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January 31 - February 2, 2008
The university honors Reynolds Price with discussions, academic panels, stage performances, and readings from colleagues and former students. Special guests include Toni Morrison, Richard Ford, Josephine Humphreys, Charlie Rose, Stanley Fish, and Annabeth Gish.
Alumni can register at http://www.dukealumni.com/jubilee
Duke English department faculty should contact Rebecca at rebecca.gibson@duke.edu to register.
Events are free for Duke Students: limited numbers of tickets will be held at the door on a first-come basis for each event.
Schedule: (Events will be held in Reynolds Theater unless otherwise noted.) Thursday 1/31David Cutcliffe, Tennessee's assistant head coach and offensive coordinator, coached Ole Miss for six years and was named the SEC Coach of the Year in 2003. [more]
Prof. Gauthier's research is featured in Nature News, "Storing light with sound"
Prof. Haiyan Gao and Prof. Harold Baranger have been elected as Fellows in the APS in recognition of their outstanding contribution to Physics.
The Institute for Critical U.S. Studies invites you to take part in the second event in a yearlong series, "Methodologies on U.S. Studies: A Conversation," which engages scholars from different disciplines in discussions of how various methodologies address like-minded projects on the United States.
This Conversation will engage Maurice Wallace, Associate Professor of English and African and African American Studies and Adriane Lentz-Smith, Assistant Professor of History in a discussion entitled "On Being Objects of Knowledge: Historicizing Black Men and their Masculinities"
Tuesday, January 22nd, 11:30 to 1:00 -Room 225 Science Building (a.k.a. Old Art Museum) on East Campus.
A light lunch will be served.
Please contact Caroline Light at clight@duke.edu or 668-1945 if you have any questions about this event or the 07-08 "Conversations" series.
Please visit the ICUSS website for details about other events in the series: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/icuss/
Duke accepted 472 early decision applicants to the Class of 2012, including a record number of students of color. [more]
Beginning in fall 2008, Duke will reduce or replace parental contributions and loans with grants for students from lower- and middle-income families. [more]
The History Departments of Duke University and The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill cordially invite you to attend a reception at the annual meeting of the AHA in The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel on Saturday, January 5, 2008 from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm in Washington Room 3
Duke's economic impact on Durham city and county in FY06-07 was $3.4 billion, up from $3.2 billion two years ago, and up 62 percent over a decade ago. [more]
who currently holds the MacDiarmid Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, will join our faculty effective January 1, 2008. Professor Therien works in the broad field of physical organic and physical inorganic chemistry, disciplines that seek to understand the basis of novel ground and excited state phenomena in molecules and molecular materials. In addition to the deep intellectual challenges embodied in this field, this area of research also aims to develop design principles for new materials. Therien’s work is particularly focused on using these relationships to prepare and study materials with novel and useful photophysical, catalytic, and electronic properties. In the course of these studies Therien draws on the expertise and capabilities of multiple disciplines in addition to the core fields of physical-organic and physical-inorganic chemistry, including modern spectroscopy and photophysics, molecular imaging, materials chemistry and nanoscience.
Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, was honored by the Modern Language Association of America. [more]
Dave's paper "Dimensions, Issues and Bills: Appropriations Voting on the House Floor" has been chosen as the winner of the Fett Award of the Midwest Political Science Association. Congratulations Dave!
will be held on Dec. 11 beginning at 6 p.m at the Durham Hilton. All students, faculty, staff, and their families are invited to attend and celebrate what has been a fantastic year for the department. See you then!
is one of three Duke faculty sharing in $25,000 awards as part of the Duke-NCCU STEM Partnership. Each award will provide the students with a $15,000 stipend, $5,000 for tuition and $5,000 for the supplies needed to conduct research in a laboratory at Duke. A primary goal of the program is to establish collaborations between faculty members at research-intensive Duke and NCCU, a historically black university. Congratulations to Prof. Toone!
On November 7, 2007, the NC Community College System Office released a memo stating that all community colleges in the state are now required to admit undocumented students. On Friday, Nov 30, Gov Easley made a public statement of support for undocumented immigrants to attend community colleges if they qualify and if they pay out-of-state tuition. Please visit the El Pueblo site and click on the links to thank Gov Easley and to support access for all to higher education.
This policy change will strengthen our future tax base. It would give an opportunity to young people who have grown up in North Carolina, and been educated in NC public schools to obtain a higher education while also allowing our state to have access to the long-term economic benefits that these students can provide as a highly educated and bilingual workforce. This is about investing in the future of NC and the people who live, work and raise families here. Immigrant families are pulling more than their own weight when it comes to the taxes they pay, the contribution they are making to our growing economy, and what they bring to a diverse state like North Carolina. This is not about special rights; this is about not making the self-defeating mistake of cutting off the achievement and ability to succeed of our neighbors.
This is a workforce development issue. North Carolina's state and local governments, businesses, and industry are currently recruiting college graduates from outside the state, as well as outside the US, to fill shortages in the fields of business, education, and health services. A number of students who will benefit from this policy change have the potential to satisfy many of these essential job needs in NC. Immigrants are here, are paying taxes, holding jobs, raising families, and most will be here for the rest of their lives and while it is good for the immigrants to get an education, it is even more important for all of us in North Carolina that they move up the economic ladder and become self-sufficient engines of the NC economy. Access to our state's colleges will increase the state's collective productivity and economic growth by preparing an educated workforce.
These are qualified North Carolina students. According to the law, any student in North Carolina is entitled to a public school education until the 12th grade, meaning that our state has already invested significantly in their education. These are high school students who have attended elementary and secondary schools in this state for most of their lives, who are likely to remain in the state and are high achieving and highly motivated. By allowing them to pursue higher educations, the state can benefit from students who are bilingual and bicultural, and able to contribute to the state's collective productivity and economic growth.
In-state tuition and federal immigration issues are separate issues. This policy change does not affect in-state tuition. Undocumented students that attend Community Colleges must still pay out-of-state tuition, which is over $2,000 more than the actual cost of educating the students. Thus, students that benefit from this policy change will essentially be subsidizing the cost of educating citizens.
Watch Friday's NBC 17 news report on the Antorcha Guadelupana, "Race For Unity Spreads Immigration Message" here: "It's a march for the dignity of a people divided by the border," said Duke University Professor and local event organizer Pedro Lasch. The relay started in Mexico City Oct. 7. The group will carry the "Guadalupe Torch" all the way to the Big Apple, uniting families from Mexico and the United States along the way. They entered Durham at dusk on Friday singing, "La Guadalupana," a traditional song in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe – the patron saint of Latin America. One message of the march is to share the most colorful parts of their faith, said Rebecca Arrieta, torch runner. Click on the link above to watch or read full report.
Virtual Realities Focus students talk about popular games, gaming culture, and study that's outside the (x)box. [more] -- The Chronicle
Durham, N.C. - Immaculate Conception Catholic Church will welcome the International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana. The event will take place at 810 West Chapel Hill St. on November 30, 2007 beginning with the public welcoming of the Antorcha at 5pm, followed by a press conference at 6 pm.
The International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana Mexico- New York is a 3,800-mile relay run from Mexico to New York carrying the Guadalupe Torch. It brings together two nations and thousands of families divided by the border. The torch left the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on October 7 and will arrive at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in NYC on December 12. See also http://www.tepeyac.org/antorcha/07/index.htm
For Mexicans, Our Lady of Guadalupe is a national symbol of great importance. The Basilica in Mexico City where the International Run begins is the most sacred religious place in Mexico. Along the way, the Latino immigrant community, its supporters, and the local Catholic churches will offer hospitality and participate in the relay race. The local community will run with the torch on Saturday, December 1, along the 150-mile stretch from Durham, N.C. to Richmond, VA.
The International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana, organized by the Tepeyac Association and the Archdiocese of New York, began in 2001. The event has an audience of more than 22 million people and the participation of over 7,000 runners who take turns carrying the torch according to the ancient Mexican indigenous tradition that has been sustained into the present. The welcoming of the Guadalupe torch and the participation in this run has the following objectives:
To bring together thousands of families from both Mexico and the United States, grassroots organizations, international prize winning athletes, popular bands, clergy, politicians and leaders of business community.
To promote friendship and solidarity among community groups.
To call attention to the painful reality of the immigrant families and communities separated by the border and the dire economic situation in their countries of origin.
To highlight the significant contributions of the Latinos to the economy and cultural vibrancy of our state and our country.
A large crowd of the Durham Latino immigrant community, with their local community, religious and business leaders, will welcome the International Run: Antorcha Guadalupanaat the Immaculate Conception Church in Durham on this day. For more information on the local organization, please contact Javier Garcia at (919) 225-3395/ immigranthousing@earthlink.net or Fr. Jacek Orzechowski, ofm at (919) 682-3449 ex. 258/ jacekofm2002@yahoo.com. For any press or media information, contact Pedro Lasch (919) 684 3308/ plasch@duke.edu
Calling all DFC tennis players!! It's not too early to begin thinking about spring 2008 USTA league tennis play! Spring teams form in January and February, and league play happens from early March through early June. At this point, we are thinking that DFC will field women's teams at the 2.5, 3.0, and 3.5 levels (probably mostly evening, but we are open to the idea of daytime if demand exists), and men's teams at the 3.5 and 4.0 levels (evening play). Play at other levels is an option if enough interest exists! USTA play is a lot of fun! Teams typically play one night per week either at DFC courts (when home) or away at other clubs in the area. In the spring USTA season, teams field 2 courts of singles and 3 courts of doubles for each match. Teams can contain 14 individuals, and only 8 play on a given night, so not everyone plays every week. As a player, you can estimate that your playing commitment will be about 4 to 6 matches over the 3 month period (the exact number of matches depends on number of teams in each league). Even if you have never participated in USTA League play before, we welcome you to give it a try. You'll meet a lot of fun people, and play some great tennis! If you are interested, or think you might be interested, or have any questions about USTA league play, please contact Kelly Baker (DFC pro) at kelly.baker@duke.edu (or see him on the courts!), or Charlotte Clark (club member) at cclark@duke.edu. You must let us know of your interest by early February so we can determine what teams we want to field at each level. The January newsletter will contain a specific notification deadline date. See you on the courts!!!
Colloquia
March 26-28
Graduate Student Prospectives Visit
March 28
Philip Pettit
"Freedom,
Probability and Resilience"
April 11-13
Phil-Bio Conference: Cooperative
Alliances in the History of Life: Aggregation, Individuation, and the
Major Evolutionary Transitions
The men's and women's locker rooms will be closed from Dec. 3-17 for much needed repairs to the flooring. The restroom facilities in the Le Bar building will remain available during this time.
The DFC will be hosting a Holiday Food and Clothing drive from Dec. 1-16. All collected items will be donated to Urban Ministries of Durham (www.umdurham.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the emergency needs of poor people in our community. If you would like to donate items, please bring them by the DFC office. Suggested items include: canned goods, clothing and blankets, toiletries, single bed linens, towels and wash clothes, diapers and baby food. Thank you for your generosity.
Grades and test scores are indeed very important factors in determining admission into the nation's top law schools and graduate schools, but those are certainly not the only factors. Accomplishments beyond grades and test scores are increasingly being recognized as crucial elements in post-undergraduate school admissions. Distinguish yourself from countless other applicants by getting your academic work published by the Washington Undergraduate Law Review (WULR).
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Submissions for the WULR are open to ALL MAJORS. Business majors could write about any of the seemingly countless numbers of business-related laws, music majors could write about copyright laws pertaining to downloadable music, pre-med students could write about laws pertaining to Medicare and Medicaid, journalism students could write about issues concerning freedom of speech. The possibilities are endless. Students are especially encouraged to submit their undergraduate theses and other papers that were written for academic classes.
Submissions will be selected for publication by all of the WULR editors based on the quality of writing, research, and analysis. All submissions accepted for publication may be edited for length and clarity.
Please visit the Washington Undergraduate Law Review website to submit your work or for more information about the WULR:
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Don't miss this exciting opportunity to become a part of the Washington Undergraduate Law Review at the
Please direct any questions to the Editor-in-Chief, Anthony Herman, at: aherman3@u.washington.edu
Thursday, November 29, 7 p.m. EARL DOTTER / TENNESSEE WATSON: "Farmworkers Feed Us All: The Work and Health of Migrants in Maine" Hyde Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
DIRECTIONS: http://www.unc.edu/iaar/ISC/isc2005directions.htm Part of ENGAGING DOCUMENTARY: Community Values and Artistic Visions A Series Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University with support from the Robertson Scholars Program http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/engagingdocumentary.html
Additional UNC-Chapel Hill support for this event is provided by the School of Public Health, the Department of Anthropology, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Center for Integration of Research and Action, the Social Movements Working Group, the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, the Kellogg Health Scholars Program, the Center for Public Service, the Carolina Community Network, and the Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes Program.
Earl Dotter, widely known for his photographs documenting the lives of workers, and Tennessee Watson, an audio producer from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, will present new work from a project in Maine, where an estimated 10,000-15,000 migrant farmworkers are employed. Dotter and Watson photographed and interviewed Guatemalan, Honduran, Jamaican, and Mexican migrants, Native Americans, and Mainers at work and in camps from Aroostook County next to the Canadian border to the coastal region of Washington County to Western Maine. They also documented access to health-care services provided by the Maine Migrant Health Program, which reaches out to farmworkers involved in the state's harvests via mobile health clinics.
An exhibit of this work will premiere in January 2008 during the opening of Maine's Legislative Session at the Capitol in Augusta. In the spring the exhibit will travel to the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and then throughout Maine's agricultural areas.
The project and exhibition were sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health (NIOSH Education and Research Center and NIEHS Center for Environmental Health), the Maine Migrant Health Program, the Maine Occupational Research Agenda, and the Maine State Department of Labor, and the Maine Health Access Foundation.
For more information on presenters, see http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/engagingdocumentary.html.
Novelist and essayist Barbara Kingsolver will address graduates on May 11, 2008. [more]
Alex Keyssar, Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, will be giving a talk to the Duke History Department on December 13th, at noon, in Carr 229.
Keyssar, the leading historian of the right to vote in America, will address the question, "Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? A History."
Dirk Bonker, Assistant Professor of History, will be the speaker at the third 2007-08 History Colloquium on Monday, November 26 at noon in Room 229 Carr Building.
The title of his presentation is, "On the Road to Unlimited Warfare? Navalist Approaches to War in Germany and the United States before World War I."
Trent History of Medicine Society will host this meeting featuring Professor Peter English, MD, PhD, History and Pediatrics, speaking on, "A History of Childhood Obesity in the United States."
A buffet supper at 5:30 followed by the presentation will be held at the History of Medicine Collections - Duke University Medical Library, Room 102.
For more information please contact:
Suzanne Porter (Duke) 660-1143
Daniel Smith (UNC) 966-1776
Ryan McCartney T'08 will use his George J. Mitchell Scholarship to study political communication at Dublin City University; Marshall Scholarship winner Lee Pearson P'08 will study at the University of Edinburgh and at Cambridge. [more]
Last day for swimming in the lap pool this season is Friday, November 30.
Dr. Laura Halperin, Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, presents: "Clamped Tongues: Linguistic Terrorism in Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera and Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" on December 3rd, 3:00 Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall UNC-CH
Dear Colleagues, Please join us for Dr. Laura Halperin's upcoming public lecture on December 3rd at 3:00 PM in Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall.
Dr. Halperin will be previewing exciting research from her book manuscript Narratives of Transgression:Deviance and Defiance in Late Twentieth Century Latina Literature.
Please see the abstract and biography below for further information or contact: jdribo@email.unc.edu.
Abstract: Laura Halperin's lecture begins by providing an overview of her work on the gendered, raced, and ethnicized pathologization of Latinas in late twentieth century Latina literature. The remainder of the talk draws from the last chapter of Halperin's book project, focusing on the relationship between Latina artistry and deviance in Chicana writer Gloria Anzald?Borderlands/La Frontera and Dominican American?novelist Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. These texts reveal how mainstream society interprets linguistic dexterity, bilingualism, multilingualism and Spanish monolingualism as impediments to mental health and raced, ethnicized, and gendered determinants of mental illness. In "Clamped Tongues," Halperin pays particular attention to the pathologization of Alvarez's Yolanda. Halperin draws from Gloria Anzald theories of linguistic terrorism to argue that the representation of Yolanda as mentally unstable is connected to her vocation as a writer and her bilingual word play. Given the intersectionality of language, race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the medicalization of language depicted in these texts disguises the racism, xenophobia, classism, and sexism that underlie diagnoses of Latina writers as mentally imbalanced. These individual ascriptions of Latina deviance cannot be separated from collective histories of oppression.
Bio: Laura Halperin received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on the gendered, raced, and ethnicized pathologization of Latinas in Latina literature. Last year, she taught an undergraduate Latina/o Studies course, joined the Latina/o Studies board, presented her work in several venues, and received a UNC Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence. This year, she is a postdoctoral advisor for the Office of Postdoctoral Services and a facilitator in a Duke and UNC co-sponsored working group on Modernity/Coloniality/Latinidad. She is also working on her book manuscript, Narratives of Transgression: Deviance and Defiance in Late Twentieth Century Latina Literature, and has an article about Dreaming in Cuban forthcoming in Volume 6 of Latino Studies.
Focus alumni, Ryan McCartney and Lee Pearson, are recipients of prestigious scholarships. McCartney was awarded the George J. Mitchell Scholarship. Pearson was awarded the Marshall Scholarship. [more] -- The Chronicle
This scholarship is accepting applications now through January 14, 2008. To find out more about this and other scholarship opportunities please click on Scholarships & Awards.
You are invited to a public talk by Mexican activist and 2006 International Human Rights Watch winner Veronica Cruz Sanchez
"Gender, Rape, & Abortion: Working for Reproductive Rights and Dignity for Women in Mexico"
When: 6:00-7:30, Monday, January 28th, 2008
Location: White Lecture Hall, Duke's East Campus
Veronica Cruz Sanchez is the founder and head of Las Libres, the only organization to tackle the issue of access to abortion after rape in the conservative Mexican state of Guanajuato, where unsafe abortion is one of the highest causes of death among women of reproductive age. In Guanajuato, abortion has been legal in cases of rape for over thirty years. However, due to official negligence, obstruction, and a wealth of administrative hurdles, few if any rape victims in Guanajuato have ever obtained a state-provided abortion. Veronica leads the fight against this injustice by connecting rape victims with medical and legal aid, training youth to hold health workshops for peers, and challenging policy makers to ensure real access to abortion as allowed under the law.
Event co-sponsors: The Duke in Madrid Program; UNC School of Law; Duke Program in Women's Studies; the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Baldwin Scholars; Duke Women's Center; Duke Department of Romance Studies; Duke Program in Latino/a Studies; Duke Department of History; Duke Spanish Service-Learning Program; UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas; Duke Institute for Critical U.S. Studies
For directions and further information about this event, see http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/program//veronicacruzdirections.php or contact Caroline Light clight@duke.edu
Transnationalism Contested: Sandra Cisneros' The House on ??
a Wednesdays at the Center Program with
Jose David Saldivar
Professor of English and Literature, Director of Latino/a Studies
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
12:00 - 1:00 PM with free lunch
Room 240,
Wednesdays at the Center is presented by the
Lunch from Chipotle is provided by event co-sponsor: Latino/a Studies at Duke University (see http://latino.aas.duke.edu// for more info).
Free parking at the
Details: Professor Saldivar's presentation will focus on some of the transnational stories (historias) and novels written by Sandra Cisneros. It begins by considering how Cisneros thematizes the plight of Greater Mexico's beleaguered multiculture in The House On Mango Street and Caramelo and then defends it against the charges of failure. The presentation ends by turning toward the issues of figural language and border identities in Cisneros' fiction.
Questions? E-mail jennysw@duke.edu
About the Speaker: see http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/latino/staff/jose.saldivar
ENGLISH 169CS - Cultures of US Imperialsims: War of 1898
Crosslisted: LIT 161S and SPAN 122S
Instructor: Saldivar, Jose D Tu Th 2:50 PM- 4:05 PM (240 Science)
This special topics course explores the narratives--memoirs, essays, novels, testimonies, letters--and history of the Cultures of United States Imperialism. We will start by considering the multiple meanings of US imperialism and anti-imperialism, and the frontiers of US Empire. We will then examine the meaning of the war of 1898. Was 1898 a date and space of historical beginning and/or a date of historical rupture? Why was the War of 1898 termed a "splendid little war?" But we will move beyond the reification of 1898 by considering other transnational configurations such as Jose Marti's Latinamericanism, W.E. B. Du Bois's Pan-Africanism, and Subcomandante Marcos Zapatismo. Additionally, we will explore how US imperialism maps the relations of the domestic and the foreign in gendered and ethno-racial terms. Briefly, this course has a double focus. One looks at the representations of US empire in a variety of literary and non-literary texts within a broad timeframe. The second examines recent theoretical work about culture and US imperialism and sets them in dialogue with the current efforts to remap the post-colonial dimensions of US culture and society.
Course content is over 50% Latino/a Studies-specific. Link to course (with texts required and course grading): http://www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/1230/ENGLISH/169CS/
AAAS 199S - SP TOP: America in Black and Brown
Crosslisted: HISTORY 106S, LIT 162ZS
Instructor: Reyes, Alvaro W F 8:30 AM-9:45 AM (Sci Bldg 240)
This class will attempt to deepen our understanding of the 1960's by showing the centrality of actions taken by people of Color on and off college campuses across the United States- actions that began in the late 1950's and continued into the Early 1970's.
We will begin with an examination of the global context of the revolts that occurred during this epoch (African Decolonization, Viet Nam etc). We will then concentrate on the content of the expression of this era within Black and Latino radical movements-mostly specifically, the Black Panther Party, The Young Lords Organization, and the Chicano Movement. Link to course: http://www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/1230/LIT/162ZS/
Friday, November 16, 6:30 p.m. (Reception, 5:30 p.m.) THE IDEA OF CUBA / Alex Harris with Lillian Guerra Talk and Book Signing Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
DIRECTIONS: http://www.nasher.duke.edu/visitus_directions.php
Additional support provided by the Nasher Museum of Art; the Cuban American Student Association; the Center for International Studies; the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library; and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, all at Duke University; and Ann Stewart Fine Art and Fundación Amistad. To mark the publication of a new book of photographs and writing, Alex Harris, a professor of the practice of public policy and documentary studies at Duke University and a founder of the Center for Documentary Studies, will discuss his remarkable journey into contemporary Cuba and how his perspectives have shifted over thirty-five years as a documentary photographer. He will be joined by Yale historian Lillian Guerra, an American daughter of Cuban exiles who has visited the island repeatedly to conduct research and to try to understand what it means to be Cuban. Copies of The Idea of Cuba, published in Fall 2007 by the University of New Mexico Press in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, will be available for purchase at the event. An exhibition of The Idea of Cuba organized by the Southeast Museum of Photography will travel from 2008 to 2010.
7 pm at the Global Education Center Auditorium, UNC-CH
Los Chapeljilenos: Latin Vocals of John and Carmen Chasteen
There's no simple way to describe the music of John and Carmen Chasteen—an eclectic mix of North and South American folk styles, rhythmically up-beat with strong vocal harmonies and lyrics in both English and Spanish. Some songs are old standards from Carmen's native Colombia, some sound like down-home North Carolina, and some speak to current political issues, such as immigration. Direction to the GEC available at http://gi.unc.edu/aboutus/directions.html
Kristin Butler T'08 was awarded the Melcher Family Award for Excellence in Journalism for her Chronicle article on how patients lacking health insurance typically are billed at higher rates. [more]
DukeReach includes a website to equip faculty and staff with tools and resources that allow them to connect students with counseling or medical attention. [more]
ISIS Faculty Director Tim Lenoir and students from the “Virtual Realities: Visualizations, Imagines Worlds and Games” Focus cluster's “How They Got Game” course are featured in a 6–page article in Duke Magazine’s November–December 2007 issue. [more] -- Duke Magazine
Artist/activist colleen kattau will present a "for use now" workshop on combining artistry, creativity, and effective political action on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 4:30 in social psychology 126, on the west campus of duke university.
On her way to the annual "close the school of the Americas" protest in fort benning, Georgia, musician and activist colleen kattau will discuss the soa, its role in latin America and latin America's role as a proving ground for current US counterinsurgency projects. more importantly, she'll share ideas and strategies for making sure our voices are heard on the pressing task of ending torture and war and building a more sustainable planet.
Co-sponsored by Romance studies, AAAS, the Ethno musicology working group, Latino/a Studies, the Institute for Critical US Studies, International Studies, and cultural anthropology. contact Professor Diane Nelson (dmnelson@duke.edu) for more info.
11-8-07 From La Voz del Pueblo (Raleigh, NC)
Wake County Plans to Enforce Immigration Laws Locally
Sheriff Announced Intention of Entering the 287(g) Program
See links below to take action!
This week, Wake County Commissioners gave Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison unanimous approval to sign on to the 287(g) program. This program allows the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to give local law enforcement the ability to enforce immigration law.
The initiative would cost Wake county $629,316 for its initial implementation, and about $539,341 per year subsequently.
This program is being sold to the public as one that would focus soley on criminals. However, in a recent article published by the News and Observer, Sheriff Harrison clearly offers a new definition for "criminal" under the 287(g) program and admits that driving with an expired drivers' license would be cause enough to check the immigration status of some individuals. "Driving without a license is a crime. A crime is a crime" (N&O, November 6, 2007). In actuality, this type of a traffic violation would normally result in a potential order to appear in court, or a ticket and fine. Under 287(g) and in Sheriff Harrison's own words, undocumented immigrants driving without a valid drivers' license would now be considered "criminals" and face arrest, detention, and eventual immigration action. This in a state that made it impossible for undocumented immigrants to apply for a new or renewed drivers' license in 2006 and thereby criminalized over 300,000 residents in our state.
The reality is that there are no uniform standards in the guidelines for operations under the 287(g) Memorandums of Agreement (MOA). Every county can be granted a different level of authority ranging from questioning inmates in county jails to questioning individuals solely on the basis of undocumented status . Further, it has been very difficult to gain access to actual copies of every county's MOA in order to understand exactly what are the limits of authority law enforcement are working under and what community members' rights are when they feel they have been unfairly targeted. As a result, there is little to no oversight in how 287(g) is implemented in each county or any real way to inform community members.
Some of the concerns this creates in our community include:
- The high risk for racial profiling: Because it is left to the discretion of officers to determine who is a potential undocumented immigrant, there could easily be an increase in the use of racial profiling as a means to "determine" who to question as a possible undocumented immigrant. This clearly affects all minorities, extending far beyond just the undocumented members of our society.
-The marginalization of a population as it refers to law enforcement: Undocumented immigrants who are victims of a crime or who witness a crime would be very hesitant to report such activities to local law enforcement if they fear it would result in their or their family members' detention and deportation. This is a clear impediment to the safety of our community as a whole.
-Lack of transparency in the process: The way MOAs are negotiated, without public input, means that things that extend beyond the reach of normal law enforcement operations could be included. There is no way to identify which law enforcement officials have been trained in immigration enforcement or what the limits of their authority are in that county. This severely erodes the civil liberties of everyone in our community.
It is unfortunate that our local leaders are choosing this path. The hateful political rhetoric at the national level coerced our national leaders into inaction regarding comprehensive immigration reform. The enforcement of immigration law, which is a federal responsibility, has been transferred to the state and local levels. However, localities are taking the wrong approach. With a broken immigration system that leaves almost no room for attaining a legal presence in this country for those who need it the most, the right answer is not to take an enforcement-only approach.
Please follow the link to "Take Action" and send the pre-written email or your own message to the County Commissioners and the Wake County Sheriff to express your disappointment in their decision to spend public money in a flawed approach to immigration.
Given the fact that they have already made a decision, demand transparency and honesty in the process so that this program does not affect innocent members of our community.
To read more about 287 (g)s, click here. To take Action, click here.
Charlie king and colleen kattau in concert Tuesday November 13 8:00 pm at the Mary Lou Williams center, west campus, Duke University
Charlie King has been at the heart of American folk music for over 40 years. His songs have been recorded and sung by other performers such as Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, John McCutcheon, Arlo Guthrie, Peggy Seeger, Chad Mitchell and Judy Small. Charlie has released a dozen solo albums since 1976, three albums with Bright Morning Star, and numerous compilation albums with other artists. Folk legend Peggy Seeger says, "If we had more Charlie Kings in the world I'd be less worried."
Co-sponsored by Romance studies, AAAS, the Ethno musicology working group, Latino/a Studies, the Institute for Critical US Studies, International Studies, and cultural anthropology, Contact Professor Diane Nelson (dmnelson@duke.edu) for more info on the performance at Duke.
David Bell (Johns Hopkins University)
The Culture of War in the Age of Revolutions
The talk is an overview of some of the main themes of his new book on "The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare As We Know It." It proposes a new argument for understanding the shift between the aristocratic culture of limited warfare that prevailed in Europe in the eighteenth century, and the culture of unrestrained war that succeeded it after the start of the French Revolution. This shift was not primarily due to the rise of nationalism or to new ideological splits, but was a consequence of new modes of thought about war that arose with the Enlightenment.
Tom Robisheaux presents "Living with Witches"
Tom Robisheaux's talk on witch hunts in the early modern period will be a peek into his forthcoming book on one of Germany's last witches.
On Shrove Tuesday, 1672, a young new mother from a small village near the town of Langenburg suddenly took ill and died. Her death triggered the final set of events in the territory that led to the trial of Anna Schmieg, the miller's wife, for poisoning and witchcraft. Using the technique of microhistory Tom Robisheaux explores the life of Anna Schmieg and the perplexing problem of witchcraft as witch trials declined in Europe. What can her life and the Langenburg witch scare tell us about living with presumed witches and witchcraft when detecting witches had become difficult and problematic? At the end of one of Europe's last witch hunts, in an age when caution and some skepticism were taking hold in law, medicine and theology, Anna Elisabeth Schmieg was one of the last of the "classic" witches in Europe. The talk explores the new perspectives on witchcraft that microhistory can provide.
Thomas Robisheaux, Associate Professor of History, is an historian of early modern Europe. After taking an interest in German and social history, he earned a B.A. at Duke in 1974. At the University of Virginia those interests formed the foundation of his dissertation research on rural society in the German Southwest in the early modern era. Based on that work his first book, Rural Society and the Search for Order in Early Modern Germany, appeared with Cambridge University Press in 1989. After two years on the faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, he joined Duke's Department of History in 1983. Other works include: Lost Worlds: How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life (trans.), and a number of articles on society, culture, medicine and the law during the early modern period. His most recent book, The Miller's Wife: Sorcery and Witchcraft in a German Village (W.W. Norton fall 2008) tells the story of one the last witches in Europe. Using microhistory, he proposes a new way to understand witchcraft and the vexing problem of the decline of Europe's witch trials long before the belief in witchcraft weakened.
The Seminar will begin with a catered dinner and drinks.
Please be sure to register with Ms. Tracy Carhart (tracy.carhart@duke.edu) in a timely fashion.
has been ranked No. 43 on a list of the world's top 100 living geniuses in a survey conducted by Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm. Prof. Vo-Dinh is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, and Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics.
Take the night off and bring your 4-12 years to the DFC on November 16, from 6-10pm. Parents' Night out will include a movie, food decorating, games, a Twister competition, and a raffle (tickets cost $1). Cost is $15 for members, and $18 for non-members. Please call the office (684-6672). The attached registration form must be completed before the event. [Parents Night Out, PDF]
Margreta de Grazia (U. Penn) will be speaking on Dec. 3 in a "Before the Disciplines" series at 5:15 p.m. in Old Trinity. Her lecture is entitled "Anachronism before Diachrony."
To obtain detailed information about the NIA-supported: Healthy Longevity in China Project and to see a description of the datasets available through the project as well as an overview of research results and an up-to-date list of publications - please browse the new website. Go to http://www.geri.duke.edu/china_study/index.htm [more]
Ray's article, Shields for Europe is in the November 5th News and Observer. Congratulations Ray!
Register to take an Education class in Spring 2008! Most classes have a service learning experience in our local schools. Check out the list of courses here ??
Program in Education Spring 2008
EDUC 49S.01: Women Imagine Change
EDUC 49S.02: Educational Tests & Assessments
EDUC 100: Foundations of Education
EDUC 109S. Elementary Curriculum
EDUC 110: Res/Reflect Practice Elem. Edu
EDUC 118: Educational Psychology
EDUC 120: Elementary Internship
EDUC 137: Contemporary Issues in Education
EDUC 139: Marxism and Society
EDUC 149: Women and the Professions
EDUC 151S: Literacy & Service Learning
EDUC 160S: Early Childhood Intern
EDUC170S.01: Anthropology & Education
EDUC 170S.03: Durham Literacy Lens
EDUC 190S: Secondary School Issues
EDUC 215: Secondary School Teach
EDUC 216: Secondary Internship
Harry Gibney, Study Abroad Officer at Queen Mary University, London, will be holding an information session on Monday, November 5, 4:00 pm, in 105 Social Science. For information on the history courses offered at Queen Mary, see http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/outlines.html
Need some help searching the history databases? Can't figure out how to start your research project? Just want some free food and an excuse to take a break from studying? Then stop by Lilly Library on Tuesday, November 13 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. to meet your history librarians and get expert research tips that are sure to help as you crank out those final projects and papers of the semester.
Email emily.daly@duke.edu by Monday, November 12 to let us know you're coming so that we will have plenty of food.
Charles W. Byrd, an adjunct associate professor of French, will step down at the end of this academic year. [more]
This inaugural event is in memory of Marcy Speer, a long time DFC member, who lost her battle with breast cancer this summer. The run/wall will be held on Saturday, November 17, 9am. All proceeds from the event will benefit Triangle Day School and the Duke University Center for Human Genetics. The event will be held on the Al Buehler Trail. Cost is $25 for adults, $10 for children age 5-10. Register on-line at http://www.chg.duke.edu/marcyrun. There will also be registration on the day of the event. For more information, contact Cammie Dale at 401-9640 or cammiedale@yahoo.com.
The DFC and Wine Authorities will be hosting a wine tasting event in the LeBar building on Thursday, November 15, 7-9pm. The event costs $15 for members, $20 for non-members. Six wines will be availible for tasting, and cheese and fruit will be served. Wine Authorities is Durham's new locally owned, independent wine retail store and wine education facility. They feature free wine tastings every Saturday from 12 Noon to 3 PM in the store. In addition, Wine Authorities has the only Enomatic self serve wine tasting machine in the Triangle, which allows users to purchase a tasting debit card and taste up to 12 wines at a time. Wine classes are scheduled regularly and the weekly tasting line up along with class schedules can be found at their web site: www.wineauthorities.com. To register for the event, please call the office at 684-6672.
Kelly will be hosting an informal round robin tennis tournament to celebrate the end of the fall league season on Sunday, November 11, 2-5pm. For more information contact Kelly Baker at kelly.baker@duke.edu or 667-4428.
Wednesday, November 14: part II, COLONIALIDAD/LATINIDAD DISCUSSION SERIES with Maria
Lugones
COLONIALIDAD/LATINIDAD DISCUSSION SERIES
A joint initiative of the Working Group on "Globalization,
Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge"
(a working group of The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies)
PRESENTS:
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
speaker Maria Lugones
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
The John Hope
At the Multicultural Center (lower level of the Bryan Center), West Campus, at 5:30pm. "Diversity without Domination," a lecture by Professor Michael Hardt. Capital and white supremacy perhaps increasingly thrive on certain forms of diversity and even some kinds of hybrid identities. How can a politics of liberation practice diversity in a context where the forms of domination it confronts also rest fundamentally on diversity? Hardt will explore this question and highlight movements in Bolivia that simultaneously address race and class differences. About Michael Hardt: Michael Hardt received his MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, 1990. Michael Hardt's recent writings deal primarily with the political, legal, economic, and social aspects of globalization. In his books with Antonio Negri he has analyzed the functioning of the current global power structure (Empire, 2000) and the possible democratic alternatives to that structure (Multitude, 2004). Dinner will be provided. Please RSVP to vcw@duke.edu.
Tuesday November 13, 2007, Malaquias Montoya, professor and artist at the
Through an art of protest embodied in the images of his silkscreened posters, Professor Malaquias Montoya raises counterpoints to images of disempowerment, hopelessness and criminalization all too common in the mass media. Montoya writes in his artist statement, "In my images I pay tribute to those who struggle on a daily basis. I pay homage to the workers and I aggrandize their efforts. I celebrate small and large victories of the human spirit. I depict people in control of their lives working together to change and transform their reality." Yet the transformational spirit of community in Montoya's work "reaches beyond the barrio" embracing the international in the broadest sense of the term. Rather than being confined to the
This free, public event in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room of the
Nov 1 at 6PM, continue celebrating Days of the Dead and also kick-off the Latin American Film Festival at UNC-CH
Thursday, the Atrium of the new
Join, ISA, the new Institute for the
Study of the
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Opening Reception - Tamales, Day of the Dead Bread and Ponche Thursday, November
1, 2007 6:00pm Atrium of the Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro St., UNC
Campus
TUES at 2PM - Join the Procession to the Open Altar - Participate in Remembering
Home
All people - no matter
their circumstances of life here in the
October 25, 2007 - El Pueblo Condemns the Senate Vote against Students' Dream
Yesterday, the United States Senate voted against cloture- a motion to
proceed with further debate on the DREAM Act. The tally was 52 to 44, falling 8
votes short of the 60 needed. Both of North Carolina's Senators, Elizabeth Dole
(R) and Richard Burr (R), voted against cloture and, ultimately, against the
dreams and hopes of many talented and qualified youth that graduate from our
North Carolina high schools every year.
Not only were we failed by our Senators, we were extremely disappointed by the White House Administration which released a statement opposing the DREAM Act only moments before the Senate vote. The President made the point that immigration should be addressed in a comprehensive manner even as he continues to support enforcement-only approaches that have resulted in the separation of families and mass deportations of non-criminal immigrants. Ironically, many of the Senators who called for a comprehensive solution during the debate were precisely the same Senators who voted against continuing the negotiations around comprehensive immigration reform earlier this year.
It was unfortunate that the debate heard on the floor of the Senate contributed more to the rhetoric surrounding immigration and failed to recognize that the DREAM Act was a proposal about education and opportunity for young students who have only the best to offer this country. Instead, we continue to witness the inaction of our leaders, who repeatedly choose to avoid enacting and implementing pragmatic solutions that speak to the realities of our communities, our economy, and our future as a country.
El Pueblo commends and thanks Senators Reid (D-NV), Durbin (D-IL), Lugar (R-IN), and Hagel (R-NE) for standing up in the right side of this issue, and having the courage to champion the quest of education for our immigrant youth. We also want to thank everyone who called their Senators to voice their support for the DREAM Act. Unfortunately, many did not hear the necessity of such legislation and chose to maintain the status-quo, closing the door of opportunity to our talented youth.
El Pueblo is especially disappointed in our two Senators from North Carolina. Earlier this year, both NC Senators also voted to end further debate on comprehensive immigration reform. They have also made clear statements that they stand for the status-quo and continue to favor flawed enforcement of a chaotic and broken immigration system.
We call on our leaders to propose and support real solutions and come up with significant policies that will truly address the suffering of our immigrant families.
Richard Kay (biological anthropology and anatomy) was among 471 scientists chosen by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bruce Corliss (earth and ocean sciences) and Larry Crowder (marine biology) from the Nicholas School were also selected. [more]
The North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh offers several opportunities for undergraduate and graduate level students, including internships, part-time jobs, a student essay contest, and mentoring.
The museum offers internships in the spring and fall semesters and during the summer. Most often these internships are volunteer, though they work with students and their professors to qualify for class credit. Occasionally they also have part time positions and paid internships available.
In addition to job/internship placement, the museum offers a student essay contest. Now in its second year, the student essay contest provides an opportunity for the winning essayist to take home a cash prize and to present his/her research during our monthly lunchtime lecture series. Essays on any topic of North Carolina history are accepted.
The Journal of Undergraduate International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently accepting submissions for its Fall 2007 publication.
Submitted essays may reflect a variety of international issues, including but not limited to:
International relations and politics
Conflict and restoration
Personal field experience abroad
Personal national or international work experience
Submissions will be accepted until Thursday, November 1 and should be e-mailed as Microsoft Word attachments to wiJUIS@gmail.com
Undergraduate students as well as those students who have recently graduated are encouraged to send their work to be considered for publication.
Please include a cover letter with the title of the paper, institution of affiliation, author's name and contact information.
Paper copies may be sent to:
c/o Journal of Undergraduate International Studies
L&S Honors Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison
420 South Hall
1055 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706
Wednesday November 14th is the deadline for preliminary applications for the Goldwater Scholarship. By 5:00 PM, applications and supporting documents must be in the OUSF office.
Are you looking for a fun and safe place for your child to go on the November 12th Teacher Work Day? Enroll them in the DFC's Kid's Day Camp.
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm
Age: 5-12 year olds
Fee: $40 members; $45 non-members
For more information: Contact Chanee Lynch at lynchce@email.unc.edu or (215) 268-6573.
See attached registration form. [Office] [Word, PDF]Get expert tips on using Endnote and conducting high-level research in Duke's catalog and history databases, and meet your history librarians.
Feel free to bring questions specific to your research and to drop in at your convenience.
Refreshments will be served!
as we celebrate the dedication of Duke University's French Family Science Center with a multidisciplinary scientific symposium at the frontiers of knowledge. The symposium begins at 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 9 and is open to the public. The program features world-renowned scientists, and a full schedule can be found here. The talks will be held in FFSC 2231, and overflow seating with a video link will be provided in Love Auditorium at the Levine Science Research Center.
Pedro Lasch, Latino/a Studies Community Liaison, and Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Visual Arts, will be presenting his mirror-mask work this Friday at noon in the Levine Science Research Center (LSRC) at Duke.
(Directions to the LSRC at http://vis.duke.edu/contact-new.html.) ***Please direct inquiries to _rbrady@duke.edu_***
Friday, October 26th noon-1pm in D106 LSRC, lunch will be served.
Pedro Lasch, Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Social Systems, Spatialization & Cognitive Masking/Demasking This workshop will focus on my 'Naturalizations Series,' an ongoing interdisciplinary experiment based on the use of a set of mirror-masks designed in 2002. The initial perception created by these masks is one of spatial and psychological confusion. Subjects are reversed if only one person is wearing the mask. If several people wear them, their faces disappear and transform into an endless set of reflections of other mirrors, other faces, environments, and objects. Landscape and subject are one and many. Subjects are inseparable from each other, their bodies dismembered by rectangular planes departing and arriving through reflected gazes. Light breaks and travels on these masks with unpredictable speed and variety. Space and movement become counter-intuitive. We will together enter this perceptual, psychological, and social labyrinth to reconsider the value of such low-tech cognitive tools -- formerly called philosophical toys, as useful complements to the expensive technology and encoded language most prevalent in (scientific) visualization. Network theory, systems theory, and current ideas around spatialization in art and science will also be discussed before and after our experience with the masks. The Visualization seminar series is a forum for faculty, staff and students from across the university to share their research involving the development and/or application of visualization methodologies. Our goal is to build an interdisciplinary community of visualization experts whose combined knowledge can facilitate research and promote innovation. See the full Friday Forum Fall 2007 Schedule. [more]
Monday October 29th is the on campus deadline for submitting applications for the Churchill Scholarship
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This is a REMINDER that the OUSF Parent's Breakfast is Saturday November 3rd from 9:30 to 11:00 AM. If you and your family plan to attend and have not RSVP'd, please do so ASAP. We look forward to seeing you there!
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The 21st annual Latin American & Caribbean film festival is coming to UNC-CH, Duke, NCCU, Guilford, and Durham Tech November 1-14, 2007. Presented by The Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. See http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/. [more]
John Burness will step down on June 30 after 17 years as senior vice president for public affairs and government relations. [more]
"Images of Self - Then and Now" at UNC-CH The photography of Jose Galvez Freedom Forum Center, Room 305 Thursday, October 25, 4-5 p.m. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jose Galvez will present his work Oct. 25 from 4 to 5 p.m. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Galvez's talk will cover his more than 35 years documenting the lives of Latinos in the United States. Galvez has used black and white photography to document Mexican American culture, and capture Latino lifestyles in the United States for more than three decades, portraying his heritage in a realistic and positive fashion. His career includes work at the Los Angeles Times, where he led a photo staff that, along with a team of reporters and won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on the Latino experience in Southern California. The Smithsonian is among the countless museums and galleries that have exhibited his work, and he served as senior photo editor and contributed to Americanos, a multi-media exhibition documenting Latino life in the United States. Now living in Durham, Galvez travels the country discovering the new Chicano communities that now flourish in the South and Midwest. His talk will cover his work documenting Latinos in the United States. For more information, contact Lucila Vargas, (919) 962-2366, lcvargas@email.unc.edu. The free, public event in Carroll Hall's Freedom Forum Conference Center (Room 305) is presented by the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series, and the UNC Latina/o Studies Gift Fund.
The 21st annual Latin American & Caribbean film festival is coming to UNC-CH, Duke, NCCU, Guilford, and Durham Tech November 1-14, 2007 http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/. Presented by: The Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University [more]
Featuring: Pulitzer Prize winners Hector Tobar, journalist and author of Translation Nation, and documentary photographer Jose Galvez will give two presentations in Pittsboro, NC on Nov 9 and 10. Community Dialog Across Borders will combine visual and literary arts to generate a dialog about Latino immigration in our community. The moderator will be Dr. Maria DeGuzman, Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature, and Director of Latina/o Studies Minor & Program at UNC Chapel Hill. Jose Galvez's pictures will be on display at the event. The artists' respective books and other select reading materials will be available for purchase and autographs. Please click on the following link to see the full information: [more]
The Carolina/Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin Issues and Perspectives
Presents
Pieces of the Indies: From Ebony to Cinnamon Skin Piezas de Indias: de ebano a piel canela
Please join us in this rare opportunity to experience contemporary, rural Afro-Mexican cultural practices through the lens of an independent Mexican scholar working through his country's tumultuous relationship with its so-called African "past."
Duke University Center for Documentary Studies - Auditorium1317 W. Pettigrew Street Durham, NC 27705
FREE and open to the public
CONTACT: Danielle Terrazas Williams dlt9@duke.edu for more information
Resister Faye Schulman's Memories of the Holocaust
Faye will talk about how she joined the resistance movement, share her memories of the Holocaust, and show photographs from her years on the front lines.
Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, Oct 24 8:30-5:30 0n the Plaza Plese stop by the DREAM ACT table to place a call to our senators to support the DREAM Act The "DREAM Act" and "American Dream Act" provide an opportunity for U.S.-raised students to earn U.S. citizenship. The DREAM Act would allow certain immigrant students to adjust their status to that of a legal permanent resident on a conditional basis for six years based on the following requirements: 1.) Age. Immigrant students must have entered the U.S. before age 16. 2.) Academic requirement. Students must have been accepted for admission into a two or four-year institution of higher education or have earned a high school diploma or a general educational development (GED) certificate at the time of application for relief. or served in the U.S. armed forces for at least 2 years. 3.) Long-term U.S. residence. Students must reside in the U.S. when the law is enacted. In addition, those eligible must have lived in the U.S. for at least five years preceding the date of enactment of the Act. 4.) Good moral character. Immigrant students must demonstrate good moral character, a defined term in immigration law. In general, students must have no criminal record. Contact sab39@duke.edu or bao9@duke.edu for more info.
A lecture by Gary Wilder, Pomona College
Emancipating Futures Past: Aimé Césaire, Strategic Utopia, and the Political Untimely
Tuesday, OCTOBER 23, NOON, Breedlove Room (204 Perkins)
(Lunch will be provided)
In his talk, Wilder will outline his reading of Negritude as a critical theory and then discuss Aimé Césaire's postwar projects for decolonization without national independence. The talk is drawn from a new book project on Negritude, decolonization, and utopia, provisionally entitled Freedom Time.
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On Monday, October 22nd, from 4:30-7:00 p.m. in 305 Languages, there will also be an informal discussion with Gary Wilder about his book The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2005). All students and faculty are welcome. Gary Wilder is an Associate Professor of History at Pomona College. He was recently awarded a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.
For more information contact Laurent Dubois (ld48@duke.edu)
Sponsors: Romance Studies and History, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, African-American Studies, and Global Studies
Professor Antonio Vitti will give a lecture entitled "From Neorealism to Americanism: Cinematic Transformation and Social Change Seen through Lenses."
Vitti has written extensively on De Santis. In English, he wrote "Giuseppe De Santis and postwar Italian cinema"; and he has recently edited a collection of interviews and commentaries on de Santis--"Giuseppe de Santis secondo se stesso".
The event will take place on October 22, at 1:15 in room 305 of the Languages Building.
For more information, please contact Professor Roberto Dainotto, dainotto@duke.edu
Page Auditorium 6:30-7:30pm Want to learn more about Durham politics? The Duke College Republicans and Duke Democrats are collaborating to put together Duke's first-ever campus mayoral forum between incumbent Mayor Bill Bell and challenger City Councilman Thomas Stith. The candidates will be discussing their approaches to targeting crime and Duke-Durham relations, among other issues. Political Science Department Chair Michael Munger will moderate the forum, which will have ample opportunities for Duke students, faculty, and community members to pose their own questions to the candidates. For anyone registered to vote in Durham, this forum will be an invaluable opportunity to gauge the difference between the candidates. There will be an OPEN Q&A with an opportunity for students to talk to the candidates individually at the end. Email for more info: vikram.srinivasan@duke.edu
5:30-7:00 pm in 328 Allen.
BILL KNIGHT: "Using Ovid to Keep the Wolves at Bay: Metamorphoses vs. Modernity in Scriblerian Satire." PHILIP STEER: "The Importance of Being Enormous: Victorian Fiction and
Theories of Imperial Spatiality."
Following the papers, a roundtable on conference attendance will take place. Topics will include:
abstract making, conference scouting, paper organizing, and question fielding.
First, second, and third year graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.
Light refreshments will be available (soda, beer, chips); feel free to bring food for yourself.
QUESTIONS? NATHAN.HENSLEY@DUKE.EDU
Dear colleagues:
I am pleased to announce the next meeting of the "Modernity/Latinity" working group of the UNC/Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This year the working group will concentrate on the connections between the constructions of Latinity in the US (and beyond) and the global transformations of the modern/colonial world.
The meeting will take place at room 3033 in Center for Global Initiatives (UNC-CH) on October 24 at 6pm. See http://gi.unc.edu/aboutus/directions.html for directions. Dinner will be served. We will focus primarily on the intersections of gender and coloniality in preparation for our meeting with Maria Lugones in November. I have attached an article by Lugones herself as well as an older (though still relevant) piece by Mohanty. In addition, Joe wanted to discuss one of his writings, a paper that addresses the connections between modernity/coloniality and Latinidad.
Please contact me, Jose Luis Venegas, venegas@email.unc.edu for the readings and for more information.
October 5, 2007
Angelica's Dreams, the first Latino feature film to come out of North Carolina, boldly mixes financial education and fiction??
Angélica’s Dreams is the film version of Latino Community Credit Union's three-part dramatic mini series dedicated to financial education. The primary purpose of the video is to show community members, and the general population, the process of buying a home. Latino Community Credit Union (LCCU) produced it with a grant from the CDFI Fund, a program of the United States Treasury Department. LCCU contracted Rodrigo Dorfman's creative services as producer and director.
Los Sueños de Angélica is the moving story of an immigrant couple from Latin America, Angélica and Roberto, who are discussing whether to return to their home country or stay in the
The film is part of LCCU’s groundbreaking Home Buyer Education (HBE) program. These materials consist of an HBE Guide and the companion video series. LCCU will provide 25,000 copies of the guide and 1,200 copies of the video to be used throughout the
"At LCCU we recognize that the overwhelming majority of our more than 50,000 members have little or no experience with financial services and therefore need extensive financial education to integrate into the mainstream
Boldly mixing documentary and fiction, telenovela and comedy, director/producer Rodrigo Dorfman shot the film entirely on location in Durham, North Carolina, plunging his main characters deep into the daily life of one of the most vibrant new Latino communities in the U.S. Angélica’s Dreams takes you into butcher shops, construction sites, churches, music festivals, bars and real estate offices. There are no guns here, no drug dealers, no gang members, no gratuitous violence or foul language, only the turbulent, unexpectedly humorous lives of everyday people struggling to enter the mainstream of American society.
"The experience of making Angélica’s Dreams has been exhilarating and I hope it can serve as a model to anyone interested in the possibility of creating socially relevant low budget/high quality grassroots film from within a Latino community", says director Rodrigo Dorfman. “LCCU took a chance with this experiment and I can't thank them enough for this wonderful opportunity.”
The screening is sponsored by Latino Community Credit Union, the City of Durham Department of Community Development, and the following Duke University Departments: Latino/a Studies at Duke, The Multicultural Center, Community Affairs, the Institute for Critical US Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Spanish Service Learning, Duke Women's Studies Program, Center for Documentary Studies, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Community Service Center, the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, and Campus Life Unit of Student Affairs.
Latino Community Credit Union is a community development credit union that provides competitive interest rates for deposits, affordable loans, and financial education. Based in
Latino Community Credit Union/Cooperativa Comunitaria Latina de Crédito
Fax: (919) 688-9309
E-mail: angel@cooperativalatina.org
Web: http://www.cooperativalatina.org
The Working Group on the Environment in Latin America would like to invite you to attend "Conflict, Illicit Crops, and Environmental Degradation in Colombia", a talk by Dr. Manuel Rodríguez . How have narco-trafficking activities and armed conflict in Colombia effected the environment? What impacts have narco-trafficking activities had on the Colombian tropical forests and the communities that inhabit them? Can conservation and sustainable use of forests ecosystems become assets to attain social stability and peace?
4:30pm (Reception will follow) at Duke University, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Lecture Hall 04
Sponsored by: WGELA, Duke Council on Latin American Studies, UNC-Duke Consortium on Caribbean and Latin American Studies
Manuel Rodríguez-Becerra is currently Professor on Environmental Policy and Public Policy in the School of Management of Universidad de Los Andes. From 1976 to 1990, he was General Secretary, Dean of the School of Management, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Vice-president of this University. For more info on the speaker and for any questions please contact Angela Gillingham (ang6@duke.edu) or Ian Varley ( iav3@duke.edu).
This group hopes to foster and develop an intellectual community for the study of "literary" philosophy and especially ordinary language philosophy (J L Austin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell) at Duke.
Please contact Toril Moi (toril@duke.edu) or Sarah Beckwith (ott@duke.edu) if you are interested in participating in this working group.
Everyone interested in participating in this working group should come to the first meeting on Wednesday, October 31 at 6.30pm, room TBA. We'll have some snacks and drinks and discuss what we want to do over the course of the year.
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The Carolina/Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin Issues and Perspectives PRESENTS "Pieces of the Indies: From Ebony to Cinnamon Skin / Piezas de Indias: de ebano a piel canela" Please join us in this photographic exploration of rural Afro-Mexican life and cultural expression. 5:30-7:30pm at Duke – Center for Documentary Studies – Auditorium Contact dlt9@duke.edu for more info.
The Rally for the Cure was a huge success! On Friday, October 12, 2007, members of the Duke and UNC Faculty Clubs shed their shades of blue and donned a new color - pink - to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer. Thirty-two women from both clubs played in a round robin tournament, ate lunch together, and raised over $2,000. Thank you to everyone who participated by playing, sponsoring a court, making a donation, purchasing a raffle ticket, or eating lunch! To learn more about the event, read the article in the Chapel Hill News (http://www.chapelhillnews.com/sports/story/10371.html).
Saturday, October 27, 2007 3:00 PM
Goodson Chapel, Westbrook Building, Duke Divinity School
Duke University
Free and Open to the Public
Reception to Follow
Two world-renowned scholars reflect on the role of the historian in their respective societies and their own involvements in national and local debates around historical truth, political identity, and social reform.
Moderated by Srinivas Aravamudan, Director, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and Professor of English,
Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute, the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies, and the Department of History
Are you looking to add a spark to your workouts? Come to Fall into Fitness on Fridays at the DFC. We will be sponsoring several Friday noontime workshops that will introduce some of the latest ways to enhance your workouts. There is no cost, and each workshop will last about an hour. Please come dressed to participate. Participants will try out the exercises and receive feedback from the instructor. Here is a list of the workhshops:
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Friday, October 26
Power Your Workout with Plyometrics presented by Mike DeStefano,Performance Enhancement Specialist, Balanced Movement Studio
Friday, November 2
I'm With the Band: A Fit Band Workout that You Can with You Anywhere presented by Meg Pomerantz, Director, DFC
Friday, November 9
Oh, My Aching Back: Core Strengthening Exercises to Keep Your Back Healthy presented by Eamonn Lanigan, Instructor, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, UNC-CH.
[PDF]CASA (Cuban-American Student Association) would like to invite you to a special screening on Thursday Oct. 18th at 7:45pm: Far from the Island (Lejos de la Isla) in English and Spanish (subtitlted).
Where: Duke University - Duke West Campus, Social Science Building Room 139
Cuba is in a transitional period. Now more than ever, a Dialogue needs to be open for an audience that has not and might not understand what has happened and continues to happen on the island of Cuba. Lejos de la Isla (Far from the Island), is an examination of the waves of emigration from Cuba to the United States over the past 48 years told by the exiles who lived through them. Issues such as differences of opinion, the Cuban Revolution and its flaws, the destruction of the family unit and foreign policy. Join CASA as we screen this independent documentary, that has been making waves in the academe adding various schools, colleges and universities such as The University of Missouri - Columbia, The College of New Jersey, Boston College, The University of Virginia, Cornell University, Marquette University, Seton Hall University, Yale University and Harvard University. Independent filmmaker L.E.
Salas will be present to introduce the film and present a question and answer forum immediately following the screening. Contact yisel.valdes@duke.edu for more info.
Come play with pirates & goblins, witches & ghouls! The Duke Faculty Club is hosting a Halloween Costume Party on Friday, October 26, 2007 from 5-8pm. Cost is $3 per child at the door. Canned goods will also be accepted at the door. Join us for games, candy, prizes, raffle, snacks and more! [JPEG, PDF]
Associate Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal has been elected to to serve on the Fermilab Users Executive Committee which represents the Fermilab user community to the lab management, DoE and the government, including Congress.
Colleen M. Fitzpatrick Ph.D. '83 was named an International Society for Optical Engineering Fellow.
Emancipating Futures Past: Aime Cesaire, Strategic Utopia, and the Political Untimely
In his talk, Wilder will outline his reading of Negritude as a
critical theory and then discuss Aime Cesaire's postwar projects
for decolonization without national independence.
On Monday, October 22 from 4:30-6:30 in 305 Languages, there
will also be an informal discussion with Gary Wilder about his
book The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and
Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (University
of Chicago Press, 2005).
All students and Faculty are welcome.
For more information contact Laurent Dubois
ld48@duke.edu
Poetry and Documentary Experience:
A Conversation at Documentary Studies
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 12-1:30 at Lyndhurst House
An open discussion with Robert Pinsky and Tom Rankin, Director of Doc Studies. Lunch will be provided.
Public Reading
Tuesday evening at 7:30
Doris Duke Center in Duke Gardens
Introduction by President Brodhead
Professors San-Huang Ke, Harold Baranger and Weitao Yang's research is featured on the cover of the Oct 5 issue of Physical Review Letters.
A conversation with Robert Pinsky about memory, poetry, and aspects of writing. Rare Book Room, 2:45-4 pm
Prof. Mueller has been chosen by the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS) for the 2007 Jesse W. Beams Award. [more]
Keywords: Mueller, Award, American Physical Society
Professors San-Huang Ke, Harold Baranger and Weitao Yang provides a new look at the contacts between conjugated molecules and metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes. Their research, which is featured on the cover of the Oct 5 issue of Physical Review Letters, shows that the overall conjugation required for good contact transparency is broken by connecting through a six-member ring on the tube. To achieve full conjugation and hence near perfect contact transparency by an all-carbon contact, they designed a five-member ring leads for different conjugated molecular bridges, leading to high transparency in electrical conduction--a critical attribute for molecular electronic applications. More details of the work, which combines a Landauer approach with ab initio density functional theory, can be found in the published article.
7 p.m. at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
NORMA CANTU: "Celebrating Identity: Three Fiestas in Laredo, Texas"
As the first presentation of the "ENGAGING DOCUMENTARY: Community Values and Artistic Visions" Series, presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Norma Cantú will focus on three fiestas: the quinceanera, a coming-of-age celebration; the matachines folk dance drama tradition; and the secular George Washington birthday celebration in her hometown, Laredo, Texas. She will examine resistance to the hegemonic powers of Mexico and the United States and the hybrid nature of the confluence of cultures. Each fiesta can be read as a hybrid text that reveals what Gloria Anzladua claims is "the wound that will not heal": the U.S.-Mexico border. Even in celebratory expressions, there are hints of the ways that this community has had to battle for its own cultural survival.
Norma E. Cantu is a professor of English and U.S. Latina/o Literatures at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Author of the award-winning Canicula Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera and co-editor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change and Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, she is working on a novel titled Champu, or Hair Matters, and an ethnographic work, Soldiers of the Cross: Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz. Her scholarly and creative work focuses on life along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
With additional support from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of English, and Latino/a Studies, all at Duke University
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Friday, October 19, 2007 4:00 - 6:00 pm
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
History Department, Hamilton Hall, Room 569, North
Jacqueline Whitt (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
For God and Country: Chaplains and Religious Practice in the United States Army in Vietnam
Chaplains have served with military forces for millennia, and with American armed forces since the early colonial period, yet their roles in and interpretations of war have received scant attention from military historians and historians of American religion. However, chaplains serve as a primary location for understanding the complex intersections between American religious practice and the American military because they work and live at the intersections of these two institutions and culture. During the Vietnam War, these two cultures and institutions appeared to collide. American religious groups of all stripes publicly denounced the Vietnam War or the practice of it, and the armed services experienced military defeat and cultural turmoil. In the midst of intense protest and cultural upheaval, chaplains remained in the middle. This paper explores some of the intersections and conflicts between God and Country, as experienced by chaplains who served during US intervention in Vietnam.
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Jacqueline Whitt is a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is studying American military history with Dr. Richard H. Kohn. She graduated with honors from Hollins University (Roanoke, VA) in 2003 with degrees in History and International Studies. She received her Master's Degree in History from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2005. Her dissertation is titled, "A Crisis of Faith: Chaplains, Vietnam, and Religion in the American Military," and focuses on the intersections of military and religious culture in the United States.
A pre-circulated paper is available a week in advance at dirk.bonker@duke.edu.
Are you a parent looking for a night out? The Duke Faculty club will be hosting a Parents' Night Out on Friday, October 12, 2007 from 6-9pm. Bring your 4-12 year olds for a night of games, food, and fun with an international twist. Cost is $15 for members and $18 for non members. Please call the office at 684-6672 for more information or to register.
On Friday, October 12, 2007 the UNC Faculty Staff Recreation Association and the Duke University Faculty Club will co-host our inaugural Rally for the Cure (www.rallyforthecure.com). This is a tennis event with the purpose of spreading awareness in the fight to eradicate breast cancer as a life threatening disease. The event will include at Meet and Greet at 9:30am, round robin tennis play from 10am-12pm, and lunch from 12-2pm. Our guest speaker, Dr. Claudio Battaglini, will be present his research in exercise and cancer. To register, please download this form. [Registration form.]
October 12, 5:30PM at the WHITE LECTURE HALL, EAST CAMPUS
Denise Oliver-Velez is a former member of The Young Lords Party (YLP), a Puerto Rican/Latino organization, serving as their Minister of Economic Development and was the first woman on the YLP Central Committee. She is also a former member of The Black Panther Party. Denise will be giving a lecture as part of the Multicultural Center’s "Identities in Movement" series, which aims to offer insights into the interrelation of race, class, gender, sexuality in the context of social change. Denise will assist us in understanding "identity" within the context of community struggles for justice, democracy, and dignity. She will describe the community-based projects that both organizations fought to create, and the cross-racial alliances that were built. She will share the history of people of color organizations that had a powerful role in changing our society for the better, revolutionizing our social relations. And she will show how struggles against exploitation along lines of gender, sexuality, and race, are not mutually-exclusive, nor one more primary than the other. Click here for more information or email: vivian.wang@duke.edu.
Organized by the Center for Multicultural Affairs. Co-sponsored by the Women’s Center; Sexual Assault Support Services, Lambda Upsilon Lambda, Latino/a Studies, the Black Student Alliance, the Black Graduate and Professional Students Association, and the Department of Cultural Anthropology.
Stuart A. Levey, Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, 5:00 p.m. in the Rhodes Conference Room, Rm. 233, Sanford Institute of Public Policy.
Stuart A. Levey, Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, will be the first visiting scholar of the Triangle Center. On October 22, Under Secretary Levey will participate in classes, attend a Triangle Center luncheon seminar, and deliver a public address on "Terrorists, Proliferators, and Rogue States: Advancing National Security Through Financial Pressure."
Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson, who helped craft Curriculum 2000 and co-chaired the CCI, will step down effective August 1, 2008, to return to teaching. [more]
Interested in a Truman Scholarship? Come to the Information Session on Tuesday October 16, 2007 from 6-7:30 PM at Soc Sci 136 on West Campus.
Please join us for a panel discussion of Henrik Ibsen & the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy - by - Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature & Romance Studies, Duke University
Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:30 PM Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, West Campus
Panelists: Sarah Beckwith Marcello Lotti Professor of English and Professor of Religion and Theater Studies, Duke University
Frederic Jameson William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University
Martin Puchner H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Questions? See additional information below or e-mail fhi@duke.edu
** Companion Screenings: 2 Film Adaptations of the Ibsen Play An Enemy of the People **
Monday, October 22, 8 PM, Griffith Theater An Enemy of the People (En Folkefiende) (dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg, 2005, 90 min, Norway, Norwegian with English subtitles, Color, 35mm) * Presented with the Film/Digital/Video Program
Tuesday, October 23, 8 PM, Griffith Theater Ganashatru (An Enemy of the People) (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1989, 102 min, India, Bengali with English subtitles, Color, DVD) * Presented with the Film/Digital/Video Program and the NC Center for South Asian Studies
For more information, please visit: http://fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php
About the Featured Author & Book: Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Her central research and teaching interest is in feminist theory and women’s writing. She has also worked extensively in literary theory and aesthetics broadly defined, and in 19th- and 20th-century European literature. She is particularly interested in questions arising in areas where literature and philosophy overlap. Her books include Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (1985; 2nd edition 2002), Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (1994); and What Is a Woman? And Other Essays (1999), republished in a shorter version as Sex, Gender and the Body (2005). She is the editor of The Kristeva Reader (1986), and of French Feminist Thought (1987).
Her most recent book, Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2006. Ibsens modernisme, the Norwegian translation by Agnete Øye, was published by Pax Forlag in Oslo in May 2006. The book reconsiders the work of Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906). In spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a boring realist, whose plays are of interest only because they remain the gateway to modern theater. Toril Moi makes a powerful case not just for Ibsen's modernity, but also for his modernism. The book situates Ibsen in his cultural context, emphasizes his position as a Norwegian in European culture, and shows how important painting and other visual arts were for his aesthetic education. The book rewrites literary history, reminding modern readers that idealism was the dominant aesthetic paradigm of the nineteenth century. Modernism was born in the ruins of idealism, Moi argues, thus challenging traditional theories of the opposition between realism and modernism. This radical new account places Ibsen in his rightful place alongside Baudelaire, Flaubert and Manet as a founder of European modernism.
Modern French Studies. Open rank. We seek a scholar whose work extends the boundaries of the literary field in one or more of the following ways: by working across geographical regions and / or linguistic boundaries, using interdisciplinary approaches; engaging with questions of empire and race, immigration and exile, or gender and sexuality. Distinguished record of publication and teaching commensurate with rank. Applications received by November 15, 2008 will be guaranteed consideration. Junior candidates should send CV, recommendations, transcripts, statement of teaching philosophy, sample teaching evaluations to: Chair, Department of Romance Studies, 205 Language Center, Box 90257, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0257. Senior candidates should send CV, the names of up to three references, transcripts, statement of teaching philosophy, sample teaching evaluations to: Chair, Department of Romance Studies, 205 Language Center, Box 90257, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0257. Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
On Wednesday, October 24, Manuel Vilas, one of Spain's best contemporary poets, will read poems from his book "Resurrección" (2005), a book which won the 15th annual "Jaime Gil de Biedma" International Poetry Prize, and was published by one of Spain's best poetry presses, Visor. Manuel Vilas is also the author of several other books of poetry ("El rumor de las llamas" (1990), "El mal gobierno" (1993), "Las arenas de Libia" (1998), and "El Cielo" (2000). He is also the author of a novel ("Magia", 2004), a book of literary articles, a book of short stories ("Zeta" 2002). He has edited an anthology of the latest Spanish poetry, "Los chicos están bien" (2007). His work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, and German. Manuel is also an enthusiastic reader of American literature, so it will be wonderful to have him dialogue with our local group of poets.
For those who do not know Spanish, Joaquín Bueno is preparing an English rendering of the poems Manuel will be reading. Manuel's reading, sponsored by the Duke in Madrid Program of the Department of Romance Studies, will take place in the LGBT Center, in 02 West Union Building. It will be preceded by a wine and cheese reception.
5:45 Wine and cheese reception.
6:15 Introduction by Marcos Canteli Reading by Manuel Vilas from "Resurrección"
Duke Management Company reported a return of 25.6 percent on the university's investments in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2007. [more]
Alumni John Koskinen and Peter and Ginny Nicholas and former chief fundraiser John Piva were among the recipients. [more]
The president said "I regret our failure to reach out...in this time of extraordinary peril." [more]
Wake Forest University will address one of the United States' most hotly debated issues-immigration-at a three-day conference Oct 3-5. Titled "Immigration: Recasting the Debate," the conference will feature keynote addresses by major public figures giving both Democratic and Republican perspectives, including Ray Marshall, a former member of both the Clinton and Carter administrations, and Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida. The event will also include forums with leading immigration policy experts from organizations including the Cato Institute, the Economic Policy Institute, The Heritage Foundation and the World Policy Institute, and top-rated scholars from institutions such as Princeton University and the University of Southern California. The first day of the conference will include a film screening of the award-winning documentary "Crossing Arizona" followed by a keynote address from a Democratic perspective by Ray Marshall. The remainder of the conference will feature six forums on various aspects of immigration from migration effects on social, political and economic life to policy choices and their consequences; another screening of "Crossing Arizona" with a question-and-answer session with director Dan Devivo; and a keynote address from a Republican perspective by Martinez. Throughout the conference, public question-and-answer sessions will also be offered. The conference is free and open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. For complete event information, including a conference schedule and biographical information on the participants, visit www.wfu.edu/voices. Voices of Our Time is an annual guest speaker series that exposes students, the Wake Forest community and the general public to some of the world's leading thinkers for discussions on the important national and international issues of our time. It was established in 2006 by Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch. Please Contact: Todd Drake 336-253-2328 todd@tdrake.com for more information.
"A Moment of Reckoning on Iraq" an article by Chris can be seen at Duke News. Congratulations Chris.
Highlights of the program include:
Common Woman Chorus: A Choral Celebration of Women & Creativity
Performing songs from the Sallie Bingham Center's collections
Friday, October 26, 7pm reception in East Duke Parlors, 8pm performance in Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building
Interactive workshops and panels on documentary film and photography, hip hop, art and activism, 18th and 19th century domestic arts, gender performance, and book arts; plus artist demonstrations and student performances
Saturday, October 27, 8:30am-3:30pm; Perkins Library
Choreo Collective and Carolina Wren Press present Couplets
A collaborative performance of poetry and dance, followed by a closing reception Saturday, October 27, 4pm; Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center
Four exhibits on women in the arts, featuring materials from archival collections and student-created art; on display in Perkins Library, October 22 through December 31, 2007
All events are free and open to the public.
For program details and to register online, visit http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/art-symposium
English Majors and Faculty, and students interested in being English Majors: come to the English Department Boo-fet Party! Oct. 31 4-6 pm in the Old Trinity Room
The Center for Homeland Defense and Security is pleased to announce:
The First Annual Homeland Security Essay Contest
What single aspect of Homeland Security has been most successful and what single aspect will be most critical to Homeland Security success? This is the question many will attempt to answer in the first annual homeland security essay contest sponsored by the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The competition strives to stimulate original thought on issues in Homeland Security and Homeland Defense.
Your response may be general, or focus on a specific aspect (organizational, policy, strategy, practice, technological innovation, social impact, etc.) or discipline/field (such as emergency management, public health, law enforcement, critical infrastructure, or intelligence).
Essays should be no more than five pages, single-spaced and twelve-point type and in Word or PDF format. Entries must be submitted via the www.chds.us website. Deadline for submission: 02 January 2008. CHDS reserves the right to publish all contest entries.
Essays will be evaluated based on the relevance and innovation of their ideas, the strength of argument and the sophistication of presentation.
Who may enter: The competition is open to anyone who is interested in the field of homeland security. Individuals associated with CHDS are not eligible..
Award: The winner will receive a $1500.00 cash award and an all-expense-paid trip to the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterey, California where they will be recognized. The winner and the four top finalists will have their essays published in a special edition of Homeland Security Affairs, the official publication of the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
How to enter: Simply fill out the entry form where you can upload your submission.
NEWS: The Latino/a Studies Welcome Reception and Open House will take place on Friday October 12th, 4:00 -5:30pm. We welcome all our affiliated students, faculty, staff and administrators, and community members to join with us in celebration of our "rebirth" under new leadership (Professor Jose David Saldivar) and in our new space (Science Building). The reception will take place in the central upstairs wing of the Science Building (Old Art Museum) on East Campus. You may find directions under the "About" link.
The Latino/a Studies Welcome Reception and Open House will take place on Friday October 12th, 4:00 -5:30pm. We welcome all our affiliated students, faculty, staff and administrators, and community members to join with us in celebration of our +rebirth+ under new leadership (Professor Jose David Saldivar) and in our new space (Science Building). The reception will take place in the central upstairs wing of the Science Building (Old Art Museum) on East Campus. You may find directions under the "About" link.
The Guestworker, a flim produced by Duke faculty members Cynthia Hill and Charles Thompson, will be shown Wednesday October 3rd, 6-8pm at the Broad St. Cafe, 1116 Broad St., in Durham. The film focuses on 66-year-old Mexican farmer, Candelario Moreno Gonzales, who works on the tobacco, cucumber and pepper fields of the Wester Farms in North Carolina. Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) has teamed up with SURGE (Students United for a Responsible Global Environment) to host an evening of film, food, and conversation this coming Wednesday- don't miss it! For more information about this event, please contact SAF at 919-660-3652 or tmacias@duke.edu [more]
William Perry
"Global Security"
October 19-20, 2007
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On Friday, October 19th, 2007, William Perry, United States Secretary of Defense during the Clinton Administration (1994-1997) will give a lecture on "Global Security" in UNC's
On Saturday, October 20th, he will be joined by faculty members from our constituent universities - Gerhard Weinberg, UNC-Chapel Hill (History), Cori-Dauber, UNC (Communication Studies), Timothy McKeown, UNC (Political Science), and Peter Feaver,
The event is free and open to the public. Seats are limited; we do ask that you register for this event. Parking will be available at no cost in the GEC parking deck in the Beard lot.
Registration, directions and further information can be found on our website at www.tiss-nc.org.
Questions? Contact the TISS office at 919-613-9280 or pumphrey@duke.edu.
Associate Professor of History and African & African Diaspora Studies @ Boston College Author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (UNC Press).
Wednesday October 3, 2007 @ 4:30 pm
Science Building, Room 107
Professor Baldwin (Ph.D., New York University, 2001) has taught a range of courses on the African American experience and the history of modern thought.
His research interests include intellectual and mass culture, Black radical thought and transnational social movements, race, space, and urban culture, competing conceptions of modernity, political economy and heritage tourism. Baldwin has been the recipient of the Erskine Peters Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame (2000-2001) and the Carter G. Woodson Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Virginia (2003-2004). He is currently at work on two manuscript projects: "Black Belts and Ivory Towers: The Racial Foundations of U.S. Social Thought" and "UniverCities: How Knowledge Institutions are Re-Structuring the Urban Landscape."
This event is sponsored by African & African-American Studies, The Institute for Critical US Studies and "The Center for the Study of Black Popular Culture" at Duke University.
Display Opens October 30 at 4pm in the Perkins Library, with a small reception. In honor of Mexico's Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) several organizers at Duke University and in the Durham community are designing ofrendas (altars) to be displayed in the open entryway to Perkins Library, with a traditional altar and unique art on view in the Rare Book Room. Eight ofrendas will be on display from Tuesday Oct 30 - Sunday Nov 4th for public viewing, with one altar set aside as an Open Altar for everyone's involvement. Classes participating in the Dia de Los Muertos project cover a broad range of topics including human rights in Latin America, contemporary humanitarian challenges, and educational and labor issues facing latino immigrants in
12-1:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Center Room 240 Patricia de Valdez is the director of the Argentina-based "Memoria Abierta," a physical and digital memorial to the dirty war. She will be talking about her work as part of the Wednesday at the Center series. "Memoria Abierta," or Open Memory, is a ground-breaking effort to not only collect and display objects from Argentina's period of state terrorism, but also to use memory-gathering activities as a way to strengthen a social conscience that values active memory and influences Argentine political culture and the construction of identity and the strengthening of democracy. "Memoria Abierta" is a founding member of the "Sites of Conscience" association of museums, which include New York’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Cape Town’s District Six Museum. Hosted by the Archive for Human Rights and the Duke Human Rights Center. Cosponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Carolina and Duke Consortium for Latin American and Caribbean Studies John Hope Franklin Center 240 12:00-1:30 pm Lunch is provided Parking is free with a voucher (in the medical center lot). Free and open to the public Free and lunch provided Please Contact: Robin Kirk 919-323-4868 rights@duke.edu for more information.
A talk by Professor Guillermo Trejo of Duke's Department of Political Science. Part of the "Wednesday's at the Center" lunch-time series of talks at the John
For the past 10 years, Latino/a Studies has been gradually gaining a presence on campus, but it has lacked a distinguished figure on its faculty to anchor it. This August, however, the University attracted Jose Saldivar, a professor of English and literature, from the
The Office of News & Communications posts videos on campus news and events and student and faculty research. [more]
Duke University will honor outstanding students, faculty, employees and alumni at its annual Founders' Day Convocation in Duke Chapel at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27.
Honorees at the service, which is open to the public, include distinguished alumni Peter M. and Ginny L. Nicholas and John A. Koskinen and longtime Duke development head John J. Piva.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
5 pm - Anne Scott Lecture - Nasher Museum
"The Grooming of the Devil: From Incubus Lover to Demonic Husband"
Dyan Elliott, Northwestern University, speaker Reception follows.
Friday, November 2, 2007
3pm - Medieval History Conference
Nelson Music Room (2nd floor)
"New Directions in Medieval Historiography"
Gabrielle Spiegel, The Johns Hopkins University, speaker
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"Christianity and the Hole in the Wall That Wasn't There"
Rachel Fulton, The University of Chicago, speaker
4:30-4:35 BREAK
4:45-5:30 Round Table
5:30-6:00 General Questions
6:00-7:00 Reception - East Duke Parlors (1st floor)
Stephen W. Smith is the former Africa editor of the French newspaper Le Monde and has been working on Africa for twenty-five years, previously for Reuter's News Agency, Radio France International and the French daily Liberation.
Since 2005, he has established himself as an independent journalist and book author. His latest book, co-authored with Antoine Glaser, was published in 2005 under the title How France Lost Africa.
He is also the author of a report on Nigeria by the International Crisis Group, "Nigeria: Want in the Midst of Plenty" (July 2006). Other publications include The Cocoa War in Ivory Coast (1990), biographies of Morocco's General Oufkir (1998), and, together with Geraldine Faes, Bokassa (2000), two volumes with Antoine Glaser on Ces Messieurs Afrique (1992 and 1997), an account of the Somalia crisis (1993), The Lost Humanitarian War, and, in 2003, a travel book on the Congo River as well as an essay entitled Negrology: Why Africa Is Dying. A biography on Winnie Mandela, co-authored with Sabine Cessou, will be published this fall.
Dr. Smith, though born in Milford, CT, has spent most of his life in Europe. He studied African law and anthropology at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and philosophy, history and political science at the Free University of Berlin, where he completed his doctorate in semiotics on foreign news coverage.
He is currently also teaching, as an adjunct professor, a course at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
It's time to apply for our 2008 spring clusters.
First-year students can participate in our Global Health or Muslim Cultures clusters. Sophomores can participate in our Global Health, Muslim Cultures and Global Climate Change clusters.
Apply now! Deadline: October 20, 2007 [more]
Clair has been awarded the Duke University Scholar Award. This award was established in 1974 by members of the faculty of Duke University to encourage undergraduates to undertake serious scholarship and to recognize excellence in scholarship.
to the PhD program for 2008-2009 academic year. Apply here.
Special Event: Documentary screening with filmmaker Christian Delage*
*Nuremberg* (Nuremberg: Les nazis face à leurs crimes) (dir. Christian Delage, 2006, 90 min, France, in English, German, Russian, French with English subtitles/narrated in English by Christopher Plummer, B/W, DVD)
Director Christian Delage’s documentary, Nuremberg, reconstructs the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, using rare footage from the National Archives (including newsreels shot by John Ford). The film, narrated by Christopher Plummer, also includes contemporary interviews with survivors and former prosecutors.
Introduced by Prof. Claudia Koonz, Dept. of History (Duke University)
Followed by a Q&A with director Christian Delage
Los Suenos de Angelica/ Angelica's Dreams portrays the drama of an immigrant couple from Latin America, Angelica and Roberto, who are discussing whether to return to their home country or stay in the United States. A sudden event motivates the couple to stay in the United States and try to buy a home. In addition to the educational and entertainment value of this film, viewers will also find opportunities to examine issues about our changing local community, the influence of immigrant cultures, the economic impact of immigrants, political representation and community engagement, interaction between Duke and the Hispanic community in Durham, public policy, community service and public education, the changing roles of immigrant women, and the breaking of stereotypes. Latino Community Credit Union (LCCU) produced this film with a grant from the CDFI Fund. Boldly mixing documentary and fiction, telenovela and comedy, director/producer Rodrigo Dorfman shot the film entirely on location in Durham, North Carolina, plunging his main characters deep into the daily life of one of the most vibrant new Latino communities in the United States. View a 3-minute trailer. The premiere screening will bring together the Duke and Durham communities at the Carolina Theater in downtown Durham. Tickets may be obtained from any of the Duke sponsors and/or by contacting jennysw@duke.edu. FREE Transportation will be provided: get on "Angelica’s Dreams" bus at West Campus bus stop at 3:15pm. Panel discussions related to themes addressed in the film are currently being scheduled for the Duke campus. Film presented by Latino Community Credit Union. Screening co-sponsored by: the City of Durham Department of Community Development and the following Duke University units: Latino/a Studies, The Multicultural Center, Community Affairs, the Institute for Critical US Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Spanish Service Learning, Duke Women's Studies Program, Center for Documentary Studies, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Community Service Center, John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, and Campus Life Unit of Student Affairs. [Additional Information for interested Duke students, faculty, and staff]
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO BREEDLOVE ROOM, 204 PERKINS LIBRARY. OCTOBER 11, 2007, 5:30-7:00pm. Introducing the HBS 2+2 Program. 103A Allen Building, October 11, 2007, 5:30pm-7:00pm. Register for the info session: hbs.edu/2+2/duke. For all students, especially sophomores and juniors.
CANCELLED: Oct 1, 6:00pm at Hitchcock Multipurpose , Sonja Haynes Stone Center
Jorge Huerta, Associate Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officers of UC, San Diego will be giving a talk entitled DANGEROUS LAUGHTER: COMEDY IN CHICANO THEATRE.
Q &A and book signing to follow. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series, the UNC Latina/o Studies Gift Fund, and the Sonya Haynes Center. Contact Prof Maria Deguzman for more info: deguzman@email.unc.edu.
Seating will be limited so please RSVP to either Christina Bates at cbates@rti.org or Katrina Jackson at kjackson@rti.org.
You are invited to the
The Mariposa Stories Project is a collaboration of Duke undergraduates and staff, community members, and local authors who have come together create bilingual story books for pre-school children in
Location: Museum of
The Mariposa Stories Project is funded by the Community Affairs Office, DukeEngage, and the Spanish Service-Learning Program at
The MA in Management: A One-Year Program October 23; Bryan Center (Meeting Room A). Open visitation: 11:00am - 4:00pm; Presentation: 4:00pm - 5:00pm. All classes invited.
Monday, September 24, 2007 - URGENT Action Needed
DC senate offices are getting slammed by the
anti-immigrant forces with hundreds of thousands of calls!
We must respond now! Call and fax your senators - tell them, PLEASE VOTE FOR THE
DURBIN-HAGEL-LUGAR DREAM ACT AMENDMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
BILL SO THAT IMMIGRANT
STUDENTS BROUGHT HERE AS CHILDREN CAN REALIZE THEIR POTENTIAL. The DREAM Act would apply only to individuals brought to the U.S. at least 5 years ago as
children, who have grown up here, and who have remained in school and out of
trouble. They could get a green card 6 years after graduating from high school
if during that time they continue on to college or serve in the military. For more information and to e-mail your senators in support of the DREAM Act... [more]
It will take a little while to get all of the information you are used to seeing in the newsletter and and other areas on the new site pages, but we are getting the content in place as quickly as we can. You will also begin to notice various additions and enhancements so please continue to check back as we find ways to improve your Faculty Club experience. Please contact the office if you have any questions about any information you find here.
Thursday, October 4
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Jose Galvez has been documenting Latino life on film for over thirty years. As a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, he won a Pulitzer Prize in Community Service for his work on Latinos in Southern California. His work has been shown in galleries across the United States. Galvez now makes his home in Durham, NC where he continues to document Latino life on film. He will be speaking at Duke as a part of a course on "Latino/a Voices in Duke, Durham, and Beyond" offered through the Spanish Service-Learning Program and co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies. For more info, contact bonniemc@duke.edu.
From El Centro Hispano in Durham
Dear Community Members, Friends and Allies,
Thank you so much to everyone who showed their support for the immigrant community in Durham yesterday. You are amazing!!! Last night we marched from El Centro Hispano to City Hall and were able to fill council chambers with over 45 Latino community members and allies of ages and races! This was especially inspiring considering the short notice folks had to respond to our call to action. Here we share a couple of photos from the meeting. Mayor Pro-Tempore Cora Cole-McFadden asked the audience why we were all present when this issue had been scheduled for the Thurs. work session, and Mayor Bell rebuked Councilman Stith for doing "a great disservice to our city" through his robocalls and stated that he had never received so many outraged calls and emails. Again I say- you are amazing!!! The issue will be taken up again this Thursday at the City Council work session, and we will be present to voice our support of the 2003 resolution. However, our work is not done. The Deputy Chief has stated that he clearly intends to form a collaboration with ICE to (as he says) "deport criminals". We definitely had a success last night, but must see this through to the end.
Here’s what you can do:
1. Come to the city council work session this Thursday at 1pm to show your support (We will be meeting at El Centro at 12:30 to walk over together if you are interested.)
2. If you have not done so already, call 919.560.4396 before Thursday’s 1pm work session and tell the council members' receptionist that you DO NOT want to change the resolution that states that the City of Durham will not question people about their immigration status in the normal course of doing business with residents on issues of police protection, housing and other services that the City provides.
3. If you have not done so already, E-mail city council members today telling them NOT to change the resolution as passed in 2003 AND that you do NOT want our local police officers acting as immigration enforcement! Cora.Cole-McFadden@durhamnc.gov; Eugene.Brown@durhamnc.gov; diane.catotti@durhamnc.gov; Howard.Clement@durhamnc.gov; tstith@nc.rr.com; mike.woodard@durhamnc.gov; Bill.Bell@durhamnc.gov
4. Email our new police chief- Chief Jose Lopez (jose.lopez@durhamnc.gov) or call his receptionist at 919.560.4322 and them him: We do not want our community overcome by fear! We want Durham to be safe for all it’s residents! and WE DO NOT WANT OUR LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS ACTING AS FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT!!!
In solidarity, Alba Onofrio
Directora Ejecutiva-Executive Director El Centro Hispano 201 West Main Street, Suite 100 Durham, NC 27701 919.687.4635 ext 43 aonofrio@elcentronc.org
The Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences presents: Monday Seminar Series
Efren Perez, Duke "Juan for All: Implicit Attitudes and the Group-Specific Nature of Anti-Immigrant Opinion"
Sept 24, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Erwin Mill Building, A103
In this talk, I present the findings of a survey-experiment on anti-immigrant opinion. Using an explicit-implicit attitudes framework, I examine the degree to which public evaluations of immigration policy are swayed by negative attitudes toward Latino immigrants. The analysis reveals that implicit anti-Latino attitudes shape support for immigration policy even if Latino immigrants are not directly referenced by these proposals, and in spite of one's disavowal of dislike for this group. The influence of these attitudes, moreover, is felt even as individuals register their opposition to immigration through ostensibly non-racial concerns (e.g., crime). The Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences (PARISS) hosts a regular Monday evening speaker series presenting innovative social science research during the academic year.
All are welcome to attend; the seminar begins at 6:00 p.m. and meets in Erwin Mill; a light supper is served. Contact courtney.orning@duke.edu for more information.
An article by Professor Helen Solterer (French Studies) appeared in Duke News to commemorate 9/11 (originally appeared in InsideHigherEd):
"Teaching Free Speech in Time of War"
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/09/freespeech.html
Professor Alice Kaplan's "A Scholar's ??
To view this article, please stop by our office in 205 Languages or email your request for a PDF version to cknoop@duke.edu
Professor Deb Reisinger, Duke University, will give a lecture entitled Violence and the Media: French response to the Succo affaire.
Friday, September 21, 2007 12:00-1:30 4th Floor Seminar Rm, FedEx Global Education Center UNC Chapel HillOn May 15, 1986, 24 year-old Roberto Succo escaped from the Italian psychiatric hospital where he had been confined since murdering his parents five years earlier, and embarked on a crime spree that spanned Western Europe and lasted for 18 months. Succo's crimes not only instilled terror in the French public but also inspired artistic and journalistic reenactments of his life, most notably Bernard-Marie Koltès' play, Roberto Zucco, and Cedric Kahn's film of the same name.
It is this provocative intersection of crime and art, of sensationalism and journalism, of media and politics that Reisinger will investigate in her exploration of France's complex relationship to violent crime.
Professor Reisinger is Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Duke University and the author of Crime and Media in Contemporary France (Purdue, 2007).
with members from all education levels between high school and post-doctoral, participated in a month-long international research experience funded by the National Science Foundation. The team, led by Associate Research Professor Thom LaBean, pursued projects involving bionanoscience, supramolecular chemistry, and molecular engineering. Working in a newly founded center at Aarhus University in Denmark, the students developed synthetic DNA molecules capable of self-assembling into designed structures on the nanometer length-scale. These nanostructures may prove useful for future applications in biosensors, electronics, photonics, computation, and medicine. Additional information, project descriptions, and more photos can be found at http://www.cs.duke.edu/~thl/pages/Denmarksite/IRES.html. NSF funding provided by the IRES grant will sponsor additional trips from Duke to Aarhus in August of 2008 and 2009. A call for student applications from US citizens and permanent residents will be posted at the beginning of the spring semester.
Our current big news relates to our website launch on September 19th and our new physical location, which includes the addition of our Latino/a Studies Resource Room. We will be holding a few Open House events to bring in students, faculty, staff, employees, and community members. Join our listserv (visit the "About" pages) so that we can inform you as we plan these fall receptions. We look forward to seeing you in our new space. For information on our new director, Professor Jose David Saldívar, who has just arrived to Duke in August, see the News Archive.
The dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences urged all faculty to open their course evaluations to students. [more]
Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler paper got mentioned by a Washington Post writer on NPR's "On the Media" over the weekend. Blog post with transcript: Audio
Congrats to both Brendan and Jason!
Sept 20, 12:30pm - Latino/a Studies offices, Science Building, East Campus Latino/a Studies hosts the first El Concilio meeting of the academic year, with introductions and information sharing over lunch. Formed in 1997, El Concilio currently operates as an umbrella network, with representation from the various Latino/a student groups as well as from the Multicultural Center, Latino/a Studies, Admissions, the Latino Alumni Association, and interested faculty. Contact Jenny Snead Williams (jennysw@duke.edu) to inquire further.
Sept 19, 6-8:30pm - John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road Coloniality and Latinidad: A Conversation with José Saldívar The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Consortium UNC/Duke & the Working Group on "Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge" invite you to the first dinner meeting of 2007 - 2008. For more information on this meeting and to download the readings prior to the event, see http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/programs.html. Supported by Latino/a Studies at Duke University.
Sept 18, 12-1:30pm - Science Building (old Art Museum,East Campus), Room 225
The Institute for Critical US Studies hosts a lunch discussion entitled "Race, Racism, and Methodology: How to Study Racial Matters in Contemporary America. The Institute for Critical U.S. Studies invites you to take part in the first in a yearlong series, "Methodologies on U.S. Studies: A Conversation," which will engage scholars from different disciplines in discussions of how different methodologies address like-minded projects on the United States. Our first Conversation will engage Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology, African and African American Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Bob Korstad, Professor of History and Public Policy. Please contact Caroline Light at clight@duke.edu or 668-1945 for more information.
Abdeslam has been quoted in the September 10th issue of Christian Science Monitor. Congratulations Abdeslam!
Chris has been quoted in a Reuters article. Congratulations Chris!
Peter has been quoted in the following articles...Congratulations Peter! NY Times, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, NBC Nightly News (transcript not available online; e-mailed upon request to dukenews@duke.edu), Boston Globe, Australian Broadcasting, Wall Street Journal
Dear Friends,
I welcome you back from Spring Break with excellent and long-awaited news! Duke has successfully recruited José David Saldívar from UC Berkeley (please see info below). Saldívar will come to Duke this August with a primary appointment in English and secondary appointment in Literature.
As the new Director of Latino/a Studies, he will bring fresh ideas and a strong commitment to growing our Latino/a Studies "program" at Duke. The University has likewise made a significant pledge to Latino/a Studies, with anticipated development of course offerings, research grants, on-site conferences, and fellowships.
Saldívar's arrival in Fall '07 will coincide with the opening of new space for 'US Latino/a Studies' on East Campus. The University has dedicated offices for Director, Program Coordinator, and a Latino/a Studies Resource Room in the Old Art Museum, currently under renovation.
Many list subscribers (students, faculty, and staff) have already met with Saldívar during his various visits to campus, and everyone in the Duke/Durham/Triangle community will have such an opportunity this fall when we host an Open House and Welcome in our new location. In the meantime, stay tuned to our listserv and website (latino.aas.duke.edu) for spring events and updates.
Cheerfully, Jenny
The Working Group on Political Theory has been convened to promote the study and research of political philosophic texts from the fourteenth through the twentieth centuries. Through a series of monthly meetings, as well as a spring symposium (at which Duke Faculty and distinguished scholars from other institutions will offer a series of presentations), this Group seeks to foster an interdisciplinary discussion of classic texts in the history of political philosophy, and to encourage the production of scholarly papers and articles on topics related to this theme. The Working Group on Political Theory is sponsored by the Duke English Department, and has been convened by Michael Valdez Moses (Associate Professor, English) and Robert Mitchell (Assistant Professor, English). Current participants include faculty and graduate students from the departments of Economics, English, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, and Romance Languages. [more]
A report on the undergraduate experience announced a series of forums on issues of housing, dining, and social spaces. [more]
4:15 to 6:00 Breedlove Room
Novels Before Nations: the Case of North America
Reading:
Ch. 1 from The Importance of Feeling English
4:15 to 5:45 Breedlove Room
Please click here for the readings. [more]
The Triangle Legal History Seminar will meet for its final meeting of the fall semester to discuss John French and Kristin Wintersteen's paper, “Crafting an International Legal Regime for Worker Rights: From Seattle to Versailles and Back.”
Anyone wishing to read the paper should contact Sandi Payne Greene at payne@email.unc.edu.
The Schedule for Spring is also now set:
Jan. 18 - Michael Gerhardt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The Constitutional Legacy of the Forgotten Presidents"
Feb. 8 - Kelly Kennington, Duke University - "Freedom Suits in Antebellum St. Louis"
March 21- Michael Sherry, Northwestern University (Jointly Sponsored with the Triangle Military History Seminar) - "Go Directly to Jail: The Punitive Turn in American Life"
April 25- Thomas Robisheaux, Duke University - "Corpus Delicti: A Seventeenth-Century German University Debates Witchcraft, Poisoning and the Law"
The Convenors
Edward Balleisen
Adrienne Davis
Eric Muller
In an era characterized by the frenetic movement of people, goods, and capital within nation-states and across national borders, questions of public health, environmental crisis, and human well-being have become more urgent than ever.
This year’s Sawyer Seminar, Portents and Dilemmas: Health and Environment in China and India, will examine how two of the world’s fastest growing economies are now at the center of debates on global health and the environment. This seminar will bring together scholars and activists working in China, India, and elsewhere to discuss, debate, and map how cultural and political struggles have long been, and continue to be, linked to the question of how to study, define, and care for diverse human populations and the environments they inhabit.
Our first event of the year will take place on Thursday, Sept 6 at 12 noon in Room 240, Franklin Center. Please join us for an informal lunch seminar discussion with Shenyu Belsky of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Jennifer Holdaway of the Social Science Research Council who will speak on their ambitious programs built around environmental and public health in China. For further information, please contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu.
Forthcoming Events:
Monday, Sept. 17. Professor Michael Goldman, “Getting Bangalorized: Excitement and Dispossession in the Making of Asia’s Newest ‘World City.’ Science Building (East Campus), Room 204. 1:30-3:00 pm.
Tuesday, Oct. 2. Walden Bello, Professor, activist, and Director of Focus on the Global South. Time and Place to be announced.
Portents and Dilemmas is convened by Professors Ralph Litzinger (Cultural Anthropology) and Dominic Sachsenmaier (History).
Portents and Dilemmas is devoted to the memory of Duke History Professor John Richards.
Wayne Lee (UNC at Chapel Hill) and Dirk Bonker (Duke)
Military History - Cultural History - Transnational History
Wayne Lee
Mind and Matter - Cultural Analysis in American Military History: A Look at the State of the Field
Military historians are reaping the benefits of the compositional and experiential studies long promulgated by the war and society school, and are now examining the more complex interactions of culture and military activity. The paper reviews the last fifteen years of such work, and suggests that military historians can profit by linking traditional operational studies to cultural analysis, while encouraging non-military historians to consider war as a useful arena for cultural study. Such approaches demand that we look more deeply at institutional and societal culture, their interactions, and how those interactions produced individual decisions on the battlefield.
Wayne E. Lee is Associate Professor of history at the University of North Carolina. He researches in the military history of the early modern period, primarily in the Atlantic world.
Dirk Bonker
Military History and the Transnational Turn
The paper examines the promise of the transnational turn for the field of modern military history, foregrounding U.S. and German historiographies. Of great importance to transnationally informed military histories is the exploration of a new, increasingly global transnational military-political realm, which developed as part of the transformation of states, empires, and warfare in the middle decades of the 19th century.
Dirk Bonker is Assistant Professor of History at Duke University. His research interests focus on the history of warfare, militarism, and empire in Germany and the United States between 1860 and 1945.
Refreshments will be served. Pre-circulated papers are available a week in advance. Send an e-mail to: dirk,bonker@duke.edu
For more information see the website: http://www.unc.edu/~hagemann/TMHS/. _____________________________________________ Future Seminars in Fall 2007:
Friday, October 19, 2007, 4-6 pm Jacqueline Whitt (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
For God and Country:
Chaplains and Religious Practice in the United States Army in Vietnam
Friday, November 9, 2007, 4-6 pm
David Bell (Johns Hopkins University)
The Culture of War in the Age of Revolutions
All seminars take place at Duke University
East Campus, Carr Building, Room 229, 114 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708 _____________________________________________ Research Triangle Seminar Series
History of the Military, War, and Society
This standing seminar on the "HISTORY OF THE MILITARY, WAR, AND SOCIETY," started in January 2006. The PRIMARY PURPOSE of the seminar is to provide a forum for historians working on issues relating to war, peace and society and in the field of a most broadly defined history of the military. Far from engaging in any policing of boundaries, the seminar recognizes the rich and ever-growing diversity of approaches and methods that have come to characterize the study of the military, war and society. The seminar is open to approaches from political, diplomatic and institutional history as well as economic, social, cultural and gender history. Studies of violent conflicts, peace building and peace keeping will also be included. The goal is to create a stimulating conversation across and on different theoretical approaches and methodologies. Furthermore, we would like to extend the geographical and temporal scope of our discussion beyond the Americas and Europe. We aim for a global history of the military, war, and society that explores and relates the developments in different regions and time periods.
This inter-university seminar is meant to bring together all interested SCHOLARS FROM THE TRIANGLE AREA AND BEYOND. Our meetings provide an opportunity to present and discuss the findings of on-going research by historians in and outside the triangle area. Speakers showcase their work and offer insight into the scholarly directions and developments in the field. Open to faculty and students, the seminar also makes a major contribution to graduate training by offering advanced Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to present their work in progress.
The seminar meets three times a semester on Friday afternoon from 4 - 6 pm in the Carr Building at Duke University's East Campus. We rely primarily, but not exclusively, on pre-circulated papers, with the speakers introducing their work for no more than 10 minutes, to ensure the most substantive discussions. Refreshments will be served.
The ORGANIZERS of the "History of the Military, War and Society Seminar" are:
o Dirk Bonker (Duke University)
o Karen Hagemann (UNC at Chapel Hill) in cooperation with
o Michael Allan (NC State University)
o Michael Allsep (UNC at Chapel Hill)
o Joseph Glatthaar (UNC at Chapel Hill)
o Richard Kohn (UNC at Chapel Hill)
o Wayne Lee (UNC at Chapel Hill)
o Heather Marshall (Duke University)
o Alex Roland (Duke University)
has reported a versatile route to the synthesis of 2,5-diaryl-3,4-dimethyltetrahydrofuran lignans. There is a growing interest in lignans and their synthetic derivatives due to applications in cancer chemotherapy and a variety of other pharmacological effects. This synthetic strategy should be broadly applicable to the efficient synthesis of a diverse set of bioactive 2,5-diaryl-3,4-dimethyltetrahydrofuran lignans.
The department is sponsoring a forum on this year's first year summer book - "Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South" by Osha Gray Davison. Adriane Lentz-Smith, John French, Ray Gavins & Thomas Robisheaux will make up the panel, but views from other historians are welcome.
Information meeting for Seniors interested in applying to Business School. Wednesday, September 19, 129 Social Psychology, 5:30pm. Please attend!
Duke University students Andrew Simon, Isabelle Figaro, Taimoor Aziz, Tyler Huffman, and Ella Lipin spent the summer in Sana’a, Yemen as part of a DukeEngage pilot program. These students developed an interest in spending the summer in a majority-Muslim country through Arabic language study and participation in the “Muslim Cultures” Focus cluster in spring 2007. While in Yemen, the students worked in NGOs, where they explored social justice and policy issues. They You can read more about their summer activities in their blog at http://dukeengage2007yemen.blogspot.com/. In July, the students made national news in Yemen for a soccer tournament they organized as a vehicle for educating children about their rights.
September 6
4:40 - 6:00, Duke, 113 Social Sciences Building
Peter Lindert (UC Davis)
"The curious Dawn of American Public Schools"
September 27
4:40 - 6:00, Duke, 113 Social Sciences Building
Francesca Trivellato (Yale)
"Merchants' Letters and the Legal, Social, and Discursive Sources of Business Cooperation"
October 18
4:40 - 6:00, Duke, 113 Social Sciences Building
Jim Boughton (IMF)
"The Macroeconomics of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997: Lessons for Crisis Management."
November 29
4:30 - 6:00, Duke, 113 Social Sciences Building
Joachim Voth (MIT & Pompeu Fabra)
"Lending to the borrower from hell: Sovereign debt and sustainability in the age of Philip II"
September 11
5:15 Public Lecture - 0014 Westbrook, Divinity School
"Ennobling Love and Saintly Romance: Twelfth-Century Spiritual Couples"
September 12
12:30 Graduate Colloquium - 328 Allen Building (Catered Lunch)
Newman will lead a colloquium centered around discussion of her recent article "Love's Arrows: Christ as Cupid in Late Medieval Art and Devotion," in Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Anne-Marie Bouche, eds., /The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages/ (Princeton Univ. Press, 2006).
Students and faculty, including graduate students and faculty at UNC and elsewhere are welcome to attend.
Please PREREGISTER by 7 September: email somerset@duke.edu or call 684-5275 in order to be included for lunch and receive a copy of the article, as well as a parking pass if needed.
show that prochelators they designed to inhibit metal-promoted oxidative stress are able to rescue cells from otherwise lethal oxidative conditions. The work, which may have implications for diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, was presented at the August meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston. For more information, see this local news story http://www.localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/biotech/story/1758081/.
Nancy Andrews, formerly of Harvard Medical School, is the first woman dean at any top 10 medical school. [more]
There will be a Memorial Service for Professor John Richards on Friday, September 14 at 12:30 in the Duke Chapel.
Luncheon will follow at 1:30 in the Gothic Room of the Library.
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/08/richards.htmland Rob Clark has led to a new method for printing finely-detailed microscopic images with an enzyme, rather than ink. The report is available online in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. The new technology, termed biocatalytic microcontact printing, involves coating a nano-“stamp” with an enzyme. The enzyme then digests away a layer on the surface, leaving behind an imprint almost like an old-fashioned rubber stamp. Because no diffusion of ink is involved in the process, the resolution of microcontact printed images is about one hundred-fold greater than possible with conventional technology. The technique may point the way toward faster, less expensive methods of nanolithography, which could be used to create complex structures for micromachines, biosensors, and other nanoscale devices.
The APSA Women's Caucus is going to give Paula a special "Mentoring" award at their annual meeting with the national association in Chicago. Paula has mentored and worked with a lot of young faculty, so it is hard to narrow this down to any one act. But the Ralph Bunche Summer program is surely a big part of it. http://www.apsanet.org/section_397.cfm
For those of you attending APSA, the Women's Caucus Business meeting will be held at 6:00 p.m. Friday Aug. 31st, in the Hyatt, room Stetson A.
Helene Merlin, Professor of 17th Century Literature at the Universite Paris III, currently a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, will be giving a lecture on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 4:25 pm as part of Professor Michele Longino's "The 17th Century & the Law of Genre" seminar. Title TBA.
This lecture is open to the public and is sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies and the Center for French and Francophone Studies.
2007-08 Colloquia Series
Fall 2007 colloquia will be held on Fridays in the West Duke Building, Room 202 on East Campus from 3:30-5:00
PM, unless indicated otherwise. Questions should be addressed to
Professor Michael Ferejohn.
Judith's paper, "Who Keeps International Commitments and Why? The International Criminal Court and Bilateral Nonsurrender Agreements." is in the most recent APSR journal. David Soskice along with Cusack and Iversen, had a paper "Economic Interests and the Origins of Electoral Systems" that was the lead article in the same issue. Congratulations all!
In 'A Ranking That Would Matter' in Inside Higher Ed., Duke's Political Science Department has been ranked 7th compared to NRC's rank of 14.
Chris has been quoted in the article "Bush prepares way for key Iraq assessment" in The Christian Science Monitor. Congratulations Chris!
Peter has been quoted in the Washington Post, "2008: The Year of the Civilian". Congratulations Peter!
2007-08 Colloquia Schedule
Fall 2007 colloquia will be held on Fridays in the West Duke Building, Room 202 on East Campus from 3:30-5:00
PM, unless indicated otherwise. Questions should be addressed to
Professor Michael Ferejohn.
September 7
Paul Teller (UC Davis)
"Provisional Knowledge"
October 5
Eric Brown (Wash. U, St. Louis)
February 29
Jonathan Dancy (U of Texas)
April 18
Ruth Millikan (U Conn)
TBA
Katherine Brading (Notre Dame)
The president urged first-year students to engage all of Duke's opportunities. [more]
Dr Romila Thapar, Emerita Professor of Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, will visit the Franklin Humanities Center for four weeks this fall. She will give two public lectures, topics to be announced: 4:30 Thursday, 11 October, in 240 Franklin Ctr Professor Thapar will also give a four-week-long seminar for faculty and graduate students entitled "Elements of a Historical Tradition in Selected Early Indian Texts." The seminar will entail outside readings. The seminar will meet on Wed., Oct. 10, and on Tuesdays, Oct. 16, 23, 30, from 6-8 pm, in 240 Franklin Ctr. Those interested signing up for the seminar should contact Christina Chia christina.chia@duke.edu.
4:30 Wednesday, October 31, in 240 Franklin Ctr.
The U.S. News annual report rated Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford as the top four schools, respectively. Penn and Cal Tech tied for fifth place, and MIT was ranked seventh. [more]
Ongoing collaborations between Duke University and Egerton University in Kenya help Duke students to “get out of their comfort zone”. Support is provided by the Focus Program and DukeEngage. [more] -- Duke News, 17 August 2007
to report that Marcus E. Hobbs, Ph.D., a former provost and professor emeritus of chemistry and University Distinguished Service Professor at Duke, died on Aug. 12 at The Forest at Duke. He was 98. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends.
Friday, November 2nd is the deadline for access to the Truman application. You must pre-register by this date.
Thursday, September 27th at 4pm. We will meet on the steps of the Duke Chapel. All scholars are required to attend (if you are not in class at that time.)
Open House on move-in day, Tuesday August 21st, is from 1-5 pm for scholars and their families. Come join us for cookies and lemonade.
By 5pm on Sept. 4th, all completed applications including recommendations are due at the OUSF office.
Please remember to join us at 5:30pm on Thursday August 30th on the front lawn of the West Duke Building.
our Fall and Spring fellowship awards for the 07-08 academic year. Please join the department in congratulating these students for their outstanding efforts.
Pelham Wilder Teaching Awards (which include a $250 stipend and $250 research award): Jennifer Hawk, Claire Siburt, Kathryn Haas and Sarah Crider
Burroughs Welcome Fellowship (Fall and Spring award): Marcus Cheek and Dongning Yuan
Burroughs Welcome Award: Alex Shestapolav
CR Hauser Fellowship (Spring semester): Guoqianq Zhou
Paul Mangus Gross Fellowship (Spring semester) Charlotta Wennefors and Lou Charkoudian
Kathleen Zielek Fellowship (Fall semester): Tim Heaton-Burgess and Paraq Mukhopadhyay
Kathleen Zielek Fellowship (Spring semester): Jared Heymann
Joe Taylor Adams / CR Hauser split (Spring semester): Chao Gu
John Herbert Pearson Awards - Spring Semester First Year Seminar Teachers: Claire Siburt, Graham West, Esther Tristani, Sarah Crider
Bruce Mazlish
will be speaking on
The Concept of Humanity in a Global Epoch
Despite increased awareness and legislation aimed at combating fraud, financial statement schemers continue to target revenue recognition to perpetrate fraud.
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP recently completed an analysis of enforcement releases related to fraudulent financial statements issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to identify common trends in recent fraud schemes. The information collected in the study, Ten Things About Financial Statement Fraud, will be used by Deloitte’s forensic center to explore different methods to mitigate the costs, risks, and effects of fraud.
Despite increased awareness and legislation aimed at combating fraud, revenue recognition was the most common fraud category found in the 344 financial statement fraud administrative enforcement actions studied, which were issued by the SEC from 2000 through 2006. Researchers identified 1240 fraud schemes, finding the average fraud scheme lasted 4.7 years with the lengthiest period more than 18 years. They also found that a single enforcement release often identified multiple fraud schemes operating at a given time in a company, noting that 82 percent of the companies had from one to five fraud schemes going at a time, with more than 20 companies having 10 or more; the largest number of schemes in a single company at a given time was 47.
In addition to revenue recognition fraud, of which 41 percent of the frauds identified in the review were classified, next in line in the study were improper disclosures at 11 percent; manipulation of expenses, 11 percent; manipulation of assets, 8 percent; and manipulation of reserves and liabilities, both at 7 percent. To a lesser extent, fraud was also perpetrated through aiding and abetting, asset misappropriation, bribery and kickbacks, goodwill, investments, and manipulation of accounts receivables.
According to the study, recording fictional revenue was the most common type of revenue-recognition fraud, one that all companies should be aware of. Other methods used to perpetrate revenue recognition fraud included:
Graduate Program Handbook is now available online.
The Department of Biology welcomes Katia Koelle to the faculty this fall as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Koelle is coming to us from the University of Michigan where she earned her Ph.D. and completed a postdoc. Her research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases using a combination of mathematical and statistical approaches to understand the processes that give rise to the dynamic and evolutionary patterns of pathogens. Dr. Koelle’s office will be room 4314 in the French Family Science Center until her new lab suite is ready in the Biological Sciences Building.
PPARC researchers and collaborators (both at Duke and at other universities and research organizations) submitted a Program Project (PO1) grant application to NIA in May 2007. The application text included seven different research projects all looking at various aspects of a human paradox. In terms of human longevity, it is a fact that women outlive men even though medical data suggest that men are healthier than women. The seven research projects investigate this paradox. It is hoped that this project, after resubmission in May 2008, will receive funding sometime in 2009.
Joe Alleva's reappointment followed a review by a committee of trustees, faculty, and alumni. [more]
Thirty-two recent graduates are featured on Duke Senior Stories: Profiles of Engagement. [more]
Giving to Duke for the 2006-2007 fiscal year totaled more than $380 million, surpassing last year's total by 11 percent. [more]
The Focus Program is offering a sophomore exclusive cluster in Spring 2008: Climate Change & the World Ocean! This immersion experience will include residency at Duke's Marine Lab and an oceanography cruise! [more]
Dr. Jill Rhodes, BAA Research Associate has taken the position of Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology at UNC Greensboro. Best of luck in the future.
David Sherwood has been named to the highly selective Pew Scholars Program. The Pew program invests in early to mid-career scientists, seeks to expand foundation of biomedical knowledge & advance scientific frontiers.
Check out the Program Press Release.
Check out Dave Sherwood's Program page. [more]
Featured Member: David R. Sherwood of Biology
Keywords: Sherwood, Pew Scholar
Professor of Chemistry Alvin L. Crumbliss was named to succeed Steve Nowicki as Arts & Sciences dean of the natural sciences. [more]
working in David Beratan's group at Duke, have used theory to show that a solute's chiral imprint on the surrounding solvent, rather than the solute itself, can dominate the observed optical rotation (OR) of the solution. Their study is the first to quantify the relative contributions of the solute and solvent imprint to OR. The results of this study are posted in the online edition of Angewandte Chemie International Edition and noted as a "very important paper" by the journal.
A recent survey from LRN compares organizations’ ethics and compliance practices to help professionals benchmark their own programs, assess their overall effectiveness, and target improvements.
According to findings from a recent survey conducted by LRN, a Los Angeles-based company that works with organizations worldwide on ethics and compliance issues, the LRN 2007 Ethics and Compliance Risk Management Practices Report demonstrates a link between an ethical business culture and corporate success. The 2007 survey, which was responded to by 161 senior ethics, audit, compliance, and risk professionals in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and Africa, concluded that companies that operate with high standards of legal compliance and ethical conduct can enhance customer loyalty, build investor confidence, and strengthen employee recruitment and retention. The report was designed to help ethics and compliance professionals gain insight into how others are managing their ethics and compliance risks.
When survey respondents were asked "Do you perform an ethics and compliance risk assessment and is the process integrated with other risk assessment processes within the enterprise?" 84 percent replied that their company conducted an ethics and compliance risk assessment, either as a stand-alone process or as part of other risk assessment processes within the enterprise. Although 52 percent of respondents reported integrating the ethics and compliance risk assessment with other risk assessment processes, a significant minority -32 percent -conducted the ethics and compliance assessment as a stand-alone process and 12 percent said their company did not perform an ethics and compliance risk assessment. The report suggests that "integration helps deepen the company's understanding of the risks it faces, allowing more effective prevention techniques. Existing risk assessments also tend to overlap in some areas with ethics and compliance, so integration creates a more efficient process."
The survey found that the types of ethics and compliance risks that each company examined as part of its risk assessment process varied as well. Among companies with multinational operations, more than three-quarters of respondents indicated they examined company policy, legal and regulatory compliance, ethical and reputation risks, and financial compliance in their home location. In addition, approximately two-thirds cited examining information technology compliance; environmental, health, safety compliance; and employment compliance. In their international regions though, companies reported examining similar risks to a lesser degree.
Some additional findings in the report include:
Survey researchers found numerous challenges still remain in implementing effective ethics and compliance risk management programs. Despite the prevalence of strong program evaluation efforts, some respondents said they find the interpretation, analysis, and application of the data collected challenging. Even with qualitative and quantitative evaluations, many companies cite challenges correlating the data captured to results, as well as correlating the results to business improvements and analyzing data across programs.
-- Institute of Internal Auditors
July 19, 2007 - Finding out how American Muslims address messages of extremism in their communities will be the goal of a two-year study being launched by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security.
Researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use the information to recommend policies for reducing the likelihood that the United States experiences the type of homegrown terrorism seen recently in Europe.
"In light of the recent events in London and Glasgow, it is critically important to understand why widespread radicalization has not occurred in the United States and take steps to reinforce this trend," said center Director David Schanzer, a visiting professor at Duke and adjunct professor at UNC. Schanzer is principal investigator for the study, which was funded by a $394,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security is a think tank sponsored by Duke, UNC and RTI International, a research firm headquartered in Research Triangle Park.
Center researchers will seek to learn from the responses of four American Muslim communities to radical Islamic movements across the globe, said Charles Kurzman, a UNC associate professor of sociology and co-principal investigator in the project. With another co-principal investigator, Ebrahim Moosa, associate professor of Islamic studies at Duke, and graduate students, Kurzman and Schanzer will study Muslim communities in Buffalo, Houston, Seattle and the Triangle.
Of those, only Houston has experienced no known violence attributed to Islamic extremism, Kurzman said. In the other three, one or two incidents attributed to individuals acting alone were denounced by other local Muslims.
"Osama Bin Laden and other revolutionaries have argued that it is the responsibility of every Muslim who can do so to engage in violent jihad, but few Muslims have taken up this call, especially in the United States," Kurzman said. "It is critical that we see what we can learn from these communities. We hope this research will be helpful to policymakers and law enforcement officials."
The study will involve scholars in the religion department and the Sanford Institute at Duke, and in the sociology department at UNC.
Department chair and Thomas Lord Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert L. Clark will serve as dean until a replacement is found for Kristina Johnson, who accepted a senior position at Johns Hopkins. [more]
Graduate student Eric Schuettpelz has received the Publisher's Award from Taylor & Francis, publisher of Systematic Biology. This journal is the third-ranked in the field of Evolutionary Biology. The award is presented to the two best papers based on student research published in Systematic Biology during the previous year. The lead author must have been a student at the time the research was conducted. The award was made for: Schuettpelz, E. and K.M. Pryer. 2006. Reconciling extreme branch length differences: decoupling time and rate through the evolutionary history of filmy ferns. Systematic Biology 55: 485-502. [more]
A position is available immediately in the Light Microscopy Core Facility at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. The facility provides access to microscopes and image analysis resources for the entire Duke University and Medical Center campus. The position involves a broad range of responsibilities associated with assisting users with the microscopes and general running of the facility. The position is diverse and interesting and would suit a candidate eager to enhance their microscopy skills.
Responsibilities will include:
Requirements - Bachelors degree in a scientific discipline, good communication skills, research experience involving microscopes (ideally MetaMorph and confocals), and good computer skills. Applications and questions can be addressed to sam.johnson@duke.edu. Review of applications will begin 1 August 2007. Further details of the facility can be viewed at http://microscopy.duke.edu
[more]Chris can be heard on NPR Morning Edition July 10 discussing "Service, Sacrifice Must Include Privileged".
Chris has been quoted in the article "McCain Presidential Bid Falters" online, July 13th, at newsvoa.com.
Kerry has been quoted in the article "Edwards takes campaign to America's rural poor" in the July 17th issue of Miami Herald.
Professor of the practice and co-director of undergraduate studies Owen Astrachan will use the National Science Foundation fellowship to update undergraduate computing curriculum. [more]
Super-K is back online as Super-K III, with fully replenished PMTs, as of summer 2006! See the updated photo album. [more]
Biology graduate student David DesMarais was recently awarded the Walter M. Fitch Prize by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. The prize is given annually for the best talk by a student or postdoc at the Society's annual meeting. His talk, entitled "Gene duplication allows substrate specialization in a biosynthetic enzyme," described his work showing that escape from adaptive conflict is responsible for preserving duplicate copies of the anthocyan-pathway gene DFR.
Interested in using your Spanish skills in the Durham Latino community?
Consider enrolling in a Spanish Service-Learning course that integrates 20 hours of experience in the community into your course's curriculum. Check out the list of possible courses in this site's section: "Courses" / "Service-Learning".
Also read what our students have to say at http://spanish.aas.duke.edu/courses/slp_students.php
Which Spanish course should you take at Duke?
Consult the placement guidelines on this site to assist you in your decision. Click on "Placement Information".
The Chronicle's Careers section is looking for graduate students, postdocs, faculty members, and administrators who will be on the job market in the 2007-8 academic year and would be interested in keeping a diary of their job search.
Since 1998, we've featured the job-market stories of academics in a variety of disciplines. They've written regular, first-person accounts throughout the year of their attempts to find a faculty or administrative job in academe, and in a few cases, a nonacademic job.
(You can read their columns at http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/archives/author_list_fp.html on the site.)
If you have a flair for writing, here's an opportunity to use it and get paid. We select about 8 to 12 diarists a year; each writes three to five columns over the course of the year about his or her job search. Those selected will be paid $500 for each column they write that is accepted for publication. What you need to do:
Besides submissions from doctoral students and Ph.D.'s who are looking for their first tenure-track job, we also welcome submissions from other academics who plan to spend this year hunting for a new position, including adjunct faculty members, professors already tenured or on the tenure track, and administrators. If you are part of a dual-career academic couple, you are welcome to write a diary together.
Contact
Denise K. Magner, Senior editor, Chronicle Careers
(denise.magner@chronicle.com)
Jack O. Bovender Jr., named the best healthcare CEO in America, and former faculty member Elizabeth Kiss are among the new members of the Board of Trustees. [more]
6 July 2007, 8 pm - 12 midnight
The Facilities Maintenance Department will be working on the air handlers the BioSciences building. This will necessitate turning off power to the Data Center in 246 BioSci beginning at 8 pm. This will affect some services, specifically SEELRC's web pages and database server. It is not expected to impact other A&S computer services.
If you have any questions about the air handler work, please contact FMD
or see their Alerts page at http://www.fmd.duke.edu/Alerts.asp. If you
have any technical problems or questions please contact your
departmental technical support staff or help@aas.duke.edu or the OIT
help desk at 684-7200.
This is not expected to impact the majority of Arts & Sciences computer
services.
Please see the A&S wiki for more information and lists of what services
are hosted on these servers:
http://wiki.aas.duke.edu/asist/asist/6julyoutage
are participating in a Summer Research Initiative. The students are conducting research in a wide range of fields that spans from in vivo imaging of hyperthermia to electron transfer processes in proteins to new catalytic transformations. A symposium describing the results of their work will take place on July 27.
James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry, began his term as Department Chair on July 1. The Department is grateful to our outgoing Chair, David Beratan, for his leadership and service, and we wish Prof. Warren the best in his new position.
Loss of key personnel, skills shortages, and succession issues threaten many companies and are among the most difficult to manage.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a global research and advisory firm, published the results of its most recent risk management survey finding human capital risk as the top challenge. The survey, Best Practice in Risk Management: A Function Comes of Age, was responded to by 218 executives from around the world who had influence over strategic decisions on risk management at their companies. The objective of the report was to assess how effectively companies think they are managing these risks, and how they are changing their risk management approach to keep pace with developments in changing business environments.
The survey report notes that the risk management function has evolved in recent years, expanding from the traditional focus of insurance, compliance, and loss avoidance. Survey respondents acknowledged that the focus not only includes traditional risks - credit risk, market risk, and foreign-exchange risk - but now recognizes the need to assess risks in human capital, reputation, and economic climate change.
The survey's findings show that human capital risk, such as skills shortages, succession issues, and the loss of key personnel, were seen by respondents as being the most significant threat, followed by regulatory, reputation, information technology, and market risks. According to the report, this represents a change from a year ago when reputation risk was perceived in the EIU's quarterly risk barometer survey as being the biggest threat that respondents faced. Interestingly, the survey results showed that natural hazard, terrorism, and political risk were lower on the threat poll.
Despite acknowledging the importance of the human capital skills, respondents said they were less confident about their ability to manage risks that are not easily quantifiable, with just 32 percent of the respondents indicating that they manage human capital risk effectively. According to the survey report, "these findings point to the need for closer integration between the risk function and the human resources function, as well as a clearer understanding of the risks that companies face with their location and human capital strategies."
When asked what have been the most important internal drivers over the past three years to strengthen risk management in their organizations, approximately 65 percent of respondents indicated greater commitment from the board to risk issues; 45 percent said greater complexity of the value chain prompted more focus on risk management; and more than 30 percent cited a recent risk event such as fraud or a product recall. External drivers also had an impact on the risk management function, including increased focus from regulators, investor demands for disclosure and accountability, and economic volatility.
The report emphasized that "business is changing, both in terms of how it is done and where it is done, and this requires constant readjustment of the aims and priorities of risk management. The risk management function has evolved as a core area of business practice, driven by a strong culture and awareness of risk throughout the organization as the key determinant of success."
Richard Riddell will succeed Allison Haltom when she retires after 36 years at Duke. [more]
Arts & Sciences Dean of the Natural Sciences Steve Nowicki was named to the new post by Provost Peter Lange. [more]
William L. Chameides succeeds William Schlesinger as dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. [more]
Paula McClain has been selected to receive the eleventh annual Frank J. Goodnow Distinguished Service Award. The Goodnow Award is the first award given by the American Political Science Association to honor the outstanding contributions of individuals, groups, and public and private organizations to both the development of the political science profession and the building of the American Political Science Association. Frank J. Goodnow was the first president of APSA. The award will be presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Chicago. Congratulations Paula!
The president issued a statement following the disbarment of Durham DA Mike Nifong. [more]
The three lacrosse players accused of crimes they did not commit have reached an agreement to resolve any differences with Duke. [more]
Scott Lindroth is the first to occupy the post, which will focus on Duke's strategic plan initiatives in the arts. [more]
Some 30 Duke sophomores are blogging about their experiences as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellows program. [more]
Some 42 percent of the applicants accepted to the Class of 2011 are expected to attend. [more]
Two recent graduates, and Focus Program alumni, are placed in organizations around the world to do research and fieldwork on pressing policy issues. Seyward Darby, Visions of Freedom, and Brian Wright, Humanitarian Challenges, have been selected as Hart Leadership Program 2007-08 fellows. [more] -- Duke News & Communications, June 6, 2007
The 2007 graduates - Seyward Darby, Cassandra Phillips, and Brian Wright - will conduct research on policy issues at three different international organizations. [more]
The paper Niambi Carter (as of this past May 13th, DR. Niambi Carter!) presented at the 2006 APSA meeting, "Super Natural: Reclaiming Black Female Sexuality in Pornography", has been selected for the "Best Paper" award by the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics organized section! This is a wonderful honor. You may recall that Niambi's paper, "Three's Company? Or Three's A Crowd? Tripartite Race Relations in A Southern City," won the best paper on Black Politics at the 2006 Southwestern Political Science Association meeting. Congratulations Niambi!
For Duke students, summer service can be a local project. Grant Smith, a Focus Mentor Award recipient, volunteers this summer at Duke Hospital. [more] -- This Month At Duke, volume 2, no. 6
The June 2007 volume of POLITICAL BEHAVIOR (vol 29, no. 2) is a special issue on the Iraq War and the 2004 Presidential Election. Our department is prominently represented in this volume. There is an article by Gelpi, Feaver, and Jason Reifler, and one by Paul Abramson, Aldrich, Jill Rickershauser, and Rohde. This is great for them and for us!
The Provost has approved Tim Buthe's reappointment to a second term. Congratulations Tim!
We would like to welcome the incoming class of 2011 scholars. [2011 Scholar List]
The staff from the publication Duke Today suggest that this summer, you might consider hanging out at the Lemur Center enjoying the antics of the primates.
Thirteen high school graduates were named University Scholars; seven students were awarded Reginaldo Howard Scholarships; four North Carolina graduates were named Trinity Scholars; nine students received Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarships; and 10 graduates from the Carolinas were named B.N. Duke Scholars.
Four North Carolina high school graduates have won the Trinity Scholarship. [more]
Seven high school graduates of African heritage have been selected for this year's Reginaldo Howard Scholarships. [more]
Survey finds that positive reinforcement for ethical behavior is a key factor for promoting ethical behavior in the workforce. Findings in a recently released Deloitte & Touche USA LLP ethics and workplace survey indicate there is a significant relationship between work-life balance and ethical behavior. The survey, which was conducted by Harris Interactive with supporting analysis from Deloitte Research, noted that 91 percent of the respondents agreed that workers are more likely to behave ethically at work when they have a good work-life balance. More than 1,000 employed adults participated in the online survey. Work-life balance, which is important for job satisfaction and employee retention, is a critical factor in fostering an ethical culture, says Sharon L. Allen, chairman of the board at Deloitte & Touche USA. When reflecting on the survey results, Allen added "people who invest all of their time and energy into their jobs may find it harder to make a good choice when faced with an ethical dilemma if they believe it will impact their professional success." According to survey results, the top two factors contributing to promoting an ethical workplace include direct supervisor behavior and positive reinforcement for ethical behavior. Other survey findings include: Sixty percent of respondents said that job dissatisfaction is a leading reason why people make unethical decisions at work. Fifty-five percent ranked a flexible work schedule among the top three factors leading to job satisfaction. Forty-four percent cited conflict between work responsibilities and personal priorities, thus causing a work-life imbalance, including: high levels of stress (28 percent); long hours (25 percent); and inflexible work schedules (13 percent.) Only 10 percent of respondents ranked criminal penalties for conduct violations among the top factors that help to foster an ethical workplace environment. "To encourage high ethical standards within our organizations, we first have to provide an environment that is conducive to ethical behavior," said Allen. "Management and leadership have a huge responsibility in setting examples for their organizations and living the values they preach if they want to sustain a culture of ethics." For more information about the survey results, visit the Deloitte & Touche USA Web site, www.deloitte.com/dtt/press_release/0,1014,cid%253D153527,00.html.
Frank L. Borchardt, long-time professor of German, died May 14 at the Duke Hospice at the Meadowland in Hillsborough, NC. [more]
Nine high school graduates from around the country have won the prestigious Angier B. Duke Memorial scholarships. [more]
Ten high school graduates from North and South Carolina have been selected winners of the prestigious Benjamin N. Duke Scholarships. [more]
Robert Bryant, Jr., J.M. Kreps Professor of mathematics, was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. [more]
(pictures from the Romance Studies ceremony and reception will be posted soon!)
March 30, 2007
By Dave Pelland, Managing Editor, Technology Insider
As information security threats emerge faster than traditional methods can contain them, companies are adopting an "info-centric" approach to security based on protecting data, not just restricting network access.
"For too long, security has focused on the [network] perimeter and not on protecting the information itself," said Art Coviello, president of EMC's RSA security division, at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.
"It's like we've protected the moat and the castle, when we should have protected the king," Coviello said. "Static solutions are not enough for dynamic attacks. We need an inside-out approach to security that's based on [protecting] the information itself."
Emerging approaches to security are a generational shift from methods that relied heavily on signature-based products such as anti-spyware and intrusion-detection software to detect previously identified threats. Instead, enterprises are turning to encryption, pattern-recognition software and other technologies to safeguard data as they link the protection of information to their business strategies.
"Security can't be a tactical afterthought or a technology that's bolted on as a defense," Coviello said. "Security can do more than protect the business -- security can accelerate the business."
Different approaches to network security have evolved because the threats are getting worse. Sam Curry, vice president of security management for CA, says that instead of the stereotypical teenage hackers erasing data or defacing Web pages, professional crooks are launching high-quality attacks that harvest data sold to identity thieves or use corporate servers to relay spam.
"Malware is constantly evolving," Curry says. "It's becoming more professionally produced and it's designed to resist detection and steal personal or corporate information.
"This isn't vandalism motivated by notoriety -- once this stuff gets on PCs, it's designed to stay there as long as possible. These attacks are motivated by money, and the more systems hackers can control, the more money they can collect."
Eugene Kaspersky, head of research for antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab, said that targeted attacks are often designed to sneak onto a single corporate network or server. The number of malicious software samples Kaspersky Lab examined in 2006 increased threefold from 2005.
The evolving threats mean companies are trying to ensure information is kept safe from unauthorized access while remaining available to those who need it. For instance, companies are encrypting data stored on servers, which helps reduce the chance of the organization being compromised if an attack hits.
Enterprises are also encrypting e-mail messages that enter and leave the organization. If an outbound e-mail appears to have sensitive information, the message can be encrypted or even blocked at the message gateway.
"Even if the corporate perimeter is breached, which unfortunately does happen, the attack is much less effective if the data is adequately encrypted and can't be rendered," says Greg Porter, a Pittsburgh-based manager in KPMG's IT Advisory practice.
Better end-user education about information security is also expected to protect computers and networks, according to John Thompson, chairman and CEO of security provider Symantec.
Thompson said security firms need to give users better information about Web sites as they connect. This can involve adoption of one-time-use credit cards to prevent accounts from being stolen after a transaction is completed; giving users better information about a Web site's certificates to validate identity information; and providing third-party information about a site's reputation and business practices.
"Users need better tools to challenge the sites they do business with," Thompson said. "The need to protect identities today dictates that we help our customers with better information about sites, security and reputation."
EMC's Coviello said technologies such as pattern-recognition software that monitors network traffic and establishes a baseline of normal activity have made network defenses more dynamic. This is expected to give companies the ability to detect abnormal behavior on the network, such as the installation of spyware or other unwanted malicious code.
For instance, an online banking customer logging in with a computer they've used before could be granted access with just their password and by recognizing an image displayed on their screen. But that customer would have to answer a series of security-related questions if he or she deviates from their normal usage patterns, such as by using a different PC or logging in from outside their home country.
Some companies are exploring so-called "white list-" based approaches that specify which applications will be allowed to run on the network. Unlike anti-virus or intrusion-detection software that identifies programs as malicious (using a "black list" of known threats) and prevents them from running, white list programs will only allow approved programs to run.
"Security is less about what the widget of the week is -- it's more about a philosophy that gives companies the confidence that their IT systems and data are secure, and can be reached only by those people who should be reaching them," says CA's Curry. "If there's not a business reason for someone to access some data, that access needs to be turned off."
Ruth's new book, Naming Evil, Judging Evil, is in the news. Congratulations to both Ruth Grant and Peter Euben!
Eleven projects were selected to receive funding from the Provost's Common Fund. [more]
In his address to the 2007 graduating class, GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner T'75 P'06 P'08 encouraged students to be flexible, embrace technology, and make giving back to the community a priority. [more]
Dave was quoted in an article, No apologies from Rudy, in the May 9th issue of Newsday.com. Congratulations Dave!
Phail Wynn will become a new vice president for Durham and regional affairs. In another change, Allison Haltom W'72 will retire as university secretary and vice president. [more]
Cannon Prize
Amy Joseph is this year's winner of the Cannon Prize in History!
LaPrade Prize
Lydia Wright, "A Miner's Education: Schools in the Coal Company Towns of Southern West Virginia, 1863-1933" (Karin Shapiro)
Highest Distinction
Lydia Wright, "A Miner's Education: Schools in the Coal Company Towns of Southern West Virginia, 1863-1933" (Karin Shapiro)
Erin Glunt, "Descartes and the Eucharist" (Tom Robisheaux)
Allison Weiss, "'Shirtless and Unterrified,' 'Leading the Marches of the World!': The Bowery B'hoys: America's Chosen Gangsters, Guides and Guardian Angels (1840-1890) (Reeve Huston)
Nicholas Dashmann, "Terms of Redemption: Riot, Atonement, and Reconciliation: The East St. Louis Race Riots of 1917." (Felicia Kornbluh)
High Distinction
Julia Cromwell, "A Visit to Pere Lachaise: The Monuments, Memories and Visitors of the First Modern Cemetery" (William Reddy)
Bradford Harris, Catalyzing American's Modern Appetite for Plastics: Du Pont's and Dow's Technology-Push and the Growth of the Plastics Market After World War II" (Seymour Mauskopf)
Whitney Laemmli, "Clothing the Naked Ape: The Birth, Decline and Artistic Refashioning of Biosocial Research (1967-2004)" (Seymour Mauskopf)
Flora MacIvor, "The Paradox of Assimilation: Immigration and North Africans in 20th Century France" (Laura Schlosberg)
Graham Rehring, "Medical Care during the Korean War" (Margaret Humphreys)
Distinction
Brian Breedlove, "From Loud Rebellions to Silent Revolutions: The Legacy of Black Mountain College" (Felicia Kornbluh)
Ronald Bruckmann, "The Louis Renault Affair: Between Myth and Reality" (Alice Kaplan)
Quindelyn Cook, "A Break from Tradition: Folic Acid Fortification" (Seymour Mauskopf)
Moriah Daugherty, "U.S. Women's Army Corps (WAC) in World War II" (Dirk Bonker)
Aeden Keffelew, "The Narratives of the Ethiopian-American Community" (Deborah Jakubs)
Jennifer Leary, "Talisman's Sudanese Oil Investment: the Historical Context Surrounding its Entry, Departure and Controversial Tenure" (Janet Ewald)
Michael Martoccio, "The Blind Falcon: Rethinking the Downfall of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici" (Ron Witt)
Peter McCary, "By Every Word Out of the Mouth of God: Biblical Passages in Political Texts of the First English Civil War" (Mary Jane Morrow)
Eric Moore, "Cultural Rebellions in Late Medieval Wales" (Mary Jane Morrow)
Laura Newman, "'We the Peoples:' Public Opinion in Great Britain and the United States during Creation of the United Nations (1941-1945)." (Alex Roland)
Leif Ovorvold, "Perception and Policy in the 1960 Congo Crisis: Patrice Lumumba in the Eyes of Belgium, Great Britan and the United States." (Janet Ewald)
Brian Rosenberg, "Machiavelli and the Human Condition: An Exploration of the Capabilities and Limits of Human Existence in Machiavelli's Work." (Kristen Neuschel)
Dave has been quoted in an article "President to get war spending bill on untimely day" in the May 1st San Francisco Chronicle. Congratulations Dave!
Labors of Love: Domestic Work in Latin American Labor History
This year's LALHC will center on the theme of reproductive labor, including both paid and unpaid household labor, the caring labors of childrearing and eldercare, and the community labors of maintaining community organizations and networks. As in the labor history of other geographic areas, the Latin Americanist labor history of household labor remains thin. Although some scholars have taken on research projects in this area, the minimal visibility of reproductive labor in official documentation makes conferences particularly important for collaborative efforts and exchange of sources and methods.
Sponsors: Duke Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Development, the Arts & Sciences Committee on Faculty Research Women's Studies, and the Department of History.
For more information contact Jocelyn Olcott at olcott@duke.edu
Dave Rohde was honored at the Distinguished Professor dinner that was held April 25th. Effective July 1st, he is the Ernestine Friedl Professor of Political Science. Congratulations Dave!
Duke University this week honored faculty for excellence in teaching in Trinity College. The teaching awards recognize faculty for their knowledge, ability to encourage intellectual excitement and to communicate that excitement to students.
This year, Claudia Koonz, Professor in the Department of History received the Howard D. Johnson Teaching Award. Professor Koonz teaching in the Humanitarian Challenges Focus cluster.
[more] -- Duke News & Communications, 25 April 2007was recognized for his outstanding teaching by the Review Committee for the 2007 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Mr. Adler received an Honorable Mention from the committee as part of a University-wide competition. Congratulations to Marc on his well-deserved recognition!
Assistant Professor Jerry Reiter (Institute of Statistics & Decision Sciences) won the undergraduate teaching award. [more]
(Duke News, April 25, 2007) Video
Dave was quoted in an article, "Senate Leader Becomes Chief Critic of Bush; Reid Assumes an Unexpected Role" in the April 25th issue of the Washington Post. Congratulations Dave!
Timur Kuran has accepted our offer and will be joining us in the fall. He is currently at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Special thanks to Tom Spragens for his work on the intial search committee, and Karen Remmer for her work on the tenure review committee. Special thanks as well to all of you who were willing to go the extra mile to facilitate his recruitment.
Welcome to the new Center for Jewish Studies web site.
We hope that you will find the new site useful and engaging and are proud that all the imagery used on the site comes from the Duke University Jewish Art collection.
If you have questions or concerns about the site please let us know.
Thank you for visiting.
2007 African & African American Studies
Graduation & Reception
Date: May 11, 2007
Time: 2-4pm
Location: John Hope Franklin Center- Rm. 240
(reception to follow- Rm. 130)
Herald-Sun, April 18 -- Foreign relations specialist Ole Holsti says the House of Representatives and Senate are on the verge of passing separate resolutions on human rights issues "that, no matter how well-intentioned, could seriously damage American foreign relations." Congratulations Ole!
Prof. James Clark, Blomquist Professor of the Environmental Sciences and Biology, has published a new textbook entitled Models for Ecological Data: An Introduction (Princeton University Press). The book introduces students to modeling and statistics for the environmental sciences, beginning with basic maximum likelihood and progressing to Bayesian modeling and computation.
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The Islamic Studies and Modeling Biological Systems certificate programs will have coursework, study abroad, and research requirements. [more]
4/17/07, 7:00PM, Old Chem 116 Duke Democrats will debate the Duke Conservative Union on the Global War on Terrorism. Event sponsored by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
The president called the tragedy "a profoundly sad day" for the nation. [more]
Article: Le mirage du compromis à l'allemande in the April 13th issue of Le Monde, France et Société. Congratulations Henrik!
Awards will be made at commencement ceremonies on May 13 to computer scientist Anita Jones; South African Methodist churchman Peter Storey; choreographer Twyla Tharp; and nursing pioneer Florence Wald. [more]
Early Monday morning, a large willow oak tree met its demise in the 50 mile per hour gusts that crossed our region. The tree, approximately 5 feet in diameter, knocked out 1st and 2nd story windows of the building, coming to rest outside the offices of the Web Solutions Team. No injuries were reported, but a few instances of 'chicken little' syndrome have been diagnosed. [big tree, PDF] [falling tree, PDF]
Chris Gelpi has been quoted in a April 13th article from Reuters. Congratulations Chris!
Danielle Williams
Paula Hastings
Kristin Wintersteen
Arthur Fraas
Heidi Guisto
Montie Pitts
And, Jennifer Welsh won a Aleane Webb Dissertation Fellowship.
Congratulations also go out to Gordon Mantler who has been selected as a recipient of a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship!
has made a significant step toward detecting, without biopsy, the early stages of the deadly skin cancer melanoma. The work was recently highlighted in Science, and it involves the use of ultrafast laser pulses to produce three-dimensional images of the pigment melanin in tissue.
a chemistry major, on winning an unrestricted grant from GSK to conduct summer research in the Coltart lab. Alexandra's research will focus on the development of carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions using a soft enolization approach.
Fifty high school seniors from 22 states and three foreign countries have been selected as Robertson Scholars, a joint scholarship program between Duke and UNC. [more]
FRENCH 111S FOR FALL 2007
The very first flapper girl, a pre-pop icon more daring than Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Madonna together, dancing more seductively than Shakira and J.Lo, Salomé embodies the essence of the femme fatale. Her dance of the seven veils fascinates men to such an extent that it literally makes their heads spin (and John the Baptist ends up beheaded by it!).
Beyond the typical representation of it in American movies, what exactly is a femme fatale? And why did this particular feminine icon named Salomé blossom in 19th-Century ??
All readings, discussions and writings will be in French ; no previous knowledge of 19th-Century literature required. Open only to Freshmen and Sophomores.
For more information, contact Virginie Pouzet-Duzer at vap@duke.edu??
The president said he hopes clearing the three athletes of all allegations "will begin a new day for all involved." [more]
Commentary -- Public Perception Will Dictate Which Side Succeeds by David Rohde, director of Duke's Political Institutions and Public Choice Program in the April 8th issue of the News and Observer. Congratulations Dave!
Noah Pickus, adjunct associate professor of public policy studies, will start his new position on July 1. [more]
Featured Member: Noah M. Pickus of Sanford School of Public Policy
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University are pleased to announce the Transatlantic (Post) Graduate Workshop GENDER, EXPERIENCE, AND MEMORY, 18th - 20th CENTURIES
AIMS AND AGENDA
This workshop is designed to bring together graduate and postdoctoral students from Britain, Germany, and the United States to discuss recent approaches to the history of experience and memory from a gendered perspective. The workshop will discuss case studies from East and West European, Caribbean, Latin American, and North American history (18-20th centuries). Its goals are to help (post)graduate students to integrate the gender dimension more systematically into their research on experiences and memory and to conceptualize more clearly terms such as/ Erfahrung/, experience,/ Gedachtnis/, memory, and memoire/. More broadly, the workshop will promote comparative and trans-national research that includes gender as one important category of analysis.
The themes of this workshop will complement the subsequent international conference, "Gender, War, and Politics: Wars of Revolution and Liberation - Transatlantic Comparisons, 1775-1820," which will take place at the UNC Center for Arts and Humanities from 17-19 May 2007. The workshop will thus provide a crucial link between ongoing research at the senior level and the emerging interests and work of graduate students.
REGISTRATION
Participation is free, but prior registration is required. Please register by April 30, 2007.
Send an email to Laurence Hare (hare@email.unc.edu) and indicate, in which of the parallel panels you wish to participate.
PROGRAM
Registration and Welcome Coffee: 8:30 - 9:00 am
Welcome: 9:00 - 9:15 am
Laurence Hare (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
SESSION I: 9:15 - 11:45 am
1. Gendering Wartime Experiences/IAH Seminar Room/Chair: LAURENCE HARE (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History
LEIGHTON JAMES (University of York, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies): Austrian Soldiers' Experiences during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
CATRIONA KENNEDY (University of York, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies): John Bull into Battle: Military Masculinity and the Britsh 'armed nation', 1793-1815
MARIE-CECILE THORAL (University of York, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies): Women in the French Armies during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
SEBASTIAN LUKASIK (Duke University, Dept. of History): Men of the Hob-Nailed Clan?: Wartime Sacrifice, Military Service, and Soldiers' Identities in the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919
Comment: Dirk Bonker (Duke University, Dept. of History)
2. Discourse on Women and Female Experience/IAH University Room/ Chair: Jocelyn Olcott (Duke University, Dept. of History)
KATRINA MERGEN-ADAMS (Duke University, Dept. of English): "Don't you wonder that I can stand the sight of you?": Anxieties Within 19th Century Women's Romantic Friendships.
KELLY KENNINGTON (Duke University, Dept. of History): Slavery and Freedom in Antebellum St. Louis: Women's Experiences in the St. Louis Circuit Court
LISI LOTZ (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): In Search of Prince Charming: Courtship and Gender Norms in Urban Cuba, 1919-1929
KATHARINE FRENCH-FULLER (Duke University, Dept. of History): The Gendered Experience of Consumerism in Authoritarian Argentina
Comment: Jane Rendall (University of York, Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
Coffee Break and Lunch: 11:45am - 1:00 pm
SESSION II: 1:00 - 3:30 pm
1. Gendered Memories of War/IAH University Room/Chair: Alex Roland (Duke University, Dept. of History)
JULIA OSMAN (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Reviving Sparta: The Gendered Memory of Seven Years' War and French Participation in the American Revolution
RUTH LEISEROWITZ (Free University Berlin, Center for French Studies): Heroic Times: Gendered Images of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars in German Feature Films of the Interwar Period
MICHELLE COHEN (UNC Chapel Hill, Dpet. of Anthropology): Ambivalent Sanctuary: The Argentine 'Dirty War', Auschwitz, and Memory
Politics Comment: Alan Forrest (University of York, Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
2. Gendered Framings of Twentieth-Century Activism/IAH Seminar Room/Chair: Chad Bryant (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
FELICITY TURNER (Duke University, Dept. of History): Redefining African-American Activism: Finding a Place for Helen G. Edmonds
MICHAEL MULVEY (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Recording and Retrieving a Gendered Social Type: Jules Valles, the Jacques Vingtras Trilogy, and May '68
SARAH SUMMERS (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Rethinking the Private Sphere: The West Berlin/Kinderladen/Movement and Challenges to the Gendered Division of Labor, 1968-1971
KELLY MORROW (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Remembering the Sexual Revolution: The Sexual Liberation Movement at the University of North Carolina, 1969-1973
Comment: Claudia Koonz (Duke University, Dept. of History)
Coffee Break 3:30 - 4:00 pm
SESSION III: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Masculine Representations and Men's Experiences/IAH University Room/Chair: Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
MARIA SCHULTZ (Free University Berlin, Berlin School for Comparative European History): About Statesmen, Military Leaders, and Struggling Poets: Heroic Masculinity Images in German and Austrian Memoirs of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
LARS PETERS (Free University Berlin, Center for French Studies): Warrior Sailors and Heroic Boys: The Narrative Imagining of Masculinities in Popular British Historical Novels on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Long Nineteenth Century
MARKO DUMANCIC (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History): Reinventing the New Soviet Man: How the Soviet Film Industry Affected Post-Stalinist Attitudes by Remaking the Masculine Ideal, 1956-1968
Comment: Peter Filene (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
SESSION IV: 6:00 - 6:30 pm
Roundtable: Gender, Experiences, and Memory - Methodological Reflections
IAH University Room
Chairs: Jennifer Donally and Rachel Martin (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
JOCELYN OLCOTT (Duke University, Dept. of History)
JANE RENDALL (University of York, Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
DINNER: 7:00 pm
FORMAT
All papers will be pre-circulated in advance. It is expected that all participants have read the papers of the panels in which they participate. Each presentation will be no longer than 15 minutes.
ORGANIZERS OF THE WORKSHOP
Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
J. Laurence Hare (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)
The "UNC Graduate Working Group on Gender History"
For further information, contact Laurence Hare (hare@email.unc.edu) or visit the workshop website at http://www.unc.edu/depts/europe/conferences/gender/
Dr. Leonard Rogoff, staff historian on the "Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina" project will be speaking on the topic of "Blacks and Jews in the South." Joining him will be members of the North Carolina community who were deeply active in the Civil Rights movement and will share their personal experiences. The event will take place on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 7:30pm in Social Psychology Room 130. This event is free and open to the public.
Please contact daf8@duke.edu for more information or with any questions.
and co-workers during his previous position at the Scripps Research Institute is highlighted on the March cover of ACS Chemical Biology. The authors describe small molecules that increase the expression in cells of a protein called involucrin, a process linked to the differentiation of primary normal human epidermal keratinocytes.
Math major Brandon Levin T'07 is the 11th Duke student since 1990 to receive the award, which enables students to pursue a graduate degree at Cambridge University in England. [more]
has been selected as the first recipient of the Dean's Distinguished Service Award. The award, to be given annually, recognizes a member of the A&S faculty who has demonstrated exceptional service to the department, Trinity College, A&S and/or the University. Prof. Crumbliss has had 37 years of outstanding service to all levels of the University, and the Department is proud to congratulate him on this well-deserved recognition!
R. Larry Todd (Music) and Laurie Shannon (English) were selected from almost 2,800 applicants. [more]
will be held Friday, April 20th from 1.30pm-3.30pm. Join us in the atrium of the French Science Center to learn about the research accomplishments of our outstanding chemistry majors!
The FDD Undergraduate Fellowship on Terrorism provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the issue of international terrorism in Israel and Washington, DC. The all-expenses paid, comprehensive fellowship includes academic lectures by top level government officials, military personnel, and academic experts from around the world and travel to high-level security installations and tourist destinations in both countries. The 2006-2007 fellowship class met with individuals such as the former Chief of Global Operations at Mossad, the Assistant Foreign Policy Advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister, and the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs. Fellows also visited the West Bank, the top-secret training facilities of the undercover Israeli Boarder patrol, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the FBI training facilities. Fellows also visited Masada, the Dead Sea, the National Mall. During the 2007-2008 year, Fellows will be responsible for organizing a series of events designed to educate the campus community about the threats posed by international terrorism and the need to defend democracy. One of the events will be a September 11th Memorial Service. Students in all fields of study are encouraged to apply and must be planning on attending on their home campus for the entire 2007-2008 academic year (Fellows may not study abroad during their tenure as such). The application is due April 13th. Those selected will be notified by April 20th. For additional information and an application, please visit our [Fellowships] page under the Academics link or [click here] to visit the FDD website.
Anne-Marie Angelo was awarded for her project, "Routes of Revolution: The Politics of the Black Panther Party of Israel, 1971-75."
Stephan Isernhagen was awarded for his project, "Come Back To Life" Wounded Bodies in WWII and Postwar Germany.
Willeke Sandler was awarded for her project, "Creating Future Colonists: Colonial Discourse, National Socialism, and the Rendsburg Colonial School for Women."
Danielle Terrazas Williams was awarded for her project, "Bound by Language: Excavating the Legal Bonds of Free Blacks in New Spain."
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS!
to announce the promotion of Prof. Ross Widenhoefer to Full Professor. Congratulations to Prof. Widenhoefer and all the members of the Widenhoefer Group!
Duke University junior Andrew "Andy" Cunningham, who helped start a boarding school in Kenya that is about to be built, has been awarded the prestigious Truman Scholarship.
Article from Duke News and Communication
Vaupel spoke at a State Department Summit on Global Aging held mid-March, 2007. The State Department has also just released a document reviewing the situation, with input from Vaupel and other demographers. Take a look:
Chance in Evolution
April 6th - 8th, 2007
The aim of the 6th annual Conference in Philosophy & Biology is to explore the role of chance in evolution at the molecular and macro levels, and every level in between.
Speakers include:
John Beatty (UBC)
Robert Brandon (Duke)
Werner Callebaut (KLI)
Richard Lewontin (Harvard)
Francesca Merlin (IHPST)
Roberta Millstein (UC Davis)
William Provine (Cornell)
Robert A. Skipper (Cincinnati)
Steve Wang (Swarthmore)
Jason Zinser (FSU)
The absolute deadline for registration is noon on April 4th.
Sponsored by The Labor and Working-Class History Association Southern Labor Studies Association Join us for an innovative dialogue on current issues facing the working class and their allies. This conference will bring together scholars, students, social justice and union activists, policy makers and rank-and-file workers to explore the connections between contemporary challenges facing the working class and their historical context. This gathering aims to enhance personal and organizational ties between those engaged in ongoing workplace and community organizing efforts and students and scholars whose work documents the long history of activism in the United States. The key thematic areas for the conference will be: For more information, please visit www.lawcha.org
We are now accepting applications to the Focus Program! Deadline: May 26, 2007. Apply now! [more]
Admission offers were made online and via mail from 19,170 applicants. The number includes 470 early decision students. [more]
Andy Cunningham T'08, who helped start a girls boarding school in Kenya and raised money for Katrina victims, is one of 65 students selected by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. [more]
Victorian Lecture Series
"Occultism, History, and Ethical Knowledge: Re-thinking the Secular"
4:15pm, * New Location: 326 Allen
Duke junior Andy Cunningham plans to use his scholarship for international development [more] -- Duke News, Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop
April 5, 2007 - 5:00pm
Visit our Faculty Forum
3:30PM, Thursday, March 29, 2007//Fleishman Commons, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, will lend his perspective based on years of influence in the field of U.S. foreign policy. Sponsored by the Living History Program at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. Contact: Lynn Furgess, 613-7330.
Program for first-year students gets them started on unexpected intellectual journeys [more] -- Duke News
The new position will report to Provost Peter Lange on all aspects of undergraduate life. [more]
Application deadline is April 16. Open to juniors and seniors. A cash prize of $250 will be awarded for outstanding innovative or investigative research dealing with education. For information: Holton Prize or e-mail mbryant@asdean.duke.edu
G. Richard Wagoner Jr. T'75 will deliver Duke's 2007 commencement address. Wagoner is a member of the Board of Trustees. [more]
Valerie Traub
University of Michigan
Women's Studies & Department of English
HISTORICIZING THE NORMAL
Professor Traub works on early modern literature and culture; she is director of Women's Studies at Michigan. Her publications include Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (1992); The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (2002); and Gay Shame, co-edited with David Halperin (forthcoming). Her current manuscript project is entitled Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality.
Gunther Peck
will be speaking on his current research project:
Trafficks in Race: Locating the Origins of White Slavery
Raymond Nasher T'43, former trustee and avid art collector, founded Duke's Nasher Museum of Art. [more]
Two student groups each won $10,000 from 100 Projects for Peace, a program funded by philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis to commemorate her 100th birthday. [more]
April 12-13, 2007.
Leading scholars in national security law, foreign policy, and Islamic studies will gather at Duke Law School on April 12-13 for a conference on "Confronting Terrorism Here and Abroad." The conference is free of charge (except for meals).[ For more information click here]
There will be two Spring Fulbright Information Sessions for interested undergraduates and graduate students: Wed, March 21 and Wed April 25 - both at 4:30 PM in Room 240 of the John Hope Franklin Center. Sophomores and beginning graduate students are also encouraged to attend so that they can begin thinking seriously about applying for the Fulbright. It is very important that students start early on the application process in order to have the most competitive applications possible.
Further information about the US Student Fulbright Program can be found at www.fulbrightonline.org. The fall campus deadline for the 2008-09 competition will be mid-September with campus interviews occurring between late September to mid-October of 2007. Students applying for 2008-09 need to begin their applications now, if they've not already started on them. A minimum of 6-12 month advance preparation is strongly recommended in applying for the Fulbright.
Interested students are encouraged to carefully read the on-line materials and attend an information session before making an appointment to meet individually with Fulbright Advisor Dr. Darla K. Deardorff: d.deardorff@duke.edu or 668-1928.
The North Carolina Museum of History is seeking a student or recent graduate to serve as a public information assistant (visitor services). Vacancy must be filled as soon as possible. Preference will be given to early applications.
If you have questions, contact Thom Swindell at Thom.Swindell@ncmail.net
Victorian Lecture Series
"Robert Browning, Transported by Meter"
4:15pm, Breedlove Room
Victorian Lecture Series
"Charles Darwin, Novelist"
4:15pm - Old Trinity Room, West Union Building
Blackburn Visiting Fiction Writer
"Public Reading"
7:00pm, Rare Book Room
Victorian Lecture Series
"The Skeptical George Eliot: Life & Theory in the Novels"
4:15pm, 326 Allen Building
The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World and Beyond
April 14-15, 2007
Please visit the
Race Space Place web site.
have been selected for Bass Chairs in Chemistry, effective July 1, 2007. The Bass Chairs are awarded for excellence in teaching and research. Professor Liu will be appointed as the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Professor Craig will be appointed as the Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor of Chemistry. Congratulations to both on their recognition!
The Class of 2011 will read The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South, about a civil rights activist and a former KKK member who worked to desegregate Durham schools in the 1970s. [more]
Monday, March 19, 2007//5:30 pm, Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford Institute, Duke University. Michael Posner, president of Human Rights First, has been at the forefront of the human rights movement for nearly 30 years. In 2004, as executive director of Human Rights First, he launched the End Torture Campaign. The campaign challenges the U.S. policy framework that allows coercive interrogation techniques and unlimited, secret detention of those in U.S. custody. After joining Human Rights First in 1978, Posner has become a national and international leader in the effort to protect refugees, advance a rights-based approach to national security, challenge crimes against humanity, and combat discrimination. His opinion essays have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and many other papers. In January 2006, Posner became president of Human Rights, and is focusing on public outreach, writing and advocacy to advance the organization's core mission. Contact Allison Rosenstein at (919)613-7312 or by email at allison.rosenstein@duke.edu for more information.
Under an agreement between Duke University and Landerziehungsheim Schondorf
Candidates for this fellowship must have a strong academic record and be reasonably fluent in German. Any student interested in applying for the Fellowship must submit the following:
1) A completed application form accompanied by an essay (2-4 pages) outlining why he or she wishes to spend a year at Schondorf, how his/her studies at Duke have qualified him/her for the program, and how he or she might lead discussions on American culture, history and civilization.
2) recommendations from two faculty members;
3) a language evaluation form to be completed by a faculty member of the German Department;
4) an official transcript.
Additional applications are available from the German Department. The complete application with essay and the official transcript should be submitted by the student to Professor Ingeborg Walther, at the German Department, 116A Old Chem by Friday, March 23, 2007 at 5:00 p.m
This two-day conference provides an extensive analysis and critique of ethnographic and colonial practices that replicate the pornographic gaze. The "native informant" in ethnography and the "racialized body" in pornography promote a search for the truth about desire for the Other. The participants in this conference critique this essentializing search. We engage in an interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between the colonizer's gaze and the creation of modern concepts of race, sexuality, and, ultimately, pornography.
All events are in Franklin Center 240
Friday, March 30
10:30-12:30
Seminar Meeting: Ethnopornography - Toward A Theory
Discussion Leaders: Pete Sigal, Duke University; Neil Whitehead, University of Wisconsin; Ara Wilson, Duke University.
Discussion of readings by Anne McClintock, Jose Munoz, and Ann Stoler.
If you wish to attend the seminar meeting, please RSVP to psigal@duke.edu.
1:30 - 1:45 Ethnopornography: Introductory Remarks
Pete Sigal, Duke University
Neil Whitehead, University of Wisconsin
1:45-4:30 Colonial Sexualities
Moderator: Marc Schacter, Duke University
Martha Few, University of Arizona
That Marvelous Sexual System': Race, Sexuality, and Colonial Medicine in Guatemala, 1780-1810
Rachel O’Toole, University of California, Irvine
Consent to the Devil: Rape, Race, and Desire in Colonial Peru
Rebecca Parker Brienen, University of Miami
Ethnographic Images and the Pleasures of Possession: Dirk Valkenburg's Slave Dance (ca 1707 Brazil)
Carina Ray, Pennsylvania State University
Ethnopornography and the Colonial Archive: Eroticism, Racism, and the 'Politics of Citation'
Zeb Tortorici, UCLA
Animals, Indians, and the Category of the 'Unnatural' in Colonial Mexico
Saturday, March 31
10:00 - 12:00
Money, Movement, and Sex Travels
Moderator: Neil Whitehead, University of Wisconsin
Martha Chaiklin, University of Pittsburgh
Unseasonal Winds of Love - Prostitution and the Foreign Community in Early Modern Nagasaki
Olga Romantsova, V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University
Sexuality and Gender in Goth Cultures: East-West Discourse
Erika Robb, University of Wisconsin
Topographies of Pleasure: Travel, Fantasy and the Brazilian Body
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Provided
1:00 - 3:30 Ethnographic Practice/Ethnographic Gaze
Moderator: Irene Silverblatt, Duke University
Mary Weismantel, Northwestern University
Mouth to Mouth: Studying Moche Sex Pot
Maria Lepowsky, University of Wisconsin
Sex, Sexuality, and the South Seas
Helen Pringle,University of New South Wales
"Men Like Us": Ethnography and Sexual Violation in Australia
Harriet Lyons, University of Waterloo and Andrew Lyons, Wilfrid Laurier University
Her Story and His Story: Male and Female Perspectives in the Anthropology of Sexuality
4:00 - 6:00
Plenary Session: Ethnopornography, Sexual Commerce, and the Future of Sexuality Studies
Moderator: Ara Wilson, Duke University
Participants:
Pete Sigal, Duke University
Ethnopornography
Franciso J. Hernandez Adrian, Duke University
Soy Cuba, or Inside/Outside the Other Caribbean
Negar Mottahadeh, Duke University
Against Voyeurism: Iran's Stand Against the Meta-desire of Cinema
All areas of research - Deans' Summer Research Fellowship Deadline: March 7.
Up to $2500 for a research project proposed by a Trinity College undergraduate. Research in all areas is considered, and there is designated funding in library/archive research, research associated with study abroad, research conducted on campus and research funding for premajor students.
Asian/Pacific Studies Institute of Duke University (APSI) Deadline: March 9. Support to do independent research in East Asian Countries (China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan)
Center for International Studies. Deadline: March 21. Travel grants for summer research projects conducted overseas
Latin America and the Caribbean, Research in. Deadline: March 8. Mellon Undergraduate Awards for summer research in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latino/a Studies Research Support Awards Deadline: mid-Late March. Two awards available to support independent research and travel projects during Summer
Information for each program is linked to the URS Office web page at: http://www.aas.duke.edu/trinity/research/
The California office of the federal Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, which will soon become the nonpartisan Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, is seeking talented and energetic college students and recent graduates to work as interns between June 4 and August 6, 2007. Interns will assist with substantial and meaningful projects, such as planning and organizing public lectures and talks, researching the Nixon administration and contemporaneous events, and creating content for our Website and museum exhibitions. Interns will also participate in discussions with experts in fields such as the Cold War, espionage, presidential history, and museum administration. These interns will contribute to the creation of a major national center for the study of the presidency, American history, and the life and times of Richard Nixon. We are seeking mature, driven candidates with a demonstrated record of accomplishment. In choosing interns, we are not guided by an applicant's major field of study but by his or her commitment to creating a serious and impartial national institution. We welcome applications from students majoring not only in history, political science, and international relations but also in other fields, such as business, marketing, public history, museum studies, Asian studies, African-American studies, economics, journalism, and communications (particularly new media). To apply, please send a current resume, one or two letters of recommendation, a current transcript (a photocopy or other informal version is acceptable), and a cover letter explaining why you would like to be an intern at the Nixon to: Dr. Timothy J. Naftali Applications must be postmarked or emailed no later than April 2. Late applications will not be considered. Finalists will be interviewed in person or by telephone. Please direct any questions to paul.musgrave@nara.gov. The nonpartisan, federal Nixon Presidential Materials Staff, a part of the National Archives and Records Administration, will soon operate both a museum visited by more than 100,000 people annually and an archive with documents that span the entire life of President Nixon. We expect that we will soon formally become the twelfth presidential library in the National Archives and Records Administration presidential system. More information is available online at http://nixon.archives.gov
Director, Nixon Presidential Materials Staff
18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.
Yorba Linda, CA 92886
About the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff
The Duke Department of History will co-sponsor an international conference on "Gender, War, and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation, Transatlantic Comparisons, 1775-1820" from 17 through 19 May 2007 at the Institute for Arts & Humanities, Hyde Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
For complete information, visit the conference web site at http://www.unc.edu/~hare/GWPhome.html.
Congratulations to Dr. Deborah Reisinger!
Please join us in congratulating our colleague Dr. Deborah Reisinger, Assistant Director of the French Language Program, on the publication of her first book, Crime and Media in Contemporary France.
In the book, available from Purdue University Press, Reisinger examines contemporary French society's relationship with violence in an era of increased media dominance. The study's innovative and interdisciplinary approach integrates media, cinema, and literary studies to analyze how crime news (faits divers) functions as a site of discursive struggle. Reisinger focuses on the sensational Paulin and Succo affairs that became mobile signifiers about crime, insecurity, and the Other in France in the 1980s.
http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/Books%20Pages/Book%20Descriptions/resinger.asp
By situating these crime stories in a larger historical and political context, she analyzes how media and politicians use the crime story as a tool for upholding dominant ideology. Yet, rather than conclude that the crime story has become an absolute banality, as Jean Baudrillard has maintained, Reisinger shows how these crime stories attest to the public's renewed fascination with violence. Her analysis of the artistic rewritings of these stories reveal alternative, complex readings of the fait divers that effectively subvert the media's sensationalized discourse on crime. Through an analysis of the complex processes of production, reception, and re-articulation that contribute to the representation of crime, the study concludes that the fait divers is an important place of social and political resistance for readers and artists alike in contemporary France.
Deborah Reisinger received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Twentieth-century French Literature and Cultural Studies. She has published articles on contemporary culture and the pedagogical applications of technology. Her current research examines the criminalization of popular culture. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University in North Carolina.
Luke J. Stewart is a recipient of the 2007 Samuel DuBois Cook Society Undergraduate Student Award. Luke was nominated for the award by Dean Martina Bryant. “Luke Stewart is a senior who will graduate with majors in mathematics and computer science and is an active member of the University community. His academic honors include a Reginald Howard Scholarship, a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and a Howard Hughes Research Fellowship. Luke’s activites at Duke are wide–ranging and his nominator called him a ‘student for all seasons.’ He serves as Researcher and Director of Math and Science for the Petters Research Institute, a summer academy in Dangriga, Belize. There, he forecasted mortality rates for AIDS in Belize; directed and taught at the nation’s first math and science academy. His contributions to Duke and Belize will be remembered for years to come.”
Meet Chauncey Nartey – a Humanitarian Challenges Focus Program alumnus who makes an impact on campus.
-- Duke News Service, November, 2006is proud to announce the promotion of Prof. Stephen Craig to Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations to Prof. Craig and all the members of the Craig Group!
The Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee recommended changes to make Duke a more "inclusive academic community." President Brodhead issued a statement on the release of the report. [more]
Thursday, March 1, 2007, 5:30pm, Fleishman Commons, Sanford Institute Building Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecturer Shashi Tharoor speaks on the future of the United Nations. Will it go the way of the League of Nations? In 2006, Tharoor was the official candidate of India to succeed UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and came second out of seven contenders in the race. Tharoor served as UN Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information from 2002 to 2007. Over his 28-year career at the UN, Tharoor also served with the High Commissioner for Refugees, was responsible for peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia and served as executive assistant to Annan. Tharoor is the author of nine books, as well as numerous articles, short stories and commentaries. His books include "Reasons of State," a scholarly study of Indian foreign policy; a novel, "Show Business," which was made into the movie, “Bollywood”; and most recently, "Bookless in Baghdad." He holds a PhD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Tharoor will also make an appearance in the Perkins Library, Rare Book Room for a book reading from 3-4pm.
Research intern:
Duties:
-visitor services (greeting visitors, orienting visitors to the site)
-giving guided tours of the grounds to visitors
-researching special events
-researching future visitor center exhibits
-doing research for information to put on our website
-working on the extensive slave genealogy project
-researching information on period correct costumes for special events
Interpreter intern:
Duties:
-visitor services (greeting visitors, orienting visitors to the site)
-giving guided tours of the grounds to visitors
-creating tours geared towards certain audiences (African American, children, furniture enthusiasts, etc)
-creating guided tour sheets different languages
-creating special tours for the hearing or visually impaired
-researching period costumes for special events
Educational Programming Intern:
Duties:
-visitor services (greeting visitors, orienting visitors)
-giving guided tours of the grounds to visitors
-creating special activities for school groups
-researching and planning ideas for special events
-working with our junior interpreter program (school-age children who have a great interest in history that we do special programs for)
- researching costumes for special events
Please contact assistant site manager Diana Bahnson at 919-620-0120 or diana.bahnson@ncmail.net if interested!
The Duke Graduate Certificate Program in the History and Philosophy of Science Technology and Medicine (HPSTM) would like to invite you to the 2007 HPSTM Conference, to be held at Duke University on March 23-24, 2007, on the topic: Do Historians and Philosophers of Science Have Anything to Say to Each Other?
The session on Friday, March 23, will be held at 105 West Duke Building, on East Campus, and the sessions on Saturday, March 24 will be held at the Rare Book Room in Perkins Library, on West Campus (for locations, see the Duke map at http://map.duke.edu/index.php?).
For those who need hotel accomodations, Duke Philosophy has reserved a number of rooms at the Millenium Hotel (919/383-8575) under a reduced rate. To reserve a room at this rate you must ask for the HPSTM or Duke Philosophy rate. If you have any questions concerning the conference, please call 919/660-3050 or email mra7@duke.edu. We look forward to seeing you in March.
Chris has been quoted on Yahoo news in a February 24th article, "Americans underestimate Iraqi death toll". Congratulations Chris!
Paula McClain is professor of political science and public policy and co-director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences. [more]
Duke Chronicle, Feb. 7 -- An intensified focus on global health has triggered a rise in the number of Duke students studying abroad in Africa. [more] -- Duke Chronicle, Feb. 7, 2007
The total cost to attend Duke in 2007-2008, including room and board, will be $45,121. Increases were also approved in graduate and professional school tuition. [more]
John and Kerry were co-authors on the article "Moving Forward at Duke" in the February 23rd issue of the Chronicle. Congratulations to John and Kerry.
Paula has been elected Chair of the Academic Council. Her term begins July 1, 2007.
Political scientist to become first African-American chair of the council
By Geoffrey Mock Thursday, February 22, 2007 Durham, NC
Congratulations Paula!The Academic Council Thursday elected political science professor Paula McClain as chair of the council, the university’s top faculty governing body. When she takes office July 1, McClain will become the council’s first African-American chair.>
McClain will succeed law professor Paul Haagen, who is concluding a two-year term. She defeated biomedical engineering professor Craig Henriquez, chair of the Pratt School Faculty Council, in a secret ballot.
A member of the Duke faculty since 2000, McClain is also a professor of public policy. She has significant experience in university governance, having served as chair of the Appointment, Promotions and Tenure Committee and as member of the Provost’s Diversity Task Force and the Arts and Sciences’ Budget Task Force.
She is currently co-director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences and co-convener of the Duke University Black Faculty Caucus. She also directs the American Political Science Association’s Ralph Bunche Institute, a summer program that provides minority undergraduate students with an experience of intensive graduate-level education.
Her research interests focus on minority group politics, particularly social and political competition between minority groups, and urban politics. She recently received national attention for a study exploring the dynamics of relations between blacks and Latino immigrants in American cities.
McClain has held several prominent professional positions, including a recent term as president of the Southern Political Science Association. She also is a past vice president of the American Political Science Association and past president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
In addition to being the first African-American to serve as council chair, McClain becomes the third woman to hold the post. Previous chairs include historian Anne Firor Scott and Dr. Nancy Allen.
Comments and paper by Professor Wahneema Lubiano
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The picnic will be Thursday, April 26th at 5:30 on the West Duke Lawn!
We need volunteers to host, meet airplanes, greet finalists at OUSF, drive to faculty dinners... you name it! Come by or email the office to volunteer!
Robertson Weekend coming up March 29-April 1 - hosts always needed.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together faculty and graduate students to facilitate ways of thinking about topical areas that cross geographic and chronological fields, promoting dialogue that bridges traditional divisions in the discipline. We have invited participants to discuss their works-in-progress while addressing methodological issues raised by their particular lens of analysis. Four panel discussions will focus on race and ethnicity, travel and imperial encounters, violence and the state, and trade and consumption, respectively.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2
10:45-12:15: New Approaches to Race and Ethnicity
Tina Campt, Departments of Women's Studies and History, Duke University
Bob Korstad, Departments of Public Policy and History, Duke University
Max Krochmal, Department of History, Duke University
Danielle Terrazas Williams, Department of History, Duke University
Chair: Orion Teal
12:30-1:30: Catered lunch
1:45-3:15: Travel and Imperial Encounters
David Ambaras, Department of History, North Carolina State University
Heidi Giusto, Department of History, Duke University
Paul Johstono, Department of History, Duke University
Claudia Koonz, Department of History, Duke University
Chair: Kim Bowler
3:15-4:00: Wine and cheese
SATURDAY, MARCH 3
10:45-12:25: Violence and the State
Dirk Bonker, Department of History, Duke University
Stephan Isernhagen, Department of History, Duke University
Ben Kiernan, Department of History, Yale University and National Humanities Center
Pete Sigal, Department of History, Duke University
Felicity Turner, Department of History, Duke University
Chair: Liz Shesko
12:30-1:30: Catered lunch
2:15-3:45: Trade, Technology and Consumption
Ed Balleisen, Department of History, Duke University
Barry Gaspar, Department of History, Duke University
Rosalie Genova, Department of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Robert Penner, Department of History, Duke University
Chair: Fahad Bishara
For further information, please contact Anne-Marie Angelo at aa76@duke.edu
Melinda French Gates T'86 B'87, cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a former Duke trustee, said, "We are proud to support this initiative and Duke's commitment to enroll more students from a wide range of backgrounds." [more] The Crown family of Chicago gave $5 million to support scholarships and summer fellowships. [more]
Chloe Chien and Andrew Longenecker were named to the second All-USA College Academic team; Joseph Babcock was named to the third team. [more]
Chris was quoted in the February 17th issue of the International Herald Tribune. Congratulations Chris!
Alison Frazier
will be speaking on, "Interpreting Failure: The Case of Garzoni's St. Augustine" on Wednesday, February 28 at noon in Room 229 Carr Building
Jutta Sperling
will be speaking on "Queer Lactations in Renaissance and Baroque Art" on Friday, February 23 at noon in Room 229 Carr Building
February 28, 2007, 6:30pm, Toy Lounge (Dey Hall), UNCDr. Walker is the Director of the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. For more information, call (919) 843-2792 or email fpau@duke.edu or scarroll@duke.edu.This lecture is presented by Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace & Conflict Resolution and the North Carolina Chapter of the Society for International Development.
The Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program, a competitive summer scholarship program in American history for outstanding college sophomores and juniors, is now accepting applications (Deadline: March 1). Based in New York City, the program provides an opportunity for the next generation of historians to conduct primary-source research and to work closely with eminent scholars.
The application for the 2007 Gilder Lehrman History Scholars program is now online. To learn more, email Justine Ahlstrom at scholars@gilderlehrman.org or visit: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/student2.html
February 22, 2007, 5:00pm, Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center, Duke University Cory Doctorow is the Co-editor of boingboing.net. He is the Fulbright Chair at the USC Annenberg Center for Public Policy.
John Martin
will be speaking on "Transparency and Sincerity in the Italian Renaissance" on Monday, March 5 at noon in Room 229 Carr Building
Steven Feierman
This spring Washington University in St. Louis will host its third annual academic conference for undergraduates with an interest in the study of colonial empires and their impact on contemporary society. The conference is organized by undergraduates and Washington University in St. Louis, and in past years its keynote speakers have included Dane Kennedy of George Washington University and David Anderson of Oxford University. Interested students should submit a one-paragraph abstract by March 1, 2007 focusing on any aspect of imperialism and colonials. Issues might include, but are not limited to, the economic, political, epidemiological, and cultural consequences of colonial enterprises past or present. The most appropriate papers will be selected for discussion at the conference on April 7, 2007, and their writers invited to participate as panelists (travel expenses may be partially defrayed as needed). Students should submit papers and abstracts to:
Imperialism and Colonialism Conference
African and African American Studies Program
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1109
St. Louis, MO 63130
Stanford University PhD in Business Administration March 20; Bryan Center (Meeting Room A) 11:30 am - 2:00 pm. All classes invited.
The MA in Management: A One-Year Program February 27; Bryan Center (Meeting Room A). Open visitation: 11:30am - 4:00pm; Presentation: 4:00pm - 5:00pm. All classes invited.
School of Global Management March 6; Bryan Center (Meeting Room A) 11:30 am - 2:00 pm. All classes invited.
This two-day symposium will examine the impact of race on notions of citizenship and national belonging in Latin America and the Caribbean, and explore how African-descended communities have sought to transform their status through diverse modes of cultural and political representation.
Symposium Schedule
FRIDAY, MARCH 23 (4:00 - 6:00 pm)
Keynote Lecture and Reception
Frank Porter Graham Student Union, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Room 3411
Keynote Presentation: ??
Race Mixture, Hybridity and Politics: A Research Agenda for Afro-Latin Studies
Michael Hanchard, Department of Political Science, ??
Respondents: Eunice Sahle, Department of African & Afro-American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Clifford Griffin, Department of Political Science, North Carolina State University
Gaspar Octavio Hernandez and Latin American Modernism
Ciudadano Perfecto: Antonio Maceo, Race and Memory in the
Toby Nathan, Department of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
(Re) Constructing Citizenship: Racial Configurations and Codes of Belonging
Elizabeth Hordge Freeman, Department of Sociology,
Linda Rupert, Department of History,
(Re)Moving Blackness: Negotiations of Color Dynamics Among US-based Caribbeans
Michaeline Crichlow, Department of African & African American Studies,
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch with Wrap-up Session
Moderators: Kia Lilly Caldwell, Department of African & Afro-American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Esther L. Gabara, Departments of Romance Studies and Art and Art History, Duke University
Funding has been generously provided the UNC Center for Global Initiatives, UNC Curriculum in International and Area Studies, UNC Institute of African American Research, UNC Institute of Latin American Studies, UNC Stone Center, Duke African & African American Studies Program, Duke Cultural Anthropology Department, Duke History Department, Duke in Madrid Program, Duke Department of Political Science, Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Duke Romance Studies Department.
is highlighted on the cover of the current issue of Langmuir.
Dave was quoted on bloomberg.com February 13th, "Former Governor Romney Begins 2008 Presidential Bid" (Update2) Congratulations Dave!
Three fellows from the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution were featured in an article entitled "The Peacemakers" in the February 2007 edition of The Rotarian, a worldwide publication of Rotary International.
Read the full article here:
http://www.rotary.org/newsroom/downloadcenter/pdfs/rotarian_0702_if_peacemakers.pdf
Beginning in summer 2008, all Duke undergraduates will be eligible to participate in DukeEngage, a summer- or semester-long domestic or international community service project. [more]
Interested in teaching in London next year? Apply for the Colet Fellowship. The Fellowship offers an opportunity for an American graduate to spend one academic year as a member of the community in one of the United Kingdom¹s major independent schools.
The application deadline is March 12th and interviews will be held on campus on Friday, March 30th. To apply go to www.duke.erecruiting.com and submit a resume and cover letter. Two sealed letters of recommendation must also be sent to
Abby Vargas
Duke University Career Center
PO Box 90950 1
10 Page Building
Durham, NC 27708-0950
Feel free to contact Abby Vargas with any questions at abby.vargas@duke.edu
The Anne Firor Scott Award is given to help students (undergraduates planning to take the History Senior Honors Seminar) engaged in research in women's history to spend time in archives and resource centers where they can use original historical materials. Recent graduates may be considered.
The application consists of three copies of the following, including the completed application form: 1) a proposal of 2-3 pages addressed to the Anne Scott Award Committee and 2) current curriculum vitae or resume. The proposal should describe the student's overall project or the specific resource materials for study, as well as the reasons undertaking the project; the status of work already in process; a budget for requested funds; and explanation of other funds available to the student.
You may pick up an application from Carla Rusnak at 229 Carr or email carla.rusnak@duke.edu for an application.
Applications are due Friday, March 9, 2007 to Carla Rusnak, History Department, Box 90719, 226 Carr Building, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.
Applicants will be notified by mail the week of April 2, 2007. Winners will be asked to report on the use of these funds and their work by September 7, 2007.
a conference investigating the future of molecular and biomolecular imaging, will be hosted by the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging in the new French Family Sciences Center at Duke University on March 11-13. Details regarding the program and registration can be found at the conference website.
The European Union Studies Association (EUSA) has decided to award the EUSA Prize for Best Conference Paper presented at the 2007 Conference to our own Tim Buthe for his paper entitled, "The politics of antitrust and merger review in the European Union: Institutional change and decisions from Messina to 2004." Congratulations Tim!
President Brodhead told a national conference that American higher education is often misunderstood and urged its leaders to explain why universities matter to the country's future. [more]
Neil Foley
will be speaking on, "'Latin Americans, Not Negroes': The Good Neighbor Policy and Jim Crow in the Southwest During World War II," at Noon in Room 229 Carr.Engseng Ho
will be giving a talk on, "The Last Colony: India and Singapore in the Making of British South Arabia" at 11:45 in Room 229 Carr.
Kerry was quoted in the February 3rd issue of the (Toronto) Globe and Mail. Congratulations Kerry!
The Provost has approved the recommendation of the APT Committee that Chris Gelpi be promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Political Science. Congratulations Chris!
John was quoted in the February 6th edition of the Charlotte Observer. Congratulations to John!
2/13/07, 7:00-8:30PM, Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford Institute, Duke University. Bruno S. Frey is a Professor of Economic Policy and Non-market Economics at the University of Zurich.Lecture sponsored by the University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy and the Social Science Research Institute, Duke University.
Congratulations to Collin, Liz, and Morgan for being selected for the Duke Journal of Politics, Spring 2007.
Who: Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth CTY
What: We are seeking enthusiastic history and American studies instructors and teaching assistants to work in our summer programs. CTY offers intense 3-week academic programs for academically talented elementary, middle, and high school students from across the country and around the world.
Where: Residential site locations around the country: California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Day Site locations in the Baltimore, Washington and Los Angeles areas.
When: Session 1: June 21 - July 14
Session 2: July 14 - August 4
Instructors and teaching assistants can work either or both sessions.
Why: CTY staff work with exceptional students, make contacts and friendships with dynamic colleagues, and gain valuable experience in a rigorous academic setting.
Salary: Instructors start at $1970 - $2970 per 3-week session. Teaching assistants start at $1050 per 3-week session.
Room and board are provided at our residential sites.
Classes: 15 students
Each instructor is assigned a teaching assistant.
Courses: We offer numerous courses in both western and non-western fields of history.
Visit: www.cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment
Review full job descriptions and responsibilities
Learn about additional opportunities
Download an application
You can also contact us at 410-735-6185 or ctysummer@jhu.edu for more information.
Johns Hopkins is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
For more information please see our website: www.cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment
e-mail ctysummer@jhu.edu or call 410-735-6185.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Berlin & Environs
The 2007 Berlin Summer Research Fellowship Program is an interdisciplinary program administered by Duke University's Department of Germanic Languages and Literature in support of undergraduate research and inquiry in the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin.
Summer Research Fellowships of up to $2500 will be awarded to approximately 6 Trinity College students. Priority will be given to projects that are embedded within longer-term study at Duke: e.g., projects that are preparatory to fall semester independent study courses or extensions of work or ideas encountered in coursework during the spring 2007 semester. Similarly, a summer research fellowship might lead to a senior thesis project. Funds may be applied toward travel and living expenses while conducting research at, e.g., an archive, field site, museum, gallery, laboratory, or library. Modes of inquiry, to be agreed upon in consultation with a faculty sponsor, may include surveys, interviews and oral histories. Though other sites will be given due consideration, priority will be given to students conducting research in Berlin and environs. While fellows are expected to work independently, orientation to Berlin as well as assistance in locating lodging will be provided.
All research projects must be directed by a member of the Duke University faculty and conducted over a period of no less than three weeks during the summer months. Required language ability will depend upon the respective project and will be assessed by the faculty director. Students may not be enrolled in courses during the period they designate as their fellowship period. Students who require additional language training may elect to participate in the 6-week Duke in Berlin summer program (May 20-June 30, 2007) prior to the research project, in which case the research could be conducted during the month of July. (It should be understood, however, that the summer program, particularly with regard to application and funding, is fully independent of the research program.)
Eligibility: Trinity College students who are registered for the 2007 spring semester and who will continue at Duke in the fall are eligible to apply for a Berlin Summer Research Fellowship. (The condition of registration in the spring or fall is met with enrollment in Duke or Duke-approved study abroad programs.) Fellowship recipients are required to report on the project outcome during the academic year at a University sponsored undergraduate research event.
Application requires one copy of each of the following:
A brief research proposal (no longer than three pages, typed, single-spaced) with three subtitled sections: (1) Background and Justification; (2) Long-term Objective of the Overall Research Project; (3) Short-term Objective/s, i.e., goal/s for the summer, including the research methodology. Applicants must also state what other sources of funds are available to them including pending decisions on other award applications.
Application cover sheet
Proposed budget
Preliminary IRB (Human Subjects form) statement, which is required for projects focusing on interviews and oral histories.
These forms are available here.
A statement of support from the faculty research director at Duke assessing the feasibility of the proposed project; the ability of the student to complete it; the manner in which he or she will be in communication with the student during the fellowship period; and the student's foreign language competency as required by the project.
An official Duke transcript. (See http://registrar.duke.edu/registrar/studentpages/student/transcriptinfo.htm
No application will be considered without the statement of support from the faculty director. Please submit all materials in hardcopy to:
Professor William Donahue, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, 016D Old Chemistry Building, wcd2@duke.edu
The application deadline for 2007 is Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 5 pm. Decisions will be announced by e-mail approximately three weeks after the application deadline.
Triangle Legal History Seminar, Feb. 9, 4-6, National Humanities Center
Catherine Fisk, Duke Law School, "Free Labor and the Culture Worker, 1875-1920."
The paper is available from Sandi Payne Greene, at payne@email.unc.edu.
The Internship in Building Community is a two-week seminar in which interns participate in team building, communications, counseling, etc. in preparation for a four-week practicum where they will each be placed in charge of about 10 gifted high school students from around the world. The interns then perform various duties around campus and supervise the well-being of the students, who take classes with Columbia professors. The interns also plan and execute trips with the students in and around NYC; the interns' own expensive are reimbursed.
If you would like more information, the IBC website is here: http://www.ce.columbia.edu/ibc/ and the high school program website is here: http://www.ce.columbia.edu/hs/
HISTORY MATTERS is an undergraduate history journal, published annually by the Department of History at Appalachian State University. The journal is edited by undergraduates with the help of a faculty board. HISTORY MATTERS aims "to publish the best undergraduate historical research possible. In doing so," their webiste says, "we would like to provide an opportunity for top undergraduates from a variety of schools to be recognized for their work, familiarize them with the publishing process, and encourage student-faculty collaboration. We hope that all students who take part in this process will become better writers and self-editors. In all of our endeavors, we are committed to publishing the papers of students who have worked hard and deserve recognition. We are especially seeking research papers that utilize primary sources." Deadlines for submissions: once a year at the end of January. Website:
HISTORY MATTERS is an undergraduate history journal, published annually by the Department of History at Appalachian State University. The journal is edited by undergraduates with the help of a faculty board.
HISTORY MATTERS aims "to publish the best undergraduate historical research possible. In doing so," their website says, "we would like to provide an opportunity for top undergraduates from a variety of schools to be recognized for their work, familiarize them with the publishing process, and encourage student-faculty collaboration. We hope that all students who take part in this process will become better writers and self-editors. In all of our endeavors, we are committed to publishing the papers of students who have worked hard and deserve recognition. We are especially seeking research papers that utilize primary sources."
Deadlines for submissions: once a year at the end of January.
Website: <http://www.historymatters.appstate.edu/>
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies is accepting applications for its Academic Fellows anti-terrorism training program. This program provides university professors with a detailed understanding of the terror threat that faces our nation and sister democracies. Centered on a 10-day course taught in conjunction with Tel Aviv University, the program takes place entirely in Israel and runs May 26-June 6 (travel inclusive). Participants interact with academics, diplomats, military and intelligence officials, and politicians from Israel, Jordan, India, Turkey and the United States. They also visit military bases, border zones and other security installations to learn the practical side of deterring terrorist attacks. All expenses are paid by FDD. The final deadline for applications is March 30, 2007.
FDD runs a similar program for undergraduate students that gives them access to cutting edge information on terrorism and prepares them for national security careers. That program will run in early August.
For more information on both programs, please visit: http://www.defenddemocracy.org/programs/programs.htm.
Discussion and Book Signing with local author Zelda Lockhart
(adult program)
Date/Time: Thursday, February 8, 7 to 8:45p.m
Location: East Regional Library, 211 Lick Creek Ln.
Free and open to the public
are now available for students who are interested in independent study and pursuing Graduation with Distinction as Chemistry majors. Participants in the Summer Research Program will be eligible to apply for Gordon Research Fellowships that provide financial support for their Independent Study projects and thesis work. Go to http://www.chem.duke.edu/undergraduate/research/ for more details.
Jeffrey Stern T'07 was awarded the Melcher Family Award for Excellence in Journalism for his Independent article on three homeless men in Durham. [more]
2/16/07, 2:30-4:00PM, 201 Chapman, UNC.Lieutenant General Steven R. Whitcomb is the Commanding General of the Third Army, U.S. Army Central Command, and Coalition Forces Land Component Command. LTG Whitcomb has the responsibility of coordinating all land forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. LTG Whitcomb selected UNC in part due to the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense. LTG Whitcomb will speak and answer questions on the War in Iraq and Afghanistan and the current Armed Forces. Our former Curriculum Chair and TISS member, Dr. Richard Kohn, will be the moderator.
describes, in the February 2 issue of Science, a unified theory of protein-mediated electron transfer reactions, resolving a long-standing dispute on the mechanism of these important biological events. Prytkova, Kurnikov and Beratan show that proteins containing many fluctuating coupling pathways produce transport kinetics that depends weakly on details of the protein structure, while proteins with fewer coupling paths have structure-dependent rates. Their analysis explains a large body of kinetic data, collected over the last 25 years, on synthetically modified proteins and natural photosynthetic systems.
February 15, 2007, 7:00PM, Rhodes Conference Room, Terry Sanford Institute, Duke University.
Nancy Sherman is a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and an adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown Law School. This lecture is presented by the Kenan Institute for Ethics.[ For more information click here]
A scheduled hearing in the lacrosse case was moved to May 7 at the request of the new special prosecutors. [more]
The Biology Department is saddened by the death of Emeritus Professor Knut Schmidt-Nielsen on January 25, 2007. Biology Chair Philip Benfey said, “The passing of Knut Schmidt-Nielsen is particularly momentous as he was one of the intellectual pillars of this department. Please join me in sending our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.” The memorial service is tentatively planned for Saturday, February 24. For additional information on Prof. Schmidt-Nielsen’s career, please see the obituary posted at the Duke News website, http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/01/schmidt-nielsen.html
Some brief comments from his colleagues follow.
Steven Vogel: The debt I owe Knut Schmidt-Nielsen will not be forgotten, even as I get over the immediate loss of his friendship, stimulation, and generosity. He is one of the two people who have most determined what science I do and how I do it.
Steve Wainwright: When I visited for my interview at Duke Zoology in 1963, Knut asked me what I would like to do at Duke. I told him I wanted to try to apply simple mechanics to biological systems. He said "It would make me very happy if you come here and do that." I floated out of his office. It was the start of biomechanics at Duke.
John Staddon: Knut's legacy marks Duke biology as of the very first rank. His lucid prose and firm adherence to the principles of science are a lesson to all.
Donald Fluke: It was a privilege to be Knut Schmidt-Nielsen’s colleague over our years together in the Department of Zoology, and especially during the years I was his department chairman, 1967 and 1969-1978. So many times during those eleven years I was down in his office discussing problems and opportunities that confronted us. He wasn’t one to waste time (once he said to me “I guess that staff meeting was justified”) but he was generous with his time spent with me, one on one, when I needed his judgment and his perspective.
Peter Klopfer: Knut's many scientific achievements were not to the exclusion of other interests. He had a strong sense of the importance of ethical standards and practices.
Bruce Nicklas: Knut chaired the faculty review of the proposal to locate Nixon's library here -- he was superb in that role (and the library was built in California).
Steve Nowicki: When Knut was preparing for the lecture he was going to give at the ceremony in Japan where he was to receive the Emperor's Prize, he made a point of asking me and another assistant professor if we would listen to a practice talk. Here was one of the most famous biologists in the world, about to receive the Emperor's Prize, asking a couple of green assistant professors to criticize his talk. I'm still not sure why he asked us to critique him, but I think it was partly the fact that Knut always was open to new ideas and looking towards the future. I also think Knut knew that asking us to watch his practice lecture would both inspire and instruct us. It certainly did.
Vicki Stone WC'72 P'03 was named assistant director of athletic development and director of major gifts. A senior regional major gift director in the Office of Major Gifts since 1997, Stone led the Carolinas Challenge initiative to its successful completion during the Campaign for Duke.
Susannne Baackmann, Assoc. Prof. of German Studies, Univ. of New Mexico-Albuquerque, "Prosthetic Illusions of Masculinity: Hans Bellmer's Dolls and the Fascist Imaginary" (calendar)
January 31, 7:00PM, Perkins Library Rare Book Room
Scott Silliman, a member of the Duke Law School faculty, is professor of the practice of law and executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security.
Scott Silliman is known to National Public Radio listeners and CNN viewers for his frequent interviews and commentaries on issues related to national security. While the war on terrorism will be the general theme of his talk, his focus will be determined by events in the news when he speaks. Scott Silliman's lecture is part of the Engaging Faculty Series, which is sponsored by the Friends of the Duke University Libraries. Contact: ilene.nelson@duke.edu
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MAJOR PLANNED OUTAGE ANNOUNCEMENT Duke University - Network Services Beginning: 1/28/07 05:00AM EDT Ending: 1/28/07 07:00AM EDT Summary: Emergency Outage to correct security concerns On January 24, Cisco publicly announced three security advisories. The scope of these advisories is substantial, and two of them have impact on Duke's data network. Because of the criticality of the advisories, we are scheduling emergency maintenance to upgrade affected systems. This will cause outages to many of the user networks on campus. We apologize for the short lead time, but feel that application of the security updates as quickly as possible is important. During this 2 hour window, several routers will be reloaded. The outage to a particular network should be no longer than 15 minutes. Emergency maintenance to upgrade software on routers, addressing critical security issues announced Jan. 24. During this 2 hour window, two routers will be reloaded. The outage to a particular network should be no longer than 15 minutes. Networks and users specifically impacted include: Augusta Router - MAJOR OUTAGE - Engineering - Library - Facilities - Trent Hall - Divinity - Auxiliary Services - Residence Halls - Wireless Networks - North Building (building network) - Nasher - Student Affairs - Athletics - Chronicle - President's House - Financial Aid - Admissions Roti Router - Redundant core router. No specific outages from this router expected. [more] -- If you have any questions or concerns about this planned outage,please contact the OIT Help Desk at: 684-2200, help@oit.duke.edu
Ryan Szpiech will be giving a lecture on Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 3:00 pm entitled "Authorizing Apostasy: Polemic as Narrative in Medieval Iberia." This lecture will take place in 329 Soc Psych.
This lecture is sponsored by Duke in Madrid. If you have questions, please contact cknoop@duke.edu.
Ryan Szpiech is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Beloit College.
Kerry was quoted on ABC TV 11 News January 22nd. Congratulations to Kerry!
Mon. Jan. 29, 2007 // 5:30 p.m. Sanford Institute, Fleishman Commons General Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret.), is one of the most respected military leaders of the past two decades. He is also one of the earliest vocal critics of the Iraq War. Zinni has served in more than 70 countries including tours in Japan, Germany, and two tours in Vietnam. From 1997 to 2000, he was commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command, overseeing U.S. military activity in the Arab Gulf and Central Asia. After retiring from the Marines in 2002, President Bush appointed him as the U.S. Special Envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Zinni's books include "The Battle for Peace" (2006) and his 2004 memoir "Battle Ready." Contact: allison.rosenstein@duke.edu or 613-7312
John has been noted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's January 23rd issue. Congratulations to John!
The Nasher Museum will be hosting a Family Day on Sunday, February 4 from 12-4 and need bilingugal volunteers to assist Latino families with translation/interpretation for 2-hour shifts. Contact Lisa Charde to sign up. Email:lisa.charde@duke.edu
David was quoted in the January 21, 2007 issue of the Wichita Eagle. Congratulations to David!
Kerry was quoted in a January 21, 2007 article in Diverse. Congratulations to Kerry!
In an interview with The Chronicle, President Brodhead responded to inquiries about his handling of the lacrosse case and its impact on the Duke community. [more]
Prof. McClain is one of the featured keynote speakers at the upcoming American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference that will be held in Charlotte, NC, February 9 - 11, 2007. She will be speaker for the luncheon on Saturday, February 10th. Congratulations Paula!
Between Text and Patient: The Medical Enterprise in Medieval & Early Modern Europe
A Symposium in Honor of Michael R. McVaugh
March 2-4, 2007 Wilson Library The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Between Text and Patient brings together nearly two dozen internationally recognized scholars to honor the work of Professor Michael R. McVaugh in advance of his retirement from the University. The papers will examine a wide range of topics relating to medical practice, knowledge and textuality from late antiquity through the early modern era, and will serve as a forum for participants to discuss recent achievements in their particular areas of research and to define new scholarly desiderata.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
Program available online at http://ww2.coastal.edu/brian/betweentextandpatient.htm .
For further information please contact the organizers, Eliza Glaze and Brian Nance, fglaze@coastal.edu and brian@coastal.edu .
Jared Diamond
will be speaking on Historical Comparisons in Room 229 Carr Building at Noon.
Adriane Lentz-Smith (UNC Chapel Hill), will be speaking on:
“French-Women-Ruined-Negroes: African American Soldiers Abroad in World War I” in Room 229 Carr Building at Noon.
Durham City Council unanimously approved the rezoning of 128 acres of Central Campus to add classrooms, housing, and retail facilities. [more]
The Department of Chemistry is in the process of moving into our new building, the spectacular, state-of-the-art French Family Science Center, located at 124 Science Drive. The Administrative Office is now located in Room 3236 and is open from 8:15 - 5:00. If you need assistance in locating someone, or if you have other questions about our move, please visit us or call us at 660-1500. The box numbers for our mail remain the same, as well as our office phone numbers and fax number. We will be updating our web site database gradually during this process to try to keep you informed of everyone's whereabouts. We're excited about the move and our new surroundings which include state-of-the-art laboratories for research and teaching. We invite you to visit us and see the French Family Science Center.
Chris is quoted in the January 11, 2007 of VOA News. Congratulations Chris!
The French Science Center, named for the family of trustee Melinda French Gates T'86 B'87, houses cutting-edge research facilities and unites the chemistry, physics, and biology departments. [more]
Emily Rotberg T'07 is the first Duke student to win a scholarship from the Overseas Press Club Foundation, which recognizes aspiring foreign correspondents at American colleges and universities. [more]
Peter Lange told the Arts & Sciences Council that developments in the lacrosse case have not diminished "the importance of paying critical attention to the culture on our campus and ways that it supports values that are central to our mission...." [more]
A scientist from biodiversity-rich Madagascar spends time at the Duke Lemur Center exploring the genetics of lizards from his home island. [more]
Program in Education (PiE) in collaboration with Duke TIP
initiates an innovative teacher preparation program in Gifted Education,
K-12. PiE has a long-standing
partnership with the Durham Public Schools to prepare highly qualified teachers
at the elementary and secondary level. http://dukenews.duke.edu/2007/01/gifted.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/559/story/537523.html.
In addition to the new AIG program we are making progress with our Center for Teacher Learning and Collaboration Program (TLC). Last Spring Durham Public Schools Superintendent Ann T. Denlinger and Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead announced the expansion of their longstanding partnership with three new initiatives designed to significantly boost support for classroom teachers. TLC is one of these initiatives. http://dukenews.duke.edu/2006/05/DPS_teachers.html
The Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee plans to deliver its final report before the end of the spring semester, "to allow time for communication and discussion." [more]
Kodesz Chair of Chemical Dynamics and Director of the Sackler Institute for Advance Studies at Tel Aviv University, will be the Department's first John Morrow Visiting Fellow, in residence this spring. Prof. Nitzan will teach a graduate course in condensed phase dynamics beginning in late January.
Dominic Sachsenmaier
will be speaking on his current research project:
“Trans-Cultural History - Seen From a Trans-Cultural Perspective"
In recent years trans-cultural and global history have become more prominent in many parts of the world. It is important to note that the trans-cultural turn is mainly characterized by a wide range of detailed research projects rather than by a surge of new master narratives. Furthermore, approaches to trans-cultural history remain locally conditioned by such factors as scholarly traditions, academic structures and modes of historical memory. Ironically, even the intensifying theoretical debates on trans-cultural history are still largely confined to single national or regional academic communities.
Focusing on China, Germany and the United States as sample cases, the current trajectories of trans-cultural history will be explored from a comparative perspective. Building on these pluralistic perspectives, the presentation will also touch upon some of the key theoretical challenges faced by the field. These include the question of Euro-centrism and the potential role of trans-cultural history in a wider public sphere.
A total of 19,909 students applied for admission to the Class of 2011.
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A series of "Freedom School" discussions on contemporary social issues, led by
Duke professors and students, as well as invited speakers. The discussions are
inspired by the Freedom Schools organized during the civil rights movement.
Contact: Sharon Caple 684-8353
Date: January 15, 2007
Time: 11:00 - 4:45pm
Location: Bryan Center [more]
Interested in the 2007 summer Duke in Mexico program? You could earn 2 credits for Spanish 13 Intensive Elementary or 2 credits for Spanish 16 Intensive Intermediate while spending 6 weeks in Puebla, Mexico!
Come to an information session on January 16, 6-7pm in Languages 207. Email joan.clifford@duke.edu for more information.
The Durham Public Schools are looking for volunteers to be interpreters at 2 events. If you are interested in helping the the Choice Fair and Hillside HS contact Sashi Rayasam 560-3783 X21783 or email sashi.rayasam@dpsnc.net
If you are available for simultaneous interpretation or written recording of a "Kitchen Table Conversation" on February 1 or 13 please contact Deborah Horvitz, dhorvitz@dpen.com
report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a new molecular-level interpretation of how the bacterial protein photolyase repairs DNA that has been damaged by UV light. Photolyase is known to repair DNA using a photoinduced electron transfer mechanism. The collaborators at Duke and the University of Cyprus showed that photoexcitation of photolyase's flavin unit produces a polarized charge-transfer excited state that is essentially in direct contact with the damaged bases in the docked protein-DNA complex, allowing facile repair.
Ileana Rodriguez (Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University) will be giving a job talk entitled "Outside/Within Conceptual Frames and Overlapping Disciplinary Borders" on Monday, January 29, 2007 at 7:00 pm in 305 Languages.
Please contact cknoop@duke.edu for more information.
Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier (Associate Professor, NYU) will be giving a lecture entitled "Circulation of sound and the changing nature of the musical "text" in Colombia" on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 1:00 pm in 329 Soc Psych.
Lunch will be provided. If you would like more details, please contact cknoop@duke.edu
In an e-mail letter to the Duke community, President Brodhead said the lacrosse controversy is a "chance to strengthen the climate of respectful engagement" at Duke, and that "it is crucial that we come together to seize the chance." [more]
JUNIOR HISTORY MAJORS
Interested in submitting a proposal to write a Senior Honor Thesis?
Come to an information meeting on Friday, January 12, 2007 at 4pm in Room 229, Carr Building
PROPOSALS DUE FEBRUARY 16, 2007
David Levi, chief judge of the Eastern District of California, will succeed Law School Dean Katharine Bartlett. [more] Blair H. Sheppard, an expert on global and corporate education, will succeed Fuqua School of Business Dean Douglas Breeden.
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President Brodhead recommended that two players charged with sexual offense and kidnapping resume their studies for the spring semester. A third accused player graduated in May. [more]
"Why Danes are smug: comparative study of life satisfaction in the European Union" - Of the three authors: two - Kaare Christensen and James Vaupel, are members of PPARC. Web address of article: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7582/1289 The BMJ December 2006 news release stated the following: Earlier this year, Denmark came top in a world map of happiness (the UK ranked 41st out of 178 nations). And for more than 30 years it has ranked first in European satisfaction surveys. So what makes Danes so content? Researchers in the 2006 Christmas issue of the BMJ decided to find out why life satisfaction in Denmark substantially exceeds that in Sweden and Finland, the two countries most similar to Denmark. Their hypotheses range from the unlikely (hair colour, genes, food and language) to the more plausible, such as family life, health and a prosperous economy. However, their analysis points to two explanatory factors. Firstly, winning the 1992 European Football Championship put Danes in such a state of euphoria that the country has not been the same since. This may explain the high level of life satisfaction in Denmark after 1992, they write. Secondly, while Danes are very satisfied, their expectations for the coming year are rather low. In contrast, Italy and Greece, which rank low on life satisfaction, rank high on expectations for the year to come, together with Swedes and Finns. The causes of the depth of Danish wellbeing are undoubtedly multifactorial, they say. The Danish football (soccer) triumph of 1992 has had a lasting impact, but the satisfaction of the Danes began well before 1992, albeit at a more moderate level. The key factor that explains this, and that differentiates Danes from Swedes and Finns, seems to be that Danes have consistently low (and realistic) expectations for the year to come. So the key to happiness may lie in the fact that if you lower your expectations enough you might feel a bit better next Christmas, they conclude. [more]