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  • Welcome new CLACS Director Deborah Jenson!
    Natalie J Hartman, 2012/07/09 16:53:09

    Please join us in welcoming our new CLACS director and UNC-Duke Consortium co-director Deborah Jenson. As many of you know, Deborah is Professor of French in the Department of Romance Studies. She also co-directs the Haiti Humanities Lab and the Neurohumanities Research Group. Her research interests include French and Haitian Studies; Creole/Kreyol language; Global Health; and Neurohumanities. Deborah may be contacted at deborah.jenson@duke.edu We look forward to working with her over the next couple of years.  

  • CLACS creates Dennis A. Clements Outstanding Service Award in Latin American & Caribbean Studies
    Natalie J Hartman, 2012/06/01 17:11:12

    In honor of the dedication, creativity, leadership, humor, and social entrepreneurship offered by our Director, Dennis Clements, to the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, to the entire Duke community of students, faculty, and administrators devoted to studying this region of the world, and to the people of the central highlands of Honduras who have benefited from his Exploring Medicine program for the last 11 years, CLACS has created an outstanding service award in his name, to be presented to one certificate student each year who exemplifies these qualities. Dr. Clements' ability to bring people together from different disciplines and centers, his dedication to providing health care to rural areas of Central America, his mentorship as a teacher in the Global Health program, his support for scientific and artistic research in Latin America and the Caribbean, and his support for the people of CLACS in their own professional endeavors has made our community a better place. This award is a small token of our appreciation for Dr. Clements' leadership and friendship over the past 4 years and a way to maintain his legacy in our Center. This award will be presented each year to an undergraduate or graduate certificate student who has demonstrated extraordinary commitment to service, civic engagement, and social entrepreneurship in Latin America and/or the Caribbean and comes with an award of $500.  

  • Fall 2012 course "Colonial/Decolonial Aesthetics" taught by Prof. Deborah Jenson (Romance Studies/Haiti Lab) and Edouard Duval-Carrie (Haitian Artist and Mellon Visiting Professor)
    Natalie J Hartman, 2012/05/14 17:23:56

    Fall 2012 course "Colonial/Decolonial Aesthetics" taught by Prof. Deborah Jenson (Romance Studies/Haiti Lab) and Edouard Duval-Carrie (Haitian Artist and Mellon Visiting Professor). ROMST 490S.02; ARTSVIS 490S.01; LATAMER 490S.02. Thursdays 4:40 - 7:10 pm. Perkins LINK 2-065, Classroom 2. Course description: An introduction to colonial aesthetics, fashions, poetics, as well as to the aesthetics of the resistance to colonialism and slavery. Team-taught by acclaimed Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrie and Haiti Lab co-director Deborah Jenson. This course will familiarize students with the cultural history of the Haitian Revolution. There is a studio art component involving, among other possible projects, collaborative illustrations of an 18th century Creole opera that dramatizes social relationships across racial, class, and religious groups. Course taught in English; no pre-requisites. FL preceptorials in French and Spanish for French and Spanish majors and minors. For more information contact deborah.jenson@duke.edu  

  • Fall 2012 course "Visions of Haiti" taught by Prof Laurent Dubois (Romance Studies and History) and Edouard Duval-Carrie (Haitian Artist and Mellon Visiting Professor)
    Natalie J Hartman, 2012/05/14 17:17:23

    Fall 2012 course "Visions of Haiti" taught by Prof Laurent Dubois (Romance Studies and History) and Edouard Duval-Carrie (Haitian Artist and Mellon Visiting Professor). Open to undergraduate and graduate students. FRN 690S-2; AAS 690S; ARTSVIS 690S; HISTORY 590S; LATAMER 690S; VMS 590S. Tuesdays 1:25 - 3:30 pm. Course description: In this class we'll work with renowned Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrie as we explore the visual representations of Haiti. We'll examine how the country has viewed both by outsiders and by Haitians themselves, examining to understand how visual culture has intersected with political, cultural, and religious life in Haiti. To better understand the art of Haiti – including paintings, photography, and film – we'll study the political and economic history, study the impact of both Vodou and Christianity on the country’s culture, and read poetry and fiction. Students will do independent research projects and have the opportunity to participate in the conceptualization an exhibit on the history of Haitian photography (being curated by Duval-Carrie at the Fort Lauderdale Museum). For more information contact laurent.dubois@duke.edu. The class is open both undergraduate and graduate students and will meet in the Haiti Laboratory at the Smith Warehouse.  

  • Eduardo da Costa recipient of first Dennis A. Clements Outstanding Service Award
    Natalie J Hartman, 2012/07/09 16:51:31

    CLACS was proud to present the first Dennis A. Clements Outstanding Service Award in Latin American and Caribbean Studies to Eduardo da Costa (MA in International Development Policy and CLACS Graduate Certificate Recipient) For service and dedication to the people of the Amazon rainforest impacted by natural resource extraction, for innovation and dedication in helping to establish the new Duke in Brazil program in the Amazon region, and for donating over 600 books to Duke libraries related to environmental policy in the region. The award was presented during the CLACS Certificate Ceremony on May 11, 2012.  


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