translating Islam: 3rd Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Student Conference on Islamic Studies
The conference will begin at 9:15 AM on April 14 with breakfast and will continue with an address by Ibrahim Moosa entitled *Translations and Transition in Muslim Thought* at 10 AM. Panel discussions will continue throughout the day. On Saturday, April 15, the conference will resume at 10 AM with a panel discussion of *Questions of Language: Textuality, Circulation and Hegemony* and continue with a discussion of *Transreligion and the Local: The Case of South Asia* at 1:30 PM. A full schedule of events is available online
Sponsored by the Carolina Center for the Study of Middle East and Muslim Civilizations and the Center for the Study of Muslim Networks
For more information, contact Firat Oruc at fo@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.unc.edu/mideast/conf2006/conf2006.htm
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Panel Discussion
Thinking About This Social Disaster
Wahneema Lubiano (AAAS and Literature), Thavolia Glymph (AAAS and History), and Serena Sebring (Sociology)
The presenters will talk about what has happened, what is happening, and what is coming together in the framing of the accusation of rape against members of the Duke men*s lacrosse team and its afterlife. There will be plenty of time for audience members to be part of the discussion.
Sponsored by African and African American Studies
For more information, contact African and African American Studies by phone at 919-684-2830 .
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 :: 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at The Center
Special 4:30 p.m. Presentation by Dick Gordon
Dick Gordon, Host of *The Story with Dick Gordon,* North Carolina Public Radio
This special Wednesdays at The Center 4:30 p.m. presentation will be followed by a reception and exhibition opening in the Franklin Center Gallery space.
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Anne Whisnant by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at anne.whisnant@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/calendar.php?subcal=wed
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 :: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
Artist’s Talk with Ayanah Moor
Ayanah Moor
In addition, there will be an opening reception at 6PM in the Franklin Center Gallery.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at pamela.gutlon@duke.edu .
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 - Monday, May 15th, 2006 :: 02:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center Gallery
Exhibition
Still
Ayanah Moor
Images of women surrounding male rap stars in music videos are as common as the jewel-encrusted subject matter of today*s rap lyrics. Females are seen in packs hovering around male rap stars, playing the part of enthusiastic cheerleader or die-hard groupie. Rap music videos sell not only hip hop culture, but also the very image of women. They serve as eye candy designed to satisfy an assumed male video audience, affirming critiques of the culture as hyper masculine and misogynist. *Still* is a series of photographs from contemporary rap music videos. These artworks invite a second look at the hip hop video vixen, displaying an interest in moments unintended by music video narratives. Some stills reveal agency rather than victimization, while others provide reminders of the narrow representations of women in hip hop. The exhibit will be preceeded by an opening lecture with Ayanah Moor at 2 PM in room 240 of the Franklin Center.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at pamela.gutlon@duke.edu .
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at The Center
What*s Going On: A Katrina Update
Karen Jean Hunt and Charles Payne, Perkins Librarian, Duke University; Professor and Chair, Program in African and African American Studies, Duke University
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. Hosted by Duke University*s John Hope Franklin Center and coordinated by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, all events in the series are free and open to the public. A light lunch is served beginning at 11:45 a.m. No reservations are necessary, and vouchers to cover parking costs in the Duke Medical Center parking decks are provided.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Anne Whisnant by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at anne.whisnant@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/calendar.php?subcal=wed
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 :: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
133 Social Sciences Building
Seminar
Race-ing Through Intersections/Critical Mediations
Keynote Speaker: Antonio Viego and Mark Anthony Neal
The Race-ing Through Intersections working group, co-sponsored by the Center for Asian and Asian American Studies and the Institute for Critical US Studies, invites you to a discussion addressing ~Critical Mediations~ featuring guests Antonio Viego, of Literature and Romance Studies, and Mark Anthony Neal, of the African and African American Studies Program. Reading under discussion: Rey Chows chapter entitled *Keeping Them in Their Place* from *The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism,* available on the ICUSS website: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/icuss/asianamerstudies.php Please RSVP to Jolene Tam at Jolene.tam@duke.edu if you plan to attend.
Sponsored by Center for Asian and Asian American Studies and the Institute for Critical US Studies
For more information, contact Jolene Tam at jolene.tam@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/icuss/asianamerstudies.php
RSVP requested by Sunday April 09th 2006 .
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 :: 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Publishing Workshop
From Dissertation to Your First Book
Ken Wissoker and Courtney Berger, Editors, Duke University Press
This workshop, led by two editors from Duke University Press, will help participants think about the process of transforming a manuscript from a dissertation into a first scholarly book. Graduate students and faculty from throughout the Triangle are welcome.
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke University Press
For more information, contact Anne Whisnant by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at anne.whisnant@duke.edu .
Saturday, April 08th, 2006 - Sunday, April 09th, 2006 :: 09:00 AM
Room 130/132, John Hope Franklin Center
Workshop
Workshop on Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in Comparative Perspectives
Suzanne Berger, keynote speaker
The program will begin at 9 AM on April 8 with the keynote address entitled *Producing Globalization: The Results of the MIT Industrial Performance Center Globalization Project 1999-2004.* Lectures will continue throughout the day and continue on Sunday, April 9 at 9 AM with a lecture entitled *Industrial Upgrading and the Double-Binds of India*s FDI Policies* by Meenu Tewari.
Sponsored by the Asia/Pacific Studies Institute, the Comparative Politics Group in the Department of Political Science, and the Vice Provost for International Affairs
For more information, contact Debbie Hunt by phone at 919-684-2604 or by email at ddhunt@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/APSI/events/Conferences/FDI_Workshop_Program.pdf
Friday, April 07th, 2006 :: 08:00 AM - 05:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Conference
W(h)ither the Voting Rights Act? Agreements and Contestations in the Debate over its Renewal
Registration required. Please register online at http://www.ssri.duke.edu/SSRIConferences.php
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS)
For more information, contact Courtney Packard Orning by phone at 919-681-1972 or by email at courtney.orning@duke.edu .
Registration required by Friday April 07th 2006 .
Thursday, April 06th, 2006 :: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
To a Good Listener, Half a Word Will Do: Making Sense of Tracts, Rumours and Hate Speech in the DR Congo
Stephen Jackson, Social Sciences Research Council
Part of Duke University*s African Studies Workshop. The African Studies Workshop seeks to provide a space for conversation about Africa at Duke University bringing together scholars from a variety of fields in an inter-disciplinary forum. While primarily focused on the experiences of African societies emerging from histories of colonialism and uneven participation in the global economy, the workshop is also invested in the many ways in which Africa offers a new and critical reading of our world order--the crisis of liberalism, the rise of new religious constellations, neocolonialism and novel arrangements of capital.
For more information, contact Brian Goldstone at brian.goldstone@duke.edu .
Thursday, April 06th, 2006 :: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
The World the Plantations Made
Dale Tomich, Professor of Sociology and History, Binghamton University
This talk is part of the series *Race, Place and Space: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World,* organized by Michaeline Crichlow and Thavolia Glymph.
Sponsored by African & African American Studies Program
For more information, contact Connie Blackmore by phone at 919-684-5140 .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/
Thursday, April 06th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Colloquium
What is European Studies?
Kenneth Surin (Literature ); Joost Pauwlyn (Law School ); Michael Gillespie (Political Science ); and Tim Buthe (Political Science)
A light luncheon will be served.
Sponsored by the Duke Center for European Studies
For more information, contact Sharon Peters at sharon.peters@duke.edu .
URL: http://http:/www.duke.edu/web/european
Wednesday, April 05th, 2006 :: 05:00 PM
Student Amphitheater at Duke South, Duke Medical Center
Lecture
The Global Response to HIV/AIDS: an Activist’s Perspective
Zackie Achmat, Leading South African Human Rights and HIV/AIDS Activist and Chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)
This is the Karl von der Heyden Distinguished International Lecture. TAC was launched on 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day. Its main objective is to campaign for greater access to HIV treatment for all South Africans by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments.
Sponsored by Vice Provost Gilbert W. Merkx and Reverend Dr. Peter Storey
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
Wednesday, April 05th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Wednesdays at The Center
Wednesdays at The Center CANCELLED
Tina Campt*s Presentation Cancelled
Tina Campt*s Presentation on Picturing Us: Race, Diaspora and the Black European Photographic Subject has been CANCELLED. Wednesdays at The Center will resume on April 12th.
Sponsored by The Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Anne Whisnant by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at anne.whisnant@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/calendar.php?subcal=wed
Tuesday, April 04th, 2006 :: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Franklin Center 240, 2204 Erwin Road
Seminar: Globalization and Equity
The Transformation of Humanitarianism
Michael Barnett, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sponsored by DUCIS and the Duke International Relations Seminar
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
Tuesday, April 04th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
ISIS TechTuesdays featuring Rachael Brady
Rachael Brady, the Visualization Technology Group
Rachael Brady from the Visualization Technology Group will be presenting on the state of visualization research at Duke. Visualization applies the algorithms of computer graphics with the fields of perception and representation to visually communicate digital information. Visualization is used for presentations, art creation, data analysis, model validation, illustration, data exploration, entertainment, and cognitive studies. In particular, Rachael will be discussing her work on the new DiVE tank (Duke Immersive Virtual Environment).
Sponsored by Information Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Casey Alt by phone at 919-668-1932 or by email at caseyalt@duke.edu .
Friday, March 31st, 2006 :: 09:00 AM - 06:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Conference
Risk and Breakdown: Shifting the Study of Culture (Duke Cultural Anthropology Graduate Student Conference)
Keynote Speaker: David Graeber, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
The keynote speech of this conference is titled \\\"Alienation as the Shattering of the Imagination: a Tentative Critique of the Notion of Constituent Power.\\\" Graeber\\\'s publications include *Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams*, *Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology*, and \\\"The New Anarchists.\\\" Graeber*s forthcoming work is entitled, *Direct Action: An Ethnography.* Full conference schedule available at link below.
Sponsored by Duke Cultural Anthropology Graduate Students
For more information, contact Leigh Campoamor at leigh.campoamor@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.culturalanthropology.duke.edu/news/Riskandbreakdown.html
Thursday, March 30th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM
Room 230, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
Remember the Phantasmagoria: Visual Art of the 19th Century and its Future
Oliver Grau, Danube University Krems
The medium Phantasmagoria, developed from the Laterna Magica and part of the history of immersion, opened up the virtual depth of the image space for the first time as a sphere of dynamic changes. In contrast to the Panorama, the Phantasmagoria suggests that contact can be established to the psyche, the dead or artificial life forms. It is a model for the functioning of illusionism, a material image machine as basis of an art work that appears immaterial. In the Phantasmagoria, phenomena come together that we are again experiencing in contemporary art and visual representation - the talk will discuss a number of contemporary media artists.
For more information, contact Sara Gronewald at sgron@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/jenkins/images/Grau1.pdf
Thursday, March 30th, 2006 :: 12:00 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Lecture
The Arts, Activism and Iraq
Rahim Al-Haj
AlHaj will discuss music and musicians* experiences in Iraq, his experiences of exile and recuperation as an artist, of returning to post-Saddam Iraq, and of working as an artist for peace and justice.
Sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Initiative, Duke Performances, Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, Center for the Study of Muslim Networks, Ethnomusicology Working Group, and Asian & African Languages and Literature
For more information, contact Kathy Silbiger at ksilb@duke.edu .
Thursday, March 30th, 2006 :: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
130 John Hope Franklin Center
Seminar
U.S. Latino/a Studies Otherwise
Keynote Speaker: José David Saldívar, Departments of English and of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley
Professor Saldívar will lead a seminar discussion of the following essays (posted as pdfs on the Critical U.S. Studies website): 1. Walter D. Mignolo, Postface: After America, from *The Idea of Latin America,* (Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2005), pp149-162. 2. Anibel Quijano and Immanuela Wallerstein, Americanity as a Concept, or the Americas in the Modern World-System. 3. José David Saldívar, Border Thinking, Minoritized Studies, and Realist Interpellations: The Coloniality of Power from Gloria Anzaldua to Arundhati Roy, *I