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April 17, 2009 - 24th Annual Geometry Festival, in honor of Detlef Gromoll
Mathematics, for faculty, 2009/03/05 18:55:12
Location: Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, New York
Dates: Friday, April 17 - Sunday, April 19, 2009
Website: http://www.math.sunysb.edu/geomfest09/
This year's festivall will be held in honor of DETLEF ROMOLL. A continuing grant from the National
Science Foundation makes it possible for organizers to partially reimburse the
expenses of a large number of graduate students, post-docs and younger
faculty who do not have access to travel funds from other sources.
Speakers at this year's festival are: Jeff Cheeger, Marcos Dajczer, Karsten Grove, Wolfgang Meyer, Gabriel Paternain, Christina Sormani, and Guofang Wei.
Please direct inquiries to: geomfest@math.sunysb.edu.
April 17, 2009 - 24th Annual Geometry Festival, in honor of Detlef Gromoll
Mathematics, for grad, 2009/03/05 18:54:15
Location: Stony Brook University; Stony Brook, New York
Dates: Friday, April 17 - Sunday, April 19, 2009
Website: http://www.math.sunysb.edu/geomfest09/
This year's festivall will be held in honor of DETLEF ROMOLL. A continuing grant from the National
Science Foundation makes it possible for organizers to partially reimburse the
expenses of a large number of graduate students, post-docs and younger
faculty who do not have access to travel funds from other sources.
Speakers at this year's festival are: Jeff Cheeger, Marcos Dajczer, Karsten Grove, Wolfgang Meyer, Gabriel Paternain, Christina Sormani, and Guofang Wei.
Please direct inquiries to: geomfest@math.sunysb.edu.
June 08, 2009 - RTG Graduate Summer School "Geometry of Quantum Fields and Strings"
Mathematics, for grad, 2009/03/03 02:24:03
Location: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Dates: June 8-20, 2009
Website: http://www.math.upenn.edu/rtg09bc
The University of Pennsylvania Research Training Group in Mathematical Physics and the Math/Physics Research Group are organizing a RTG Graduate Summer School "Geometry of quantum fields and strings". This two-week workshop will serve as a boot camp for training young researchers who are currently enrolled in mathematics or physics graduate programs. The students accepted to the workshop will be trained in current exciting research directions interfacing algebraic geometry, quantum field theory, geometric representation theory, algebraic topology, and string theory.
Interested students should apply by filling the online application form. Support is available for students from U.S. institutions. The deadline for applications is April 30, 2009. Any questions and inquiries should be directed at the workshop organizers at rtg09-c@math.upenn.edu.
August 03, 2009 - "Loops, Strings, and Moduli Spaces" Workshop, Chern Institute of Mathematics
Mathematics, for grad, 2009/03/01 15:41:26
Location: Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Dates: August 3 - 9, 2009
Website: www.cim.nankai.edu.cn/activites/conferences/hy20090803/
This will be an "Oberwolfach style" meeting, consisting of 40 -50 people, with informal talks organized the week of the conference. The Chern Institute will host the accommodations and food for the week of the conference. These accommodations are available for 7 days (arrival Sunday, August 2 and departure Sunday, Aug 10). The actual workshop will take place Monday through Friday of that week. Unfortunately the Institute does not have funding for travel.
There will be two excursions planned. On Wednesday afternoon there will be an excursion to the Great Wall. Also, for those staying until Sunday, there will be a day long excursion on Saturday to Beijing. Transportation to these excursions will be provided by the institute.
There are a limited number of spots available for participants. If you are interested in applying to participate, please email Fei Han, fhan@math.stanford.edu at Stanford University as soon as possible. Please indicate your university, your status (student, postdoc, faculty), and your research interests.
Invitees who have agreed, or tentatively agreed to attend include: Hossein Abbaspour, Nantes; Allexander Berglund, Copenhagen; Carl-Friedrich Bodigheimer, Bonn; Ralph Cohen, Stanford; Soren Galatius, Stanford; Nora Ganter, Melbourne; Ezra Getzler, Northwestern; Veronique Godin, Calgary; Fei Han, Stanford; Kathryn Hess, Lausanne; Po Hu, Wayne State; John D.S. Jones, Warwick; Ralph Kauffmann, Purdue; Toshitake Kohno, Tokyo; Ib Madsen, Copenhagen; Luc Menichi, Angers; Ulrike Tillmann, Oxford; Nathalie Wahl, Copenhagen; Weiping Zhang, Nankai.
August 03, 2009 - "Loops, Strings, and Moduli Spaces" Workshop, Chern Institute of Mathematics
Mathematics, for faculty, 2009/03/01 15:40:29
Location: Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Dates: August 3 - 9, 2009
Website: www.cim.nankai.edu.cn/activites/conferences/hy20090803/
This will be an "Oberwolfach style" meeting, consisting of 40 -50 people, with informal talks organized the week of the conference. The Chern Institute will host the accommodations and food for the week of the conference. These accommodations are available for 7 days (arrival Sunday, August 2 and departure Sunday, Aug 10). The actual workshop will take place Monday through Friday of that week. Unfortunately the Institute does not have funding for travel.
There will be two excursions planned. On Wednesday afternoon there will be an excursion to the Great Wall. Also, for those staying until Sunday, there will be a day long excursion on Saturday to Beijing. Transportation to these excursions will be provided by the institute.
There are a limited number of spots available for participants. If you are interested in applying to participate, please email Fei Han, fhan@math.stanford.edu at Stanford University as soon as possible. Please indicate your university, your status (student, postdoc, faculty), and your research interests.
Invitees who have agreed, or tentatively agreed to attend include: Hossein Abbaspour, Nantes; Allexander Berglund, Copenhagen; Carl-Friedrich Bodigheimer, Bonn; Ralph Cohen, Stanford; Soren Galatius, Stanford; Nora Ganter, Melbourne; Ezra Getzler, Northwestern; Veronique Godin, Calgary; Fei Han, Stanford; Kathryn Hess, Lausanne; Po Hu, Wayne State; John D.S. Jones, Warwick; Ralph Kauffmann, Purdue; Toshitake Kohno, Tokyo; Ib Madsen, Copenhagen; Luc Menichi, Angers; Ulrike Tillmann, Oxford; Nathalie Wahl, Copenhagen; Weiping Zhang, Nankai.March 13, 2009 - Beginning Faculty Session: MAA Southeastern meeting
Mathematics, for grad, 2009/02/18 21:20:19
The MAA Southeastern Section meeting will be held March 13-14 at Belmont College, Nashville, TN. One of the sessions is "Presentations by Beginning Faculty". They encourage beginning faculty to attend and give a 15-minute talk on topics such as their research, an expository, an aspect of teaching or working with students, or an interesting problem/solution or application of a mathematical idea.
Speakers should submit a title and abstract to David Stone and to Program Chair Jim Vandergriff. Complete information is available at http://campus.belmont.edu/maa-se/
March 13, 2009 - Beginning Faculty Session: MAA Southeastern meeting
Mathematics, for faculty, 2009/02/18 21:20:14
The MAA Southeastern Section meeting will be held March 13-14 at Belmont College, Nashville, TN. One of the sessions is "Presentations by Beginning Faculty". They encourage beginning faculty to attend and give a 15-minute talk on topics such as their research, an expository, an aspect of teaching or working with students, or an interesting problem/solution or application of a mathematical idea.
Speakers should submit a title and abstract to David Stone and to Program Chair Jim Vandergriff. Complete information is available at http://campus.belmont.edu/maa-se/
March 14, 2009 - 3rd Illinois-Indiana Symplectic Geometry Conference
Mathematics, for faculty, 2009/02/18 17:58:27
The 3rd Illinois-Indiana Symplectic Geometry conference is to be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign on the weekend of March 14 and 15.
Information about the speakers, schedule, accommodation and registration is available at http://www.math.uiuc.edu:80/iisgc/.
The conference is funded by the NSF and the University of Illinois. They hope to be able to reimburse travel and accommodation costs for participants.
January 30, 2010 - Minor American Poetry Series
English, 2010/01/29 12:39:30
Brian Evenson and Brian Howe
Duke to weather, this event will be rescheduled. Stay tuned!
December 03, 2009 - Cervantes' Marvelous Pagent
English, 2009/11/23 11:48:23
Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 7 pm
Brody Theater
Presented by Maureen Quilligan's class (free!)
December 03, 2009 - Minor American Poetry Series
English, 2009/11/30 13:39:50
Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop
8 pm in the East Duke Parlors (East Campus)
Sponsored by the English Department's Poetry Reading Group, Romance Studies, Germanic Studies, and the Franklin Humanities Institute.
New Announcement: Keith Waldrop's most recent book, Transcendental Studies, received the National Book Award for 2009.
December 01, 2009 - Americanist Speaker Series: Ryan Snyder Ananat
English, 2009/11/05 11:45:04
"Spectra of Singularity: Episodes of Improvisational Lyricism from Hip Hop to Pragmatism"
7 pm at the home of Priscilla Wald
For more information, email enf3@duke.edu
November 14, 2009 - Minor American Poetry Series
English, 2009/09/09 13:33:53
Lucy Corin and Guillermo Parra
Readings will be held at The Space (715 Washington Street) at 8 pm. Sponsored by the English Department's Poetry Reading Group.
November 05, 2009 - Americanist Speaker Series
English, 2009/10/29 10:45:19
Sarita See:'Five dollars per letter': Carlos Bulosan and the Wages of Epistolary Romance
Time: 6 pm
Location: The home of Priscilla Wald
For more information, please email enf3@duke.edu
October 29, 2009 - Americanist Speaker Series
English, 2009/09/28 11:08:41
Matt Taylor: Immunologics: Communicable Cultures in James Mooney's The Ghost Dance Religion and Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men
7 pm at the home of Priscilla Wald
For more information, email enf3@duke.edu
October 19, 2009 - Why Read Sophocles?
English, 2009/09/28 11:06:06
Kathrin Rosenfield (University of 'Rio Grande do Sul', Brazil)
4 pm in 217 Perkins
October 24, 2009 - Minor American Poetry Series
English, 2009/09/11 10:41:56
Robert Gluck and Gail Scott
Readings will be held at The Space (715 Washington Street) at 8 pm. Sponsored by the English Department's Poetry Reading Group.
November 03, 2009 - 'Divided by a Common Language?': British and American
English, 2009/09/25 11:58:31
Dr. David Grylls, Oxford scholar and on-site Director of summer Duke in Oxford
12-1 pm, Perkins Library, Breedlove Room
co-sponsored by the Global Education Office for Undergraduates, AB Duke Scholars, and Department of English
October 01, 2009 - Jennifer Herdt: "Seminar on the Virtues"
English, 2009/09/17 10:26:15
Duke Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Colloquium:
Jennifer Herdt (University of Notre Dame)
Breedlove Room, 3 - 5 pm
October 15, 2009 - A. S. Byatt
English, 2009/10/12 09:51:01
Reading by A.S. Byatt
Gothic Reading Room
7:30
Event is free and open to the public.
Duke calendar listing
September 14, 2009 - Poetry Reading - Nathaniel Mackey
English, 2009/09/09 09:51:53
Breedlove Room
6 pm
Welcome back!
English, 2009/08/21 10:32:13
We hope you all had a wonderful summer!
Please welcome our new graduate students:
Ainehi Edoro
Clare Callahan
Damien Marassa
Dan Johnson
Diana Koretsky
Fran McDonald
Jackie Cowan
Lynne Feeley
Kaila Brown
Pete Moore
Sean Ward
Whitney Trettien
Congratulations class of 2009!
English, 2009/05/11 14:47:01
Our best wishes for a wonderful summer and for the adventures ahead.
April 25, 2009 - Minor American Reading Series
English, 2009/04/15 12:01:29
Tanya Olson & Fred Moten
8pm
More details here. (Scroll down.)
May 21, 2009 - NASSR Conference: Romanticism & Modernity
English, 2009/04/22 14:46:03
Duke is proud to welcome NASSR members back to Durham for the 17th annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.
May 21-24 at the Washington Duke Inn
More details here. [more]
April 14, 2009 - Elizabeth Alexander
English, 2009/03/30 13:03:56
Elizabeth Alexander, Inaugural Poet
Intro. by Pres. Brodhead
5:30 pm at the Nasher
April 08, 2009 - Reynolds Price reading from Three Gospels
English, 2009/03/20 11:56:19
7pm, Rare Book Room
Sponsored by the Duke University
Libraries. More information from ilene.nelson@duke.edu
April 07, 2009 - Archive Literary Festival: Joe Ashby Porter
English, 2009/03/17 12:45:35
7 pm in the Rare Book Room
March 14, 2009 - Minor American Reading Series
English, 2009/03/05 15:23:42
Laynie Brown and Joe Donahue - poetry reading
for more details: kathrynlpringle@gmail.com
Poetry Working Group
April 02, 2009 - The State and the Problem of the Political
English, 2009/03/27 11:13:11
Political Theory Working Group: This year's Spring Symposium will be held in the Breedlove Room at Perkins Library on April 2 and 3, 2009.
February 27, 2009 - Graduate Recruitment Weekend
English, 2009/02/24 10:20:07
Welcome visiting prospective students Friday and Saturday! Questions about grad recruitment events: rocio.lower@duke.edu
February 18, 2009 - DukeReads: Sam Wells, The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
English, 2008/10/22 11:42:14
DukeReads is an interactive online book club hosted by NPR's Frank Stasio. Log on just before 7 pm to participate in the discussion!
February 13, 2009 - Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls
English, 2009/02/12 13:29:40
Undergrad performance of Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls in Middle English (special guest appearances) Facing page translation provided. Breedlove Room; 4 - 5 pm
February 16, 2009 - CD Wright - Poetry Reading
English, 2009/02/09 18:34:43
6 pm in the Breedlove Room (Perkins Library)
February 10, 2009 - Dominika Baran - Linguistics talk
English, 2009/02/09 18:40:12
Language ideologies and identity: A case study of Taiwan --- 2:45 - 4 pm in LINK classroom 2 (downstairs in Perkins Library)
Shakespeare Read-aloud
A fun, informal group - all are welcome! Tues., 7:30 pm in 328 Allen; Julius Caesar
February 06, 2009 - Lisa Bonnici
English, 2009/01/28 16:26:15
Public displays of language and ideologies of English in postcolonial Malta's 'English-speaking' communities
4:30 - 6 pm
LINK classroom 2 (downstairs in Perkins Library)
January 28, 2009 - Americanist Speaker Series presents: Bruce Barnhart
English, 2009/01/09 11:30:05
"Kamau Brathwaite and Coleman Hawkins: Re-Versioning American Temporality"
Time: 7 pm
Location: The home of Priscilla Wald
For more information, email enf3@duke.edu
Prof. Gauthier named Topical Editor of the Optical Society of America's Optics Letters
Physics, for faculty, 2008/12/24 21:13:49
Prof. Daniel Gauthier was recently named a Topical Editor of the Optical Society of America's Optics Letters for a 3-year term. The journal publishes the latest research in optical science, including optical measurements, optical components and devices, atmospheric optics, biomedical optics, Fourier optics, integrated optics, optical processing, optoelectronics, lasers, nonlinear optics, optical storage and holography, optical coherence, polarization, quantum electronics, ultrafast optical phenomena, photonic crystals, and fiber optics.
Featured Member: Daniel J. Gauthier of Physics
February 19, 2009 - Howard Norman: Blackburn Visiting Fiction Writer
English, 2009/01/07 16:39:41
Howard Norman will be the Blackburn Visiting Fiction Writer during the week of Feb. 15-21. He will give a reading at 7 pm, Thurs. Feb. 19 in the Rare Book Room at Perkins library (reception to follow).
Happy New Year!
English, 2009/01/05 13:03:02
Best wishes for the start of the new year and the new semester.
January 10, 2009 - Minor American Reading Series
English, 2009/01/05 13:02:09
Adeena Karasick and Rachel Blau duPlessis
For details/directions see the Community section
February 26, 2009 - Infection in the Sentence: A Festival of Poetry
English, 2009/02/22 13:24:05
More details here.
Thurs. Feb 26 - Sat. Feb 28: Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Kamau Brathwaite, Christian Bok, Brent Edwards, Renee Gladman, Susan Howe, Myung Mi Kim, Tracie Morris, Eileen Myles, Jed Rasula, Cecil Taylor, and Cecilia Vicuna.
Student workshops Friday!
November 19, 2009 - Rethinking Development Policy Talk Series
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/11/04 11:04:51
DCID invites you to the third Rethinking Development Policy Talk for the Fall 2009 semester:
Speaker: Chris Gergen, Director, Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative, Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy
Topic: "Life Entrepreneurship: Creating a Life of Significance"
Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm
Location: Sanford 05
For more information, contact scovill@duke.edu
October 22, 2009 - DCID Presents: Rethinking Development Policy
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/10/20 13:28:13
Join us for the next lecture in the DCID talk series "Rethinking Development Policy":
"Sustaining Africa's Growth Performance-What does the Current Economic Crisis Tell Us?"
Sudhir Setty, Sector Director, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM), Africa Region, The World Bank
Thursday, October 22, 2009
5:30-7:00pm
Sanford 05
Light Refreshments will be served.
For more information, email scovill@duke.edu
In the Service of Learning: A Conversation about Civic Engagement and the Undergraduate Experience
Education, 2009/10/20 09:12:07
This colloquium will be on Monday, November 2nd, 4:00-5:30 p.m., Nasher Museum of Art.This event is free and open to the public. To reserve a seat, e-mail the Service-Learning Program at servicelearning@duke.edu by Wednesday, October 28th. In conjunction with the board meeting of the International Center for Service-Learning in Teacher Education now housed here at Duke, the Program in Education and the Service-Learning Program are pleased to sponsor a colloquium on the role of the university in creating and sustaining opportunities for engaged learning. Presenters are Andrew Furco, Vice President of Public Engagement at the University of Minnesota, and Elson Nash, Acting Director of Learn & Serve America.
October 21, 2009 - October 21 - John Brewer - East Duke Parlors 4:00 - 5:30
History, for faculty, 2009/10/14 14:14:23
Distinguished historian John Brewer will speak on Closeness and Distance: Loyalist Affection and Radical Benevolence in the Age of the French Revolution.
This lecture sponsored by the Department of History, Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Women's Studies, and it is free and open to the public.
Professor Brewer is the Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of History and Literature at California Institute of Technology. His influential books include The birth of a Consumer Society, Early Modern Conceptions of Property, Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State 1688-1783, and The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Brewer will be signing copies of his most recent publication, The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money, at the Nasher Museum of Art on Thursday, October 22nd, starting at 5:30; reception to follow.
October 16, 2009 - Friday, October 16 David Hackett Fischer Noon Room 229 Carr
History, for faculty, 2009/10/14 14:10:30
A Third Way Forward for History Today: Braided Narratives, Webs of Choice, Vernacular Ideas, and Other Mediating Strategies.
Lunch will be provided.
October 12, 2009 - *CANCELED* October 12, 2009 - Book Reception - 226 Carr Faculty Lounge
History, for faculty, 2009/10/12 11:41:12
The reception to celebrate the publication of Sucheta Mazumdar, Vasant Kaiwar and Thierry Labica eds, "From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference" has been canceled.
November 05, 2009 - November 05-08, 2009 - Resolve 2009 Conference - Chicago
History, 2009/09/28 13:45:21
Students have been taking action on this issue for years; volunteering, raising funds and getting involved in the community. Now it's time to take that action to the next level.
I invite you to join hundreds of students from across the country who will come together at the Resolve 2009 Conference this fall to launch our Resolve to Fight Poverty. You'll hear the latest on the issues, learn the skills to take action, build alliances and together, we will do what it takes to ensure everyone can live in a world without poverty.
Resolve 2009 will be great opportunity to get new students involved on your campus, develop new leaders, and make a bigger impact through service opportunities, education and awareness events and advocacy.
Take the initiative. Register and find out more about the conference at our website: http://www.studentsagainsthunger.org/conference
We're looking for student leaders, just like you, to lead this charge over the coming weeks. Contact me at will@studentsagainsthunger.org or give me a call to learn more about our great leadership and volunteer opportunities or for resources on how to fundraise for your trip.
September 25, 2009 - International Taxation Program Luncheon and Speaker Series
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/09/23 12:15:01
The first International Taxation Program Luncheon and Speaker Series will take place on Friday, September 25, 2009 at noon in Rubenstein 200.
Speaker: Scott Dyreng. Assistant Professor, Fuqua School of Business
Topic: "The Impact of Taxation on the Location of Foreign Operations"
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please contact Cheryl Noga, can6@duke.edu, for more information.
September 24, 2009 - Rethinking Development Policy Talk Series
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/09/22 12:08:20
Duke Center for International Development
presents:
Maureen M. Lempke, Ph.D.
Visiting Lecturer and International Development Consultant
"New Analytical Tools to Identify, Evaluate, and Monitor Land and Governance Issues:
Can They Encourage Better Land Policies and Interventions?"
Thursday, September 24, 2009
5:30pm-7:00pm
Rubenstein Hall – Room 200
Sanford School of Public Policy
The First Fall Workshop in the Series "Rethinking Development Policy"
Discussion will follow a short presentation.
Light refreshments will be served.
October 02, 2009 - Military History Seminar Program
History, for faculty, 2010/03/23 08:40:54
Friday, April 16, 2010, 4 - 6 pm
Robert Brigham (Vassar College)
Rethinking Pacification in Vietnam
September 17, 2009 - September 17 - REGSS Colloquium - Noon - Erwin Mill Bldg, Room A103
History, for faculty, 2009/09/18 16:13:29
Adriane Lentz-Smith, Ph.D., Department of History
Freedom Struggles: African Americans, World War I, and Civil Rights
Clashing with white American soldiers in the ports and villages of wartime France, African Americans fought their own "War for Democracy." In this talk, she will discuss how fighting in a Jim Crow army on foreign soil spurred black soldiers to rework their notions of nation and belonging, empire and diaspora, manhood and citizenship. This changing political consciousness spurred a dogged political activism in soldiers and civilians alike. World War I mobilized a generation and laid the groundwork for the movement that emerged in World War II.
Lunch will be served at noon.
Fall 2009 History Colloquium Schedule
History, for faculty, 2009/10/29 08:27:31
Monday November 16
Reeve Huston "The Crisis in Popular Sovereignty in the United States, 1816 to 1825"
The colloquium will be in 229 Carr at 12:00 noon
September 10-11, 2009 - International Approaches to Historical Studies
History, for faculty, 2009/08/25 10:45:24
The second annual symposium of the Duke-Durham University Exchange will convene over lunch on Thursday, September 10 and conclude in the late afternoon of Friday, September 11, 2009.
Faculty and graduate students from the Department of History at Durham University in Durham, England will be discussing their ongoing research on topics ranging from war and peace in early medieval Europe, New Deal policy towards native Americans in the Depression era United States , and post Civil War reconstruction in the late twentieth century Sudan.
Funding for this event is being generously provided by Durham University's International Office and Department of History and by the Deans of International Affairs and Arts and Sciences, the Department of History, and the Trent Foundation at Duke.
DURHAM UNIVERSITY HISTORIANS
Ph.D. students:
Tom Allbeson,
Leona Skelton,
Attitudes towards Public Hygiene in Northern English Towns and Scottish Burghs, c.1560-1700 (early modern Britain; urban history)Will Berridge, ‘Hit
and go on hitting’: Political Policing and Decolonisation in the North (Sudan)Charlie Rozier,
Henry of Huntingdon and the Vision of History in his Prologue to the Historia Anglorum (Classical and Christian influences on historical imagination in medieval England)c.c.rozier@durham.ac.ukFaculty:
Cherry Leonardi,
Gabriella Treglia,
Testing the ‘Safety Zone’ thesis: a reassessment of government attitudes to Native American cultures during the Indian New Deal, 1933-1945 (The US government and Native American people)Jo Fox,
The Strange Case of Rudolf Hess: Modelling British and German Responses to the Flight of the Deputy Führer, 1941 (Film history; Nazi Germany; The history of propaganda in the twentieth century AND Director of Undergraduate Studies)Paul Stephenson,
Nicholas the Monk, former Soldier (middle Byzantine political and cultural history; the history and historiography of the Balkans AND Director of Postgraduate Studies) paulstephenson@mac.comLawrence Black,
The politics of Whitehouse… or… there was something about Mary (Modern British political and cultural history; Political culture - identities, practice and social movements since 1955; Politics of consumerism, the arts, 'culture', creative economy, TV, affluence and postmaterialism)September 6 - Harry Potter's World - Durham County Library - 3pm
History, for faculty, 2009/09/09 08:33:32
Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine
Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine, a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. The exhibition tour is coordinated by the American Library Association Public Programs Office, Chicago.
The Duke Medical Center Library has partnered with the Durham County Library to bring this exhibit to our area.
The exhibit and the following related events will take place at the Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro Street, Durham, NC.
Lecture: Things Most Strange and Wondrous: Medicine in the Renaissance Dr. Thomas Robisheaux, Department of History, Duke University, Sunday, September 6 at 3:00 pm.
Exhibit: Strange & Wonderful Things from the Trent Collection. This small exhibit of related materials is from the Trent Collection, Duke Medical Center Library.
For more details, please visit http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org/harry_potters_world.php
June 11, 2009 - Duke To Host June 11 Celebration In Honor Of John Hope and Aurelia Whittington Franklin
History, 2009/06/05 11:26:30
Featured speakers at the event include former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who in 1997 appointed John Hope Franklin to chair a national task force on race.
Duke University will host "A Celebration of the Lives of John Hope and Aurelia Whittington Franklin," on Thursday, June 11, to honor the late historian and his late wife, who were married on June 11, 1940.
Featured speakers at the event include former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who in 1997 appointed John Hope Franklin to chair a national task force on race, and attorney and civil rights leader Vernon Jordan, Franklin’s longtime friend. Duke trustee emerita Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and Duke President Richard H. Brodhead will also give remarks. The celebration is open to the public, and begins at 11 a.m. in Duke Chapel.
The Franklins’ son and daughter-in-law, John Whittington and Karen Roberts Franklin, arranged the celebration, which includes a number of other speakers and several musical performances. Overflow seating is available in Page Auditorium.
Per his wishes, there was no funeral or memorial service for John Hope Franklin following his death this March. Instead, his family planned a celebration of his and his wife’s lives in honor of their 69th wedding anniversary. Aurelia Whittington Franklin died in 1999.
John Whittington Franklin will provide opening remarks.
Other speakers include:
Vivian Mildred Corbett Bailey, John Hope Franklin’s childhood friend
Thavolia Glymph, chair of Duke’s African and African American Studies department
Evelyn Higginbotham, Harvard history professor and co-author of the 9th edition of "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans"
David Levering Lewis, a New York University history professor
Emily Mann, friend and director of the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J.
Genna Rae McNeil, former student and history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Cynthia Gibbs Wilson, niece of John Hope and Aurelia Whittington Franklin.
The Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, where as students John Hope Franklin met Aurelia Whittington, will perform three selections. Duke violinist Eric Pritchard and trumpet player James Ketch of the University of North Carolina will each perform dedicated works by Chapel Hill composer T.J. Anderson.
Visitors may park in the Bryan Center parking garage on Duke’s West Campus. In addition, visitors can park in lots along Duke University Road near Chapel Drive, where shuttles will be available to bring them to the chapel. People with accessibility needs may be dropped off at the chapel, but their drivers must park in general parking. Traffic is expected to be heavy due to multiple events on campus.
The program will be aired live on UNC-NC, and Duke will provide a live webcast at www.ustream.tv/dukeuniversity.
For more information and updates, visit www.duke.edu/johnhopefranklin.
John Hope Franklin, the scholar who helped create the field of African-American history, died at age 94 on March 25, 2009. His reputation as a scholar was made in 1947 with the publication of his book, "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans," which is still considered the definitive account of the black experience in America 60 years after its publication. He spent 16 years at the University of Chicago, coming to Duke in 1982 for an appointment in the history department, and later, as professor of legal history at the Duke Law School. In 2001, Duke opened the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, where scholars, artists and members of the community have the opportunity to engage in public discourse. Franklin’s many honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
April 20, 2009 Fox Lecture 4pm Room 105 West Duke Building
History, for faculty, 2009/04/21 16:10:23
Department of History
Department of Philosophy
Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine
Present a Lecture by
ROBERT FOX
Professor, History of Science, Oxford University, Emeritus
"Science, Church, and State in France From the Second Empire to the Popular Front"
Monday, April 20, 2009 - 4:00 pm Room 105, West Duke Bldg. Reception to Follow
April 03, 2009 - April 3, 2009 - Third Latin American & Caribbean Graduate Student Workshop - 229 Carr Bldg
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This event will discuss the following advance-circulated papers by two Duke ABDs:
Reena Goldthree, "Fighting for King and Country: Imperial Patriotism, Transnational Labor Recruitment, and the Making of the British West Indies Regiment."
Elizabeth Shesko, "Deserters, Traitors, and Izquerdistas: How the "Bad Sons of Bolivia" Strengthened the State."
Please RSVP to jdfrench@duke.edu to confirm your participation.
Event begins at 3:00 followed by a reception.
April 02, 2009 - April 2, 2009 - Laurent Dubois - NC Museum of History 7:00 pm
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"The Banjo: A Cultural History"
Laurent Dubois will share the storied history of the banjo, an instrument whose development was marked by wide cultural encounters from Africa to the Caribbean and North America, contributing to an incredibly rich variety of musical traditions.
This talk is a part of the Perspectives on History lecture series, sponsored by the National Humanities Center and the North Carolina Museum of History. To learn more about this series, visit the Center's Web site or the North Carolina Museum of History.
To register, call the NC Museum of History Associates at 919-807-7853.
March 20, 2009 - DNA-based Nanotechnology Symposium
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A full-day symposium on DNA-based Nanotechnology will be held at Duke University on Friday, March 20, 2009. The symposium will feature the director and several members from the Centre for DNA Nanotechnology at Aarhus University, a center of excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. Confirmed speakers include Ned Seeman, father of the field of structural DNA nanotech; Peter Nielsen, inventor of PNA; Jesper Wengel, inventor of LNA; Flemming Besenbacher, director of the iNANO Center; and other research leaders from the US (Hao Yan, ASU; William Shih, Harvard; Chengde Mao, Purdue) and Denmark (Kurt Gothelf & Jorgen Kjems). The symposium will be held from 8:30 am to 4:45 pm in Auditorium 103 of the Bryan Research Building [Symposium Agenda]
March 26, 2009 - Kenneth Reardon is Promoting Transformational Learning!
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Professor Reardon is a nationally recognized scholar in the filed of service-learning and civic engagement. He is part of the speaker series in applied educational research. He is presenting “Promoting Transformational Learning Through Civic Engagement: Yes we Can!” on March 25 4:30pm in Von Canon A in the Bryan Center. Professor Reardon has recently been appointed Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in City and Regional Planning in the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Memphis where he is involved in research, teaching, and outreach activities in the areas of neighborhood planning, community development, and community/university partnerships. Prior to joining the University of Memphis faculty, he served as an Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University where he established the Cornell Urban Scholars Program and Cornell Urban Mentors Programs
December 12, 2009 - at UNC-CH: Charanga Carolina and Orquesta GarDel
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Kenan Rehearsal Room, UNC. Doors and DJ at 9pm, Charanga at 9:45pm, Orquesta GarDel at 11pm.
Charanga Carolina and Orquesta GarDel share a founder, David Garcia, and a
lead vocalist, Nelson Delgado. December 12th is Nelson's birthday and we
figured there was no better way to celebrate than to put on a big party!
This is the real deal: the Kenan rehearsal room at UNC has a large wooden
floor for dancing, and we want to see everyone out there grooving as best
as they know how.
DCID Customized Executive Education Program featured on Kazakhstan Civil Service website
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:44:40
DCID's training for officials from the Republic of Kazakhstan was featured on Kazakhstan's Agency of Civil Service Affair's website. [more]
December 07, 2009 - Chris Bongie (Queens University) speaking on "Politics, Memory, Literature: The Divisive Universality of Nineteenth Century Haiti"
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4:00-5:30 PM, 240 Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Rd (off Duke South Hospital)
Chris Bongie, Professor of English at Queen’s University, is the author of three monographs, the new Friends and Enemies: The Scribal Politics of Post/Colonial Literature (Liverpool UP, 2008), Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature (Stanford UP 1998), and Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle (Stanford UP 1991). He is also the editor and translator of Victor Hugo’s novel on the Haitian Revolution, Bug-Jargal, and the editor of Jean-Baptiste Picquenard’s Adonis. He teaches on subjects including Black British literature, the marketing of postcolonial literature, and photography and adaptation theory.This event is presented by The UNC-Duke working group on Caribbean
Studies in an Era of Globalization (co-led by Deborah Jenson and
Michaeline Crichlow). This event is co-sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Department of English at Duke. Please Contact: Deborah Jenson deborah.jenson@duke.edu for more information.
December 11, 2009 - The Ackland Art Museum presents new exhibit of Cuban cinema
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The Ackland Art Museum presents a special exhibition of 16 Cuban cinema posters recently given to the Ackland by eminent art historian, collector, and Carolina alumnus David Craven. Almost Now examines the central role that artists, filmmakers, and film audiences have played in Cuban cultural and political discourse since the Cuban Revolution. Through December 6, 2009 Free Please Contact: www.ackland.org 919-966-5736 for more information.
November 19, 2009 - Different Shades of Other Discussion Today
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Thursday, November 19, 7:00 PM
Mary Lou Williams Center, Duke West Campus
Discussion on inter-ethnic relations at Duke. Come join the Omega Phi Beta sisters tonight!
November 16, 2009 - Hernan Vega, IBM, comes to Duke
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7 PM, Von Canon inside the Bryan Center
Hernan Vega, Vice President of Worldwide Client Care, IBM, will be coming to Duke for an informal talk. There will be plenty of opportunity for you to ask him questions during and after this discussion, as there will be a reception afterward with FREE FOOD from El Cuscatleco Restaurant! Don't miss this opportunity to engage in a conversation with Hernan on climbing the corporate ladder and learn about his road to success.
Vega joined IBM in 1984 with a BSEE from the University of Puerto Rico, and an MBA and MSIE from the University of Miami.
This special event is brought to you by SHPE (The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) in association with Mi Gente. Contact valerie.tornini@duke.edu for more information.
November 19, 2009 - at UNC-CH: Teatro Latino Series presents 2 one-person plays
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UNC's Teatro Latino Series presents two one-person plays by Chicana/o playwright/performers as part of the Solo Takes On festival.
November 19-20, 8 PM., UNC, Swain Hall, Studio 6
Border Stories is a solo performance piece comprised of a series of monologues inspired by interviews conducted with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people who live on the U.S.- Mexico border. Written and performed by theatre artist, Gregory Ramos, who plays 21 different characters, the play lays bare what it means to form a sense of self against the background of traditional, cultural, familial, and religious obstacles.
November 15, 3 PM; Nov. 21, 5 PM; Nov. 22, 3 PM, Swain Hall
Doin Time: Through the Visiting Glass examines the impact of incarceration on families. Ashley Lucas, the child of an incarcerated father, conducted interviews in California, Texas, and New York with prisoners’ family members, former prisoners, and people who do work connected to prisons. She also corresponded with over 400 prisoners from across the U.S. Weaving together these interviews and letters with her personal experience as a prisoner’s child and creative writing, Lucas wrote a one-person show which she performs herself.
Tickets for Border Stories and Doin' Time are $10 for the public. A "Solo Pass" for all five shows in the Solo Takes On festival is $25 for the public. These tickets are available through the Communication Studies department at (919) 962-2311 or at the door.
November 17, 2009 - NC Latin American Film Festival: Showing at Duke
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Tuesday, November 17. 7pm. Griffith Film Theater. Bryan Center.
SLEEP DEALER. Alex Rivera (Mexico-USA, 2008) 90 min. A science fiction set in a world, not too unlike our own, in which a global, high speed network ties distant people and places together: a migrant, a soldier, and a writer. “Virtual Immigration” is implied, exploitation without physical presence. Alex Rivera is a Peruvian-American. Alex will be present after the film for a discussion.
For more information, visit http://22ndfilmfestivalnc.googlepages.com/2009films
November 16, 2009 - at UNC-CH: The Latino/a Cultures Speaker Series presents Dr. Nancy Mirabal
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6:00 PM, University Room at the Institute for Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall, UNC (click link for map)
Dr. Mirabal (San Francisco State University) will be presenting her work in a lecture entitled, "'Echando Pleito': El Club Cubano Inter-Americano and the Emergence of Afro-Cuban Politics and Identity in New York City, 1945 - 1995.”
Free and open to the public. Book signing to follow lecture.
Sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, The Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, and the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.
November 11, 2009 - NC Latin American Film Festival: Showing at Duke
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Saturday, November 14. 7pm. Richard White Auditorium.
Works of Andres Tapia-Urzua include: SPANGLISH, UP, LOVERDOSIS, IRON JOE, MATADERO KARMA.
Andrés will be present to introduce and discuss the films, he is Chilean who was exiled during the Pinochet dictatorship.
For more information visit http://22ndfilmfestivalnc.googlepages.com/2009films
DCID SAFEA program featured in Duke Chronicle
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:44:49
DCID's customized executive education program "SAFEA" (State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs) was featured in The Chronicle, Duke's student newspaper. To view the article, follow the provided link. [more]
November 12, 2009 - at UNC-CH: Carolina Latino Collaborative Housewarming
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¡Bienvenidos! Featuring the art of Mario Marzan
7:00 pm Thursday, November 12, UNC, Craige North, Room 144
For directions and parking visit: http://clc.unc.edu
Join us for an informal housewarming event for the Carolina Latina/o
Collaborative. Come meet the staff and get to know more about what
goes on! Mario Marzan, featured artist at the CLC this semester, will
briefly speak about his artwork.
6:45 pm Friday, November 13, Kenan Rehearsal Room, Kenan Music Building
on Columbia Street between Franklin and Cameron Ave, Chapel
Hill.
Select campus and community leaders will briefly discuss their efforts
and achievements in the community in order to highlight great work
going on at UNC and in the Triangle. The event will include food,
beverages and live Cuban and salsa music by the Music Department's
Charanga Carolina directed by David García. Doors will open at
6:45pm, the program will start at 7:00, and Charanga Carolina will
perform at 7:30.
November 09, 2009 - NCLAFF: Chevolution Showing at Duke
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Monday, November 9, 7pm. Griffith Film Theater. Bryan Center.
NC Latin American Film Festival presents CHEVOLUTION. A cultural history of a photograph. A journey across social and political mobilizations at the light of an iconic image. There will be a discussion immediately following the film!
For more information about the film or the festival visit http://22ndfilmfestivalnc.googlepages.com/2009films.
November 06, 2009 - The LoDi Project: November Art Exhibition Opening
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Friday November 6, 2009 at 6:00pm - 9:00pm. The LoDi Gallery (Raleigh).
Opening of November exhibition: Architectural Spaces. Click here to read article describing the project.
For more information, visit www.thelodiproject.com.
Evolving Theories of Civilization
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Professor Sucheta Mazumdar urges students to look beyond familiar notions of nations and civilizations. See: Duke Today
November 02, 2009 - Celebrate Dia de Los Muertos with El Pueblo
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November 2, 2009, 5:00-8:00 PM, outside of the International Foods Market in Raleigh, NC
The celebration will consist of altars created by each one of El
Pueblo's programs including: Public Safety, Health, Youth Leadership and
Advocacy. The organization is inviting everyone to contribute to a
*community altar*, which will be created, by community members who will
bring items or foods to be placed in the altar. Refreshments, including
the traditional "Pan de Muertos" or 'Bread of the Dead" and hot
beverages will be offered to participants. As a family celebration, this
event will also offer activities for children and folkloric dances as well as a program explaining the history and importance of the Day of the Dead and information about the work of the different programs at El Pueblo which promote the importance of preventing premature or unjust
deaths.
Contact El Pueblo or margarita.mcavoy@elpueblo.org for more information.
October 30, 2009 - Marta Gomez in Durham to benefit Safe Passage
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Come join in the 2009 Celebration of 10 Years of SAFE PASSAGE, an organization in Guatemala that works with children whose families make a living working in the Guatemala City Garbage Dump.
If you missed Marta Gomez in July at New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club, you have got to catch her show in Durham!
6:00 Reception and Wine, 7:30 Concert
Capture two wonderful experiences in one evening – marvelous music for an important cause. If you will not be able to attend, but would like to support the cause, consider buying raffle tickets for the possibility to win a trip for two to Guatemala or a weekend at the Celo Inn in the mountains of NC. Raffle tickets are only $10, cheaper if you buy more. contact Rachel at rachel.mikala.cohn@gmail.com for more information.
October 21, 2009 - CNN's Soledad O'Brian Presents Latinos in America Report
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Wednesday and Thursday, October 21-22, 9:00 PM
"By 2050, the U.S. Latino population is expected to nearly triple. This October, CNN's Soledad O'Brien explores how Latinos are reshaping our communities and culture and forcing a nation of immigrants to rediscover what it means to be an American."
Join Soledad O'Brian as she explores Latinos in American on CNN.
October 28, 2009 - Opening Meeting of the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Working Group
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4:00-5:30 PM, Weds. October 28, 225 Friedl, Duke East Campus
Opening Meeting of the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies working group. Group Networking and a Presentation by Deborah Jenson: "Caribbean Studies in an Era of Globalization"
October 17, 2009 - Un Mundo Benefit @ Broad Street Cafe
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Promoting dignity, community, and self-sufficiency, Un Mundo facilitates access to health care, education, and livable wages in marginalized Honduran communities.
Join Un Mundo for a night of education, music, art, dance, raffles and fun to support our cause!
DATE: Saturday, October 17, 2009
TIME: 7:00 p.m. - 12:00 midnight
LOCATION: Broad Street Cafe, 1116 Broad St, Durham, NC
ENTERTAINMENT: DJ Nogui Aramburo & Performances by Flamenco Carolina! Salsa lessons starting at 7:30!
Tickets are $15 at the door! Sponsorships starting at $150 automatically grant you two tickets to the event and enter you into the raffle for the trip to Bald Head Island, the two Duke basketball tickets and the gift certificate to Watts Grocery. Additionally, your generous contribution will also be recognized at the event.
For more information, to pre-purchase tickets, enter raffles, or be a sponsor go to www.unmundo.org/benefit-at-broad-street.
October 15, 2009 - Hispanic Heritage Closing Event with Mi Gente
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HHM Closing Dinner, 8 PM, Armadillo Grill
on West Campus
Come and celebrate the end of Hispanic Heritage Month! Thanks for a great few weeks!
October 30, 2009 - at UNC-CH: Visiting Artist Eduardo "Choco" Roca
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CHOCO, a specialist in collagraph printmaking, will be working all month at the Department of Art's John Henry Print Studio, producing several collagraph prints. The public is invited to drop in and observe his work in progress during the afternoons from 2-4:30. An exhibition of his work will be in the John and June Allcott Undergraduate Gallery from October 8-19. A special 2-day workshop on collagraph printmaking is scheduled for Friday, October 16 (for plate-making) and Friday, October 30 (for printing) from 9-noon. Participation is limited to 12. Please contact Beth Grabowski (beth.grabowski@unc.edu) to sign up. Questions? Contact Lou Perez (perez@email.unc.edu) or Beatriz Riefkohl (riefkohl@email.unc.edu) or Beth Grabowski (beth.grabowski@unc.edu)
October 15, 2009 - De-colonizing Aethesis: A workshop
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6:00-9:00 PM, 225 Friedl Building, Duke East Campus.
With the participation of Kency Cornejo (Art History), Camila Maroja (Art History), and Brantley Nicholson (Romance Studies). Light dinner will be served. Contact Tracy Carhart at tracy.carhart@duke.edu for more information.
October 15, 2009 - Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations, Heraldo Munoz Reading
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5:00-6:30 PM, Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke West Campus.
Ambassador Munoz, who was imprisoned and exiled by the Pinochet regime because of his political views, will read from his poignant and wide-ranging memoir, reounding how Chileans brought the former dictator to account for some of his crimes right until his death in 2006.
The event is sponsored by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Archive for Human Rights at Duke University Libraries, the Duke Human Rights Center, and the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
For more information, contact rights@duke.edu
October 05, 2009 - 2009 NC Latin American Film Festival Dates Announced
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The 2009 NC Latin American Film Festival will be held November 1-22, 2009 in venues across the Triangle area. This fall, themes of selected works revolve around Revolution, with a special focus on Che Guevara and Cuba.
The NC Latin American Film Festival was started 22 years ago to celebrate the power and artistry of Latin America's film and audiovisual production. Its mission is to provide a space in North Carolina for Latin American images, sounds, and stories to reach a wider audience. The Festival provides filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their work in a stimulating and community friendly context. The Festival is sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Duke University and is sponsored in part by the Program for Latino/a Studies at Duke. For a sample program and for further information, please see the website.
Questions? Contact Miguel Rojas at rojaszotelo@gmail.com.
October 08, 2009 - October 11, 2009: Capoeira Workshop and Batizado
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Thursday, October 8, 7:00 PM, Common Room of Basset, East Campus
Friday, October 9, 11:40-12:55 PM, Master Class, Ark Dance Studio East Campus; 7:00 PM, Dinner at Sushi/Thai
Saturday, October 10, 1:00-4:00 PM, Workshop at Raleigh Aikikai; Batizado at Wing Chun, 6:00-8:00 PM
Sunday, October 11, 12:00 PM Lunch at Carolina BBQ
For more information contact Fabiano Cunha at fabiano@ralieghcapoeira.com.
October 01, 2009 - Cuban Dinner Night on Thursday!
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Come to a Cuban Dinner Night this Thursday Oct. 1st at 7 pm in the Mary Lou Williams center (West Union building, next to the Loop; right above the Duke Card Office), sponsored by the Cuban-American Student Association (CASA). LECHON ASADO and PICADILLO are the highlights on the menu (salivating yet?). This dinner will be fun, informal, casual, and relaxed. Come for good food and good company. There is no agenda. Just food. Come meet other Cuban-Americans (and honorary Cuban-Americans) on campus. Bring friends! Need not be Cuban, just generally awesome. RSVP to Alex at acv5@duke.edu so that we know to expect you. Sponsored in part by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
September 30, 2009 - Mi Gente General Body Meeting Tonight!
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7:00 PM, Coffeehouse, Free food!
Come out to discuss Hispanic Heritage Month! Wear your country's colors (even if your country isn't Hispanic!) and come hang out, eat dinner, and listen to awesome music!
September 30, 2009 - First Duke Students for Humane Borders Meeting Tonight!
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8:00 PM Wednesday, September 30, Von der Hayden
Come out tonight to discuss ideas for this year!
October 01, 2009 - UNC-CH: "Our Latino/a Stories" Panel
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4:00-6:00 PM, 101 Greenlaw, UNC
Panel discussion featuring members of the Latino/a student, graduate, and professor community.
Our Latina/o Stories will explore the diversity of Latina/o communities by allowing a panel of Latino/a students, faculty, and staff to share their thoughts and experiences. John Ribo, graduate assistant for the Carolina Latino/a Collaborative, will open the discussion by reflecting on the intersections of Latinidades that have marked his personal and professional life.
For more information contact John Ribo at jribo@email.unc.edu.
September 28, 2009 - Spanish Conversation Hour
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6:30-7:30 PM, Duke International House
Are you interested in
speaking the second-most spoken and studied language in the
October 16, 2009 - at UNC-CH: Los Pleneros de la 21 Concert
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The Sonya Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History is hosting Los Pleneros de la 21, one of New York's most prominent Afro-Puerto Rican bomba and plena groups, for a free concert.
Friday, October 16, 7:00 PM at Memorial Hall, UNC
Free and open to the public, with a 4 person ticket limit.
For more information please contact the Stone Center at 919-962-9001 or email Ursula Littlejohn at ulittlej@email.unc.edu
October 09, 2009 - UNC-CH: Globalization, Family, and the State Symposium
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9:00 AM-4:30 PM, UNC Ramshead Center
The North Carolina Annual Law Review is holding its annual symposium, entitled Globalization, Famiily, and the State. Students, faculty, and the public are invited to attend. Key note speakers include: Lourdes Beneria, Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University and Kerry Rittich, Associate Professor of Law and the Women's and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.
More information about the symposium as well as registration information can be found by clicking here or contact Jeremy Tart (jtarr@email.unc.edu) or Nora Warren (nowa@email.unc.edu. )
September 23, 2009 - Hispanic Heritage Month: A Tale of Two Countries, Bolivia and Mexico by Professor Guillermo Trejo
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6:00 PM, GG Commons, Few, Duke West Campus
Free food and ice cream
Come celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by attending a lecture given by our own Professor Guillermo Trejo, Department of Political Science, about Latin America's Racial Gap.
October 15, 2009 - El Futuro opens new mental health clinic in Durham
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El Futuro hosts an open house to showcase their new clinic facilities on Chapel Hill St in Durham. Come join the staff for a tour of the new clinic and to receive information about outreach and volunteer work!
Click here for directions. Contact Dulce Ramirez (919-688-7101) for more information.
October 02, 2009 - October 03, 2009: Latin American Labor History Conference
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2009 Latin American Labor History Conference
In First Person: Biography and History in Latin America
229 Carr Building, East Campus
October 2 (4:30-7:00 PM) and October 3 (9:00 AM-6:30 PM)
Sponsored by Dean's Office of Roanoke College, Duke History Department, Duke Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies, Duke Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Committee.
For further information, email Vanessa Freije (vanessa.freije@duke.edu).
September 20, 2009 - Mallarme Chamber Players: Never Too Tango!
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Sunday, September 20, 2009, Nelson Music Room, Duke East Campus
Come enjoy a jam session of Argentinian tango with the Mallarme players.
Tickets: $18 in advance, $20 at the door, Students $5
Purchase online or call 919-560-2788 for more information.
September 16, 2009 - Omni Zona Franca: marginal/radical art in contemporary Cuba
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Wednesday, September 16th,
2009
4 PM, Room 108.
Lucrezia Cippitelli, PhD Universita La Sapienza (Roma) and V
This lecture will address the origins and activities of Omni Zona Franca,
focusing on their use of public spaces and the heritage of the underground
culture of Alamar. For more information, click here.
Presented by: Center for Latin American and
For more information:
September 12, 2009 - Caminata por los derechos humanos/Walk for Human Rights
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3-6 PM, Saturday, September 12
The walk starts at the Carroboro Farmer' Market, and will wend its way through downtown Carrboro. Nonprofits and signs for nonprofits are welcome, and all the friends of nonprofits are all welcome. This is sponsored by the
Human Rights Center of Chapel Hill & Carrboro (Abbey Court, Carrboro). Please see website for more details: www.humanrightscities.org
For more information, contact Judith Blau at judith_blau@unc.edu.
September 09, 2009 - UNC-CH, Professor Jaqueline Hagan will present Myths and Realities about Migration: Perspectives from Below
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September 9th, 6:00 PM
Global Education Center, Room 4003
Professor Hagan joined the Department of Sociology in 2005 after 15 years on the faculty in Sociology and co-directing the Center for Immigration Research at the University of Houston. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, she moved to Houston and focused her research on the implications of international migration from Latin America. She has done fieldwork in migrant receiving communities in the United States and their sending counterparts in Mexico and Central America. She is author of Deciding to
be Legal (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994) and Migration Miracle (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008). She has been an on-going collaborator in a study of deaths of undocumented migrants during their journey to the United States. She has written extensively on the effects of recent U.S. immigration reform initiatives on the rights and opportunities of immigrants and their families in the United States. Hagan regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international migration with a focus on the implications of Latin American migration to the United States. She is currently launching a bi-national study on migration between Mexico and North Carolina. Hagan has edited several volumes on migration and immigrant incorporation in the United States and Europe. Some of her most recent publications include "Border Blunders: The Unanticipated Human and Economic Costs of the U.S. Approach to Immigration Control, 1986-2007,"Criminology and Public Policy (2008); "U. S. Deportation Policy, Family Separation, and Circular Migration," International Migration Review (2008); "Negotiating
Social Membership in the Contemporary World," Social Forces (2006); and "Making Theological Sense of the Migration Journey from Latin America: Catholic, Protestant and Interfaith Perspectives," American Behavioral Scientist (2006).
September 16, 2009 - Closing Event for Premeditated with Montoya, Hunt, and McKissick
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Please join us as we close this show by award winning Chicano artist Malaquias Montoya. In addition to the artist and his agent/spouse, we will host two special guests - Darryl Hunt (exonerated after 19 years in NC correctional facilities) and State Rep. Floyd McKissick (Senate sponsor of the NC Racial Justice Act).
5:00 PM, Fredric Jameson Gallery, 115 Friedl Building, East Campus. Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.
More info on Hunt and McKissick: Hunt is a Winston-Salem native who in 1984 was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of newspaper employee Deborah Sykes. He served over 19 years in prison before being exonerated due to DNA evidence.After his release, Hunt started the Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice, devoted to "educating the public about flaws in the criminal justice system, advocating for those wrongfully incarcerated as a result of those flaws, and providing resources and support for those trying to rebuild their lives." Rep. Floyd McKissick, Jr., an attorney, was selected in 2007 to serve out the term of the late Jeanne Hopkins Lucas in the North Carolina Senate. The son of the late civil rights activist Floyd McKissick, the senator is a cosponsor of the Racial Justice Act, signed into law by Gov. Beverly Purdue in August 2009. The RJA makes it possible for individuals sentenced to death to introduce statistical evidence establishing racial bias as part of their defense and appeals.
The event is sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center, the NC Coalition for a Moratorium, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, The Innocence Project at Duke Law School, the Duke Chapter of Amnesty International.
For more information on this event, contact rights@duke.edu. For more information on the exhibit and artist, see the full listing under News and/or contact jennysw@duke.edu.
September 15, 2009 - Roundtable Discussion with The Sea is History: Moun Kante, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros
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Roundtable discussion organized in conjunction with
The Sea Is History: Moun Kante, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:00 PM
(reception to follow at 5:30 PM), Perkins Library Biddle Rare Books Room, Duke West Campus.
The roundtable will feature Professor Jorge Duany, University of Puerto Rico, and Cheryl Little, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center.
The Sea of History exhibit will stay open in the Perkins Gallery until October 4, 2009. The exhibit is cosponsered by Duke Atlantic Studies, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies, Departments of African and Africa-American Studies, Romance Studies, Women's Studies, Duke in the Andes, Office of the Vice-Provost of International Affairs, Program of Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.
September 18, 2009 - Welcome Back Luncheon and Intro to our Postdoc: 12 noon
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The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University invites all faculty, students, staff, and community members to join us for lunch to meet our faculty, learn more about our certificate program and class offerings, and meet our new Postdoctoral Associate, Dr. Monika Gosin.
Details: Friday, September 18th at 12:00 noon in Friedl 225 (Old Art Museum, East Campus).
Gosin be at Duke all year, and will be teaching an undergraduate course on Latino Hip Hop in the spring semester. She completed her PhD (2009) at the University of California, San Diego in Ethnic Studies, with a dissertation titled, "(Re) Framing the Nation: the Afro-Cuban Challenge to Black and Latino Struggles for American Identity." See this link for more info on Gosin.
Please plan to join us on the 18th! We will begin with introductions, and information sharing around 12:20, and Gosin will give a brief talk about her work following, but the format will be informal. Iif your class schedule overlaps, feel free to come late or leave early as needed.
Contact jennysw@duke.edu for further info or questions.
September 01, 2009 - Personal Effects from the Border: Exhibit at UNC-CH
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Longing: Personal Effects from the Border with Susan Harbage Page (UNC Department of Art). 3:30 p.m. | Dey Hall | Toy Lounge
Susan Harbage Page will talk about her photographic exploration of the
possessions left behind by individuals trying to crossover into the
Southland along the Texas border. Often immigrants are stopped by the police or border guards and are asked to empty their pockets of
everything non-essential. This causes them to leave behind toothbrushes,
photographs, extra clothing, combs and other personal items. These are
symbols not only of culture, but also of home, that are left behind as
they pass into the American South. Page spent weeks walking, bicycling,
canoeing and photographing the Texas border with the majority of time
spent near Brownsville in Cameron and Hildalgo Counties, two of the
poorest counties in the United States.
Presented by the Diversity Education Team, with assistance from the
Carolina Women’s Center. For more information contact Dr. Cookie Newsom at (919) 962-6962 or email newsom@email.unc.edu
August 30, 2009 - September 3, 2009: International Workers Tour, Duke and UNC
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You are invited to attend the International Workers Tour, with three events from August 30-September 3, 2009 at Duke and UNC.
STITCH Womens' Tour, August 30, 2009, 4-6 PM, UNC, Student Union Room 3205
Fair Food Across Borders Fall Tour, September 2, 2009, 6-8 PM, UNC, Global Ed Center Room 4003 AND September 3, 2009 7-8:30 PM,Duke, Perkins Library Rare Book Room
Sponsors: Archive for Human Rights at Duke University Libraries, The Center for Documentary Studies @ Duke University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies @ Duke, Duke Human Rights Center, Duke Latin@ Studies, Student Action with Farmworkers.
August 29, 2009 - and Aug 30: La Fiesta del Pueblo - 16th year celebration in Raleigh
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Hosted by El Pueblo Inc for the 16th year running, La Fiesta del Pueblo 2009 celebrates Family, Culture and Community this August 29-30 at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, NC.
La Fiesta celebrates and showcases not only popular music and artists, but also cultural art exhibits, traditional dance performances; folk musicians; it also provides crafts people with an opportunity to exhibit their work and talent. children’s patio activities, including crafts, balloons, face-painting, inflatable rides, clowns and puppets. Foods from Central and South America as well as the Caribbean can be sampled at the Food Court, it offers cuisines as diverse as pupusas, paletas, churros, tortillas, tacos al carbón, empanadas and much more.
La Fiesta del Pueblo, celebrates its 16th anniversary a remarkable milestone for a humble Latino festival that began in the athletic fields of a local high school as an answer to the community calling for a space in which one could share information and Latino culture among the Latin American community and its supporters. The small festival has become much more, integrating every aspect of El Pueblo’s work into the two days, including a health fair which offers free vaccines, dental and vision screenings, blood pressure and glucose tests; a public safety fair; information and educational resources from the more than 230 organizations that offer their materials to participants. Information and resources are shared by non profit organizations that use the event as a way to kick-off initiatives and/or unveil new programs and information on a variety of community services. Voter registration has also become a staple of the event.
This environment provides not only non-Latinos the chance to learn about the varied cultural heritage of Latinos in the United States, but also Latinos themselves have the opportunity to appreciate and celebrate their own achievements as a burgeoning community in North Carolina.
For more information, please call 919-835-1518 or visit our web-site at: www.elpueblo.org
August 22, 2009 - Durham Latino Festival
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Organized by the City of Durham and Durham Parks and Recreation, the Latino Festival will be held Saturday
August 22, 2009
3PM to 8PM
701 Stadium Drive, Durham Rock Quarry Park
Come enjoy music, children's activities, food, arts and crafts, health information, and a multicultural booth.
For more info, contact Rosalie Bocelli or Alberto Carrasquillo at 919-560-4355.
North Carolina Public Radio "State of Things"
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Interview with Frank Stacio February 2009 about the roles of religion, gender and fearful imagination play in "The Last Witch of Langenburg" and in our society. [more]
Featured Member: Thomas Robisheaux of History
April 14, 2009 - April 17, 2009 Monuments and Memories: Race and History
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All events are free and open to the public. Free parking (Science Dr. lot (across from Fuqua) on Thursday and Friday) RSVP: rnrei@duke.edu The theme of the conference will center on memorializations and the construction of historical memory with respect to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the practice of slavery across the Americas, emancipation, Reconstruction, the Lost Cause and other white supremacy movements in the Jim Crow period, the Civil Rights and the Black Power movements, and the momentum towards a new era of "transracial" politics.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 7:30pm Author Sofia Quintero on readings from her novel "Burn" at the Mary Lou Williams Center, Duke University
Please note: Traces of the Trade canceled for Wednesday April 15, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:15 - 5:30 pm Conference Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Rhodes Conference Room, Duke University 7:30pm Film "Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property" with discussant Peter Wood
Friday, April 17, 2008 Conference 9:30 - 5:00 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Rhodes Conference Room, Duke University 7:30pm An Evening with Author: John Edgar Wideman; Respondent Jay Garcia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality (RNREI) is a program of Duke's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences. The conference will be conducted with collaborative support from the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke and the Institute for Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
April 22, 2009 - Triangle Labor and Civil Rights Working Group (LCRWG) Final Meeting
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*"Crossing Boundaries: Latino/a Workers from the Border to Local Politics"* will take place on Wednesday, April 22, at 6:30pm at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (The Love House, 410 E. Franklin Street).
The program includes the following:
~*Susan Harbage Page* will speak briefly on her work, which explores the complex topic of border through photography. In 2007 and 2008 she walked the border near Brownsville, TX, photographing and collecting personal effects abandoned by illegal immigrants crossing the US-Mexican border.
~Then we will watch *"Los Trabajadores / The Workers"* (48 minutes), winner of the International Documentary Association's David L. Wolper Student Achievement Award. Through the stories of two men, Ramon and Juan, and through the controversy surrounding the relocation of a day labor site from downtown to a residential neighborhood, the film by Heather Courtney examines the misperceptions and contradictions inherent in America's paradoxical history of both dependence on and abuse of immigrant labor.
Please RSVP for the talk and film screening by emailing mk63@duke.edu .
Currently concluding its third year, the LCRWG seeks to foster greater dialogue between activists and scholars on issues related to civil rightsand labor in the Triangle and beyond. Past events have included film screenings, discussions of pre-circulated papers, multimedia presentations, and performances on topics as diverse as prison labor in North Carolina, the legacy of school desegregation, environmental racism, and labor organizing.
*Save the date for a special presentation on the just-concluded, successful strike at Moncure Plywood on Wednesday, April 29, at 6:30PM, at the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University.
Through August 28: The Sea is History Exhibit at Franklin Center
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An Exhibition on Human Dispersion & the Caribbean Sea
Curated by Holly Ackerman, PhD, Librarian for Latin America & Iberia and 2008-09 Library Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute Annual Seminar, Alternative Political Imaginaries
John Hope Franklin Center for International & Interdisciplinary Studies, First Floor Gallery
April 16 (symposium and opening reception) through August 28. 2009
April 22, 2009 - Filin y Rabia: Outsized Feelings and Yearnings without End
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The UNC Latina/o Culture(s) Speakers Series presents: "Filin y Rabia: Outsized Feelings and Yearnings without End" by Oliver Mayer
6:00 pm at Gerrard Hall - located on East Cameron Avenue between Memorial Hall and South Building, near the Old Well and the Campus Y. Oliver Mayer is the author of over twenty plays, including the recent smash hit Dias y Flores, Laws of Sympathy, Conjunto, Young Valiant, Joe Luis Blues, and Blade to the Heat. The Hurt Business: a Critical Portfolio of the Early Works of Oliver Mayer, Plus is published by Hyperbole Books. Oliver Mayer: Collected Plays is published by NoPassport Press. Mayer wrote the libretto for the opera America Tropical composed by David Conte. He is currently writing films about Latina/o icons Adan Sanchez and Carlos Gardel. Mayer is Assistant Professor of Dramatic Writing at the USC School of Theatre.
Sponsored by the Teatro Latino Series, the Carolina Performing Arts New Play Development Series, and the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies.
For more information, please contact Ashley Lucas at lucasa@email.unc.edu.
April 15, 2009 - The Other Network: The Havana Biennale & the Global South (1984-2009)
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12:00 - 1:00 pm in Room 240 Franklin Center
Presentation by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo PhD, Visiting Scholar at CLACS.
Part of the Wednesdays at the Center Series, lunch will be provided.
Since 1984, the Havana Biennale has been known as "the Tri-continental art event," presenting artists from America (Latin, Latino/a, and Caribbean), Africa, and Asia. The presentation proposes that at the heart of the Biennal has been an alternative cosmopolitan modernism (that we might call "contemporary" or "post-colonial") that was envisaged by a group of local cultural agents, critics, philosophers, art historians, and also supported by a network of peers around the world. Using the Havana Biennale as a case study, this work goes to disentangle and reveal the socio-political and intellectual debates taking place in the conformation of what is called today global art. Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Contact las@duke.edu for more info.
April 16, 2009 - Sympsium and Opening Reception: The Sea is History
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Symposium: 2:00 - 5:30, followed by Opening Reception: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
An Exhibition on Human Dispersion & the Caribbean Sea
Curated by Holly Ackerman, PhD, Librarian for Latin America & Iberia and 2008-09 Library Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute Annual Seminar, Alternative Political Imaginaries John Hope Franklin Center for International & Interdisciplinary Studies
First Floor Gallery. Contact las@duke.edu for full information, and the symposium schedule.
Exhbitit runs April 16 through August 28. 2009
April 25, 2009 - Celebration of the music of Brazilian composer and Mellon Visiting Artist in Residence, Sergio Roberto de Oliveira.
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7:00 pm in the Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, Duke East Campus
Celebration of the music of Brazilian composer and Mellon Visiting Artist in Residence, Sergio Roberto de Oliveira.
Featuring performances by: Ciompi Quartet, Jane Hawkins, Susan Fancher, Tom Moore. Including pieces commissioned by these musicians and composed by Sergio Roberto de Oliveira while in residence at Duke. Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Contact las@duke.edu for more info.
April 10, 2009 - Sabrosura Dance Group's Quantum of Salsa 2009
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Sabrosura's Showcase is finally here! Sabrosura is Duke University's Premier Latin Dance Group. Sabrosura would like to invite you to a fun night of salsa, cha cha, merengue, flamenco and bachata, with a James Bond flair! The show is Friday, April 10th at 7:00pm in Page Auditorium. Tickets are free! Come get yours at the plaza, during the week of April 6-10th, from 11am-3pm. If you don't get a chance to pick one up, we will have tickets at the door too! Don't miss the after party at Siren's Lounge, 1803 W Markham Ave, 11pm-2am, $2 at the door.
April 13, 2009 - TOWARD THE COMMUNAL: A WORKSHOP WITH YAMILA GUTIERREZ
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Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Working Group, UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American Studies invite you to a workshop with Yamila Gutierrez Callisaya, Consejo Nacional de Ayllus y Markas del Qullasuyu (CONAMAQ), La Paz, Bolivia on TOWARD THE COMMUNAL (THE CONSTITUTION OF THE BOLIVIAN STATE AND A THE DECOLONIAL RE-CONSTITUTION OF THE AYLLUS)
The workshop will be conducted in Spanish and coordinated by Marcelo Fernández-Osco (Department of Romance Studies, co-founder of THOA, Taller Historia Oral Andina)
Monday, April 13, 2009; 5:45-8:00 pm
Friedl Building 225A (East Campus, right by the bus stop; parking available at the entrance on Buchanan and Trinity)
Light dinner will be served. Noam Chomsky describes Bolivia as the most democratic country on earth at this point. Yamila Gutierrez will describe the crucial role that the re-constitution of the Ayllus is playing in this process and the role of the Ayllus in redoing political theory and political economy (e.g., the re-conceptualization of “the communal”), working toward de-colonial democratic futures. We are allowing ample time for debate and exchange of ideas. For more information about CONAMAQ see http://www.conamaq.org.bo/
April 10, 2009 - Sabrosura: Quantum of Salsa!
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Sabrosura, Duke's Latin Dance Group, is proud to announce our annual showcase - "Sabrosura: Quantum of Salsa!". Now in it's sixth year, our show will be covering an array of dance styles from salsa to merengue, flamenco to samba, bachata to polka and much more!
Friday, April 10, 2009; 7:00 - 9:00pm; Page Auditorium
Pick up your FREE tickets on the plaza all week! See guest performances by the Pitchforks, Stop Motion, and other groups!! To fulfill your need to latin dance after the show, join us at the AFTERPARTY at Siren's behind East campus! Join us for a night of hot latin dancing, salsa, merengue and bachata! There will be a reduced $3 cover and awesome drink specials; beer, shots, mojitos and other latin cocktails! Facebook Event
April 06, 2009 - The Invisible Population
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Main West Quad, Duke University Monday, April 6, 2009 2pm-7pm An art installation presented by Duke Students for Humane Borders in conjunction with Farmworker Awareness Week. The Invisible Population display seeks to promote dialogue among the Duke Community on issues of undocumented labor in the United States. For hundreds of years the United States has depended on the work of migrant Latinos but it was not until the 1940’s through the Bracero Program that this relationship was fully recognized. Today, legal guestworkers as well as undocumented migrants serve as the chief source of unskilled labor in the United States. Our economy depends on cheap labor to keep prices low in manufacturing, hospitality, agricultural, construction, and meatpacking industries. Millions of Americans owe their daily comforts to the labor of the undocumented worker, often unknowingly. It is time for United States citizens to recognize the significance of this seemingly invisible population. For more information about National Farmworker Awareness Week, visit www.farmworkerawareness.org
April 06, 2009 - "Why Democracy?" series documentary double-feature (including "Looking for the Revolution" from Bolivia)
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(Kim Finn, 2007, 60 min, ??
Richard White auditorium on East Campus at 9:00 PM
Che Guevara died in Southern Bolivia while trying to ignite the sparks of revolution throughout South America . His death at the hands of Bolivian Rangers trained and financed by the US Government, marked the beginning of the cocaine era in Bolivia . Forty years later and under pressure from the masses who gave him a clear mandate, the first indigenous President Evo Morales (an ex-coca leaf farmer) is promising to continue the revolution. He has nationalised the oil industry and passed laws on Agrarian reform. Despite the revolutionary-sounding election speeches and campaign iconography that accompanied his landslide victory, on closer inspection it emerges that the old system is pretty much alive inside the new one. Corruption, nepotism and old-fashioned populism are at the core of this movement. The more Morales does to create employment, the more the landowners conspire against him and paralyse Bolivia 's economy. As a result, no jobs are created and the pressure from the poor increases. The cycle of tension threatens to crush both the country and the indigenous revolution.Looking for the Revolution is about the dynamics of that tension as witnessed by the characters of the film - the struggle for power between landowners and the indigenous movement, and the continuation of a revolution Morales-style, started so long ago. Sponsored by the Film/Video/Digital Program and the Duke University Libraries' Lilly Library.
April 05, 2009 - The Virgin Appears in La Maldita Vecindad at CHICLE (Ch-Hill)
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CHICLE: This Sunday, April 5 from 5 to 6:30 pm. Documentary Film and Discussion: The Virgin Appears in La Maldita Vecindad: A Film by Elva E. Bishop, Altha J. Cravey, and Javier Garcia Mendez
Our documentary brings together several distinct celebrations of the Virgin of Guadalupe in ??
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April 07, 2009 - Elizabeth Boone to speak on Aztec Pictography
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Duke Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies presents
The Afterlife of Aztec Pictography: The European Genres, a talk by Elizabeth Boone
Professor of Art History, Tulane University
April 7, 2009 5:00 pm
108 East Duke Building
East Campus, Duke University
April 03, 2009 - 2009 AAAS Conversation: Locating Global Health
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Helene Gayle, President and CEO, CARE and Michael H. Merson, Director, Global Health Institute and Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine, Duke University. Moderated by Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law.
NOTE TIME IS AT 6:30PM, White Lecture Hall
Sponsored by the Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS).
Co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs. Latin American and Caribbean Studies and with support from the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
April 07, 2009 - "Colonial Afterlives: Science, Reproduction and Sex in Puerto Rico" A lecture by Lazaro Lima
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Tuesday April 7, 5:00 pm Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lazaro Lima, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latina/o Studies and Head of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Bryn Mawr College specializes in Latina/o literary and visual studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, critical race theory, and African American and Latina/o relations. He is the author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory (New York University Press, 2007) and co-editor, with Violet Quill co-founder Felice Picano, of a forthcoming anthology of LGBTQ Latina/o narrative. His current book project, Boricua Insurgencies: Puerto Rico, Colonial Nationalism, and Counterhegemony, studies the clandestine contraceptive pill trials conducted in Puerto Rico during the 1950s and its relation to the discourse of U.S. empire building in the Americas and first-world feminisms.
March 30, 2009 - Discussion on Minority Recruitment Weekends
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On Monday, March 30th from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm in the Gothic Reading Room (near Perkins library, above Special Collections and the Rare Book Room), The Center for Race Relations is hosting a discussion on the pros and cons of minority recruitment weekends at Duke. We seek to have a meaningful exchange of
ideas about whether or not minority recruitment weekends should be
changed in order to better portray Duke to prospective freshmen. More
importantly, how can Duke best present itself to prospective freshmen,
specifically prospective minority freshmen?
Ideally, the discussion will represent all views and
perspectives. The purpose of this dialogue is to create a safe space
in which all members of the Duke community can come together to
discuss these issues.
You can find more information on the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=60159574014&ref=mf
If you have any questions about how this
dialogue will be formatted/moderated or any other concerns that should be
addressed, please feel welcome to email (jessica.t.so@gmail.com).
March 27, 2009 - LSRW: Faculty Student Interaction
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Prospective Students, Faculty/Staff, and current Duke Undergrads are invited on Friday, March 27th from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm to a Faculty/Student Interaction Reception. The reception will be held in Scharf Hall. In order to get to Scharf Hall, the building perpendicular to Cameron, just walk in front of Cameron and Mi Gente council members will direct you to the location. If you have any questions, pleas contact Deshira Wallace at ddw10@duke.edu. The event is co-sponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
March 27, 2009 - Latino Alumni Association (DULAA) Reception
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Duke University Latino Alumni Association (DULAA) will hold an evening reception for alumni on Friday, March 27, from 6-7:30pm in the Fredric Jameson Gallery (115 Friedl, East Campus). This event is co-sponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South. Please contact Alicia mao1@duke.edu for more info.
March 27, 2009 - Noche Dorada with LUL La Unidad Latina Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc,
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LUL, La Unidad Latina Lambda, Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc, hosts its 11th Annual Rho Chapter Noche Dorada on Friday, March 27th at 7pm. As an integral part of a successful annual Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW), La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc. is throwing its annual Noche Dorada. The night will consist of dinner, dancing, and an influential keynote speaker to address the guests on Latino issues.
Noche Dorada is a nationally recognized event for La Unidad Latina that celebrates the founding principles of the organization to promote education among Latino students both in higher education and in the community at large. This cornerstone event represents La Unidad Latina and Duke University's celebration of the success of Latinos and other minority groups enrolled in institutions of higher education. Limited tickets available: see more at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=65361024837.
March 29, 2009 - CAREER PANEL FOR CURRENT DUKE STUDENTS
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On Sunday, March 29th at 11:00 am, the Duke University Latino Alumni Assoication will host a career panel in the Multicultural Center. For more information, contact Alicia at mao1@duke.edu
March 28, 2009 - MEZCLA!
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The name says it all! Enjoy the wonderful 'mixture' of some of our brightest performing arts and cultural groups on campus in this annual showcase hosted by Mi Gente. The event will be held from 8:00 pm -10:00 pm in Baldwin Auditorium on East Campus. Afterward join the 11:00 pm - 2:00 am. MEZCLA After-Party. Devil's Den on Central Campus. See links for maps. In order to get to Devil's Den, take a campus bus to Central Campus and get off at the Alexander bus stop.
March 27, 2009 - Duke Univ Latino Alumni Association Lunch Panel
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Friday, March 27th from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, come listen to members of the Duke University Latino Alumni Association share about their experiences at Duke University and how Duke helped shape their personal and career goals. The panel will be held at Schiciano Auditorium, Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine, and Applied Sciences and will be followed by lunch. For ugrad students to network with these incredible alumni now!
March 30, 2009 - Race & Ethnicity Workshop: with Prof Mary Romero
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Hello Faculty & Students, The next Race and Ethnicity Workshop is Monday, March 30 and is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Graduate Student Association. We are delighted and very fortunate to have Dr. Mary Romero from Arizona State University join us. Professor Romero will be presenting a talk entitled "Go After the Women": Mothers Against Illegal Aliens' (MAIA) Campaign Against Mexican Immigrant Women and their Children. You can view her CV here: http://www.public.asu.edu/~romerom/pdf/vita.pdf . As always, the workshop meets Monday from 1-2:30pm in Soc/Psych 331 (Duke University West Campus). We hope to see you there! Please direct any inquiries to rose.buckelew@duke.edu .
March 24, 2009 - Beyond Dreaming in Cuban: A Reading with Cristina Garcia (UNC-CH)
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The UNC Latina/o Culture Speakers Series presents :
"Beyond Dreaming in Cuban: A Reading with Cristina Garcia"
followed by a Q&A and book-signing on
Tuesday, March 24th at 6pm
at the Stone Center Theater on UNC-CH. The event is free and open to the public.
Cristina Garcia (Havana, Cuba, 1958) is the author of four novels: Dreaming in Cuban (1992, finalist for the National Book Award), The Aguero Sisters (1997), Monkey Hunting (2003), and A Handbook to Luck (2007). A book of poetry, The Lesser Tragedy of Death, is forthcoming in 2010. Garcia has also authored books for young readers and edited anthologies. She is currently the artistic director for the Centrum Writers Exchange in Port Townsend, Washington, and teaches at Mills College. She will be reading selections from A Handbook to Luck and her new novel, The Lady Matador's Hotel (forthcoming 2010).
For campus directions click here. This event is Sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, the Carolina Women's Center and the Program in Creative Writing.
March 17, 2009 - Guarda and Sibila "Interpreters and Parrots: What Do Doctors and Latina/o Patients Want in Healthcare Settings?" at UNC-CH
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The UNC Latina/o Studies Working Group presents a free talk, open to the public: Interpreters and Parrots: What Do Doctors and Latina/o Patients Want in Healthcare Settings?Sonia Guarda and Claudia Sibila Tuesday, March 17th 5:30 University Room, Hyde Hall Institute for the Arts & Humanities
Sonia Guarda was an interpreter at UNC Hospitals for five years. The majority of her work has been with mothers and their newborn infants as approximately one-third of the births at UNC Hospitals are born to Spanish speaking women. Currently she is working as a research associate at the Frank Porter Graham Center for Child Development Institute at UNC, investigating the feasibility of using a newly developed screening tool for Fragile X Syndrome. Sonia was born in Santiago, Chile and came to the United States when she received a scholarship to attend the University of Washington. Claudia Sibila has interpreted at UNC Hospitals for the past 8 years. Currently, she is one of the Lead Interpreters. Among her responsibilities is the selection and training of new staff interpreters. She has helped to design the current standards for interpreters at the Hospital and has taken the Interpreter Training offered by the North Carolina Office of Minority Health. Claudia is trained in law and is a native of Venezuela.
Sponsored by The UNC-CH Program in Latina/o Studies Further readings below and in the attachments: "Impact of Interpreters' Approach on Latinas' Use of Amniocentesis" For more information about The Program in Latina/o Studies at UNC Chapel Hill please visit our websites: Carolina Hub for Latina/o Studies and Resources, Latina/o Culture(s) Speakers Series, Latina/o Studies Film Database, Latina/o Studies Working Group
March 22, 2009 - Talk and display - HIS ART by local artist Cornelio Campos
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Sunday, March 22, 2009, 5:00-6:30 at CHICLE,
Talk and display - HIS ART by local artist Cornelio Campos About the Artist: Cornelio Campos has worked and lived in his native Mexico, in California, and now lives in Durham, NC. He is an electrician by trade and the founder of Los Viejitos, a dance group from his native Mexico. His paintings include expressive narratives of his beloved home town of Cheran, in the state of Michoacan in Central Mexico, and of his immigrant experiences in the US. He has drawn since he was a young child, and began to paint at the age of 10. He attended art classes in Cheran, taught by Panfilo Macias, and CREA Summer School in Guadalajara,Jalisco. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has recently purchased one of his paintings and it may be seen at the Campus YMCA.
Artist's Statement: "My paintings are inspired by the nostalgia I have for my home town of Cheran, Mexico, my family, and the customs I grew up with. I also see my paintings as a tool for sharing my indigenous background, and for offering a teaching lesson to people here in the United States. I currently do two types of art; one which is folkloric, and the other would be considered political. In these pieces I address the issues faced by people from Central and South America - the lingering cultural significance of Spanish colonization, and the experience of creating a life in a new country. I would describe this work as narrative - a free expression of what I think about - a way to respond to what is happening in society in general, and the status of immigrants in the US." - Cornelio Campos
Please call us at (919) 933-0398 if you want more information. You can also e-mail us, chicle@chi-cle.com
March 16, 2009 - Somos Latinos/as: a discussion session for exploring Latina/o experience on Duke's campus
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Duke CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services) recognize that there are some unique strengths and challenges facing the Latino and Latina students at Duke. They want to hear from you on the various issues that inform the Latina/o experience on campus. On March 16, 2009 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm in 217 Page Building, CAPS would like to hear from you. Refreshments will be served.
March 25, 2009 - Immigrants Raising Citizens: The second generation's first years of life, featuring Hirokazu Yoshikawa
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Please join us for the Sulzberger Distinguished Lecture featuring Hirokazu Yoshikawa on March 25. Seating is limited, so please RSVP by March 18. The event will be held in the Rhodes Conference Room at the Terry Sanford Institute, 201 Science Drive, Duke University West Campus. Yoshikawa is a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This event is free and open to the public.
March 03, 2009 - Reclaiming the Commons: Alternatives to Education at the Grassroots
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The Duke Multicultural Center presents a lunchtime talk by Gustavo Esteva, "Reclaiming the Commons: Alternatives to Education at the Grassroots" at noon (12pm) in the Multicultural Center (Bryan Center, Lower level). Esteva is a prominent Mexican writer and social activist, author of 30 books and numerous articles. A strong voice for indigenous people, campesinos, and urban migrants, the core of Esteva’s thought is a challenge to the validity of social systems that subordinate traditional community values and institutions to the priorities of the global marketplace. In this talk, Gustavo aims to answer questions such as: What are the aims of education in the context of the neoliberal global economy? To what extent does multicultural education succeed or go awry in promoting a plurality of cultures and supporting community life? Where do the concepts of place, commons, and community fit in education? What role does education play in “development?”
This event is sponsored in part by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
February 27, 2009 - February 28, 2009- States of Captivity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Incarceration, Rendition, and Detention
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The Duke University Cultural Anthropology Department and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Anthropology have collaborated in planning this conference, which invites participants to reflect on the overlaps among the prison, military, and immigration industries in North Carolina and elsewhere. It is becoming harder to ignore the social crises caused by logics and practices of containment. Incarceration rates in the U.S. have grown since the 1980s, while prisons have become increasingly industrialized and central to economies at every scale. The intensification and militarization of border security is accompanied by a proliferation of government, contracted, and vigilante police forces that seek to capture, detain, and deport undocumented people. Finally, the outsourcing of detention centers to far-flung corners of the globe and the uncharted itineraries of "ghost planes" that carry out extraordinary rendition have made raising awareness of detainee abuse and torture exceedingly difficult. This conference seeks engagement with perspectives from scholarship and praxis, in order to contest and connect practices of incarceration, rendition, and detention today.
See http://statesofcaptivity.wordpress.com/ for full information. Co-sponsored in part by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
February 27, 2009 - Duke History Dept presents Beyond Borders: Mapping Shifting Terrains
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The Duke History department is pleased to invite you to a graduate student/faculty workshop, Beyond Borders: Mapping Shifting Terrains. This panel will take place on Friday, February 27th from 4pm to 6pm at 229 Carr Building. The following panelists will be speaking:
Jocelyn Olcott, "They Wouldn't Give Me a Name: Identification and Representation at the 1975 UN International Women's Year Conference, Mexico City."
Philip Stern, "Companies, Corporations, and Commonwealths, or Just Who Does the Business of Empire in the Early Modern World Anyway?"
Abby Goldman, "Toward the Free Movement of People: Emanuel Celler, Humanitarianism, and the Origins of the Immigration Act of 1965"
Daniel Bessner, "You Never Know What You Can Get Away With until You Try': Defining the Shifting Boundaries of the American Civil-Military Gap"
A wine and cheese reception will follow. All are welcome. We hope that you will join us for what is sure to be a fascinating conversation. Contact erin.parish@duke.edu for more info.
March 20, 2009 - March 21, 2009 - STILL TWO NATIONS? The Resilience of the Color Line
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A conference honoring John Hope Franklin, March 20 - 21, 2009 in the Goodson Chapel, Duke University, Durham North Carolina REGISTER NOW! http://events.duke.edu/twonations Forty years after the Kerner Report , America still remains in many important ways "two societies, one black, one white separate and unequal." But many things have changed. Today, for example, Latinos are the largest minority group in the United States and their proportion of the population is likely to increase even more in the near future. Also, our current immigration debate seems remarkably similar to that many other Western countries have had in recent years. We believe it is time to asses where we are at in terms of our "race problem" in the United States and globally. It is also time to examine the changes that have transpired in the United States and elsewhere and forecast what our racial future might be. This conference honors the work of Dr. John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus, whose labor as a historian, commentator, and astute observer of racial matters has inspired many to follow closely the strange career and transformations of the color line. In sessions on topics such as race and health, the new race politics, and racial prejudice in the modern world, conference panelists will address the theme Still Two Nations? The Resilience of the Color Line. Panelists include Lawrence Bobo, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, William "Sandy" Darity, Vincent Hutchings, Michael Jones-Correa, Melissa Nobles, Thomas Pettigrew, John Solomos, and Bonnie Thorton-Dill. [more]
February 23, 2009 - "A Town was torn apart: How Punitive should the US Immigration Policy be?" Immigration talk by Professor Altha Cravey
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Immigration policy talk by UNC Professor Altha Cravey entitled "A Town was torn apart: How Punitive should the US Immigration Policy be?" Monday, February 23, 8pm to 9 pm in the Marketplace Upper East Side, East Campus, Duke University. In May 2008, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted its biggest raid in Postville, Iowa. Approximately 400 out of 2000 people in the town were arrested while many others fled. The town was torn apart. Professor Altha Cravey of UNC's Geography department will lead a discussion on the current US Immigration policy following a video presentation on Postville. She is both professionally and personally involved in immigration issues in North Carolina and in Mexico. Please contact Nathalie Pimentel for more information.
March 03, 2009 - Ana Celia Zentella talk: "Transfronterizo Talk: Policentric Identities and Conflicting Constructions of Bilingualism along the Tijuana-San Diego Border" (UNC-CH)
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Ana Celia Zentella, anthro-political linguist and Professor Emerita in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, will give a presentation, free and open to everyone, entitled "Transfronterizo Talk: Policentric Identities and Conflicting Constructions of Bilingualism along the Tijuana-San Diego Border." The talk will start at 6 PM in the University Room of Hyde Hall (click for map), Institute for the Arts & Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill campus. A Q & A and a book-signing will follow the presentation. For more information see the link to a map, the biography and poster below or contact Dr. DeGuzman at deguzman@email.unc.edu or Ashley Lucas at lucasa@email.unc.edu.
February 16, 2009 - Talk today by Christine Beaule "Crossing disciplinary and national boundaries with students"
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Monday, February 16 5:30 - 6:30 pm Fitzpatrick Center, Schiciano Auditorium, Side A Pratt School of Engineering Science Drive, Duke Campus Dr. Christine Beaule (formerly with Duke's Writing Program and currently at the University of Hawaii) will speak on "Crossing disciplinary and national boundaries with students: An archaeologist's musings on engineers building a bridge in Bolivia" As an archaeologist doing research in the altiplano of Bolivia, Dr. Christine Beaule initially spoke about the need for a bridge in that region to her Writing 20 class at Duke. From that passing example, a student-led engineering project was born. She traveled with Engineers Without Borders - Duke to Bolivia in May 2008 to assess possible bridge locations, designs, and the social and economic impact the bridge might have on local Quechua communities. The team plans to return to Bolivia to build the bridge this summer. Her talk will describe her experiences with the project as well as the particular challenges she and the project face in the future. Dr Beaule will describe some of the anticipated and unforeseen issues the team experienced as an archaeologist guides engineering students in a world far removed from the classroom. Sponsored by Engineers Without Borders - Duke All interested individuals are invited to attend. [more]
March 04, 2009 - Montoya's, "PreMeditated: Meditations on Capital Punishment"
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(Please see full list of co-sponsors below.)
The opening reception will begin at 5:00pm, with a gallery talk by the artist, Malaquias Montoya, at 6:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. Parking will be available on the East Campus Quad. See map at http://latino.aas.duke.edu/about/contact.php.
The exhibit will be on display from the reception through April 17th and from mid-May through Mid-September. Hours from March 5 through April 17th are 10am - 5pm. Summer and fall hours to be determined - please check back on our website after April for those hours.
Montoya is a leading figure in the West Coast political Chicano graphic arts movement, a political and socially conscious movement that expresses itself primarily through the mass production of silk-screened posters. Montoya's works include acrylic paintings, murals, washes, and drawings, but he is primarily known for his silkscreen prints, which have been exhibited nationally as well as internationally. This exhibition features silkscreen images and paintings, and related text panels dealing with the death penalty and penal institutions-- inspired by the escalation of deaths at the hands of the State of
Since 1989 Montoya has been a professor at the
This exhibit is presented by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University and is co-sponsored by: the UNC Chapel Hill Program in Latina/o Studies and the following Duke University units: Duke Human Rights Center; the Spanish Service Learning Program; the Program in Literature; the Departments of Cultural Anthropology, African & African American Studies, and History; the Archive for Human Rights and Duke University Libraries; the Franklin Humanities Institute; the Institute for Critical US Studies; and the Kenan Institute for Ethics.
Contact jennysw@duke.edu for more information.
February 16, 2009 - Que Bola? Rap, Race and a Politics of New Black Subject Making in Cuba
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Duke University Cultural Anthropology Department present Que Bola? Rap, Race and a Politics of New Black Subject Making in Cuba a talk by Marc D. Perry, Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The event will take place on Monday, February 16, at 1:30 p.m. in 225 Friedl Building. Perry's research specializes in race and racialization in the African Diaspora with an emphasis on Latin America.
March 04, 2009 - Wednesdays at the Center Series
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The John Hope Franklin Center and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute present in a "The Life of the Undead: Biopower, Latino Anxiety, and the Epidemiological Paradox" by Antonio Viego Associate Professor of Literature and Director of Latino/a Studies as part of their Wednesdays at the Center Series. The event will be held from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, in Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center. This talk is based on a chapter from Viego's second book project, The Wages of Latino Mental and Physcial Health: Living and Dying on One's Own Time. The book studies the dense interconnections between capitalism, biopower, psychoanalysis, psychology, and theories of Latino/a health and disease in the context of the ubiquitous claim heard nowadays regarding the inevitable Latinization of the United States.The series is free and open to the public and a light lunch will be served. This event is presented with the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
February 19, 2009 - Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously (UNC-CH)
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Tamara Underiner, Director, Ph.D. Program in Theatre of the Americas at Arizona State University will be presenting "Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously" on Thursday, February 19, 2009 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. The event will be held on the 4th Floor of the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This event is sponsored by: Curriculum in International and Area Studies, UNC Program in Latina/Latino Studies, Latino Migration Project at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, Department of Romance Languages and the Department of Dramatic Art.
February 12, 2009 - Colombia: The Presence of the Impossible
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The Colombia series continues until this Thursday February 12, 2009 with a presentation by Diana Gomez from the National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia). It takes places at 7:00 p.m. in Room 240 at the Franklin Center. The Franklin Center is located at 2204 Erwin Road on Duke University Campus in Durham, NC (click link to see map).
February 05, 2009 - TODAY - Job Talk: Latina/o American Performance: Transcultural/Transnational Acts
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Alicia Arrizon, Dramatic Literature Candidate, presents a talk that "will challenge the assumed boundaries of identity markers while reinvigorating the concept of 'transcultural/transnational performance' as a model of new research and theoretical insight in theater and Latina/o American Studies." The talk takes place TODAY, Feb. 5 at 4:30 pm in 209 East Duke. Arrizon is a professor and chair of the Department of Women's Studies at the UC-Riverside. This job talk is put on by Theater Studies. For more information contact Miriam Sauls, 919-660-3346, or visit, mmsauls@duke.edu .
March 13, 2009 - March 14, 2009- 14th Annual Latino Issues Forum
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El Pueblo, Inc., in collaboration with the Latin American Coalition, will host the 14th Latino Issues Forum in Charlotte, NC entitled "Where do we go from here?" North Carolina is home to more than 600,000 Latinos and they are a significant and growing presence in our school systems and the workforce at-large participating in the broader fabric of North Carolina's economic and social life. The objectives of this conference include strengthen Latino leadership capacity, identifying individuals who can make a change for Latinos in North Carolina, connecting community leaders with the best national, state and local resources available, increasing civic participation across the state, share up-to-date information on issues relevant to Latino residents, and enlightening the citizenry on positive contributions Latinos are making in North Carolina. Workshops will be held on Advocacy, Community Development, Education, Health Program & Policy Updates, Organizational Development, and Public Saftey. For more information about El Pueblo, the Latino Issues Forum, and to register, please contact El Pueblo staff at 919-835-1525 or visit El Pueblo's website at www.elpueblo.org.
February 13, 2009 - 6th Annual Carolina and Duke Consortium Conference- The Idea of the Americas: Representation and Reality
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The Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies is pleased to present its annual conference The Idea of the Americas: Representation and Reality February 13-14, 2009 Featuring 15 panels, keynote presentations by Joanne Hershfield and Susan Harbage Page, a reception on Friday, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday! All Friday events will be held in the Franklin Center on the Duke campus in Durham, NC and all Saturday events will be held in the FedEx Global Education Center on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill, NC. The complete schedule of events can be found on the Consortium's Web site. All attendees (including all panel presenters) are required to register by Wednesday, February 4. There is no registration fee, but we need to get an accurate count for all catered meals. To register, go to http://isa.unc.edu/conference/2009.asp All conference events are free and open to the public. Please join us! For more information, contact njh@duke.edu or riefkohl@email.unc.edu
January 31, 2009 - Y Ahora Que? Coping with Immigration Stress in Latinos: A Latino Mental Health and Substance Abuse Conference
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El Futuro, Inc. presents this conference on Latino Mental Health and Substance Abuse to take place at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work (Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building) from 8:30AM- 4:00PM. Registration cost: $75; $40 for students. Duke research associate Gabriela Livas-Stein (Psychology and Neuroscience) to present a session on "Culture Bound Syndromes in Latino Mental Health". For more information on registration and schedule details, please visit the website of El Futuro, Inc.
January 14, 2009 - Colombia the Presence of the Impossible: Film and Discussion Series
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