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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 130
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays Featuring Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr.
Please see http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html for detailed description and for any updates or changes for this event.
For more information, contact Cristin Paul .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html


Thursday, April 16th, 2009 :: 08:00 PM
Page Auditorium
Performance
North African Roots Rock
Rachid Taha and Tinariwen
Taha mixes raï, techno, rock, and punk to sing Arabic wah-wah tunes about exile and racism. The combination of traditional and electronic instruments results in a sound like the Clash being backed up by bendir, the North African snare drum. He shares the bill with the stunning Tinariwen-the \\\"Best African Band\\\" of 2008 (Rolling Stone). In French and Tamashek, these dazzling nomad rockers sing hypnotic, tangled blues-poetry for Tuareg independence.
Sponsored by Duke Performances, DISC
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Thursday, April 16th, 2009 :: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Seminar
Global Governance and Democracy: Managing Financial Emergencies in an Integrating World
Keynote Speaker: Louis W. Pauly, University of Toronto
Free, Open to the public. The University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy presents Louis W. Pauly from the University of Toronto. For detailed descriptions and updates please see http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies, US Dept. of Education, and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs
For more information, contact Dan Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd


Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Wednesday at the Center- The Other Network: The Havana Biennal & the Global South, a succinct history (1984-2009)
Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Visiting Scholar, CLACS
Sponsored by Duke Center for Latin American Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Thursday, April 09th, 2009 :: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Seminar
King Holmes: Duke University Seminar on Global Health
AIDS/STD\\\'s: King Holmes, Chair, Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. The University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students from both the University and Duke Medicine to expand knowledge of global health. Speakers for the 2008-09 series are leaders in global health from Duke and other major universities.
Sponsored by Duke Global Health Institute and Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Joelle Rogers by phone at 919-681-7935 .
URL: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/news-events/calendar/april-9-2009


Wednesday, April 08th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Wednesday at the Center- Let Me Live in the Heights of My Time: Black Colleges and the Legacy of Idealism and Activism in Education
Jelani Favors, Assistant Professor of History, Morgan State University, Mellon HBCU Fellow, FHI
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 :: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Room 136 Social Sciences Building, Duke West Campus
Lecture
Islam in the Public Square -Islamic Reform through Human Rights: Legal and Theological Issues
Abdulaziz Sachedina and Mohsen Kadivar
Abdulaziz Sachedina is the Frances Myers Ball (Chair) Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, teaching mainly subjects associated with Islam. He has been a professor for 33 years, beginning in 1975. Cosponsor: Religion Department and Duke Human Rights Center
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies (DISC)
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Wednesday, April 01st, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Wednesday at the Center- Are Institutions Bad for Children? : A Five Country Study of Children Who Have Been Orphaned
Kathryn Whetten, Associate Professor of Public Policy
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies,Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Sunday, March 29th, 2009 :: 08:00 PM
Page Auditorium
Performance
Zakir Hussain and Pandit Shivkumar, Maestros in Concert
\\\"A living genius\\\" (NY Times), Hussain is the world\\\'s authority on the tabla, a percussion instrument made of hardwood, goatskin, and silver, while Sharma has enraptured audiences for 50 years with his skills on the santur, or hammered dulcimer. The two titans perform a program of North Indian classical compositions
Sponsored by Duke Performances, DISC
For more information, contact Aaron Greenwald by phone at 919-660-3357 .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Friday, March 27th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Room 139, Social Sciences Building, Duke West Campus
Lecture
Islam in the Public Square -Secularization, State Reliogiosity, and Cultural Duality: Findings from Values Surveys
Dr. Moaddel studies culture, ideology, political conflict, revolution and social change. His work currently focuses on the causes and consequences of values and attitudes of the Middle Eastern and Islamic publics. Cosponsor: Sociology Department
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies (DISC)
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Thursday, March 26th, 2009 :: 07:30 PM
Duke University
Lecture
Iraq
Meghan Sullivan, Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan
Sponsored by Triangle Institute for Security Studies, DISC
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Thursday, March 26th, 2009 :: 05:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 028
Seminar
Global Governance and Democracy: Islamic Party Participation in Parliamentary Elections
Keynote Speaker: Charles Kurzman, Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Free, Open to the Public. For detailed description and updates please see http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies, US Dept. 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://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd


Thursday, March 26th, 2009 :: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Law School, 3041
Lecture
Looking Deeper: What Darfur Tells Us about Genocide, International Criminal Law and the Future of a Country
Sponsored by Law School, DISC
For more information, contact Karyn Ridder by phone at 919-613-7159 .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Wednesday at the Center- Outlawing War: Competing Human Rights Perspectives
Noah Weisbord, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Human Rights Center and the Center for International and Comparative Law
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Friday, March 20th, 2009 :: 08:00 PM
Nelson Music Room
Performance
Ferhat Tunç, Kurdish recording artist, Laments for Rebels and Soldiers
Arrested in 2003 for one episode of outspoken protest and again in 2005 and 2007, Tunç is once more on trial in his native Turkey. Released temporarily, the fearlessly engaged Kurdish recording artist comes to Duke to sing lilting, string-spiked songs about state terror and reconciliation.
Sponsored by Duke Preformances , Duke Islamic Studies (DISC)
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Monday, March 16th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Room 201 Flowers Building
Lecture
Islam in the Public Square : Oil and Islam
Michael Ross
Michael Ross studies a range of issues that concern the developing world; he has a special interest in political economy, natural resource issues, democratization, and the states of Southeast Asia. Cosponsor: Comparative Politics workshop series
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies (DISC)
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Thursday, March 05th, 2009 :: 08:00 PM
Page Auditorium
Performance
World Premiere: Aswat (Voices): Celebrating the Golden Age of Arab Music
Simon Shaheen with Arab Orchestra, featuring Ibrahim Azzam, Sonia M’barek, Khalil Abonula & Rima Khcheich. Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 8pm Page Auditorium. This evening-length world premiere event revisits a high point in Middle Eastern music, the 1920s to the 1950s. Aswat features a 15-piece orchestra of traditional instruments; stunning vocalists from Palestine, Tunisia, and Lebanon; and projected video of Arab musical films long thought to be lost.
Sponsored by Duke Performances
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Wednesday, March 04th, 2009 :: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Seminar
Global Health Law, Lawrence Gostin: Duke University Seminar on Global Health
Global Health Law: Lawrence Gostin, O\\\'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University. The University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students from both the University and Duke Medicine to expand knowledge of global health. Speakers for the 2008-09 series are leaders in global health from Duke and other major universities.
Sponsored by Co-sponsors: Duke Global Health Institute and Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Joelle Rogers by phone at 919-681-7935 .
URL: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/news-events/calendar/march-4-2009


Wednesday, March 04th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Wednesday at the Center- The Life of the Undead: Biopower, Latino Anxiety, and the Epidemiological Paradox
Antonio Viego, Associate Professor of Literature and Director, Latino/a Studies
Sponsored by Program in Lation/a Studies in the Global South, Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Monday, March 02nd, 2009 :: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Room 4042, Duke Law School
Lecture
Islam in the Public Square :The Death of Islamic Law
Professor Hamoudi\\\'s scholarship focuses on commercial law, Islamic law, and the intersection of the two in the contemporary era. He has written for numerous law reviews, spoken at conferences sponsored by the MacMillan Center at Yale University, the American Association of Law Schools and the New York City Bar Association, and given interviews to various news organizations including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour Online and the New York Law Journal.Professor Hamoudi is also the author of a blog on Islamic Law entitled Islamic Law in Our Times. Cosponsor: Center for International and Comparative Law
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Friday, February 27th, 2009 - Saturday, February 28th, 2009 :: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Paul J. Rizzo Confernece Center at Meadowmont-(Please see URL for correct times)
Conference
American Grand Strategy After War: A Research Conference of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies
Cost: $75 registration fee This conference will examine the last fifty years of America\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s experience with modern post-war strategic debates. It will look at what happened following World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War, and conclude by thinking what a post-Iraq War domestic strategic environment might look like. The conference will be held at the Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center at Meadowmont.
Sponsored by Triangle Institute for Security Studies
For more information, contact Nicole McWhirter by phone at 919-613-9301 .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/
Tickets: $75.00 Registration fee Call: 919-613-9301


Thursday, February 26th, 2009 :: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Seminar
Global Governance and Democracy: Decisions without Borders? An Analysis of Transnational Citation Practices
Keynote Speaker: Erik Voeten, Georgetown University
Free, Open to the Public. The University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy presents Erik Voeten from Georgetown University. For detailed description and updates please see http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies, US Dept. of Education, and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs
For more information, contact Dan Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd


Thursday, February 26th, 2009 :: 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM
Room 204B East Duke Building, Duke East Campus
Lecture
Pens and Swords
Marda Dunsky teaches a media literacy course of her own design, Reporting the Arab and Muslim Worlds, at DePaul University in Chicago. She has been a working journalist and then a teaching journalist for 26 years. Her knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict also spans more than two decades. She made her first trip to the region in 1981 and her most recent in March 2008. She has observed Israeli and Palestinian societies from within as a traveler, working journalist and scholar. The melding of her journalism career and interest in Israel/Palestine was realized with the publication of Pens and Swords/How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Columbia University Press, 2008).
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies (DISC)
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Wednesday at the Center- International Students and Labor Struggles: A Case Study in the Light of the edu-factory Project
Brett Neilson, University of Western Sydney
Sponsored by International House, Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS Tech & New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays featuring Kate Hayles
Please see http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html for detailed description and for any updates and changes for this event
Sponsored by ISIS
For more information, contact Cristin Paul .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html


Friday, February 20th, 2009 - Saturday, February 21st, 2009 :: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
3009 FedEx Global Education Center, UNC ( Please see URL for 2-21-09 start time)
Seminar
Global Middle East Workshop
Speakers include: Charles Tripp, professor of politics, School of Oriental and African Studies; author of A History of Iraq and Islam; and The Moral Economy: the Challenge of Capitalism; James Gelvin, professor of history, UCLA;, author of Israel Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War; Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire; and From Modernization to Globalization: The United States, the Middle East, and the World Economy in the Twentieth Century (forthcoming); Valentine Moghadam, professor of sociology, Purdue University; author of From Patriarchy to Empowerment: Women\\\'s Participation, Movements, and Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia; Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks; Gendering Economic Reform: Women and Structural Change in the Middle East and North Africa; and Transitions and Gender in Socialist Societies: Market Reforms, Women, and Work; Cihan Tugal, professor of sociology, UC Berkeley; author of Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism (forthcoming).
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies (DISC)
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 :: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Room 311, Social Science Building, Duke West Campus
Lecture
Islam in the Public Square :The Economic Impact of the Hajj
Asim Ijaz Khwaja is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government. His areas of interest include economic development, corporate finance, education, political economy, industrial organization, contract theory, mechanism design, and computational economics. Combining fieldwork, micro-level empirical analysis, and theory, his recent work ranges from understanding political and informational constraints in emerging financial markets to examining the private education market in low-income countries. Cosponsor: Applied Microeconomics workshop series
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Wednesday at the Center- Global Movements: Report from the World Social Forum
Members of the 2008-09 FHI Annual Seminar: Alternative Political Imaginaries
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Friday, February 13th, 2009 - Saturday, February 14th, 2009 :: 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Duke University Campus
Conference
2009 Carolina and Duke Consortium Conference-The Idea of the Americas: Representation and Reality-(Please see web address for correct times and locations)
The Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies is pleased to present its annual conference. Funding is generously provided by the US Department of Education Title VI Program and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. All conference activities are free and open to the public. Featuring 15 panels, keynote presentations by Joanne Hershfield and Susan Harbage Page, a reception on Friday, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday! All Friday events will be held in the Franklin Center on the Duke campus in Durham, NC; all Saturday events will be held in the FedEx Global Education Center on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill, NC. The complete schedule of events can be found on the Consortium\\\'s Web site at http://isa.unc.edu/conference/2009%20Consortium%20Conference%20program.pdf All attendees (including all panel presenters) are required to register by Wednesday, February 4. There is no registration fee, but we need to get an accurate count for all catered meals. To register, go to http://isa.unc.edu/conference/2009.asp All conference events are free and open to the public. Please join us!
Sponsored by The Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
For more information, contact Natalie Hartman at njh@duke.edu or riefkohl@email.unc.edu .
URL: http://isa.unc.edu/conference/2009%20Consortium%20Conference%20program.pdf
Registration required by Wednesday February 04th 2009 .


Thursday, February 12th, 2009 :: 05:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 028
Seminar
Global Governance and Democracy: Who are the Europeans (and why does that matter for politics)?
Keynote Speaker: Neil Fligstein, University of California at Berkeley
Free, Open to the Public. For detailed description and updates please see http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies, US Dept. 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://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd


Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Wednesday at the Center- African-American Girls, Hip Hop, and the Culture of Listening at a Durham Boys and Girls Club: A Conversation Between Researcher and Informants
Jenny Woodruff, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Music, Duke; Students from the John Avery Boys and Girls Club, Durham
Sponsored by Department of Music ,Office of Community Affairs, Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 :: 07:00 PM
Carroll Auditorium, UNC
Lecture
The U.S. & Egypt
Joshua Stacher, Professor of political science, Kent State University
Part of the Great Decisions Program, UNC-CH
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies (DISC)
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lauren.braun@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Wednesday, February 04th, 2009 :: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Seminar
Child Nutrition, Robert Black: Duke University Seminar on Global Health
Child Nutrition: Robert Black, Chair, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. This seminar series is an important component of the Duke Global Health Institute¿s effort to bring together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students from both the University and Duke Medicine and expand the knowledge of global health. Speakers for the 2008-09 series are leaders in global health from Duke and other major universities.
Sponsored by Duke Global Health Institute and Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Joelle Rogers by phone at 919-681-7935 .
URL: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/news-events/calendar/february-4-2009


Wednesday, February 04th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Map of a Vanished Town: Recollecting the Palestinian Past through Biography
Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood (Broadway Books) and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century (forthcoming, Yale). Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, the Boston Globe, and on the World Service of the BBC. One of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, a small press that publishes the literature of the Levant, she lives in Jerusalem. Co-sponsors: Center for Jewish Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke Islamic Studies Center
For more information, contact Griet van Miegroet by phone at 919-668-6575 .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Wednesday, February 04th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Wednesday at the Center- Map of a Vanished Town: Recollecting the Palestinian Past through Biography
Adina Hoffman,, Essayist and Biographer
Sponsored by Center for Jewish Studies, the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, & the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Tuesday, February 03rd, 2009 :: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Perkins Library Rare Book Room
Lecture
Things on Which I\\\'ve Stumbled: Peter Cole reads from his new poems and translations
Peter Cole, a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, is the author of three books of poems, most recently Things on Which I\\\'ve Stumbled (New Directions). His many volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic include The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain (Princeton), J\\\'accuse, by Aharon Shabtai (New Directions), So What: New & Selected Poems, by Taha Muhammad Ali (Copper Canyon), and Hebrew Writers on Writing (Trinity). He lives in Jerusalem.
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies (DISC),The Center for Jewish studies, Duke University Center for International Studies, and the artist
For more information, contact Griet van Miegroet by phone at 919-668-6575 .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Thursday, January 29th, 2009 :: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Seminar
The University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy: Ties that Bind? Preferential Trade Agreements & Exchange Rate Policy Choice
Keynote Speaker: Jon Pevehouse, University of Chicago
Free, Open to the Public. For detailed description and updates please see http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies, US Dept. of Education, and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs
For more information, contact Dan Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd


Thursday, January 29th, 2009 :: 05:00 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Lecture
Why Are They Burning Schools? The Future of Education in Post-Colonial France
Jean Hébrard, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
***This lecture is in English*** One of the most surprising aspects of the 2005 banlieue insurrection in France was the fact that rioters frequently attacked and burned schools, libraries (like the one above), and gymnasium. In a country where public schools have long been seen as the major institutions responsible for the “integration” of a diverse population, these attacks represented a powerful provocation. To understand the actions of the adolescents (and sometimes children) who burned schools, we need to think about the ways in which schools in France have been given a double function: that of guaranteeing middle class children access to social positions based on their merit, and that of uniting a diverse population around a certain idea of the French nation. Is this model of education, developed and perfected during the Third and then the Fifth Republic in France, still effective in post-colonial France? If not, what are the alternatives?
Sponsored by The Center for French and Francophone Studies,The Department of Romance Studies,The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies ,and the Program in Atlantic Studies
For more information, contact Frederique Beaufils at fb23@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html


Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 :: 05:00 PM
Nasher Auditorium, Nasher Museum of Art
Keynote Event
Just Art?: The Place of Art in Rendering Justice
The Hon. Albie Sachs Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa will anchor The 2009 Keynote moderated by Prof. Catherine Adcock Admay \\\"Just Art?: The Place of Art in Rendering Justice\\\" Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:00 pm (seating available at 4:30 pm) Nasher Auditorium, Nasher Museum of Art Duke University To \\\"appreciate the alliance between justice and art\\\" and its relation to \\\"the fine art of persuasion,\\\" Justice Albie Sachs is \\\"the very best...guide.\\\" Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court \\\"We deliberately chose [a former prison] site for our new court building to emphasize where our constitution had come from, what its value signified, but also to show how you can transform negativity, rancor, hatred, division, strife, all that negative energy into positive energy. You do not deny it. You do not suppress it. You convert it. You transform it.\\\" 34 Conn. L. Rev. 1037, 1045-46 (2002) ALBIE SACHS began his legal career at the age of 21, was jailed twice by the apartheid government of South Africa, was forced into exile, and almost killed by a bomb placed in his car by South African security agents. Having lost one arm and the sight of one eye, he lived to return and negotiate the constitutional framework for transition and to be appointed by President Nelson Mandela to serve as a Justice on the newly established Constitutional Court. On the bench, he has helped to produce groundbreaking constitutional jurisprudence in the areas of social and economic and equality rights (writing the lead opinion in favor of same-sex marriage in 2005). He has also led the court in building an unusual courthouse and filling it with art. Why? In this talk we will explore why a Justice would see it as the province of his office to attend to \\\"how the law talks to and with people\\\" in many registers? What lies behind this unconventional, multilayered, and high-stakes approach to rendering justice? Sachs holds BA and LL.B degrees from the University of Cape Town, a PhD from Sussex University, and Honorary Doctorates of Law from the Universities of Southampton, York (Toronto), Antwerp, Ulster and the William Mitchell College of Law. He is the author of The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, dramatized for stage by The Royal Shakespeare Company. Another autobiographical book, The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter, is presently being dramatized for film. Reception to follow. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Nasher Museum lot. This event has been made possible by the generous support of: The Provost\\\'s Common Fund Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy Duke Center for International Development Duke Human Rights Center Duke Law School Duke University Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change Franklin Humanities Institute Kenan Institute for Ethics Nasher Museum of Art
For more information, contact Katie Joyce by phone at 919-681-1698 or by email at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa


Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Wednesday at the Center: Bail Out Biennial
elin o’Hara slavick, Distinguished Term Professor of Studio Art, UNC-CH; María DeGuzmán, Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature & Director of Latina/o Studies, UNC-CH; Stacy-Lynn Waddell, artist; David Tinapple, Digital Media Instructor, UNC-CH.
Sponsored by Duke Center for International Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 :: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
East Duke Parlors
Lecture
The Emergence of the Boyah Identity in the United Arab Emirates
Al-Qasimi is a Visiting Adjunct Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. This talk focuses on the recent emergence of the boyah identity in the United Arab Emirates. A lexicalization combining the English boy with the Arabic feminine suffix ah, the term boyah refers to expressions of butch/femme identities. Navigating national codes for sex/gender, boyah stylizations reappropriate men\\\'s national dress even as they accommodate the protocols of Islamic female dress in the United Arab Emirates. The talk draws on queer theory to consider the interaction of national formations and gendered subjectivities --including \\\"queered\\\" subjectivities -- in the context of the Emirati nationalist paradigm. Co-sponsors: Women\\\'s Studies Program and Sexuality Studies
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies (DISC)
For more information, contact melanie.mitchell@duke.edu at melanie.mitchell@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 :: 04:00 PM
Room 028 John Hope Franlin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Duke Campus
Lecture
Suriname: From the Torah to the Apinti Drums
Natascha Adama, Ph.D., Visiting scholar from the Dutch National Institute of Slavery and the Legacy of Slavery
Join us for the first in the Spring 2009 series of tertulias sponsored by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Suriname is a country where cultures and religions keep on colliding, morphing to something entirely unique, but at the same time struggling to remain authentic, to keep the old country and traditions alive. Dr. Adama will introduce Suriname and talk about how colonialism determines the future. The tertulias provide a forum for members of the Duke community to discuss their work related to Latin America and the Caribbean in an informal setting. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Free parking available across the street, behind the Pickens Health Clinic (no need to request permit from inside clinic).
Sponsored by Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
For more information, contact Natalie Hartman at njh@duke.edu .
URL: http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/


Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, room 240
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesday featuring Allison Clark of HASTAC- OurComixGrid: A Method of Multimodel Learning
Bio: Allison Clark is a research scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Clark explores the feasibility of using technology to create self-sustained interdisciplinary communities of collaboration involving technologists, social scientists, artists and humanists from around the world. Her research interests include examining culturally specific approaches, particularly the combination of information technology with hip-hop culture, as an intervention strategy to aide in the creation of digital literacy for youth. Visit the Tech and New Media Tuesday website and schedule. Visit the Information Science + Information Studies website. 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 minute project presentation followed by an open discussion. Lunch is provided at each meeting. Parking vouchers are provided for the Medical Center parking decks. Apple iCal us
For more information, contact Cristin Paul at cristin. paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/index.html


Monday, January 26th, 2009 :: 06:00 PM - 06:45 PM
Griffith Film Theater in the Bryan Center on Duke\\\'s West Campus
Film
Face to Face: A dialogue about copyright, public domain, and filmmaking with public domain expert Jennifer Jenkins and independent filmmaker Nina Paley
***FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC*** Face to Face: A dialogue about copyright, public domain, and independent filmmaking.\\\"-- Featuring Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke University\\\'s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and independent filmmaker Nina Paley, whose experiences and challenges in trying to get music clearances for 1920s songs for her animated film, \\\"Sita Sings the Blues\\\", have led her to become deeply interested in copyright and pulic domain issues. -- Further info: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd + http://sitasingstheblues.com + http://www.questioncopyright.org/nina_paley_sita_interview ... -- Related Event: a screening and discussion of \\\"Sita Sings the Blues\\\" will follow, at 7pm!
Sponsored by Film, Video, Digital Program and Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Okazaki, Hank .
URL: http://fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php


Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 :: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Exodus: A Sudanese Refugee s Journey - Nyuol Tong
Nyuol Tong was born in 1991 during the Second Sudanese civil war, in Bahr el Ghazal, a border region that separates Northern and Southern Sudan. His earliest memories include his family ordeal in the civil war, conflict with the militia and family exodus. As a public speaker, he will share his personal ordeal, offering his personal perspectives on the future of Sudan. Commentator: Maab Ibrahim, a freshman at Duke, is both a Reginaldo Howard and Baldwin Scholar. She offers her own experience as a African-Arab Sudanese American. Her unique perspective of the Sudanese identity and race relations has evolved from visits to Northern Sudan each summer and academic research projects. Her father currently resides in Khartoum. Moderator: Steve Schmulenson is a junior at Duke majoring in Arabic and in International and Comparative studies with a focus on the Middle East.
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies (DISC)
For more information, contact mbayelo@duke.edu by phone at 919-660-4356 or by email at mbayelo@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/


Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Wednesday at the Center: A Conversation with Shen Wei
Shen Wei, Director, Shen Wei Dance Arts and Jennifer Brody, Professor of African and African American Studies, Duke.
Sponsored by Duke Performances , Vice Provost for the Arts, Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Thursday, January 15th, 2009 :: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Seminar
Global Governance and Democracy: The Tragedy of the Global Institutional Commons
Keynote Speaker: Daniel Drezner, Tufts University
Free, Open to the public. The University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy presents Professor Daniel Drezner from Tufts University. For detailed description and updates please see http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies, US Dept. of Education, and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs
For more information, contact Dan Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/seminars/ggd


Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 :: 07:00 PM
Room 240, Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Duke Campus
Film and Discussion Series
Memory, Conflict, and Disregard: The Ruin of History
Oscar Pedraza and Fabio Lopez de la Roche
Part of the Colombia: the Presence of the Impossible film and discussion series. Organized by Diana Gomez and Miguel Rojas-Sotelo. This session will focus on the role of the media and alternative writings of Colombia\\\'s recent history through memory with guest speakers Fabio Lopez de la Roche and Oscar Pedraza. \\\"Mass Media, democracy and political culture in Colombia during Uribe\\\'s era: realities, fictions, challenges\\\" By Fabio Lopez The presentation points out some of the problems of the Colombian communication system emphasizing the communicative policy of Uribe\\\'s government and its relationships with private and public mass media. The problems of governmental propaganda, the realities and fictions of Uribe\\\'s policy of \\\"Democratic Security\\\" in the presidential discourse, but also in the discourse of mass media, as well as possible ways to encourage and consolidate practices of Citizenship with regard to mass media and journalism, will be some of the topics analyzed and discussed by Professor Lopez de la Roche. Some short television-news stories will illustrate some of the hypotheses developed by the speaker. \\\"Sons and Daughters for memory and against impunity\\\" By Oscar Pedraza Hijos e Hijas/Sons and Daughters is a social organization where sons and daughters of disappeared and murdered victims find a place to share and participate actively in actions towards truth and justice. Their objective is to use memory as a tool to re-inscribe personal and collective stories into the main stream of the official Colombian history. Through performance, concerts, poetry, meetings, and supervision of the legal cases of their parents, Hijos e Hijas accomplishes their mission. Additionally, they maintain a comfort zone for those children that had suffered persecution and the disappearance of their parents. For them an open and public discussion and the recognition of the conflict in all its dimensions are fundamental in reaching a stage in which memory, justice, and reparation can be achieved. Films \\\"El Baile Rojo: El exterminio de la UP\\\" / The Red Dance: the annihilation of the UP\\\" by Yezid Campos (Colombia, 2004). 57min Synopsis: It is the first film that explores the annihilation of the Union Patriótica, a leftist political party that emerged as part of the peace process in mid 1980s (it was the political arm of the FARC in their intent to return to civilian life). The title comes from the name of the operation that eradicated three thousand members of the party from 1987 to 1991. The film presents dozens of interviews with survivors of the killings and some of the former leaders in exile. Only ten out of thousands of cases have been solved by the justice system. & \\\"Hijos e Hijas: Todos somos Colombia\\\" by Hijos e Hijas. 10min Parking behind Franklin Center at Pickens Family Health Center (Free after 6pm) Food will be served! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fabio Lopez de la Roche. BA and Master of Arts in Universal History from the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Russia (1984). Master in Political Science, Universidad Externado de Colombia (1993). PhD candidate at the Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh (2008). Currently is Associate Professor at the Instituto de Estudos Políticos y Relaciones Iinternacionales, IEPRI (on leave). Founding member of the MA in Cultural Studies , National University, Colombia and had served as Director of the Instituto de Estudios en Comunicación y Cultura, IECO. Lopez de la Roche has written several articles on Twentieth Century Colombian political and cultural history. Since 1994 he has been working in communication and media studies, integrating interdisciplinary perspectives, from political science, communication, and journalism to analyze the cultural and political influence of the mass media. Oscar Humberto Pedraza Vargas. Historian and anthropologist (Master in social anthropology) from the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. Currently Professor at Universidad Rosario y Externado de Colombia. Member of Sons and Daughters for memory and against impunity since 2006. Currently enrolled in the M.A in Historical Studies program at the New School for Social Research (NSSR). Pedraza\\\'s research focuses on social movements, natural resources, peasant movements, the left and social alternatives. His Master thesis, entitled \\\"Movimientos sociales, hegemonía y petróleo en Casanare” (Social Movements, hegemony and oil in Casanare), explores the relationship between the BP company, the peasants in the main zones of oil exploitation and the emergence of paramilitary groups. He also works on the importance of memory in the construction of history.
Sponsored by Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Duke Human Rights Center
For more information, contact rojaszotelo@gmail.com at rojaszotelo@gmail.com .


Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 :: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Seminar
Daniel Schmitt: Duke University Seminar on Global Health
Dr. Daniel Schmitt, Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, Topic: TBD The University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students from both the University and Duke Medicine to expand the interest and knowledge of global health. Speakers for the 2008-09 series are leading figures in global health from Duke and other major universities.
Sponsored by Duke Global Health Institute and Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Joelle Rogers by phone at 919-681-7935 .
URL: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/news-events/calendar/january-14-2009


Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays featuring Nick Gessler
Please see http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html for detailed description and for any updates or changes for this event.
For more information, contact Cristin Paul .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html


Friday, January 09th, 2009 :: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
119 Social Sciences, West Campus
Lecture
Islamic Law and Finance: Regulatory Substance and Incoherent Jurisprudence
Mahmound A. El-Gamal, Professor ,Rice University in Houston, TX
Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Ph.D is Professor of Economics and Statistics at Rice University in Houston, TX, where he is currently Chair of the Department of Economics and also holds the endowed Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance, and Management. Before joining Rice in 1998, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He has also worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester, and the California Institute of Technology, and as an Economist in the Middle East Department at the International Monetary Fund, responsible for the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the promising years of the Oslo Accords. In the second half of 2004, he served as Scholar in Residence on Islamic Finance at the U.S. Department of Treasury. He has published extensively in the areas of econometrics, economic dynamics, risk and uncertainty, financial economics and econometrics, economics of the Middle East, and the economic analysis of Islamic Law. His recent books include a 1500-page translation Financial Transactions in Islamic Jurisprudence, Dar al-Fikr, 2003, and the Choice Magazine (outstanding academic title, 2007) award-winning Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2006
Sponsored by Co-sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center and History of Political Economy (HOPE) Workshop Series
For more information, contact Lauren Braun at lab34@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm


Thursday, December 04th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Seminar
Global Governance and Democracy - World Economy, World Society, and Environmental Harms in Less-Developed Countries
Keynote Speaker: Andrew K. Jorgenson , North Carolina State University
Sponsored by Co-sponsors: Duke University Center for International Studies and John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Dan Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://maps.duke.edu/building.php?bid=7510


Wednesday, December 03rd, 2008 :: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Seminar
Tom Quinn: Duke University Seminar on Global Health
Dr. Tom Quinn, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, Topic: TBD. The University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students from both the University and Duke Medicine to expand knowledge of global health. Speakers for the 2008-09 series are leading figures in global health from Duke and other major universities.
Sponsored by Duke Global Health Institute and Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Joelle Rogers by phone at 919-681-7935 .
URL: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/news-events/calendar/december-3-2008


Wednesday, December 03rd, 2008 - Thursday, December 04th, 2008 :: 04:00 PM
Perkins Rare Book Room
FACULTY BOOKWATCH
Faculty Bookwatch- Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War
After Thanksgiving, on Wednesday, December 3, 4pm (Perkins Rare Book Room), the FHI and the Duke University Libraries will co-host a Faculty Bookwatch panel discussion on Intensely Human: the Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War, a new book by Prof. Margaret Humphreys of Duke\\\'s Department of History. Joining Prof. Humphreys in this discussion will be: Robert Cook-Deegan (IGSP, Duke), Thavolia Glymph (History & African & African-American Studies, Duke), Todd Savitt (Medical Humanities, East Carolina U), and Priscilla Wald (English & Women\\\'s Studies, Duke). A book sale & reception will follow. Additional co-sponsors will be announced shortly. For a full listing of these and other FHI events, including Fall 2008 Wednesdays at the Center programs, please visit: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/category/fhi-calendar/
For more information, contact Chris Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/2008/12/faculty-bookwatch-on-margaret-humphreyss-intensely-human-wed-decembe


Tuesday, December 02nd, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays featuring Timothy Lenoir
Please see http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html for detailed description and for any updates and changes for this event.
For more information, contact Cristin Paul .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html


Friday, November 21st, 2008 :: 08:00 PM
Baldwin Auditorium, East Duke Campus
Performance
Djembe and Afro-Cubal Ensembles - Bradley Simmons, Director
Monti Ellison
*Free and open to the public* Duke University Djembe and Afro-Cuban Ensembles perform with master drummer Monti Ellison. Mr. Ellison specializes in several drumming traditions (African, Cuban, Brazilian and Haitian), and was once head staff musician for the Alvin Ailey School in NYC. Besides accompanying dance rehearsals there daily, he was involved in a program offering dance classes to blind adults. Currently he\\\'s an accompanist with a number of dance programs in southern California, including Loyola Marymount, CSU-Long Beach, Orange Coast College and St. Joseph\\\'s Ballet, and performs with a number of other professional ensembles.
Sponsored by Duke Univeristy Department of Music and Co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, African and African American Studies, and the John Hope Franklin Center.
For more information, contact Natalie Hartman .


Thursday, November 20th, 2008 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
327 Social Sciences, West Campus
Lecture
RANDI DEGUILHEM: Waqfs and Property rights in Ottomon Damascus
Please see http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/index.html for detailed description and for any updates and changes for this event. This event is co-sponsored by Economics, (http://www.econ.duke.edu/) Duke-UNC Economic History Workshop
For more information, contact Kelly Jarrett at kjj1@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/index.html


Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 :: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Seminar
Battling AIDS in India: Duke University Seminar on Global Health
Keynote Speaker: Prabhat Jha, Centre for Global Health Research, University of Toronto
The University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students from both the University and Duke Medicine to expand the interest and knowledge of global health. Speakers for the 2008-09 series are leading figures in global health from Duke and other major universities.
Sponsored by Duke Global Health Institute and Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Joelle Rogers by phone at 919-681-7635 .
URL: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/news-events/calendar/november-19-2008


Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Wednesdays at the Center - Brazilian Popular Music: Samba to Hip-Hop
Tom Moore, Music Librarian and Director of Collegium Musicum, Duke
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, John Hope Franklin Center and Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies
For more information, contact 919-668-1901 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/wednesdays-at-the-center/


Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 :: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Africa\\\'s Place-in-theWorld: James Ferguson and Achille Mbembe in Conversation
The Concilium on Southern Africa is extremely pleased to announce an upcoming public conversation between distinguished scholars James Ferguson, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University and Achille Mbembe, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Anne-Maria Makhulu from Duke Univeristy will be the moderator. *Reception to Follow*
Sponsored by CONCILIUM ON SOUTHERN AFRICA (COSA)
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/


Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech and New Media Tuesdays featuring Sean Aery and Will Sexton
Please see http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html for a detailed description and for any updates or changes for this event.
For more information, contact Cristin Paul .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/techtuesdays.html


Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130
Lunch Conversation
Globalization and the Artist Lunch Conversation Featuring Martin von Haselberg and David A. Ross
Globalization and the Artist Lunch Conversation w/Martin von Haselberg, one of the Kipper Kids, and David A. Ross, former director, Whitney Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Lunch provided. Coupons provided for parking in Medical Center Parking Decks.
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .


Monday, November 17th, 2008 :: 07:00 PM
Duke University-Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center- Duke West Campus
Film
The 22nd Annual Latin American Film Festival with a Focus on Afro and Youth Cultures in the Americas-A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
Peter Raymont (director) , USA/Chile, 2007
The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke, in collaboration with Durham Tech, Guilford College, NC Central U, NC State U, and UNC-Greensboro is proud to present A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman Directed by: Peter Raymont, USA/Chile, 2007 This film is an exploration of exile, memory, longing, and democracy as seen through the experiences of writer Ariel Dorfman. Dorfman\\\'s remarkable life and career as writer, activist, and father is highlighted with audacity and delicacy, making the film a piece that touches not only the inner nerves but the historical constructions of Latin America today. 91 min. Spanish and English. Ariel Dorfman and his son Rodrigo Dorfman (Associate Producer of the film) will be present for Questions and Answers after the film. All Film Festival events are free and open to the public. For more details and the complete Festival schedule, visit the Festival web site at http://latinfilmfestivalnc.com This event is made possible through funds provided by the US Department of Education and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Film Festival Committee would also like to thank the following sponsors for their cooperation, contributions, and enthusiasm: the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC-CH; the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Program in Film and Video and Screen/Society, the Center for Documentary Studies, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Department of Romance Studies and Perkins Library, all at Duke; the Witherspoon Student Center, the Department of Foreign Languages, and the Spanish Club at NC State; the Department of Foreign Languages at NC Central; the Department of Spanish at Durham Tech, Foreign Languages and International Studies at Guilford College; the Spanish Department at UNC-Greensboro; and the City of Durham Parks and Recreation. http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/
For more information, contact Natalie Hartman at njh@duke.edu .
URL: http://latinfilmfestivalnc.com


Monday, November 17th, 2008 - Friday, January 09th, 2009 :: 05:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Franklin Center Art Show Opening
The Kipper Kids: A Slap in the Face - Art Show Opening on 11-17-08 @ 5:30pm
Martin von Haselberg and Brian Routh made up The Kipper Kids, a performance duo begun in the early 1970s. The Kipper Kids performed both in the US and Europe, drawing on Japanese rituals, English Music Hall routines, the works of Samuel Beckett among other sources. They stopped collaborating actively in the early 1980s. The current show documents the decade-long history of The Kipper Kids. Globalization and the Artist Lunch Conversation w/Martin von Haselberg, one of the Kipper Kids, and David A. Ross, former director, Whitney Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Tuesday, November 18, 12.00 pm Room 130, John Hope Franklin Center Duke University 2204 Erwin Road Durham Lunch provided. Coupons provided for parking in Medical Center Parking Decks.
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .


Thursday, November 13th, 2008 :: 04:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Lecture
Future Perfect, Past Conditional: The Work of Memory & Mourning / with response from Achille Mbembe
David Kyuman Kim, Associate Professor of Religious Studies & Inaugural Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity at Connecticut College. He is the author of Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics
Free parking available at Pickens Clinic Lot after 4:00 PM. The Department of Religion presents a lecture by David Kyuman Kim, Associate Professor of Religious Studies & Inaugural Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity at Connecticut College. He is the author of /Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics/. Response by Achille Mbembe, Visiting Professor of English & Senior Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research. Co-sponsored by the Department of English & Franklin Humanities Institute
Sponsored by Department of Religion and Co-sponsored by the Department of English & 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.fhi.duke.edu/2008/11/future-perfect-past-conditional-the-work-of-memory-mourning-david-ky


Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 :: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Graduate Student Human Rights Working Group
We Are Not In Safety: Human Rights Law and Advocacy Since the 1990s
The Graduate Student Human Rights Working Group invites you to attend our first meeting of the 2008-2009 academic year. The Graduate Student Human Rights Working Group to host a discussion with faculty on the lessons to be drawn from the past two decades in human rights law and advocacy. Join Professors Catherine Admay, Allen Buchanan, George Christie, John Dugard, Robin Kirk, and Michael Tigar for a close look at the uncertain position of human rights today. Background reading is available on the HRWG\\\'s wiki page: http://wiki.duke.edu/display/ducis/Human+Rights+Graduate+Working+Group Dinner will be served. Please RSVP to dan.smith@duke.edu .
Sponsored by The Graduate Student Human Rights Working Group
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/graduate-seminars/human-rights
RSVP requested by Wednesday December 31st 1969 .


Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Wednesdays at the Center -The War on Terror and the Terror of War: What the President-elect Needs to Learn from the Irish Peace Process
Gareth Higgins, founder of zero28, faith-based peace & justice initiative in Northern Ireland
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, John Hope Franklin Center and Duke Human Rights Center
For more information, contact 919-668-1901 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/wednesdays-at-the-center/


Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 :: 07:00 PM
Durham Tech, Main Campus, ERC Auditorium, 1337 E. Lawson Street
Latin American Film Festival
The Virgin Appears in La Maldita Vecindad
Elva E. Bishop, Altha Cravey, and Javier Garcia
The directors and possibly some members of the community in the film will be present. For a complete description of this event please see the Latin American Film series website:http://22ndfilmfestivalnc.googlepages.com/home Also see virginappears.unc.edu
For more information, contact Natalie Hartman .
URL: http://22ndfilmfestivalnc.googlepages.com/home


Monday, November 10th, 2008 :: 04:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center , 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
WORLD LITERATURE
Fredric R. Jameson, William A. Lane Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature & Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University Winner, Holberg International Memorial Prize 2008
Introduction by Richard Brodhead, President, Duke University; Commentators: miriam cooks, Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Culture, Duke University; Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies, Duke University; Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women\\\'s Studies, Duke University; Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate in Literature. * TO BE FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION CELEBRATING THE AWARD OF THE HOLBERG INTERNATIONAL MEMORIAL PRIZE TO PROFESSOR JAMESON. Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Program in Literature, the Department of Romance Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences. The Holberg International Memorial Prize is awarded annually for outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology. Previous winners include Ronald Dworkin, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Jurgen Habermas, Julia Kristeva. Please see http://fhi.duke.edu/ for detailed description and for any updates and changes for this event.Please also see: http://www.holbergprisen.no/HP_prisen/en_hp_2008_jameson.html
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute & Program In Literature
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1901 or by email at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://fhi.duke.edu/


Sunday, November 09th, 2008 :: 08:00 PM
Richard White, East Campus
Film
Bloody Cartoons
Karsten Kjar, 2007 (director)
In English Runtime: 53 minutes.
Please see http://fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php OR http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/index.html for detailed description and for any updates or changes for this event. This event is Sponsored by FVD and Lilly Library. Denmark, in English, Color, DVD http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm
For more information, contact Kelly Jarrett .
URL: http://fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php


Friday, November 07th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Breedlove Room Perkins Library
Lecture
The New Administration and the Middle East
Abdeslam Maghraoui
Please see http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/index.html for detailed description and for any updates or changes for this event. Part of the Brown Bag Seminar Series. Sponosored by Political Science
For more information, contact Kelly Jarrett .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/index.html


Friday, November 07th, 2008 :: 09:30 AM - 05:30 PM
East Duke 204B, East Campus
Conference
Freedom Fighters: Regime Change and U.S. Foreign Policy- Please see description for correct times of presentations
Freedom Fighters: Regime Change and U.S. Foreign Policy November 7, 2008 East Duke 204B, Duke East Campus Keynote Presentation: 9:30-11:00 Greg Grandin (Department of History, NYU): “Empire\\\'s Workshop: The New Deal to the New Right, Latin America to Iraq” Session one (11:15-1:15): U.S. in the Middle East Salim Yaqub (Department of History, UC Santa Barbara): \\\"Openings and Closings: The United States and the Arab World in the 1970s\\\" Commentator: miriam cooke (Duke University, Program in Literature & Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) 1:15-2:30: Lunch Session two (2:30-4:30: Plan Colombia Diana Marcela Rojas (Universidad Nacional de Colombia): “Transforming Interventions: US Policy in Colombia, 1998-2008” Commentator: Robin Kirk (Duke Human Rights Center) Closing discussion: 4:45-5:30 Reception to follow. Refreshments and lunch with be provided.
Sponsored by Duke University History Department, Marxism & Society, Trent Foundation, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Arts & Science Faculty Research Council
For more information, contact Jocelyn Olcott at olcott@duke.edu .


Thursday, November 06th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Seminar
Global Governance and Democracy - Trading Places: The Role of the US and EU in International Environmental Politics
Keynote Speaker: Daniel R. Keleman, Rutgers University
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies and John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Dan Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://maps.duke.edu/building.php?bid=7510


Thursday, November 06th, 2008 :: 04:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 130
Lecture
Ive Got A Home In Glory Land
Karolyn Smardz Frost, York University
KAROLYN SMARDZ FROST, YORK UNIVERSITY DISCUSSES HER AWARD WINNING BOOK: IVE GOT A HOME IN GLORY LAND *A special thanks to African & African American Studies for cosponsoring this event* Smardz Frost is a Toronto-born archeologist and historian whose work on Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, fugitive slaves who escaped to Canada on the Underground Railroad, led to a book Ive Got a Home in Glory Land (Thomas Allen Publishers), which won the 2007 Governor Generals Prize for history. This fascinating book follows Thornton Blackburn and his wife Lucie as they escape to Canada on the Underground Railroad. Thornton plans a successful daylight escape once he learns that his new bride is to be sold “down the river”. The couple reach Michigan, only to be caught by slave catchers. Once the Black community in Detroit heard of the Blackburns plight, the first racial uprising in Detroit’s history occurred. The couple was able to escape again, this time to Canada, where they settled in Toronto and started the city’s first taxi business. Then the US government insists that they be extradited back to the States. This was the first serious legal dispute between Canada and the US regarding slavery. Ultimately Canada’s Lieutenant Governor’s impassioned defense saves the Blackburns from the US. Thorton and Lucie resolved to assist as many other slaves as possible and made their home a refuge for escaped slaves. Smardz Frost spent two decades piecing together this incredible story from artifacts that are almost two centuries old.
For more information, contact Janice Engelhardt at jae4@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.halifaxwritersfest.com/html/karolyn_smardz_frost.html


Wednesday, November 05th, 2008 :: 07:00 PM
Home of Kathy Ewing
Colloquium
Essay on Ambedkar
Anupama Rao, Barnard -- National Humanities Center Fellow
Contact Sandy Freitag for paper and directions.
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag at sandria.freitag@duke.edu .


Wednesday, November 05th, 2008 :: 04:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 230/232
Lecture
DUCIS Global and the Artist Conversation Series Featuring Peter Cusack
Duke University for International Studies\\\' Global and the Artist Conversation Series welcomes British environmental musician, Peter Cusack. For more information on Peter Cusack, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cusack
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
URL: http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/


Wednesday, November 05th, 2008 :: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Lecture
Islam in the Public Square-The True, the Good and the Reasonable: The Theological and Ethical Roots of Public Reason in Islamic Law
Mohammad Fadel, Professor at the Univeristy of Toronto Faculty of Law
Please seehttp://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm AND http://philosophy.duke.edu/ for a detailed description and for updates or changes for this event. This event is co-sponsored by Philosophy http://philosophy.duke.edu/
For more information, contact Kelly Jarrett at kjj1@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm


Wednesday, November 05th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Wednesdays at the Center - Alternative Political Imaginaries
Fellows from the 2008-09 FHI Annual Seminar
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute and John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact 919-668-1901 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/wednesdays-at-the-center/


Monday, November 03rd, 2008 :: 04:30 PM
Friedl Building-(Old Art Museum), 124 Campus Drive, Room 225
Lecture
African-Canadian Literature: What Makes It Unique?
George Elliott Clarke, University of Toronto
George Elliott Clarke was recently named Office of the Order of Canada by Governor General Michaelle Jean with the following citation: *For his contributions as a poet, professor and volunteer who has brought his original voice and his perspective on the Black experience to contemporary Canadian Literature, and who has generously shared his time and talents with young and emerging writers* We are thrilled that George Elliott Clarke will be returning to Durham. He was a highly popular Professor of English and Canadian Studies while at Duke from 1994-1999. Please see www.jhfc.duke.edu/canadianstudies OR http://jhfc.duke.edu/canadianstudies/newsletter.html for detailed description and for any updates and changes for this event. *FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC*
Sponsored by Center for Canadian Studies
For more information, contact Janice Engelhardt at jae4@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/canadianstudies/newsletter.html


Sunday, November 02nd, 2008 - Friday, November 21st, 2008 :: 04:00 PM
Please see website for locations and correct times
The 22nd Annual Latin American Film Festival with a focus on Afro and Youth Cultures in the Americas
For more details and the complete Festival Schedule, Visit the Festival Web site at http://latinfilmfestivalnc.com/
Sponsored by The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke
For more information, contact Natalie Hartman at dukeclacs@gmail.com .
URL: http://latinfilmfestivalnc.com/


Friday, October 31st, 2008 :: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Conference Plenary: Women/Slaves /Empires
Page duBois, Professor of Classics & Comparative Literature at UC San Dieg
*Public reception to follow* Plenary address (2 of 2) for Empire Without End, an international conference on the links bet. modern political concepts and study of ancient empires
Sponsored by Co-sponsors: Franklin Humanities Institute, Classical Studies and Women\\\'s Studies Program
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/2008/10/lecture-womenslavesempires-page-dubois-uc-san-diego-fri-october-31-2


Friday, October 31st, 2008 :: 12:00 PM
229 Carr Building
Lecture
CANADA AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE-Fitting the Settlement Colonies back into the Historiography of the British Empire
Phillip Buckner, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
Please see www.jhfc.duke.edu/canadianstudies for detailed description and for any updates or changes for this event.
Sponsored by Center for Canadian Studies and the Department of History
For more information, contact Janice Engelhardt at jae4@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/canadianstudies


Friday, October 31st, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center , 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130/132
Lecture
Global Displacements: Geographies of Work and Garment Export Decline in the Dominican Republic
Marion Traub-Werner, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota
Lunch will be served. This event is organized on behalf of members of the Afro-Latin American Perspectives working group. For more information, please contact Professor Michaeline Crichlow (AAAS, Duke, crichlow@duke.edu) or Professor Tanya Shields (Women\\\'s Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, tshields@unc.edu). Talk abstract: Academic research on transnational production networks has generally followed industrial shifts to “new” regions. Feminist analyses of these shifts have illuminated their dependence on the production of gendered subjects. The feminist literature has highlighted both the contingent position of women workers in export factories and the centrality of gender in global capitalist accumulation. Nevertheless, neither the mainstream nor the feminist literatures adequately consider the space-times of these networks themselves, and in particular, those locations and workers displaced through shifts in production. To address this gap, I develop the concept of “global displacements” -- drawing on feminist and post-colonial theory -- to undertake two inter-related challenges: first, to deconstruct the implicit developmentalism in the critical literature on transnational industries in the global South, and, second, to rethink the space-times of global production. I develop this theoretical contribution through ethnographic research with actors involved in the declining export garment sector in the Dominican Republic (DR). The DR experienced a twenty-five year garment export boom generally attributed to US trade policy, structural adjustment and Dominican entrepreneurialism. The sector began to wane in the early 2000s. Following multilateral trade policy changes in 2005, garment exports declined further by 25% and one-third of the sector’s 120,000 workers were laid off. As a multi-sited ethnography, the dissertation develops the notion of global displacements in three empirical contexts. First, I study the discourses and practices of development experts and garment elites to draw out the processes that normalize the export sector’s decline as part of a developmental shift to higher technology. Second, through six months of ethnographic fieldwork with unemployed trade zone workers, I discuss workers’ narratives of progress and modernity in relation to their gendered livelihood strategies, and in particular, the prospect and practice of “return” migration. Third, I consider contestations of new production arrangements between the DR and Haiti as an example of the fragmentation of social and economic space in the global South that contingently reproduces spatial divisions of labor.
Sponsored by Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
For more information, contact Professor Michaeline Crichlow or Professor Tanya Shields .
URL: http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/


Friday, October 31st, 2008 :: 09:15 AM - 10:45 AM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Symposium
Conference Plenary + Distinguished Scholar in Residence Lecture: Whose Empire Anyway?
Wole Soyinka and Nobel Laureate
Plenary address (1 of 2) for Empire Without End, an international conference on empires and the political, organized by by FHI, Classical Studies, Women\\\'s Studies, & the Network on Ancient & Modern Imperialisms. Soyinka is winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature and FHI/Karl von der Heyden Distinguished Scholar in Residence, 10/27-11/21/08.
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/2008/10/lecture-whose-empire-anyway-wole-soyinka-nobel-laureate-fri-october-


Friday, October 31st, 2008 - Saturday, November 01st, 2008 :: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240 (All day event-Contact Christina @668-1902 for correct start times)
Symposium
EMPIRE WITHOUT END
Speakers are WOLE SOYINKA, Winner of the Noble Prize in Literature and PAGE DUBOIS, Professor of Classics & Comparative Literature, UC San Diego. For more information and to download PDF of the most recently updated program schedule, please visit:http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/panels-symposia-conferences/empire-without-end/ Free and Open to the Public - No Registration Required. This conference\\\'s theme is empires and the political. We will examine how modern concepts of the political are formulated through an engagement with the historical study of empires - in particular, ancient empires. Scholars from a range of different research interests, including Political Science, History, English, Classics, and Archaeology, will participate.
Sponsored by FHI, Classical Studies, Women\\\'s Studies, and the Network on Ancient & Modern Imperialisms
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/2008/10/conference-empire-without-end-fri-october-31-2008/


Thursday, October 30th, 2008 :: 04:00 PM
Perkins Library, Rare Book Room - Duke West Campus
Lecture
Bloomsbury, Empire and the Cosmopolitan
**Free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Bryan Center** Speakers are Rebecca Walkowitz - Department of English, Rutgers University: \\\"Insiders and Outsiders: Cosmopolitanism, Transnational Comparison and the Legacy of Virginia Woolf\\\"--John Marx - Department of English, University of California at Davis:\\\"Bloomsbury Affiliation\\\"--Comments by Ian Baucom, chair, Department of English, Duke University--The Panel is part of a university-wide exploration of the impact of TheBloomsbury Group on many facets of English and international life anddevelopments. Please see the following web address for detailed description and for any updates or changes for this event http://calendar.duke.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo;jsessionid=AD2F2C483D8EE310512EDE9D14F681D7
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies, John Hope Franklin Center, English and Provost\\\'s Office
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
URL: http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/


Thursday, October 30th, 2008 :: 11:45 AM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Lunch Talk: “Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic
Gerald Oppenheimer, Broeklundian Professor of Public Health at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Please see http://jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/ for detailed description and for any updates and changes for this event. RSVP by October 28th to Katie Joyce @katie.joyce@duke.edu for this event which is free and open to the public. A light lunch will be served. Co-Sponsors: Department of History, Journal of the History of Medicine and the Provost\\\'s Common Fund.
Sponsored by CONCILIUM ON SOUTHERN AFRICA (COSA)
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/


Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 :: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
107 Friedl, East Campus
Lecture
Islam in the Public Square- Reading from a Historical Novel: The Blue Manuscript
Sabiha Al Khemir
Please see http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm for detailed description and for any updates or changes for this event. This event is sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center and co-sponsored by Art, Art History and Visual Studies; <http://www.duke.edu/web/art/> Asian and Middle Eastern Studies <http://www.duke.edu/web/aall/>; Women\\\'s Studies <http://www.duke.edu/womstud/index2.html>
For more information, contact Kelly Jarrett at kjj1@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm


Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 :: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Seminar
Modeling in Dengue: Duke University Seminar on Global Health
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Katia Koelle (Duke University) and Dr. Alun Lloyd (North Carolina State University)
The University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students from both the University and Duke Medicine to expand the interest and knowledge of global health. Speakers for the 2008-09 series are leading figures in global health from Duke and other major universities.
Sponsored by Duke Global Health Institute and Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Joelle Rogers by phone at 919-681-7935 .
URL: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/news-events/calendar


Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 :: 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
3043 Law School, West Campus
Lecture
Media Ethics, Radical Islam and Presidential Politics: The Story of the Obsession DVD
Speakers are Omid Safi, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and Jen\\\'nan Read, Assoc. Professor of Sociology and Global Health at Duke. **Please see http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/faculty/ObsessionVideoFall2008.htm OR http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/index.html for detailed description and for any updates or changes for this event** This event is sponsored by SOLIMENA and the DBA. LUNCH PROVIDED
For more information, contact James Pearce or Kelly Jarrett at james.pearce@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/faculty/ObsessionVideoFall2008.htm


Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Wednesdays at the Center - Remembering Past Atrocity: Monuments, Memorials, and Museums in Comparative Perspective
Louis Bickford, International Center for Transitional Justice
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, John Hope Franklin Center and Archive for Human Rights
For more information, contact 919-668-1901 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/wednesdays-at-the-center/


Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Lecture
Islam in the Public Square: Abu Musab al-Suri, The Apocalyptic Theorist and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Apocalyptic Practitioner
David Cook, Rice University
Please see http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm for detailed description and for any updates or changes for this event. This event is a joint co-sponsorship with the Duke Islamic Studies Center, Political Science and the Political Theory seminar.
For more information, contact Kelly Jarrett at kjj1@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm


Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 :: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Pink Parlor, East Duke Parlors, East Campus
Lecture
Islam in the Public Square-The Art of Calligraphy: Beauty and Significance
Sabiha Khemir
Please see http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm for detailed description and for any updates or changes to this event. This is a joint co-sponsorship with the Duke Islamic Studies Center and AMES, Art History, and Women\\\'s Studies.
For more information, contact Kelly Jarrett at kjj1@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm


Monday, October 27th, 2008 :: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center , Room 240
Lecture
Islam in the Public Square- Islamic Art: A Celebration of Unity and Diversity
Sabiha Khemir
Please see http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm for detailed description and for any updates or changes for this event.
Sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center and AMES, Art History, and Women Studies
For more information, contact Kelly Jarrett at kjj1@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/events/EventsinDepth.htm


Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
Seminar
Global Governance and Democracy - Leaning Right and Learning from the Left: Diffusion of Corporate Tax Policy
Keynote Speaker: Nathan Jensen - Washington University in St. Louis
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies and John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Dan Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://maps.duke.edu/building.php?bid=7725


Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Wednesdays at the Center - Transnational Sexualities: New Directions in the Study of Sexuality
Elizabeth Engebretsen, Svati Shah, Ara Wilson, Ranjana Khanna (moderator), Women\\\'s Studies, Duke
Elisabeth Engebretsen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Women’s Studies; Svati Shah, Postdoctoral Fellow, Women’s Studies; Ara Wilson, Director of the the Study of Sexualities & Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology; Ranjana Khanna (Moderator), Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women’s Studies & Professor of English, Duke University. Presented by the Program in Women’s Studies and the Program in the Study of Sexualities
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, John Hope Franklin Center and Sexuality Studies
For more information, contact 919-668-1901 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/wednesdays-at-the-center/


Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Wednesdays at the Center - The House that Toni Build at Random: Contemporary African American Fiction and the Shadows of the Black Arts Movement
Dana Williams, English, Howard FHI-Mellon HBCU Fellow
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute and John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact 919-668-1901 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/wednesdays-at-the-center/


Wednesday, October 08th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Wednesdays at the Center - George Washington Williams: The Case of a Neglected American Hero
John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor of History, Emeritus, Duke University, and Lea Wernick Fridman, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, John Hope Franklin Center and Duke Human Rights Center
For more information, contact 919-668-1901 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/wednesdays-at-the-center/


Monday, October 06th, 2008 :: 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
LSRC B101
Lecture
Freeing an Empire\\\'s Slaves
Adam Hochschild
*Free, reception to follow* Award-winning journalist Adam Hochschild will speak about his recent work on the Abolitionist movement in 19th-century Great Britain. He authored King Leopold\\\'s Ghost, the basis for the film featured in this series
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Human Rights Center, Archive for Human Rights, Duke University Center for International Studies and Provost\\\'s Office
For more information, contact 919-668-1901 at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/2008/10/lecture-freeing-an-empires-slaves-adam-hochschild-mon-october-6-2008


Sunday, October 05th, 2008 :: 06:00 PM - 07:50 PM
Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater
Lecture
Screening + Discussion: King Leopold\\\'s Ghost, with the director & book\\\'s author
Free and open to the public. (Pippa Scott & Oreet Rees, 2006, 108m, USA, French w/subtitles, English, BetaSP) An adaptation of Adam Hochschild\\\'s book explores the reprehensible legacy of Belgium\\\'s King Leopold II, wrapping personal and political greed with private capital interests for control of the Congo\\\'s valuable resources--all gauzily presented in a campaign to hide the terrible truth. Pippa Scott and Adam Hochschild will be on hand for screening and discussion of this documentary of Hochschild\\\'s book. Q&A TO FOLLOW!
Sponsored by Co-sponsors: Film, Video, Digital Program, Duke Human Rights Center, Archive for Human Rights, Franklin Humanities Institute, Provost\\\'s Office and Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Hank Okazaki .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/2008/10/screensociety-king-leopolds-ghost-special-documentary-screening-with


Friday, October 03rd, 2008 - Saturday, October 04th, 2008 :: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Rm# 240 -Please see description for correct times
Conference
The Social Coordinates of Illness in Post-Colonial Africa
***Please RSVP to katie.joyce@duke.edu for this event*** CONCILIUM ON SOUTHERN AFRICA (COSA)- Keynote: Friday, October 3rd, 4-6 pm, and Conference: Saturday, October 4th, 9.30 am – 6pm Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center Participants: João Biehl, Princeton University (Keynote Speaker) Hillel Braude, McGill University, Montreal Mark Hunter, University of Toronto, Scarborough Victor Igreja, Leiden University Deborah James, London School of Economics Fred Klaits, Duke University Julie Livingston, Rutgers University Fraser McNeill, London School of Economics Louise Meintjes, Duke University Zolani Ngwane, Haverford College Moderators/Discussants: Anne-Maria Makhulu, Duke University Diane Nelson, Duke University (TBC) - Co-sponsors: Department of African and African American Studies, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Center for International Studies, the Office of the Vice-Provost for International Affairs, Provost Common Fund, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, Trent Memorial Foundation Grant and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/


Thursday, October 02nd, 2008 :: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Sanford Institute Fleishman Commons
Seminar
Stephen Lewis: Duke Univeristy Seminar on Global Health
Burden of HIV on Girls & Women in Africa: Dr. Stephen Lewis, AIDS-Free WorldThe University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students from both the University and Duke Medicine to expand the interest and knowledge of global health. Speakers for the 2008-09 series are leading figures in global health from Duke and other major universities.
Sponsored by Co-sponsors: Duke Global Health Institute and Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Joelle Rogers by phone at 919-681-7935 .
URL: http://globalhealth.duke.edu/news-events/calendar/october-2-2008


Thursday, October 02nd, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Seminar
Global Governance and Democracy - Informal Governance: International Organizations and the Limits of U.S. Power
Keynote Speaker: Randal W. Stone, University of Rochester
Sponsored by Co-sponsors: Duke University Center for International Studies and John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Dan Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://maps.duke.edu/building.php?bid=7510


Wednesday, October 01st, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Wednesdays at the Center - Digital Youth and the Paradox of Digital Labor: Introduction to the HASTAC McArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition
Cathy Davidson, Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English, Duke University
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, John Hope Franklin Center and HASTAC
For more information, contact 919-668-1901 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/wednesdays-at-the-center/


Thursday, September 25th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center Main Gallery
Art Exhibition Opening Reception
Opening Reception for Bottomless by Dash Shaw
Please join us in opening Bottomless, an exhibition of original drawings, storyboards, color background overlays and a new video animation by Dash Shaw. One of the fastest-rising graphic novelists, this 25-year-old Brooklynite recently published a 720-page graphic novel with Fantagraphics: Bottomless Belly Button was released in June and a second printing is already in the works. Bottomless, curated by Diego Cortez, will be on display from 9/25 -10/31 in the Franklin Center main gallery.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski by phone at 919-684-2867 or by email at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/


Thursday, September 25th, 2008 - Friday, October 31st, 2008 :: 08:00 AM
John Hope Franklin Center Main Gallery
Art Exhibition
Bottomless by Dash Shaw
Exhibition of original drawings, storyboards, color background overlays and a new video animation by Dash Shaw. One of the fastest-rising graphic novelists, this 25-year-old Brooklynite recently published a 720-page graphic novel with Fantagraphics: Bottomless Belly Button was released in June and a second printing is already in the works. Bottomless, curated by Diego Cortez, will be on display from 9/25 -10/31 in the Franklin Center main gallery.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski by phone at 919-684-2867 or by email at r.sikorski@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/


Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Wednesdays at the Center - A Human Rights Agenda for the New Administration
Michael Tigar, Professor of the Practice of Law, Duke Law School.
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, John Hope Franklin Center and Duke Human Rights Center
For more information, contact 919-668-1901 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/wednesdays-at-the-center/


Monday, September 22nd, 2008 :: 07:00 PM
Home of Anne Bigelow
Colloquium
Dharma, Hinduism and Ecology... rewriting a dissertation into a book manuscript
Pankaj Jain, NCSU
Contact Sandy Freitag for paper and directions.
Sponsored by NCCSAS
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag at sandria.freitag@duke.edu .


Thursday, September 18th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM
Rubenstein Hall, Rm 200
Seminar
Global Governance and Democracy - Why is Latin America Deindustrializing? - David Brady
Description: The University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy presents:\\\"Why is Latin America Deindustrializing?\\\"David Brady, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Duke UniversityRubenstein Hall, Room 200
Sponsored by Co-sponsors: Duke University Center for International Studies and John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/


Thursday, September 18th, 2008 :: 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Distinguished Scholar in Residence Lecture: Blurring the Boundaries between Reality and Fiction in Contemporary Theatre |
Erika Fischer-Lichte, Prof. of Theatre Studies at Freie Universität Berlin & Franklin Humanities Institute Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Join us for the second of two public lectures by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Prof. of Theatre Studies at Freie Universität Berlin & Franklin Humanities Institute Distinguished Scholar in Residence, 9/8-9/19/08. This lecture explores the aesthetics of liminality created by the destabilization of the dichotomy between \\\"the real\\\" and \\\"the fictional.\\\"
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chis Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/distinguished-scholars-in-residence/erika-fischer-lichte/


Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Wednesdays at the Center - Carso Maledetto: Industrialized Warfare and the Rise of Fascism in Italy
Lutz Musner, IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute, John Hope Franklin Center, Center for European Studies and Triangle Institute for Security Studies
For more information, contact 919-668-1901 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/wednesdays-at-the-center/


Tuesday, September 09th, 2008 :: 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Lecture
Distinguished Scholar in Residence Lecture -Culture as Performance: Developing a Concept of Performance
Erika Fischer-Lichte, Prof. of Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin & Franklin Humanities Institute Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Join us for the 1st of 2 public lectures by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Prof. of Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin & Franklin Humanities Institute Distinguished Scholar in Residence, 9/8-9/19/08. This talk looks at contemporary experimental theatre & performance art to conceptualize the corporeality, ephemerality, meaning-making capacity, & eventness of performance.
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 .
URL: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/distinguished-scholars-in-residence/erika-fischer-lichte/


Monday, September 08th, 2008 :: 08:00 PM
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan center, West Campus
Film
Lili and the Baobab
Chantal Richard; France; 2006 (director)
In French with English with subtitles. Runtime: 90 minutes.
*** FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC *** Lili, a thirty-three-year-old French photographer, accepts an assignment to photograph the remote village of Agnam, in the Senegalese desert. It is the first time she\\\'s set foot in Africa. Although she arouses the immediate affection and curiosity of the inhabitants, Lili does not really stop to take stock. The photos she takes protect her from facing the questions she is asked about her life as a single woman. She hardly notices that Aminata, an unmarried and lonely woman of her age, lays the foundations of an improbable and powerful friendship. When Lili returns to Normandy, something has shifted or cracked and she has a hard time resuming her past life. In her own awkward and impulsive way, Lili deals with the unsettling sensation that Africa has left her. She often visits Moussa, an immigrant worker from Agnam who works at the nearby power plant. One day, Moussa tells Lili that Aminata has given birth to a son. Because the child is fatherless, they will probably be chased away from the village. With sheer determination and compassion, Lili manages to alter local customs and help her friend find her own path in the process. http://fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php
Sponsored by Sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Center for Documentary Studies, the Center for International Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Duke University Libraries\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' Lilly Library, and the Film/Video/Digital
For more information, contact Frederique Beaufils at fb23@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/cinema.html


Friday, August 22nd, 2008 - Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 :: 09:30 AM
240 Franklin Center
Conference
Material Objects and Performance Events
Keynote Speaker: various speakers
Through five different entry points, this conference prompts us to think in new ways about how material objects and performance events reveal the significance of South Asian cultural practices, both historic and contemporary. Each session juxtaposes specific case studies that point up rich complexities of: environmental interactions; everyday transactions as well as formal and informal performances; the aesthetics and affect of narrative performance; the deep experience of performance (beyond discursive articulateness); and examinations of the body as cultural specifics of embodiment.
Sponsored by NC Center for South Asia Studies
For more information, contact Sandria Freitag at sandria.freitag@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/csas/material%20objects%20conference%200808.php


Thursday, June 26th, 2008 - Friday, June 27th, 2008 :: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Washington Duke Inn - (Please see website for correct times & registration information)
Symposium & Gala
John Hope Franklin Symposium & Gala
Dr. John Hope Franklin
http://diverseeducation.com/jhf/index.html Through the John Hope Franklin Symposium & Gala, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education seeks to further institutionalize and honor the scholarly contributions of this living legend by bringing together scholars and experts of national acclaim to serve as speakers and panelists on what has become one of the most important discussions of diversity and higher education issues in the nation. The culminating event of this two-day event will be the closing gala where the 2008 John Hope Franklin awardees; Dr. Norman C. Francis, Dr. Alvin Poussaint and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans will be honored. Historian, educator, humanitarian and scholar, Franklin has made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. The recipients of the 2008 John Hope Franklin Award reflect Franklins’ overall standards of excellence. To register: http://diverseeducation.com/jhf/registration.html
For more information, contact Angela Caraway by phone at 919-847-8738 .
URL: http://diverseeducation.com/jhf/index.html


Saturday, May 10th, 2008 :: 06:00 PM - 07:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS 2008 Commencement Ceremony
ISIS 2008 Commencement Ceremony
More info coming soon...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/upcoming.html


Sunday, April 27th, 2008 :: 04:00 PM
Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan Center, Duke University
Music
New Korean Music – Eun Il Kang and Haegumplus: Remembering the Future
We are pleased to announce a special concert of Korean Music in April at Duke. *****TICKETS NOW ON SALE****** The concert will be followed by a Q&A with an ethnomusicologist specializing in Korean music. Haegumplus is a hybrid fusion group that performs with traditional Korean and western instruments. The group is led by Ms. Eun Il Kang, known to be the pioneer of \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"cross-over music\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" with the Korean traditional instrument called the haegum. Kang is known for her international performances with world renowned artists, such as Bobby McFerrin, Luciano Pavarotti and the Yoshida brothers, to name a few. Haegumplus\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' performance raises the bar in fusion sophistication. Tickets are available starting today, March 10, 2008, through the Duke Box Office. You may purchase them at the Bryan Center or online http://cam06.auxserv.duke.edu/peo/default.asp Type in “Korean” or “Haegumplus” in the search filed in the upper right for online purchases. Adults – $15 Duke Students – FREE Non-Duke Students – $5 Duke Employees – $7 K-12 Educators -- $7 Children and Youth (under 17) – FREE Groups (6 or more) – $10 This concert is presented by the Korea Foundation, with support from the Vice Provost for the Arts, the Korea Forum at Duke University, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Development, the Center for International Studies, the Department of Asian & African Languages and Literature, and the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute.
For more information, contact Cindy Carlson at cindy.carlson@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/APSI/events/apsioutreach.html


Thursday, April 24th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library- West Campus of Duke University
Seminar
The Difference Time Makes: Latent Growth Curve Models of Women's Political Representation
Keynote Speaker: Pam Paxton, Ohio State University
Each Seminar will be followed by a short reception allowing individuals conversations with the speakers. To view Professor Paxton's biography see http://www.sociology.ohio-state.edu/pmp/ 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.
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm


Friday, April 18th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM
Nsher Museum of Art at Duke University
Lecture
“FESTAC AGONISTES: the Politics of a Transatlantic Dialogue
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka
Sponsored by Nasher Museum and The 2008 Karl von der Heyden Distinguished International Lecture
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski by phone at 919-684-2867 or by email at r.sikorski@duke.edu .


Thursday, April 17th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library- West Campus of Duke University
Seminar
The Silent Revolution: Professional Training, Sympathetic Interlocutors, and IMF Lending
Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Chwieroth, London School of Economics
Each Seminar will be followed by a short reception allowing individuals conversations with the speakers. To view Professor Chwieroth's biography see http://personal.lse.ac.uk/chwierot/ 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.
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm


Thursday, April 17th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library), Duke University West Campus
Lecture
The Silent Revolution: Professional Training, Sympathetic Interlocutors, and IMF Lending
Jeffrey Chwieroth, London School of Economics
Jeffrey Chwieroth is currently Lecturer in International Political Economy in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Syracuse University, and a Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellow in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. The seminar will be followed by a brief reception. All are welcome. For those coming from off-campus, please use the Bryan Center parking garage IV. Directions to parking garage IV are at: http://map.duke.edu/parking.php?pid=P001.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies, Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs
For more information, contact Dan Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm


Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS Tech & New Media Tuesdays
ISIS Tech & New Media Tuesdays Featuring Darion Rapoza
More information coming soon..... 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#apr15_2008


Wednesday, April 09th, 2008 :: 05:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Towards a Full-Frontal History of Imperial Russia : Recycling political pornography at the Franklin Humanities Institute
ERNEST ZITSER, librarian for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Duke University Libraries ++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies ++ 2007-08 library fellow, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
(Parking available at Pickens Clinic lot across the street after 4 PM)*** About the Speaker: Ernest (“Erik”) Zitser received his Ph.D. in Russian History from Columbia University and worked consecutively as a post-doctoral Fellow, Center Associate, and Librarian of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of the 2004 book , The Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press; Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, forthcoming 2008), and has published a number of articles in both historical and library journals on a wide variety of topics, including sober drunkenness at the early modern Russian court, post-war Soviet photo-propaganda, and Russian nationalism in post-Soviet cinema. He is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the American Library Association (ALA); American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS); Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS); and the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association (ECRSA). About the Lecture: This presentation will seek to contribute to the theme of this year’s FHI Recycle Seminar by tracing the life-cycle of a rare artifact of Russian visual culture – namely, a series of five erotic, hand-colored watercolor drawings, depicting 18th-century Imperial rulers and their favorites (of both sexes) in flagrante delicto – from its origins as clandestine political pornography in the nineteenth-century to its public unveiling as an historical artifact in the twenty-first. In narrating the social biography of this object, Zitser asks: What is Russian political pornography? What is “Russian” or “pornographic” about it? Whose politics does it represent? And what role do such respectable American institutions as the New York Public Library and the Franklin Humanities Institute have to play in its cultural recycling, and, more broadly, in the re-circulation of (objects of) desire over time, within and across different segments of society, and between societies? The presentation will propose that in this particular case, recycling (or res-cycling) refers to a historically-informed methodological approach of looking at the entire life-cycle of an object (Lat. res), not merely individual phases in its public life; and of paying attention to the way the salvage operations, re-appropriations, and transformations performed by various actors under different regimes of the circulation of things effect the value of both objects and the political communities (publics) that re-collect such items (res publicae).
Sponsored by Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies & John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia by phone at 919-668-1902 or by email at bhayes@duke.edu or fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/


Monday, April 07th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Close Encounters of a Musical Kind: Cultural Translation Across the Divides of Race, Religion and Politics in Zimbabwe
Paul Berliner, Duke Ethnomusicologist and Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean Master Musician
Sponsored by COSA-Concilium on Southern Africa at Duke Univeristy
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://dev.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/


Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
2204 John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Seminar
Achieving Good Government and Citizen Support in Developing and Transitional Societies
Keynote Speaker: Margaret Levi, University of Washington
Each Seminar will be followed by a short reception allowing individuals conversations with the speakers. To view Professor Levi's biography see http://faculty.washington.edu/mlevi/ 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 and co-sponsored by Duke Comparative Politics Workshop.
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm


Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, West Campus, Duke University
Lecture
Achieving Good Government in Developing and Transitional Societies
Margaret Levi, University of Washington
Margaret Levi is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle. She is Director of the CHAOS (Comparative Historical Analysis of Organizations and States) Center and formerly the Harry Bridges Chair and Director, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. Her current research focuses on the bases for and effects of trustworthy and effective government. Concurrently, she is working on a range of issues having to do with labor unions and with global justice campaigns. She has served on the Jobs for Justice Workers\\\' Right Board and was a member of the first coordinating committee of SAWSJ (Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice). With her husband, Robert D. Kaplan, she has developed a substantial collection of Australian aboriginal art, part of which is on loan to the Seattle Art Museum. Her fellowships include the Woodrow Wilson in 1968, German Marshall in 1988-9, and the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences in 1993-1994. She has lectured and been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, the European University Institute, the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, the Juan March Institute, the Budapest Collegium, Cardiff University, and Oxford University. The seminar will be followed by a brief reception. All are welcome. For those coming from off-campus, please use the Pickens Duke Family Medicine parking lot, across Trent Drive from the Franklin Center. Parking is free. http://map.duke.edu/parking.php?pid=P055&bid=7510
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies, Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs. Cosponsored by: Duke Comparative Politics Workshop
For more information, contact Dan Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm


Wednesday, April 02nd, 2008 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Vincent Hugeux: Reporting in Hostile Territories
Lecture in English by Senior Reporter, Foreign Desk, L\\\'Express. At 14, a revelation: journalism as the only possible choice. Has worked with Le Monde, the Christian daily La Croix, and joined L\\\'Express, the best-selling French weekly news magazine, in 1990. Since then, has covered various armed conflicts and humanitarian crisis, mostly in Africa and the Muslim world. A light lunch will be served at 11:45. Please arrive early so the lecture can promptly start at noon. Parking vouchers available for the Hospital Lots*** More about Vincent Hugeux: Has received in 2005 the Prix Bayeux des correspondants de guerre (war correspondents) for a story about the Lord\\\'s Resistance Army in northern Uganda. Published in 2007 a book entitled \\\"Les Sorciers Blancs\\\" (The White Wizards), about \\\"the false friends of Africa\\\" (spin doctors, corrupted medias and dishonest legal advisors). Is working on the next one. Has also contributed to a collective book written by French senior reporters, to be published in 2008, with a profile of the late Afghan figure Ahmad Shah Massood. Regular contributor to TV talk-shows and radio programs, in French and in English. Currently learning Arabic. Part-time teacher in two schools of journalism (Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Lille and Ecole de Journalisme de Sciences-Po Paris), with sessions and lectures about the methodology of interview, investigative journalism and the coverage of war zones. Associate teacher at the University of Reims (Communication and politics in Africa; a cursus aimed at post-graduate students and focusing on the post-colonial relationship between France and Africa). Should join very soon the Institut d\\\'Etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) as associate teacher in a cursus of \\\"International Realities\\\" conducted by the former French minister of Foreign Affairs, Hubert Védrine. Favorite mottoes: Journalism is the art of telling true stories. And the art of making a complex world accessible to a large audience. To stay alive, journalism must remain an art of enlightened subversion: nothing nowhere should be taken for granted. Last, but not least: I am not a war correspondent, but time to time a correspondent inside war. The French novelist and philosopher André Malraux wrote once about his commitment to the Spanish civil war: \\\"One should wage war without loving it\\\". From my point of view, journalists should cover wars while hating them. When it comes to analyse the roots of a conflict or to describe the ordeal of civilians trapped into it, despising warlords and the power of weapons helps a lot.
Sponsored by Center for French and Francophone Studies in collaboration with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy and is sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
For more information, contact Frédérique Beaufils by phone at 919-668-1938 or by email at Frederique Beaufils <fb23@duke.edu> .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html


Tuesday, April 01st, 2008 :: 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 Marily Lombardi/RENCI
"Introducing the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) Center at Duke University" /Abstract/: Marilyn Lombardi is director of the new Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) Center at Duke University, which occupies the renovated first floor of the Telecom Building on West Campus. The RENCI at Duke Center is part of a multi-site virtual organization founded by Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University as a catalyst for innovation. The RENCI organization’s resources include the fastest supercomputers in North Carolina, a staff of ninety focus area specialists, computational scientists, software developers, and engineers, and an Innovations Lab where engineers fabricate new devices, taking them from concept to prototype. RENCI draws on these resources and the combined intellectual capital of RENCI’s member campuses to tackle problems of broad public concern, from disaster prediction, global climate change, and human health to nanotechnology, national security, and economic development. A dedicated high-speed network connects the Duke Center with the RENCI anchor site at the Europa Center in Chapel Hill and with Duke’s sister sites at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State. All the RENCI campus sites come equipped with a shared audio and video teleconferencing system with a large display so that multiple groups of collaborators at various locations can see one another simultaneously, while sharing presentations and high-resolution visualizations. The facility also boasts a one-of-a-kind Multi-Touch Visualization Wall. Similar to the futuristic interface imagined for Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film /Minority Report/, the Multi-Touch Visualization Wall is intended to foster hands-on creativity and inspire new research applications. Two full-time computer scientists specializing in high-performance data mining and visualization will be on staff to collaborate with Duke researchers on new applications and grant proposals. How might the Center and its resources advance your research agenda? Are you a biochemist who needs to create thousands of high-resolution, three-dimensional molecular models for studying protein design, protein folding and protein-protein interactions? Perhaps you’re a biomedical engineer working on a better cochlear implant for patients suffering from severe hearing loss, or a visual artist planning a multimedia interactive installation? Dr. Lombardi’s talk will focus on the nature of Duke-RENCI engagement and will welcome audience participation. /Bio/: Dr. Marilyn Lombardi directs the RENCI Center at Duke University. In this capacity, she manages the Duke component of the RENCI virtual organization and a facility with state-of-the-art visualization equipment, dedicated high-speed connectivity to the major research universities in the Triangle, and a staff of computing specialists to support Duke faculty in large-scale research collaborations. Lombardi is also a scholar-in-residence for the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and she writes the organization’s annual three-part white paper series covering current issues in technology and pedagogy. From 2006-2007, she also served as interim director of The Croquet Consortium, an international not-for-profit alliance of industry and academic institutions to advance and promote the creation and widespread adoption of open source Croquet technologies in research, industry, and education. Lombardi is an invited contributor to the Carnegie Foundation book "Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2007) and a member of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) advisory panel on “Humanities and High Performance Computing.” 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#apr1_2008


Friday, March 28th, 2008 :: 02:00 PM
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center - West Campus, Duke University
Film
Le Théâtre des Opérations (The Operating Theater\\\")
Benoît Rossel (director)
Film Screening and Panel Discussion featuring Benoît Rossel Screening in French with English Subtitles *** Panelists include: Benoît Rossel Filmmaker Gretchen Case, PhD Duke University Writing Program Fellow Adjunct Lecturer, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program, Northwestern University Mark Olson Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Duke University Barry Saunders, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Social Medicine UNC School of Medicine Lee Gravatt Wilke, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Duke University Health System *** The Operating Theater is a documentary feature film on the initiation rites of an apprentice surgeon in the operating block at a university hospital. To witness the steps of this process is to discover a strange and foreign world in which we are transient guests. The operating block is a microcosm nestled in the heart of the hospital machine. There, surgeons, anesthesiologists, surgical technologists, nurses and aids mend lives daily. Chronicles of death and human ingenuity, ambition and pettiness, generosity, fear and black humor are written here. The operating theater stages the vital substance of life. Through the daily training of the novice surgeon, the film sheds light on the issues at stake in the operating theater, as human, social, scientific and economic priorities coalesce and collide. Benoît Rossel was born in France in 1969, grew up in Switzerland, and studied film at the Lausanne University of Fine Arts (ECAL). He has directed several documentary and fiction films, including: \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Olivier Py, Tristan et Isolde\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" (2005) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Les Frères Bouroullec\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" (2001) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Wilsonmachine\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" (1997) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Wilson/Huppert\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" (1994) Rossel is currently shooting a feature documentary about the contemporary art world (2008). He lives and works in Lausanne and in Paris.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for French and Francophone Studies and Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
For more information, contact Frederique Beaufils at fb23@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/events.html


Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 :: 09:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 230/232 - (IMPS)
ISIS Game Night
ISIS Game Night
ISIS is hosting the final 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 at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html


Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
CANCELED - Remembering Past Atrocity: Monuments, Memorials and Museums in Comparative Perspective
Louis Bickford, Director, Policymakers and Civil Society Unit, International Center for Transitional Justice
***THIS WEDNESDAY AT THE CENTER EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED***
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at p.gutlon@duke.edu .


Monday, March 24th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Retrospective Justice in Comparative Perspective: Confronting Legacies of Historical Injustice in the United States, South Africa, and the World
Jim Campbell, Professor of American Civilization, Africana Studies and History, Brown University
A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP to katie.joyce@duke.edu Parking is available in the Duke Medical Center lots on Erwin Road or Trent Drive (see 2 and 3 on http://jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php) Parking coupons will be available after the talk. *************************************************** In 2003, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons appointed a Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice to investigate the University’s historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. The committee was also asked to organize public programs that would help Brown students and interested members of the public to reflect on the meaning of this history in the present, on the complex historical, legal, political, and ethical questions posed by any present-day confrontation with past injustice and its legacies. The committee delivered its final report, with recommendations, to the President in October, 2006. Both the report and the official University response, outlining the steps that Brown will take in light of the committee’s findings, are available online at www.brown.edu/slaveryjustice The site also includes detailed information about the committee’s activities, video excerpts of sponsored events, and a digital archives of historical documents that the committee uncovered in its research. In this presentation, Professor James Campbell, chair of the steering committee, will discuss the Brown initiative and its implications for the wider national conversation about slavery and its legacies in the United States. ********************* James T. Campbell (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1989; B.A. Yale University, 1980) is a professor of American Civilization, Africana Studies and History. His research focuses on African American history and on the wider history of the Black Atlantic. His first book, Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), was awarded the Organization of American Historians\\\' Frederick Jackson Turner Prize and the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for Non-Fiction. His second book, Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 (New York: Penguin Press, 2006), received the Mark Lynton History Prize from the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project and the Lois P. Rudnick Prize from the New England American Studies Association and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in History. Campbell is also the co-editor, with Matthew Guterl and Robert Lee, of Race, Nation, and Empire in American History, published in 2007 by the University of North Carolina Press.
Sponsored by Duke University’s Concilium on Southern Africa and the Asian & African Language and Literature Department
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://dev.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/
RSVP requested by Thursday March 20th 2008 .


Thursday, March 20th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library- West Campus of Duke University
Seminar
Credible Commitments and the International Criminal Court
Keynote Speaker: Beth Simmons, Harvard University
Each Seminar will be followed by a short reception allowing individuals conversations with the speakers. To view Professor Simmons' Biography see http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~bsimmons/ 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.
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm


Thursday, March 20th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library), Duke University West Campus
Lecture
Credible Commitments and the International Criminal Court
Beth Simmons, Harvard University
Professor Simmons is the Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Her fields of interest and course subjects are International Relations, International Political Economy, and International Law. Her current research focus is on the effects of international law and institutions on state behavior and policy choice. Her publications include Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1923-1939 (Princeton University Press, 1994), winner of the 1995 American Political Science Association Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book published in the previous year in government, politics, or international relations. She has also published articles on international institutions in International Organization and World Politics. The seminar will be followed by a brief reception. All are welcome. For those coming from off-campus, please use the Bryan Center parking garage IV. Directions to parking garage IV are at: http://map.duke.edu/parking.php?pid=P001.
Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies, Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs
For more information, contact Dan Smith by phone at 919-668-1663 or by email at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm


Thursday, March 20th, 2008 - Friday, March 21st, 2008 :: 05:30 AM
Please see description for correct times and location for each event
Nathaniel Mackey
Poetry reading, Thursday, March 20, 5.30 p.m., Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke West Campus GATA lunch, Friday, March 21, Noon, Room 240, Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road Nathaniel Mackey is among the country’s leading poets. He received 2006 National Book Award for Poetry his Splay Anthem. His other poetry works include Eroding Witness, Song of Andoumboulou and Whatsaid Serif. Bass Cathedral, the most recent volume in his epistolary novel series, From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, was issued by New Directions this winter. Mackey is professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of two critical works, Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing and Paracritical Hinge. He is editor of the Hambone, a journal of experimental writing and the host for Tanganyika Strut, a long-running radio program of contemporary experimental and world music. And just a note: Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka will talk on Friday, April 18, 5.30 pm at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. His topic is “FESTAC AGONISTES: the Politics of a Transatlantic Dialogue. The talk is cosponsored by the Nasher and is the 2008 Karl von der Heyden Distinguished International Lecture.
Sponsored by Globalization and the Artist and The Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .


Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center New Media Space
Art Opening
The Work of Stacy-Lynn Waddell
The opening reception will be held from 5:30pm to 7:00pm *** Through a series of works exploring the life and legacy of Dr. John Hope Franklin, Stacy-Lynn Waddell employs the transformative media of heat and fire in an attempt to articulate the complexities and realities of a life lived in service and in search of the American Dream. Stacy-Lynn Waddell was born in 1966 in Washington, D.C. She received her MFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2007. Waddell has participated in exhibitions at venues including the Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC; Bryce’s Barbershop, Olympia, WA; and the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at p.gutlon@duke.edu .


Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Beyond Hallie and Whoopi: Black Women and American Cinema – A Conversation
Esther Iverem, author of We Gotta Have It: 20 Years of Seeing Black at the Movies; Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African and African-American Studies, Duke University; Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ph.D candidate in Africana Studies, English, & Women Studie
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 Center for the Study of Black Popular Culture
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at p.gutlon@duke.edu .


Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS tech and New Media Tuesdays
CANCELED - ISIS tech and New Media Tuesdays featuring Patrick Herron
CANCELED - More info coming soon... 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#mar18_2008


Monday, March 17th, 2008 :: 04:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Sex and Secularity
Michael Warner, Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University
Parking available at Pickens Lot after 4pm
Sponsored by The Program in the Study of Sexualities and the Department of English
For more information, contact Chris Chia at christina.chia@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/


Wednesday, March 05th, 2008 :: 07:00 PM
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center-(West Campus)
Film
Letters from Iwo Jima
-- Free and open to the public!**The Cine-East: East Asian Cinema film series hosts a special screening of: Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 2006, 141 min, USA, English, Japanese, Color, 35mm) -- Introduced by screenwriter Iris Yamashita, with Q&A to follow! The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination. Clint Eastwood’s companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers presents a powerful and artistic rendering of the events leading up to the Battle of Iwo Jima. A sympathetic portrait of the Japanese soldiers who fought to defend the island from U.S. Marine Corps, the film has earned Eastwood universal praise for de-mythifying the often sanctimonious portrayal of war combat while sensitively evoking the experiences of an American foe. -- First-time Japanese-American screenwriter Iris Yamashita joins us to discuss her adaptation of Tadamichi Kuribayashi’s first hand account of the epochal event. For information about other Screen/Society series and events, visit: http://fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php
Sponsored by Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and the Film/Video/Digital Program, with support from the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature and the Duke University Center for International Studies.
For more information, contact Hank Okazaki by phone at 919-660-3031 or by email at hokazak@duke.edu .
URL: http://fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php


Wednesday, March 05th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Towards an Ethnography of Freedom
Megan Moodie, Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University
Lunch provided. Free parking available at medical center decks on Erwin road and Trent drive - parking vouchers will be distributed at event. About the Lecture: This talk will be based on Megan Moodie's anthropological fieldwork in the city of Jaipur, capital of the north Indian state of Rajasthan, with an urban tribal group known as the Dhanka who have been obvious beneficiaries of the project of social uplift that characterizes a particularly Indian vision of freedom. It argues that we can study the life of big ideas like freedom "on the ground," in the particular kinds of sociality that emerge in their name; unlike many feminists who have taken up this challenge to traditional political theorizing, however, it contends that freedom, in particular, is a site of material and discursive production that should remain central to our activist and academic projects. Using examples from her ethnography of new collective marriage festivals among the Dhanka, the speaker will sketch an outline of what such a project might look like. 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 FHI and the 2007-08 Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Portents and Dilemmas: Health and Environment in China and India and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Chris Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi


Wednesday, March 05th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130
Lecture
Jill Schoolman
Jill Schoolman, founder Archipelago Books
lunch will be provided Jill Schoolman founded Archipelago Books in 2003 after working with Seven Stories Press for four years in the editorial department. She graduate from Yale with a BA in Literature in 1992, and studied English literature at Oxford University in 1989-1990. She worked in film before she entered the publishing world. She was selected to participate in the French-American Foundation-sponsored editors\\\' exchange program, the German Book Office-sponsored editors\\\' trip to Germany, and the Swedish Institute editors\\\' exchange over the past few years. Archipelago is a not-for-profit press devoted to classics and contemporary international literature. In its first four years, it has brought out 35 titles from over fifteen languages. Authors in the series include Robert Musil, Elias Khoury, Marguerite Duras, Henri Michaux, Mahmoud Darwish, Novalis, Julio Cortazar, Georg Buchner, Witold Gombrowicz, Magdalena Tulli. A Piece of Mind by Ahmet Hamdi Tappinar translated by our own Erdag Goknar is forthcoming. Archipelago\\\'s New Poems by Tadeusz Rozewicz is a National Book Critics Circle 2007 Poetry Award Finalist. And, if I may add, these are beautifully published books. See www.archipelagobooks.org
Sponsored by Globalization and the Artist , Duke University Center for International Studies
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .


Tuesday, March 04th, 2008 :: 04:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center , 2204 Erwin Road, Room 230/232
Lecture
MODULARITY From Modern Architecture to Postmodern Technologies
ANDREW L. RUSSELL, Postdoctoral Fellow, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University
(parking available at pickens clinic lot across the street after 4 PM) This event is part of Current Residents, a lecture series featuring visiting scholars and fellows at Duke About the Lecture: By the turn of the twenty-first century, it had become common for a wide range of professionals--from computer scientists and economists to psychologists and neurooscientists--to use the language of modularity to describe their respective fields of endeavor. Yet, only 80 years earlier, this language was absent from all professional discourse. This talk traces the history of modular concepts from their first articulation in the Depression-era building industry to their seemingly ubiquitous use in the 1990s. This history suggests that modularity, first embraced as a modern means for rationalizing the chaotic building industry, emerged as a powerful tool for managing the complexities of the postmodern information age. About the Speaker: Andrew L. Russell is Postdoctoral Fellow in Recycle, the 2007-2008 John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar. He earned a Ph.D. in the History of Science and Technology from The Johns Hopkins University in 2007. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder (M.A. History, 2003) and Vassar College (B.A. History, 1996). Before attending graduate school he worked for two years in the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard University\\\'s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
For more information, contact Chis Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi


Monday, March 03rd, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Room 201 (Old Library), Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Lecture
Inequality and Poverty in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Pundy Pillay, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town; and School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Dr. Pundy Pillay is Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town; and School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Previous positions include Senior Research Economist for RTI International; Head of the Policy Unit, Presidency; Executive Director, Financial & Fiscal Commission; and Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town. His research interests are in the economics of the social sectors (particularly education, labour markets and poverty) and public finance. He is a visiting New Century Fulbright Scholar at Duke University during March 2008. The talk is co-sponsored by the Concilium on Southern Africa and the Sanford Institute of Public Policy where Dr. Pillay will be a Fulbright New Century Scholar during the month of March 2008. ***************************************************** A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP by Thursday, February 28th to katie.joyce@duke.edu Pay parking is available in the Bryan Center lot or the parking area on Science Drive at the bottom of Whitford Drive.
Sponsored by COSA-Concilium on Southern Africa at Duke University
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://dev.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/


Saturday, March 01st, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Nancy A Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Lecture Hall
Lecture
FESTAC \\\'77 to Venice \\\'07: Contemporary Art, Africa, and the Global Exhibit
Panel Discussion with Randy Weston (jazz pianist and composer who took part in FESTAC \\\'77 in Lagos, Nigeria); Barkley L. Hendricks (artist who took part in FESTAC \\\'77, and whose retrospective is on view at the Nasher now); David A. Bailey (senior curator at Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers in London); Julie Mehretu (visual artist who exhibited in the 2006 Sydney Biennale); and Odili Donald Odita (visual artist who exhibited in the 2007 Venice Biennale). FESTAC \\\'77 was the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture that took place in Lagos, Nigeria, from January 15 - February 12, 1977. FESTAC \\\'77 brought together more than 17,000 participants from 55 countries and 50,000 people from outside Nigeria. Notable participants included visual artists Barkley L. Hendricks and Faith Ringgold, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, dance choreographer Chuck Davis, and musicians Stevie Wonder, Gilberto Gil, Miriam Makeba, Sun Ra and Randy Weston.
Sponsored by Co-sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies.
For more information, contact Trevor Schoonmaker or Rob Sikorski at tschoon@duke.edu / r.sikorski@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions_hendricks.php


Friday, February 29th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Global Culture Industry & New Media
Global Culture Industry & New Media: lunch with Scott Lash and Celia Lury
ISIS is co-sponsoring this lunch before the main event <http://literature.aas.duke.edu/news/> brought to you by the Program in Literature. Their mini-symposium will be held in the Upper East Side, East Union Building, East Campus at 4 PM. Celia Lury and Scott Lash are professors at Goldsmiths College (University of London). Celia Lury is in Sociology and Scott Lash in New Media Ontology. http://www.isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html
For more information, contact Cristin Paul at cristin.paul@duke.edu .
URL: http://literature.aas.duke.edu/news/


Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
WRITING FOR READERS: Scholarly publishing in a changing climate
Speakers are KEN WISSOKER, Editor-in-ChiefDuke University Press with COURTNEY BERGER, Assistant Editor, Duke University Press in Q & A. (parking available at Pickens Lot across the street after 4 PM) 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 A. W. Mellon Foundation. 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.
For more information, contact Chris Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi


Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Johh Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin road, Room 240
Lecture
Queering Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play
Jennifer Devere Brody, Associate Professor of English, African American Studies, and Performance Studies, Northwestern University & Spring 2008 Visiting Professor of African & African-American Studies, Duke University
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 Program in the Study of Sexualities
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at p.gutlon@duke.edu .


Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130 / 131
Lecture
U.S.-CANADA RELATIONS: A VIEW FROM OLD CANADA
Louis Balthazar
Lunch will be provided.Free and open to the public. *Limited number of complimentary parking vouchers available for the nearby Medical Center lot. Louis Balthazar is Professor emeritus at Laval University in Québec City, Canada. He is also president of the Center for U.S. Studies, Raoul-Dandurand Chair, UQAM He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University (1971) and a Masters in French Literature from the University of Montreal (1955). He has published extensively on United States foreign policy, Canadian-American relations, Québec nationalism and other topics. Among his recent books are La politique étrangère des États-Unis: fondements, acteurs, formulations (with Charles-Philippe David and Justin Vaïsse), Paris, Les Presses de Science Po, 2003, Le Québec dans l’espace Americain (with Alfred O. Hero Jr.), Montreal, Québec-Amerique, 1999, Contemporary Québec and the United States (also with Alfred Hero), Cambridge, MA and Lanham, MD, Harvard Center for International Affairs and University Press of America, 1988 and French-Canadian Civilization, ACSUS Paper, Lansing, MI, Michigan State University Press, 1995.
Sponsored by The Center for Canadian Studies at Duke
For more information, contact Janice Engelhardt at jae4@duke.edu .


Monday, February 25th, 2008 :: 01:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Nasher Museum of Art
Conference
JERUSALEM: Law, Land, Buildings
Speakers: * Marshall J. Breger, Professor of Law, Columbus School of Law, the Catholic University of America * Nazmi Jubeh, Co-Director of Riwaq, Centre for Architectural Conservation and Professor of History at Birzeit University * Gregory Khalil, Attorney, and former legal advisor with the Negotiations Support Unit (NSU) * Daniel Seideman, Attorney, founder and legal advisor for “Ir Amim” * Rebecca L. Stein, Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University * Annabel Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor of Art History, Duke University This conference is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit the Center for Jewish Studies web site: http://jewishstudies.aas.duke.edu/ Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University - with additional support from the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature; and the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies; the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Endowment; the Harvey J. Goldman Endowment; the Fleishman Endowment; and the Evans Israeli Academic and Cultural Residency Program.
For more information, contact see URL please .
URL: http://jewishstudies.aas.duke.edu/


Monday, February 25th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Winnie Mandela and the Populist Temptation of the ANC
Stephen Smith, Visiting Lecturer of African Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Public Policy at Duke Universtiy
Revered “Mother of the Nation” at the height of the fight against apartheid, but also leader of the United Mandela Football Club, a gang of township totsis convicted for twelve homicides in her presence, Winnie Mandela is the pride and the shame of the “new” South Africa, its honor and its humiliation. Through her truly epic life story, and the memory of the throes of institutionalized racism, this talk connects the past to the present in as much as “the struggle” prefigured the current leadership crisis. Close to the Black Consciousness Movement, the insurgent youth of Soweto and the urban poor, has “Comrade Nomzamo” not always embodied an alternative to the historic compromise advocated for by the ANC? Rather than the “miracle” accomplished by Nelson at the cost of a crime against humanity laid to rest without punishment, is Winnie’s populist rage not the true face of South Africa? Stephen W. Smith is currently teaching African Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Public Policy at Duke University. He is the former Africa editor and Deputy Foreign editor of Le Monde and has been working on Africa for twenty-five years, previously for Reuter’s, Radio France International and the French daily Libération. Prior to his newly released biography on Winnie Mandela, co-authored with Sabine Cessou, he published How France lost Africa (2005), an atlas of Africa (2004), a travel book on the Congo River and an essay entitled Negrology. Why Africa dies (2003), as well as biographies of Emperor Bokassa (2000) and general Oufkir (1998). He is also the author of two recent reports by the International Crisis Group (ICG), on Nigeria (July 2006) and on the Central African Republic (December 2007). Born in the United States, he spent most of his life in Europe where he studied African law and Anthropology at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and Philosophy, History and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin. He defended his thesis, in 1983, on The Semiotics of Foreign News Coverage. ***************************************************** A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP by Thursday, February 21st to katie.joyce@duke.edu Please park at either the Duke Hospital lot on Erwin Road or the Duke Clinics lot on Trent Drive (see the following map http://jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php). Parking passes will be available after the talk. Please contact katie.joyce@duke.edufor further information
Sponsored by COSA-Concilium on Southern Africa at Duke University
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://dev.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/
RSVP requested by Thursday February 21st 2008 .


Friday, February 22nd, 2008 :: 02:30 PM - 05:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130
Ethnography and Sound Recordings
Ethnography and Sound Recordings
Featuring Gabriel Solis and Joseph Schloss with Mark Katz (discussant). A round table discussion on the creative role of sound recordings in various musical practices, how sound recordings figure in notions of "music history," and how the increased accessibility and changing forms of recordings have altered music ethnography. Joseph Schloss is an ethnomusicologist whose scholarly work has focused on, among other things, the musical practices of hip-hop producers. His 2004 book _Making Beats: The Art of Sample-based Hip-Hop_ won the International Association for the Study of Popular Music's (IASPM-US) Book Award 2005. He is currently working on a book on B-Boys, B-Girls and Communities of Style. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. Gabriel Solis is an Assistant Professor of Musicology in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's School of Music. A specialist in African American music, he has done ethnographic and historical research with jazz musicians and capoeiristas in the United States. His book Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making has just been published by the University of California Press. Mark Katz is an Assistant Professor of Music at UNC and author of Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music (2004). He is currently working on a book on the Art and Culture of the Hip Hop DJ and on a co-edited volume on the Social Life of Sound Technologies. Preparatory Materials for Workshop Participants: Schloss, Joseph. 2004. "Materials and Inspiration: Digging the Crates". Chapter 4 of his Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press. Solis, Gabriel. 2008. "Hearing Monk: History, Memory, and the Making of a Jazz Giant". Chapter 2 of his Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making. Berkeley: University of California Press. For copies of the readings, please email Matthew Somoroff: mas45@duke.edu
Sponsored by The Ethnomusicology Working Group at Duke University
For more information, contact Matthew Somoroff at mas45@duke.edu .


Friday, February 22nd, 2008 :: 01:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Rare Book room, Perkins Library
Book History Symposium
Books Without A Future? Recycling And Reconstruction Symposium
LISA GITELMAN, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Catholic University; LEAH PRICE,Harvard College Professor and Professor of English, Harvard University; KATHRYN STARKEY,Associate Professor or German Languages and Literatures & Director of the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Law, University of Virginia with ROGER CHARTIER, Respondent.
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/


Thursday, February 21st, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Breedlove Room, 204 Perkins Library- West Campus of Duke University
Seminar
The Relative Effects of Environmental Regimes: A Quantitative Comparison of Acid Rain Agreements
Keynote Speaker: Ronald Mitchell, Univeristy of Oregon
Each Seminar will be followed by a short reception allowing individuals conversations with the speakers. To view Professor Mitchells's biography see http://www.uoregon.edu/~rmitchel/ 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.
For more information, contact Dan Smith at dan.smith@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/GlobalEquity/schedule.htm


Thursday, February 21st, 2008 :: 05:30 PM
Nasher Museum Auditorium
Lecture
The 2008 Annual A. W. Mellon Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: CARDENIO BETWEEN SIERRA MORENA, WHITEHALL & PARISIAN STAGES
ROGER CHARTIER, Chair of Writings and Cultures in Modern Europe, Collège de France, Professor of History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Made possible by the generous support of the A. W. Mellon Foundation.
Sponsored by Franklin Humanities Institute
For more information, contact Christina Chia at fhi@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/


Thursday, February 21st, 2008 - Friday, February 22nd, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, room 240-Please see description for accurate times for both dates
Lecture
REFLECTIONS ON THE DE-COLONIAL OPTION AND THE HUMANITIES: AN INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE
please direct inquiries to: tracy.carhart@duke.edu. for more information and reading material visit: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/currentpartnerships.html Meals will be served. Please RSVP by Monday, February 18 to tracy.carhart@duke.edu . Thursday, February 21, 2008 Noon - 5:00 pm Panelists: Gregson Davis, Dean of the Humanities (Duke University) Sabine Broeck, Institute for Transcultural & Postcolonial Studies (INPUTS, University of Bremen, Germany) Guo-Juin Hong, Asian & African Languages & Literatures and Film & Video Program (Duke University) Commentators and discussion leaders: Esther Gabara, Romance Studies & Art History (Duke University) Jessica Eaglin, Literature Program & Law School (Duke University) Arnold Ho, Divinity School (Duke University) Friday, February 22, 2008 9:30 am - 5:30 pm Panelists: Kwame Nimako, Department of Sociology (the National Institute for the Study for Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee) Madina Tlostanova, Comparative Politique & Comparative Philosopy (People's Friendship University of Russia) Claudia Milian, Department of Romance Studies & African & African American Studies (Duke University) Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Department of Ethnic Studies (The University of California at Berkeley) Commentators and discussion leaders: Joseph Tucker Edmonds, Religion/Graduate Program (Duke University) Carmen Llenin-Figueroa, Literature/Graduate Program (Duke University) Jose Venegas, Romance Languages & Literatures (UNC - Chapel Hill) SPONSORED BY: THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDIES AND THE HUMANITIES (DUKE UNIVERSITY) in collaboration with THE INSTITUTE FOR TRANSCULTURAL AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES (INPUTS, UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN, GERMANY) and THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF DUTCH SLAVERY AND ITS LEGACY (NiNsee, AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND)
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/currentpartnerships.html


Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 :: 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
The John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
COLONIALIDAD/LATINIDAD DISCUSSION SERIES
NELSON MALDONADO-TORRES
Dr. Maldonado-Torres will present "Coloniality and Latiniwhat?: Decolonization in Multiple Voices" This is a short introduction to four different projects (local, national, and international) in which questions of identity, liberation, and decolonization are central: 1) Rethinking U.S. Ethnic Studies in its Fortieth Birthday, 2) the Latino/a Academy of Arts and Sciences, 3) Reparation, Affirmative Action, and the Decolonization of Knowledge in Brazil, and 4) the Caribbean Philosophical Association. For readings and supplemental material visit: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/programs.html
Sponsored by The UNC-CH/Duke Working Group, "Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge" and Latino/a Studies at Duke University
For more information, contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/programs.html


Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Building Schools in Kenya: Two Perspectives
Sherryl Broverman, Chair, Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER), Kenya, Associate Professor of the Practice of Biology & Director, Global Health Certificate Program, Duke University; Patrick O'Sullivan, Founder, Build African Schools 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 Information Science + Information Studies
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at p.gutlon@duke.edu .


Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 :: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Room 225, Science Building (East Campus)
Seminar
Portents and Dilemmas: Environment and Health in India and China-(Melon/Sawyer Seminar)
Keynote Speaker: Arun Agrawal, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan
Environmental Governance, Community, and Pluralism Arun Agrawal teaches at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on the politics of development, institutional change, and environmental conservation. He has published a number of books and articles on indigenous knowledge, community-based conservation, common property, population and resources, environmental subjectivities, and environmental government, including the 2005 Duke University Press book, Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. His recent interests include the decentralization of environmental policy, logging in the Congo Basin, and the role of institutions in adaptation to climate change. Much of his work has centered on South Asia although recent projects also include other developing countries in Africa and Latin America. He is completing a book, tentatively titled "Climate Adaptation, Institutions, and Livelihoods.
For more information, contact Ralph Litzinger at rlitz@duke.edu .


Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 :: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
F-CIEMAS Auditorium
ISIS Special Event
ISIS Special Event with Patrick O'Sullivan
Patrick O'Sullivan is the Founder of Build African Schools <http://www.buildafricanschools.org/> and will be showing a documentary screening "Come Walk With Me." A reception will precede the talk at 5:30-6:00 PM in the F-CIEMAS Lobby. Related Event: Patrick and Sherryl Broverman <http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/faculty/sbrover> (Chair of Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER)-Kenya <http://wisergirls.org/>; Associate Professor of the Practice of Biology <http://www.biology.duke.edu/> and Director of the Global Health Certificate Program <http://globalhealth.duke.edu/>, Duke University) will be delivering"Building Schools in Kenya: Two Perspectives" as part of Wednesdays at the Center <http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/events/wednesdays/index.php> on February 20, 2008 at 12:00-1:00 PM in John Hope Franklin Center <http://map.duke.edu/?bid=7510>, 240.
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#SE021908_BAS%20>


Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 02:00 AM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Film
CANCELLED-(TO BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE)\\\"Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed"
Screening and Lunch of "Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed" The film documents Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s run for the Democratic nomination in 1972 Introduction by mark Anthony Neal (dir) Shola Lynch 77 minutes 1972 was an extraordinary year. Richard Nixon was president, running for his second, ill-fated term. The voting age had just changed from 21 to 18, and millions of new voters were expected at the polls. The Vietnam War was in full swing, as were anti-war protests, a burgeoning women's movement, and the rise of the Black Panther Party. Into the center of this maelstrom — shocking the conventional political wisdom — stepped Shirley Chisholm, a determined, rather prim and unapologetically liberal black woman with a powerful message: Exercise the full measure of your citizenship and vote. Announcing her candidacy for president on the evening news, Walter Cronkite quipped, "A new hat — rather a bonnet — was tossed into the presidential race today." As revealed in "CHISHOLM '72 — Unbought & Unbossed," this first-ever run by a woman and person of color for presidential nomination was no laughing matter. Nor was it a polite exercise in symbolic electioneering. The New York Democratic congresswoman's bid engendered strong, and sometimes bigoted opposition, setting off currents that affect American politics and social perceptions to this day. Shirley Chisholm died at the age of 80 on January 1, 2005, at her home in Florida. Lunch will be served.
Sponsored by John Hope Franklin Center
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at p.gutlon@duke.edu .


Friday, February 15th, 2008 - Saturday, February 16th, 2008 :: 02:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library (Please see description for location & time for 2-16-08 event )
Symposium
Early American Mediascapes symposium
Event on 2/15 is from 2pm-5:20pm with a reception from 5:30-6:30 in the Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. Event on 2/16, time is from 9am-12pm with lunch from 12-1:30 in the JHFC Cafe. Germaine Warkentin ~ Peter Charles Hoffer ~ Ralph Bauer ~ Birgit Brander Rasmussen ~ Paul Chaat Smith ~ Richard Cullen Rath ~ Heidi Bohaker ~ Gonzalo Lamana ~ Sarah Rivett ~ Andrew Newman ~ Jeffrey Glover ~ Matt Cohen ~ Elizabeth Fenn ~ Orin Starn ~ John David Mile ~ Walter Mignolo "Early American Mediascapes" is organized around key methodological shifts resulting from the turn toward media in early American studies, bringing together scholars from Native American and colonial studies; literary scholars and historians; cultural anthropologists and historians of the book. The European settlement of indigenous-dominated territories was driven by struggles over information circulation as much as by ideologies of conquest and colonization. Colonial spaces were sites of an extraordinary proliferation of communications technologies. Settlers improvised and developed a variety of means of communicating with Native people, from participating in Native rituals and sign-systems to composing language guides and translating European books into New World languages. At the same time, Native people made strategic interventions in the information channels of early European settlements, appropriating, mastering, and deploying communicative techniques imported by colonists. Such a relay is not merely a relic; the contents of the colonial archive iteself have been a product of a struggle over media and access to it that continues to this day. Who gets to tell the story of colonization and what counts as evidence for that story? Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by Arts & Sciences Research Council; ISIS ; John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute; The Department of History; The Department of Cultural Anthropology; The Program in Literature; Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collection at Duke Libraries
For more information, contact John David Miller at jdm25@duke.edu .
URL: http://english.duke.edu/resources/mediascapes/


Thursday, February 14th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center , 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
Lecture
Globalization & the Artist (GATA) with photo historian Gilles Mora
Duke University Center for International Studies Globalization & the Artist (GATA)invites you to a lunch with photo historian Gilles Mora. Lunch will be provided. As a French historian in photography, I always tried to produce books which could reach a large audience. When Les Editions du Seuil in Paris asked me to create a collection of photographic books, I proposed a series of monographs devoted to the main American and European photographers. I wanted to produce books with the informative value of museum catalogues, aimed to a broader audience. Bringing the readers new information and fresh visual materials.”—Gilles Mora Biographical note: Gilles Mora is a specialist in modern American photography and the author or co-author of monographs on Walker Evens, Eugene W. Smith, Denis Roche, Charles Sheller, FSA photographers. Mora was born in 1945, taught in the US from 1972 to 1975, and was founding editor of the quarterly Les cahiers de la photographie. Upcoming GATA events: March 5: Lunch discussion with Jill Schoolman, editor, Archipelago Books, a leading publishers of translations. March 20: Reading by National Book Award winner Nathaniel Mackey March 21: Lunch discussion with Nathaniel Mackey
Sponsored by Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections, Perkins Library
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu .


Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 130
Lecture
African-American Self-taught Artists of the American South:Renderings of Their Everyday Lives
Ginger Young, Curator, Ginger Young Gallery
Sponsored by JHFC as part of W@TC and Black History Month***** LUNCH WILL BE SERVED**** Despite their lack of formal training, a handful of African-American self-taught artists from the Southeastern US have emerged as creative powerhouses in the past twenty years, their genius recognized and celebrated by the mainstream art world. Some of their most eloquent renderings depict their everyday lives. In this talk, we will discuss these visual narratives and the ways in which they bear witness to rural farm life, race, work, family, and childhood. We will examine artworks by such artists as Jimmy Lee Sudduth, James Arthur Snipes, Bernice Sims, Mose Tolliver, Eddie Hayes, and MC Jones. An avid art collector for thirty years, Ginger Young has run a business in Southern self-taught art since 1990 and represents more than 60 artists in her Chapel Hill home gallery. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, she has taught at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies and UNC's Friday Center, and has published articles and letters about self-taught art in Bible Review, Christianity and the Arts, Oxford American, Gallery Notes, and Folk Art Finder. To learn more, visit www.gingeryoung.com. 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 John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
For more information, contact Pamela Gutlon at p.gutlon@duke.edu .
URL: http://www.gingeryoung.com


Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Room 240
ISIS Tech & New Media Tuesdays featuring DARWARS
More information coming soon... 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#feb12_2008


Monday, February 11th, 2008 :: 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Room 201 (Old Library), Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Lecture
From New Rust to Renewal?: Realizing the Right to Housing in South Africa
Sarah Finkelstein, Duke University alumna and law student, Washington Univeristy in St. Louis
The talk will explore the conflicts and challenges surrounding progressive realization of the right to adequate housing guaranteed by the South African Constitution and given effect by the South African Constitutional Court in the Grootboom judgment of 2000. The Grootboom case will be used to illustrate the interplay--at times disabling, at times empowering--between the courts, the national and local governments, and civil society organizations in devising housing strategies and policies in South Africa which address both the immediate and long-term needs of communities like New Rust. Sarah Finkelstein graduated magna cum laude from Duke University in 2006 and is currently a second year law student at Washington University School of Law in Saint Louis. Sarah developed and deepened her interest in African legal issues over the past two summers working and traveling in South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya. In 2006, Sarah conducted historical and archival research for Justice Albie Sachs of the South African Constitutional Court. In 2007, she received grants from the Washington University School of Law and Gephardt Institute of Public Policy to intern for the Legal Resource Center in Accra and Nairobi. Sarah has also interned for The Legal Aid Society, which serves as the primary public defender in New York City. As a law student, Sarah teaches International Humanitarian Law for the Harris Institute for Global Studies at Wash U and helps arts organizations in Saint Louis obtain nonprofit/tax exempt status through her participation in the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Association (VLAA). At Duke, Sarah was a research assistant for the Social Science Research Institute, a teaching assistant for the History Department, and the founder of Duke IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities in Education Association). She also volunteered for the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Project and developed a curriculum supplement around its message of reckoning with history and restorative justice which has since been implemented at her high school in New York City. ***************************************************** A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP by Thursday, February 7th Pay parking available at either Bryan Center parking lot or Science Drive lot near Whitford Road.
Sponsored by COSA-Concilium on Southern Africa at Duke Univeristy
For more information, contact Katie Joyce at katie.joyce@duke.edu .
URL: http://dev.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/


Friday, February 08th, 2008 - Saturday, February 09th, 2008 :: 01:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road-(PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION)
Conference
The Politics of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies is pleased to present its annual conference:The Politics of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean February 8 - 9, 2008 featuring 3 round table discussions, 10 panels, keynote presentations by Ariel Dorfman and Laurent Dubois, a reception on Friday, and breakfast, lunch and a dance party/reception with live music on Saturday! All Friday events will be held in the Franklin Center on the Duke Campus in Durham, NC; all Saturday events will be held in the FedEx Global Education Center on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill, NC. All attendees (including all panel and roundtable participants) are required to register by January 29, 2008. There is no registration fee, but we need to get an accurate count for all catered meals. To register, go to the Consortium web site at http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/ and click on "conference registration" (in the second box on the right side). All conference events are free and open to the public. Please join us. is pleased to present its annual conference The Politics of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean February 8 - 9, 2008 Featuring 3 round table discussions, 10 panels, keynote presentations by Ariel Dorfman and Laurent Dubois,a reception on Friday, and breakfast, lunch and a dance party/reception with live music on Saturday! All Friday events will be held in the Franklin Center on the Duke Campus in Durham, NC; all Saturday events will be held in the FedEx Global Education Center on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill, NC. TO GET A COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR THE 2008 CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE PROGRAM WITH TIMES AND LOCATIONS AT http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/08consortiumprogram.pdf
Sponsored by The Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
For more information, contact NATALIE HARTMAN at njh@duke.edu or riefkohl@email.unc.edu .
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/


Thursday, February 07th, 2008 :: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
2204 John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
Seminar
Democratization and Civil Society in Postcommunist Europe
Keynote Speaker: Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard Univerisity
Each Seminar will be followed by a short reception allowing individuals conversations with the speakers. Professor Ekert's Biography can be viewed at http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/gekiert/ 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, 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,Director

Monday, Nov 5
7:00 PM
Teer Engineering Library

A 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 Québec

Q & A following the film

Tuesday, Nov 6
8:00 PM
Griffith Theater

This 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, Director

Q & 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 .