Thu, April 16, 2009 5:00 PM - Thu, August 6, 2009 5:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center Main Gallery. Free. The Sea is History - Moun Kanntè, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros: An Exhibition on Human Dispersion in the Caribbean Sea
Curated by Holly Ackerman, PhD, Librarian for Latin American and Iberian Studies and 2008-09 Library Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute Annual Seminar, Alternative Political Imaginaries
Thu, April 16, 2009 4:30 PM - Thu, August 6, 2009 4:30 PM Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium. Free. Fatimah Tuggar
Desired Dwellings: Project for an Immersive Environment
The DiVE
1617A Fitzpatrick Center
Fatimah Tuggar's piece in the DiVE is open for viewing on Thursdays from 4:30 - 5:30 PM, or by appointment. Appointments may be made by calling (919) 684-6469 or writing to grant.samuelsen@duke.edu
Fatimah Tuggar's projects are presented by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute with major support from the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Visual Studies Program, Program in Women's Studies, and the Department of African & African American Studies. Fatimah Tuggar is one of three HBCU Faculty Fellows in residence at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute during 2008-09. This program is funded by a generous grant from the A.W. Mellon Foundation.
Fri, May 15, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Center for Documentary Studies. 0. Students in the Final Seminar in Documentary Studies, taught by Nancy Kalow, will present their photography, audio, and video projects to a public audience. These students are completing the Certificate in Documentary Studies program, a series of continuing education courses offered by CDS.
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Sat, May 9, 2009 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium. by invitation.. FVD Certificate seniors, their families, and FVD faculty and staff are invited to celebrate our FVD Certificate graduates. View samples of student films, congratulate our certificate recipients, and enjoy the dessert reception.
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Fri, May 1, 2009 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Westbrook 0012. Held in the context of the transformation of Duke University's Program in Film Video Digital into a more capacious Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, our workshop aims to examine the relationships and tensions between cinema in its 20th century media embodiment--as film--and cinema in its 21st century, "post-filmic" and its pre-20th century, "pre-filmic" embodiments.
Organized by the Visual Studies Initiative.
Contact: marion.monson@duke.edu
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Fri, May 1, 2009 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. To mark the end of the inaugural year of the FHI¿s HBCU Faculty Fellowship Program - and inspired by the vision and legacy of John Hope Franklin - this one-day symposium and workshop will bring together faculty, students, and administrators from Duke and local area HBCUs to explore ways of creating institutional collaborations around the arts and the humanities, and across older historical divisions in the region and beyond.
The symposium will feature lectures by noted historians Darlene Clark Hine and Evelyn Higginbotham (editor of the revised /From Slavery the Freedom/) on the legacy of John Hope Franklin, and sessions organized by our current HBCU Faculty Fellows Jelani Favors and Dana Williams. Two exhibits will be on view: a retrospective by Fatimah Tuggar and editions/translations of /From Slavery to Freedom/.
This symposium is presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute and John Hope Franklin Research Center at Duke University Libraries.
Thu, April 30, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Duke Chapel. TBD. Backed by two choral groups, the Raleigh-based symphony addresses itself to one of the most renowned works for voice ever composed.
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Thu, April 30, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium. Screening of films by Malcolm Le Grice: Discussion with the filmmaker and reception to follow.....
# Joseph's Newer Coat - 1998-2001, 16 minutes, 3 screens.....# Cherry - 2003, 2 minutes, 3 screens.....# Wier - 1993 and 2007, 3 minutes, 3 screens.....# DENISINED - SINEDENIS - 2006, 3 minutes, 3 screens.....# Even the Cyclops Pays the Ferryman - 1998-2001, 17 minutes, 3 screens.....Sponsored byt the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS), and the Visual Studies Initiative.......Contact marion.monson@duke.edu for more information.
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Wed, April 29, 2009 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free. The processes of imagination, exploration, discovery, and reflection are universal among artists, scientists, and engineers. The digital era brings with it remarkable new promise in these endeavors. To support the highest level of this promise the University of Washington has created a path-breaking new research center and autonomous degree-granting program - DXARTS. This presentation will outline some of the core thematics that underpin the unique research and pedagogy being developed at DXARTS, focusing primarily upon the emerging areas of emulation and telematic art, and the important distinction of these ideas and practices in contrast to the principle body of simulative work that can be predominantly understood as the digital arts canon.
Cosponsored by: The Jenkins Collaboratory | Visual Studies Initiative
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Tue, April 28, 2009 12:00 AM - 1:15 AM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free. More info coming soon...
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.
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Mon, April 27, 2009 9:00 AM - Sun, July 12, 2009 5:00 PM Center for Documentary Studies. Once, most Americans were farmers. Now, only about one in a hundred works the land. While providing our food, farmers and ranchers are the stewards of almost half of the nation's land - a billion acres. Five Farms, presented as a multimedia exhibition, puts a personal face on the lives and livelihoods of farmers across the country. Through their voices we learn what it takes to farm and produce the food that we count on when we go to the market. The farming families who are profiled in this project - they live in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Iowa, Arizona, and California - share their experiences in the audio stories and pictures in this exhibition; in a series of five one-hour radio documentaries on public radio stations nationwide (starting in May 2009, check local listings); in a series of radio features on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", and on a multimedia website (www.fivefarms.org).
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Sat, April 25, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater. $28 for the general public and $5 for Duke students beginning July 28. The Emerson String Quartet has played with subtlety and vigor for thirty years, demonstrating in every performance why the New York Times calls them "technically resourceful, musically insightful, cohesive, full of character and always interesting." Often acclaimed as the world's finest string quartet, they bring their dynamic skill to this program that works as an intergenerational meditation on romanticism.
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Sat, April 25, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Free. Intermediate II and the Duke String School Youth Symphony perform. The Duke University String School is directed by Dorothy Kitchen.
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Sat, April 25, 2009 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM See description. Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:30 AM Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
An interdisciplinary conference on the poetics and pragmatics of literary translation to be held at Duke and the UNC , April 23-25, 2009
This international, interdisciplinary, and transcultural conference will bring together not only writers and scholars who translate literary texts, but cultural theorists, publishers and editors, and others interested in many facets of the process of translation between and among languages and media, and the politics and influence of translation in today's increasingly globalized culture. Please join us for a reading, two keynote lectures, a series of scholarly papers, and a panel on the publishing industry.
While no formal registration is required, we encourage you to express your interest in participating by e-mailing christophe.fricker@duke.edu. You will then receive further information about the program and participants.
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Fri, April 24, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM See description. Join the Duke Chorale as they celebrate the end of the 2008-2009 academic year. This concert takes place in the lobby of the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building. A reception follows. The Duke Chorale is directed by Rodney Wynkoop.
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Fri, April 24, 2009 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM R. David Thomas Conference Center. An interdisciplinary conference on the poetics and pragmatics of literary translation to be held at Duke and the UNC , April 23-25, 2009
This international, interdisciplinary, and transcultural conference will bring together not only writers and scholars who translate literary texts, but cultural theorists, publishers and editors, and others interested in many facets of the process of translation between and among languages and media, and the politics and influence of translation in today's increasingly globalized culture. Please join us for a reading, two keynote lectures, a series of scholarly papers, and a panel on the publishing industry.
While no formal registration is required, we encourage you to express your interest in participating by e-mailing christophe.fricker@duke.edu. You will then receive further information about the program and participants.
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Thu, April 23, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Student Recital
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Thu, April 23, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM R. David Thomas Conference Center. An interdisciplinary conference on the poetics and pragmatics of literary translation to be held at Duke and the UNC , April 23-25, 2009
This international, interdisciplinary, and transcultural conference will bring together not only writers and scholars who translate literary texts, but cultural theorists, publishers and editors, and others interested in many facets of the process of translation between and among languages and media, and the politics and influence of translation in today's increasingly globalized culture. Please join us for a reading, two keynote lectures, a series of scholarly papers, and a panel on the publishing industry.
While no formal registration is required, we encourage you to express your interest in participating by e-mailing christophe.fricker@duke.edu. You will then receive further information about the program and participants.
Keynote speakers: David Ricks (King's College London) and Haun Saussy (Yale University)
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Thu, April 23, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM School of Nursing. Peter Piot, recent Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Topic: The Transformational Nature of the AIDS Response. Under Piot's leadership, UNAIDS became the chief advocate for worldwide action against AIDS. In July, he will begin as Director of the Institute for Global Health at Imperial College in London. The University Seminar on Global Health is a series of public lectures that brings together a multidisciplinary audience from the University, the Medical Center, and the community to engage in critical dialogue about global health.
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Thu, April 23, 2009 10:00 AM - Fri, April 24, 2009 10:00 AM Westbrook 0014. Free. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, APRIL 23-24, 2009
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The Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University will host a Symposium on "Archaeology, Politics, and the Media: Re-visioning the Middle East."
The conference will explore media coverage of archaeological excavations in the Middle East, the ramifications in both the United States and the Middle East and investigate ways to improve communications to the scientific community as well as the lay public.
Key presenters include Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem Chief of the New York Times, Patty Gerstenblittr of De Paul Law School.
Sponsors: The Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Religion, The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, The Graduate Program in Religion, The Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research, The American Schools of Oriental Research.
Wed, April 22, 2009 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. "Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina" (Lue Simopoulos, 2008 , 83 min, USA , in English, Color, DVD). This documentary provides a unique view of Jewish emigration to, and life in North Carolina. The film illustrates how the Jewish search for opportunity and religious freedom played out in a region that, while deeply rural and impoverished, was also ready for growth and change. Jews, an immigrant people, were welcomed to communities that were overwhelmingly conservative and Christian. They maintained a multicultural identity as local citizens and neighbors and as members of a global Jewish community. For more than three centuries Jews have helped transform the culture and economy of North Carolina, while the state's rich southern culture has resonated strongly with these immigrants to Dixie. -- Q&A to follow with Executive Producer Steven Channing, director Lue Simopoulos, and writer Leonard Rogoff!! (Also sponsored by the Jewish Heritage Foundation of NC)
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Tue, April 21, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Featuring student chamber music groups.
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Tue, April 21, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:45 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. "Forever the Moment" is a fictionalized account of the real-life Korean women's handball team which against all odds reached the finals at the 2004 Athens Olympics Game. The world witnessed a miracle as these fierce underdogs strode past the nonbelievers and proudly battled it out against the powerhouse Denmark team in a decisive game. Director Yim Sunrye presents an inspirational saga that transcends the typical sports film, weaving a touching humanistic tale about ordinary women and their remarkable journeys. Kim Hye-kyeong stars as a retired handball player who has been successfully coaching in Japan. When the coach of South Korea's women's team suddenly quits, she is asked to fill in, but is faced with an undisciplined squad of players. However, Hye-kyeong's aggressiveness causes friction amongst the players, and she is replaced as coach by former men's handball star Ahn Seung-pil, though she stays on as a player. -- Followed by a Q&A with director Yim Sunrye!
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Tue, April 21, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free. "Visualizing the New South City: Historic Maps, Google Earth, and the Transformation of Durham"
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.
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Mon, April 20, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Student Recital
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Mon, April 20, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. An intelligent, funny yet ultimately tragic film about chasing after an unattainable dream. In the days before karaoke, the members of a band which started out playing high-school hops have parlayed those beginnings into a career of sorts touring the rock-cabaret circuit. Now the band, down to a trio, is reaching the end of the line. They find themselves with a residency at the Waikiki Club in the town where it all began (Suanbo, a once fashionable hot-spring resort) and where Sung-Woo, the only founding-member left, faces constant reminders of the idealistic kid he used to be. -- Followed by a Q&A with director Yim Sunrye!
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Mon, April 20, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Law School 4042. Justice Mokgoro will participate in an in-depth discussion of one of her own important legal decisions, the Khosa Judgment, with law and humanities faculty. Ebrahim Moosa, associate professor of Islamic Studies and associate director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC) and Frank Michelman, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, will serve as respondents. Sponsored by the Duke Law Center for International & Comparative Law, Duke Human Rights Center, and Franklin Humanities Institute. For more information, contact Neylan Gurel at gurel@law.duke.edu.
Mon, April 20, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM East Duke Parlors. Dr. Pamela Stone Building the Family-Friendly Workplace: Lessons Learned from "Opting Out" Mon, April 20 4pm East Duke Parlors
Dr. Pamela Stone is a Duke graduate and Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York and author of Opting Out
"Adds some much-needed substance. Rather than arguing that mothers should or should not stay home, Stone, a sociologist at the City University of New York, describes the complex reasons that women left their high-powered positions after having children and how their lives proceeded from that decision.
This lecture is part of The Ethical Workplace series sponsored by the Program in Women's Studies, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and the History of Medicine.
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Sun, April 19, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. Agnès Varda's warm, funny, inventive documentary is both a diary and a kind of extended essay on poverty, thrift and the curious place of scavenging in French history and culture. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda is gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip. Her investigation leads us from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris. Varda's gleaners retain a resilient, generous humanity, which is clearly brought to the surface by her own tough, open spirit. The film is studded with found metaphors and serendipitous insights.
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Sun, April 19, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM East Duke 201. Student Recital
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Sun, April 19, 2009 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Baldwin Auditorium. $10 general, $5 students/senior citizens, Duke students free. Johann Strauss' opera sung in English with costumes, sets and orchestra. Duke Opera Workshop is directed by Susan Dunn.
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Sun, April 19, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Student Recital
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Sat, April 18, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Baldwin Auditorium. $10 general, $5 students/senior citizens, Duke students free. Johann Strauss' opera sung in English with costumes, sets and orchestra. Duke Opera Workshop is directed by Susan Dunn.
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Sat, April 18, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Student Recital
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Sat, April 18, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Student Recital
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Sat, April 18, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Baldwin Auditorium. THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. (CANCELLED)
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Sat, April 18, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Student Recital
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Sat, April 18, 2009 11:00 AM - 11:00 AM Sarah P. Duke Gardens. $8; free for children 2 and younger; no strollers permitted in audience area. Pamlico Joe, the fishin' musician with a mission, explores common sense ways to keep the land, air and water reusable. The musical family show focuses on coastal habitats and how people impact the coast regardless of where they live. Rain or shine. Tickets: 684-4444.
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Sat, April 18, 2009 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM Von der Hayden Pavillion. Come for a trunk show and reception celebrating the on-campus launch of School House, an ethically sourced, fashion collegiate brand founded by WST major Rachel Weeks 2007. Weeks developed the brand while researching socially responsible apparel manufacturing when she was a Fulbright Scholar in Sri Lanka. The event will launch School House's 50-piece collection designed exclusively for Duke University Stores. Learn about School House's ethical fashion initiatives in Sri Lanka with Weeks' partner, JK Apparel, the first living-wage factory in Sir Lanka that's also supported financially by the sale of School House products to Duke and other universities. The collection will be on sale afterwards and throughout the weekend at the Duke Stores in the Bryan Center. Visit www.shopschoolhouse.com for a preview!
LOCATION: von der Heyden Pavilion,Duke University Libraies. To attend you must RSVP no later than April 10 to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu or call 684-3655.
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Sat, April 18, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM See description. Ranjana Khanna, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies will lead a discussion with alumni, recent students and current students focusing on feminism today. The panel will examine the evolution of Women's Studies and focus on where it is today after over 25 years at Duke. Questions will delve into the impact of Women's Studies on disciplines and how Women's Studies still pushes for reorganization of knowledge, and an imaginative embrace of the sometimes unknown challenges of "gender." Among the panelists will be Kimberly Jenkins T'76, AM'77, PhD'89, Pam Stone T'73, Rachel Weeks T'07, Christopher Scoville T'05 and Fiona Barnett G'10.9:00-10:00am, Von Canon A, Bryan Center. To attend you must RSVP no later than April 10 to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu or call 684-3655.
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Fri, April 17, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Baldwin Auditorium. $10 general, $5 students/senior citizens. Randy Brecker has been shaping the sound of Jazz, R and B and Rock for more than three decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Chaka Khan, George Benson and Parliament-Funkadelics to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, David Sanborn, Horace Silver, Jaco Pastorius and Frank Zappa.
"His crisp, clean trumpet sound and decidedly melodic approach combined to offer an entirely delightful musical expression that could well serve as a beacon for contemporary jazz." -- Los Angeles Times.
The Duke Jazz Ensemble is directed by John Brown.
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Fri, April 17, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Student Recital
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Fri, April 17, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM East Duke 201. Student Recital
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Fri, April 17, 2009 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Meet Arabic students and faculty at Duke.
Event includes: plays, poetry readings, music, Middle Eastern dance, Arabic oral proficiency activities & more entertainment.
Open to the public.
Contact Olga for additional information 668-2603.
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Fri, April 17, 2009 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Friedl Atrium. Please join the Duke University Center for International Studies and the Polygraph collective for a roundtable discussion with Tim Morton and Kathy Rudy.
Friday, April 17 | Friedl 115 | 5-7pm
Food and drink will be provided.
Questions? Contact: polygraph@duke.edu
Tim Morton is Professor of LIterature and the Environment at the University of California, Davis and the author of Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics.
Kathy Rudy is Professor of Womens' Studies at Duke, whose current research is entitled Culture and COnnection in Animal Advocacy.
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Fri, April 17, 2009 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Languages 305. Professor Panivong Norindr, who is visiting Duke University's Department of Romance Studies this semester from the University of Southern California, will be delivering a lecture on Friday, April 17, at 5:00 pm.
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Fri, April 17, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. African Ubuntu and South African Constitutionalism, a public conversation between Justice Yvonne Mokgoro (Constitutional Court of South Africa) and Jean and John Comaroff (University of Chicago) will explore what the term Ubuntu, a concept encapsulating values of African humanism, means in the context of the contemporary jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court. Reception to follow in Room 130 John Hope Franklin Center and Gallery space
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Thu, April 16, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Branson Theater. free. Sr. Distinction Project Written by Jean Genet. Directed by Gretchen Wright (T'09) and featuring Claire Florian (T'09) & Becky Sweren (T'09).
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Thu, April 16, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Page Auditorium. $34, $26, $20, $5. 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.
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Thu, April 16, 2009 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free, open to the public. The University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy presents:
Louis W. Pauly - University of Toronto
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Thu, April 16, 2009 5:00 PM - Thu, August 6, 2009 5:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center Main Gallery. Free. The Sea is History - Moun Kanntè, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros: An Exhibition on Human Dispersion in the Caribbean Sea
Curated by Holly Ackerman, PhD, Librarian for Latin American and Iberian Studies and 2008-09 Library Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute Annual Seminar, Alternative Political Imaginaries
Thu, April 16, 2009 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM John Hope Franklin Center. Fatimah Tuggar¿s projects are presented by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute with major support from the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Visual Studies Program, Program in Women¿s Studies, and the Department of African & African American Studies. Fatimah Tuggar is one of three HBCU Faculty Fellows in residence at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute during 2008-09. This program is funded by a generous grant from the A.W. Mellon Foundation.
Thu, April 16, 2009 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM John Hope Franklin Center. The Sea is History exhibit and the symposium are presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute 2008-09 Annual Seminar, Alternative Political Imaginaries. The program and exhibition are presented by the Duke Libraries and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute with support from Atlantic Studies, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of African & African American Studies, Department of Romance Studies, Department of Women¿s Studies, Duke in the Andes Program, the Office of the Vice-Provost for International Affairs, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
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Thu, April 16, 2009 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center. The Sea is History - Moun Kanntè, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros is presented by the Duke Libraries and the Franklin Humanities Institute with support from Atlantic Studies, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Department of Romance Studies, Department of Women¿s Studies, Duke in the Andes, Office of the Vice-Provost for International Affairs, and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
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Thu, April 16, 2009 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center. The Sea is History - Moun Kanntè, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros is presented by the Duke Libraries and the Franklin Humanities Institute with support from Atlantic Studies, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Department of Romance Studies, Department of Women¿s Studies, Duke in the Andes, Office of the Vice-Provost for International Affairs, and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
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Wed, April 15, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Free. A celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Felix Mendelssohn's birth, including the Overture and Incidental Music to William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," presented with an abridged version of the play prepared under the supervision of R. Larry Todd, Daryl W. Palmer, and Jay O'Berski with Duke's "Antic Shakespeare Company," Jay O'Berski, director, and featuring Jung Oh, soprano (first fairy); Teresa Buchholz, soprano (second fairy) & the Durham Children's Choir (fairy chorus), Scott Hill, director. The Duke Symphony Orchestra is directed by Harry Davidson.
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Wed, April 15, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:45 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. # Interferenze (ITALY, Zoe D'Amaro, 12 min)
# My Body My Weapon (INDIA, Kavita Joshi, 9 min)
# On The Square (CROATIA, Vanja Juranic, 4 min)
# Coming of Age (KENYA, Judy Kibinge, 9 min)
# Famous Last Words (UNITED KINGDOM, Avril Evans, 7 min)
# Kinshasa 2.0 (DRC, Teboho Edkins, 11 min)
# You Cannot Hide From Allah (PAKISTAN, Petr Lom, 12 min)
# Old Peter (RUSSIA, Ivan Golovnev, 8 min)
# Maria and Osmey (CUBA, Diego Arredondo, 8 min)
# Feminine, Masculine (IRAN, Sadaf Foroughi, 9 min)
# Don't Shoot (SOUTH AFRICA, Lucilla Blankenberg, 11 min)
# Three Blind Men (INDIA, Kanu Behl, 7 min)
# Miss Democracy (SPAIN, Virginia Romero, 9 min)
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Wed, April 15, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM East Duke 108. In this talk Gregory Maertz will share his discovery of the archives of the Haus der Deutschen Kunst and their significance to his new project, the first complete account of the premier cultural institution of the Third Reich, from its founding by the Nazi Party to its dissolution during the American occupation. Gregory Maertz, Fellow, National Humanities Center and American Council of Learned Societies (2008-2009), is Professor of English and Art History at Saint John's University (New York City), and author of the forthcoming books, The Invisible Museum: Unearthing the Lost Modernist Art of the Third Reich (Yale UP) and a new translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Geneaology of Morals (Broadview Press). He is also organizing an exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University) entitled "Nostalgia for the Future: Tradition and Modernism in Captured Nazi Art." Sponsored by the Duke University German and Art, Art History, and Visual Studies departments.
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Wed, April 15, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Perkins Library, The Link. Free and Open to Public. Kerry Smith is Associate Professor, Departments of East Asian Studies and History, Brown University. Event is part of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Spring 2009 Speaker Series and will be located in The Link, Classroom Two.
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Wed, April 15, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free, lunch provided. Since 1984, the Havana Biennal has been known as "the Tri-continental art event," presenting artists from America (Latin, Latino, and Caribbean), Africa, and Asia. The presentation proposes that at the heart of the Biennal has been an alternative cosmopolitan modernism (that we might call "contemporary" or "post-colonial") that was envisaged by a group of local cultural agents, critics, philosophers, art historians, and also supported by a network of peers around the world. Using the Havana Biennal as case study this work goes to disentangle and reveal the socio-political and intellectual debates taking place in the conformation of what is called today global art. Miguel Rojas-Sotelo is Visiting Scholar at the Duke Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies. Contact FHI: 668-1901; fhi@duke.edu
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In 1994, Yvonne Mokgoro was appointed as a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, where she continues to serve. She is one of only three women (the others being Justice Kate O¿Regan and Justice Bess Nkabinde) and the first black woman on the first Constitutional Court. She holds degrees from the North-West University in South Africa and the University of Pennsylvania in the US. She has taught at the University of Western Cape and the University of Pretoria. In the 1990s, she was specialist research in human rights at the Centre for Constitutional Analysis at the Human Sciences Research Council.
More information coming soon on programs during Justice Mokgoro's residency
Wed, April 15, 2009 8:00 AM - Sun, April 26, 2009 8:00 AM John Hope Franklin Center. In 1994, Yvonne Mokgoro was appointed as a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, where she continues to serve. She is one of only three women (the others being Justice Kate O¿Regan and Justice Bess Nkabinde) and the first black woman on the first Constitutional Court. She holds degrees from the North-West University in South Africa and the University of Pennsylvania in the US. She has taught at the University of Western Cape and the University of Pretoria. In the 1990s, she was specialist research in human rights at the Centre for Constitutional Analysis at the Human Sciences Research Council.
More information coming soon on programs during Justice Mokgoro's residency
Wed, April 15, 2009 8:00 AM - Sun, April 26, 2009 8:00 AM John Hope Franklin Center. In 1994, Yvonne Mokgoro was appointed as a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, where she continues to serve. She is one of only three women (the others being Justice Kate O¿Regan and Justice Bess Nkabinde) and the first black woman on the first Constitutional Court. She holds degrees from the North-West University in South Africa and the University of Pennsylvania in the US. She has taught at the University of Western Cape and the University of Pretoria. In the 1990s, she was specialist research in human rights at the Centre for Constitutional Analysis at the Human Sciences Research Council.
More information coming soon on programs during Justice Mokgoro's residency
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Tue, April 14, 2009 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public. Free parking available in the Bryan Center parking deck. Refreshments provided.. Filmmaker Davide Ferrario retraces the journey of writer Primo Levi, who traveled home to Italy after his 1945 liberation from Auschwitz. A mixture of historical clips and footage from Ferrario's modern-day trip showcases the region's past and present. Featuring visits to Chernobyl, a run-down traveling zoo in Moldava and an open-air Hungarian market, the travelogue offers an insightful commentary on contemporary Eastern Europe.
Post-film discussion led by Associate Director Suzanne Shanahan and Assistant Director Kim Abels from the Kenan Institute for Ethics.
This film is part of "Gotta Go: Ethics in Exile," the 2009 Ethics Film Series presented by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Duke's Screen/Society.
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Tue, April 14, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM East Duke 201. Free. A symposium sponsored by the Duke Symphony Orchestra, supplementing the Orchestra's presentation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Overture and Incidental Music by Felix Mendelssohn on April 15. (see calendar listing)
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Tue, April 14, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Flowers 201. Lecture in English by Philippe Lançon, reporter/literary critic for French daily newspaper Liberation.
From 2006 to 2008, candidate then President Nicolas Sarkozy declared several times, publicly, his disdain for The Princess of Clèves, not the woman but the book, although nobody had thought of asking his opinion about this famous French classical novel of 1678. These declarations have provoked violent and funny reactions of French intellectuals, writers and some professors who decided to read the Princess of Cleves publicly, in the street. Many people bought this novel they had never read, to figure out the purpose of the President's disdain, or to register their contempt. Why did President Sarkozy over-reacts with her? What does Mme de Lafayette tell us that he and many people do not want to hear anymore? Answers may possibly shed a sharp and pink light on the links, in France, between literature, love and power - as if the Princess of Cleves were a blockbuster.
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Mon, April 13, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. (Chris Bell, 2008, 105 min, USA, in English, Color, 35mm.) Documentarian Chris Bell and his two brothers grew up idolizing Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hulk Hogan, and Sylvester Stallone, and later all three brothers took up body-building. In this film, Bell examines the steroid use of his brothers, and also features professional athletes, medical experts, fitness center members, and US Congressman talking about the issue of anabolic steroids. Beyond the basic issue of anabolic steroid use, "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" examines the lack of consistency in how America views drugs, cheating, and the lengths people go to achieve success. This includes looking beyond the steroid issue to such topics as Tiger Woods laser eye correction to 20/15 vision, professional musicians use of anxiety reducing drugs, athletes' dependence on cortisone shots (a legal steroid), porn stars' use of Viagra, and even amphetamines for fighter pilots in the Air Force. -- Sponsored by the Women's Center.
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Sun, April 12, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Student Recital
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Sun, April 12, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM East Duke 201. Student Recital
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Sun, April 12, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM East Duke 201. Student Recital
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Sat, April 11, 2009 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admisssion; $5 students and senior citizens.. Written By Eugene Ionesco Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty. Featuring music by Allison Leyton-Brown and puppetry by Basil Twist with Tori Ralston.
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Fri, April 10, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM East Duke 201. Free. New works by Duke graduate student composers.
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Fri, April 10, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admisssion; $5 students and senior citizens.. Written By Eugene Ionesco Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty. Featuring music by Allison Leyton-Brown and puppetry by Basil Twist with Tori Ralston.
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Fri, April 10, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM East Duke 201. Student Recital
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Fri, April 10, 2009 5:00 PM - Sun, August 9, 2009 5:00 PM Center for Documentary Studies. 0. "Feini (Sylvia) Qu's photographs from Paraguay are infused with her scholarship and engagement in zoology and habitat protection, and they reveal a complex layering of her interests in biodiversity, conservation, and documentary image making."--Tom Rankin, director of the Center for Documentary Studies
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Fri, April 10, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Biddle 104. Free. Lecture by Graeme Boone (Ohio State University). Department of Music lectures are open to the public.
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Fri, April 10, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Perkins Library, The Link. In this workshop, James E. Purpura of Columbia University Teachers College will question some of the assumptions underlying a range of grammar assessment practices and will work with participants to examine grammar assessment tasks from a number of perspectives.
The lecture will occur in LINK Classroom 2, and a wine and cheese reception will follow.
Please contact Patricia McPherson with questions: mcpherso@duke.edu.
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Fri, April 10, 2009 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium. This experimental film retrospective focuses on experimental film as a documentary practice. Twelve short films, from 1960 through this decade, will be screened in their original format. We will screen short films by Gunvor Nelson, Dorothy Wiley, Bruce Baillie, Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer, Leighton Pierce, David Gatten and Shambhavi Kaul. This event is sponsored by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, the Visual Studies Initiative, the Center for Documentary Studies, the Program in Film/Video/Digital, the Program in the Study of Sexualities, Women's Studies at Duke, the Program in Literature and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
A panel with film-makers David Gatten and Shambhavi Kaul will take place after the screenings. A reception will follow at the Smith Warehouse.
contact Ignacio Adriasola with questions: ignacio.adriasola@duke.edu
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Fri, April 10, 2009 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM East Duke Parlors. Day two of "The Common & the Forms of the Commune: Alternative Social Imaginaries": panels on "The Common & Commodity Fetishism," "'Modes' of Community," "Difference in Common." See full schedule here:
http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/panels-symposia-conferences/the-common-communism/
Questions? E-mail symposium organizers Ceren Ozselcuk (co36@duke.edu) and Anna Curcio (annacurcio@gmail.com)
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Fri, April 10, 2009 9:00 AM - Sat, April 11, 2009 5:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. This conference will explore the entanglement of the artistic imagination in the cultural politics of risk by considering the oeuvre of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably modern India¿s most iconic and celebrated painter and also possibly that country¿s most embattled artist today.This conference brings leading experts on Husain and contemporary Indian visual culture together in conversation with scholars from other disciplines to discuss the context and implications of Husain's work and to commemorate the life and work of this provocative artist and Muslim citizen of India.
Conference, April 10, 9:00 AM - 7:15 PM
April 11, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Room 240 John Hope Franklin Center
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Thu, April 9, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Program: Verdi, Nabucco Overture; Gershwin, American in Paris; Curnow, Concertino for Tuba; Moussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition. Tony Granados is the music director of the Triangle Brass Band and Triangle Youth Brass Bands. In demand as a freelance musician in central North Carolina, Tony Granados has performed as a substitute and extra with the North Carolina Symphony, North Carolina Symphony Brass Quintet, Carolina Brass Quintet, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Wilmington Symphony and Roanoke Symphony. He performs in the orchestras for the Carolina Ballet and Opera Company of North Carolina, and is the Principal Tuba in the Tar River Orchestra and Symphonic Band. In 2007, Granados joined the faculty at North Carolina Central University as Adjunct Instructor of Applied Tuba and Euphonium. The Duke Wind Symphony is directed by Pamela Halverson.
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Thu, April 9, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admisssion; $5 students and senior citizens.. Written By Eugene Ionesco Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty. Featuring music by Allison Leyton-Brown and puppetry by Basil Twist with Tori Ralston.
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Thu, April 9, 2009 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art. 6:50 - 7:00 PM: Sumathi Ramaswamy, Inaugural Remarks;
7:00 - 7:45 PM: Bruce Lawrence, "A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M.F. Husain as a Muslim Painter";
7:45 - 9:00 PM: Reception and Viewing of Husain's "Last Supper in Red Desert";
RSVP for Reception: disc@duke.edu
Professor Bruce Lawrence's address asks: "What makes someone not just a Muslim who paints but rather a Muslim painter?" His talk will reference the incomplete but evocative set of Husain's acryllic scenes that depict Arab/Islamic civilization on display in a temporary gallery of the newly opened Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.
The exhibition of Husain's "Last Supper in Red Desert" has been made possible by the generous support of Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani and the Qatar Museums Authority.
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Thu, April 9, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Doris Duke Center Kirby Horton Hall. $5, Free for Duke students. The Duke-based quartet plays a program introduced by Fred Raimi, the Ciompi's long-time cellist.
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Thu, April 9, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Old Chemistry 116. In this lecture, James E. Purpura of Columbia University Teachers College will question the assumptions that underlie traditional grammar assessment and assessment practices. He will also discuss a range of methods for eliciting grammatical and pragmatic knowledge and for scoring grammatical performance.
A wine and cheese reception will follow the lecture.
Please contact Patricia McPherson with questions: mcpherso@duke.edu.
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Thu, April 9, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Friedl 225. Ven a conversar y practicar tu español en un ambiente casual y amigable. Habrá música, comida y mucha tertulia.
Contacto: Bethzaida Fernandez, bfv67@duke.edu.
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Thu, April 9, 2009 1:00 PM - 5:15 PM Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium. "The Common & the Forms of the Commune: Alternative Social Imaginaries" is a two-day symposium featuring (on Day 1, April 9) a public conversation (via videoconference) with political philosophers Etienne Balibar and Antonio Negri on "The Common, Universality, and Communism" and additional panels. For a full listing of the program, see: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/programs/panels-symposia-conferences/the-common-communism/
Questions? E-mail symposium organizers Ceren Ozselcuk (co36@duke.edu) and Anna Curcio (anna.curcio@duke.edu)
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Wednesdays at the Center with Jelani Favors, Assistant Professor of History, Morgan State University and FHI/Mellon HBCU Fellow. Contact FHI: 668-1901; fhi@duke.edu
Wed, April 8, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Perkins Library Breedlove Room. Free, RSVP is required. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Professor of History, University of California-Irvine, and also Editor of Journal of Asian Studies.
Lunch will be provided, however RSVP is REQUIRED, no later than noon on Monday, April 6. Please RSVP to ddhunt@duke.edu
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Tue, April 7, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Page Auditorium. $42, $34, $26, $5. Unrivaled master of the American banjo, Fleck is also a historian of his craft. He recently crossed the Atlantic to trace the roots of this instrument so often associated with the white South, finding analogues in the stringed gourds and percussive lutes of Uganda, Tanzania, Gambia, and Mali. At Duke, Fleck and his guests play songs from the film documenting that experience and testify with sublime dexterity to the African soul of American string music.
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Tue, April 7, 2009 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM See description. Lazaro Lima lecture U.S. Empire Building in Puerto Rico, Reproduction, Science and the Politics of Transgender Dissonance. Cosponsored by the program in the study of sexualities at duke and the UNC-CH Minor in Sexuality Studies with funding from the Roberston Scholars Collaboration Fund Grant. Lima is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latina/o Studies and co-coordinator of the Program in Gender and Sexuality at Bryn Mawr. He is the author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory (New York University Press, 2007). For more information contact Erin Carlston (carlston@email.unc.edu) This event will be held at UNC-Chapel Hill, 5 pm.
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Tue, April 7, 2009 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Friedl 225. Marketplace Solutions: Segregationists and the Surprisong History of School Vouchers
Nancy MacLean
Professor of History and African American Studies
Northwestern University
Co-sponsor: John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American Life and History
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Tue, April 7, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free. "Internet Protocol TV in perspective"
Bio: Pyungho Kim is Associate Professor at the Department of Broadcasting and Multimedia in Dankook University, Seoul, Korea and ISIS Visiting Research Scholar.
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.
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Mon, April 6, 2009 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. Che Guevara died in Southern Bolivia while trying to ignite the sparks of revolution throughout South America. His death at the hands of Bolivian Rangers trained and financed by the US Government, marked the beginning of the cocaine era in Bolivia. Forty years later and under pressure from the masses who gave him a clear mandate, the first indigenous President Evo Morales (an ex-coca leaf farmer) is promising to continue the revolution. He has nationalised the oil industry and passed laws on Agrarian reform. Corruption, nepotism and old-fashioned populism are at the core of this movement. The more Morales does to create employment, the more the landowners conspire to paralyse Bolivia's economy. The cycle of tension threatens to crush the country. "Looking for the Revolution" is about the dynamics of that tension as witnessed by the characters of the film - the struggle for power between landowners and the indigenous movement, and the continuation of a revolution Morales-style.
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Mon, April 6, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. In an age of multinational corporations and billionaires that control global markets, our traditional understanding of the state as a central figure in world politics has drastically changed. Globalization, in its current form, has rearranged the way global commerce functions. With many countries economically susceptible to the fluctuations of capitalist markets, our understanding of who rules the world has to consider the tremendous influence multinational corporations have. "God, Tsar and Fatherland", is set in Russia and provides the perfect setting to witness the achievements and disastrous flaws of capitalism. Emulating his idol, Vladimir Putin, the central figure of the movie Mikhail Morozov owns a village where he attempts to instill Russian patriotism through a hierarchical system of authority
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Mon, April 6, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Biddle 19. Free. Participatory group class addressing issues of posture, efficiency and comfort in violin performance presented by Hal Grossman from UNC-Greensboro. All violinists are invited to bring their instruments and to wear comfortable clothing.
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Sun, April 5, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admisssion; $5 students and senior citizens.. Written By Eugene Ionesco Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty. Featuring music by Allison Leyton-Brown and puppetry by Basil Twist with Tori Ralston.
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Sun, April 5, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM East Duke 201. Student recital
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Sun, April 5, 2009 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admisssion; $5 students and senior citizens.. Written By Eugene Ionesco Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty. Featuring music by Allison Leyton-Brown and puppetry by Basil Twist with Tori Ralston.
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Sat, April 4, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM See description. Free. Music from Renaissance England: Vocal works by William Byrd and Thomas Appleby with additional music for viols & recorders. The Duke Collegium Musicum will focus its spring program on two composers of the English Renaissance, William Byrd, one of the foremost composers of the period, and Thomas Appleby, whose works are less well known. The Collegium will present works by Byrd from the Cantiones Sacrae of 1575, one of the first sets of sacred music printed in England. Also on the program is the American premiere of Appleby's Mass for a mene, one of only two surviving works by this composer. The program will also feature music for viol consort and recorder consort by composers of the period. This concert takes place at First Presbyterian Church, 305 E. Main St., Durham. The Duke Collegium Musicum is directed by Tom Moore.
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Sat, April 4, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Student Recital
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Sat, April 4, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admisssion; $5 students and senior citizens.. Written By Eugene Ionesco Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty. Featuring music by Allison Leyton-Brown and puppetry by Basil Twist with Tori Ralston.
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Sat, April 4, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM East Duke 201. Student recital
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Sat, April 4, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM See description. Free. Student Recital
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Sat, April 4, 2009 12:45 PM - Sun, April 5, 2009 2:45 PM None. The 6th Annual Duke-UNC-CH Graduate Islamic Studies Conference, "Negotiating Multiple Islams: Societies, Traditions, and Cultures in Context," will be held April 4-5, 2009 at UNC-Chapel Hill. The April 4 session will be held in Room 220 Saunders Hall and the April 5 session will be held in Room 1005 at the FedEx Global Education Center on the UNC campus. The Keynote Address will be delivered by prominent Iranian scholar Mohsen Kadivar at 10:45 AM on April 4. Visit the Conference website for more information: http://www.unc.edu/mideast/islamicstdconf/2009/program.html
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Sat, April 4, 2009 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Sarah P. Duke Gardens. Free. Yoko and Rocky Iwashima of Triangle Taiko will help toddlers play a homemade version of Japanese taiko drums. The program is aimed toward children aged 1 to 5, but all are welcome.
No reservations necessary. Children will be able to use a drum on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Fri, April 3, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM See description. Free. THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. (CANCELLED)
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Fri, April 3, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM See description. Free. Features four premieres of works by Duke composers Paul Leary, Jonathan Wall and Ben Crawford, and visiting assistant professor of music Nick Stoia. Leary's work combines the live ensemble with electronics, Wall's piece uses an ensemble of radios, iPods and car radio transmitters, and Ben Crawford has created a new piece that invites the audience to interact in real time with the musicians, working together with the performers in creating the music. The concert will also feature a new soundscape installation, composed of sounds recorded in Durham by members of the Ensemble, and will play continuously throughout the concert, creating a unique backdrop for the program. The concert also features works by Nick Didkovsky, Duke graduate composer George Lam, and a special performance of John Cage's Imaginary Landscapes No. 4 for twelve radios. This concert takes place in the lobby of the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building. [dnme] is directed by George Lam.
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Fri, April 3, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admisssion; $5 students and senior citizens.. Written By Eugene Ionesco Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty. Featuring music by Allison Leyton-Brown and puppetry by Basil Twist with Tori Ralston.
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Fri, April 3, 2009 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Locating Global Health. Helene Gayle, MD (President and Conversation with CEO, CARE USA) and Michael H. Merson, MD (Director, Duke Global Health Institute;; Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Global Health, and Professor of Medicine, Community and Family Medicine and Public Policy). Moderated by Karla FC Holloway (James B. Duke Professor of English, Professor of Law and African and African American Studies)
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Fri, April 3, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM East Duke 201. Student recital
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Fri, April 3, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Perkins Library Rare Book Room. Free. Fred Raimi, the longest serving member of the Ciompi Quartet, will discuss and perform on his cello, made in Cremona in 1697 by Vincenzo Ruggieri. The discussion will include questions of quality, authenticity and valuation. Documentation of the cello from 1911 issued by the English firm W.E. Hill and Sons will be shown. The Rare Music series is sponsored by DUMIC (Duke University Musical Instrument Collections) and Duke University Libraries.
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Fri, April 3, 2009 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Friedl 225. Questioning Belonging in Dubai: Outsider-Insiders, Insider-Outsiders. The speakers are Noor al-Qasimi (New York University): "Ladies and Gentlemen, Boyahs and Girls: Uploading Transnational Queer Subjectivities in the United Arab Emirates? Neha Vora (Texas A&M): ?Becoming Indian in Dubai: Private Education and the Production of Neoliberal Subjects?
Sponsored by: Dept of Cultural Anthropology, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Asian and Middle East Studies, Duke Center for South Asia Studies, AB Duke Fund.
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Fri, April 3, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM John Hope Franklin Center 028. Nabiha Jerad is a socio-linguist and specialist in post-colonial studies. She earned her doctorate at the University of Paris before taking a position as associate professor at the University of Tunis.
Professor Jerad has also worked on the semiotics and linguistics issues in multilingual contexts and on the question of language and identity in postcolonial Maghreb.
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Thu, April 2, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admisssion; $5 students and senior citizens.. By Eugene Ionesco Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty. Featuring music by Allison Leyton-Brown and puppetry by Basil Twist with Tori Ralston.
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Thu, April 2, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Sanford Institute 03. Speaker: Matthias Pabsch. For centuries, a large palace complex was the heart of Berlin's city centre. The outstanding sculptural quality of the building was destroyed when the authorities of former Eastern German decided to blow up the building, mainly for political reasons. After a long and controversial debate the palace will now be reconstructed. This lecture will deal with the complex question of historical reconstructions and discuss the reasons for a worldwide longing for historical forms. Contact wcd2@duke.edu for more information.
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Thu, April 2, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Social Sciences 136. Kadivar is the associate professor at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy in Tehran and the visiting professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Kadivar has penned 13 books (in Persian and Arabic) and over 50 articles in Islamic Studies. Kadivar's writing on the theology of freedom has been critical of the doctrine of Velayat-e Faqih (Rule of the Supreme Jurist), an innovation in Shi'te political thought instituted in Iran by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, calling into question the religious authenticity of this form of autocratic rule. In 1999, Kadivar was convicted by the Special Court for Clergy and sentenced to eighteen months in prison on charges of having spread false information about Iran's "sacred system of the Islamic Republic" and of helping enemies of the Islamic revolution.
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Thu, April 2, 2009 12:00 AM - Fri, April 3, 2009 12:00 AM Perkins Library Breedlove Room. The English Department's Working Group on Political Theory: The State and the Problem of the Political. This year's Spring Symposium will be held in the Breedlove Room at Perkins Library on April 2 and 3, 2009. More details forthcoming.
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Wed, April 1, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public. Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Of course, there is Mom and Dad who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there's Léa, the exasperating girl who's always right about everything. In the summer of '68, when Mom decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in Greece, Léon is prepared to do anything to kill the pain. Destroy the neighbors' house, become a professional liar and even, why not, fall in love with Léa. Together, they will overcome the pain of growing up when you feel abandoned. ¿ Followed by a Q&A with director Philippe Falardeau!
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Wed, April 1, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free, lunch provided. Wednesdays at the Center with Kathryn Whetten, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Duke. Contact FHI: 668-1901; fhi@duke.edu
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Wed, April 1, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free, open to the public. PG I & II parking vouchers available, upon request.. The Duke University Center for International Studies and the Franklin Humanities Institute's Wednesdays @ the Center present: "Are Institutions Bad for Children: A Five-Country Study of Children Who Have Been Orphaned" presented by Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy Professor Kathryn Whetten, Ph.D.
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Wed, April 1, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free, lunch provided. Wednesdays at the Center with Kathryn Whetten, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Duke. Contact FHI: 668-1901; fhi@duke.edu
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Wed, April 1, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free, open to the public. PG I & II parking vouchers available, upon request.. The Duke University Center for International Studies and the Franklin Humanities Institute's Wednesdays @ the Center present: "Are Institutions Bad for Children: A Five-Country Study of Children Who Have Been Orphaned" presented by Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy Professor Kathryn Whetten, Ph.D.
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Tue, March 31, 2009 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. After fourteen years of civil war, Liberia is a nation ready for change. On January 16, 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was inaugurated President, following a hotly contested election which she won with the overwhelming support of women across Liberia. She is the first elected female head of state in Africa. Since taking office she has appointed other extraordinary women to leadership positions in all areas of government, including the Police Chief and the ministers of Justice, Commerce and Finance. Can the first female Liberian president, backed by other powerful women, bring sustainable democracy and peace to such a devastated country? "Iron Ladies of Liberia" gives behind-the-scenes access to President Sirleaf's first year in government, providing a unique insight into the workings of a newly elected African cabinet.
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Mon, March 30, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. Blood diamonds, world expos, electric cars, long-lost fathers and emus. Such is the stuff of the unlikely world of surefire crowd-pleaser "Congorama". Michel, the Belgian son of a paralyzed writer, husband of a Congolese refugee, and father of a future tennis champion, is an erratic inventor misunderstood by his employer. At age 41, he learns that he was born secretly in a barn in Québec, in the town of Sainte-Cécile, and given up for adoption shortly afterward. In the summer of 2000, Michel goes there and finds a sleepy village that soon makes him want to run back home. There, he meets a man who drives a car with a technologically advanced hybrid engine. On their way back to Montréal, an accident changes their lives forever, and what is uncovered will challenge the very future of the automotive industry. Welcome to "Congorama." Director Philippe Falardeau's second feature playfully interweaves the implausible with the poignant to produce a satisfying wry comedy.
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Sun, March 29, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Student recital. Program: Saint-Saens, Sonata for oboe and piano in D, Op. 166; Reinecke, Trio for oboe, horn, and piano in A minor; Britten, Metamorphoses after Ovid; Chinese melodies by Xin Hu-Guang and Xu Lin.
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Sun, March 29, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. A lovable, eighty-two year old virgin living alone in a dilapidated Danish castle enlists the aid of headstrong Russian Orthodox nun in realizing his lifelong dream of transforming his vast abode into a Russian Orthodox monastery. Mr. Vig is an amiable eccentric who finally finds his dream coming to fruition as controlling nun Sister Ambrosija agrees to send a group of nuns and priests to evaluate and develop the site. An unapologetically overbearing woman who has a very precise vision of how the monastery should be run, Sister Ambrosija commences to making a seemingly-endless list of repair demands and the put-upon Mr. Vig implores the filmmaker for advice on dealing with the slightly-boorish bride of Christ. Despite their initial differences and occasional misgivings, however, Mr. Vig and Sister Ambrosija soon form a unique bond as they work together for the good of a common cause. -- Sponsored by Duke University Libraries' Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections.
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Sun, March 29, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Page Auditorium. $34, $26, $20, $5. "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.
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Sun, March 29, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Student recital
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Sat, March 28, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Student recital
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Sat, March 28, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater. $28 for the general public and $5 for Duke students beginning July 28. Technically superb and blazing with talent, the Ahn Trio plays adventurous repertoires with a style that the Toronto Star says has "all the youthful fire, passion, and commitment one could possibly want." These three sisters were born in Korea and studied together at Juilliard. Since then they have been carving a path that has helped them expand the very definition of the term "chamber music."
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Sat, March 28, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Student recital
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Sat, March 28, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM East Duke 201. Student recital
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Sat, March 28, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM East Duke 201. Student recital
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Sat, March 28, 2009 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Doris Duke Center Gardens. $15; $10 Friends; $5 Duke staff and students, and children age 5 and older.. Celebrate the early bloom of Japanese cherries by joining Duke Gardens and the Asian/Pacific Institute for a demonstration of a traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Afterward, weather permitting, take a stroll through the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum to see traditional Japanese lanterns and visit the Durham-Toyama Sister Cities Pavilion on the hillside above Teien-oike Lake.
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Fri, March 27, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Student recital
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Fri, March 27, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM East Duke 201. Free. The Toronto Star says the Ahn Trio has "all the youthful fire, passion, and commitment one could possibly want." Department of Music master classes are open to the public.
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Fri, March 27, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM East Duke 201. Free. The Toronto Star says the Ahn Trio has "all the youthful fire, passion, and commitment one could possibly want." Department of Music master classes are open to the public.
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Fri, March 27, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Languages 305. Dean Inge Walther, Duke University, will lead a discussion on "Curricular Planning along the Fault line between Instrumental and Academic Agendas: A Response to the MLA Report on Foreign Languages and Higher Education." A reception will follow.
Questions? debsreis@duke.edu
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Fri, March 27, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Perkins Library Rare Book Room. Free. Presented by DoubleAction: Thomas Gregg, tenor, and Emily Laurance, harp. The Rare Music series is sponsored by DUMIC (Duke University Musical Instrument Collections) and Duke University Libraries.
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Fri, March 27, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Social Sciences 139 LaBarre. "Historicizing Muslim Exceptionalism: Islamic Modernism versus Fundamentalism"
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. He has carried out values surveys in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia. His previous research project analyzed the determinants of ideological production in the Islamic world. He teaches sociology of religion, ideology, revolution, Islam and the Middle East. He also teaches statistics and research methods
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Thu, March 26, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Free. A concert celebrating the Chorale's Spring Break Tour to Mexico. The Duke Chorale is directed by Rodney Wynkoop.
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Thu, March 26, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Student recital
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Thu, March 26, 2009 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art. Free.. Collin Gregg directed this faithful 1983 adaption of Virginia Woolf's novel. Co-sponsored by Duke's Film/Video/Digital Program.
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Thu, March 26, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM East Duke Parlors. Nadje Al Ali has written many books, including "Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present" and "What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq." Al Ali teaches at SOAS in London and specializes on gender studies, gender & feminisms in the Middle East, transnational migration, and gender & violence. You can find more information on her website
http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff37137.php
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Thu, March 26, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM John Hope Franklin Center 130-132. Professor Soo-Yeong Han is a visiting scholar at the Asian-Pacific Studies Institute at Duke and Professor of Korean Language and Literature at Dong-A University in Pusan, Korea. His research and teaching span modern and contemporary Korean literature and culture broadly, and he is currently working on issues of literary criticism, comparative perspectives on Korea and Japan relations, and of the complex lingustic identities of the post-war generation in Korea. Professor Han has published widely in Korean, including Dialectics of Literature and Reality, Understanding Korean Literature, The Novel and the Everyday, Reconsidering the Literature of Collaboration, The Linguistic Identity of Post-War Writers, Colonized Subjects and Linguistic Others.
Contact: 668-2603 or richm021@duke.edu
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Wed, March 25, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. Set in the mid-sixties, Léa Pool's vibrant and beautifully crafted Maman est chez le coiffeur focuses on teenaged Élise, who is about to realize that the adult world is not exactly what she thought or hoped it would be. Her principal instructors are her father, the local doctor, and her mother, a frustrated career woman and part-time journalist. A rift between mother and daughter has been growing for a long time, and when a frustrated Élise is disciplined, she begins meddling, sparking her mother's abrupt and angry departure. While the impact of this absence is disastrous for them all, it is especially devastating for Élise, who is now forced to care for her father and brothers.
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Wed, March 25, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Perkins Library Breedlove Room. Free and Open to Public. Andrew Bernstein is Associate Professor, Department of History and Director, East Asian Studies Program, Lewis and Clark College. This event is part of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Spring 2009 Speaker Series.
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Wednesdays at the Center with Noah Weisbord, Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke Law School. Presented with the Duke Human Rights Center and the Center for International and Comparative Law. Contact FHI: 668-1901; fhi@duke.edu
Tue, March 24, 2009 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public. Free parking available in the Bryan Center parking deck. Refreshments provided.. A 2009 Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominee, "The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)" is an epic story of a people brutally vanquished by a dirty war and also an intimate portrait of one Laotian family's struggle to confront the psychic wounds of exile. Filmed over the course of 23 years, this film is a lyrical meditation on the ravages of war, the meaning of sanctuary, and the enduring bonds of family.
Post-film discussion led by filmmaker and special guest Ellen Kuras.
This film is part of "Gotta Go: Ethics in Exile," the 2009 Ethics Film Series presented by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Duke's Screen/Society.
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Tue, March 24, 2009 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Perkins Library, The Link. Jacques Roubaud will be visiting Duke University and speaking in LINK Classroom 2 in Perkins Library on March 24.
He is a French poet and mathematician, a mathematics teacher at the University of Paris-X Nanterre and a member of the Oulipo (the workshop for experimental literature founded by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais in 1960). He is well traveled and well versed on the Middle ages, as well as on English and Japanese literature. He has published poems, plays and novels and has also translated books such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.
The speaker's US tour was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
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Tue, March 24, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free. Welcome Mark Hansen of the Literature Program to Duke and to the ISIS Community!
More info coming soon...
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.
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Mon, March 23, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM East Duke 204A. A high school dropout who through incident, accident and circumstance has become a musician, journalist, filmmaker, actor and educator, Lucey is a native-born South African who started performing in clubs and venues around South Africa in the seventies. His songs strongly reflected the social and political landscape of the time, which set him on a collision course with the authorities.
The Danish organisation Freemuse, recently commissioned a documentary about Roger's musical life in the late seventies and early eighties called "Stopping the Music." It tells the story abouhow the security police systematically destroyed Lucey¿s music career. The film has shown in festivals in the US, Denmark, Sweden and South Africa and recently opened an exhibition detailing the recent history of music and resistance at the Museum of World Cultures early 2008 in Gothernburg, Sweden.
This concert is a fundraiser for Freemuse, http://www.freemuse.org/sw6289.asp
Mon, March 23, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. Winner of the Toronto International Film Festival, this generational saga explores the age-old question of whether women are destined to be like their mothers. Michele, a divorced aerobics instructor with a gambling addiction, loses her job and seeks refuge with a childhood friend, Janine, who lives in a seemingly comfortable middle-class suburban neighborhood. Michele's rebellious teenage daughter, Marguerite, and Janine's shy and reserved daughter, Gabrielle, become friends, leading to unforeseen tensions that force both generations to reassess their values.
Winner of the 2006 Claude Jutra Award (for best feature film by a first-time film director) at Canada's Genie Awards.
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Mon, March 23, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. Winner of the Toronto International Film Festival, this generational saga explores the age-old question of whether women are destined to be like their mothers. Michele, a divorced aerobics instructor with a gambling addiction, loses her job and seeks refuge with a childhood friend, Janine, who lives in a seemingly comfortable middle-class suburban neighborhood. Michele's rebellious teenage daughter, Marguerite, and Janine's shy and reserved daughter, Gabrielle, become friends, leading to unforeseen tensions that force both generations to reassess their values.
Winner of the 2006 Claude Jutra Award (for best feature film by a first-time film director) at Canada's Genie Awards.
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Mon, March 23, 2009 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Perkins Library Rare Book Room. Fatemeh Keshavarz will be speaking on her book "Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran."
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
There will be a short reception from 6:00 - 6:30 and a book signing at 7:30 following the lecture.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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Mon, March 23, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. South African musician Roger Lucey's recordings and performances were routinely censored under apartheid. State security police aimed to destroy his music career, though he remained a celebrated voice of the liberation struggle in the singer-songwriter and rock music traditions.
A prominent human rights activist, Ferhat Tunç is one of the iconic figures of "protest music" which emerged as an artistic response to the military coup of 1980 in Turkey.His work is dedicated to progressive internationalism.
This project is made possible by a Visiting Artist Grant from the Council for the Arts
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Sun, March 22, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. We think of the Arctic as a pristine wilderness, and when scientists went to collect breast milk from Inuit mothers, they were expecting to find the purest milk anywhere on earth. But the levels went off the scale. The milk of the Inuit mothers was loaded with chemicals migrating from the south. Invisible tells the story of how man-made chemicals are building up in our bodies and being passed from mother to child. Scientists think that these hormone-disrupting substances are causing havoc with the reproductive systems and neurological health of animals and humans across the planet. In this beautiful and thought-provoking film, film maker Roz Mortimer leads us on a hypnotic journey to the High Arctic. Using historical texts and contemporary first person accounts, Mortimer explores the traditional relationship Inuit have to the earth and gently challenges our Western relationship to science and knowledge.
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Sun, March 22, 2009 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM To be determined. The Classics Departments of Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill announce the 20th annual Duke-UNC Graduate Colloquium. Keynote address will be given by Barbara Olsen of Vassar College.
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Sat, March 21, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM unknown. $15, $10 (non Duke students/seniors), $5. At the Hayti Heritage Center
A dancer of riveting physicality and "writhing intensity" (NY Times), Mantsoe hails from Soweto, South Africa, Johannesburg's largest township. His beautiful, trancelike performances fuse ritual dance with classical physical vocabularies, creating a complex political aesthetic that reaches, critics say, right for the gut.
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Sat, March 21, 2009 11:00 AM - 11:00 AM Doris Duke Center Gardens. $8 (free for children aged 2 and younger; no strollers permitted in audience area); $5 Duke students. A storyteller, poet, recording artist and host of the regional Emmy Award-winning morning television show "Smart Start Kids" on WRAL and public television, Brigham aims to empower children and adults alike to believe in themselves.
"Imagination is a building block for success," she says. "Storytelling is a wonderful vehicle to ignite a child's imagination."
Search for "Smart Start Kids" at wral.com to see past episodes of Brigham's television show. More about Brigham at www.willabrigham.com.
Rain or shine.
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Sat, March 21, 2009 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM To be determined. The Classics Departments of Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill announce the 20th annual Duke-UNC Graduate Colloquium. Keynote address will be given by Barbara Olsen of Vassar College.
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Sat, March 21, 2009 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM Sanford Institute Lobby. Women's Studies Feminist Theory Workshop.
March 20-21,2009.
Keynote speakers: Tani Barlow(Rice University), Wendy Brown(Berkeley), Drucilla Cornell(Rutgers University), and Neferti Tadiar(Barnard).
To register and see other information about the workshop, please visit the Women's Studies website:
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Sat, March 21, 2009 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Sarah P. Duke Gardens. Free. Yoko and Rocky Iwashima of Triangle Taiko will help toddlers play Japanese taiko drums. The program is aimed toward children aged 1 to 5, but all are welcome.
No reservations necessary. Children will be able to use a drum on a first-come, first-served basis. Taiko for Tots will return April 4 for another round. Meet in the Hanes Garden, between the foot of the terraces and the duck pond.
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Fri, March 20, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 209. $20, $5 student. In the Nelson Music Room
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 engaging Kurdish recording artist comes to Duke to sing lilting, string-spiked songs about state terror and reconciliation.
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Fri, March 20, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Center for Documentary Studies. This new documentary, written and produced by Beth Holmgren (Duke University) and directed, filmed, and edited by Igor Sopronenko (Signature Media Productions) tells many stories of how Russians & Americans collaborated over the last two decades in reviving women's activism and creating Russian women's studies on in the Soviet Union/post-soviet Russia and the U.S. MODERN RUSSIAN FEMINISM was made possible in part by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, Duke's Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, a Collaboration Development Grant from Duke's Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, the Duke University Arts & Sciences Committee on Faculty Research, the Duke University Center for International Studies with additional funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Duke University Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, and Mary & Harold Zirin. Contact beth.holmgren@duke.edu for more info.
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Fri, March 20, 2009 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 028. Michel DeGraff, Associate Professor of Linguistics, M.I.T., is the author of /Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development/, and is now finalizing a monograph on Postcolonial Linguistics: The Politics of Creole Studies. His research mostly concerns the development and structures of ¿Creole¿ languages, with focus on his native Haitian Creole. Degraff is also interested in the joint study of linguistic creolization, language change and language acquisition. Another interest relates to the politics of Creole studies¿for example, the ways in which linguists¿ and other scholars¿ theories about, and uses of, Creole languages often reveal less about Creole languages per se than about issues of power, ideology, and geo-politics in the (post-)colonial history of the "New World."
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Fri, March 20, 2009 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM Westbrook 0014. With Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature, Duke; LIU Kang, Professor of Modern Chinese Cultural Studies, Duke; Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Harvard; Carlos Rojas, Assistant Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Duke
Yu Hua is the author of Brothers, the English translation of which was a finalist for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and the French translation of which won the Prix Goncourt. His other novels include Chronicles of a Blood Merchant and To Live, which was adapted into a film by Zhang Yimou. He has also received the Italy's Grinzane Covour prize for literature (1998), France's Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2004), and was the first Chinese writer to win the James Joyce Foundation Award.
Location: 0014 Westbrook Building(Divinity School)
Contact: 668-2603 or (richm021@duke.edu). Additional co-sponsor: Duke Living Writers Fund.
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Fri, March 20, 2009 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM Sanford Institute Lobby. Women's Studies Feminist Theory Workshop.
March 20-21,2009.
To register and see other information about the workshop, please visit the Women's Studies website:
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Fri, March 20, 2009 8:30 AM - Fri, April 10, 2009 5:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center Main Gallery. Free, open to the public. The Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS) is pleased to announce an upcoming photography exhibit by renowned artist, Ram Rahman. "Street Smart" will showcase Rahman¿s body of work, a subtle, often humorous eye on the street life of New Delhi and to the contemporary world of Indian artists. "Street Smart" will be on display in the main gallery of the John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC) from March 20 through April 10, when DUCIS will host a closing reception with Ram Rahman.. The JHFC, located at 2204 Erwin Road, is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm.
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Fri, March 20, 2009 8:30 AM - Fri, April 10, 2009 5:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center Main Gallery. Free, open to the public. The Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS) is pleased to announce an upcoming photography exhibit by renowned artist, Ram Rahman. "Street Smart" will showcase Rahman¿s body of work, a subtle, often humorous eye on the street life of New Delhi and to the contemporary world of Indian artists. "Street Smart" will be on display in the main gallery of the John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC) from March 20 through April 10, when DUCIS will host a closing reception with Ram Rahman.. The JHFC, located at 2204 Erwin Road, is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm.
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Thu, March 19, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Friedl 225. Ven a conversar y practicar tu español en un ambiente casual y amigable. Habrá música, comida y mucha tertulia.
Contacto: Bethzaida Fernandez, bfv67@duke.edu.
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Wed, March 18, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM East Duke 201. Free. The New York Times calls Hai Zheng "First Rate"
HAI ZHENG is Artist-in-Residence and Assistant Professor of Music at Southwestern University. She has appeared and recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra in London and the Amatius Orchestra in New York at Lincoln Center. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras in Europe, North America, and Asia; with Paul Olefsky in England; and Aldo Parisot in China. She made her European debuts at Oxford Town Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, England, and her New York City debuts at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Barge Music Series, and Steinway Hall. Ms. Zheng performs on an Amati Cello, circa 1580 (known as the King Charles IX).
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Wed, March 18, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Sponsored by the Duke Endowment. "Italy's Young Talent" presented by Edward Bowen The purpose of this showcase is to introduce some of Italy's most talented young directors and their recent short films to students in the U.S. The screening includes 6 shorts by young Italian filmmakers. All films have English subtitles. Following the screening there will be a discussion session with curator, Edward Bowen and Duke Professors Guo-Juin Hong and Negar Mottahedeh.
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Wed, March 18, 2009 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. "Porous Sovereignty and Walled Democracy," Wendy Brown, UC Berkeley & FHI Distinguished Resident; "Strangers and Enemies," Etienne Balibar, University of Paris X, UC Irvine, FHI Distinguished Resident; Response by Homi Bhabha, Harvard University & 2009 Mellon/FHI Distinguished Lecturer. ** Please note confirmed venue location at Franklin Center 240 **
Tue, March 17, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:50 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. This award-winning film is a journey of self-discovery based on Japan's cult underground comic "Mind Game" by Robin Nishi. The story follows Nishi himself through the life experiences that directly inspired the semi-autobiographical "Mind Game" comic. As a college-age loser addicted to porn and aspiring to write seedy adult comics, Nishi aspires to overcome his addiction to perversion in a tale that is lighthearted yet painful and touching. What starts off as an innocent meeting between old friends quickly turns into a psychedelic extravaganza, filled with violence, sex, love, redemption, and the infinite possibilities of the human mind. Director Masaaki Yuasa rejoices in experimental animation techniques, filling the screen with virtuoso wackiness, mixing in rough lines and storyboards, then inserting photographic touches. Co-sponsored by the Duke Anime Club.
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Tue, March 17, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. The Carolina-Duke Faculty-Graduate Student Works in Progress Series Continues. Anna Parkinson, "A Rose by Any Other Name: Emotion and Politics in Margarethe von Trotta's Neo-feminist Mütterfilm". Hosted by the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) at Duke University.
All meetings will take place from 7-9 PM at the Franklin Center, Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708. Directions & map: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php. Contact jmhess@email.unc.edu for more information.
Free parking is available after 6pm across the street at the Pickens clinic (number 6 on the map).
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Tue, March 17, 2009 5:30 PM - 5:30 PM Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium. The Franklin Humanities Institute is pleased to announce the 2009 Andrew W. Mellon/FHI Distinguished Lecture: ¿'Also, I Know That a Man Can Become of an Incredible Wickedness Very Suddenly': Time, Agency, and the Banality of Evil" by Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor or the Humanities, Harvard University. ** Please note updated lecture time at 5:30pm **
Tue, March 17, 2009 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. The New York Times calls Hai Zheng "First rate". Department of Music master classes are open to the public.
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Mon, March 16, 2009 8:00 PM - 8:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Patrice Leconte, France, 2004, in French with English subtitles. Please see film synopsis on our website. (Click on More Info link above.) Sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video/Digital Program. Presented as part of the Tournées Festival, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
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Mon, March 16, 2009 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM Languages 305. Miléna Santoro is an Associate Professor in the French Department at Georgetown University, with specializations in Québec Studies and French and Francophone women writers. She has published articles on Hélène Cixous, Jeanne Hyvrard, Nicole Brossard, Madeleine Gagnon, and Esther Rochon, and has translated excerpts of works by Jeanne Hyvrard and Michèle Sarde. She produced and introduced a video of Québec feminist writers entitled La Théorie un dimanche: Sweet Suite (ACQS and Le Conifère têtu, 2002). Her first book, Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Québec, was published in 2002 by McGill-Queen's University Press. Her current book project focuses on américanité and Americanization in Québec films since the Quiet Revolution. Santoro is currently Associate Editor for the International Journal of Canadian Studies and for the American Review of Canadian Studies.
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Mon, March 16, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Flowers 201. Michael Ross, Associate Professor Political Science UCLA, will present his work "Oil and Islam". This event is co-sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center and the Comparative Politics workshop series
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Étienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. His past and current research subjects include : philosophical anthropology (the subject and the citizen), extreme violence and the problem of civility, politics as war and war as politics, Individuality and transindividuality, Borders and the representation of the stranger, universalism and cosmopolitics.
More information coming soon on programs during Prof. Balibar's residency
Mon, March 16, 2009 8:00 AM - Fri, April 10, 2009 8:00 AM John Hope Franklin Center. Étienne Balibar has been one of Europe¿s most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. His past and current research subjects include : philosophical anthropology (the subject and the citizen), extreme violence and the problem of civility, politics as war and war as politics, Individuality and transindividuality, Borders and the representation of the stranger, universalism and cosmopolitics.
More information coming soon on programs during Prof. Balibar's residency
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Mon, March 16, 2009 8:00 AM - Fri, April 10, 2009 8:00 AM John Hope Franklin Center. Étienne Balibar has been one of Europe¿s most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. His past and current research subjects include : philosophical anthropology (the subject and the citizen), extreme violence and the problem of civility, politics as war and war as politics, Individuality and transindividuality, Borders and the representation of the stranger, universalism and cosmopolitics.
More information coming soon on programs during Prof. Balibar's residency
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Sat, March 7, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater. $28 general, $5 student. As "the pre-eminent Bach pianist of our time" (Guardian), Hewitt is an heir to Glenn Gould: her epic 18-cd recording of Bach's complete keyboard works is simply "one of the recording glories of our age" (Sunday Times).
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Sat, March 7, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Free. Intermediate II and the Duke String School Youth Symphony perform.
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Fri, March 6, 2009 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art. Free.. The 1997 film based on the book by Virginia Woolf is about a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway. Co-sponsored by Duke's Film/Video/Digital Program.
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Fri, March 6, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater. Free. The Guardian calls Angela Hewitt "the pre-eminent Bach pianist of our time," while The Wall Street Journal praises her ability to display "superhuman precision while still infusing the music with spirit and charm". Department of Music master classes are open to the public.
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Thu, March 5, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Page Auditorium. $38, $30, $22, $5. Shaheen was born in Palestine, studied music in Jerusalem and New York, and has created work NPR calls "staggering" and "full of passion." 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.
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Thu, March 5, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Featuring the de Falla harpsichord concerto, Argento's "Six Elizabethan Songs", winning Aliénor Harpsichord Competition solo & chamber pieces, plus a premiere for soprano & harpsichord by the 2008 competition winner, James Dorsa. Artists include: Penelope Jensen, soprano; Brooks de Wetter-Smith, flute; Joseph Robinson, oboe; Arturo Ciompi, clarinet; Mary Kay Robinson, violin; John Pruett, violin & viola; Lisa Ferebee, cello; Randall Love, harpsichord; Elaine Funaro, harpsichord.
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Thu, March 5, 2009 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM East Duke 108. Nelia Dias, Department of Anthropology, University of Lisbon, presents "Inclusions and Exclusions: Folklore and Ethnographic Museums in 19th-century France"
This event is free and open to the public.
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Thu, March 5, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM See description. Profiles in Sexuality Research with Janie Long, Director of the Center for LGBT Life at Duke University.
Profiles in Sexuality Studies is an on-going series to introduce students to the many ways that Duke faculty study LGBT issues and sexuality. Sponsored by the program in the study of sexualities and the Center for LGBT. Lunch is provided, RSVP is not required but is recommended to christopher.purcell@duke.edu LGBT Center(02 West Union Bldg.), 12:00 - 1:30pm.
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Wed, March 4, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Salute to "Papa," (Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, 1732-1809)
Program: Haydn, Symphony No. 45 in F sharp minor ("Farewell") Haydn, Symphony No. 104 in D Major ("London") Kelley, Africamerica: Sound Images for Piano and Orchestra Korngold, Violin Concerto
The Duke Symphony Orchestra is directed by Harry Davidson
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Wed, March 4, 2009 8:00 PM - 8:00 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Benoit Jacquot, France, 2004, in French with English subtitles. Please see film synopsis on our website. (Click on More Info link above.) Sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video/Digital Program. Presented as part of the Tournées Festival, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
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Wed, March 4, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Page Auditorium. Free . Prior to their World Premiere performance on Thursday, March 5 at 8 pm in Page Auditorium, Simon Shaheen and his ASWAT orchestra--featuring vocalists Ibrahim Azzam, Sonia M'Barek, Khalil Abonula & Rima Khcheich--will hold an open rehearsal tonight in Page Auditorium.
Rehearsal is free and open to the public.
For more information on the event, visit www.dukeperformances.org.
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Wed, March 4, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Topic: Global Health Law. Dr. Lawrence Gostin, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University. The University Seminar on Global Health is a series of public lectures that brings together a multidisciplinary audience from the University, the Medical Center, and the community to engage in critical dialogue about global health.
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Wed, March 4, 2009 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Biddle 19. $25 participants; $10 auditors; free to Duke students. Registration may be paid at door or call 919-660-3333 in advance.. The afternoon will begin with a mini-recital given by Mr. Alessi with pianist Jane Hawkins, followed by the master class. Joseph Alessi, a graduate of the Curtis Institute, is Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic. An active soloist, recitalist, and chamber music performer, Mr. Alessi has been a guest soloist with numerous symphonies in the US and abroad, and has participated in music festivals throughout the world. In 2002, he was awarded an International Trombone Association Award for his contributions to the world of trombone music and trombone playing. A faculty member at the Juilliard School and a clinician for the Edwards Instrument Co., he has given master classes throughout the world and has toured Europe extensively as a master teacher and recitalist.
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Wednesdays at the Center with Antonio Viego, Associate Professor of Literature & Director of Latino Studies, Duke University. Contact FHI: 668-1901; fhi@duke.edu
Tue, March 3, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Mary Lou Williams Center. Free . Duke Performances, DISC, and the Center for Muslim Life host Simon Shaheen and his ASWAT orchestra in a reception with the local community prior to their World Premiere performance on Thursday, March 5 at 8 pm in Page Auditorium--featuring vocalists Ibrahim Azzam, Sonia M'Barek, Khalil Abonula & Rima Khcheich.
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Mon, March 2, 2009 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM East Duke Parlors. Svati Shah lecture, Sex Work, Migration and Labor in Mubai: Reading Biopolitical Exceptionalism and Neoliberal Sovereignty Through India's Gotham.
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM March 2, 2009
Shah is a 2008-09 postdoctoral fellow in Duke's Program in Women's Studies and Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. This talk is part of the Transnational Sexuality Series co-sponsored by Women's Studies and the program in the study of sexualities.
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Mon, March 2, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Law School 4042. Islamic legal theory, unlike Islamic economics, is largely assumed to be intact and flourishing. Conventional thought is that the vast body of rules and norms derived from Muslim foundational text may provide a basis for legal organization that is effective, albeit normatively unappealing to some. Haider Ala Hamoudi, professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, argues however that the dominant Islamic legal and political theory is incoherent and impossible in application. This is not to suggest that Islamic law is without effect, only that it operates either in zones of social order left unregulated by the state or in adjusting or replacing otherwise secular rules in discrete and limited areas. As a self contained, comprehensive means of legal organization, Islamic law is, Hamoudi posits, dead. Co-sponsored by Center for International & Comparative Law and Duke Islamic Studies Center. For more information, contact Neylan Gurel at gurel@law.duke.edu.
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Sat, February 28, 2009 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM Friedl Atrium. The Duke University Cultural Anthropology Department and the UNC Chapel Hill Department of Anthropology present "States of Captivity," an interdisciplinary conference that invites reflection on the relationships among the prison, military, and immigration industries. Conference Events Include:
Friday, February 27th: Film Screening of Up the Ridge with Filmmakers, Amelia Kirby and Nick Szuberla of Holler to the Hood. Followed by an Open Mic/Spoken Word Performance by members of SpiritHouse. On Saturday, February, 28th:NC Activist Panel with Christina Cowger (NC Stop Torture Now), Rebecca Headen (ACLU-NC's Racial Justice Project), and Darryl Hunt (The Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice) Keynote Address by Dr. Dylan Rodríguez (Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside). "From Slavery's 'Abolition' to 'Genocide Management': The U.S. Prison Regime and the Context for Radical Activism and Scholarship". Contact statesofcaptivity@gmail.com for more information.
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Fri, February 27, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM East Duke 201. Free. Dave Finucane teaches saxophone and directs the Duke Jazz Combos.
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Thu, February 26, 2009 9:30 PM - 9:30 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free for Duke students, $1 for Duke employees, $2 for general admission. Philippe Claudel Fonteyne, Belgium/France, 2004, in French with English subtitles. Please see film synopsis on our website. (Click on More Info link above.) Presented by Freewater Presentations. Sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Film/Video/Digital Program. Presented as part of the Tournées Festival, with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
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Thu, February 26, 2009 8:00 PM - 8:00 PM See description. A three-day poetry conference with readings, performances, workshops and discussions. Conference participants include Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Kamau Brathwaite, Christian Bök, Brent Edwards, Renee Gladman, Susan Howe, Myung Mi Kim, Tracie Morris, Eileen Myles, Jed Rasula, Cecil Taylor, and Cecelia Vicuña.
Thursday night opening event will be held in Richard White Auditorium, East Campus; Friday and Sat. sessions will be held at the Franklin Center. For schedule details please see the English web site.
Students are welcome - and encouraged - to attend! There will poetry workshops for students held in connection with the conference Friday morning. Contact the English Department for workshop details: rebecca.gibson@duke.edu
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Thu, February 26, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM LSRC B101. Free and open to the public.. Haile Gerima visits Duke to present his latest film, "Adwa: An African Victory", which recreates the failed Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1896. A professional invading army was defeated by villagers armed only with spears. By nightfall, according to one contemporary account, the Italian army "no longer existed". The war is celebrated amongst black historians and activists because it represents a setback in European colonial efforts known as the Scramble for Africa. The battle of Adwa became a rallying cry in the anti-colonial struggle and an inspirational event for the Pan-African Movement.
Mr. Gerima, who is also a Professor of Film in Washington DC, went to Ethiopia and tracked down elders, historians, priests, poets and singers, who knew of aspects of the war lost to the history books. 20 hours of filmed oral history were distilled into a 90-minute film. -- Sponsored by the Duke Ethiopian Student Transnational Association (DESTA).
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Thu, February 26, 2009 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM Divinity School. Regarded as one of the country's preeminent scholars in African American history, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley will present a lecture entitled, "A Joyful Noise: Jazz, Blues and Spirituality. The presentation will be held on Feb 26th at 7pm at Duke Divinity School, room 0016W. Dr. Robin G. Kelley is writing a biography of jazz musician Thelonious Monk. Kelley has been working for years with Monk Institute founder Thelonious Monk Jr., who has granted Kelley access to rare historical documents for his biography. No other scholar has ever had such access and support from the Monk family. Kelley is also working on two other books: Speaking in Tongues: Jazz and Modern Africa and A World to Gain: A History of African Americans. Dr. Kelley is a professor at USC and a visiting professor in the African American Studies Program at Duke University.
Co-Sponsors: Black Seminarians Union and New Creation Arts Group. Contact khs4@duke.edu or emma.akpan@duke.edu for more information.
Thu, February 26, 2009 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM See description. $5 at the door. On February 26th, Duke Divinity School is sponsoring a benefit concert for St. Joseph's Family Ministries in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and the Mother Teresa Retreat to Haiti. The concert will feature a variety of artistic presentation including dance, music and poetry in honor of Haitian culture. It will be held at Asbury Temple United Methodist Church (201 S. Alston Avenue, Durham) at 7pm. A free will offering will be taken and a minimum of $5 is requested. Authentic Haitian coffee, vanilla, and artwork will also be for sale beginning at 6:30 and again after the concert.
If you are unable to attend the concert, but would still like to make a donation, those can be forwarded to Katherine Smith at the office for Life Long Education, Duke Divinity School (108A Gray Building or mail to P.O. Box 90966; Durham, NC 27705). Contact tom.warren@duke.edu for more information.
Thu, February 26, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Divinity School. This lecture explores the unique identity of African American Islam and the contributions of African Americans to Islamic tradition and US culture.
ROOM 0014 Divinity School
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Thu, February 26, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Friedl 216. Ven a conversar y practicar tu español en un ambiente casual y amigable. Habrá música, comida y mucha tertulia.
Contacto: Bethzaida Fernandez, bfv67@duke.edu.
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Thu, February 26, 2009 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free, open to the public. The University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy presents: "Decisions without Borders? An Analysis of Transnational Citation Practices" - Erik Voeten - Georgetown University
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Thu, February 26, 2009 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM East Duke 204B. Marda Dunsky, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at DePaul University, will be speaking about her new book "Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict."
There will be ample time for discussion and questions.
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Thu, February 26, 2009 12:00 AM - Sat, May 30, 2009 12:00 AM See description. Photographer Amanda van Scoyoc worked with teenage mothers in a suburb of Boston to create these portraits of their families. Location is Rubenstein Hall Lobby.
Monday, May 04, 2009
