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August 15, 2008 - David Siroky's op-ed in N&O
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/08/15 10:04:32
David Siroky's very interesting op-ed was in Tuesday's N & O on the conflict in Georgia.
David also has spoken to at least one radio interviewer about this. Congratulations to David!
Open House Thursdays
Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows, 2008/05/12 13:05:51
Open House with BROWNIES is every Thursday from 4-5pm during the school year. We look foward to seeing everyone in August.
CETIS Research Assistant Positions
Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, 2008/04/24 09:31:06
The Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), an independent division of the Akribis Group, is a research center dedicated to identifying, better comprehending, and accurately assessing the present and future security threats stemming from a variety of violence-prone extremists and their enablers. (more)
May 06, 2008 - Congratulations to David Siroky--Peace Scholar
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/05/06 14:07:49
David Siroky has been chosen by the United States Institute of Peace as a Peace Scholar for 2008-2009. David's proposal was selected as one of ten winners from a pool of 166 applications. This is an outstanding achievement. Congratulations David!
September 11, 2008 - Dinner with civil rights leader Ann Atwater
Education, 2008/09/11 09:43:23
In preparation for their work in the Durham Public Schools, student teachers in the Elementary Teacher Preparation Program met with Ann Atwater, a Durham activist and civil rights leader, to discuss critical issues facing the local schools and community. Mrs. Atwater's story is highlighted in the book,The Best of Enemies. To view a photo visit Elementary Teacher Preparation Program page
October 25, 2008 - Parent's Weekend Brunch
Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows, 2008/10/14 14:47:47
From 9:30-11 AM, please join us for brunch with your family at our new office located in the Smith Warehouse, Room B209.
August 28, 2008 - OUSF Opening Picnic - August 28th
Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows, 2008/07/09 08:25:14
Everyone's invited to our first event of the new school year. This year it will be held on the EAST Duke lawn on August 28th from 5:30-7 PM. We hope to see you there!!
August 19, 2008 - Move-In Day - August 19th
Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows, 2008/07/09 08:25:56
Stop by the OUSF office on August 19th from 1-5 PM for cookies and lemonade with your family as a break during move-in. We look forward to seeing you then!!
April 24, 2008 - OUSF Closing Picnic
Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows, 2008/05/12 13:06:58
Thank you to all who attended and helped with the OUSF closing picnic. It was a huge success! Have a fantastic summer!!
October 16, 2007 - Truman Scholarship Information Session
Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows, for scholarship, 2007/10/05 11:03:57
Interested in a Truman Scholarship? Come to the Information Session on Tuesday October 16, 2007 from 6-7:30 PM at Soc Sci 136 on West Campus.
August 30, 2007 - OUSF Opening Picnic
Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows, for scholarship, 2007/08/15 08:32:19
Please remember to join us at 5:30pm on Thursday August 30th on the front lawn of the West Duke Building.
You can find our Recent Graduates at....
Evolutionary Anthropology, 2008/09/15 08:35:34
Jonathan Perry, Instructor of Research Anatomy, Stony Brook University, Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook, NY. Adam Hartstone-Rose, Assistant Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, PA. Meredith Bastian, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Boston University, Department of Anthropology, Boston, MA.
Featured Member: Richard Frederick Kay of Evolutionary Anthropology
January 14, 2010 - The Walltown Neighborhood History Project
History, 2009/12/03 15:43:04
The Walltown Neighborhood History Project seeks 3 Duke undergraduates (Class of 2011-2013) for its summer 2010 DukeEngage: Durham service project.
Students will work with History department and ISIS faculty to create and teach a summer workshop for Durham middle-school students around the twin themes of computer technology and Durham history, particularly the history of the Walltown neighborhood which lies north of East Campus.
The workshop will help middle-school students master core technology skills while they build an interactive historic map of their neighborhood using GIS technologies. Duke students with interests in southern history, African American history, urban history, history of medicine and interests in new media are strongly encouraged to apply. Technology experience welcome but not required.
Applications for the DukeEngage:Durham program are due on January 14, 2010. For more details about the Walltown Neighborhood History Project contact Professor Abel at tabel@duke.edu.
Job Opening: Postdoctoral Position
Biology, 2009/06/09 16:47:24
The Baugh Lab has a postdoc position available to study nutritional control of development in C. elegans. A variety of projects are available that require skills in molecular biology, genetics, biochemisty and informatics. Candidates with interdisciplinary and computational skills are particularly encouraged to apply. Experience working with C. elegans is valuable but not necessary. Potential applicants should email Ryan Baugh (ryan.baugh@duke.edu) with a brief statement of interests.
DFC Summer Employment Opportunities
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/02/28 14:27:39
The DFC is now taking applications for summer employment. Please check out the Employment section for more information.
August 01, 2013 - MIDP graduate receives Fulbright-Clinton Fellowship
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2013/08/01 09:14:31
Michael Spolum, a 2012 graduate of the Master of International Development Policy (MIDP) program, is one of 18 Duke University students and recently graduated alumni to receive a Fulbright Fellowship for the 2013-14 academic year.
Spolum received the Fulbright-Clinton Fellowship (formerly the Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship), which places post-graduate fellows in foreign government ministries to serve as "special assistants". He will spend the next 10 months in the Office of the President of the Union of Myanmar (Burma) working on pro-poor economic development strategies.
Spolum said he was excited to receive the Fulbright, especially since competition for fellowships in Myanmar was fierce. In addition, he will be in the country at a critical juncture in its development, as it emerges from more than 20 years of economic isolation.
During his fellowship, Spolum plans to investigate “green growth” policy options that will support the efficient use of natural resources and benefit people of all economic levels. He said that Myanmar has an unprecedented opportunity to learn from the mistakes of other resource-rich developing countries that failed to harness their natural wealth in a way that facilitated sustained economic growth and social development.
“The long-term costs of irresponsible and rushed resource development policies more often than not far outweigh the short-term economic benefits,” he said. “If you don’t have policies and safeguards in place that are sensitive to environmental and social impacts, you run the real risk of exacerbating social and political instability as well as poverty.”
Spolum’s research during his fellowship will focus on the role that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial analysis can play in evidence-based policymaking and economic planning.
“Rather than relying on laborious and costly on-the-ground surveys, you’re getting very precise, detailed data that allow you to make intelligent, efficiency-driven decisions with respect to economic policy and planning,” he said.
During the MIDP program, Spolum’s research centered around environmentally sustainable hydropower development and corporate social responsibility strategies designed to enhance rural communities’ resilience to socio-economic and climatic shocks.
“The program gave me a cutting edge, cross-sectoral and holistic understanding of the complex development challenges I’m hoping to address in Myanmar,” he said.
He applied to the MIDP program in 2009, drawn by Duke’s strong reputation and the program’s focus on practitioners.
“The curriculum is tuned to mid-career professionals with on-the-ground experience, mature networks, passion and knowledge,” he said. “I wanted actual tools to do my work, not just development theory.”
Spolum has more than seven years of experience in Southeast Asia. Prior to attending Duke, he served as assistant director of a Bangkok-based business and risk consultancy. He also worked as an independent development consultant, partnering with multinational energy companies, grassroots communities, international NGOs, the World Bank as well as the Thai and Tanzanian government on issues such as rural electrification, renewable energy policy, climate change adaptation and forestry management.
A native of Colorado, Spolum earned a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from St. Olaf College in Minnesota in 2004.
The Fulbright Program, one of the most prestigious international educational exchange programs worldwide, was created in 1946 to promote mutual understanding between the U.S. and other countries. The program has provided almost 310,000 participants with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research abroad.
July 10, 2013 - Staff visit China in advance of SAFEA program
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2013/07/17 09:43:10
Staff of the Duke Center for International Development (DCID) traveled to China from June 15-25 to meet with participants in the upcoming State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) executive education program. The four-month program begins Thursday, Aug. 1.
Executive Director Jonathan Abels and Program Coordinator Derek DeLong introduced the 30 government officials to topics that will be covered in the program and answered their questions about living and studying in North Carolina.
During the trip, staff also had the chance to reunite with many SAFEA alumni, including 2005 alumnus Xia Bing.
"The program gave us not only the class theory but also useful tools for public policy making. For example, I always use the data analysis we learned for my daily work now," Bing said. "In addition, DCID has a group of highly experienced faculty members that gave us full directions and care. They are not just our teachers, but our lifelong friends also."
This summer marks the 10th year DCID has offered the SAFEA program. Designed specifically for mid- and senior-level officials from various ministries within China’s central government, the program covers topics such as public finance, policy analysis, management, conflict resolution and environmental policy. Since 2003, it has trained approximately 330 government officials from ministries such as finance, foreign affairs and commerce.
Over the years, the program has evolved to incorporate various topics that are of growing interest to participants, such as the global financial crisis and emergency management.
In addition to classroom training, SAFEA participants meet with and learn from civic and business leaders through site visits to various institutions and organizations throughout the Research Triangle, including the School of Government at the University of North Carolina, the Supreme Court of North Carolina, the North Carolina General Assembly, the SAS Institute and Cisco.
The group also travels to Washington, D.C., and New York City where they attend meetings at international organizations such as the World Bank and the United Nations and visit popular U.S. monuments and landmarks.
“We were very pleased to see students from previous years and to learn what they are doing now, to hear how their experience at Duke and the Sanford School influenced their work and broadened their perspective, and to feel the warmth of their reunion with their classmates and with us,” Abels said. “We are proud that Duke is having an immediate and long-term impact on their lives and, I believe, on the services they are providing their citizens.”
July 12, 2013 - DCID faculty support capacity building in Zambia
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2013/07/12 14:27:13
LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA - Faculty of the Duke Center for International Development (DCID) delivered a two-week Project Appraisal and Economic Management Program in Zambia June 10-21, 2013.
The executive training program, which was successfully completed by 42 public sector officials, is part of a human resource capacity building program aimed at increasing capabilities in financial, economic, risk and distributive analysis. The program was organized by Zambia’s Ministry of Finance in partnership with DCID.
Fredson Yamba, Secretary to the Treasury of Zambia, endorsed the program during an opening event on Tuesday, June 11, in Livingstone.
“Before resources are spent on projects and programs, there is need to vigorously undertake ex-ante assessment to determine their investment worthiness,” he said.
Pamela Chibonga Kabamba, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, added that participants from the ministry, as well as other major government agencies, would be able to draw on what they learned from the seminar to enhance the performance of government programs.
In a meeting held in Lusaka after the completion of the seminar, Zambian officials met to confirm their commitment to incorporating analytical processes in the ongoing formulation of the 2014 budget, especially for major capital investment projects.
The seminar was conducted by Duke University professors Fernando Fernholz and Rosemary Morales Fernholz; Fernando Cossio, professor of economics and public finance at the Catholic University in La Paz, Bolivia; and Alimamy Kamara, 2009 graduate of the Master of International Development Policy program at Duke.
June 29, 2013 - USAID officials trained in Public Financial Management
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2013/06/29 10:40:31
Eighteen officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and foreign governments completed a weeklong course on fiscal policy and public financial management reforms on Friday, June 28.
The customized training program, led by faculty from the Duke Center for International Development (DCID), exposes participants to the principles and recent trends in governing fiscal policy, taxation, budgeting and fiscal decentralization, along with the new USAID PFM risk assessment framework.
“This course is for anyone who is interested in looking more closely at the public financial management systems of developing countries,” said Tyler Holt, economist at USAID. “It helps us do our due diligence and better understand what governments are doing so we can address areas of weakness.”
The program brings together a number of senior faculty members of Duke University as well as practitioners from Deloitte, USAID and international multilateral institutions, all with extensive experience in real-world policy reform, technical assistance and training.
Thomas Solomon, public financial management advisor with USAID, took the course last year and returned in 2013 to present a case study on Liberia’s public financial management system and reform. He said the program is very timely, considering USAID’s mandate to have 30 percent of funds managed by local partners and host governments by 2015.
“Sustainability at the end of the day is only achieved when a country is managing its own finances,” Solomon said. “This course will allow program staff to assess host country strategies and engage their officials more effectively than they did before.”
Faculty also benefit from the course, said Professor Roy Kelly, program director.
“The program provides a valuable opportunity for us to learn more about the specific challenges USAID faces in its country operations,” he said.
The program was developed under the USAID-funded Leadership in Public Financial Management project, which is designed to support rapid and sustainable economic growth and enable USAID to better address economic governance issues.
DCID has offered the program for three years and trained approximately 60 USAID officials and 10 government officials from various countries.
June 25, 2013 - Alum builds partnerships to advance health care in Philippines
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2013/06/27 08:06:39
Having spent six years in public office, 2005 Master of International Development Policy alumnus Steve Solon understands that you can’t go it alone when it comes to international development.
In May, Solon was elected governor of the Philippines’ southern province of Sarangani after running unopposed. In his previous role as vice governor, he was responsible for building relationships between the government, private businesses and nonprofits to find long-term solutions to issues such as medical access and the preservation of natural resources.
“With a limited budget, the local government is able to better leverage its funds by partnering with private organizations,” Solon said. “We believe that increasing the private sector and staying away from activities more efficiently done by the private sector will lead to a more productive Sarangani.”
Recently, Solon has worked with NGOs to provide basic services in rural areas, such as treatment for hernias, tuberculosis medication, and even vaccinations for farm animals.
“We had surgeons come in to help with a variety of outpatient services,” Solon said. “In four days we served close to 3,000 people.”
However, he said, the solution was not sustainable. When the volunteers were gone, so was access to critical treatment. With funding from the provincial government, Solon is working to build relationships with private partners for a flagship program by the province’s Rep. Emmanuel D. Pacquiao to upgrade two district hospitals in rural areas and build a new hospital in Alabel, Sarangani’s capital city.
The district hospitals would be outfitted to provide basic medical care, while the hospital in the capital would provide more advanced services such as dialysis.
“Among the leading causes of why people remain in or fall back into poverty is falling ill or the inability to access quality medical care,” Solon said. “By bringing quality hospital services closer to the people, it will make it easier for the local government to accomplish its task of improving the health seeking behavior of communities.”
Government officials and citizens are not the only ones who benefit, Solon said. These partnerships provide advantages for private businesses as well.
“Many large corporations have social responsibility departments who are always on the lookout for government partners that can help them,” Solon said. “The local government has the ability to provide security and familiarity with the community, which results in better service delivery.”
While working on these and other initiatives to improve the quality of life in Sarangani, Solon regularly draws on the training he received at the Duke Center for International Development (DCID) and the Sanford School of Public Policy.
“The policy analysis and development courses I took at Duke are going to help me improve the way research is done in our planning department,” he said. “The most important thing, in my opinion, is to base all of our initiatives on evidence-based research.”
As he moves into his new role as governor in July of this year, Solon said he is committed to working with outside partners, including DCID, to help identify opportunities for improvement and provide better services for the province's approximately 500,000 residents.
“The public-private partnership is alive and well in Sarangani,” Solon said. “I believe this is the way forward.”
June 18, 2013 - Master's Fellow receives Boren Award
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2013/06/20 07:33:54
Nicholas Enz, a Fellow in the Master of International Development Policy (MIDP) program, is the first student in the Sanford School of Public Policy to be awarded the Boren Fellowship for language and area studies abroad. As a result of the award, Enz will spend the 2013-14 academic year in Turkey studying the language and conducting research on social safety net programs with a special focus on Kurdish populations.
The Boren Awards provide U.S. undergraduate and graduate students with an opportunity to acquire language skills and experience in countries critical to U.S. national security. Since the program was created in 1994, over 5,000 students have received awards.
The program received a historically high number of applications this year. Out of 526 graduate applicants, Enz was one of only 110 to receive the award.
“It really was a dream come true,” Enz said. “I felt incredibly fortunate and excited for the opportunity to integrate my Turkish language and area studies interest with my degree in International Development Policy.”
Enz’s research will build on work that he completed during the MIDP program on a conditional cash transfer program in Turkey. These types of programs aim to reduce poverty by making aid conditional upon the recipients’ actions.
During the MIDP program, Enz was also able to pursue courses in economics, statistics and Turkish, which helped prepare him to apply for the Boren Fellowship.
“I appreciated the open-ended nature of the MIDP program and the exposure to a wide variety of subjects and analysis methods,” he said. “The program gave me access to valuable tools for policy analysis and problem solving.”
Enz said he also received advice and assistance with his Boren application from his MIDP professors, especially Rosemary Fernholz and Catherine Elkins.
Prior to joining the MIDP program, Enz spent four years in Azerbaijan – the first two years as a Peace Corps volunteer and the second two years working with Reporters’ Freedom and Safety, a media watchdog organization, and Save the Children.
During this time, he wrote reports and grant proposals to raise awareness of and help provide aid for imprisoned journalists. He also worked to help children in orphanages take an active role in their communities and make a successful transition to adulthood.
“We gave them a forum to discuss issues in their communities and raise those issues with the government,” Enz said.
In addition to the Boren, Enz is a recipient of the Paul D. Coverdell Fellowship, which provides returned Peace Corps volunteers with financial assistance for graduate study. He also was awarded the FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowship by Duke University.
In exchange for funding, Boren Award recipients agree to work in the federal government for a period of at least one year. Enz plans to work for either the State Department or the U.S. Agency for International Development when he returns to the U.S. in May 2014. Having completed an internship with the State Department in Kazakhstan during the MIDP program, Enz hopes to conduct research that will help shape policy regarding Central Asia, the Caucasus region and Turkey.
“A lot of what we did was similar to what journalists do – reporting on issues important to the U.S. government,” Enz said. “It was a very fast-paced environment, but I enjoyed it.”
June 14, 2013 - DCID offers custom program for Indian Revenue Service
Duke Center for International Development, 2013/06/14 09:12:34
Thirty-eight officers from the Indian Revenue Service recently completed a two-week training program on tax policy and administration at the Duke Center for International Development (DCID).
“The course is extremely informative and interesting,” said Sanjeet Singh, who participated in the program. “It provides not only important skills, but also a variety of new perspectives.”
The program begins with three weeks of advance training at the Management and Development Institute in Gurgaon, India, which is taught by their faculty. The rest of the course is taught by Duke faculty in conjunction with experts from the Internal Revenue Service, the North Carolina Department of Revenue and the World Bank. The course concludes with a trip to Washington, D.C., to visit with officials from the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Internal Revenue Service.
DCID faculty has trained over 160 Indian Revenue Service officers in its custom programs and expects to train a total of more than 400 over the next three years.
June 13, 2013 - PARM graduates 26 from across the globe
Duke Center for International Development, 2013/06/13 14:17:05
The Project Appraisal and Risk Management (PARM) program graduated 26 students at a ceremony at the University Club on Friday, June 7. The two-week program drew participants from across the globe, including students from Haiti, Liberia, India and Japan.
PARM focuses on investment appraisal and management for professionals working in public and private-sector organizations. The curriculum explores modern and widely used techniques of finance, applied economics and risk management.
“Many times governments and the private sector end up implementing development projects without doing the necessary evaluations in advance,” said Niaz Shinwari, a 2013 PARM graduate who served in the Fiscal Policy and Economic Affairs Department in Afghanistan. “PARM is particularly important because it teaches you the skills of evaluation to determine whether projects are financially viable.”
PARM is one of four summer executive education programs offered by the Duke Center for International Development (DCID) to meet the diverse needs of policy makers, researchers and other professionals. Since 2002, when DCID began hosting these programs, over 928 alumni representing 100 countries have participated and are implementing their new skills around the world.
April 26, 2013 - MIDP Graduate in Law and Development Obtains Dream Job
Duke Center for International Development, 2013/06/13 13:05:31
Justin Becker (JD/MIDP '12) advises us that he will be working as an attorney at the Department of Commerce in the International Trade Administration where he is expected to participate in the Commercial Law and Development program. This program is designed to support developing countries in the development of their legal systems to make them more market friendly. One aspect includes helping to develop international arbitral systems. Justin adds that what really excites him is that this assignment has direct connections to his studies in both the law and MIDP programs.
Duke-UNC Rotary Center Fellow Honored for Work in Peace & Conflict Resolution
Duke Center for International Development, 2013/01/13 11:27:58
Former Duke-UNC Rotary Center fellow Bautista Logioco (MIDP ‘04) was recently honored in his home country of Argentina with The Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) award in the “Contributions to Children, World Peace and/or Human Rights” category. This award was given to Mr. Logioco by the Juniors Chamber International (JCI) Argentina and the Argentinean Chamber of Commerce in honor of his outstanding work in the field of peace and conflict resolution. Mr. Logioco is currently working as a Programme Officer at the UN Peacebuilding Support Office in New York City, where he supports the development and implementation of peace building programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Prior to that he served as a Programme Specialist in the Secretariat of the UN Framework Team for Preventive Action, where he supported UN entities to “deliver as one” in developing conflict prevention/sensitivity strategies and programs.
DCID proudly congratulates Bautista on earning this award and wishes him the best of luck in his future endeavors. (B. Logioco pictured third from left)
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DCID Faculty and Staff "Walk the Talk"
Duke Center for International Development, 2013/01/04 14:59:32
As part of DCID's community service effort, we actively seek out and participate in group volunteer projects around the local Durham area. This holiday season, several faculty and staff members came together at Urban Ministries of Durham to prepare food for the homeless and poverty-stricken population in our community.
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Reunion with MIDP Alumni in Mongolia
Duke Center for International Development, 2013/01/04 14:58:47
While delivering a Project Appraisal and Risk Management program in Mongolia, Professor Fernando Fernholz had the opportunity to reunite with MIDP alumni (from left to right) Itgel Lonjid(2004), Otgonbayer Galbadrakh(2003), and Anudari Altangerel (2004). We are happy to see them doing so well and wish them all the best!
MIDP Alumnus Approved as Republic of Georgia's New Chairman of the Parliament
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/12/20 15:45:50
David Usupashvili (MIDP ’99) has been approved as the Chairman of the Parliament for the newly elected government of the Republic of Georgia. David previously served as chairman of the Republic Party of Georgia, which was part of the Georgian Dream alliance that won the election against the United National Movement. [more]
MIDP Alumna Merges Passions for International Development and Fashion
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/10/05 17:15:30
Press Release - Durham, NC, Sept 2012
EVOLVEMINT – New Clothing Line Inspires Fresh Change by Merging Fashion and International Development Concepts
Evolvemint is a new clothing brand guided by a fresh concept. Founder and CEO, Sophia Hyder (MIDP '12) designs each collection, carefully mapping each part of the production process to incorporate gender equality and create sustainable economic growth opportunities in Bangladesh and the United States. The company's designs are classic and elegant, using ethically sourced silk and recycled sari fabric. Each piece is not only vibrant in color and print, but soft and luxurious against the wearer's skin.
"The idea for Evolvemint arose when I wanted to figure out a way to merge my two favorite passions: international development and fashion. I wanted to know more about where my clothing was coming from. And being an international development professional, I wanted to create a business model that supported the sustainable growth of micro, small, and medium businesses in developing countries and the United States while having an impact on gender equality issues," said Ms. Hyder.
Evolvemint's first collection of hand printed silk scarves, Summer Breeze, includes four bold colors and styles: Teal Lotus, Passion Fruit Conception, Pumpkin Peacock, and Orchid Seahorse. This first batch of scarves is just a sneak preview of Evolvemint's first spring/summer collection scheduled to launch in March; dark pink, emerald green, and ivory are just a few of the colors that will be added to the color palate. Clients also have the option of customizing their own scarf by choosing a color and print from the collection, and for orders of 50 or more, designers can work with the client to create a signature block print design. Silk scarves are priced at $48, with 40% of the value of each piece reinvested into Bengali enterprises and employment opportunities for women and gender empowerment initiatives.
Ms. Hyder has already begun to establish relationships with women owned micro and small/medium enterprises within the textile and block printing sectors in Bangladesh, specifically those that support gender equality. Evolvemint's Bengali partner for silk has been credited for creating over 10,000 jobs within the sector. Anjuara Begum, a female employee has been working at the silk mill since 1995 starting with a salary of Tk. 500 a month ($6.25/month) and now receives Tk 1,600 a month ($20/month). "Supporting enterprises that encourage the development of rural women can create lasting effects on an economy, and can improve health and education outcomes in the long run," says Ms. Hyder. Similar to her partnership with the silk enterprise Ms. Hyder is working with Fabric2Fashion, a small woman owned Bengali business, specializing in block printing and dyeing fabric. She is also cultivating relationships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as Folk International committed to providing sustainable income generating opportunities to social groups in poverty through market oriented handicraft training and production programs. Folk International has created over 100 community groups throughout Bangladesh which consist of over 3,000 craft persons.
A central element of Evolvemint's mission is to generate employment opportunities in Bangladesh and the United States. The scarves and accessories will be hand crafted in Bangladesh. However, the clothing will be produced here in North Carolina, thus contributing to a revival of the garment industry in the United States. "Having the ability to create positive change while producing beautiful clothing is really the heart of what Evolvemint is about," says Ms. Hyder. In the United States, Ms. Hyder has engaged or formed collaborations with over 10 local businesses to develop her brand. Ms. Hyder continues to say, "The number of collaborators in the United States will only increase. Evolvemint may have just launched, but this brand already has the ability to affect the lives of thousands of people."
The scarves are available in the Art of Style Boutique store in Cameron Village and Brier Creek in Raleigh, NC; they can also be purchased online via the Evolvemint website at www.evolvemintfashion.com Ms. Hyder welcomes client interaction and feedback as a part of her business model. She can be reached at sophia@evolvemintfashion.com.
About Ms Hyder: Ms. Hyder recently graduated with a Master's in International Development Policy from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Her master's thesis and research over the past two years focused on the integration of women owned business into the silk industry in Bangladesh. She chose this topic to because she wanted Evolvemint to uphold ethical standards throughout the process of creating exquisite, high-quality products. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in Foreign Affairs.
[more]Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/10/05 13:45:59
"A new book by William Ascher and DCID Senior Research Scholar and Lecturing Fellow Natalia Mirovitskaya, Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America, is available for pre-order on Amazon.com. The book is the first in a new series "Politics, Economics, and Inclusive Development" launched by publisher Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America combines an overview of the nature, causes, and changes in inter-group violence in Latin America with a collection of case studies of nations in that region. The remarkable transformation from open ideological conflict to confrontations over natural resources, drugs, and street violence seen across the region is traced to shifts in economic strategies of right, centrist, and leftist governments. The cases use both qualitative and quantitative methods to understand how economic development strategies and policies have shaped the levels and forms of violence in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina. The authors gain insight into these dynamics both by relating the modern history of economic policies to conflict among groups and governments, and by comparing outcomes in different regions within countries."
The second book of this series by Ascher and Mirovitskaya, Development Strategies, Identities, and Averting Violent Conflict in Asia, is currently under review.
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Featured Member: Natalia S. Mirovitskaya of Duke Center for International Development
Virtual MIDP Admissions Information Sessions
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/10/03 14:25:28
MIDP Virtual Information Sessions
Duke-UNC Rotary Center Welcomes its Largest Student Cohort
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/08/10 17:24:45
The Co-Directors and staff of the Duke-UNC Rotary Center are welcoming our 12 new Rotary Peace Fellows, who will commence this fall their graduate studies at Duke in the MIDP program and at UNC in several different departments (public health, political science, geography, social work, and city and regional planning). These new Fellows add several countries to our Center’s world map, including Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Palestine. This new cohort of students (our largest so far) joins the 10 Rotary Peace Fellows returning for their final year of graduate studies across both university campuses for a total of 94 students from 44 countries since the Center’s foundation 10 years ago. More information on the Duke-UNC Rotary Center can be found on our website: www.rotarypeacecenternc.org. [more]
Executive Education team celebrates one decade of Summer Programs at Duke
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/07/25 10:32:04
This summer, the Executive Education team at DCID celebrates the 10th anniversary of open-enrollment programs being held at the Duke University campus. More than 1,000 mid-career professionals from 105 countries around the world have participated in these programs over the past decade. Application season for the 2013 open-enrollment programs will begin early next year. [more]
Congratulations, MIDP Class of 2012
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/07/25 10:30:32
DCID would like to congratulate the recent graduates of the Master of International Development Policy (MIDP) program. The 2012 class consisted of 48 graduates from 23 countries, including Kosovo, Liberia, and Romania. This year, Singapore, South Africa, and Tanzania were represented for the first time in the program's history and Justin Becker, United States, was lauded as the first MIDP/JD graduate.
DCID represented at Academy of Public Administration graduation in Kazakhstan
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/07/25 10:28:17
DCID Executive Director, Jon Abels, Associate Professor, Cory Krupp, and Visiting Professor, Joseph Tham, traveled to Astana, Kazakhstan in late June to attend the graduation ceremony of the country's 6th group of government officials to complete an executive development program at the Duke Center for International Development. The group of 16 senior civil servants completed a thirteen-week program at Duke in April and returned to their home country to finish training at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. [more]
MIDP Fellow Receives Dennis A. Clements Award for Outstanding Service
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/06/12 09:45:10
Eduardo da Costa, Rotary World Peace Fellow and MIDP Class of 2012 from Brazil, received the Dennis A. Clements Award for Outstanding Service from Duke's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The award is to honor the outgoing CLACS director Dennis Clements who has a career distinguished with service. To learn more about the Dennis A. Clements Award, please visit the following link. [more]
The Sanford School Ranks in the 2012 US News and World Report
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/06/04 11:02:56
The Sanford School ranked among the nation's leading public policy schools in the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of graduate programs. In subspecialities, Sanford was 6th in public policy analysis, 2nd in environmental policy, 6th in health policy and management, and 7th in social policy. The US News rankings are reputational and are derived from responses to surveys sent to deans and directors at both public administration and public policy programs. [more] -- http://www.sanford.duke.edu/news/newsletters/Insights04_12.pdf
DCID Faculty Travel Worldwide for Presentations, Lectures, and Research
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/06/04 11:02:42
Over the past year DCID faculty have traveled around the world giving presentations and lectures and conducting research. Follow the URL to see the map of Sanford Abroad, illustrating where Sanford School faculty have traveled and the subjects of their work. Map can be found on pages 20-21 of the Sanford Insights spring 2012 PDF. [more] -- http://www.sanford.duke.edu/news/newsletters/Insights04_12.pdf
Scholarship Opportunity for Non-U.S. University Graduates Interested in the Two Year Masters’ Degree in International Development Policy with a Peace & Conflict Concentration
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/05/24 11:46:50
The Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution and the Duke Center for International Development (DCID) encourage highly qualified mid-career professionals from outside the U.S. to apply for a Rotary World Peace Fellowship in 2013-14 in order to support their studies for a masters’ degree in international development policy with a concentration in peace and conflict resolution. Application deadline: July 1, 2012. To apply, go to http://www.rotarypeacecenternc.org/HowToApply.html [more]
Prof. Catherine Admay Wins Outstanding Teaching Award from DGHI
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/05/17 10:52:41
A visiting professor of public policy and affiliate of the Duke Global Health Institute, Catherine Admay was overwhelmingly nominated by students for making a lasting impression on their education in global health. Her students refer to her as superwoman, a great teacher but an even greater person, creative, passionate, encouraging, the quintessential example of a professor who sees student learning and intellectual development as going hand-in-hand. They say she empowers students to effect change and equips them to do so. Her students call this “The Admay Effect.” “The passion and energy of our students is nurtured and strengthened by our faculty,” said Michael Merson, founding director of DGHI. “I am proud to present my colleagues … with a special award to honor their hard work, dedication and commitment to our students.”
Duke-UNC Rotary Center TV Debut
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/02/28 13:19:34
Francis Lethem and Jim Peacock, co-directors of the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center, discuss its objectives and achievements during an interview with UNC-TV on February 6, 2012. To watch the interview, please click [more]
Finding the World's Missing Children
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/02/23 08:52:45
MIDP Alumna organizing major international conference in Brasilia to address the global problem of at least 8 million missing children. For further information, please visit [more] -- ICMEC
DCID faculty Tony Elson quoted in USA Today
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/01/27 17:48:53
In a USA Today article Friday, December 9, 2011, on the potential role of economists in determining the European Union’s future, Sandra Block quotes DCID faculty member Tony Elson regarding examples of economists who were successfully called to lead their country during fiscal crises. Mr. Elson also observed that “To succeed as political leaders, economists must be able to negotiate with other lawmakers. [Though] compromise may not come easily to individuals who are trained to seek the optimal solution for every problem.” In fall 2011, Professor Elson taught a course on “The recent financial crisis and reform of the international financial architecture.” [more] -- USA Today
After the "Rose Revolution"
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/01/27 17:37:56
Rewriting a nation’s entire tax code might seem like a pipedream to most policymakers, but that’s what alumnus Aleksi Aleksishvili MIDP ’04 was able to do for his home country of Georgia. As part of the administration brought into power by the “Rose Revolution,” Aleksishvili was able to institute sweeping tax and economic reforms in his work as Minister of Economy (2004-2005) and Minister of Finance (2005-2007).
In 2003, an attempt by the incumbent Georgian government to manipulate national elections sparked an uprising, where protestors took to the streets, carrying roses. The Rose Revolution forced the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze, the former Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose administration had become increasing corrupt. In January 2004, Mikheil Saakashvili of the United National Movement party was elected president.
“There was a window of opportunity for policy changes with a new generation in political power that was more open to the rule of law and a democratic society,” said Aleksisvili. [more] -- Sanford School of Public Policy
Children of the Amazon – a Discussion with MIDP and Rotary Peace Fellow Eduardo da Costa
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2011/11/19 10:59:11
Bringing the concerns of local peoples in the Amazon forest to students at Duke has been a passion for MIDP⁄Rotary fellow Eduardo da Costa. Eduardo, who is from the Brazilian Amazon state of Para, has focused his studies and research on inclusive and sustainable development in this largest tropical rainforest in the world. On Sunday November 13, 2011, after a film showing of the Denise Zmekhol film “Children of the Amazon” sponsored by The Working Group for Environment in Latin America and the North Carolina Latin American Film Festival, Eduardo led an active discussion on sustainable development and some strategies that can empower local people to participate in, and benefit from, development programs while protecting the Amazon forest. This is urgent as pointed out in the film: in a 15 year span ending 2008, 150 million acres of Amazon forest were destroyed and much more is threatened.
Eduardo pointed out the big challenges and opportunity for students in environment and in public policy: to address the realities of change and to come up with creative solutions that can foster development which enhances the lives and livelihoods of the Amazon Indian people, and protects the forest. Eduardo da Costa is a second year Rotary World Peace and MIDP Fellow who intends to devote his career to public policy and possible local political leadership in Brazil.
DCID Faculty share on IMF blog about recent program on PFM capacity building in Liberia
Duke Center for International Development, for faculty, 2011/03/14 11:04:14
DCID Faculty members Roy Kelly and Richard Hemming reported on the custom executive education program "Challenges and Opportunities for Public Financial Management (PFM) Reforms in Liberia" conducted at Duke and Washington, DC, February 21 - March 4, 2011. [more]
Featured Members: Roy Kelly of Duke Center for International Development; Richard Hemming of Duke Center for International Development
The Primate Genomics Initiative
Evolutionary Anthropology, for Postdoc Staff, 2009/02/26 11:58:17
The Primate Genomics Initiative (PGI) is a newly funded initiative in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology. The goal of the PGI is to facilitate collaborative evolutionary genomics research projects between Duke researchers using nonhuman and human primate models across diverse fields by combining research, training and service. (find out more http://baa.duke.edu/primategenomics/) [more]
Graduates
Evolutionary Anthropology, 2008/09/15 08:32:32
Congratulations to the Recent Evolutionary Anthropology Ph.D. Graduates: Jonathan Perry, Adam Hartstone-Rose, Meredith Bastian, and Nancy Barrickman. We wish them well in their future endeavors.
Center for Child and Family Policy Helps Local Public Housing Neighborhood
Sanford School of Public Policy, 2006/10/13 12:47:50
The Terry Sanford Institute's Center for Child and Family Policy is working with community facilitator Annie Jones to build a strong sense of community in Durham's crime-scarred McDougald Terrace public housing neighborhood.
News Tip: Foreign Policy Expert Examines Reaction to North Korea's Nuclear Test
Sanford School of Public Policy, 2006/10/13 12:47:41
Oct. 9, 2006
North Korea’s actions warrant a swift, firm response from the U.N. Security Council.
Durham, NC -- North Korea’s first nuclear weapon test, conducted earlier today, was motivated by a “sense of extreme insecurity,” says a Duke University political scientist.
“A similar pattern of behavior was found in China in the early 1960s, when China was an isolated revolutionary state,” said Tianjian Shi, an associate professor of political science whose areas of expertise include Asian security issues. “Mao did exactly the same thing.”
Shi said the nuclear test places China in a difficult position. “In responding to the crisis, it needs to balance strategic interests and potential consequences associated with adopting more severe sanctions against North Korea.”
Political scientist Margaret McKean said Japan ’s response may also be critical in how this situation is resolved.
“Japan is fully capable of going nuclear in fairly short order, without any of the technical obstacles that North Korea has been dealing with, and with high-grade stocks of plutonium already available,” said McKean, an associate professor of political science who specializes in Japanese politics.
McKean noted that Japan’s new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is known as a “hawk,” and some Japanese leaders have been saying recently that a strike on North Korea could “conceivably be consistent with the ‘self-defense’ that they claim Japan's peace constitution would permit.”
“Much to the horror of South Korea and China (and a chunk of the Japanese population), North Korea’s moves may be eliminating 60 years of nuclear allergy and pacificism in Japan,” McKean said. “Considering their nations to be victims of Japan’s wartime aggression, South Korea and China find the prospect of a nuclear Japan utterly horrifying. Indeed, China may well fear a nuclear Japan more than any disturbance in the Korean peninsula.”
Public policy professor Bruce Jentleson said North Korea’s actions warrant a swift, firm response from the U.N. Security Council.
“This is a moment when the major powers have to show both unity and decisiveness,” said Jentleson, a former State Department official in the Clinton administration and foreign policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore. “The Security Council should consider all possible measures, including sanctions and potential military action, while also pursuing diplomacy. This requires balanced leadership from the Bush administration in partnership with China as well as other key countries.”
Jentleson is an expert on non-proliferation who last week briefed a group of United Nations ambassadors on the Iran case.
For more information, contact: Keith Lawrence | (919) 681-8059 | keith.lawrence@duke.edu
September 11, 2014 - Gender, War, and Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century
History, for faculty, 2014/08/27 09:47:56
The workshop centers on ideologies and practices of humanitarianism as they emerged and developed in the wake of nineteenth and twentieth-century nationalism and the wars it spawned. It will address the specific nature of twentieth-century humanitarianism in relation to both the character of war in this period and the rise of internationalist politics at elite and grassroots levels. It will explore how gender both shaped and was shaped by humanitarian politics, for example in relation to the influence of (trans)national feminist movements on the establishment of human rights and norms. It will also examine redefinitions of masculinity and femininity in international efforts to secure peace, and critically assess the use and abuse of gendered humanitarian ideals in legitimizing war and international military interventions. No registration necessary. For more information see: gwc.web.unc.edu and the below program overview. [PDF]
Charbonneau wins Alfred Sloan Award
Chemistry, for faculty, 2013/02/14 12:03:44
Professor Charbonneau has received a 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. Congratulations, Patrick!
New Master's Degree Program Being Developed
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/07/24 12:44:02
On Jan. 21, Duke University, Vietnam National University (VNU) and the GE Foundation signed an agreement to develop a Master’s Degree Program in Public Policy for Environmental Protection. Sanford, DCID, and the Nicholas School are providing faculty training for the new program. [more] -- http://dukealumni.bm23.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=16413&id=629m8mi8szfjz3v8r4tqiu7imalhn&id2=48zh58ewcktx1ij3wmvkbo6vm0c4y&subscriber_id=aegwsxbkrtdxeeyjelxjvcfwtjirbai&delivery_id=bqtlxcuctscyjvjihexxtswqoahqbpm&tid=3.QB0.Bg3C9w.CSxr.Kdt8..LxZC.b..
Duke Microfinance Leadership Initiative Launches Investment Fund
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:46:09
Partnership with Ugandan credit union creates “living laboratory” for learning
The Duke Microfinance Leadership Initiative (DMLI) has identified the first recipient of their Investment Fund, which was launched in the spring of 2008, with support from DCID, the Duke Economics Department and the Office of Undergraduate Affairs. The Nkokoneru Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCO), which is a small but fast growing credit union in Uganda, was chosen as the Investment Fund’s first partner . Student members in the DMLI spent last spring and summer fundraising for this initiative and reviewed applications from potential partner organizations during the Fall 2008, chosing SACCO through a membership vote in December, 2008.
“Our initial goal was to create a way for students to gain first-hand understanding of how microfinance is implemented, and to provide capital and support to a promising but underfunded microfinance organization. Although we could not offer large amounts of capital, we felt we could offer the kind of in-depth support that a smaller bank would benefit from as they sought to scale up their operations,” reports Rafael Mazer, a PIDP May 2009 graduate and a Managing Director of DMLI.
To make the search for the first recipient manageable, DMLI limited it to organizations which grossed less than $100,000 annually in their loan portfolios and had a connection to a member of the Duke Community. Duke’s Engineers Without Borders recommended SACCO based on its experience working in the Nkokonjeru community for the past two summers. SACCO appealed to DMLI’s membership due to its strong leadership, a transparent, democratic structure, its rapid growth from 30 to more than 300 members in less than three years, and its small, grassroots nature.
Two Duke students, Gloria Ahn, a Trinity rising sophomore majoring in economics, and Daniel Kobayashi, a first-year MPP, will intern this summer with SACCO to help implement the new loan programs and monitor the loans’ impact on the borrowers and the Nkokonjeru community in general. This is hoped to be the first of many such opportunies, as expressed by Kobayashi: “We are hopeful that our engagement in this project will not only benefit the people of Nkokonjeru, but will provide a template for DMLI to work with other such grassroots microfinance initiatives, and assist other universities in similar relationships."
DCID Faculty Updates
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:46:02
The faculty members of DCID participated in several activities during the Spring 2009 semester. We are pleased to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Richard Hemming, who joins us from the IMF, and to welcome Dr. Roy Kelly’s return to Durham. Below is a recap of recent faculty activities.
Catherine Admay was recognized by George McLendon, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and Trinity College and Richard Palmer, Faculty Director of the Focus program for her contributions to the Focus program during Fall 2008 semester. She also received a $5,000 grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, Inc. for an "International Studies" proposal entitled "Re-Presenting Justice." She and her RA, Lindsay Bayham (PubPol undergraduate major), will conduct field research in South Africa on the question of building a constitutional culture through (legally) unconventional and innovative jurist-led initiatives like the architecture and art of the Constitutional Court. Admay was the faculty anchor for two Provost Common Fund enabled visits to Duke by South African Constututional Court Justices Yvonne Mokgoro and Albie Sachs. Justice Mokgoro was a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Franklin Humanities Institute April 11-22.
Graham Glenday was invited to lecture on “The New “Old” Approach to the Economic Opportunity Cost of Capital,” at a conference on “Discount Rates for the Evaluation of Public Private Partnerships” at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on October 2-3, 2008. The paper will be published as a chapter in a conference volume edited by David F. Burgess and Glenn P. Jenkins, Queen’s University, Canada (forthcoming).
Richard Hemming joins DCID after a 24-year career with the International Monetary Fund. He retired from the IMF in August 2008 as the Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department. Previously, he worked for their Asia and Pacific Department and spent two years as a senior representative in India. Dr. Hemming is an economist and fiscal policy expert with wide-ranging industrial and developing country expertise.
In recent years, he has worked on a variety of topics, including the fiscal consequences of financial globalization, fiscal sustainability, fiscal vulnerability and financial crises, fiscal responsibility frameworks (including transparency and rules), accounting and reporting standards, public investment, and public-private partnerships. He has published widely on tax, social security, public expenditure, and other fiscal issues. Dr. Hemming taught a mini-seminar for the PIDP during the Spring 2009 semester entitled “Macroeconomic Aspects of Fiscal Management” and will teach a full seminar on “Fiscal Policy, Globalization, and Development" this fall. At DCID he will continue to teach these courses on a regular basis and will also continue research in his fields of expertise. Dr. Hemming’s academic credentials include a Ph.D from Stirling University.
Dr. Roy Kelly will return to DCID in July 2009 and remain in residence at Duke, after completion of the in-country portion of the Tanzania Local Government Reform project. More on that project may be found in the overseas advising report in the Summer 2009 e-newsletter.
Dr. Cory Krupp was one of 52 professors nominated for the 2009 Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching award, which recognizes outstanding undergraduate teaching at Duke University.
Dr. Anne Martin-Staple recently completed three consulting projects with the Ministries of Health in the West Bank (Health Sector Reform), Ethiopia (Global Funds and Health Systems Strengthening) and Ukraine (TB Laboratory System Strengthening). She also presented at the 2009 Carolina and Duke Consortium Conference “The Idea of the Americas: Representation and Reality” on “Fact and Fiction about Health Care Outreach-Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons from Jamaica”, in February.
Dr. Natalia Mirovitskaya took a research leave during the Spring 2009 semester. She served along with William Ascher, (co-founder and former director of DCID) as Principal Investigator of a multi-faceted project “Economic Development Strategies and Averting Collective Violence.” The project is funded by the Pacific Basin Research Center. The objective is to determine which development strategies create conditions that reduce the likelihood of violence, especially in developing and transitional countries. It is hoped that four scholarly outputs will result from this research: 1) a co-authored book by the two principal investigators, 2) a companion work that will provide a “toolkit” of analytic techniques that policymakers or activists could employ in choosing development strategies to meet today’s challenges; 3) a series of occasional papers consisting of a combination of case studies and thematic analyses by other researchers; and 4) a data base of cases, based on a template of information relevant for any case. Dr. Mirovitskaya presented at a workshop organized for this project at Soka University in Aliso Viejo California on June 8 and 9.
Dr. Phyllis Pomerantz participated in a round-table discussion on the prospect of foreign aid reform in April, as an invited guest of North Carolina congressman David Price. The goal of this discussion was to assist in the shaping of recommendations for new foreign aid legislation that Rep. Price may offer to US Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman. A collection of suggestions from the participants in Dr. Pomerantz’s class on “The Politics of International Aid” were circulated to discussion participants as a follow-up to their meeting.
Linking Policy Research and Action
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:45:53
The Duke Center for International Development (DCID) and Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) introduced a new, pilot model that aims to link policy research expertise in the university with the policy priorities and needs of an NGO for the Summer 2009. This summer, four MIDP graduate students will intern with HFHI under this model, designed to produce benefits for the students, faculty and programs at DCID and HFHI policy and planning, as well as a research-action model that might have general applicability.
In 2008, DCID and HFHI officials agreed to explore a model that would enable faculty and students to work closely with HFHI on policy issues related to their mission “to eliminate poverty housing around the world and to make adequate housing a matter of conscience and action”. Research focuses on medium term policy themes and priorities identified at a policy meeting in Atlanta last December, where Area Vice Presidents also indicated potential short term internship opportunities in their regions. The policy research and summer internship project is part of an institutional relationship formed between DCID and HFHI. This relationship provides an umbrella program under which specific forms of faculty advising, course development and faculty papers may be prepared and innovations may be tested. Summer internships focus on analysis of specific issues or cases that contribute to learning under the policy themes. An optional, one-credit independent study may be performed by the student during the fall semester to finalize a policy paper on the issue of their internship. The support system for summer internships is expanded to include additional requirements under this program.
Three of the Fellows will work the HFHI regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean, in conjunction with regional research teams. Louisa Dow, Gema Stratico and Francisco Duque will research the effectiveness of civil society strategies to reform public policies that improve the access of vulnerable people to adequate housing and secure land tenure in urban areas in the region. Each will focus on a sub theme - Gema Stratico on institutional and targeting issues in relation to equal access opportunities for women and vulnerable groups; Louisa Dow on multi-level in-country and country-regional alliances and networking to increase access to land and secure tenure; and Francisco Duque on the policy and legal framework in housing and land issues. Their studies will use cases from Mexico, Honduras, and Brazil. The research process and findings will be shared in country presentations in Mexico and Honduras, scheduled for the end of July 2009.
Jason Rodriguez has joined Habitat’s Africa and Middle East office in Pretoria, South Africa. His task is to participate in project and proposal development related to various housing-related issues such as access of vulnerable groups to land security and housing, delivery of complementary services such as water and sanitation, and housing finance. He is expected to travel to different areas in the region to gather research data.
Custom Executive Education Programs Diversify
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:45:43
DCID expanded its customized programs this spring, completing three successful trainings for participants from Azerbaijan, China and Thailand.
Azerbaijan: DCID delivered a ten-week course from Feb 19 to May 2, 2009 on Applied Project Appraisal and Risk Management for Economic Development to undergraduate and graduate students of Azerbaijan State Economic University (ASEU) and Khazar University, as part of the USAID-funded project, Public Expenditure Reform Support Program. This course focused on financial, risk, economic, and stakeholder analysis of capital projects and development programs as well as risk management through applied case studies, lectures, and computer exercises. A total of 38 students participated in the course. This course is scheduled to be offered in Fall 2009 and Spring 2010.
China: The Yangzhou Provincial Government Program, which began in January 2009, came to completion on May 15, 2009. This program welcomed 23 local government officials from the Chinese city of Yangzhou to Duke for a 19-week training course on Public Policy, Administration and Management, led by DCID and Sanford Institute faculty. Participants in this program went on several site visits to local government offices in North Carolina and also traveled to New York City, Boston, Washington DC and San Francisco.
Thailand: The Government of Thailand sent 31 judges who practice in the Thailand tax courts to DCID to be trained in issues related to globalization and taxation, specifically regarding general tax rules and US policies and how US tax laws interact with those of other countries. The judges arrived on May 17 and stayed for two weeks, learning about the overall US judicial system structure and international procedures. They also attended sessions in Washington DC and met with officials from the US Tax Court and the IRS. Classes were led by faculty from the Duke Law School, as well as the Georgetown Law Center, and guest speakers from the IMF and the US Treasury Department.
Overseas Advising Report
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:45:34
DCID faculty members recently participated in several consulting projects with foreign governments. These assignments have taken faculty members to Guyana, Indonesia and Tanzania. Below is a re-cap of these projects and the faculty members assigned to them.
Guyana: The Guyana Revenue Authority extended the consulting contract with Dr. Graham Glenday and Mr. Rubi Sugana until September 2009. In this capacity, they will work with officials of the Tax Analysis Unit to develop tax databases for use in monitoring, analyzing and forecasting revenues. Mr. Sugana will also provide on-the-ground training to officials of the Tax Analysis Unit in the analysis of the tax data and revenue forecasting.
Indonesia: Mr. Rubi Sugana was selected by the World Vision Canada to serve as the lead consultant for the design of a local revenue mobilization assessment in the East Sumba District of Eastern Indonesia. This project ran from December 2008 to January 2009. The scope of the project was to design a local government revenue mobilization program to allow the District Government to expand the community-based water supply and sanitation development program in the among the poorest rural areas of Indonesia. Dr. Fernando Fernholz was also involved in this project as the back-stopper for Mr. Sugana.
Tanzania (3 activities):
Dr. Roy Kelly recently completed the in-country portion of the Tanzania Local Government Reform Project. Under a two-year contract with the Government of Tanzania (2007-2009), Kelly and other PFG faculty members assisted the Prime Minister's Office-Regional Administration and Local Government (PMO-RALG) and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs to improve the intergovernmental fiscal transfer system, enhance local revenue mobilization and strengthen local financial management. This support project is funded through a basket fund modality by the Government of Tanzania.
Mr. Rubi Sugana was recruited by the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ) to provide technical assistance in the design of a property tax reform program for the Dar es Salaam Local Authorities (DLA) and the development of a comprehensive property tax administration manual, which will be used in other local authorities across Tanzania. This assignment involved intensive coordination with the broader Local Government Reform Program and various World Bank-funded projects, i.e., property valuation and mapping of all properties in Dar es Salaam and information technology development.
Dr. Tom Cook also advised with the Tanzanian Government on the development of a Monitoring and Evaluation system for the Local Government Reform Program, Decentralization by Devolution.
PIDP Transitions to MIDP
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:45:26
This letter was sent to PIDP alumni in May 2009
This letter is to inform you of an exciting transition that the Program in International Development Policy will make due to becoming part of the new Duke Sanford School of Public Policy. As some of you may know, it has been a goal of the Sanford leadership for the Institute to become Duke University’s tenth professional school. Thanks to university support, strategic planning and successful fundraising, the Sanford Institute will become the Sanford School of Public Policy on July 1, 2009. Professor Bruce Kuniholm will serve as its first Dean.
The Sanford School will now have academic oversight of the PIDP, and as a result, DCID is required to offer a Master of International Development Policy (MIDP) degree in lieu of a Masters of Arts in International Development Policy. We support this transition, as it brings the program, as well as Sanford as a whole, in line with our competitors such as the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. We also feel that this title is better suited to the practitioner-oriented nature of our program. We wish to assure our alumni, however, that this change does not diminish the value of their MA nor their affiliation with DCID.
In light of these changes, PIDP will officially be referred to as the MIDP, to emphasize our new degree name and placement within the Sanford School of Public Policy. We will introduce this new acronym in our marketing materials, both in print and online, over the course of the next year. Additionally, Fellows graduating in December 2009 and thereafter will receive diplomas with the new title “Master of International Development Policy”.
We have also made some changes and additions to our curriculum that we would like to share with you. Feedback from current and past students has indicated a need for better grounding in statistics and data analysis. Beginning in the 2009-2010 academic year, we will require that all two-year fellows complete “Empirical Analysis of Development” as part of the core program. We also hope that this course will facilitate the work which will be performed concurrently in the required “Economic Analysis of Development” class. We have also introduced a dual degree program with the Duke Law School, which will allow participants to receive a JD degree in law and a Master of International Development after three years of study. To complement this program, we introduced a new area of specialization in Law and Development, open to both students in the dual degree program and those in the regular MIDP degree. We hope to welcome our first participants in the dual degree program in the Fall 2010 semester.
We invite you to check our website for updates regarding this transition over the coming year. The title of Master of International Development Policy is a change that we hope will enhance our visibility among professional degrees in this field. We will continue to strive for a standard of excellence within each of our program areas. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have about this transition.
Sincerely,
Francis Lethem
Director
Duke Center for International Development
Corinne Krupp
Director of Graduate Studies
Master of International Development Policy Program
DCID Staff ‘Build’ Their Skills
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:45:17
Staff members volunteer in the local community
Ripped-up jeans. An old t-shirt. Muddy tennis shoes. Is this the new standard dress code for DCID? Only for the most recent community-service project completed by several DCID staff-members. As part of their effort to “walk-the-talk”, DCID has actively sought out and participated in group volunteer projects around the local Durham Community. Their most recent activity took place on September 24, 2009 with Habitat for Humanity. For three hours, DCID staffers bravely ascended to the roof of a new Habitat home in Durham to begin laying shingles on the house. Those who preferred to do their service a little closer to the ground spent the time shoveling dirt which had drained into the street after several rainy days. At the end of the day, the roof was almost completed and the streets were a little cleaner thanks to their efforts. “The work of our office is usually focused on projects outside of the US and the Habitat project was a good opportunity to think about development needs in our own communities,” reflected Kurt Meletzke, coordinator of the Managers in Transition program for DCID.
The DCID staff decided to pursue such opportunities to both better represent DCID’s organizational commitment to improved societies and also to foster a sense of community among the staff. The first community service project was done in conjunction with TROSA, a local non-profit which provides job-training and other services to recovering addicts.
DCID Faculty Member Leads Research Initiative
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:45:07
Research project unites current, former DCID faculty members
DCID Faculty member Natalia Mirovitskaya and former DCID Director and Founder William Ascher are working together on the multi-faceted project “Economic Development Strategies and Averting Collective Violence.” The project, funded by the Pacific Basic Research Center, is focused on determining which development strategies create conditions that reduce the likelihood of violence, especially in developing and transitional countries. Specifically, it aims to address the under-studied questions of how to preempt violent conflict and how to identify a strategy of development to reinforce the peaceful coexistence of different elements of a given population and to encourage their cooperation. The major concern is to understand how the choice of economic development strategy shapes the conditions conducive to peace or violence.
Several workshops will be organized within this project, with two already completed. The first was held on June 8th and 9th, 2009 at Soka University in Aliso Viejo, California. A second took place on October 16, 2009 at the DCID offices. Additionally, several other faculty members, MIDP alumni and students will participate at different stages of project design and implementation. Those who have contributed in the first stages include Charles Becker, Erika Weinthal, Stephen Smith, and Robert Healy, all affiliates of the Sanford School of Public Policy, UNC faculty member and Duke-UNC Rotary Center Co-Director James Peacock, and former DCID faculty member Gustavo Arcia. Duke-UNC Rotary Fellow alumni Katia Dantas (MIDP ’09) and Zumrat Salmorbekova (UNC ’09) were also involved in planning the workshops.
It is hoped that four types of scholarly outputs will be produced from their research: a co-authored book by Mirovitskaya and Ascher; a companion work which will provide a “toolkit” of analytic techniques that policymakers or activists could employ in choosing development strategies to meet today’s challenges; a series of papers consisting of a combination of case studies and thematic analyses by other researchers; and, if feasible, a database of cases, based on a template of information relevant for any case. The project will last for three years.
DCID Alumni Award Recipients Announced
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:43:54
The Duke Center for International Development is pleased to announce the first winners of its alumni awards. DCID alumni awards recognize alumni who have made significant contributions to the broad field of international development based on the criteria for each individual award. Winners receive a $500 award to further their professional activities. The following recipients have been selected:
NGO Excellence Award: This award honors an NGO that is committed to a similar mission as PIDP: “To make recognized contributions to global knowledge and practice of international social, political and economic development.” The selected NGO receives US $500 to further their activities.
Winner: Acción Emprendedora (Entrepreneurial Action), a non-profit organization founded by Anibal Pinto (PIDP’06) dedicated to the promotion and development of microenterprises in the poorest areas of Chile. AE’s objective is to break the chains of poverty by training and enabling micro entrepreneurs using a three-step development model.
Outstanding Achievement Award: This award offers US $500 to an alumnus who has made outstanding contributions to their field, sector, country, or region.
Winners: 3 PIDP alumni were selected to receive this award. Bautista Logioco (’04), Laura Zambrano (’04) and Cynthia Viveros-Cano (’04) are co-winners for their significant contributions to the demobilization process of Colombian paramilitary groups between 2003 and 2008.
Distinguished Service Award: This award provides US $500 to an alumnus who has demonstrated outstanding service to the DCID through promotion/advertising of the program, assistance with internship/job placement of current fellows, assistance with alumni relations or participation in other extracurricular activities.
Winner: Ichiro Toda (PIDP ’98) is the recipient of this award. He is an invaluable alumni who has worked with and assisted PIDP in numerous ways. In 2007 he was the PIDP inaugural “alumni-in-residence” and spent two days on campus hosting student groups and providing one-on-one career mentoring. He consistently supports PIDP’s annual Professional Development trip to Washington, DC and has hired numerous PIDP students and alumni for internships and short-term contracts. Ichiro is an is Development Effectiveness Officer with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where he implements frameworks to enhance development effectiveness of the IDB's Non-Sovereign Guaranteed Operations.
More information on these alumni award recipients and their activities will be available on the alumni section of the DCID website, which is currently under development.
Congratulations Graduates!
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:43:41
34 PIDP Fellows participated in Duke’s 2009 graduation ceremonies. Twenty-three completed their degree requirements in May and eleven will continue with course work during the summer, finishing in September 2009. Graduation weekend began with the PIDP/MPP hooding ceremony on Saturday, May 9, where each graduate was recognized individually. PIDP Director of Graduate Studies Cory Krupp served as the PIDP faculty speaker, and the PIDP graduates selected Katia Dantas as the PIDP student speaker. PIDP Assistant Director Stephanie Alt Lamm was honored with the staff excellence award, an award initiated last year by students in the Master of Public Policy Program, which recognizes a staff member for outstanding dedication and service. The Duke-wide commencement ceremony was held on Sunday, May 10 and featured guest speaker Oprah Winfrey. Graduates who participated in the ceremonies were:
May 2009 Graduates
Ertan Apaydin, Turkey
Nancy Banegas, Honduras
Myungsoo Choi, South Korea
Katia Dantas, Brazil
Ahmet Dincer, Turkey
Francisco Gonzalez Shinagawa, Mexico
Ruben Gonzalez, Panama
Xiomara Hernandez, El Salvador
Sanghee Jeong, South Korea
Deepak Kumar, India
Mattias Lindstrom, Sweden
Rafael Mazer, United States
Javier Ochoa, Venezuela
Claudia Paccieri, Bolivia
Anshu Shukla Pandey, India
Gabriel Pardo, Mexico
Nang Raw, Myanmar
Yuber Romero, Colombia
Jaejune Ryu, South Korea
Shawn Selleck, United States
Anita Sharma, India
Pia Simonsen, Australia
Saori Tokuoka, Japan
September 2009 Graduates
Rajesh Bansal, India
Serap Cansizoglu Oz, Turkey
Junko Hioki, Japan
Shinichi Itagaki, Japan
Alimamy Kamara, Sierra Leone/United States
Omar Kebbeh, The Gambia/United States
Chanchal Kumar, India
Amar Nath, India
Anju Sharma, India
Kilho Song, South Korea
Analia Viola, Argentina
Congratulations to all of our graduates!
DCID Faculty Updates
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:43:03
Daniel Alvarez accepted a position as a Senior Public Sector Specialist for the South Asia Region in the World Bank as of November 2, 2009. He will be involved in tax policy and administration reform projects and will be based in Washington DC.
Thomas J. Cook was selected as one of three U.S. advisors in evaluation research by the Australian Agency For International Development (AusAID) for its International Expert Panel on Development Evaluation. Panel members will advise on evaluation priorities and lead evaluation field teams. Dr. Cook has led several AusAID evaluations in recent years.
Jerry VanSant gave a keynote address on August 7 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to the Summer Institute of Nourish International, a nationwide campus-based non-profit organization that raises funds and provides student volunteers for host country partner organizations engaged in local community development. Mr. VanSant’s remarks addressed the emerging new roles of non-governmental organizations and how these groups can fulfill sustainable roles in the development of a vibrant and free civil society.
DCID Hosts Training for Xi’an Officials
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:42:43
Customized program is the fourth designed for Chinese officials
DCID welcomed 25 officials from the Xi’an Reform and Development Commission to campus for a customized executive education program on Public Policy and Public Sector Management. The program ran from September 6 to September 18, 2009 and featured lectures by DCID and Duke faculty, and local site visits for professional development. The program aimed to introduce the participants to the latest technological developments in public administration and service delivery, to develop their leadership and problem-solving skills and to better their ability to communicate effectively and work in teams. The success of the program led to the signing of a letter of intent between DCID and the Shaanxi Provincial government to deliver future training programs to government officials from the province. This is the fourth customized training program that DCID has developed for Chinese government officials; DCID has hosted the SAFEA (State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs) 19-week training program for five years, and a 19-week program for officials from the government of Yangzhou last spring. Prior to these programs, DCID held on-campus trainings for the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) of Northern China for three years.
MIDP Summer Internships Connect Students and Alumni
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:42:22
The Summer 2009 MIDP internship season brought together current and past MIDP Fellows to tackle current international development issues. Two MIDP fellows had the opportunity to intern with MIDP alumni: Gabriela Baez (’10) with Ichiro Toda (’98) at the Inter-American Development Bank and and Eunju Cha, (’10), with Gulnara Febres (’96) at the World Bank Institute. Both enjoyed successful internships and reported back on their experiences.
At her internship with IDB, Gabriela evaluated the impact that private sector projects have on the economic growth of Latin America to see if they were performing according to development objectives, which would determine if IDB would continue to lend to these projects. “The internship exceeded my expectations for many reasons,” says Gabriela. “My team made me feel welcome and Ichiro provided specific explanations about the overall functionality of the Department. He also organized events where I was able to diversify my professional network and invited me to many high profile meetings. Additionally, my supervisor’s team gave me detailed and practical instructions to approach tasks and were always willing to clarify my doubts, answer questions, and provide feedback. Their support supplied me with a valuable professional foundation, and I feel very fortunate to have had this opportunity to learn from them and put my previous knowledge into practice.” Ichiro also highly appreciated the opportunity to work with Gabriela, commenting “Gaby was a very motivated professional and provided tremendous contributions to our work. I’ve had the privilege of working with several interns from MIDP, and have always been able to count on their knowledge, profound work experience, and eagerness to learn new things. I also want interns to gain broader perspectives of the institution and expand their personal network. Gaby fully accomplished this and I believe these will be great assets for her career development in the future.”
Eunju Cha was responsible for researching emerging donors for the WBI. “The role of emerging donors in international development has become increasingly important and the WBI is developing partnership strategies with the donors,” Eunju reports. “I met Gulnara during a mock interview workshop organized by MIDP and was fortunate to secure an internship with her at WBI where I could further my interests in capacity development and technical assistance. I was able to learn a lot about the WBI’s systems and new strategies through the research I performed for them and at the meetings Gulnara invited me to attend. She was very thoughtful regarding my duties and helped me to learn as much as I could during my time with WBI. I am very thankful to her for this experience and hope that more MIDP Fellows are able to have internship opportunities with alumni in the future.” Gulnara Febres echoed these sentiments: “It was so wonderful to re-connect with Duke, and hire a summer intern from my former graduate program. I would like to thank Eunju for her wonderful contribution and team spirit, and for the fresh and innovative ideas she brought as a young scholar to our very practical world of World Bankers.”
MIDP Starts New Academic Year
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:42:00
The Master of International Development Policy (formerly the Program in International Development Policy) welcomed its newest class in August 2009. Twenty-nine fellows joined the program for the 2009-2010 academic year, with nine entering the International Taxation Program, their largest class to date. The group also featured the largest number of American students in MIDP’s history (five) and its first representatives from Iceland and Canada. Eighteen of the new fellows are in the two-year degree and eleven entered the one-year degree program. This class is also the first to officially begin studies in the new Sanford School of Public Policy. The MIDP expects additional fellows to begin study in the Spring 2010 semester.
LHC is back!
Physics, for researchers, 2010/04/08 14:55:16
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN delivered long-awaited 7 TeV proton collisions at the end of March. The Duke ATLAS group played a key role in constructing one of the main detector components the Transition Radiation Tracker.
The T2K experiment detects its first neutrino at Super-K
Physics, 2010/02/26 04:34:53
The T2K experiment detects its first neutrino at Super-K. The neutrino traveled 295 km across Japan from an accelerator north of Tokyo to the massive Super-K detector located beneath the Japanese Alps.
Featured Member: Christopher Walter of Physics
January 15, 2009 - 2009 Dean's Awards for Excellence in Mentoring goes to Karen Remmer
Political Science, for faculty, 2009/01/15 10:53:21
Congratulations to Karen, for her extraordinary service in working with graduate students in our department. This is an award well deserved! Congratulations Karen!
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR PHI ALPHA THETA HONOR SOCIETY GRADUATES!
History, 2009/05/28 09:18:09
1st MAJORS
Cage Brewer
Catherine Daniel
Alden Denegre
David Graham
Jessica Hatch
Peter Henle
Frank Holleman, IV
Marc Murinson
Katherine O'Neil
Keith Orgel
Javier Peral
Alyssa Reichardt
Gillet Rosenblith
Robert Shapiro
Angela Silak
Ryan Thornton
2nd MAJORS
Corina Apostol
Tyler Evans
Owen Gehrett
Julie Matthews
Anayansi Rodriguez
Rian Sutton
MINORS
Timothy Britton
Jamie Grischkan
Andrew Keaton
Katherine Mikush
Amy Streitwiewser
Outer Banks History Center to Help Use of Collection
History, for faculty, 2009/07/21 12:19:05
Lots of researchers turn to the Outer Banks History Center (OBHC) in Manteo for information on lighthouses, shipwrecks or even pirates. Thanks to a $40,327 grant awarded to the center from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, that task could prove more productive. The grant will support work of a full-time archivist who will arrange and describe some of the collections for the center's "Reaching New Audiences" program.
The Outer Banks History Center is a regional archives and research library whose collections document the social, economic, and ecological history of the Outer Banks and surrounding areas. Subjects include maritime history, commerce, local and regional history, African American, American Indian, European and Elizabethan history, the Civil War, outdoor theater, and much more.
"This project will make finding aids available for most of the collections we have received in the last few years," explains Curator Kaeli Spiers. "The finding aids will have background information on the organization or individual and on the collection's size and format with a detailed inventory."
Finding aids will be available at the OBHC and online. The aids indicate the number of boxes of minutes, letters or other materials in the collection. Work on the project should begin Aug. 1.
For additional information, call (252) 473-2655. The Outer Banks History Center, within the Office of Archives and History, is part of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the state agency dedicated to the promotion and protection of North Carolina's arts, history and culture. It is now podcasting 24/7 with information about the Department of Cultural Resources, all available at www.ncculture.com <
http://www.ncculture.com/>April 17, 2009 - 2009-10 Fellowship Awards
History, for grad, 2009/04/23 14:00:43
Fahad Bishara - IDRF Fellowship
Mitch Fraas - Reference Internship
Reena Goldthree - Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowship and the Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship at Dartmouth College
Paula Hastings - Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Robert Penner - Boone Endowed Fellowship
Bryan Pitts - Fulbright-Hays DDRA
Liz Shesko - International Fellowship and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
Danielle Terrazas-Williams - CLIR-Mellon Fellowship and Fulbright
Felicity Turner - Bass Fellowship
UNIVERSITY WIDE SERVICE LEARNING PROGRAM NOW HOUSED IN THE PROGRAM IN EDUCATION
Education, 2009/06/26 14:06:01
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Under the leadership of David Malone, Faculty Director, the Service Learning Program (SLP) will continue to support faculty, staff, students, and community partners involved in Duke courses with the SL designation, and will focus on expanding and enhancing SL course offerings. The new SLP website will be up shortly. Inquiries should be addressed to Kristin Wright, SLP Coordinator, servicelearning@duke.edu.
Congratulations to Professors Al Crumbliss and Michael Fitzgerald
Chemistry, 2009/05/22 14:41:45
Professors Al Crumbliss and Michael Fitzgerald are the senior authors on a "hot article" featured on the cover of the first issue of Metallomics. Their article, "Hijacking transferrin bound iron: protein-receptor interactions involved in iron transport in N. gonorrhoeae" describes how pathogenic bacteria steal iron from their human hosts. [Description of Metallomics]
Featured Members: Alvin L. Crumbliss of Chemistry; Michael C. Fitzgerald of Chemistry; Claire J Siburt of Chemistry; Katherine D Weaver of Chemistry
Members of PIDP class of 2008 present Master's Projects
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:11:21
On March 28, 2008, the PIDP class of 2008 presented Master's Projects to classmates, instructors, and guests. Topics ranged from Consolidating Peace in the Sudan to Enhancing the Role of Armenian Diaspora in Peaceful Development in Armenia. Subsequently, on April 4, the graduating class of the Duke-UNC Rotary Center participated in the fifth annual Rotary Spring Conference, where each of them presented their projects to a larger audience including Rotarians from around the world before taking questions.
The Master’s Project is a required component of the PIDP master’s degree curriculum. Fellows must demonstrate mastery in defining a policy problem, analyzing it in an interdisciplinary manner, and recommending a specific course of action to address that problem.
The PIDP and MPP hooding ceremony will take place on May 10, 2008. 32 PIDP Fellows will participate in the ceremony. May 2008 graduates will receive their Master of Arts diplomas on Sunday, May 11, following the Duke Graduate School ceremony.
Executive Education 2008 summer programs begin with PARM
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:11:08
The first open-enrollment Executive Education program of 2008 came to a successful close on Friday, June 6. Forty-two participants from 17 countries took part in the four-week program on Project Appraisal and Risk Management (PARM) on campus at DCID. This was the largest group of PARM participants since the program commenced at Duke in 2002. In addition to classroom exercises and evening/weekend social events, the group traveled to Washington, D.C., where they met with professionals from the World Bank and USAID. For more information about PARM and other DCID Executive Education programs, please see the Executive Education section of our website.
DCID Professor Cory Krupp earns promotion
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:10:53
Professor Cory Krupp, director of graduate studies for the Program in International Development Policy at DCID, is one of three Sanford Institute faculty members to receive a promotion. [more]
DCID staff and faculty visit Chinese alumni in Beijing
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:10:43
In March 2008, Professors Cory Krupp, GP Shukla and Joe Tham, along with DCID staff members Jon Abels, Jason Kulasingam and Rusty Miller traveled to Beijing, China, to host a banquet for past participants of the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) executive education program.
Each year since 2004, approximately 30 Chinese government officials have spent one semester at DCID for this customized public policy program. To mark the approaching conclusion of the five-year contract with the Chinese government, and to express enthusiasm about continuing the program in the future, DCID hosted a banquet in Beijing and invited all past participants to attend. Of 150 alumni, over 100 were able to attend, in addition to Sun Zhaohua, Deputy Director-General of SAFEA, Wei Dawei, Deputy Director-General of SAFEA and Zhai Hong, Director of Overseas Training for SAFEA.
Now in its fifth year, the SAFEA program provides participants with a unique opportunity to live in the United States, take advantage of all that Duke University provides its students and gain new perspectives on policy and development. DCID staff and faculty remain optimistic about future partnerships with the Chinese government, and look forward to continuing the SAFEA program in the future. Read more about DCID custom executive education programs including SAFEA.
DCID faculty members reach out to undergrads
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:10:29
New DCID Undergraduate Dinner Discussion Series aims to engage undergraduate population in discussions on themes related to development
DCID faculty members have long focused their teaching efforts on the master's degree Program in International Development Policy and on executive education programs for mid-career professionals. Now, as a new effort to reach out to the Duke undergraduate population, DCID has begun a series of discussions on topics related to international development.
The first event of the series took place in September, when Catherine Admay led a discussion of the book, "What is the What," by Dave Eggers. This event was co-sponsored by the Duke Student Affairs office of Dean Todd Adams and DCID.
The book, which was nominated by Prof. Admay and subsequently chosen for the 2008 Summer Reading Program, tells the story of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. Participants gathered in the historic East Duke Building on Duke’s East Campus to consider Mr. Deng's exceptional story and policy issues that could be raised, such as the challenges the international systems faces in protecting refugees, the nature of refugee resettlement in the United States, and the core policy question of how individuals become qualified—as refugees rather than as economic migrants—for relocation in the United States.
The next event in the series will take place on October 22. Students will have the opportunity to discuss the topic of, "The World Bank: Friend or Foe." DCID faculty member Phylllis Pomerantz, formerly Chief Learning officer at the World Bank, will moderate.
DCID hosts local government officials from Yangzhou, China
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:10:19
Participants in the Executive Development Program in Public Policy and Management for Yangzhou, China, celebrated the Chinese New Year and Spring Festival on Sunday, January 25, in the Fleishman Commons at the Sanford Institute. The weeklong Spring Festival is the most important Chinese holiday and is typically celebrated with family and friends, with domestic travel resulting in the largest annual human migration on earth.
Participants in DCID's Yangzhou program decorated the Commons with banners and balloons before preparing a feast of more than 20 traditional Chinese dishes and several varieties of traditional handmade dumplings. The entertainment included men's and women's choruses, synchronized dance, a karaoke exhibition and riddle-solving. The afternoon was also filled with traditional parlor games such as a chopstick ping-pong ball shuttle and a three-legged race with contestants facing in opposite directions.
"It is very special to spend the Spring Festival with each other at Duke University, our home away from home," said participant Xu Jing.
Through the Yangzhou program, 23 local government officials take a courses in policy areas including government structure and function, community and economic development, budgeting, taxation, urban planning, and institutional design. Their coursework is augmented by weekly field visits to government, nonprofit and private-sector organizations, and each participant completes a capstone integrative exercise using newly-acquired policy analysis tools to examine an issue pertaining to their work in China.
New scholarship for International Taxation Program fellows
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:10:06
DCID announces the establishment of a new scholarship in the name of Professor Oliver Oldman, who for many years directed and nurtured the International Taxation Program (ITP) while it was hosted at Harvard Law School. Beginning in academic year 2009-10, the Oliver Oldman Memorial Scholarship will support one fellow per academic year who is enrolled in the one-year master of arts Program in International Development Policy with a specialization in international taxation. Read more about the Oliver Oldman Scholarship.
Law and Development program announced
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:09:54
Students applying for admission to the Program in International Development Policy may now explore a new opportunity: a dual degree with the Duke Law School. This new Law and Development dual degree program will offer a diverse set of courses aimed at preparing graduates to meet multi-disciplinary challenges in a professionally sophisticated and forward-thinking way.
Students in the program will develop a familiarity with different institutional conceptualizations including "rule of law," "rights-based approaches to development," and, more broadly, "good governance." These students will bring a broader perspective to the social, cultural, and political dimensions of legal legitimacy and will be prepared for entrepreneurial service, human rights work, and other innovations in both the "hard" and "soft" policy arenas.
The Juris Doctor/Master of Arts in International Development may be completed in three years of study. The student would enter Law School in June with other dual degree students and would complete 72 credits of law school course work including six credits with a focus on international or comparative issues, 24 credits of PIDP coursework, and six credits of PIDP ungraded research.
For more information about this program, please contact Stephanie Alt Lamm, Assistant Director, PIDP.
Empowering the Poor
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:09:44
The Hon. Justice Albie Sachs leads a faculty workshop
On Thursday, January 29, Professors Catherine Admay and Anirudh Krishna co-convened a lunch and conversation with Justice Albie Sachs at DCID. The aim of this faculty workshop, entitled “Empowering the Poor: Are Constitutionally Enforced Social and Economic Rights a Ladder out of Extreme Poverty and a Safety Rope Against Falling In?”, was to clarify the potential modalities for human rights and constitutional law to address extreme poverty. Participants included faculty members from Public Policy, Law, History, Cultural Anthropology and the Duke Global Health Institute. Justice Sachs commented on several of the South African judgments that have attracted international attention to creative means for constitutional enforcement of human rights issues.
After years in exile, Justice Sachs was the chief draftsman of the Bill of Rights tabled by the African National Congress during the transition from apartheid to constitutional democracy. He was appointed by Nelson Mandela to the newly-established Constitutional Court in 1994 and is the author of a number of leading South African judgments relating to poverty and inequality.
“I learned something essential at this workshop,” says Admay. “For Sachs, the core issue is assault on dignity rather than the fact of inequality. If inequalities become so vast as to fundamentally jeopardize dignity, then we can expect the South African Constitutional Court to step in. But this means judicially enforced social and economic rights are not ‘safety ropes’ and they may not even be sturdy ‘ladders.’ What they are is the most rudimentary form of a helping hand.”
Sachs' two-day visit to Duke was made possible by the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy and a Provost Common Fund grant awarded to the Concilium on Southern Africa. In addition to the lunch workshop at DCID, Sachs was interviewed for the Living History Program, gave a keynote talk titled, “Just Art?: The Place of Art in Rendering Justice,” at the Nasher Museum of Art, and visited with three undergraduate classes in public policy and cultural anthropology. Additional cosponsors were: The Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs; Duke Human Rights Center; Duke Law School; Duke University Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change; The Franklin Humanities Institute; The Kenan Institute for Ethics; The Nasher Museum of Art.
History Majors' Union
History, 2009/03/30 11:05:20
The Duke History Majors' Union exists to connect students and faculty with speakers, courses, and events of interest to history majors at Duke University. The union also hopes to foster a feeling of community among students and faculty, and increasing the visibility of the history department's activities. For more information contact Ashley DiSilvestro (aad8@duke.edu)
Anne Firor Scott Award Winners
History, for grad, 2009/04/17 10:35:58
Congratulations to the following Anne Firor Scott Award Winners
Daniel Bessner, "A Woman in Their Midst: Roberta Wohlstetter and the Contestation of Institutional Masculinity at the RAND Corporation, 1948-1965."
Paula Hastings, "Race, Nation, and the Failure of Canadian Expansion in the Caribbean Basin, 1884-1919."
Max Krochmal, "Women, Civil Rights, and the Left in Texas, 1938-1970."
Anne Phillips, "Love, Labor, and Loss: The Gendered Politics of East India Laborers on Sugar Plantations in British Guiana, 1869-1910."
April 09, 2009 - April 9 - 11 - International Symposium Presentations
History, for faculty, 2009/04/01 12:21:20
The North Carolina Center for South Asian Studies will host an international symposium on the controversial Indian artist Maqbool Fida Husain on Duke Campus, April 9th-11th, 2009.
Presentations:
Susan Bean, “On Exhibition: The Art of M. F. Husain.”
Akeel Bilgrami, “How to Argue for Free Speech and Secularism.” Veena Das, “The Unbearable Figure of Love”
David Gilmartin and Barbara Metcalf, “The Public, the Law and M. F. Husain”
Tapati Guha-Thakurta, “Fault-lines in a National Edifice: Debating the Rights and Offences of Contemporary Indian Art.”
Kajri Jain, “Taking and Making Offence: Husain and the Politics of Desecration.”
Ananya Jahanara Kabir, “Secret Histories of Indian Modernism: M. F. Husain as Indian Muslim Artist.”
Geeta Kapur, “Drawing the Line: The Exile of Maqbool Fida Husain.”
Bruce Lawrence,“Decoding MF Husain as a Muslim Painter.” Ram Rahman, “Defending Husain in the public sphere: The Sahmat experience”
Sumathi Ramaswamy, "Mapping 'India' after Husain."
Patricia Uberoi, “The ‘Bliss’ of Madhuri: Husain and his ‘Muse’.” Karin Zitzewitz, “‘I am an Indian and a painter that is all:’ Intention and the Secular Subject in India.”
For further details, contact Sumathi Ramaswamy at sr76@duke.edu and visit conference website at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/csas/husainconference2009.php
April 06, 2009 - April 6, 2009 - Margaret Humphreys - SSRI/PARISS Monday Seminar Series
History, for faculty, 2009/04/01 12:26:55
SSRI/PARISS Monday Seminar Series
April 6, 2009
Erwin Mill Building, Room A103 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
All are welcome. Fresh hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Margaret Humphreys, MD PhD, Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, Duke University, to speak on "Broadcasting Evil: Propaganda and Prisoners of War in the Election of 1864"
Abstract:
In the fall of 1864 the United States Sanitary Commission (a Red Cross-like agency formed during the early years of the Civil War) published a book comparing prisoner of war camps in the Union and the Confederacy. Although the USSC had been quite critical of the U.S. government's treatment of POWs in prior years, and in general of how the Union handled wounded and sick soldiers, in this volume the authors conceal knowledge about deadly conditions in northern camps while excoriating the south for deliberately starving and otherwise abusing Union prisoners. This talk will explore the stormy political climate of 1864 and the role that the conditions of POWs played within political rhetoric. It will ask: What led an organization usually known for its honesty and defense of humanity to an act of such overt and public deceit?
October 28, 0200 - Kerry Haynie in the news
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/10/23 10:02:27
Race and politics: how far have we come? By Gregory Childress : The Herald-Sun gchildress@heraldsun.com Oct 21, 2008 Durham --
When Barack Obama announced he was running for president nearly two years ago, he pushed race to the forefront of presidential politics in a way never done before. He is now the first African-American with a legitimate chance to win the nation's highest office and, as such, blacks and whites have begun to see the 2008 presidential election as a bellwether on race. Its outcome will potentially be the yardstick by which many measure racial progress for decades to come. "I think it will be a barometer of how far we have come and also of the work we have to do," said Jarvis Hall, director of the N.C. Central University Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Change. "This is a critical juncture." Obama enjoys a comfortable lead in the polls with just 14 days left to Election Day, something that would not be possible without the support of legions of white voters. "This is a monumental positive step forward for this country," said Durham attorney Ken Spaulding, who is a former chairman of the influential Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People. "I'm just elated to see whites put race behind in favor of competency." Still, it's difficult for blacks such as Jarvis to talk about the Obama candidacy without mentioning the "Bradley effect" -- a term coined after exit polls showed former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley leading by a wide margin in the 1982 California governor's race. After the final vote was counted, Bradley had lost to white Republican George Deukmejian, which led some pollsters to conclude that white voters lied to pollsters about for whom they voted because they didn't want to seem bigoted. "Certainly, I expect there to be some of that," said Kerry Haynie, associate professor of political science at Duke University. But Haynie believes Obama has something that may be more powerful than race working in his favor to defeat Republican John McCain -- the economy. "That may favor Obama on a number of fronts," Haynie said. "That has taken race off of the table." Just a few short months ago, however, Haynie thought differently. He predicted race would be a major factor working against Obama in his bid to become America's first black president. "The issue of race is going to loom large for Sen. Obama," Haynie said in June. "He's going to have to reach out to white voters who might not be comfortable voting for an African American candidate." But since then, the economy has taken a nose-dive, and Congress has agreed to spend $700 billion to bail out financial institutions that many Americans think are undeserving. Haynie said voters struggling to pay their mortgages and watching their retirement savings shrink likely will have their pocketbooks uppermost on their minds when they enter the voting booth. David Smudski, chairman of the Durham County Republican Party, also believes race will be less of a factor than the economy and Obama's politics. "I have not picked up a racial tone [among the people with whom he's spoken to about the election] except once or twice," Smudski said. Smudski says Obama's "Marxist" politics will supersede his skin color when Republicans enter the voting booth. "They're just amazed that someone so leftist and Marxist could make it to the top of the Democratic ticket," Smudski said. "But then again, they were also surprised that [President] Bush nationalized the banks." Charmaine McKissick-Melton, associate professor of mass communication at N.C. Central University, an Obama supporter who describes herself as a "guinea pig" of integration, says her instincts tell her that, racially, times have changed for the better, particularly among America's youth. "I see the younger students, those under 30 in particular, as having a different mind set," McKissick-Melton said. "They're more open-minded [about race], but they also see Obama as the light out of the darkness." McKissick-Melton, the sister of state Sen. Floyd McKissick, believes an Obama victory will depend heavily on whether young people move beyond simply campaigning for Obama to actually show up at the polls Nov. 4 to cast votes. "If they come out in droves, I assume we will win," McKissick-Melton said. Note: you will have to register to read the article online at Heraldsun.com [more]
Welcome to the 2008 - 2009 academic year!
Romance Studies, 2008/08/27 10:01:23
We'd like to extend a warm welcome to all of our new and returning students & faculty as we begin the 2008 - 2009 academic year.
Stay tuned for our department newsletter, coming soon!
PIDP Mourns Loss of Recent Graduate
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:09:06
Claudia Castaneda (PIDP ‘07) passed away on January 1, 2009, in southern Chile after a rafting accident. Claudia held a master of arts degree in International Development Policy through Duke’s Program in International Development Policy at DCID, a master's degree in political science from Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, where she also earned a bachelor of arts in political science and translation and linguistics.
Prior to joining PIDP, Claudia worked as a translator for Bowne Global Solutions, was the chief tour guide for Patagonia Connection, and was an assistant researcher for the Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO-Chile), where she researched issues of security, civil-military relations, international organizations and civil society participation.
Upon entering PIDP, Claudia focused her studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution. She was awarded a scholarship to study in Geneva, Switzerland, as part of the Program on Global Policy and Governance. During this summer program, Claudia interned at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, where she took part in the New Issues in Security Course. During this time, Claudia organized an international roundtable seminar titled, "Transforming Threats into Opportunities: Roundtable Dialogue on Global Security."
After graduating from Duke, Claudia returned to Chile where she joined Chile's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an international policy analyst. In addition, she had just been nominated President of the Chilean Political Science Association. Claudia was planning to continue her academic career and was in the process of researching political science Ph.D. programs.
Claudia is survived by her two brothers, Pablo and Nicolas, her sister Pamela, her parents, Magaly and Luis, and her extended family. She greatly enjoyed spending time with her two nieces. More than 400 people attended Claudia’s funeral services in Santiago, Chile.
India and Kazakhstan governments sign contracts with DCID
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:08:50
DCID begins two new contracts for customized executive education programs in 2008.
In October 2008, DCID will host a group of 20 central government civil servants of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The group will take part in a program, led by DCID faculty members, on Administrative Reform: Decentralization, Fiscal Planning and Management.
Participants in the program will include civil servants of the central government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. As in many of the custom programs that DCID provides, this one will include classroom training and field visits to government and private sector offices. In addition, DCID staff will organize weekend visits to Washington, D.C, and New York, N.Y.
Strengthening its relationship with the Government of India, DCID has signed a contract with the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Through this agreement, DCID faculty members will provide training and workshops for groups of 40 senior civil servants in the Provincial Civil Service (PCS), two times each year for the duration of the three-year contract.
In addition to these new programs, DCID continues to provide customized training and education programs for the Indian Administrative Service, Government of India, and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), People's Republic of China. Read more about custom programs at DCID.
Colloquia
Philosophy, for faculty, 2007/08/24 16:21:26
2007-08 Colloquia Schedule
Fall 2007 colloquia will be held on Fridays in the West Duke Building, Room 202 on East Campus from 3:30-5:00
PM, unless indicated otherwise. Questions should be addressed to
Professor Michael Ferejohn.
September 7
Paul Teller (UC Davis)
"Provisional Knowledge"
October 5
Eric Brown (Wash. U, St. Louis)
February 29
Jonathan Dancy (U of Texas)
April 18
Ruth Millikan (U Conn)
TBA
Katherine Brading (Notre Dame)
Chance in Evolution
Philosophy, 2007/04/02 15:33:15
Chance in Evolution
April 6th - 8th, 2007
The aim of the 6th annual Conference in Philosophy & Biology is to explore the role of chance in evolution at the molecular and macro levels, and every level in between.
Speakers include:
John Beatty (UBC)
Robert Brandon (Duke)
Werner Callebaut (KLI)
Richard Lewontin (Harvard)
Francesca Merlin (IHPST)
Roberta Millstein (UC Davis)
William Provine (Cornell)
Robert A. Skipper (Cincinnati)
Steve Wang (Swarthmore)
Jason Zinser (FSU)
The absolute deadline for registration is noon on April 4th.
New Faculty Members
Philosophy, 2006/09/20 23:45:31
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Karen Neander (UC-Davis) has joined the Department in Fall 2006.
Also joining the Department in Fall 2006 is Dr. Kevin Hoover (UC-Davis), who will have a joint appointment in Philosophy and Economics.
Newsletter
Philosophy, 2006/09/20 23:46:19
The Fall 2006 Philosophy Department Newsletter is coming soon!
Trustees approve new school of public policy
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/12 12:00:47
The Terry Sanford School of Public Policy will come into being on July 1, under Inaugural Dean Bruce Kuniholm. [more]
Blue elected chair of Board of Trustees
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/11 13:50:32
Veteran North Carolina legislator Daniel T. Blue, Jr. L'73 replaces Robert K. Steel T'73. [more]
New budget increases financial aid 17.1 percent
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/11 12:26:08
The $1.8 billion budget includes a 3.9 percent increase for undergraduate tuition, fees, room and board, but otherwise projects no major changes in revenues or expenditures. [more]
Oprah Winfrey gives commencement address
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/11 11:38:33
The entrepreneur-philanthropist urged graduates to help others move to "higher ground." [more]
Mexico summer program at home
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/01 15:04:39
Duke in Mexico was relocated to Durham because of the flu outbreak. [more]
Web site offers updates on flu virus
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/01 14:35:55
The Duke site provides the latest news on the H1N1 virus, answers to frequently asked questions, and tips on staying healthy, along with a list of contacts and resources. [more]
Downturn brings review of strategic plan
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/11 13:51:03
Provost Peter Lange asked the deans of Duke's schools to report to him on how they can best pursue their planning objectives amid tighter constraints. [more]
Duke admits 3,517 to the Class of 2013
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/11 12:26:44
The total number of students accepted from early and regular decision pools is 4,065, making the overall acceptance rate the lowest in Duke's history at 17 percent. [more]
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel chosen for first-year reading
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/11 11:39:23
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz has been selected as the summer reading for the incoming Class of 2013. [more]
Sociology chair named divisional dean
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/11 11:39:09
Angela M. O'Rand will become Arts & Sciences dean of the social sciences on July 1, succeeding Professor of History Sarah J. Deutsch. [more]
Brodhead outlines response to economic downturn
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/11 11:38:55
The actions include a 3.9 percent tuition increase and a freeze on salaries over $50,000. [more]
NCSU assistant chief to head Duke Police
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/01 11:12:16
John H. Dailey, who started his career at Duke, succeeds the retired Robert H. Dean. [more]
First-year experiences on film
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/01 11:12:04
Nearly a quarter of Duke's 1,600 first-year students participated in the Froshlife film competition. [more]
Duke receives federal service award
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/01 11:11:56
The Corporation for National and Community Service gave Duke its Presidential Award for Service to Youth from Disadvantaged Circumstances. [more]
English professor named humanities dean
Arts & Sciences, 2009/05/01 11:11:45
Srinivas Aravamudan will become dean of the humanities in Arts & Sciences, succeeding N. Gregson G. Davis, who is returning to teaching. [more]
History professor to head writing program
Arts & Sciences, 2009/04/09 15:23:47
Associate Professor Kristen Neuschel will succeed Joseph D. Harris as director of the Thompson Writing Program. [more]
Teaching award nomination deadline March 5
Arts & Sciences, 2009/01/30 08:53:55
Department chairs, program directors, faculty members, and students may nominate candidates for the Trinity College teaching awards. [more]
Class of 2013 has record 23,750 applicants
Arts & Sciences, 2009/02/24 10:05:41
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions saw 3,400 more applications than last year, a 17-percent increase and the greatest single-year jump ever. [more]
Duke scientist gets Darwin-Wallace award Feb. 12
Arts & Sciences, 2009/02/11 11:21:01
Mohamed Noor is being honored by the Linnean Society of London with a medal last given out 50 years ago. [more]
Endowment drops 19 percent
Arts & Sciences, 2009/02/09 09:00:05
President Brodhead told faculty and staff that while Duke enjoys "great strength and stability," he has asked deans and administrators to begin preparing scenarios for future savings. [more]
Student event calendar launched
Arts & Sciences, 2009/02/09 08:59:50
buzz, a listing of events organized by and for undergraduates, will complement Events@Duke, the main university event calendar. [more]
Honorary degree recipients named
Arts & Sciences, 2009/02/09 08:59:38
Among the seven to be honored at the May 10 commencement are graduation speaker Oprah Winfrey, three Nobel laureates, and pianist Murray Perahia. [more]
Teaching award nomination information
Arts & Sciences, 2009/02/09 08:59:27
Department chairs, program directors, faculty members, and students may nominate candidates for the 2008-09 Arts & Sciences teaching and service awards.
Rasmussen honored for first-year advising
Arts & Sciences, 2009/02/09 08:59:00
Trinity College Associate Dean Michele Rasmussen was named an outstanding advocate for new students by the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.
Increase in early decision offers
Arts & Sciences, 2009/01/21 13:21:15
Duke notified 547 students that they will be the first members of the Class of 2013, 75 more than last year. [more]
Two seniors win Marshal Scholarships
Arts & Sciences, 2009/01/21 13:20:53
Sally Liu will study public health in London. Dan Roberts will study mathematics at Cambridge. [more]
'07 grad wins Rhodes
Arts & Sciences, 2009/01/21 13:20:43
Julia Parker Goyer, Duke's 42nd Rhodes Scholar from Duke, will study international comparative education at the University of Oxford in England. [more]
Four at Duke win Fulbright grants
Arts & Sciences, 2009/01/21 13:20:27
Sean Metzger, assistant professor of English and Theater Studies, was among the winners of a Fulbright Scholar Grant. [more]
Law professor named to Biden Senate seat
Arts & Sciences, 2008/12/19 09:35:28
Ted Kaufman E'60, a senior lecturing fellow in the School of Law, will fill the Delaware senate seat of the vice president-elect. [more]
Financial Aid Initiative surpasses goal
Arts & Sciences, 2008/12/08 14:20:45
The three year campaign raised $301.1 million in endowed financial aid as of Nov. 7, passing its $300 million overall goal. [more]
African American historian comments on election
Arts & Sciences, 2008/12/02 08:46:58
Professor Emeritus of History John Hope Franklin, 93, called Barack Obama's victory "one of the most historic moments in the history of this country." [more]
Oprah to speak at 2009 graduation
Arts & Sciences, for staff, 2008/11/25 10:53:05
Philanthropist and talk show host Oprah Winfrey will deliver the commencement address on May 10, 2009. [more]
Endowment increases to $6.1 billion
Arts & Sciences, 2008/11/25 10:42:09
Duke Management Company reported a return of 6.2 percent on the university's investments in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2008. [more]
Trustees approve first stage of New Campus
Arts & Sciences, for staff, 2008/11/25 10:41:54
Phase I will include suite-style residence halls, new space for arts and cultural departments, the John Hope Franklin Institute, and other venues to serve the campus community. [more]
Economics professor delivers Founder's Day address
Arts & Sciences, for staff, 2008/11/10 10:59:25
Craufurd Goodwin, James B. Duke Professor of Economics, encouraged Duke to "integrate the fine arts and the humanities throughout all of the fields and disciplines."
[more]
Duke Med official named international advisor
Arts & Sciences, 2008/10/22 15:24:21
Senior Vice Chancellor Sanders Williams will advise the president and provost on global academic issues. [more]
Duke ranked 8th for 3rd consecutive year
Arts & Sciences, 2008/10/22 15:24:09
The U.S. News national university rankings have Duke tied with Columbia and the University of Chicago. Harvard, Princeton, and Yale took the top three spots, respectively, with more ties at 4th (MIT and Stanford) and 6th (Cal Tech and Penn). [more]
Class of 2012 welcomed at Duke
Arts & Sciences, 2008/10/22 15:23:56
President Brodhead urged the new students at convocation to "live up to the promise of your highest personal gifts." [more]
Financial aid director named
Arts & Sciences, 2008/10/22 15:23:47
Alison Rabil, financial aid director at Barnard College since 2005, was named assistant vice provost and director of financial aid. [more]
Online events calendar launched
Arts & Sciences, 2008/10/06 15:20:59
Members of the Duke and Triangle communities will be able to search more easily for concerts, films, lectures, games and other events at Duke. [more]
New e-mail newsletter for employees
Arts & Sciences, 2008/10/06 15:20:42
"The Week at Duke," a new weekly newsletter is being sent to employee e-mail inboxes by the Office of News and Communications. [more]
17 students win Fulbrights
Arts & Sciences, 2008/09/05 11:04:46
Eight recent graduates, six graduate students, and three current students received scholarships from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. [more]
McLendon reappointed, named Trinity dean
Arts & Sciences, 2008/09/05 11:04:28
George L. McLendon has been appointed to a second five-year term as dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences. He was also named dean of Trinity College. [more]
Anthropology professor named to Trinity post
Arts & Sciences, 2008/09/05 11:04:16
Lee D. Baker is the new dean of academic affairs, assuming the duties of Robert J. Thompson Jr., who is returning to teaching. [more]
Three new trustees appointed
Arts & Sciences, 2008/08/19 14:22:10
Xi-Qing Gao L'86, president and chief investment officer of China Investment Corporation, Ryan Todd T'08, and Xing Zong, a Ph.D candidate in physics, assumed their new roles effective July 1. [more]
First Muslim chaplain named
Arts & Sciences, 2008/08/14 08:59:22
Abdullah T. Antepli, a native of Turkey, joins the more than 20 campus chaplains ministering to diverse faiths at Duke. [more]
UNCG research dean joins A&S administration
Arts & Sciences, 2008/08/12 10:53:09
Kevin W. Moore is the senior associate dean for faculty affairs, succeeding Charles W. Byrd, who is retiring. Moore has been associate dean for research at UNCG since 2004. [more]
Notre Dame AD coming to Duke
Arts & Sciences, 2008/08/12 10:52:36
Kevin White, director of athletics at Notre Dame since 2001, will succeed Joe Alleva, who accepted the same position at LSU. [more]
Pratt gift to develop courses on uncertainty
Arts & Sciences, 2008/06/17 09:39:46
A $5 million anonymous gift will enable the engineering school to establish a new curriculum that encourages undergraduates to think critically about problems that lack obvious solutions. [more]
Trustees approve $2 billion budget
Arts & Sciences, 2008/06/17 09:39:36
Revenues in the FY 08/09 budget are about 9.1 percent higher than those for the current fiscal year, while expenditures are budgeted to increase 9 percent. [more]
Graduates urged to redefine success
Arts & Sciences, 2008/06/17 09:39:22
More than 4,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students received degrees at Duke 156th commencement. Novelist-essayist Barbara Kingsolver P'09 spoke on the virtues of a sustainable, community-oriented lifestyle. [more]
China earthquake relief site
Arts & Sciences, 2008/06/17 09:39:09
A Student Affairs Web site provides information from the Duke Chinese Students and Scholars Association and other sources. [more]
Faculty award honorees named
Arts & Sciences, 2008/06/10 11:54:00
Mike Reed (mathematics), Wesley Kort (religion), Huseyin Yildirim (economics), and Daniel Rittschof (marine lab) were honored for excellence in teaching. Mary Boatwright (classical studies) received the Dean's Distinguished Service Award. [more]
TDE gives $50 million to DUMC
Arts & Sciences, 2008/05/27 08:48:44
The Duke Endowment gift (the largest ever received by Duke University Medical Center) will help construct a medical-education facility and a cutting-edge pediatric inpatient facility. [more]
Robertson Scholarship winners announced
Arts & Sciences, 2008/05/12 11:27:56
Fifty-three high school seniors were chosen for the merit awards. About half will enroll at Duke and about half at UNC-Chapel Hill. All the students take courses at both schools and spend a semester in residence at the other campus. [more]
Fellowship to honor slain student
Arts & Sciences, 2008/05/12 10:51:02
The Abhijit Mahato Memorial Fellowship will provide financial support to an international engineering graduate student, with preference given to a student from India, birthplace of the January 18 murder victim. [more]
Eggers novel selected for first-year reading
Arts & Sciences, 2008/05/12 10:50:52
"What is the What," by Dave ("A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius") Eggers, is the Summer Reading Program selection for the Class of 2012. [more]
Alleva hired at LSU
Arts & Sciences, 2008/05/08 14:31:36
Athletics Director Joe Alleva will leave Duke after 32 years, the last 10 as AD, to take the same post at Louisiana State University. [more]
Faculty award honorees named
Arts & Sciences, 2008/05/02 09:38:10
Mike Reed (mathematics), Wesley Kort (religion), Huseyin Yildirim (economics), and Daniel Rittschof (marine lab) were honored for excellence in teaching. Mary Boatwright (classical studies) received the Dean's Distinguished Service Award. [more]
Writers, CEOs, judge to get honorary degrees
Arts & Sciences, 2008/05/02 09:37:26
The May 11 commencement ceremony will honor novelist Barbara Kingsolver, essayist Wendell Berry, CARE CEO Helene Gayle, broadcast executive James Goodmon, and Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Wald. [more]
Trustees approve new master's degree
Arts & Sciences, 2009/01/26 13:44:25
The MS in Global Health will be offered through the Graduate School and administered by the Duke Global Health Institute. [more]
Science of the Week
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2006/11/01 11:24:24
Discovered accidentally five years ago on the outskirts of Springfield, Riverbluff Cave is slowly yielding its fossil treasures as a small team of scientists and volunteers gingerly explores it while trying to preserve a rich bed of remains, from bones to tracks and dung. [more]
DFC is now on Facebook
Duke Faculty Club, 2010/12/07 13:40:31
The Duke Faculty Club is now on Facebook! Click on the link below to see our page and become a fan. Facebook will be used simultaneously with the club website to provide updates on events and happenings, so use one or both to stay up-to-date.
Join us today!
Anual Membership Meeting at 4:00pm on Sunday
Duke Faculty Club, 2010/01/22 17:39:18
A reminder that the annual membership meeting is this Sunday at 4:00pm. All current members are invited to attend (beer, wine, and snacks provided). The purpose of this meeting is for the board to update the membership on activities and developments during the previous year, highlight goals for the coming year, discuss the club's financial condition, as well as field comments and questions from the membership.
We hope to see you there!
Kid's Tennis Day at Duke this Saturday
Duke Faculty Club, 2010/01/14 09:32:41
The Duke Men's and Women's Tennis teams and coaching staff invite tennis playing kids from the greater Durham Tennis community to come out for an afternoon of tennis drills, games and all round fun. Ages 7-17 and all skill levels welcome. Saturday the 16th from 4:00-5:30pm. Space is limited, ...so please contact Kelly Baker to reserve a spot.
Holiday Hours
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/12/15 09:27:15
The DFC will be closed on the following holidays:
Texas Hold'Em night on Saturday, 12/5
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/11/18 16:21:38
If you like to play cards, laugh, and hang out with friends then the DFC Texas Hold'Em Night is just for you. All levels of experience welcome. Beer, wine, snacks, and prizes provided.
Parent's Night Out on Friday, 12/4
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/11/18 16:25:59
Why scramble for a sitter when you can bring your kids to the DFC for a night of fun? Parent's Night Out is open to children 4-12 yrs old, and is offered on the second Friday night of every month. Games, homemade pizza, desert, and a movie ... it's a kid's dream come true!
Marcy Speer 3 mile run/walk on Saturday, 11/21
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/11/18 16:21:47
The 3rd annual Marcy Speer 3 mile run/walk will be held at the DFC on Saturday, November 21,
2009. The run/walk is in honor of Marcy Speer, a long time member of the Duke Community who lost
her battle with breast cancer in 2007.
Family Campout on Saturday, November 7th
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/11/03 14:18:24
**New date due to rainy weather**
Are you ready for some outdoor fun? Then bring your family, friends, tent, and sleeping bags to the DFC for the fall season Family Campout on Saturday, November 7. We'll provide fun activities, campfire, smores, dinner, and breakfast. It's a great chance to enjoy the cool nights and starry skies without "roughing it" too badly ... bathrooms, showers, and running water are always a short walk away!
Details:
Kid's Halloween Carnival
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/10/20 15:52:52
We're having a kid's Halloween Carnival on the night of Friday the 30th.
The details are:
Lap pool will open Thursday at 7:00am
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/08/26 16:13:26
We're happy to announce the lap pool tile repair went as planned, with no delays or complications (a first this year, it seems) and we'll open ahead of schedule. The pool will be ready for swimmers tomorrow morning at 7:00am.
Fitness classes are free for the month of June
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/07/06 22:24:22
All group fitness classes are free for DFC Members from 5/26/09 - 6/28/09.
Check out the Summer Schedule.
POOL CLOSED until 1pm June 30
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/06/30 13:40:12
The main pool will open at 1pm today. We have an unexpected maintenance issue that needs to be repaired this morning. This site will be updated once the problem has been repaired. The wading pool is open for children under 5 years of age, and lap pool remains open.
The main pool will open at 5pm today.
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/06/21 17:41:04
The DFC main pool will open at 5pm today (June 19). We passed the pool inspection. The pool is still very dirty, so we will need to spend the afternoon vacuuming.
Please join us for a DFC Pool Opening Celebration. We will grill hot dogs and hamburgers on the patio. There will be beer and wine for adults and lemonade for kids. No RSVP is necessary. We will begin serving at 5pm and serve until 7pm or when the food runs out (whichever comes first). Our aquatics staff is also planning pool games for the evening.
Our Pre Teen (and then some) Party will be Saturday from 6:30-9pm. Rising 5th through 10th graders are invited to the DFC for a night of pool games, music, food, and fun. This inaugural party will be FREE for members and $10 for non-members. Please RSVP to the main office so that we will be sure to have enough food for everyone.
Lap Pool Schedule Until Main Pool Opens
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/06/12 11:48:31
The lap pool and wading pool will remain open for family swim from 12-6pm this weekend (June 13, 14). Beginning Monday, June 14, the lap pool schedule will be:
7-9am Swim team practice
9-10am Lap swimming only
10am-9pm Recreation and lap swimming (we will try to keep one lane open for lap swim for as much time as possible)
* Note Summer Camp will use the pool form 1:30-2:30pm; please plan accordingly.
Family swim times scheduled for the Lap Pool
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/06/12 11:47:45
The lap pool will be open for family swim each day from 12-6pm (with the exception of Monday and Wednesday from 4-5pm when the swim team will be in the pool) beginning June 8.
Memorial Day Summer Celebration
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/05/21 10:09:12
The Memorial Day Summer Celebration is an all day fun-filled event for the whole DFC Community. There'll be games, contests, beer, music, and more! Pack a picnic and bring the whole family. We hope to see you there!
Schedule of Events
8:30am - 12:00pm: 3v3 Basketball Tournament
11:00am - 12:00pm: Hot Shot Basketball Competition
12:00pm - 6:00pm: Family Swim at the Lap Pool
1:00pm - 3:00pm: Disc Golf Tournament
1:00pm - 3:00pm: Round Robin Tennis Tournament
2:00pm - 5:00pm: Inflatable Fun on the Basketball Courts
4:00pm - 6:00pm: Live Music
DFC Tennis Shoot Out on May 16th
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/05/06 18:21:13
Tennis Shoot-out 5/16/09 - We are having a one day tournament on May 16th. So, get yourself a partner and cowboy up for some great doubles action. We will provide the food, drinks, and balls. Pretty cool format with matches consisting of super-tiebreakers, until the finals which will be a full pro-set. More details ...
Main Pool still slated to open the week of May 18th
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/05/06 17:23:18
Every day, the main pool nears closer to completion! Though it may seem a big dirty mess, our contractors assure us that we're still on pace for our May 18th opening date. The electricians and plumbers are making great progress, and the new concrete should be poured within the next two weeks. To give us time to get the pool "swim ready", we are modifying our opening date to the Week of May 18th. Though we are still aiming for that Monday, this will give us a few extra days to get the chemicals, chairs, new slide, and aquatics staff all oriented and ready to go for the summer season.
Summer Camp registration discount ends on May 1st
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/04/30 17:15:30
The registration price break for summer camp ends on May 1st. Sessions are filling up fast, so get your registration in soon!
Family Campout on Saturday the 18th
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/04/19 09:51:47
Are you ready for some outdoor fun? Then bring your family, friends, tent, and sleeping bags to the DFC for the springtime Family Campout on Saturday, April 18. We'll provide fun activities, campfire, smores, dinner, and breakfast. It's a great chance to enjoy the cool nights and starry skies without "roughing it" too badly ... bathrooms, showers, and running water are always a short walk away.
Details:
Kids ROK Jump Rope on Saturday the 18th
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/04/19 09:51:39
A new program for 2009, Kids ROK (Recreational Opportunities for Kids) is an opportunity for DFC families to play/exercise with their children; to expose DFC kids to a variety of fun, healthy activities; and to combat a national rise in the incidence of juvenile obesity and diabetes.
All activities run from 10 am - Noon on Saturdays. Unlike many of our youth programs, this is not a "drop-off and go" activity. Parents are required to stay and participate, with the intention of learning games and activities that the whole family can enjoy ... and to help Eamonn organize and supervise the crazy fun!
Fitness Classes Update
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/04/08 11:02:39
Due to the upcoming holiday and spring break, the following classes are canceled
Spring Egg Hunt on Saturday the 11th
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/04/09 15:16:18
Grab your basket and bunny ears and come join us on Saturday, April 11th at our annual Egg Hunt. Children of all ages will canvas the DFC for candy-filled eggs and prizes. And if you're truly eagle-eyed, perhaps you'll come away with one of the coveted golden eggs!
Kids ROK Basketball Program Cancelled due to Weather
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/03/27 09:24:28
Unfortunately, the weather is not cooperating for tomorrow's program. Although it may not be raining in the morning, the rain today and tonight will make the courts wet and unplayable. They haven't been dry enough to play in the past few days, so I'm certain they won't be any better in the morning.
The program is canceled for tomorrow, but we will reschedule it for another time this summer. Next on the agenda in the Kids ROK series is Jump Rope on 4/18. We'll order better weather...
Faculty Club Opening Delayed
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/01/21 07:00:06
The Faculty Club will open at 10am on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 due to unsafe road, parking lot and sidewalk conditions.
Faculty Club Closed
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/01/20 09:46:06
The Duke Faculty Club is closed due to severe weather on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. We will reassess conditions Wednesday morning at 7am.
DFC Severe Weather Policy
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/01/20 10:00:34
The Duke Faculty Club follows Duke's Severe Weather Policy. If Duke University is closed or delayed in opening, the DFC will do the same. Please verify that we are open before you venture out in bad weather.
Holiday Drop & Shop
Duke Faculty Club, 2009/01/19 17:35:03
Looking for a few hours of uninterrupted holiday shopping, baking, or just general down time? Then bring your kids to the DFC for one (or both) of our Holiday Drop & Shops this December. Similar to a Mini-Camp day, kids will enjoy games, sports, and other fun activities. Lunch will be provided.
Details:
Two Parent's Night Out!
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/10/31 13:50:19
This November will have not just one great Parent's Night Out, but two! The DFC is teaming up with UNC Recreation students to present an "Autumn Themed Kid's Night" on Friday, November 7. The next week will follow with our regularly scheduled Parent's Night Out on Friday, November 14. Combined with our two mini-camps and the end of the month Holidays, November is shaping into a pretty fun-filled month!
Details:
Mini Camps
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/10/31 11:29:23
When the kids are out of school and you need a fun, safe place for them to go, bring them to the DFC Mini-Camp! From 8:30am to 5:30pm, the day will be filled with games, sports, and other fun activities. Open to children in first through seventh grade.
Upcoming dates are:
DFC Logo Contest
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/08/28 17:27:12
The DFC is having a logo contest! All DFC members and summer and part-time staff are invited to submit an entry to the contest. Submissions will begin on Tuesday, September 2, 2008, and entries will be due by 10:00am on Monday, November 3, 2008. Entries will be judged by a committee. The winning entry will be announced and displayed at the annual meeting in January, 2009. The winner will be awarded $100 and any DFC t-shirts created during the summer of 2009. Full time DFC staff and their families are excluded from the contest. Submission forms and contest rules are available here: [Registration Form and Rules]
October 11, 2008 - Family Campout
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/09/26 11:03:11
Are you ready for some outdoor fun? Then bring your family, friends, tent, and sleeping bags to the DFC for our inaugural Family Campout on Saturday, Oct. 11. We'll provide fun activities, campfire, smores, dinner, and breakfast. It's a great chance to enjoy the cool nights and starry skies without "roughing it" too badly ... bathrooms, showers, and running water are always a short walk away.
Details:
October 11, 2008 - 2nd Annual Rally for the Cure
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/10/06 14:48:47
On Saturday, October 11 the UNC Faculty Staff Recreation Association (FARM) and the DFC will co-host our second annual Rally for the Cure Charity Event. This is a tennis event with the purpose of spreading awareness in the fight to eradicate breast cancer as a life threatening disease (www.rallyforthecure.com). The event will include a Meet and Greet at 8:30am, round robin tennis play from 9am-11am, and lunch from 11-12:30pm. We will also be raising funds for our local Susan G. Komen for the Cure affiliate. Raffle tickets are for sale in the DFC office beginning October 1st and will be available at the event. The cost of one ticket is $5 or 5 for $20. [Registration Form]
October 04, 2008 - Oktoberfest
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/10/06 14:48:04
Do you like beer and bratwurst? Do you like Traditional German Folk music? Do you like socializing with your DFC friends? If so, then you need to come out to the Oktoberfest party on October 4th from 6:00-9:00pm. There will be bratwurst and vegetables on the grills, a wide selection of seasonal microbrews to sample (as well as some local homebrew), music, campfire, and fun! $8 per adult members, $10 per adult guest, and $5 per child covers food, drink, and merriment. Call the office to RSVP.
September 12, 2008 - Parent's Night Out
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/09/09 15:34:29
Why scramble for a sitter when you can bring your kids to the DFC for Parents Night Out? Parent's Night Out is open to children 4-12 yrs old, and will be offered on the second Friday night of every odd numbered month. Our next PNO is Friday September 12, from 6-9pm. We'll play games, go to the pool, and make homemade pizza and ice-cream sundaes! Call the main office to reserve a spot.
Labor Day Weekend Tailgate
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/08/28 17:27:27
Please join us for our inaugural Labor Day Weekend Tailgate Party on Saturday, August 30. The DFC will be celebrating the start of Duke's football season with a club tailgate party. A tennis round robin will be held from 9-11am, pool games from 4-5pm, BBQ, chicken and fixins will be served at the picnic shelter from 5-7pm, and there will be a banner making contest and a punt, pass, and kick competition on the basketball courts at 5:30pm. All events are free to members. Guests will be charged the club's guest fee ($5 for adults, $3 for children). [Flyer]
Mini-Camp Schedule
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/07/28 12:48:13
The mini-camp schedule and registration form for the 2008-2009 school year has been posted. You can find them under the link for Youth Camps.
August 23, 2008 - Pre-Teen Back to School Pool Party
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/08/18 11:26:36
The summer season is winding down and school will begin before you know it, so let's get together for one more summer bash! Rising 5th through 9th graders are invited to the DFC for a night of pool games, music, food and drink.
DATE: Saturday, 8/23
TIME: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
COST: $2 per child (members). $5 per child's guest
FOOD: Pizza and drinks
Please call the office (684-6672) to RSVP.
August 07, 2008 - Early Pool Closing
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/07/28 12:50:35
The main pool will close at 7:00pm on Thursday August, 7th for the Summer Staff Appreciation Party.
Water Safety Instructor Course
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/07/03 10:32:06
The Duke Faculty Club will offer an American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor Course beginning Friday, July 18 through Sunday, July 27, 2008. The cost is $120 plus course materials; a $20 deposit is required. Participants must be at least 16 years old. The course schedule is: Friday, July 18, 6-7pm Saturday, July 19, 9am-4pm Sunday, July 20, 9am-4pm Saturday, July 26, 9am-4pm Sunday, July 27, 9am-12pm For more information follow the link to Aquatics and Staff. Call the main office (684-6672) to register. A minimum enrollment of 5 students is needed for the class to be held.
July 11, 2008 - Parent's Night Out
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/07/09 11:15:31
Why scramble for a sitter when you can bring your kids to the DFC for Parents Night Out? Parent's Night Out is open to children 4-12 yrs old, and will be offered on the second Friday night of every odd numbered month. Our next PNO is Friday July 11, from 6-9pm. We'll play games, go to the pool, and make homemade pizza and ice-cream sundaes! Call the main office to reserve a spot.
July 4th Celebration
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/06/19 14:38:55
Come celebrate July 4th at the DFC for a full day of games and free food!! We'll have pool games, basketball, tennis, hot dogs on the grill, water melon and more. See attached flyer for details. [July 4th(pdf) , PDF]
Water Aerobics Classes
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/06/19 14:41:54
The DFC is offering water aerobics classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in the main pool from 10:30-11:30am. All classes are $6.00 for members, $8.00 for non-members. Save $$$ by pre-purchasing your 10-CLASS ACTIVITY PASS at the Faculty Club office $40.00 for members, $65.00 for non-members.
Congratulations Maxine
Physics, for staff, 2008/05/27 16:34:17
On May 15th the Physic Community and others from across Duke got together at the Duke Gardens' Pavilion to celebrate Maxine Stern's contributions to Duke and the Physics Department. [more]
Membership Survey Results
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/06/19 14:13:27
Thank you, again, to all the members who responded to the survey. There was a great response with a lot of good feedback. This information is valuable to the board and staff of the DFC, and will play a significant role in guiding the Strategic Planning Committee. A summary document is attached, and a copy of the full results are kept in the front office. [DFC Survey Summary (pdf)]
June 11, 2008 - POOL CLOSED
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/06/11 13:46:19
We had a problem with our pool filters last night and have had to close the main pool today because the water is too cloudy as a result of not properly circulating through the filters last night. The problem with the pump has been fixed, and now we need to let the water clear by circulating through the filtration system. We will keep the pool closed for the rest of the day (Wednesday) and reopen on Thursday at 10am. I apologize for the inconvenience that this closing may cause you. The lap pool continues to be open for our over 16 year old lap swimmers. Meg Pomerantz, Director
Register for Group Swimming Lessons
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/05/13 10:56:07
Are you ready for the summer? Register now for group swimming lessons at the DFC. Details including dates, times, costs and registration forms are available under our aquatics programs link.
USTA Summer Mixed Doubles
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/04/25 16:46:38
Durham Parks and Recreation sponsors an adult Mixed Doubles league during the summer with the season spanning the third week in June through the second week in August. The Faculty Club will be fielding at least one 7.0 team and possibly a 6.0 team and an additional 7.0 team depending on interest. If you would like to join the fun this summer or have any questions about the league, contact Kelly Baker or send an e-mail to stewart.johnson@duke.edu. The registration deadline is May 28 and the cost is $14.
May 26, 2008 - Memorial Day Summer Celebration
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/05/13 11:04:22
The Memorial Day Summer Celebration is an all day fun-filled FREE event for the whole family. There will be games, inflatables, drinks, music, and more! We hope to see you there. Please click here for a detailed schedule of events: [Memorial Day Celebration (pdf) ]
Lifeguard Training Certification Course
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/05/13 10:55:50
Are you looking for a great summer job as a lifeguard but lacking the certfication? Join the DFC for a lifeguard training class beginning on Friday, May 16. Details including dates, times, cost, and registration information are available under our aquatics program link.
May 09, 2008 - Parent's Night Out
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/05/06 10:35:57
Why scramble for a sitter when you can bring your kids to the DFC for Parents Night Out? Parent's Night Out is open to children 4-12 yrs old, and will be offered on the second Friday night of every odd numbered month. Our next PNO is Friday May 9, from 6-9pm. We'll play games, make homemade pizza, ice-cream sundaes, and watch Charlotte's Web! Call the main office to reserve a spot!
Jump Rope Workshop
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/04/11 09:43:11
Come join us at the DFC for some jump rope action! Krishinda Lee, award winning Bouncing Bulldog and DFC fitness intern, will be hosting a jump rope workshop for DFC members of all ages on Saturday, April 12 from 11am-12pm. The event is free, but we do ask that you call the office to let us know that you be joining us. Hope to see you there!
Spring Egg Hunt
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/04/11 09:33:32
Thanks to all the DFC parents and children who made the 2008 Spring Egg Hunt a huge success! Children of all ages hunted eggs, and parents enjoyed a beautiful spring day with bagels and Shade Tree Coffee. Eamonn the Bunny expertly hid eggs all over the DFC grounds. Four sharp eyed egg hunters retrieved the golden eggs and were awarded big chocolate bunnies. We look forward to seeing you next year!
Parents' Night Out
Duke Faculty Club, 2007/12/12 10:53:33
Take the night off and bring your 4-12 years to the DFC on November 16, from 6-10pm. Parents' Night out will include a movie, food decorating, games, a Twister competition, and a raffle (tickets cost $1). Cost is $15 for members, and $18 for non-members. Please call the office (684-6672). The attached registration form must be completed before the event. [Parents Night Out, PDF]
Wine Tasting
Duke Faculty Club, 2007/10/30 14:34:41
The DFC and Wine Authorities will be hosting a wine tasting event in the LeBar building on Thursday, November 15, 7-9pm. The event costs $15 for members, $20 for non-members. Six wines will be availible for tasting, and cheese and fruit will be served. Wine Authorities is Durham's new locally owned, independent wine retail store and wine education facility. They feature free wine tastings every Saturday from 12 Noon to 3 PM in the store. In addition, Wine Authorities has the only Enomatic self serve wine tasting machine in the Triangle, which allows users to purchase a tasting debit card and taste up to 12 wines at a time. Wine classes are scheduled regularly and the weekly tasting line up along with class schedules can be found at their web site: www.wineauthorities.com. To register for the event, please call the office at 684-6672.
Mini Camp on November 12
Duke Faculty Club, 2007/11/08 15:29:40
Are you looking for a fun and safe place for your child to go on the November 12th Teacher Work Day? Enroll them in the DFC's Kid's Day Camp.
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm
Age: 5-12 year olds
Fee: $40 members; $45 non-members
For more information: Contact Chanee Lynch at lynchce@email.unc.edu or (215) 268-6573.
See attached registration form. [Office] [Word, PDF]Halloween Party for the Kids
Duke Faculty Club, 2007/10/26 16:06:01
Come play with pirates & goblins, witches & ghouls! The Duke Faculty Club is hosting a Halloween Costume Party on Friday, October 26, 2007 from 5-8pm. Cost is $3 per child at the door. Canned goods will also be accepted at the door. Join us for games, candy, prizes, raffle, snacks and more! [JPEG, PDF]
DFC and the Farm Rally for a Cause
Duke Faculty Club, 2007/10/18 14:32:55
The Rally for the Cure was a huge success! On Friday, October 12, 2007, members of the Duke and UNC Faculty Clubs shed their shades of blue and donned a new color - pink - to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer. Thirty-two women from both clubs played in a round robin tournament, ate lunch together, and raised over $2,000. 
Thank you to everyone who participated by playing, sponsoring a court, making a donation, purchasing a raffle ticket, or eating lunch! To learn more about the event, read the article in the Chapel Hill News (http://www.chapelhillnews.com/sports/story/10371.html).
October 12, 2007 - Parents' Night Out
Duke Faculty Club, 2007/10/09 16:35:54
Are you a parent looking for a night out? The Duke Faculty club will be hosting a Parents' Night Out on Friday, October 12, 2007 from 6-9pm. Bring your 4-12 year olds for a night of games, food, and fun with an international twist. Cost is $15 for members and $18 for non members. Please call the office at 684-6672 for more information or to register.
Lasch Solo Show in NY and Open Call: Twin Towers
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/01 17:46:49
The opening reception for Pedro Lasch's (Asst Res Prof, AAHVS) solo show at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery in New York will take place on September 7th, with the exhibit running through Oct 9th, 2011. Included in the New York show are six oil paintings from his Phantom Limbs series (2001-2011). Created in various styles associated with the Western canon, each work corresponds to a specific site where the Twin Towers are to be reconstructed to scale, both as functioning buildings, and as international memorials. The new WTC sites represented in the complete series are Baghdad, Budapest, Gaza City, Guantanamo, Darfur, Kabul, Liverpool, Medellin, Montevideo, New Orleans, Panmunjum DMZ, and Paris. For more information, please visit: http://www.twintowersgoglobal.org/wtc/phantom-limbs/ or go directly to the gallery website: http://www.stephanstoyanovgallery.com/
White House Initiative's 2011 Summer Internship Program
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/02/18 14:21:20
The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics Summer Internship Program provides current undergraduate and graduate students with an opportunity to learn about Latino-focused education policy, communications, and outreach at the U.S. Department of Education. This unpaid internship runs for 12 weeks: Monday, May 23 - Friday, Aug. 12. Neither a degree in education nor fluency in Spanish is required. Students from all academic fields are encouraged to apply. Learn more.
Volunteer opportunity for Spanish-speaking students/volunteers
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/11/09 15:26:24
Dress for Success is an organization dedicated to helping low income women looking for employment. They are currently looking for Bilingual (Spanish and English speaking) volunteers to help Hispanic clients at Dress for Success. Weekday hours are needed - Tuesdays & Thursdays 10-4 and Fridays
10-1. Located in downtown Durham in Northgate Mall.
For regular job descriptions, see the website (http://www.dressforsuccess.org/affiliate.aspx?sisid=133&pageid=2).
No prior
experience is needed, as brief training will be provided for working
with these women. You can contact Megan Risley for further information
- megan@dfstriangle.org.
Dress for Success provide low income women with career counseling, prepare them for job interviews, provide them with the materials and guidance needed to make resumes, cover letters, etc. and also provide them with an interview suite, free of charge. Once women have obtained an employment position they also provide them with a week's worth of clothing for their job, free of charge.
They are currently looking for Bilingual (Spanish and English speaking) volunteers to help Hispanic clients at Dress for Success. They are looking for volunteers who can help dress women for job interviews and those who can provide interview preparation (resume creation, 30 second elevator speeches, etc.)
Translators & Interpreters Needed at EK Powe Elementary
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 21:00:51
EK POWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEEDS YOUR HELP!
EK Powe Elementary School (located near Duke's East Campus) is looking for Spanish speakers to assist with interpretation and translation work throughout the school year.
On SEPTEMBER 15, EK Powe needs about 6 students to sign up for interpretation and translation work in the evening (5:30-7) for a classroom event. Free pizza will be served.
Students who are interested in putting their name on a contact list for translation/interpretation on an "as needed" basis OR if you want to sign up for the September 15 event, please contact Alice Anne Kern at EK Powe(onlya2@frontier.com).
Flesh and Metal, Bodies and Buildings - Exhibit through Oct 16
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/09 12:36:20
Works from Jonathan Hyman's Archive of 9/11 Vernacular Memorials
Exhibit curated by Pedro Lasch on view through October 16, 2011, in the Special Collections Gallery library.duke.edu > exhibits
Pedro Lasch - Twin Towers Go Global
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 20:54:27
In 2010, Pedro Lasch (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke) began to work with the artist run platform of AND AND AND, the director and staff of dOCUMENTA(13), and the organization of Twin Towers Go Global (TTGG), to issue a series of three special 9/11 anniversary reports (2010, 2011, 2012). Like all other projects in the AND AND AND series, these reports are part of dOCUMENTA(13). The Second Report is now up on the dOCUMENTA(13) website: http://d13.documenta.de/#press/news-archive/press-single-view/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=110&cHash=a93408273d42fd7deae93586bc500d10. Issued yesterday in Kassel, Germany, the current report focuses on the TTGG's recent “Open Call”, a competition where people were invited to imagine the Twin Towers rebuilt around the world. Almost sixty proposals were submitted between July 31 and September 2, 2011. Five winners were selected by a specialized jury, and another five through an international public vote. The ten finalists were announced in private at the opening reception of Lasch's 'Phantom Limbs' exhibition in New York (Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, September 7 – October 9, 2011). The winning proposals are featured with images and other details in the ten-page online PDF publication available through the link below: http://d13.documenta.de/fileadmin/newsletter/2011/AND_AND_AND_Event9/AND-Lasch-TTGG-Report-2all.pdf. All other information, as well as any future updates will be available at: http://www.twintowersgoglobal.org/wtc/documenta-13-and-and-and// as well as: http://www.andandand.org/events.htm . For those of you who may still want to see the New York exhibition of 'Phantom Limbs,' here is the direct link: http://www.stephanstoyanovgallery.com/
BOLIVAR BLVD: Exhibit on display through Sept 29
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/06 17:50:31
BOLIVAR BLVD: Simon Bolivar's Footprint in the United States
Currently on display through September 29, 2011
Duke University presents BOLIVAR BLVD; a collaborative exhibition project mapping the footprint of Simon Bolivar, one of the most influential political leaders in South American history, in the past and present United States. The exhibit looks at the tribute paid to Simon Bolivar from New York to Missouri to North Carolina through monuments and names of places and products. Known as the "The Liberator," Simon Bolivar was a central figure in the 19th century wars of independence of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Panama. We join in this year's bicentennial celebration of independence in Venezuela.
Location: Fredric Jameson Gallery, 1316 Campus Drive. Friedl Building, Duke University, East Campus. Durham, NC. 27705.
Exhibit dates: July 9 to September 22, 2011.
Gallery hours: Mon. - Thurs. 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (except during special events); Friday and weekends by request; see website for further details. http://bolivarblvd.wordpress.com
The primary exhibit items are part of a larger collection by Miguel Chirinos, a local historian and native of Venezuela who has studied and written about Bolivar. The exhibition has been organized and curated by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo assisted by Marlon Torres.
For more information about BOLIVAR BLVD please contact: bolivarblvd@gmail.com. By phone: (919) 699-4036; (919)-681-3883.
This exhibition has been coordinated with the assistance of the N.C. Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Cultural Resources and the following Duke University units: Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South; Spanish Service-Learning; Romance Studies Department; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Department of Cultural Anthropology, and Office of Durham & Regional Affairs. Special thanks to Rafael Osuba, quickcolorprints.com
Alta Gracia Union-Made Living Wage Apparel Student Internship
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/08/26 13:19:16
Alta Gracia needs self-driven students who are fired up about workers' rights, well-connected to the campus community, and interested in building their ability to do community organizing and education. Work involves developing educational events, collaborating with community groups, supporting local businesses and more, and meeting (virtually and over the phone) and sharing with a network of other student organizers on college campuses. Here are some details:
Fall Semester, begins September 5th depending on school, flexible start date to be arranged
Flexible hours (10 – 20 per week), flexible work schedule
Credit and limited compensation opportunities can be arranged
The internship will take place on your campus in your community, with meetings with workers, fellow students, and stakeholders from the industry sharing their experiences in online meetings using Skype and GoTo Meeting.
Help us build a nation-wide network for social justice for workers in the garment industry!
Contact Rachel Taber at Alta Gracia at taberrachel@gmail.com, or call 202.297.0971 for more information.??
Latino/a Studies courses - at Duke and UNC-CH - few spots remain
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/08/22 15:11:54
Be sure to check out the GREAT LATINO STUDIES CLASSES both at DUKE AND UNC-CH that are being offered this fall. Among others, seats remain for the following: UNDERGRADS, don't miss out on LSGS 181S/SPAN 181S/ICS 131 GS/ LIT 162ZS: Reading Latino and Latino History through Literature. Examining the imaginative act of writing -e.g., fiction, poetry, and playwriting - this course is a study of the literary portrayals of historical subjects, facts, events, and the social knowledge of the past, and how these means question the positioning of Latinas and Latinos within the American cultural terrain. Specific attention is given to how non-fiction is fictionally processed in contemporary works by U.S. Latinas and Latinos. Taught MW 2:50-4:05 in Languages 208 with Prof Claudia Milian.??
At UNC-CH: graduate-level courseEnglish 864: Medicalizing latinidades with Professor Laura Halperin, taught @@ Mondays 2:00-5:00 in Greenlaw 318. Building on Vilma Santiago-Irizarry's ethnographic study about the medicalization of ethnicity, this interdisciplinary and intersectional graduate seminar will focus on the medicalization of latinidades. Through an examination of texts across genres such as novels, memoirs, plays, poetry, vignettes, films and/or documentaries, medical anthropologies, literary analyses, environmental and social justice studies, and psychological studies this course will explore the medicalized construction of latinidades, with particular attention to the roles race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality play in these constructions. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Professor Laura Halperin at lhalperi@email.unc.edu.
See http://latino.aas.duke.edu/academics/Fallcourses2011.php for all Fall course offerings
Spanish Speaking Tutors Needed for America Reads and America Counts Program
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 20:59:18
The Duke Community Service Center is looking to hire Duke students to tutor in Durham Public Schools with the America Reads and America Counts program. To be hired, you must be eligible for Federal Work Study, and we pay $13.25/hr to undergrads and $16.25/hr to graduate tutors. If you are interested in tutoring, please check out our website at http://csc.civic.duke.edu/
Program for Student Organizers with SAF: Apply by Sept 9
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/08/23 12:07:10
Student Action with Farmworkers' Student Organizing School was developed for college-aged youth who have a passion for improving farmworker conditions through campus organizing. Student Action with Farmworkers envisions a world in which farmworkers earn fair wages, are safe on the job, and have access to higher education. Students who are bilingual and/or from farmworker families are encouraged to apply!
Benefits: A 7-month program from September 2011-April 2012; A $100 stipend per semester; Mentorship and support; Room & Board and Travel reimbursements for three overnight training retreats. Apply for the Student Organizing School by September 9, 2011!
Organize your peers in support of: The Access to Education for All Campaign; The Harvest of Dignity Campaign; or The Reynolds Tobacco Campaign. Organizers will raise awareness about farmworker issues by conducting presentations, writing articles, participating in a community service project, fundraising, engaging their peers, and coordinating an event for National Farmworker Awareness Week.
*For more information on our campaigns:
www.adelantenc.org, www.ncfan.org, & www.supportfloc.org
For more information, contact: Nadeen Bir, Advocacy and Organizing Director, (919) 660 - 3652 nadeen.bir@duke.edu, www.saf-unite.org
Apply to be a Student Organizer for Student Action with Farmworkers
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/07/27 13:11:53
Student Action with Farmworkers is recruiting college students for our Student Organizing School Program 2011-2012 Academic year. The deadline is September 9, 2011. If you are a college-aged dreamer, please consider applying as well!
"As student organizers we should and will put just as much effort in ensuring that the injustices faced by farmworkers today will not continue for future generations. With this in mind, I feel as if I not only have the tools, but also the motivation to be a strong force in this movement." -Christine Contreras, 2010-2011 SAF Student Organizer.
SAF trains, mentors, and supports a small group of college students in NC to be leaders in the farmworker movement. Through an orientation, retreats, and farm labor camp visits, student organizers learn about the history of the farm labor movement, current farm labor campaigns, and popular education and organizing. Through campus organizing, the students support current policy and organizing campaigns to improve farm labor conditions.
Please check out our SOS applicant information for program details, eligibility, program timeline, and information about how to apply.
To learn more about the Student Organizing School contact: Nadeen Bir at 919-660-3652
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Congrats to Prof Antonio Viego, Director of Latino/a Studies
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/02/25 12:34:00
Congratulations to Faculty Director of Latino/a Studies, Professor Antonio Viego, who has been recognized by the University for his contribution to teaching excellence. Prof Viego received course evaluations among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors at Duke for the Fall of 2010!
Prof Viego is currently teaching the capstone course for the certificate in Latino/a Studies in the Global South and will teach the Introduction to Latino/a Studies in the Global South in Fall 2011.
Read more about Prof Viego here and about the undergraduate certificate here.
Volunteer Translators needed Aug 23 and 24
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/08/11 17:06:58
VOLUNTEER TRANSLATION SUPPORT NEEDED
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On August 23rd and 24th the center will be hosting program orientation sessions for the upcoming academic year. Volunteer translation support is needed on both evenings, dinner will be provided.
Tuesday, August 23rd, 5:30-7:30pm
Translators should be fluent Spanish speakers and be comfortable simultaneously translating
Wednesday, August 24th, 6-8pm
Translators should be fluent Spanish speakers and be comfortable simultaneously translating to small groups of 2-3 individuals.
Please contact contact Girija Mahajan by email: gmahajan@emilyk.org or by phone: (919)-680-0308 ext. 1003 if you have any questions or are interested in volunteering.
GANO: ESL-Tutoring Opportunity this Summer!
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/04/19 15:11:22
Staying on campus over the summer? Interested in tutoring English or childcare? Then help out and volunteer with GANO! GANO is Gente Aprendiendo para Nuevas Oportunidades (People Learning in order to have Better Opportunities), an ESL-tutoring organization that provides one-on-one English language tutoring for Latinos in Durham. We will be holding weekly sessions this summer, time & location TBD. Tutors should be comfortable speaking basic Spanish, although fluency is not necessary. GANO is also in need of volunteers to provide childcare for parents during lessons. If interested, please contact Shaoli Chaudhuri (shaoli.chaudhuri@duke.edu) or Elle Nelson (danielle.nelson@duke.edu).
Fulbright Teaching and Research Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/23 15:33:22
The 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Competition is underway and is currently welcoming applications from scholars interested in teaching, teaching/research or research awards in Latin America and the Caribbean. Proposals will be considered from junior as well as senior scholars and awards are offered in a wide variety of disciplines. The application deadline for 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Competition is August 1, 2011. Visit www.cies.org/ for detailed award announcements, application and guidelines. For more information contact Katrin DeWindt at kdewindt@iie.org or 202-686-6254, Jennifer Fox at jfox@iie.org or 202-686-6239, Caitlin McNamara at cmcnamara@iie.org or 202-686-6237, Jake Silva at jsilva@iie.org or 202-686-4018
Ala illegal immigration law tougher than Arizona's
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/07/27 13:11:13
MONTGOMERY, Ala. --Alabama schools will soon have to check if students are in the country legally and people stopped for any reason could be arrested on suspicion of immigration violations under a sweeping law being called the nation's most restrictive against illegal immigration. Advocacy groups promised to challenge the sweeping measure signed by Gov. Robert Bentley on Thursday, which they call even more severe than the one in Arizona that is being challenged in court. In addition, it requires all businesses to check the legal status of workers using a federal system called E-Verify and makes it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride. "It is clearly unconstitutional. It's mean-spirited, racist, and we think a court will enjoin it," said Mary Bauer, legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. It takes effect Sept. 1. [more] -- Associated Press
NC HIP - Hispanics in Philanthropy - Fellowships for Students
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/06/13 14:08:36
Hispanics in Philanthropy's (HIP) mission is to build the capacity of Latino nonprofits, while strengthening the participation and leadership of Latino professionals in philanthropy. HIP seeks to increase investments in the Latino nonprofit sector through creative, cutting-edge grantmaking and as the leading transnational network of grantmakers, HIP is consistently at the front line of innovative philanthropy. More information is available on our website: www.hiponline.org
Position Decription:
This position will work with the North Carolina regional office of HIP. Although the NC office is based in Asheville, Fellows can work remotely from anywhere in North Carolina.
HIP Fellowships are carefully tailored to match each Fellow’s interests with a broad range of organizational areas, including Membership & Special Events, Programs, Communications, Finance, and Development. HIP Fellows are given a high degree of flexibility in defining their range of work and are expected to take charge of projects in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment. All fellowships are unpaid, educational opportunities lasting a minimum of one semester. HIP seeks Fellows at the graduate level, but will consider students in their last years of undergraduate work and in other stages of professional development. Further information can be found on-line or by contacting Althea Gonzalez, althea@hiponline.org.
Call For Submissions: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Latina/o Collaborative
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/05/11 14:28:00
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Latina/o Collaborative (CLC) - http://clc.unc.edu/ -is seeking submissions for two one-artist shows, one in the fall of 2011 and another in the spring of 2012. The CLC seeks 2D media work addressing Latinidades in compelling, refreshing, and unexpected ways. The CLC, a multiuse space with a gallery, classrooms, offices, social spaces, and a patio, is located in the Seminar Wing of Craige North Residence Hall on UNC campus. Please note: the artist must cover all shipping and framing costs. Also, the work to be displayed will not be insured by UNC-Chapel Hill. Please submit via email: 3-5 jpegs of examples of your work, a brief statement about how your work addresses Latinidades, a 1-2 page resume, and an acknowledgement that you are willing to cover shipping costs. DEADLINE for submission is June 15. Please email all of the required materials to: unc-clc@unc.edu
Call for Papers: In Between the Shadows of Citizenship: Mixed Status Families
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/17 16:13:28
This edited volume aims to examine the experiences of immigrants and
mixed status families in terms of work and education, raids,
deportations, and detention, and resistance toward anti-immigrant
sentiment. Submission Process: Proposals for academic papers or testimonies, no longer than three pages, should be emailed to Jodie Lawston at jlawston@csusm.edu by Wednesday June 15, 2011. Contact Jodie Lawston (jlawston@csusm.edu with any questions or concerns about the submission process. DEADLINE for all proposals: June 15, 2011 to Jodie Lawston at jlawston@csum.edu
We welcome and encourage work that examines not just the experiences of immigrants in the U.S., but the experiences of immigrants around the globe.
The following topical areas broadly outline the subject matter that we see as most relevant to this volume. These can be used as starting points for papers, but authors are not restricted to them:
*The effects of detention on immigrant families, particularly in separating those families* The impact of family reunification * The intersection of work and immigration status * The effects of immigration status on students * The effects of raids and/or deportations on families
* Changes in laws and resulting effects on immigrants’ lives * Immigrant justice work * Comparative studies of issues related to immigration in different parts of the world * The intersections of race, class, gender, and with immigration status
We are interested in both academic papers and testimonies from immigrant women on the above topics.
UNC-CH: Trayectos de Papel / Paper Trajectories Exhibit
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/02/25 11:26:27
Trayectos de Papel is a series of works on paper by Carolina Loyola Garcia. The exhibit will run March 1-June 1 2011, Monday-Friday 10am-7pm at the Carolina Latino/a Collaborative. Carolina Loyola Garcia is a Chilean media artist working in the US, whose work reflects upon such issues as biculturalism, language, technology, and post-colonialism, among others. Her work ranges from single-channel videos to video installations or 2D digital prints, and has been exhibited in festivals and art shows nationally and internationally. For more information, please contact unc-clc@unc.edu. Sponsored by the CLC, the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, and the UNC Art Department.
Summer Internship Opportunity with Together NC
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/05/11 12:42:25
Together NC is a broad and diverse collection of 120+ non-profit organizations, service providers, and professional associations who have come together to promote wise choices for shared prosperity for all North Carolinians. To apply:
Email a cover letter outlining why you’re interested in this internship and what you hope to gain from it along with aresume to: Clayton Brooks, clayton@togethernc.org.
Applications will be accepted immediately and considered on a rolling basis. To learn more about Together NC, visit www.togethernc.org
Now more than ever, in the
face of severe economic recession, we must speak with one voice about
the need to maintain and build upon the public investments - education, transportation, public safety, health care - that support the fabric of our community.
Internship Description: Together NC is seeking a full-time (40 hours/week) summer intern to assist with the implementation of key communications and organizing tactics across
the state. The intern will be an instrumental part of the Together NC
team, which includes two coordinators based out of the NC Justice
Center and the Covenant with North Carolina’s Children and an
organizer. The internship will provide a unique opportunity to be on the frontlines of a fast-moving state policy campaign that’s focused on building the public will for progressive solutions to the state’s budget shortfall. The intern will come
away with a tangible sense of how state policy change is driven and the
day-to-day workings of a non-profit advocacy organization.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Collecting budget impact stories from Together NC partners
- Discovering likely allies in key communities
- Organizing and implementing phonebanks to contact state legislators
- Managing and organizing the Together NC database
- Supporting the administrative duties of Together NC
Position is based in downtown Raleigh, NC at the offices of the NC Justice Center at 224 S. Dawson Street. The duration of this internship will be for the 2011 summer, specific start and end dates contingent on in the intern’s schedule. Unfortunately, we do not have funding so the internship is unpaid, though we will reimburse work-related expenses.
WOLA Job Opening
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/04/29 16:32:51
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) seeks a detailed-oriented Communications/Development Assistant to provide administrative support for the Communications and Development offices. S/he will have initiative, excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to communicate effectively, and a passion for new media. WOLA has a full-time staff of sixteen, seven interns, and six senior fellows.
For more information about WOLA, please visit www.wola.org
SALARY: $33,000, full health, dental, vision, and
life insurance; three weeks annual vacation.
TIME COMMITMENT: Two year commitment, subject to a
favorable evaluation after the first three months.
START DATE: Immediately
TO APPLY: Please submit the following via email
to employment@wola.org:
1. Cover letter
2. Resume
3. Two page writing sample
4. The names of two references (with email
addresses and daytime telephone numbers)
5. Optional: If you would like us to see your
online work, such as video pieces, photo
slide-shows, or interactive graphics, please send
us your links in the body of your application
email.
Visiting Assistant Position at Tulane University
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/04/29 16:32:40
The anthropology department at Tulane University invites applications for one-year visiting assistant professor position in sociocultural anthropology, beginning July 1, 2011. Please send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names and
contact information for three references to Susan Chevalier, Executive
Secretary, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 101 Dinwiddie
Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 .
We seek candidates with a specialization in Latin America with a strong urban anthropology research component and/or teaching capacity. The successful candidate will be asked to teach at least two courses with an urban Latin American focus at the intermediate undergraduate level in addition to two undergraduate introductory courses in sociocultural anthropology.
Call for Papers - MALCS: Against Fear and Terror
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/04/08 14:50:01
*NOTE THAT OUR PROGRAM COULD HELP WITH CONFERENCE TRAVEL FUNDS FOR DUKE STUDENTS OR FACULTY TO PRESENT AT THIS CONFERENCE IN AUGUST; CONTACT JENNYSW@DUKE.EDU FOR MORE INFO ON CONFERENCE ASSISTANCE.
The 2011 MALCS Site Committee at the California State University, Los Angeles invites academics, educators, students, professionals, activists, "artivists," and community members of all disciplines and fields of interest in Chicana, Latina and Native American/Indigenous Women's Studies to submit proposals for individual papers, panel sessions, roundtables, workshops, performances, conversations or alternative formats. Proposals are to be submitted electronically by May 15, 2011. All abstracts and panel proposals should contain title of paper, affiliation, email and street addresses, and contact number. Participants may submit proposals electronically by May 15, 2011 to: malcscsula2011@gmail.com.
See http://www.malcs.org/2011/04/malcs-2011-los-angeles-call-for-papers/ for full information
Against Fear and Terror: Una Nueva Conciencia Sin Fronteras
MALCS is a "national organization of Chicanas/Latinas and Native
American women working in academia and in community settings with a
common goal: to work toward the support, education and dissemination of
Chicana/Latina and Native American women's issues." The theme this
year aims to foreground the academic and activist endeavors contesting
the current framing of citizenship and belonging through binaries such
as immigrant/non-immigrant that ignore lived relationship, histories
and transformative practices in rights-based struggles.
In the past decade, our communities have confronted multiple forms of
boundary making processes, greater surveillance, policing and
restrictionist policies. In many ways, these developments ignore
longstanding economic and cultural relationships and emphasize
conflict, fear and exclusion. The erasure of our histories, the
denial of our rights and even the criminalization of our right to
livelihood, rights to education and rights to family life, in all its
diverse formations, push academics and activists to explore these
processes as they manifest in institutions, communities and
neighborhoods within and outside the state, within our very bodies.
We are interested in how our work negotiates -through our diverse
locations of class, sexuality, nation and generation, our stories,
music, poetry, visual art and foodways, etc. -the negative portrayals
and marginalization of our communities to (re)affirm our humanity and
our rights. We seek a variety of work that explores the pursuit of a
socially just and inclusive society beyond borders: "Against Fear and
Terror: Una Nueva Conciencia Sin Fronteras."
Suggested Topics May Include
.2001 Patriot Act/Homeland Security
.Unprecedented Detention and deportation
.AZ SB1070 and racialization, illegality
.Chicana/Latina/Native American women's resistance and activism
.Social Justice/Popular Movements/Poder Popular
.civil disobedience, popular democracy
.DREAMERs, 2006 Marches
.budget cuts, neoliberalism
.reproductive justice, the right to marry/love
English-speaking Latinos wanted for "Cell Phone Intervention for You" Study
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/01/26 21:50:17
English-speaking Latino participants desired for "Cell Phone Intervention for You" study. See the website, dukecitystudy.org, email citystudy@notes.duke.edu or call (919)681-CITY for more information.
This is an NIH-sponsored clinical trial for which Laura Svetkey is the PI. They are testing an innovative cell phone app (designed in collaboration with behavioral science colleagues here at Duke and a tech guru at MIT/Northeastern U) that they hope will help young adults lose weight. Comparison groups will get personal coaching or usual care.
Eligibility criteria are age 18-35 yrs, overweight or obese, generally healthy, not diabetic, and regularly using a cell phone. Each participant will be in the study for 24 months. We're enrolling participants now, and will continue to enroll for the next year or so.
HACU + Southwest = Free Flights!
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/04/07 15:35:07
HACU (Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities) is teaming up with Southwest airlines to offer roundtrip tickets to students and/or parents to fly home/ to their university. This seems particularly helpful given how close it is to graduation. The aren't many eligibility requirements. http://www.hacu.net/hacu/Lanzate_EN.asp
Call for Submissions: The WOLA-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/24 15:44:44
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) announces the fourth annual WOLA-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. The award honors the best current, non-fiction book published in English on human rights, democracy, and social justice in contemporary Latin America. The author of the winning book will receive a $1,000 cash prize. The deadline for entries is May 6, 2011. For more information, contact: Colin Smith at
csmith@wola.org or 202-797-2171
Judges will be looking for books that offer important contributions to research on Latin America while also enriching the general public's understanding of the region. The winning book will reflect the standards of originality, high-quality research, and clear writing to which WOLA aspires in its own publications. In the case of two or more authors, the prize money will be distributed equally among them.
The award will be given in the fall of 2011 by WOLA and Duke University. Both scholarly and popular books are eligible, either edited or authored. To be eligible, books must meet the following criteria:
- An original, non-fiction book related to issues of human rights, the rule of law, social and/or economic justice, or democracy, as they are broadly understood, in contemporary Latin America. Books should pertain to events that took place in roughly the past 25 years.
- Published in English by a commercial, university, or non-profit publisher. Books written originally in other languages and translated into English are eligible. Self-published books are not eligible.
- Books published in 2010 and 2011 will be eligible for the 2011 prize. Books published before 2010 are not eligible.
There is no entry form. Publishers, authors, or readers may send nominations to:
Book Award
Washington Office on Latin America
1666 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20009
The notice or letter should contain a short description of the book and publishing details; no supporting materials or reviews are necessary. Nominators may also send one copy of the book, although this is not required for nomination. For books due to be published in 2011 but after the entry deadline, nominators may send a pre-publication copy, indicating the publication date.
Judges are drawn from WOLA's staff and its academic advisory board, Duke University, and the academic community at large.
The winner of the WOLA-Duke Book Award will be announced in the fall of 2011. He or she will be invited to give a reading later at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
SOA Watch is Hiring
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/04/29 16:42:43
SOA Watch is looking to hire a full time Operations and Development Coordinator and a summer intern. Applications for the full time position are due by May 1. Applications for the intership positions will be accepted on a rolling basis.
1.) FULL TIME OPERATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR POSITION (salaried position based in Washington, DC @ SOA Watch National Office)
School of the Americas Watch is hiring an Development & Operations Coordinator to be based in Washington, DC. The position is full-time with health benefits, paid vacation and holiday time, and there are opportunities for skills development.
Please send a resume, a cover letter explaining what qualities you
would bring to this job, your salary requirements and three references
to Hendrik Voss at hvoss@soaw.org.
Applications will be reviewed upon receipt, this position is open as of May 1st, 2011.
2.) INTERN WITH SOA WATCH IN WASHINGTON, DC
Currently, SOA Watch is seeking full-time organizing interns available for at least a 6-month pearion starting at teh end of May, 2011. Internships available: Organizing Intern, Research and Legislative Intern , Communications Intern, Fundraising Intern. To Apply: Please send your resume, list of three references, and a cover letter indicating:
1. Why you would like to intern at SOA Watch.
2. What strengths you would bring to the staff collective.
3. Whether you are applying for a half-time or full-time position, and that you acknowledge this position to be unpaid.
4. What types of projects are you most interested in. Describe what you would like to do in an internship at SOA Watch.
Please submit your application by mail to SOA Watch, PO Box 4566, Washington, DC 20017, or e-mail to nico@soaw.org
We are accepting applications for these internships on a rolling basis.
Call for Proposals for LAPOP Small Grants Competition
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/25 15:49:59
The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), with the financial
support of the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID), is pleased to announce a call for proposals for small grants
for research on discrimination, marginality, gender, and democracy in
Latin America.The application deadline is May 1, 2011. Detailed award descriptions, eligibility requirements, and application
forms in both English and Spanish are available at
www.AmericasBarometer.org. Please contact Amy Erica Smith for further
information at amy.e.smith@vanderbilt.edu.
Eligible applicants are faculty members, researchers, and graduate
students in any country whose work is related to democratization in
Latin America and who are conducting research projects in recognized
academic or research institutions. The project must use as its basis
data from the LAPOP AmericasBarometer.
BorderWork(s) Lab
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/17 15:44:43
BorderWork(s) (project starting Fall 2011) draws together critical perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, and policy studies to explore the acts of division and demarcation — cartographic and representational, material and physical, political and economic, social and cultural — that have parceled up the inhabited world into bounded communities. For more information, see http://fhi.duke.edu/labs/borderworks
BorderWork(s) is led by Claudia Koonz (History), Philip Stern (History) and Erika Weinthal (Nicholas School), with additional core faculty, including Robin Kirk (Duke Human Rights Center/International Comparative Studies), Ralph Litzinger (Cultural Anthropology) and Sumathi Ramaswamy (History). The Lab will also include other faculty with related interests as well as graduate and undergraduates.
Summer Course in Coloniality, Slavery & the Holocaust: Introducing the Decolonial Option
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/17 15:29:11
From July 4th to July 19th 2011, Roosevelt Academy (Middelburg, Netherlands) will host a summer course called Coloniality, Slavery and the Holocaust: Introducing the Decolonial Option. The deadline for registration to the course is the 1st of May, you can register at the Utrecht Summer School Website:
http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=S21
For more information please visit: http://www.roac.nl/roac/?p=news&i=429
The course will be taught by Walter Mignolo (director the Center for
Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University), Rolando Vázquez
(Roosevelt Academy) and guest faculty.
"al margen" exhibit of photos by Petra Barth
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/01/26 21:10:34
A new photography exhibit entitled "al margen" (or "Living on the Margin") is the result of seven years of work by Petra Barth in South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The exhibit will be on display from 17 January - 1 May 2011. It is composed of 70 gelatin silver prints mounted in two campus venues. Forty prints are on view at the Frederic Jameson Gallery in the Friedl Building on East Campus (open daily 8:00am to 6:00pm), and an additional thirty prints are on exhibit in the Special Collections Gallery (corridor between Dalton-Brand Research Room and Mary Duke Biddle Rare Book Reading Room) in Perkins Library on West Campus (open daily 8:00am to 7:00pm). @@
al margen was
organized by the Archive of Documentary Arts and the Archive for
Human Rights
in Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The exhibit is sponsored by the Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Program in Latino/a
Studies in the
Global South, the Department of Cultural Anthropology,
International
Comparative Studies, and the Duke Human Rights Center.
Barth's photography aims "to tell stories about
the everyday
lives of people living on the margin--their struggles and their
dreams." In her own words:
"I use a spontaneous, intimate approach to photograph the daily life of individuals. I look for quiet, reflective moments when people are unaware of the camera and my presence, and genuine feeling is conveyed. Pieced together, these moments describe, with extraordinary clarity, the living conditions all across Latin America and the Caribbean, from Haiti's streets to the suburbs of Nicaragua and El Salvador, and from the favelas of Rio to the victims of the recent tsunami in Concepcion, Chile.
My photographs reveal moments that are not often depicted because they happen every day. My camera simultaneously captures the unusual in the ordinary and the ordinariness of the unusual. We often see images of devastated landscapes and human suffering in the wake of disastrous events, but that is only one part of life. What happens before, after, and in between these times? Despite struggle, there is also happiness and the ability to move on and create new narratives every day.
Petra Barth was born in Germany in 1964. She
originally
studied design in Milan and worked for many years in the fashion
industry. In
1999, fulfilling a lifetime ambition, she became a full-time
freelance
photographer working primarily in the Caribbean, Latin America,
and Asia. She
studied photography with Joe Cameron, Andy Grundberg, and Bill
Newman at the
Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., where she
currently lives.
Petra Barth's photographs are part of the
Archive of
Documentary Arts, part of Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript, and
Special Collections
Library. The collection can be viewed in the Library's
Dalton-Brand Research
Room.
2011 ENLACES Summer Camp in need of Volunteers
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/04/18 15:31:08
El Centro Hispano is looking for enthusiastic and energetic counselors for the 2011 ENLACES summer camps. CONTACT: Channa Pickett - channa.pickett@duke.edu or 919.684.6296
June 16, 17, 18 (60 children - ages 8-10)
June 23, 24, 25 (40 youth - ages 11-13) Thursday & Friday 8:00am-2:00pm Saturday 10:00 am - 2:00 PM with all the parents and kids (at West Point on the Eno park)
Volunteer Requirements: Volunteers must be 17 years old or older Volunteers must attend an orientation meeting on Monday, June 13 Bilingual (Spanish/English) skills are preferred but not required Reliable transportation is preferred Volunteers must want to have fun and make camp GREAT for the kids!
Volunteer responsibilities and duties: Be the primary person responsible for a group of 5 - 10 children Lead groups through ice breaker activities, relay races, etc. Help with lunch time and bathroom breaks Take pictures or video Decorate picnic shelter and welcome families Have fun with the kids!!
Summer Service Opportunity
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/04/18 15:28:56
Durham Crisis Response Center needs volunteers 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month Work with kids ages 9months to 15 years old this summer with the Latina Domestic Violence Support Group. CONTACT: Angela Martinez at 919-710-9431 or by email at angie_angie67@hotmail.com
Volunteers are needed from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month this summer. Play games, give snacks, develop fun outdoor and indoor activities for a wide variety of age ranges. Kids are well behaved and energetic. Bilingual volunteers preferred, but not necessary.
Inviting participation in evaluating library databases
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/04/08 14:46:52
Invitation to participate in evaluating some potential electronic acquisitions for the library: We are currently considering the purchase of several databases that are relevant to Latino/a Studies. Feel free to test any of the products listed at http://library.duke.edu/apps/dbtrials/ Please direct question to Dr. Holly Ackerman,
Librarian for Latin America & Iberia holly.ackerman@duke.edu
Free access to these databases is available for a limited time. It is especially helpful to receive feedback from faculty and students who are the potential users of the various databases. Your advocacy for purchase of databases that support your research and teaching is also important since we can't afford to buy all the products that are available.
The products that seem particularly pertinent are:
-The Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection: Series1 Series 1 is a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture.
"
-Filmakers Library Online contains award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum.
-Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Series 1- Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes documents and images from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world including books, newspapers and pamphlets. Our own Laurent Dubois is on the Editorial Board.
-Two additional databases should be available for trial soon, one contains a broad range of primary and secondary materials for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the other for Latino/a literary studies. I will let you know when those trails are available.
Thanks for your review.
Spanish-Speaking Summer Coordinator
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/23 15:31:12
Duke's Office of Durham and Regional Affairs is seeking an energetic,
hard-working and mature individual with a demonstrated interest in
education to serve as program coordinator for our four-week Stepping
Stones summer program for rising kindergarten students at Y.E. Smith
Elementary School. If you are interested, please send your resume via email to jennifer.carolina@duke.edu.
The coordinator would be responsible for organizing
the program with assistance from the Office's Senior Program
Coordinator and from Y.E. Smith Staff. The program itself will run from
June 27-July 21, but the coordinator would work in our downtown office
to prepare for the program for the two weeks prior. (6 weeks total
commitment). It is ideal that the coordinator be fluent in both English
and Spanish. The program coordinator would work 20-30 hours M-F (with a
flexible schedule) the weeks of June 13th and 20th, and then from 7:45 or 8:00am to about 4:00pm, M-T during the four weeks of the program, (June 27-July 21).
April 14-17: Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW)
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/04/13 16:30:30
Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW) is organized by the Admissions Office in collaboration with Mi Gente. This year LSRW is taking place April 14th-17th. The purpose of the weekend is to show prospective Latino students the variety of academic and non-academic opportunities that are available at Duke and allow them to explore campus life. Prospective students are hosted by current Duke Students and they attend a series of events throughout the weekend. This year the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South will host two academic talks and co-sponsor a hip-hop performance that prospectives are invited to join (see events on this page) and will host an information session specifically for prospective students from 12:45 to 1:30pm in Sanford 223 on Friday. Professors and staff from the Program as well as Latino faculty members and alumni will also participate in various receptions, panels and discussions taking place during the weekend. Mi Gente works with Admissions to provide the prospective students with an enjoyable experience, and wants to show students that despite being small in numbers, Latinos at Duke can develop a strong sense of community and have an active presence on campus academically,culturally, and socially.
NY Times "Immigrant Detentions Draw International Fire"
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/18 15:01:27
The NY Times has an article on the just-released report by the IACHR referenced above, Immigrant Detentions Draw International Fire http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/us/18detain-1.html?ref=todayspaper
You can link to the 162-page report if you are interested—and if you do, you will note that in several places, the Commission relies on the companion reports on 287(g) in NC by the UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic and the UNC Institute of the America’s Latino Migration Project.
Upcoming Conference: Funds for Undergrads to Attend
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/29 17:01:37
The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South has funds available to help up to 2 undergrads to attend a conference in Michigan. The Chicano/Latino Studies Program at Michigan State University is holding "From the Fields to the Academy: A Migrant Symposium" from April 15-17, 2011. If you are interested in receiving funding, please contact Executive Director Jenny Snead Williams at jennysw@duke.edu. For more information on the conference itself, go to fromthefieldstotheacademy.wordpress.com.
April 11, 2011 - Mi Gente's Elections!
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Monday April 11 at 6pm. Social Psych 130
Candidates will be making speeches (5 minutes for Executive Board positions, 2 minutes for all other positions) at the elections. You are eligible to vote if you are an Active Member of Mi Gente, which means you have attended either 3 or 25% of Mi Gente events this semester. If you are unable to attend the elections, you may request an absentee ballot.
LASA 2012- deadline for panel submission is April 1, 2011
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/02/17 15:09:21
The LASA 2012 XXX International Congress is scheduled for May 23-26, 2012 in San Francisco, California. The deadline to submit proposals for panels, individual presentations, special events, etc. is April 1, 2011. Please consult the LASA web site for more details: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/congress/important-dates.asp
UNC-CH: Hand-Crafted Mexican Dolls for Sale: Support Economic Development in Mexico
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/02/25 11:22:28
UNC-CH students are assisting the Foundation in selling dolls handcrafted by women as part of the cooperative MANOS CREATIVAS ("Creative Hands") in the town of Mineral de Pozos, which is located about 185 miles (300km) north of Mexico City in the northeast corner of the central state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Today, the town is attempting to revitalize its economy through local, entrepreneurial development and cultural tourism. Each doll represents one of thirty-one Mexican states. Their clothes are hand-crafted and sewn by local residents of Mineral de Pozos. The dolls are $40 each. For info about purchasing the dolls, please contact Hannah Gill at hgill@email.unc.edu.
Call For Sumissions: LASA Panel on Inclusion/Exclusion for Migrants
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/14 23:17:37
Call for Submissions: Latin American Studies Association, Annual Meetings 2012. May 23-26 San Francisco, CA. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words (include word count) to organizers by Friday, March 25.
Please reply to: "Mendez, Jennifer B" <jbmend@wm.edu>
Proposed Panel:
Organizers: Jennifer Bickham Mendez (jbmend@wm.edu) and Lise Nelson (lise@uoregon.edu)
New Borderlands in Las Américas: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Recent Sites of Migrant Reception
Recent changes in the global economy, the long-term effects of neoliberal political-economic policies (eg free trade agreements), and the increased militarization and enforcement of geographic borders have spurred shifts in international migration flows within the Americas. Patterns of migration have become more diffuse, extending to include changing geographical sites of origin, destination and transit. As a result of thesechanging patterns, communities that have not heretofore experienced migration processes contend with the influx of culturally distinct newcomers, who may settle for extended periods of time or travel through on their way to final destinations. These localities have become sites of socioeconomic and cultural struggle in which migrants, "native" residents and various institutional actors define, enforce, and challenge the parameters [borders] of social membership. As such, they can be theorized as "new borderlands," crosscut by social and cultural boundaries that divide, marginalize and generate conflict, but are also challenged and transcended.
We are seeking submissions for a panel that addresses broad questions regarding the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion within “new borderlands” in the Americas. For example, how do processes of "othering' in recently constituted “borderlands” give rise to new forms of exclusion and patterns of state and civil violence? In what ways do these processes build on or exacerbate pre-existing social cleavages? How do migrants and "native" residents alike understand, confront, and challenge these divisions? Papers that draw on a variety of theoretical, methodological and analytical perspectives will be considered. Comparative analyses are especially welcomed.
ECPR Summer School on Latin American Politics
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/02 14:15:12
The ECPR Standing Group is currently inviting applications for the ECPR
Summer School, that will take place at the University of Salamanca from June
29th to July 8th. Application daedline: March 25.
For more information, please consult the webpage at:
http://campus.usal.es/acpa/summerschool or contact us at:
politica@usal.es
The Summer School on Latin American Politics is an
original initiative of the ECPR Standing Group on Latin American Politics,
the aim of which is to improve the academic offer on Latin American
politics to students of political science. The almost two weeks
of lectures and workshops are meant to provide theoretical and conceptual
support for the development of doctoral research through intense work
sessions and debates with other doctoral students and experts on Latin
American Institutions.
March 24, 2011 - Club Pura Vida
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6:00-7:30 pm in the Marketplace, Second Floor, Room 207. Sponsored by: Romance Studies Practica del espanol con musica, comida y amigos! For more information, please contact Bethzaida Fernandez, Spanish Language Program Cultural Advisor, bfv67@duke.edu.
Do YOU want to be on the GANO exec board next year?
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/03/03 15:01:45
With over half of the exec board graduating this May, we have several open positions! Please email one of the GANO presidents, Michelle (mbb18@duke.edu) or Neha (neha.limaye@duke.edu), for an application. Application deadline: Sunday March 20th at midnight. Please email completed applications to Michelle or Neha.
Being a GANO officer is fun and rewarding. Anyone who has participated in GANO for a smester is elligible to apply. We encourage everyone to apply, even if you're going abroad for a semester next year.
There will be an open exec meeting on Thursday March 17th, at 8pm in Carr 114. We encourage anyone interested in applying to stop by and learn more about how exec works.
Legal Farm Aid Bilingual Paralegal Position Opening
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/02/25 11:29:20
Position opening for bilingual paralegal at Legal Aid of North Carolina. Initial review of applications begins February 15th.
Agency background: Migrant farmworkers are essential to harvest North Carolina’s tobacco, fruits, vegetables, and other plants; they also plant trees and work with livestock and poultry. The Farmworker Unit provides free legal assistance in civil matters to this population statewide. Visit the Legal Aid of North Carolina website for full information on the position opening.
Scholarships for Latina & Minority Women
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/02/25 11:27:48
Scholarships for Latina Women
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund < http://www.hsf.net/> (also for college students)
- Adelante US Education Leadership Fund <http://www.adelantefund.org/
- Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute <http://www.chci.org/> (Congressional Internship)
- First in My Family Scholarship Program <http://www.thesalliemaefund.
- Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement <http://www.hace-usa..org/
- Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities <http://www..hacu.net/hacu/
- Hispanic Internship Program <http://www.hnip.net/>
- La Unidad Latina Foundation <http://foundation.
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund National Association of Hispanic Journalists <http://www.nahj.org/home/
- Salvadoran American Leadership and Education Fund <http://www.salef.org/salef/
- State Farm Hispanic Scholarship Fund <http://www.statefarm.com/
Scholarships for Minority Women
- Actuary Scholarships for Minority Students <http://www.beanactuary.org/>
- American Chemical Society Scholarships <http://www.cnetweb.org/
- American Geological Institute Minority Geosciences Student Scholarship <http://www.agiweb.org/mpp/
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants <http://www.aicpa.org/members/
- American Political Science Association Minority scholarship list <http://www.apsanet.org/
- Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program <http://kff.org/about/
- Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation <https://www.coca-
- Engineering for Minorities <http://www.nacme.org/>
- Gates Millennium Scholars <http://www.gmsp.org/(
- International Education Financial Aid <http://www.iefa.org/>
- The Jackie Robinson Foundation <http://www.jackierobinson.
- Jack Kent Cook Foundation Graduate Scholars Program <http://www.
- John L. Carey Accounting Scholarship <http://www.aicpa.org/members/
- Kaiser Media Internships in Health Reporting <http://kff.org/mediafellows/
- LGBT Scholarships <http://www.leaguefoundation.
- Microsoft Scholarships <http://www.microsoft.com/
- Morris K. Udall Undergraduate Scholarship <http://www.udall.gov/> (for environmental studies)
- National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant (SMART Grant) <http://studentaid.ed.gov/
- Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education <http://www.naspa.org/
- Students of Color Scholarship <http://www.financialaid4you.
- Unmet Need Scholarship <http://www.thesalliemaefund.
- USA Funds <http://www.usafunds.org/
Alternative Spring Break opening - Florida Farm worker/Immigration Immersion
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/02/21 14:25:08
Apopka, Fl- Florida Farm worker/Immigrant Immersion Participants will spend the week learning about farm workers and the issues that affect them and their families. ??This is an opening that needs to be filled as soon as possible. If you or someone you know might be interested please contact: Leslie Grinage, Program Coordinator at leslie.grinage@duke.edu or (919)668-4713) They will work in the fields alongside farm workers, harvesting crops that go to a local food bank and will participate in workshops and discussions on topics such as social justice, workers' rights, community organizing, social inequality, and farm workers' rights. Living with farm worker families, participants will be immersed in the Apopka community and will have opportunities to connect with community members through various social and educational outlets. Cost: $275 *Includes housing, meals, and transportation.
Travel to Bolivia this summer with ExciteDevelopment!
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/01/26 21:52:31
We are the Bolivia ExciteDevelopment (formerly Engineers Without Borders) team, and this summer we will be traveling to the village of Obrajes, Bolivia working on construction of a new community irrigation system. Travel dates are from late May through early July, so they should not conflict with study abroad or summer session II. If you might be interested in traveling, or have any questions, please
email any of us atjessie.nadler@duke.edu, ben.gagne@duke.edu, or
lily.shepard@duke.edu.
We are still looking for Spanish speakers interested in an awesome travel experience to help with the project this summer. This trip is not just for those studying engineering; rather we are looking for Spanish speakers (you do not have to be fluent!) to help us better communicate with the NGO's, drilling companies, and community members. If you are interested in this trip, your only responsibility this semester would be to apply for travel funding (and we will be more than happy to help you apply). We have had success in the past receiving travel funding from the Career Center and DukeEngage; students will not have to pay for their own travel expenses.
This trip will be a great travel experience, as well as a fantastic opportunity to work in a group, practice (or fine-tune) your language skills, and learn something completely new.
February 19, 2011 - The CHICLE Cineclub Meeting
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/02/15 15:18:45
Just a year ago we started the Cineclub at CHICLE Language Institute and we have enjoyed some good films and fun language encounters. However, after a year it seems a good time to try something new which we hope will be beneficial to those who especially want to practice Spanish and/or get to know the local Latino population better. The CHICLE Cineclub will now meet every third Friday at 6pm at the Centro Hispano in Carrboro Plaza.
It is a great space and a wonderful addition to our community! Also, parking is easy and it is a space that can be enjoyed by all of us for cultural programming.
The Board of El Centro and the staff are very excited about this opportunity, so I hope you will consider coming for our first showing on February 18th.
We will still have some Sunday films at our CHICLE offices but not on a regular basis.
Please write Sharon Mujica at sharon@chi-cle.com for any suggestions, ideas or questions you may have about our new format!! VENGAN EL DIA 18.
LEAP Summer Science Program for Rising Sophomores
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/01/31 19:22:07
To address the declining number of people who aspire to science-related careers, Duke has received funding from the NIH to provide an engaging 2-week summer science course to rising Duke sophomores. The NIH is specifically hoping to target minority populations. Application deadline: February 15, 2011. www.rise.duke.edu/leap.
Using the context of pharmacology (how drugs work), this FREE summer mini-course ties together principles of biology and chemistry in a relevant and engaging manner.
Project Guanajuato (Summer 2011 Internship Program)
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/01/31 13:45:36
EXTENSION: APPLICATIONS ARE DUE ON JANUARY 31, 2011 BY 12PM. Submit applications to uncmexico@gmail.com. Applications and more information are available at http://isa.unc.edu/migration/
This program will run for 7 weeks late May through June in rural Mexico. UNC undergrads with Spanish fluency are eligible. Estimated cost: $1,500 for airfare, room and board.
Spring Registration! - Upcoming Latino/a Studies Courses
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/02/25 11:18:45
Keep an eye out for upcoming Latino/a Studies courses for Spring Registration! Courses include the certificate introduction course, LSGS 100S.
January 25, 2011 - Duke Continuing Ed course on Haitian Creole begins January 25
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/01/26 21:42:27
Course Title: Basic Haitian Creole and Culture for Professionals. Registration: Registration can be completed online at http://www.learnmore.duke.edu/weekend/courses/registration.asp edu. For more information, contact the course instructor at jacques.pierre@duke.edu
Course Description: This course is designed for health care workers and community volunteers with little or no knowledge of the language. Participants from similar fields will work together in class to facilitate a deeper understanding of Haitian Creole and culture that is directly related to their particular field. The class will also explore different aspects of Haitian culture through Haitian movies, art, and games and will feature guest speakers who have been working in Haiti in collaboration with Haitian medical teams as well as speakers who are working on such areas as restavek and women rights issues. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to communicate effectively and to use idioms and proverbs appropriately to work with Haitian co-workers on the ground without the need of an interpreter.
Course costs and other specifics are listed online. If you have any problems with registering online, please contact the registration office of Duke Continuing Studies at 1-866-338-3853.
Volunteer Opportunities with El Kilombo Community Organization
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/01/12 14:08:57
Volunteer with El Kilombo as an ESL teacher or basic computer skills teacher, helping kids with HW, supporting a kids' literacy class and other youth programs, providing childcare during free classes, maintaining our computer lab, assisting with translation/interpretation, or working to promote our monthly Latin dance benefit event. Please email info@elkilombo.org if interested preferably by Wed. Jan. 12.
El
Kilombo Intergalactico (www.elkilombo.org)
is an all-volunteer-run
nonprofit community center in Durham dedicated to bringing together
people
from student, migrant, low-income, and people of color communities to
strengthen our capacities for taking collective decisions on important issues
that affect us and
creating cooperative projects that address concrete needs in the areas
of
learning, health, housing, employment, and more.
VOLUNTEER NEEDS:We are seeking volunteers to assist with various
free programs offered
at our social center. Please see details below. All volunteers must
commit to volunteering at least 3-4 months. Start date can be Jan. 17, Jan.
24, or Jan. 31 (the earlier the better) with a required orientation
scheduled prior. Please email info@elkilombo.org if interested preferably by Wed. Jan. 12. A short application and interview will follow. Thank you for your interest!
English as a Second Language (ESL) Instructors: Volunteer with a unique adult-ESL program with a social-justice focus. Work with Spanish-speaking adults to learn vocabulary and basic
grammar and gain greater spoken proficiency with a curriculum relevant
to daily life concerns. Classes are scheduled twice a week in the
evening. Teachers must be able to commit 4-6 hours per week. Training
and supplies will be provided and no formal experience is necessary. Spanish language skills are not required but are helpful.
Homework Help Tutors:
Provide homework help to one or two consistent elementary, middle, or
high school-age student(s). A minimum 2-hour commitment twice a week
is expected.
Child Care Providers: Provide childcare
while parents are taking classes at the Center on a weekly basis.
Responsibilities include taking care of 3-5 children ranging in age
from 2-10 years old. Volunteer(s) must commit to an agreed upon
semester long regular schedule.
Kids' Literacy and Youth Program Helpers: Do you love working with
kids and helping them to learn to read in a supportive and fun way?
Volunteer to assist with an afterschool kids' literacy class once a
week focused on kids ages 6-10 years old. Or, do you have experience
working with middle school and high school youth? Volunteer to assist
with various youth-centered programs.
Computer Literacy Instructors: We
are looking for Spanish-language and English-language instructors for
beginning computer classes. Areas of instruction may include:
navigating the internet for practical uses like getting news, using
email, chat, paying bills, searching for information, uploading photos,
using social networking sites, office applications like Word, typing,
etc. Familiarity with open source software and/or LINUX/Ubuntu
operating systems a plus but not necessary.
Computer Maintenance Technician: Volunteer(s)
will be responsible for the basic maintenance of 6-10 computers and a
printer and ensuring that the lab is adequately equipped as a community
resource. Volunteer(s) must have familiarity with LINUX/Ubuntu
operating systems and be able to commit 2 hours a week. Additional
responsibilities may include: drafting recommendations for improvement
of the lab, overseeing the expansion and upgrade of computer
facilities, or special projects to meet the organization's other
technology needs.
Spanish/English Translators and Interpreters: Needed
for specific projects and/or as-needed basis. Written translation
includes flyers, handouts, articles, and website content. Interpreters
are needed for health service days and other community workshops or
events.
Dance Benefit Event Organizing Assistant: Help
organize and promote a monthly Latin Dance benefit as a fundraiser for
community programs. Responsibilities can include developing and
implementing marketing strategies (including contacting media outlets,
creating and distributing publicity materials, social networking),
forming partnerships, and assisting onsite during the event with setup
and with the welcome table.
MISSING REFLECTION - Pedro Lasch & Esther Gabara
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MISSING REFLECTION: A Collaborative Installation on Masking (Naturalizations Series) at at the Franklin Humanities Institute Gallery at C104, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse From December 9, 2010 - January 14, 2011. Directions & parking: go to http://fhi.duke.edu/about/smith-warehouse Questions? email fhi@duke.edu This photography and text-based installation is grounded in a series of workshops that Gabara and Lasch held in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti in the context of the first edition of The Ghetto Biennale, which took place between November 28 and December 18, 2009. Pedro Lasch is Assistant Professor of the Practice in the department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University who has shown his work internationally. Esther Gabara is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke. The group of works to be shown at the FHI is a collaborative project related to the recent Ghetto Biennale in Port au Prince, Haiti. Extensive information on Lasch’s work can be found at the artist's website.
The Chronicle: Brodhead Voices Support for DREAM Act
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/12/08 16:59:25
Brodhead voices support for DREAM Act
By Chronicle Staff
December 8, 2010
With the U.S. Senate expected to vote on a pro-immigration measure this week, President Richard Brodhead has expressed his support for the bill.
Brodhead wrote a letter to N.C. Sen. Kay Hagan yesterday to ask that she support the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. If passed, the bill would grant legal residential status to undocumented students who have met certain requirements, such as spending at least five years in the country before the legislation is passed.
See full article here: http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/article/brodhead-voices-support-dream-act
DukeEngage Applications Open: US/Mexico Border program to run for 4th summer
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/11/02 16:41:05
DukeEngage http://dukeengage.duke.edu/ provides full funding for select Duke undergraduates who wish to pursue an immersive summer of service in partnership with a U.S. or international community. The application period is now open for Summer '11 programs. With a focus on social justice related to immigration issues, the US/Mexico Border program based in Tucson, AZ will run again for the fourth summer. For more info, see: http://dukeengage.duke.edu/immersion-programs/domestic-programs/tucson-az.
The Chronicle: DREAM ACT, 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal fail to clear Senate
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/12/10 15:43:19
"The Senate failed to pass two major immigration and military policy measures Thursday..." Read the full article and comments here: http://dukechronicle.com/article/dream-act-don-t-ask-don-t-tell-repeal-fail-clear-senate
Beehive Collective Speakers, Allegorical Banners
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/11/23 14:51:29
An artist collaborative in Maine produces banners and posters
that dramatize current struggles and complex issues in our Americas
in a fashion that invites engagement and may be useful to those of us
who convene audiences from our busy community of students, educators
and the general public. Visit a 5 minute video
introducing their work and the 10th anniversary celebration now under way.
http://kck.st/gR2TfX
A sample of their posters/banners is the 1.5' x 6' Plan Colombia drawing at http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/store/posters_FABRIC.htm
Drawing on the ethical and historical foundations that inspired Diego Rivera and others, their work is an ambitious series of
- Jerry Markatos, Witness for Peace, SE
A Call to DREAM - By Duke Students for Humane Borders
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/12/13 11:49:58
The Chronicle - Monday, December 13th
"We're asking that you listen.
Hear that? It's the sound of 65,000 dreams dying to be fulfilled; the course of over two million lives to be decided in Congress in the coming days.
All of us at Duke view our education as a blessing (sometimes), but also as a right-one we oftentimes take for granted. We've never known the feeling that comes with slaving over our studies and holding down a job, while our families fight eviction and live in fear; applying to college and learning there is no 9-digit passkey to our future; earning our college diploma only to say, "Now what?"-not because we don't know whether to train for a profession or work for a few years, but because we're prohibited from doing either."
To read the full article, go HERE.
Deena Stryker: Photographs of Cuba 1963-1964
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/11/02 16:29:13
The exhibit can be viewed in the Duke's Perkins Library. It is in the Perkins Gallery, in the hallway outside of the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library. The exhibit will run through December 12th. For more information, contact karen.glynn@duke.edu.
November 25-30, 2010 - La Antorcha Guadalupana to Pass Through NC in Charlotte and Durham
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/11/25 15:54:10
The International Run Carrera Antorcha Guadalupana Mexico-New York is a relay run from Mexico City to New York that brings together two nations and thousands of families divided by the border. Departing from the most sacred place in Mexico, the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the torch passes through various states where families of immigrants reside. In this run, family members of Mexican immigrants carry a torch from, Mexico which will be touched later on by their relatives who live in the New York City area. The torch departed from Mexico City on October 3rd and is scheduled to arrive in NYC on December 12.
To follow the progress of the Antorcha, visit the Facebook Page.
For a full schedule of the dates and US cities that the Antorcha will visit, click HERE.
International Fall Book Launches and Exhibitions for 'Black Mirror / Espejo Negro' by Pedro Lasch
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/11/09 15:01:58
Following the production of the first segment of Pedro Lasch's project for the AND AND AND Platform of Documenta 13 in September (http://www.documenta.de/andandand30.html?&L=1), we are pleased to announce the international launch of the artist's first book "Black Mirror / Espejo Negro."
The book will be launched in several sites, including on the following date and place in Durham, NC, USA.
Durham, NC, USA: Wednesday November 10, 6-8pm, East Duke Building Gallery at Duke University.
In conjunction with an exhibition of photographs from the 'Black Mirror / Espejo Negro' suites (Nov 4, 2010 - Mar 13, 2011). http://www.duke.edu/web/art/
Copies of the bilingual book will be available for purchase at all launches. There will also be order forms to make orders by mail or online.
For more information or updates on launches, visit either of these two links:
http://www.pedrolasch.com/blog/ (Black Mirror or Events category)
or
http://www.espejonegro.com/
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Black Mirror/Espejo Negro
Pedro Lasch, editor
The provocative three-part project Black Mirror/Espejo Negro by the artist Pedro Lasch encompasses a museum installation, photographs of the installation, and this bilingual book, including many of the photos, the artist's statement, and critical commentaries. The project began as an installation commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to accompany the exhibition El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III. In a gallery adjacent to the exhibit of Spanish Golden Age masterpieces, Lasch placed black rectangular mirrors on the walls, each with an image of a Spanish Renaissance painting behind it. Pre-Columbian stone and ceramic figures, chosen by Lasch from the museum's permanent collection of Meso-Ameri- can art, stood on pedestals facing toward each mirror and away from visitors entering the room. Viewers were drawn into a meditation on colonialism and spectatorship when, on looking into the black mirrors, they saw the pre-Columbian figures, seventeenth and eighteenth-century Spanish priests and conquistadores, themselves, and the contemporary gallery environment. The book Black Mirror/Espejo Negro includes full-color reproductions of thirty-nine photographs of the installation, as well as the text that Lasch wrote to accompany it. In short essays, scholars reflect on Lasch's work in relation to current debates in art history and visual studies, race discourse, pre-Columbian studies, postcolonial theory, and de-colonial thought.
Contributors. Srinivas Aravamudan, Jennifer A. Gonzalez, Pedro Lasch, Arnaud Maillet, Walter Mignolo, Pete Sigal.
Publication of the Nasher Museum of art at Duke University ana the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University, with additional support from the Joan Mitchell Foundation
2010. 128 pages, 41 color illustrations
978-0-938989-34-9, hardcover $35.00
Bilingual Edition (English - Spanish)
DREAM Act to be Voted on in the House as Soon as Nov 29th
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/11/18 16:27:07
"Washington, DC - Speaking to several hundred Hispanic leaders at the Latino Leaders Network luncheon today, Congresswoman Nydia Velasquez announced that Speaker Pelosi has tentatively set November 29th for a vote on the Dream Act. If the vote is not taken on Monday, it could still be considered any day that week said informed sources. Velasquez was honored at the luncheon for her leadership of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute."
For Full Article, Click HERE.
Durham City Council Recognizes Mexican IDs
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/11/18 17:06:15
The Durham City Council voted 5-2 to accept Mexican Consulate IDs (matricula consular) as a valid document for identification. This new policy is foreseen to avoid unnecessary detention by authorities when and if an individual carrying no other form of identification but a matricula is stopped.
Duke sophomore Alejandro Bolivar covered the story in the Duke Chronicle on Tuesday. To read his full article, click HERE.
ARTiculating Caribbean Imaginaries: Four Caribbean Artists
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/10/22 12:20:26
Artists:
Christopher Cozier
Mario Marzan
Fausto Ortiz
Gelsy Verna
Curated by Michaeline Crichlow
October 21 - December 3, 2010
Franklin Humanities Institute Gallery
C104, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
Opening Reception: Thursday October 21, 4:30 PM
Dialogue With Exhibition Artist Fausto Ortiz: Friday October 22, 3:30 PM
Curator Statement: The Caribbean artists here articulate a visual poetics about their places in the world, and the world in their spaces. They engage in a visual reading of their experiences of place from various locations, within the region and without. The work of artists, Gelsy Verna, Haitian-Canadian, who 2 years ago, left us prematurely, Trinidadian, Christopher Cozier, Puerto Rican, Mario Marzan and Fausto Ortiz of La Republica Dominicana engage particular tropes common to the region's socio-cultural practices, its imaginations and its dire ecological and geo-political contexts . These heterogeneous expressions share a common sensibility which is expressed, or so it seems, as a prominent statement about liminal movements- a dwelling in movement- and shape-shifting identities that disclose agonistic existences with things as they are, or have become in an era of entanglement and vulnerability. Caribbean homes are vulnerable spaces. Homes may offer comfort, but in the face of the region's terrors- hurricanes, earthquakes, natural or sociopolitical disasters, (sometimes occurring simultaneously) and domestic violences-they offer no such guarantees of place. If the Caribbean is a "location of unending journeys," as Cozier suggests, then these articulations map the routes of the region's paradoxical imaginaries. They provide a way to locate something that seems always elusive and incoherent. Like creolization itself these imaginaries lend expression to a Caribbeanness in motion, in tension and often in violent articulations.
Curator Michaeline Crichlow is Associate Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Duke University.
This is the first show in a year-long exhibition series at the FHI focusing on contemporary African American, Caribbean, and Diaspora Arts. Please visit our website for a complete schedule: https://fhi.duke.edu/projects/gallery-programs
Questions? email fhi@duke.edu
Duke Program Takes Latinas to the Mat
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/10/14 20:52:41
From The Herald Sun, 10-11-10:
DURHAM -- When an 8-year-old Latina girl said that her yoga sessions at Duke University had made her feel "brand new," that was a "wow moment" for Bonnie McManus. Read full article about Duke Spanish Service -Learning at work in the community: http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/9864722/article-Duke-program-takes-Latinas-to-the-yoga-mat
Spring 2011 Duke in L.A. Application Deadline Extended
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/10/12 16:30:12
The Deadline for the Spring 2011 Duke in Los Angeles Study Away Application has been extended to October 22, 2010.
Taught in its new version for the first time this coming Spring, Duke in LA is now taking advantage of all the incredible opportunities, people, resources, and places that Los Angeles has to offer to students of Latino/a Studies, and Latin American Studies (while also maintaining its 10 year history of work in film, and media production). If you want to ask any questions to involved faculty, you can email Pedro Lasch (pedro.lasch@duke.edu) or Esther Gabara (egabara@duke.edu). For more information on the program, please visit the Program Overview page on the Global Education website.
If you are interested in the Spring 2011 Duke in LA program, please start your application by going to the Global Education Office website and clicking on “MyGlobalEd." The application deadline is Friday, October 22, but the faculty directors will be making decisions on complete applications well before that date.
If you have any questions about the program or the application process, please contact Jennifer Valentyn (Program Assistant) at jmd5@duke.edu or at (919) 684-1960.
Univison 40's "Nuestra Juventud" Scholarships
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/10/01 10:39:54
Every year, Univision 40 grants the "Nuestra Juventud" Scholarships ($1,000) to seven seniors who want to pursue a higher education in either a two- or four-year college. The application deadline is October 15. Call 919-872-7440 or send an email to juventud40@univison.net with questions. The scholarship recognizes the academic achievement and leadership qualities among Hispanic High School Seniors in the WVUVC-Univision 40 viewing area. In addition to their scholarships, each student is highlighted on air for a whole month on Univision 40.
Eligibility: Candidates must be entering the 12th grade, must be applying to a college/university in the fall of 2011 and must be of Hispanic descent.
Criteria: The winners will be chosen based on Leadership, Academic Achievement, Hardship and Character.
Application process: Candidates must submit a copy of a school certified report card; a completed application; answers to the questions on the application (no more than three pages may be used to answer the questions) and a senior picture.
Scholarship Award: All scholarship awards will be sent directly to the college/university. Failure to enroll in the Fall 2011 will result in forfeiture of the scholarship.
Holy Mole! The Spirit of Food and the People Behind It
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/10/01 12:28:35
This exhibit will be on display at Golden Belt in Room 100, Building 3 through October 10. The gallery is free and open to the public 10am-7pm.
Curated by Peter Eversoll, this exhibit merges social commentary with documentary realism. In addition to Eversoll's work, the exhibit includes Kelsey Zyvoloski's images with a video screening and additional photographs taken by a group of North Carolina farmworker teenagers.
The exhibit highlight the disparity between Latino farmworkers and the food they produce. To find out more about the exhibit, see the Chronicle's article, "Holy Mole! investigates the labor of food."
UNCG - Atlantic World Conference
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/10/08 13:45:59
The Atlantic World Literacies Conference will take place at UNCG October 7-9. Click here for a program. Julio Ortega, a renowned Hispanist from Peru and professor at Brown University, will be one of the keynote speakers. Other panels will have a Latin America/Hispanic transatlantic content.
"Duke Students Rally in Support of DREAM Act"
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/10/07 16:24:29
Duke Students for Humane Borders, a student organization led by students who participated in the DukeEngage Tucson summer program, has been raising awareness for the DREAM Act. In September, the group organized "die-ins" on the BC Plaza and in front of the Marketplace on East Campus. For more details, read the complete article that made the front page of the Chronicle on Monday, September, 27.
"Your Time is Up: What rights do undocumented immigrants have when they become crime victims?"
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/10/01 13:08:10
The Independent published an interesting article by Rebekah Cowell on Wednesday, September 22, about an undocumented immigrant's dilemma as a crime victim. A man claiming to be an ICE agent blackmailed the young woman and is now sentenced to prison.
Great Fall Courses, including 1 Brand New and Intro to LSGS
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/07/20 14:57:14
Check out the Fall 2010 course offerings in Latino/a Studies. Included are a BRAND NEW course on autobiography/memoir -LSGS 181S.03 "Latina/o Autobiography/Memoir" taught by Prof Claudia Milian as well as our CERTIFICATE INTRO course - LSGS 100S.01 "Intro to Latino/a Studies in the Global South" taught by Prof Gosin. In addition, there are a few spaces left in both LSGS 181S.02 - "Cuban America, Exile, Melancholia and Mourning" with Prof Viego and SPAN181S.01 - "Theorizing Latinidad" with Prof Milian.
Click here for our complete Fall 2010 course list.
The Sea is History Exhibit Through Aug 31 at Marine Lab
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/07/20 15:46:48
The Sea is History: Moun Kantè, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros The Duke University Libraries, the Nicholas Institute, and the Duke Marine Lab invite you to an exhibit of art, photographs & text documenting Cuban, Haitian & Dominican sea migration, 1960-2010. Please join us for "Sea as A Means of Escape from Political and Economic Hardship" a discussion by Holly Ackerman and Margaret Brown of Duke University at the North Carolina Maritime Museum, followed by an exhibit reception at the Duke Marine Lab campus on Pivers Island in Beaufort. When: July 23rd (opening reception) -August 31, 2010 Where: Marguerite Kent Repass Ocean Conservation Center (Leed certified) on the campus of Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment Marine Laboratory Visit the exhibit online: http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/seaishistory Sponsored in part by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University.
2 Program Coordinators sought by Duke Center for Multicultural Affairs
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/07/20 15:39:27
The Duke Center for Multicultural Affairs has launched a search for two Program Coordinator positions for our office. Program Coordinator will be expected to be knowledgeable of the histories, cultural and developmental issues of Native American, African American, Latino-American, South Asian American, East Asian American and South East Asian American ethnic communities. In addition the Program Coordinator will be expected to provide a comprehensive program of services in the areas of community engagement, multicultural education and leadership development to empower students and their organizations to create an inclusive multicultural student community. This individual will also offer student club/organization advising, design experiential training in diversity education and multicultural competency to prepare students to participate in a complex global community Interested applicants should apply online through the Duke Human Resources website http://www.hr.duke.edu/jobs/apply/index.php and find job requisition 400413331.
Bilingual Volunteers needed: El Kilombo Intergalactico in Durham
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/07/20 15:32:56
El Kilombo Intergalactico (www.elkilombo.org) is an all-volunteer run nonprofit organization in Durham dedicated to bringing together people from student, migrant, low-income, and people of color communities to tackle the challenges we face in Durham, NC. We challenge unjust arrangements by strengthening democratic and collective decision-making capacities and forming cooperative projects focused on concrete needs in the areas of learning, health, housing, and employment.
IMMEDIATE VOLUNTEER NEED: Spanish Interpreters for Free Vision Screenings: We are seeking Spanish-interpreters at El Kilombo on Saturday, July 24, noon-4pm to interpret for doctors conducting free vision screenings for early detection of eye diseases (e.g. glaucoma, cataracts, etc.). Volunteer for a minimum of one 2-2.5 hour shift. Email elkilombo@gmail.com.
FALL VOLUNTEER NEEDS: We are seeking volunteers to assist with various free programs offered at our social center, including ESL, computer literacy, translation and interpretation, and homework help among other needs. All volunteers must commit to volunteering at least 4 months. Start date is the week of September 13, with required orientations and trainings scheduled prior. Please email elkilombo@gmail.com if interested.
Professor Dorfman delivers Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Joahnnesburg
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/08/04 14:25:29
Duke Professor, acclaimed author, and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivered a thought-provoking lecture, the eighth in the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture series, at the Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg. His talk, entitled, "Whose Memory? Whose Justice? A Meditation on How and When and If to Reconcile", drew on his own experiences during times of unrest, oppression and reconciliation in Chile , drawing parallels with those of Nelson Mandela, and of South Africa as a whole, during and after apartheid. Continue reading and listen to the full lecture at: http://www.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/news/article/video_of_the_eighth_nelson_mandela_annual_lecture/
Pedro Lasch art on display
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/07/20 16:04:16
Pedro Lasch (Asst Research Prof in Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke) currently has a map project on display in New York: 'Latino/a America' is included as part of "An Atlas of Radical Cartography" in the PS1/MoMA exhibition Greater New York (May 23-October 18) http://www.ps1.org. More info at: http://www.pedrolasch.com/blog/2010/07/01/ps1moma-greater-new-york/ In addition, his 9/11 and World Trade Center related project 'Phantom Limbs' has recently recieved its first public viewing at the 2010 Goldsmiths MFA Exhibition in London. This installation consists of 8 finished paintings from the series. For images and more info on the project, visit: http://www.pedrolasch.com/blog/2010/07/01/phantom-limbs-london-2010/. For more information on the Goldsmiths exhibition, visit the site: http://www.goldsmiths2010.com/.
May 21, 2010 - Latino/a Art Exhibit "Necessary Fictions" to show in Durham
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Exhibit from May 21 to July 11, 2010
Opening Reception: May 21st 6-9PM
Golden Belt Building 3, Room 100,
807 East Main Street, Durham. Click here for map.
In the first decade of the 21st century the U.S. Southeast was the region with the fastest growing Latina/o population, a phenomenon that has rapidly transformed the cultural landscape of states like North Carolina. Yet Latina/o, like many umbrella terms of identification, is a fiction that simultaneously obscures and highlights difference. Amongst Latinas/os identification according to national origin often prevails because "Latina/o" brings together individuals with different histories, from different countries, who speak different languages and dialects, and who represent diverse cultural and ethnic heritages. Yet in relation to the larger U.S. population, the term is often deployed in order to allow diverse peoples who identify as Latina/o the opportunity to look beyond their particular differences, to organize around common causes, and to celebrate shared experiences and cultural affinities.
Simply put, Latina/o means different things to different people.
Necessary Fictions explores negotiations of what Latina/o can mean by bringing together the work of six artists from North Carolina and beyond, each with their own particular reflections on Latinidad expressed in painting, mixed media, sculpture, video installation, photography, and performance.
Curated by Mario Marzan and John Ribo. For more information, contact John Ribo at jdribo@email.unc.edu.
April 30, 2010 - NYTimes: Arizona's Governor signs stringent immigration law
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/05/04 13:22:35
On Friday, April 23, Arizona became the first state to allow local law enforcement to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. The law also dictates that failure to carry immigration documents is a crime. Read the full article by clicking here.
April 14, 2010 - NY Times Editorial on 287g Immigration Reform
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/04/14 14:48:43
On Thursday, April 8, The New York Times published a new editorial in its current line of columns focusing on immigration. The article describes and condemns the 287g law, which deputizes local law enforcement officers so they may act on behalf of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. For the full article, click here.
Volunteers for Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW)
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/03/23 14:37:24
How can you volunteer for LSRW?
1. Host -We can never have too many hosts, so if you are interested in hosting a student for the weekend, please complete the attached host reply form and email it back to angie.reid@duke.edu immediately so we can invite as many students as possible. Registered hosts are required to attend a mandatory LSRW host meeting; details will be sent as we get closer to the program.
2. Sign up to be at the MCC in the BC on Thursday April 8th, to help orient the P-frosh, introduce them to their hosts, talk to them. (1 Hour shifts)
3. Sign up to be next to admissions at the registration desk on Thursday April 8th in the Bryan Center helping kids sign in and put their luggage away. (1 hour shifts)
Here's the link.
For more information, contact aileen.joa@duke.edu
Course Development Awards: Latino/a Studies in the Global South
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/03/23 14:23:44
The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South invites Duke faculty and instructors to submit course-development proposals to establish new US Latino Studies-related curricula. This competition offers up to two awards at the undergraduate level, each in the amount of $3,000.
Award recipients are expected to create a new course syllabus and to teach the course at least three times in the six years following the award, thereby insuring that a large number of students benefit from the faculty member's work in curriculum development. Click here for more details.
Questions and applications may be addressed to Jenny Snead Williams, Executive Director of the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, at jennysw@duke.edu.
NEWS: Workshop on Latino Hip Hop set for March 19th
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/03/06 10:56:55
Dislocated Performances: Reimagining Latino Hip-Hop in the 21st Century
Conference featuring Hip Hop activist and radio host Rosa Clemente; Pancho McFarland, author of Chicano Rap (2008); Jose Munoz, author of Disidentifications (1999); Mark Anthony Neal , co-editor of That's the joint! The Hip Hop Studies Reader (2004); Raquel Z. Rivera, author of New York Ricans from the Hip hop zone (2003) and co-editor of Reggaeton (2009); and Alexandra T. Vazquez who has published articles on Graciela, the "First Lady of Afro-Cuban Jazz" ( Women & Performance), Ivy Queen (Reggaeton), and the vocalists of Latin Freestyle (Social Text 102).
Sponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
For more information, visit this link.
March 02, 2010 - Latino Student Recruitment Weekend Help Needed
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/03/02 14:14:17
If you would like to help out in Duke's Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW), please email mezcla2010@gmail.com or aileen.joa@duke.edu or join the Facebook group!
Job opening: Assistant Dean and Advisor to Latina/o Students, Dartmouth College
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/12/03 12:56:05
Dartmouth College is looking to hire an Assistant Dean and Advisor to Latina/o Students, permanent full-time position. For more information on this and other opportunities at Dartmouth College and to
apply on-line, go to http://jobs.dartmouth.edu. Please refer to position
#0599101. All applications require a resume and cover letter. Reviews will
begin immediately.
Dartmouth College, an Ivy League Institution located in Hanover, New Hampshire, seeks an innovative, organized and flexible professional to join the Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL) as an Assistant Dean and Advisor to Latina/o Students. This multi-dimensional position includes, but is not limited to:
* Student Advising and Mentoring
* Leadership Development
* Program & Event Management
* Student Advocacy
* Assessment, Consultation & Training
The right person will bring to Dartmouth College the following experience:
* Master's degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience
* Demonstrated knowledge of Latina/o culture and undergraduate Latina/o student experiences including successes and challenges in higher education
* History of effectively mentoring and advising Latina/o students and organizations
* Background in multicultural and social justice education and leadership development
* An ability to be flexible as part of a dynamic reorganization in student
affairs
In return, Dartmouth College can offer the right individual:
* An intellectually stimulating environment
* The opportunity to work collaboratively with an innovative and passionate team of social justice oriented professionals
* A competitive and comprehensive compensation package which includes medical and dental insurance, retirement plans, employee tuition assistance, etc.
We invite interested candidates to learn more about the Office of Pluralism and Leadership's mission, values, and program highlights by visiting our website at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~opal
Dartmouth College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
January 19, 2010 - Welcome Visting Mellon Professor Jean Casimir!
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/01/27 14:42:11
Professor Jean Casimir is a Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the University of Haiti, where he teaches courses on culture and society of Haiti and the Caribbean. He received his formal training in Sociology and Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), with a particular focus on studies of social change and development. He earned his PhD from UNAM. He has held research and teaching positions in the Congo, Brazil, and Mexico. He has also held various positions with the United Nations, including among others United Nations Social Affairs Officer, and a position with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, all the while continuing his academic studies on Haiti. More recently, he served as Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States for approximately 10 years. His publications include the books La Cultura Oprimida (1980), La Caraibe, une et divisible (English version The Caribbean: One and Divisible, 1992), Ayiti Toma, Haiti Chérie (2000), Pa Bliye 1804, Souviens-toi de 1804 (2004), and Libète, Egalite…sou wout fratènite, Liberté, Égalité…en route vers la Fraternité (2005), as well as countless book chapters and articles on Haitian culture, history and development.
He will be teaching two courses at Duke in Spring 2010:
LATAMER 199S.01 Formation of Haitian
Society and Culture, MW
10:05 – 11:20 am
(crosslisted as ICS 140.01, SOCIOL 195S.01, POLSCI 199BS.01)
and
LATAMER 200S.01 Haiti
in the 20th
Century, Tuesdays 2:50-5:20 pm (team-taught with Laurent Dubois)
(cross-listed as FRN 252S.01, HST 299S.02, SOCIOL 299S.02,
ICS 299S.02)
Contact CLACS for more information.
Duke organizes to provide relief to earthquake victims in Haiti
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/01/19 14:04:39
MLK Meal Packaging Event -- All meals packaged by Duke, North Carolina Central University, Southern High School, and Durham Rotary at the 2010 MLK Meal Packaging Event* with Stop Hunger Now will be sent to Haiti. Stop Hunger Now has already sent one and half million packages before the earthquake hit. For more information on how you can help, visit http://civicengagement.duke.edu/main/opportunities/2010/01/13/how-can-you-help-earthquake-hits-port-au-prince-haiti.
January 06, 2010 - Latino Leaders Use Churches to Push Census Bid
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/01/19 14:04:28
From the New York Times:
Latino Leaders Use Churches to Push Census Bid
A nationwide drive urging Latinos- especially illegal immigrants- to participate in next year's census is focusing on evangelical churches this Christmas season.
Check out the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/us/23latino.html.
Latino/a Studies welcomes new PostDoc Associate
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/01/27 14:40:13
Monika Gosin earned a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) with a dissertation titled Reframing the Nation: The Afro-Cuban Challenge to Black and Latino struggles for American Identity. Her research has been supported by several awards, including a Dissertation Fellowship from the Center for Citizenship, Race and Ethnicity Studies (CREST) from the College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY; the UC-CUBA Academic Initiative; and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity (UCSD). Her current research focuses on the intersections of immigration, blackness, and Latinidad in the lives and media representations of Afro Cubans in the United States, and African American/Latino relations. Monika has published previously in the area of race and health, and an adaption of one of her dissertation chapters has been accepted as part of an anthology titled Hemispheric Cuban Studies: Reflections on Politics, Race and Culture, under review by Ediciones Callejon, Puerto Rico. Gosin’s research and teaching interests include Latino and Africana studies, race and gender in popular culture and media, and intergroup relations. Gosin has B.A. degrees in Social Science and in Spanish Literature from the University of California, Irvine, and an M.A. in Sociology from Arizona State University.
Professor Gosin will be teaching an undergraduate course titled, "Latino/a Hip Hop: Representation and Resistance" during Spring, 2010. The course will be listed under LSGS 150S and will be cross-listed with AAAS, Spanish, and Cultural Antrhopology. A brief description follows: This course will examine Hip Hop as a tool for self-representation and resistance among Latino/as in the United States in the context of histories of colonization, im/migration, and activism. The course highlights the integral role of Puerto Rican youth in Hip Hop’s creation; examines the role of Hip Hop as an expression of Chicano politics; explores the influence of cultural expressions from the Spanish speaking Caribbean; and investigates what Hip Hop reveals about the linkages between US Latino/a and African American communities. Through an examination of the politics of Latino Hip Hop as a cultural production, the course emphasizes a critical analysis of the racial, gendered, and linguistic politics that shape Latino/a lives. Curriculum codes ALP; SS, CCI; and W will likely be attached to this course. Since this is a seminar, only 18 seats are available; undergraduates should plan to sign up early.
(Note that our Intro to Latino/a Studies, LSGS100S, will also be taught in the Spring by Prof Viego at a non-conflicting day/time.)
Office Location: 222 Friedl Building
Office Hours: For Fall, please e-mail to set up an appointment.
Office Phone: 919-668-1945 Email Address: monika.gosin@duke.edu.
December 15, 2009 - Durham Non-Proft seeks Local Spanish-Speaking Latinas
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/12/15 14:31:05
StoriesWork, a non-profit Durham-based organization, is looking for bilingual volunteers (English and Spanish) to assist in Interactive Storytelling programs for the local Hispanic population. We are expanding our cadre of Spanish-speaking storytellers to meet an increasing demand for services. Currently we are working with Latina (mainly Mexican) women who are survivors of domestic violence. We anticipate future programs to address other critical issues. StoriesWork provides training in Interactive Storytelling for volunteers and makes storytelling assignments based on our schedules and the availability of the volunteers.
For more information contact Lenora Ucko at 919-401-0801.
December 01, 2009 - El Centro Latino in Orange County Closes Its Doors
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/12/09 15:44:56
El Centro Latino, located in Carrboro, closed its door late last month due to financial concerns. The News and Observer (11/27/09) reports:
"In a release, board members said the agency has facedreduced grant funds and individual donations, leadership and staff transitions, as well as the economic recession.
The board will host a community meeting in January to discuss plans for the future of the organization and how to best meet the needs of the Latino community of Orange County. Details about the meeting will be sent out at a later date."
For the full article, click here. For more information, contact eclcarrboro@gmail.com or call Paula Gildner at 919-966-0465.
November 18, 2009 - 2009 NC Latin American Film Festival continues
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/11/16 12:47:05
Check out the calendar for the 22nd Latin American Film Festival: http://22ndfilmfestivalnc.googlepages.com/%C2%A02009calendar.
Contact dukeclacs@gmail.com with any questions.
November 10, 2009 - Call for Papers: Latinos in the US South
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/11/09 13:05:45
Deadline: November 15, 2009
Latino Studies, in cooperation with the University of Alabama, invites proposals for a special issue on Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. South, with a general focus on inter-ethnic/inter-racial relations. The purpose of this special issue is to explore and highlight the growing social,political and cultural significance of Latinos in the region referred to as the Nuevo New South.
Successful proposal writers will be invited to submit article-length papers and participate in a conference and workshop to be held at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, on February 19-20, 2010.
Please send proposals no longer than 5 pages by email attachment to Suzanne Oboler, Editor, Latino Studies, at latstu@jjay.cuny.edu.
October 28, 2009 - Latino/a Studies Courses Posted on ACES
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/11/02 12:52:29
Spring 2010 Latino/a Studies Courses Posted:
LSGS 100: Introduction to Latino/a Studies, MW 1:15-2:30 PM
LSGS 150S: Latina Hip Hop, TR 11:40-12:55 PM (limited space!)
Sign up for these exciting courses to add a little spice to the upcoming semester! Check out the courses tab for more info.
October 28, 2009 - November 3, 2009: El Dia de los Muertos Altar in Friedl
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/11/04 17:22:43
Come check out the Program in Latino/a Studies Dia de los Muertos' altar on the table outside room 223, Friedl Bldg, East Campus. Please bring pictures and small objects to commerate those we have lost this year as they make their journey to el mundo de los espiritus. Feel free to leave a note on the post-it notes provided. The exhibit will be up through November 4th.
To learn more about Dia de Los Muertos in the United States, click here. For more information on the Latino/a Studies altar, contact Allie at aah13@duke.edu.
October 21, 2009 - Gladys Mitchell: "Racializing Blackness and Black Linked Fate in Salvador and Sao Paulo, Brazil"
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2:30-4:00 PM, Friedl 225, Duke East Campus. Join the Duke Department of African and African American Studies in celebrating their first event for the 2009-2010 speaker series, Gladys Mitchell of the REGSS network.
October 15, 2009 - at UNC-CH: Changing Priorities for the World: A Grassroots Perspective from the Carribean World
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Thursday, October 15, 6:30pm
Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building Auditorium, Room 136
This year's annual Weiss Lecture in Women's Studies features Andaiye, a campaigner for social justice in the Caribbean for over 40 years,
co-founder and International Secretary of Red Thread in Guyana, a member of Women of Colour in the Global Women's Strike. Andaiye will speak of her work on social justice and women's empowerment in the ethnically-riven Guyanese context.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies, The Stone Center, The Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke, The Afro-Latino Working Group UNC/Duke, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and the Carolina Women's Center.
Latino Portrait Project: Call for Submissions
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/09/04 13:40:41
The Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies at Duke University calls you artists/community members/students/film makers to reveal what it means to be who you are. Latino Portrait is a project encouraging people in the Americas to share their vision of who they are. It is also a venue to show what Latino/as produced in audio visual terms. Made a personal essay, a short story, a video inteview or video-collage, anything you want (use photos, real footage, mix them, etc.). Contestants may enter by submitting a five (5) minute video (maximum) to the Latino Portrait Project. The selected videos will be screened previous to the films participating in the 2009 NC Latin American Film Festival, on November 2009. Guidelines: Latino Portrait is open to anyone. However, participants age 18 or younger must have written parental consent to participate and /or submit a video. Video Submission: 1. Please limit running time to five minutes. Please submit as DVD of (or) CD with your video in QuickTime (mov), Windows Media Video (wmv), or MPEG (mpg or mpeg) format. / or send it via youtube 2. All pieces must be original, and may not include images under copyright 3. Videos with a running time of more than five (5) minutes will be eliminated or edited (with consent of the author) 4. All entries must include the printed or online entry form clearly filled out. The video has to be clearly labeled with the name of the entrant. 5. All video submissions must be received by October 10th 2009.
For submission form and more information, email dukeclacs@gmail.com.
September 22, 2009 - Montoya exhibit's close sparks death penalty debate
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/10/12 12:43:26
The September 16th closing of the controversial Malaquias Montoya exhibit, Premediated: Meditations on the Death Penalty, brought to light issues surrounding the death penalty for several members of Duke community. Check out the Chronicle article below for more information:
For the past seven months, students
walking in and out of the Friedl building might have met something
unexpected—images of inmates being lynched, sitting in electric chairs
and awaiting their ultimate deaths.
PreMeditated: Meditations on Capital Punishment, an anti-death
penalty exhibit by award-winning Chicano artist Malaquias Montoya, has
been on display in the Fredric Jameson Gallery since March and
officially closed Wednesday night. The exhibit consists of works of
acrylic paint, murals, drawings and silkscreens–Montoya’s signature
style.
To commemorate the exhibit’s closing, the Program in Latino/Latina
Studies in the Global South and the Duke Human Rights Center
co-sponsored a reception with the Innocence Project at the School of
Law, the Duke chapter of Amnesty International and the North Carolina
Coalition for a Moratorium. Durham’s state Sen. Floyd McKissick and
Darryl Hunt, a man exonerated in 2004 after spending 19 years in
prison, spoke at the event.
“There were so many other innocent men and women [in jail], and I am
trembling because I am still affected by these pictures. I have been
there and I was not on death row, but I am looking here and it just
makes me sick to think about how close I came to being on death row,”
said Hunt, who said he was only one jury vote away from being sentenced
to death.
Sophomore Carrie Mills said although the works of art were amazing,
she most appreciated listening to Hunt describe his experiences in
prison.
“I have never met anybody in person who has endured that,” Mills
said. “And his sheer grace and the way that he spoke was magnificent.”
Both Hunt and McKissick took questions from the audience. During the
discussion forum, McKissick said it would be more cost-effective to
disperse resources to systems that prevent criminal activity as opposed
to spending high amounts on maximum-security prisons, an idea that
Montoya emphasizes in his exhibit.
“We create the situations that lead our children to commit monstrous
acts and then we kill them,” the opening display of the exhibit states.
McKissick discussed the North Carolina Racial Justice Act. which he
sponsored and which North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue signed into law Aug.
11. The law allows inmates currently on death row to argue that the
jury’s decision to pursue the death penalty was racially biased. If
successful, inmates can be removed from death row.
Robin Kirk, director of the Duke Human Rights Center, said the
center hopes the recent passage of the law will be a move in the
direction of eliminating the death penalty in North Carolina. Even if
actual abolition of the death penalty is years away, Kirk said the
event was important because it showed that the death penalty is a human
rights issue, something she said many of her students do not understand.
“I think too often Americans think that human rights are something
that happens somewhere else, and that we don’t have issues with human
rights,” Kirk said in an interview. “But I think the problem is that we
do, and the death penalty is one of the main areas that Americans need
to be thinking about if we want to become a rights-friendly country.”
The Latino/Latina Studies program brought the exhibit to Duke, but
Antonio Viego, the faculty director of the program, said program
leaders met with other University departments before acquiring the
exhibit, as many of Montoya’s images could be considered disturbing.
“We agreed that no, this was actually something that was extremely
interesting and more thought-provoking regardless of what your stance
is,” Viego said.
Currently, the exhibit—which has appeared in 13 venues in eight
states—is awaiting its next host site, and officials are currently in
talks with the Oakland Museum in Oakland, Calif.
September 21, 2009 - Latino/a Studies will cover up to 2 more registration fees for Hispanic Acheivement Conference
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2010/02/09 14:15:59
Latino/a Studies will cover up to 2 more registration fees for Hispanic Achievement Conference at Meredith College. The conference is sponsored by the North Carolina Society of Hispanic Professionals on October 9th and will cover themes of Latino achievement in education. For more information about the conference themes, click here.
Contact Jenny Snead-Williams (jennysw@duke.edu) for information about registration fees.
Workplace raids continue, NYTimes reports
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/09/21 16:11:23
New York Times reporter Lawrence Downes reports on the continued raids of apple orchards in upstate New York, bringing the immigration crisis once again under the microscope. Click here to see full text.
Major issues, major reform: News & Observer Op-Ed
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/09/18 15:21:05
George Reed, executive director of the NC Council of Churches and Chris Beers, who works for the Council specifically on immigration issues, write in concerning the hassle of current immigration reform debate. Click here for full text.
October 10, 2009 - Latino/a Studies @ Duke on Facebook!
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/10/28 16:48:23
Come find us on Facebook to check up on news and events about the Program and surrounding Latino community. Hazte fan. [more]
Through Sept 16: Montoya's "Pre-Meditated" exhibit on display
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/09/04 13:45:54
The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South presents the exhibit, PREMEDITATED: MEDITATIONS ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT by MALAQUIAS MONTOYA, in the Fredric Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building, Room 115, Duke East Campus.
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 hours are 10am - 4pm Mon-Friday. Fall hours are to be determined.
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 Texas in recent years. As Montoya states, "We have perfected the art of institutional killing to the degree that it has deadened our national, quintessentially human, response to death. I want to produce a body of work depicting the horror of this act."
Since 1989 Montoya has been a professor at the University of California, Davis. His classes, through the Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Art, include silkscreening, poster making and mural painting, and focus on Chicano culture and history. He is credited by historians as being one of the founders of the "social serigraphy" movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-1960s. His visual expressions, art of protest, depict the struggle and strength of humanity and the necessity to unite behind that struggle. Like many Chicano artists of his generation, Montoya's art is rooted in the tradition of the Taller de Grafica Popular, the Mexican printmakers of the 1920s, 30s and 40s, whose work expressed the need for social and political reform for the Mexican underprivileged. Montoya's work uses powerful images that are combined with text to create his socially critical messages.
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.
Dia de Los Muertos Exhibition curated by Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Galvez
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/09/04 13:41:10
For its inaugural exhibition THE LoDi PROJECT is asking artists to address the theme of Dia de los Muertos, which is a traditional Latin American festival that honors and celebrates the lives of family and friends who have gone before us. Traditional and non-traditional styles and media are welcome, including but not limited to: water color, oil, and acrylic painting, drawing, pastels, mixed media, fabric, printmaking, aerosol, collage, photography,digital illustrations, and graphics, etc.
Deadlines: September 9-- mailed in entries
September 14-- online entries
The exhibit will provide a unique opportunity for those unfamiliar with this
tradition to learn how countries throughout Latin American celebrate this day,
which is commonly known in other cultures as All Souls Day.
To download a full prospectus visit us at...
http://thelodiproject.com/diadelosmuertos.html
5% of the proceeds from this exhibit will go to Student Action with Farmworkers
September 30, 2009 - Conference on Latino Education and Immigrant Integration: LS will cover 4 early bird fees
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/09/14 00:48:08
The Program in Latino/a Studies at Duke University will cover the early bird registration fee ($150) for up to four Duke students, faculty, and/or staff members who would like to attend/present at the Immigration Conference on Latino Education and Immigrant Integration, to be held in Athens GA from Oct 26-28th. Full information on conference below and on their online site: http://www.coe.uga.edu/clase/conference/index.htm.
Please contact Jenny Snead Williams (jennysw@duke.edu) as soon as possible to secure your registration coverage.Funding preference will be given to those who submit paper/panel/poster proposals. The deadline is September 30th.
Cheech Marin donates art to Latino/a Studies - highlighted on Duke Today
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/04/14 11:33:05
Cheech Marin's gift of Chicano art to the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University is highlighted on the Duke Today website: http://news.duke.edu/2009/04/cheech.html. Check out the full story online.
Cheech Marin's Three Jobs
Comedian donates art to Duke to raise profile of Chicano artists
By Camille Jackson
Monday, April 6, 2009 Durham, NC
Duke faculty member Pedro Lasch was excited to talk with Cheech Marin backstage at the Durham Performing Arts Center Friday night. While most know Marin for his hippie humor and counter-culture satire, Lasch and others in the art world recognize him as a serious collector of Chicano art.
Backstage, Lasch told Marin that he admires him for his role as an actor/comedian, an art collector and a public intellectual influencing Latino, Hispanic and immigrant culture. Marin responded: "Well, you know, if you're Chicano, you have to have three jobs."
After watching Marin perform with partner Tommy Chong in the "Cheech & Chong Light Up America and Canada" show, Lasch joined George McLendon, dean of faculty for arts and sciences; Sally Deutsch, dean of social sciences; and Jenny Snead Williams, executive director of Latino/a Studies backstage to thank Marin for donating a portfolio of Chicano art from his personal collection to Duke's Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South. Marin talked with the faculty members about the region's growing Latino population. He said… (see rest of story and images at http://www.duke.edu/today/).
Latino/a Studies Postdoc Fellowship
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/09/04 13:42:47
The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University (Latino/a Studies) invites applications for a one to two-year postdoctoral fellowship to begin in August 2009. Fellows will work under the mentorship of a Duke faculty member whose research and teaching focus on the field of Latino/a Studies, across any discipline of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The goal of the postdoctoral fellowship is to increase the field of scholars who have potential for becoming tenure track faculty teaching in Latino/a Studies at Duke University or peer institutions. Postdoctoral awardees will devote their efforts both to research and teaching. To see the full listing, click here. For more information, please contact jennysw@duke.edu.
Special Report: "The Policies and Politics of Local Immigration Enforcement Law"
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/09/04 13:43:35
The University of North Carolina Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic and the ACLU in North Carolina Legal Foundation has released its report on the 287(g) Program in North Carolina titled: The Policies and Politics of Local Immigration Enforcement Law." This report, the first to present a comprehensive legal and policy evaluation of the 287(g) program in North Carolina, represents a valuable collaboration between advocates and academia in a state at the forefront of immigration collaborations between the federal government and local law enforcement. The reports and executive summary can be found at: http://www.law.unc.edu/documents/clinicalprograms/287gexecutivesummary.pdf http://www.law.unc.edu/documents/clinicalprograms/287gpolicyreview.pdf www.acluofnc.org
Students protest illegal immigrant ban
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/09/04 13:43:06
Wed Apr 1, 2009 5:33 am (PDT) By Franco Ordonez --About 40 UNC Charlotte students gathered at the Belk Tower on campus Tuesday to protest a state bill that would prohibit illegal immigrants from attending community colleges. --They called for support of a federal bill that would allow undocumented students to earn citizenship after going to college or serving in the military. --They joined more than 350 students from N.C. State, UNC Asheville, UNC Chapel Hill and North Carolina A&T State University who participated in demonstrations organized by the Coalition for College Access, a student group formed in Chapel Hill. More details.
Mexico City Show at the Nasher Museum: Through June 7
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/02/10 10:23:56
Several special activities are scheduled for opening day, including:
Thursday, January 15, 5:00-7:00 pm performance by artist Maria Alos
Celebrate the opening of "Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from
There will be a second performance Sunday, January 18 at noon.
Thursday, January 15, 7:00 pm Conversation with exhibit curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm and artists Maria Alos, Abraham Cruzvillegas, and Pedro Lasch. Free with admission. Seating is limited. Reservations suggested: www.nasher.duke.edu
Sunday, January 18, 12:00-4:00 pm the museum presents Free Family Day
Celebrate the exhibition "Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from
1:00 pm and 2:30 pm Bilingual storytelling by Irana Patterson
12:00-1:30 pm "Welcome/Farewell" performance by artist Maria Alos and Duke students. Family Days are designed for children ages 3-12 and their accompanying adults. Visitors of ALL ages are welcome free. For more information about the exhibit, click on http://nasher.duke.edu/
Two great exhibits at GoldenBelt: running Jan 16 - March 15
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/02/10 10:19:52
1) Bailout Biennial
Mondays - Saturdays 10AM to 6PM
Sundays 12PM to 5PM or by appointment
Building 2, Floor 3; Free, Open to public
The first, (and perhaps only) biennial in response to the current economic crisis and scandals surrounding the $700+ billion bailout, capitalism, the global economy, post- industrialism, and greed. Can an artist make beauty out of nothing, humor out of tragedy, critical understanding out of superficial materials, a sense of wonder, purpose or awe out of crumbs? And can art incite the viewer to jump onto the stage of action to begin a shift towards a new and different economy of desire and infinite possibilities?
2) Marcha Forzada Collective: 38 Eyes x 57, 436
Mondays - Saturdays 10AM to 7PM and Sundays 12PM to 6PM
Building 3, ROOM 100; Free, Open to public
The Marcha Forzada Collective: 38 Eyes x 57, 336 photography exhibition tells the adventurous tale of a group of students who spent four days crossing Mexico City on foot during the summer of 2008. A mere eighteen miles as the crow flies, the trek itself was likely twice that distance, following a route through places of historical, political, and social importance. The excursion spanned from Iztapalapa, one of the most marginalized areas of the city and home to the FARO, to perhaps the wealthiest, Santa Fe. In the process, the team took over 1,000 photos and endured numerous blisters, camera-shy prostitutes, run-ins with police, and encounters with interesting Chilango-- all in the name of broadening their urban horizons.
More info at: http://www.goldenbeltarts.com/index.shtml
Pedro Lasch Exhibit at Branch Gallery Through Feb 28th
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/01/28 17:05:44
The opening reception for Pedro Lasch's exhibit, "Latino/a America: The New York & North Carolina Suites", will be held from 5:00-8:00PM on Friday, January 16th at the Branch Gallery. Also opening is the exhibit "If Only to Wake My Neighbors Up" curated by Jerstin Crosby of Acid Rain Production with videos by David Colagiovanni, Lydia Moyer, and Michael Robinson. The gallery is free and open to the public, Wednesday- Saturday, 12:00-6:00PM. For more information please contact the Branch Gallery at 919-918-1116 or see http://www.branchgallery.com/.
Updated UNC-CH Latina/o Studies Film Database
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/01/15 09:57:36
UNC-CH Latina/o Studies Film Database recently updated!!! Check out the database to learn about films related to the following subject areas: anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, sociology, geography, city planning, literature, communications, history, Latin American studies, public health, law, social work, and American studies. The database now offers links to Afro Latina/o films and recently added experimental short, documentary, and feature films sections. All films available on UNC-CH campus, some may be available through inter-library loans for viewing at Duke. Check out the database at: http://english.unc.edu/latina-o/LSFilmDatabase/LSFilmIndex.html
Fields Farmworker Justice Internships
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/11/07 16:40:42
Through the Into the Fields Summer Internship program you can spend your summer meeting and supporting the people who plant, harvest and produce the food you eat everyday! In this internship, you will support and organize farmworkers, get trained on the issues surrounding their lives and the broader context of the agricultural industry. Applications are due by February 11, 2009. Apply online at www.saf-unite.org starting January 1, 2009. To Qualify You must speak intermediate to advanced Spanish. SAF preferences college students from farmworker families and students from the Southeast. Benefits include $1250 total per diem, $1500 scholarship, free furnished housing, free trainings and some travel costs. Program runs June 1-August 9, 2009. If you have questions, please check out www.saf-unite.org for the brochure and more information or contact Melanie Stratton Lopez, National Student Organizer at 919-660-3652 or melanie.stratton@duke.edu.
MLA Prize awarded to Prof Antonio Viego, Director of LS
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2009/01/06 17:29:19
The Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies has been awarded to Professor Antonio Viego (Director of Latino/a Studies and Associate Professor of Literature and Romance Studies) for Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies (Duke Univ. Press, 2007). The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly study of United States Latina and Latino or Chicana and Chicano literature or culture. Congratulations Antonio!
New Course: Intro to Latino/a Studies in the Global South
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/10/20 19:55:02
Intro Course to be taught for the first time Spring '09!
LSGS 100: Introduction to Latino/a Studies in the Global South
Taught by: Professor Antonio Viego
Crosslisted with: Span 120 and Lit 162E
Areas of Knowledge: ALP, SS
Modes of Inquiry: CCI
See full description
News Item: Wave of Hate Crimes against Latinos
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/12/12 12:52:23
News Item: MALDEF CALLS FOR NATIONAL ACTION IN WAKE OF KILLING OF THIRD LATINO VICTIM OF A HATE CRIME IN FIVE MONTHS
Thursday, December 11, 2008
As we have reported, hate crimes against Latinos are at record levels. Today, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) President & General Counsel John Trasviña called upon leaders across all communities to unite and speak out against hate violence:
"We mourn and are outraged by the murder in Brooklyn, New York of Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhañay, whose life was violently taken by a group of people, and whose crime, according to witnesses, was motivated by hate-filled bigotry. Only one month ago, 37-year old Marcello Lucero was ferociously beaten and fatally stabbed in Long Island, New York by a group of teenagers who hunted him down simply for being Latino. In July, 25-year old Luis Ramirez lost his l ife after he was knocked unconscious and kicked in the head by a group of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania teenagers who yelled racial epithets before and during the brutal beating. We extend our sympathies to their families and loved ones.
In the past several years, hate crimes against Latinos have risen 40 percent. This is a national epidemic whose growth is spurred each day by hate speech and anti-immigrant sentiment expressed on cable shows, local radio shows and across the airwaves. National legislation, such as the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crime Prevention Act, must be a top priority for Congress and the new Administration, but it is not sufficient to reach the hate that threatens to pervade local communities. This drastic rise of hate crimes against Latinos, not coincidentally, has occurred during the same years in which there has been an explosive rebirth of extremist anti-immigrant rhetoric and measures.
The serious topic of immigration has been contaminated by hatred and racism, and has created a toxic climate which fosters and condones violence and civil rights violations motivated by bigotry. In seeking to enact unconstitutional anti-immigrant ordinances, irresponsible elected officials spew inflammatory rhetoric that depicts undocumented immigrants as parasites and the root cause of the nation´s fallen economy. Television and radio personalities spread misinformation and stereotypes that criminalize and dehum anize Latino immigrants. Meanwhile, white supremacist groups are using this anti-immigrant wave to promote their racist groups and promote violent acts against Latinos. Collectively, the messages and norms they seek to establish are that immigrants are less human and less worthy, and do not merit basic human rights protections our Constitution demands. These messages have begun to infect too many Americans, and they are being manifested through violence.
Unfortunately, our elected leaders have failed to recognize and condemn this national crisis, the media has largely remained silent, and families have not acted to protect their children from being infected from this hatred. As proven by this year´s historic election, the great majority of Americans have defeated artificial barriers of racism and ushered us into a new era. After over a century of struggle for freedom and democracy irrespective of race, Americans have abolished the disease of racial hatred; however, a virus continues to linger with some, and we must not allow it to proliferate. There are those that may believe that racism and xenophobia will always exist, but it must not exist in our country, in our democratic institutions, in our schools, and in our homes. We must be ever-vigilant, and stamp it out where we see it.
MALDEF calls upon our national representatives, faith leaders, educators, and parents to stand up and take immediate a ction against this national wave of hatred. We again call on Congress and the next President to fix our broken, archaic immigration system to establish national immigration priorities, including community integration that serves the nation´s interests, allows newcomers to work with legal status and protections against exploitation, and safeguards the nation´s communities. Local and federal authorities must prosecute hate crimes to the fullest extent under law. Local officials and media personalities must take responsibility for the consequences of their extremist rhetoric and should spread messages of respect and tolerance. Most importantly, we call on all Americans to unite against this wave of hatred and defeat the hate and violence. It is unacceptable and we must stop it now."
October 22, 2008 - AP- NC sheriff's slurs snarl locals' immigration work
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/10/28 10:38:13
October 22, 2008 8:18 AM EDT
By: Marty Rosenbluth
SMITHFIELD, N.C. - For years, Sheriff Steve Bizzell watched the number of illegal immigrants in his rural county skyrocket - and with it, he says, residents' fear that the newcomers were responsible for more than their share of crime. So he helped make ??
-But in a newspaper interview last month, Bizzel complained that "Mexicans are trashy" and pointed to several children playing and said "All they do is work and make love." Though he quickly apologized, his contrition wasn't enough to ward off critics who call his comments evidence that the nation's increasingly popular efforts to enforce immigration statutes locally have nothing to do with law and order. "The chief law enforcement officer is demonstrating his racism in public, and he's allowing his officers to do the same," said Tony Asion, the executive director of nonprofit advocacy group El Pueblo and a retired
-Bizzell declined to comment to The Associated Press about the remarks to the News & Observer that caused the uproar, and the
-"Look at that," he said, pointing at a storefront during his tour of the area with the newspaper reporter. "You can't even read the durned sign. Everywhere you look, it's like little
-Not all opinions of the program are positive, even among Bizzell's fellow sheriffs.
-Bizzell's comments to the newspaper "go from simply stating opinion to constituting illegal racial profiling if these opinions are reflected in practice," said Jennifer Rudinger, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina. "It's one thing to think something and say something. It's another to have that kind of bias carried out and enforced." Rudinger said the ACLU is seeking information from
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SPANISH-SPEAKING DUKE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/09/16 12:22:32
If you can speak Spanish and are looking for a volunteer opportunity, EK Powe Elementary School needs you! We are located on Ninth St., just up the road from The Regulator book store and within walking distance of East Campus. EK Powe is a Durham public school whose population is 30 percent Latino and growing. Many of our Latino kids are just learning English and we need help with tutoring, translations and other kid-centered tasks. Spanish-speakers and others very welcome! If interested, please write Alice-Anne Kern at aliceanne.kern@dpsnc.net.
Civil Rights Groups Investigate Sheriff's Inflammatory Comments about Latinos
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/09/16 12:21:32
ACLU of North Carolina and Other North Carolina Civil Rights Groups Launch Investigation Into Johnston County Sheriff's Office After Sheriff Makes Racially Inflammatory Comments About Latinos to the Raleigh News & Observer. [more]
Duke Physicsts welcome LHC first beam
Physics, 2008/09/10 08:20:55
The Duke HEP ATLAS group is working with the Large Hadron Collider which acheived "first beam" Sept. 10, 2008.
CERTIFICATE APPROVED: Latino/a Studies in the Global South
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/04/23 16:28:58
BIG NEWS for LATINO/A STUDIES: Our undergraduate certificate proposal for "Latino/a Studies in the Global South" has been approved by the Arts and Sciences Council!! The certificate program allows students to expand on their knowledge of Latino/a communities in the United States by combining courses across the disciplines in the humanities, natual sciences, and social sciences along with interdisciplinary introductory and capstone courses. Certificate details will be posted on-line under the "Academics" section soon. Students interested in the certificate may contact Jenny Snead Williams, jennysw@duke.edu, Coordinator of Latino/a Studies.
September 01, 2008 - September 27, 2008: Spanish Speaking Volunteers Needed: Nasher, El Pueblo, El Centro
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/09/15 10:27:35
SPANISH SPEAKING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Several Bilingual (Spanish/English) volunteers are needed for upcoming events.
Contact information and sign up instructions are included for each event separately.
1. NASHER MUSEUM OF ART, EL GRECO TO VELAZQUEZ: August 21 through November 9, 2008 Duke's Nasher Museum of Art will be exhibiting masterpieces of Spanish Art from the 17th century. Volunteers are needed for several positions at the museum. Training will be provided. To learn more about the exhibit visit www.nasher.duke.edu/elgreco. Contact the Volunteer Coordinator for the exhibit, Barclay McConnell at barclay.mcconnell@duke.edu.
2. LA FIESTA DEL PUEBLO: Saturday and Sunday, September 6-7 at the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.La Fiesta del Pueblo is a two-day Latin American festival for the entire family. This festival has grown from an attendance of 2,000 in 1994 to about 25,000+ in 2007. Through Fiesta, El Pueblo, Inc. has brought the arts and cultures of Latin America and the ??
3. FIESTA DE LA SALUD: Saturday, September 27 from 12:00-5:00 pm at Hillside High School (3727 Fayetteville Street, Durham). Volunteers are needed to work at a number of health related stations during the Health Fair. Contact El Centro for more information or to sign up as a volunteer at 687-4635.
DukeEngage: Encuentros de la Frontera: US-Mexico Border Civic Engagement
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/08/20 17:27:13
The 8-week summer DukeEngage progam on the US-Mexico Border has successfully come to an end. Visit the following blogsite for student reflections: http://dukeengageusmexico.blogspot.com/
Visit http://dukeengage.duke.edu/ to learn more about DukeEngage intensive civic immersion programs around the world.
NC Community College ban lacks legal rationale
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/07/31 11:44:27
From Insidehighered.com on July 28:
In May, the North Carolina Community College System banned students who could not document legal immigration status from enrolling, but last week the legal rationale for that decision apparently fell apart. In barring the students, the system cited a recommendation of the state’s attorney general, who said it would be illegal under federal law to enroll such students. On Friday, however, the system released letters from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the state attorney general saying that such enrollments were not necessarily illegal, and a letter from the attorney general’s office stating that — based on the federal letter — it appeared the state community college system was not barred from admitting these students after all. The community college system also released statements indicating that the ban would remain in place for now, but would be discussed by the state community college board soon, based on the new letters.
Visit http://www.adelantenc.org/5.html to find out more and learn of ways to support higher education for all students.
Help Protect Higher Education for ALL Students: Read and TAKE ACTION
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/05/16 17:24:13
North Carolina community colleges on Tuesday banned illegal immigrants from seeking degrees, a policy that is among the most restrictive in the nation. See http://www.newsobserver.com/news/higher_education/story/1071836.html.
HELP PROTECT HIGHER EDUCATION FOR ALL STUDENTS: TAKE ACTION TODAY
We need your help to ensure that Higher Education will be available for ALL students: http://capwiz.com/elpueblo/issues/alert/?alertid=11384781&queueid=[capwiz:queue_id]
Allowing access for ALL to higher education will: strengthen our future tax base. This is a workforce development issue.
These are qualified North Carolina students. In-state tuition and federal immigration issues are separate issues from open enrollment admission.
Tax Time: "Illegal Immigrants Pay Billions in Taxes"
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/04/23 16:29:27
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- The tax system collects its due, even from a class of workers with little likelihood of claiming a refund and no hope of drawing a Social Security check. Illegal immigrants are paying taxes to Uncle Sam, experts agree. Just how much they pay is hard to determine because the federal government doesn't fully tally it. But the latest figures available indicate it will amount to billions of dollars in federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes this year. One rough estimate puts the amount of Social Security taxes alone at around $9 billion per year. Paycheck withholding collects much of the federal tax from illegal workers, just as it does for legal workers. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't track a worker's immigration status, yet many illegal immigrants fearful of deportation won't risk the government attention that will come from filing a return even if they might qualify for a refund. Economist William Ford of Middle Tennessee State University says there are no firm figures on how many taxpayers are in that situation. "The real question is how many of them pay more than they owe. There are undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of people in that situation," Ford said. But some illegal immigrants choose to file taxes and write a check come April 15, using an alternative to the Social Security number offered by the IRS so it can collect income tax from foreign workers. "It's a mistake to think that no illegal immigrants pay taxes. They definitely do," said Martha Pantoja, who has been helping Hispanic immigrants this tax season as an IRS-certified volunteer tax preparer for the nonprofit Nashville Wealth Building Coalition. Among those she has assisted is Eric Jimenez, a self-employed handyman who has worked in Nashville for several years. He feels obliged to pay taxes -- even though, as Pantoja said, "nothing would happen" to him if he did not. "I have an idea, a mentality, that to be a good citizen you have to pay taxes," he said. "Also, I'm conscious of the fact that the money we pay in taxes supports the schools and all the public services." See http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/04/15/immigrant.taxes.ap/index.html for the remainder of this Associated Press story.
Pedro Lasch Exhibits Work in San Antonio: Eligible Traffic
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/03/03 17:02:27
Duke Latino/a Studies Community Liaison Pedro Lasch is participating in the exhibition, ELIGIBLE TRAFFIC, showing in San Antonio, TX from March 7 - April 5, 2008, with an opening reception on Friday March 7, 5-7pm.
Eligible Traffic opens March 7, 2008 at the ??
Eligible Traffic is a term that refers to a designation employed by the Department of Defense in which the law regulates the flow of individuals. Eligible Traffic addresses the subject of the undocumented immigrant and the legal formalities that differentiate the permitted from the excluded, responding to the current geo-political conflict involving the US/Mexico border.
This exhibition refuses to sentimentalize or marginalize the immigrant as victim. Instead, the works materialize laws that are invisible to its subjects. Borders are visualized and scrambled. Surveillance is turned against itself. National membership and issues of citizenship are re-imagined, proposing a more active question that directly articulates the complicated knot between art and politics: how can one represent artistically a life severed politically?
An experiment in curatorial collaboration, Eligible Traffic is a collaboration between the students from Trinity Universitys Gallery Practicum seminar and guest curator, NYC-based artist, Steven Lam. Through personal interaction with artists and scholars, the seminar utilizes the exhibition format as a hand-on pedagogical tool addressing topical concerns through the lens of artistic practice.
Undergraduate Summer Research Grants: Deadline March 31
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/03/04 16:34:06
Two to three awards of up to $2000 each will be made to undergraduate students who proposed independent summer research projects involving the study of Latino/a communities in the United States or US Latino/a-related subjects. Awardees will conduct summer research related to any discipline for at least two weeks in a Latino/a community or at a research institute or library with relevant holdings. Projects may be carried out anywhere in the United States and/or in multiple locations. (Note: this is different from international pojects taking place only in Latin America.) Deadline for applicants is March 31st. See Academics-Funding for more info and contact jennysw@duke.edu for application form and competition guidelines.
Apply Now: Duke Engage on the U.S. - Mexico Border
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/03/26 01:14:32
"Encuentros de la Frontera: U.S. - Mexico Border Civic Engagement" A DukeEngage Summer 2008 Program Program Description: Immigration is perhaps the single largest domestic challenge facing the both the U.S. and Mexico today. People die nearly every week on the border. Hostilities against immigrants in the U.S. are mounting. International relations are strained. This program will provide DukeEngage students the opportunity to become informed about issues related to the border, migration, and foreign policy. Students will gain a better understanding of “comprehensive immigration reform” and will analyze concerns surrounding “amnesty.” The experience will be closely tied to the work of BorderLinks, a well-respected organization that has been working with college students for 20+ years. Volunteer opportunities will range from working at a migrant day labor camp to teaching ESL, to providing emergency humanitarian aid in the desert, and more. Tangible outcomes of this project will likely consist of documentation projects linking the US/Mexico border to Durham, NC; students will share these projects through exhibits, class presentations, independent studies and theses projects. Project Leaders: Charlie Thompson, Jenny Snead Williams, Tennessee Watson Program Dates: June 7 – Aug 2 We will accept 6-8 students this first summer; application deadline is March 31, with students admitted on rolling basis. Apply early for preferential placement. Come see a presentation by 8 students who spent Spring Break with Borderlinks and the project leaders: March 31, 6-8pm at the Refectory Dining Hall on Duke West Campus. Contact Fiona O’Sullivan for $15 tickets (all you can eat, healthy local food) and for more info. fiona.osullivan@duke.edu. For More Info on this DukeEngage opportunity on the US/Mexico Border, see DukeEngage website http://dukeengage.duke.edu/ and contact Jenny Snead Williams, jennysw@duke.edu.
DukeEngage: Encuentros de la Frontera: US-Mexico Border Civic Engagement
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/02/27 14:13:46
Duke undergraduates (excluding graduating seniors) are eligible to apply for an eight-week civic engagement opportunity on the US-Mexico Border.
Immigration is perhaps the single largest domestic challenge facing the both the U.S. and Mexico today. People die nearly every week on the border. Hostilities against immigrants in the U.S. are mounting. International relations are strained. This program, through which students will spend at least 10 days in Mexico, will provide DukeEngage students the opportunity to become informed about the issues related to the border and to understand what “comprehensive immigration reform” is as well as analysis of ideas of “amnesty.” The experience will be closely tied to the work of BorderLinks, a well-respected organization specifically designed to work with college students. Volunteer opportunities will range from work with ESL students to emergency first aid. Tangible outcomes of this project will likely consist of documentation projects and film footage that students will share through exhibits, forums, class presentations, independent studies and theses projects. Visit http://dukeengage.duke.edu/ for more information.
NBC-17 news coverage: Latino/a Studies (1) and El Centro Hispano (2)
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/02/13 18:28:14
Headline 1: Importance of Latino Vote to Be Discussed at Duke click here (video coverage of the event was shown at 11pm TUESDAY, FEB 12 and is not - yet - online). Visiting Professor of Political Science, Jason Casellas, spoke on "The Latino/Hispanic Vote in the Presidential Election" to a standing-room only audience. The event was presented by Latino/a Studies and Mi Gente: Latino Student Association.
Headline 2: Durham Police Chief Hopes To Make Latinos Feel Safer: TUESDAY, FEB 12 - click here. Durham's police chief sought out Latinos Tuesday night to tell them its ok to call police when they have been a victim of a crime.
Headline 3: Durham Cracking Down On Robbers Targeting Latinos: FRIDAY, FEB 8 - click here Gun toting robbers have been targeting Latino residents in Durham and police say they're cracking down on the criminals.
2 Great Courses: Cultures of US Imperialism: War of 1898 AND America in Black and Brown
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/12/11 17:08:32
ENGLISH 169CS - Cultures of US Imperialsims: War of 1898
Crosslisted: LIT 161S and SPAN 122S
Instructor: Saldivar, Jose D Tu Th 2:50 PM- 4:05 PM (240 Science)
This special topics course explores the narratives--memoirs, essays, novels, testimonies, letters--and history of the Cultures of United States Imperialism. We will start by considering the multiple meanings of US imperialism and anti-imperialism, and the frontiers of US Empire. We will then examine the meaning of the war of 1898. Was 1898 a date and space of historical beginning and/or a date of historical rupture? Why was the War of 1898 termed a "splendid little war?" But we will move beyond the reification of 1898 by considering other transnational configurations such as Jose Marti's Latinamericanism, W.E. B. Du Bois's Pan-Africanism, and Subcomandante Marcos Zapatismo. Additionally, we will explore how US imperialism maps the relations of the domestic and the foreign in gendered and ethno-racial terms. Briefly, this course has a double focus. One looks at the representations of US empire in a variety of literary and non-literary texts within a broad timeframe. The second examines recent theoretical work about culture and US imperialism and sets them in dialogue with the current efforts to remap the post-colonial dimensions of US culture and society.
Course content is over 50% Latino/a Studies-specific. Link to course (with texts required and course grading): http://www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/1230/ENGLISH/169CS/
AAAS 199S - SP TOP: America in Black and Brown
Crosslisted: HISTORY 106S, LIT 162ZS
Instructor: Reyes, Alvaro W F 8:30 AM-9:45 AM (Sci Bldg 240)
This class will attempt to deepen our understanding of the 1960's by showing the centrality of actions taken by people of Color on and off college campuses across the United States- actions that began in the late 1950's and continued into the Early 1970's.
We will begin with an examination of the global context of the revolts that occurred during this epoch (African Decolonization, Viet Nam etc). We will then concentrate on the content of the expression of this era within Black and Latino radical movements-mostly specifically, the Black Panther Party, The Young Lords Organization, and the Chicano Movement. Link to course: http://www.siss.duke.edu/schedule/1230/LIT/162ZS/
Support Access to NC Community Colleges
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/12/11 17:09:43
On November 7, 2007, the NC Community College System Office released a memo stating that all community colleges in the state are now required to admit undocumented students. On Friday, Nov 30, Gov Easley made a public statement of support for undocumented immigrants to attend community colleges if they qualify and if they pay out-of-state tuition. Please visit the El Pueblo site and click on the links to thank Gov Easley and to support access for all to higher education.
This policy change will strengthen our future tax base. It would give an opportunity to young people who have grown up in North Carolina, and been educated in NC public schools to obtain a higher education while also allowing our state to have access to the long-term economic benefits that these students can provide as a highly educated and bilingual workforce. This is about investing in the future of NC and the people who live, work and raise families here. Immigrant families are pulling more than their own weight when it comes to the taxes they pay, the contribution they are making to our growing economy, and what they bring to a diverse state like North Carolina. This is not about special rights; this is about not making the self-defeating mistake of cutting off the achievement and ability to succeed of our neighbors.
This is a workforce development issue. North Carolina's state and local governments, businesses, and industry are currently recruiting college graduates from outside the state, as well as outside the US, to fill shortages in the fields of business, education, and health services. A number of students who will benefit from this policy change have the potential to satisfy many of these essential job needs in NC. Immigrants are here, are paying taxes, holding jobs, raising families, and most will be here for the rest of their lives and while it is good for the immigrants to get an education, it is even more important for all of us in North Carolina that they move up the economic ladder and become self-sufficient engines of the NC economy. Access to our state's colleges will increase the state's collective productivity and economic growth by preparing an educated workforce.
These are qualified North Carolina students. According to the law, any student in North Carolina is entitled to a public school education until the 12th grade, meaning that our state has already invested significantly in their education. These are high school students who have attended elementary and secondary schools in this state for most of their lives, who are likely to remain in the state and are high achieving and highly motivated. By allowing them to pursue higher educations, the state can benefit from students who are bilingual and bicultural, and able to contribute to the state's collective productivity and economic growth.
In-state tuition and federal immigration issues are separate issues. This policy change does not affect in-state tuition. Undocumented students that attend Community Colleges must still pay out-of-state tuition, which is over $2,000 more than the actual cost of educating the students. Thus, students that benefit from this policy change will essentially be subsidizing the cost of educating citizens.
December 03, 2007 - Run for Unity: Mexico City to NYC - stopped Friday in Durham
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/12/03 12:18:50
Watch Friday's NBC 17 news report on the Antorcha Guadelupana, "Race For Unity Spreads Immigration Message" here: "It's a march for the dignity of a people divided by the border," said Duke University Professor and local event organizer Pedro Lasch. The relay started in Mexico City Oct. 7. The group will carry the "Guadalupe Torch" all the way to the Big Apple, uniting families from Mexico and the United States along the way. They entered Durham at dusk on Friday singing, "La Guadalupana," a traditional song in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe – the patron saint of Latin America. One message of the march is to share the most colorful parts of their faith, said Rebecca Arrieta, torch runner. Click on the link above to watch or read full report.
Wake County Plans to Enforce Immigration Laws Locally
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/11/15 14:08:40
11-8-07 From La Voz del Pueblo (Raleigh, NC)
Wake County Plans to Enforce Immigration Laws Locally
Sheriff Announced Intention of Entering the 287(g) Program
See links below to take action!
This week, Wake County Commissioners gave Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison unanimous approval to sign on to the 287(g) program. This program allows the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to give local law enforcement the ability to enforce immigration law.
The initiative would cost Wake county $629,316 for its initial implementation, and about $539,341 per year subsequently.
This program is being sold to the public as one that would focus soley on criminals. However, in a recent article published by the News and Observer, Sheriff Harrison clearly offers a new definition for "criminal" under the 287(g) program and admits that driving with an expired drivers' license would be cause enough to check the immigration status of some individuals. "Driving without a license is a crime. A crime is a crime" (N&O, November 6, 2007). In actuality, this type of a traffic violation would normally result in a potential order to appear in court, or a ticket and fine. Under 287(g) and in Sheriff Harrison's own words, undocumented immigrants driving without a valid drivers' license would now be considered "criminals" and face arrest, detention, and eventual immigration action. This in a state that made it impossible for undocumented immigrants to apply for a new or renewed drivers' license in 2006 and thereby criminalized over 300,000 residents in our state.
The reality is that there are no uniform standards in the guidelines for operations under the 287(g) Memorandums of Agreement (MOA). Every county can be granted a different level of authority ranging from questioning inmates in county jails to questioning individuals solely on the basis of undocumented status . Further, it has been very difficult to gain access to actual copies of every county's MOA in order to understand exactly what are the limits of authority law enforcement are working under and what community members' rights are when they feel they have been unfairly targeted. As a result, there is little to no oversight in how 287(g) is implemented in each county or any real way to inform community members.
Some of the concerns this creates in our community include:
- The high risk for racial profiling: Because it is left to the discretion of officers to determine who is a potential undocumented immigrant, there could easily be an increase in the use of racial profiling as a means to "determine" who to question as a possible undocumented immigrant. This clearly affects all minorities, extending far beyond just the undocumented members of our society.
-The marginalization of a population as it refers to law enforcement: Undocumented immigrants who are victims of a crime or who witness a crime would be very hesitant to report such activities to local law enforcement if they fear it would result in their or their family members' detention and deportation. This is a clear impediment to the safety of our community as a whole.
-Lack of transparency in the process: The way MOAs are negotiated, without public input, means that things that extend beyond the reach of normal law enforcement operations could be included. There is no way to identify which law enforcement officials have been trained in immigration enforcement or what the limits of their authority are in that county. This severely erodes the civil liberties of everyone in our community.
It is unfortunate that our local leaders are choosing this path. The hateful political rhetoric at the national level coerced our national leaders into inaction regarding comprehensive immigration reform. The enforcement of immigration law, which is a federal responsibility, has been transferred to the state and local levels. However, localities are taking the wrong approach. With a broken immigration system that leaves almost no room for attaining a legal presence in this country for those who need it the most, the right answer is not to take an enforcement-only approach.
Please follow the link to "Take Action" and send the pre-written email or your own message to the County Commissioners and the Wake County Sheriff to express your disappointment in their decision to spend public money in a flawed approach to immigration.
Given the fact that they have already made a decision, demand transparency and honesty in the process so that this program does not affect innocent members of our community.
To read more about 287 (g)s, click here. To take Action, click here.
October 25, 2007 - Senate Votes Against DREAM Act
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/10/29 18:23:32
October 25, 2007 - El Pueblo Condemns the Senate Vote against Students' Dream
Yesterday, the United States Senate voted against cloture- a motion to
proceed with further debate on the DREAM Act. The tally was 52 to 44, falling 8
votes short of the 60 needed. Both of North Carolina's Senators, Elizabeth Dole
(R) and Richard Burr (R), voted against cloture and, ultimately, against the
dreams and hopes of many talented and qualified youth that graduate from our
North Carolina high schools every year.
Not only were we failed by our Senators, we were extremely disappointed by the White House Administration which released a statement opposing the DREAM Act only moments before the Senate vote. The President made the point that immigration should be addressed in a comprehensive manner even as he continues to support enforcement-only approaches that have resulted in the separation of families and mass deportations of non-criminal immigrants. Ironically, many of the Senators who called for a comprehensive solution during the debate were precisely the same Senators who voted against continuing the negotiations around comprehensive immigration reform earlier this year.
It was unfortunate that the debate heard on the floor of the Senate contributed more to the rhetoric surrounding immigration and failed to recognize that the DREAM Act was a proposal about education and opportunity for young students who have only the best to offer this country. Instead, we continue to witness the inaction of our leaders, who repeatedly choose to avoid enacting and implementing pragmatic solutions that speak to the realities of our communities, our economy, and our future as a country.
El Pueblo commends and thanks Senators Reid (D-NV), Durbin (D-IL), Lugar (R-IN), and Hagel (R-NE) for standing up in the right side of this issue, and having the courage to champion the quest of education for our immigrant youth. We also want to thank everyone who called their Senators to voice their support for the DREAM Act. Unfortunately, many did not hear the necessity of such legislation and chose to maintain the status-quo, closing the door of opportunity to our talented youth.
El Pueblo is especially disappointed in our two Senators from North Carolina. Earlier this year, both NC Senators also voted to end further debate on comprehensive immigration reform. They have also made clear statements that they stand for the status-quo and continue to favor flawed enforcement of a chaotic and broken immigration system.
We call on our leaders to propose and support real solutions and come up with significant policies that will truly address the suffering of our immigrant families.
Welcome to Our New Website!
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/10/29 20:58:49
Our current big news relates to our website launch on September 19th and our new physical location, which includes the addition of our Latino/a Studies Resource Room. We will be holding a few Open House events to bring in students, faculty, staff, employees, and community members. Join our listserv (visit the "About" pages) so that we can inform you as we plan these fall receptions. We look forward to seeing you in our new space. For information on our new director, Professor Jose David Saldívar, who has just arrived to Duke in August, see the News Archive.
October 21, 2007 - Los Suenos de Angelica/Angelica's Dreams Press Release
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/10/22 11:30:27
October 5, 2007
Angelica's Dreams, the first Latino feature film to come out of North Carolina, boldly mixes financial education and fiction??
Angélica’s Dreams is the film version of Latino Community Credit Union's three-part dramatic mini series dedicated to financial education. The primary purpose of the video is to show community members, and the general population, the process of buying a home. Latino Community Credit Union (LCCU) produced it with a grant from the CDFI Fund, a program of the United States Treasury Department. LCCU contracted Rodrigo Dorfman's creative services as producer and director.
Los Sueños de Angélica is the moving story of an immigrant couple from Latin America, Angélica and Roberto, who are discussing whether to return to their home country or stay in the
The film is part of LCCU’s groundbreaking Home Buyer Education (HBE) program. These materials consist of an HBE Guide and the companion video series. LCCU will provide 25,000 copies of the guide and 1,200 copies of the video to be used throughout the
"At LCCU we recognize that the overwhelming majority of our more than 50,000 members have little or no experience with financial services and therefore need extensive financial education to integrate into the mainstream
Boldly mixing documentary and fiction, telenovela and comedy, director/producer Rodrigo Dorfman shot the film entirely on location in Durham, North Carolina, plunging his main characters deep into the daily life of one of the most vibrant new Latino communities in the U.S. Angélica’s Dreams takes you into butcher shops, construction sites, churches, music festivals, bars and real estate offices. There are no guns here, no drug dealers, no gang members, no gratuitous violence or foul language, only the turbulent, unexpectedly humorous lives of everyday people struggling to enter the mainstream of American society.
"The experience of making Angélica’s Dreams has been exhilarating and I hope it can serve as a model to anyone interested in the possibility of creating socially relevant low budget/high quality grassroots film from within a Latino community", says director Rodrigo Dorfman. “LCCU took a chance with this experiment and I can't thank them enough for this wonderful opportunity.”
The screening is sponsored by Latino Community Credit Union, the City of Durham Department of Community Development, and the following Duke University Departments: Latino/a Studies at Duke, The Multicultural Center, Community Affairs, the Institute for Critical US Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Spanish Service Learning, Duke Women's Studies Program, Center for Documentary Studies, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Community Service Center, the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, and Campus Life Unit of Student Affairs.
Latino Community Credit Union is a community development credit union that provides competitive interest rates for deposits, affordable loans, and financial education. Based in
Latino Community Credit Union/Cooperativa Comunitaria Latina de Crédito
Fax: (919) 688-9309
E-mail: angel@cooperativalatina.org
Web: http://www.cooperativalatina.org
Article in The Chronicle: Latino/a Studies hopes prof will boost profile
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/26 13:00:15
For the past 10 years, Latino/a Studies has been gradually gaining a presence on campus, but it has lacked a distinguished figure on its faculty to anchor it. This August, however, the University attracted Jose Saldivar, a professor of English and literature, from the
ACTION NEEDED: SENATE LIKELY TO VOTE ON DREAM ACT THIS WEEK!
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/10/29 20:58:30
Monday, September 24, 2007 - URGENT Action Needed
DC senate offices are getting slammed by the
anti-immigrant forces with hundreds of thousands of calls!
We must respond now! Call and fax your senators - tell them, PLEASE VOTE FOR THE
DURBIN-HAGEL-LUGAR DREAM ACT AMENDMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
BILL SO THAT IMMIGRANT
STUDENTS BROUGHT HERE AS CHILDREN CAN REALIZE THEIR POTENTIAL. The DREAM Act would apply only to individuals brought to the U.S. at least 5 years ago as
children, who have grown up here, and who have remained in school and out of
trouble. They could get a green card 6 years after graduating from high school
if during that time they continue on to college or serve in the military. For more information and to e-mail your senators in support of the DREAM Act... [more]
Latino/a Studies Welcome Reception - Mark Your Calendars
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/10/25 19:00:56
NEWS: The Latino/a Studies Welcome Reception and Open House will take place on Friday October 12th, 4:00 -5:30pm. We welcome all our affiliated students, faculty, staff and administrators, and community members to join with us in celebration of our "rebirth" under new leadership (Professor Jose David Saldivar) and in our new space (Science Building). The reception will take place in the central upstairs wing of the Science Building (Old Art Museum) on East Campus. You may find directions under the "About" link.
September 19, 2007 - "NO" to local police officers acting as immigration enforcement
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/24 13:09:58
From El Centro Hispano in Durham
Dear Community Members, Friends and Allies,
Thank you so much to everyone who showed their support for the immigrant community in Durham yesterday. You are amazing!!! Last night we marched from El Centro Hispano to City Hall and were able to fill council chambers with over 45 Latino community members and allies of ages and races! This was especially inspiring considering the short notice folks had to respond to our call to action. Here we share a couple of photos from the meeting. Mayor Pro-Tempore Cora Cole-McFadden asked the audience why we were all present when this issue had been scheduled for the Thurs. work session, and Mayor Bell rebuked Councilman Stith for doing "a great disservice to our city" through his robocalls and stated that he had never received so many outraged calls and emails. Again I say- you are amazing!!! The issue will be taken up again this Thursday at the City Council work session, and we will be present to voice our support of the 2003 resolution. However, our work is not done. The Deputy Chief has stated that he clearly intends to form a collaboration with ICE to (as he says) "deport criminals". We definitely had a success last night, but must see this through to the end.
Here’s what you can do:
1. Come to the city council work session this Thursday at 1pm to show your support (We will be meeting at El Centro at 12:30 to walk over together if you are interested.)
2. If you have not done so already, call 919.560.4396 before Thursday’s 1pm work session and tell the council members' receptionist that you DO NOT want to change the resolution that states that the City of Durham will not question people about their immigration status in the normal course of doing business with residents on issues of police protection, housing and other services that the City provides.
3. If you have not done so already, E-mail city council members today telling them NOT to change the resolution as passed in 2003 AND that you do NOT want our local police officers acting as immigration enforcement! Cora.Cole-McFadden@durhamnc.gov; Eugene.Brown@durhamnc.gov; diane.catotti@durhamnc.gov; Howard.Clement@durhamnc.gov; tstith@nc.rr.com; mike.woodard@durhamnc.gov; Bill.Bell@durhamnc.gov
4. Email our new police chief- Chief Jose Lopez (jose.lopez@durhamnc.gov) or call his receptionist at 919.560.4322 and them him: We do not want our community overcome by fear! We want Durham to be safe for all it’s residents! and WE DO NOT WANT OUR LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS ACTING AS FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT!!!
In solidarity, Alba Onofrio
Directora Ejecutiva-Executive Director El Centro Hispano 201 West Main Street, Suite 100 Durham, NC 27701 919.687.4635 ext 43 aonofrio@elcentronc.org
New Director of Latino/a Studies
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/21 13:22:25
Dear Friends,
I welcome you back from Spring Break with excellent and long-awaited news! Duke has successfully recruited José David Saldívar from UC Berkeley (please see info below). Saldívar will come to Duke this August with a primary appointment in English and secondary appointment in Literature.
As the new Director of Latino/a Studies, he will bring fresh ideas and a strong commitment to growing our Latino/a Studies "program" at Duke. The University has likewise made a significant pledge to Latino/a Studies, with anticipated development of course offerings, research grants, on-site conferences, and fellowships.
Saldívar's arrival in Fall '07 will coincide with the opening of new space for 'US Latino/a Studies' on East Campus. The University has dedicated offices for Director, Program Coordinator, and a Latino/a Studies Resource Room in the Old Art Museum, currently under renovation.
Many list subscribers (students, faculty, and staff) have already met with Saldívar during his various visits to campus, and everyone in the Duke/Durham/Triangle community will have such an opportunity this fall when we host an Open House and Welcome in our new location. In the meantime, stay tuned to our listserv and website (latino.aas.duke.edu) for spring events and updates.
Cheerfully, Jenny
Dr. Stephens is the new Governance Secretary to the Board of Directors for NAGC
Education, 2009/09/01 16:12:13
Kristen Stephens has been appointed as Governance Secretary to the Board of Directors for the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). NAGC invests all of its resources to train teachers, encourage parents and educate administrators and policymakers on how to develop and support gifted children and what's at stake if high-potential learners are not challenged and encouraged.
Bayesian analysis and systems biology
Statistical Science, for faculty, 2009/04/24 11:05:42
A recent paper demonstrating detailed application of Bayesian factor analysis in cancer systems biology has been selected for invited commentary. The abstract of the full commentary article reads: "Systems biology promises to personalize medicine via network-based biomarkers that predict therapeutic effectiveness. Toward this goal, Chang et al. (2009) recently introduced a systems-based approach to break down oncogenic signaling networks into modules that predict the effectiveness of pathway-specific therapeutics"
Congratulations to Professor Richard MacPhail
Chemistry, 2011/05/17 11:29:49
for his receipt of the Robert B. Cox Arts and Science Teaching and Service Award! This award recognizes faculty members for teaching excellence and their ability to encourage intellectual excitement, inspire the discovery of knowledge, and foster critical inquiry in the classroom.
Congratulations to Kenneth Lyle
Chemistry, 2011/04/13 10:05:23
for his receipt of the Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award! This award acknowledges Dr. Lyle's longstanding commitment to bringing service-learning into the chemistry curriculum. Ken's enthusiastic demonstrations at numerous public schools and events show "Chemistry is cool!" to the surrounding community.
Dr. Qiu Wang to Join Chemistry Faculty!
Chemistry, for faculty, 2011/07/13 15:30:59
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Dr. Qiu Wang will join the department August 1, 2011 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Wang comes to Duke from a post-doctoral research position with Professor Stuart Schreiber at Harvard University. Dr. Wang's research interests include the development of small molecule-based probes that will be used to explore the cause of disease, and the identification of potential therapeutic agents towards cancer and neurodegenerative disease.
New DCID Publications Available
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:43:16
DCID is pleased to bring you are newest publications: the DCID brochure, which outlines each unit of our center, and our annual report, which highlights DCID's activities from July 2008-June 2009. These publications may be downloaded at the link provided below, or you may request a hard copy via email at edixon@duke.edu. [more]
Haitian Declaration of Independence Found
History, for faculty, 2010/04/01 16:30:55
On a recent research trip to London, our own graduate student, Julia Gaffield made history when she found a government issued printed copy of the Haitian Declaration of Independence - this is believed to be the only known printed copy.
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Applications are now available for the 2010 Holton Prize
Education, 2010/01/19 09:57:10
Three cash awards of $500 will be given for outstanding work by Duke undergraduates. Applications can be found here .Entries should be submitted to Dean Caroline Lattimore in 011 Allen Building no later than April 23, 2010.
April 22, 2010 - Undergraduate Research Presentations
Mathematics, for ugrad, 2010/04/15 22:15:59
Thurday April 22: Math-Physics 119
April 20, 2010 - Undergraduate Research Presentations
Mathematics, for ugrad, 2010/04/15 22:18:03
Tuesday April 20: Math-Physics 205
The Program in Education is now the administrative home for the International Center for Service-Learning in Teacher Education
Education, 2010/01/19 09:25:23
Service-Learning Instructor Dr. Kathy Sikes is the Executive Administrative Director for the center. The center moves to Duke from Clemson University.The center is "a focal point for teacher educators in higher education and their community partners in all aspects of service-learning in teacher education; including research, information resources, professional development and collaboration." (http://www.clemson.edu/ICSLTE/)
Xin Qian, 2010 Fellowship Prize in Experimental Physics
Physics, for faculty, 2010/02/03 16:52:47
Xin Qian, a graduate student in Prof. Haiyan Gao’s Medium Energy Physics Group, is the winner of the 2010 Caltech Prize Fellowship in Experimental Physics or Astrophysics.
Featured Members: Xin Qian of Physics; Haiyan Gao of Physics
January 15, 2010 - Deadline for Davis Projects for Peace Grants Proposal/Budget
Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows, for scholarship, 2009/11/10 13:42:48
Apply electronically to nkeul@duke.edu by January 15, 2010. [JPEG, PDF]
Keywords: up to $10,000 Grants
Congratulations to Joe Grieco, Chris Gelpi, and Camber Warren
Political Science, for faculty, 2009/07/24 09:57:56
A slightly late congratulations to our friends Joe Grieco, Chris Gelpi, and Camber Warren for their paper in the April 2009 International Organization. The link to the abstract.... This paper is many of the things that makes our program a success. A long-term collaborative effort between two very productive faculty members, in one of the top journals in the discipline. And it also involves work with one of our best graduate students. Further, it is a really interesting and well-executed paper with important policy implications.
Just Launched - Duke Physics News
Physics, 2009/08/31 14:05:57
Each month, we're highlighting the activities of the Duke Physics department in a new email newsletter. Learn more about our Department News Program. [more]
August 27, 2009 - OUSF Opening Picnic
Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows, for scholarship, 2009/07/23 10:29:20
Thursday, August 27 starting at 5:30 PM on the East Duke Lawn.
Keywords: Opening Picnic
Congratulations to Mariam Sharaf
Chemistry, 2009/07/21 09:45:41
Mariam L. Sharaf of the Shaw lab was awarded BEST POSTER award at the 2009 Gordon Research Conference on Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Oligonucleotides for her work on boranophosphate- modified RNA to silence gene expression.
May 10, 2009 - Photo Specialties
History, 2009/04/10 11:03:24
As each graduate is handed his/her diploma, a picture will be taken by a professional photographer. A free color proof will be sent to your current mailing address, including a password for online viewing. You are under no obligation to purchase prints. To receive an email notification the moment your photos are online, please visit www.photospecialties.com to pre-register. If you do not receive a proof within a week of the ceremony, please contact info@photospecialties.com or call 1-800-722-7033
Rotary Fellows Present During Eighth Annual Spring Conference, "Imagining Peace"
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2011/08/16 15:16:51
A joint program between Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill funded by Rotary International, the Rotary Center houses mid-career professionals working toward a master’s degree in the area of peace and conflict resolution with an emphasis on more sustainable economic, political, and human development. Graduating Rotary Peace Fellows presented their research on peace and development during the April 9, 2011, conference. You can view photos of the conference and bios of current fellows and alumni on the Duke-UNC Rotary Center website.
Featured Members: Susan E Carroll of Duke Center for International Development; Rosemary M. Fernholz of Duke Center for International Development; Phyllis Pomerantz of Duke Center for International Development
Two new DCID Executive Seminars: Innovation in Public Management for the Guanzhou City Administration and Executive Program with the Kazakhstan Academy of Public Administration
Duke Center for International Development, for faculty, 2011/06/15 14:28:31
Executive Seminar on Innovation in Public Management for the Guanzhou City Administration
At the request of the Guanzhou, China, city administration, DCID organized a well-received one-week executive program on innovations in security policy and crime prevention in the United States. This intensive seminar, which took place on Duke's campus May 23-27, 2011, was attended by 15 Chinese officials. It focused on the design of appropriate performance evaluation measurements for public agencies; the use of statistical data for policy and strategic management; ways to encourage coordination between government agencies; and approaches to the privatization of security functions. The lead faculty for the seminar was Joel B. Rosch, Senior Research Scholar Research Associate, Duke Center for Child and Family Policy, and formerly Director of Research and Planning for the State Bureau of Investigation, the state police agency in North Carolina. His publications include articles on prevention policy, policing, crime prevention, dispute resolution, courts, corrections, crime trends, and the politics of crime and punishment.New Executive Program with the Kazakhstan Academy of Public Administration
As part of the strengthening of the relations between Kazakhstan and Duke University, the Academy asked DCID to organize a 1-week seminar to provide an intensive international exposure to their mid-career students under their 2-year Master’s degree program. They were particularly interested in lectures by Duke faculty in the areas of public policy, economics, and public management as these were the main subjects of the first year of their own curriculum. At the end of the week, participants made brief individual presentations on the new ideas they had gained regarding both substance and methodology. In complement with this program, DCID is hosting two faculty from the Kazakh Academy as visiting scholars, who are preparing programs in leadership development and the promotion of innovation in the public sector.Featured Members: Joel B Rosch of Duke Center for International Development; Joseph Tham of Duke Center for International Development
DCID Faculty and students participate in UNC-Duke Consortium Conference
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2011/02/15 15:35:48
The UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies held their 2011 conference February 10-12 at Duke University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Six DCID faculty members and students participated in panels on Saturday afternoon.
The panel entitled Contemporary Struggles and Strategies to Reduce Inequalities in Latin America featured
Fernando Fernholz, Associate Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, Trends and Prospects: Measurable result in inequality reduction for the last two decades
Aldo Perfetto, Rotary Fellow; The case of the Venezuelan Cooperative Development Model
Ignacio Torres, MIDP Fellow; Accion Emprendedora Project in Chile
Eduardo da Costa, Rotary Fellow; Brazil's Bolsa Familia Cash Transfer Program
Rosemary Fernholz, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturing Fellow in Public Policy; Prospects for Disadvantaged Groups: Indigenous Peoples
The panel entitled Brazil Social Mobility and Welfare: Politics and the Amazon Then and Now included
Daniel Glazier, MIDP Fellow; Defending the Amazon: Lessons in Leadership and Policy Advocacy from the Life of Chico Mendes [more, alt.] -- http://www.uncdukeconsortium.org/consortium_conference.html
Keywords: rotary, MIDP, fellows, Faculty, Presentations, Panels, Conferences
April 09, 2011 - Imagining Peace - Eighth Annual Rotary Fellows Spring Conference
Duke Center for International Development, for faculty, 2011/03/15 10:34:46
A joint program between Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill funded by Rotary International, the Rotary Center houses mid-career professionals working toward a master’s degree in the area of peace and conflict resolution with an emphasis on more sustainable economic, political, and human development. Graduating Rotary Peace Fellows will present their research on peace and development during the conference. Open to the public. Lunch is provided for registered participants. Register online by April 1 by clicking "more" below. For more information about the program, including bios of current fellows and alumni visit the Duke-UNC Rotary Center website by clicking "alt" below. [more, alt.]
May 22, 2010 - Panel Examines Turning Points in NC African American History
History, for faculty, 2010/05/07 11:03:44
Three leading scholars and authors, Dr. Timothy B. Tyson, Dr. Reginald F. Hildebrand and Dr. Blair LM Kelley, will discuss and answer questions about key turning points in North Carolina's African American history -- the Civil War, the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot and the roots of civil rights. This free program on Saturday, May 22 is part of the larger "Celebrate North Carolina" initiative of First Gentleman Bob Eaves (www.celebrate.nc.gov).
The panel is in conjunction with opening day of the major exhibit "Behind the Veneer: Thomas Day, Master Cabinetmaker" at the N.C. Museum of History and will be chaired by Dr. Jeffrey J. Crow, Deputy Secretary, N.C. Office of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources.
Details about the panel discussion follow.
Celebrate North Carolina: Turning Points 10-11:15 a.m. At 9:30 a.m. coffee and doughnuts will be available.
Dr. Tyson will address the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot, Dr. Hildebrand will discuss the impact of the Civil War on African Americans in North Carolina and Dr. Kelley will focus on the Civil Rights movement. Information about each panelist is below. Dr. Timothy B. Tyson,Senior Research Scholar, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and Visiting Professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture, Duke Divinity School. Tyson is the author of Blood Done Sign My Name, which was recently released as a motion Dr. Reginald F. Hildebrand, Associate Professor, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Times Were Strange and Stirring: Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation. He is chair of the advisory board for the Institute of African American Research at UNC-Chapel Hill.Dr. Blair LM Kelley, Associate Professor, Department of History, N.C State University. Kelley's recent book Right to Ride (UNC Press, 2010) examines the earliest struggles against Jim Crow laws across the South, when ordinary men and women risked lynching and race riots to contest the segregation laws that divided trains and streetcars by race.
For more information about the N.C. Museum of History, call (919) 807-7900 or access www.ncmuseumofhistory.org or Facebook®. The museum is located at 5 E. Edenton St, across from the State Capitol. Parking is available in the lot across Wilmington Street.
The N.C. Museum of History’s hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free. The museum is part of the Division of State History Museums, Office of Archives and History, an agency of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. The department’s Web site is www.ncculture.com
November 06, 2009 - Friday, November 6 - Annual SHA Meeting Reception - Downtown Louisville
History, for faculty, 2009/10/14 14:18:19
The History Departments of The University Of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and Duke University Cordially Invite You To Attend A Reception At the Annual Meeting of the SHA
Friday, November 6, 2009 5:00 P.M. -- 7:00 P.M.
MARRIOTT LOUISVILLE DOWNTOWN, Salon F-G
October 02, 2009 - October 2-3, 2009 - 2009 Latin American Labor History Conference - 229 Carr Bldg
History, for faculty, 2009/09/18 16:21:25
In First Person: Biography and History in Latin America
Please join us for the upcoming Latin American Labor History Conference, with a thematic emphasis on biography.
If you have any questions, please contact Vanessa Freije vanessa.freije@duke.edu
Friday, October 2
Welcome 4:30
Panel I: : 5:00-7:00
Enver Casimir (UNC Chapel Hill): Kid Chocolate: The Athlete as National Hero and Sport as Nationalized Labor in Republican Cuba
Gabriela Cano (El Colegio de México): Estereotipos de género en la escritura de la biografía de Elena Arizmendi
David Sartorius (Maryland) and Micol Seigel (Indiana), comments
7:00-9:00 Dinner
Saturday, October 3:
9:00 Breakfast
9:30-11:30 Panel II:
Ivonne Wallace Fuentes (Roanoke College): Woman with a Gun: Magda Portal and APRA, 1931-1935
Jocelyn Olcott (Duke): Truthiness and Consequences: Biography, Concha Michel, and Telling Tales out of School
Daniel James (Indiana) and Susan Besse (City College of New York), comments
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00 -3:00 Panel III:
Mary Kay Vaughan (Maryland): El patriarca de los espectáculos/La madre de las calles: Los padres de Pepe y
Chucho Zuñiga
Taylor Jardno: (Georgetown): "Impossible Biography:" The Multiple Lives, Deaths and Resurrections of Héctor Germán Oesterheld and his Eternauta(s)
Anne Rubenstein (York) and Pamela Voekel (Georgia), comments
3:00 -3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-5:30 Panel IV:
Francie Chassen-Lopez (Kentucky): A Tehuana and "Her" Traje: Fashion, Modernity, and Ethnicity in Porfirian Mexico
John D. French (Duke) How the Not-So-Powerless Prevail: Industrial Labor Market Demand and the Contours of Militancy in Mid-Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil
Jürgen Buchenau (UNC Charlotte) and Tom Rogers (UNC Charlotte), comments
5:30-6:30 Informal Rountable
7:30 Dinner
Funding provided by:
Dean’s Office of Roanoke College Duke University Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Committee
Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Duke University History Department
May 24, 2009 - Math & Physics REU program at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL
Mathematics, for ugrad, 2009/02/16 14:57:33
The program, entitled Differential Equations in Classical and Quantum Physics, is an interdisciplinary program between the departments of Physics and Math at the University of Central Florida which has a strong focus on various theoretical, computational, and experimental aspects of differential equations. Classical, as well Quantum Mechanical applications applications in the domain of physics will be studied.
There are a variety of specific, well-formulated projects available for well-trained and motivated undergraduate students at all levels, many of which are likely to lead to publications in research journals. The majority of the problems are theoretical but 1-2 openings for experiment are also available. Students early in their careers, women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.
The program currently involves five Physics faculty, five Mathematics faculty, and 12 participants (undergraduate students). The program has a duration of 10 weeks (from Sunday, May 24, 2009 to Saturday, August 1, 2009, and it is enriched by a wide array of cultural, social, and educational activities. In particular, visits to the NASA Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral and the nationally known CREOL optics facilities at UCF are planned as part of the activities. Cultural visits will include the nationally known Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, the Charles Hosmer Museum of Louis Tiffany's Art Glass in Winter Park, and the nation's oldest city St. Augustine.
Participants will:
May 18, 2009 - Capital One Summit for Developing Leaders
Mathematics, for ugrad, 2009/02/25 00:35:11
Capital One is seeking underclassmen to participate in the 2nd Annual Summit for Developing Leaders – a week-long program, May 18-23, 2009, designed to provide students with the opportunity to develop their analytical and problem-solving skills. The group of participants will spend the week at Capital One’s corporate headquarters in Washington, D.C. collaborating and building relationships with one another in order to solve a complex business problem. Teams will then present their findings to Capital One executives at the conclusion of the week.
This will be an opportunity for current freshmen and sophomores for a leadership experience with a leading employer that will help develop the skills necessary for future internship and career opportunities. Application requirements include answering three essay questions and submitting your resume to the Capital One Campus Recruiting Team.
For questions or additional information, please contact Kira Peterson. [Read about the Summit!]
March 28, 2009 - Undergraduate Math Conference: Francis Marion University
Mathematics, for ugrad, 2009/02/16 14:58:08
The Undergraduate Math Conference at Francis Marion University is being held on Saturday, March 28, 2009.
| Date: | Saturday, March 28, 2009 |
| Time: | 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM |
| Contact: | Lynn Timmons 843-661-1110 Spacecoord@fmarion.edu |
| Location: | Lee Nursing Building |
August 27, 2008 - Organizational DUMU meeting and Math 149S information session
Mathematics, for ugrad, 2009/02/16 18:51:39
August 27, 2008 at 7:30pm in Physics 128
MIDP Fellows Present at Duke-UNC Conference on Latin American and the Caribbean
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/03/03 16:49:08
On February 17th, six MIDP fellows presented the topic “Understanding Change in Contemporary Latin America” at the 2012 Duke-UNC Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean. Matias Arrau presented on “Different Dimensions of the Current Conflict over Education Policy in Chile,” Eduardo da Costa on “Recent Trends in Development Policy and Conflict in the Brazilian Amazon Region,” Johanna Kelly on “The Transformation of the Violence Profile in Colombia,” Rafaela Moura on “The Recent Rise of the Middle Class in Brazil,” Matias Zelikowicz on “Alternatives for Cuban Energy Supply to Reduce Dependency on Venezuelan Oil,” and Eduardo Marenco on “Innovative Journalism to Increase Awareness of Corruption in Nicaragua, Argentina, and Costa Rica.” The panel was organized and moderated by MIDP Professor Fernando Fernholz. Eduardo da Costa also coordinated the showing of the films Children of the Amazon and Trading Bows and Arrows, which depict stories of struggle and hope concerning the people and the environment of the Amazon.
MIDP Fellow’s Master’s project contributes to important policy in India
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2011/09/24 10:26:41
For his graduation in May 2009, Rajesh Bansal focused his Master’s project “Targeting government expenditure through e-governance in India: a feasibility study” on the costs and benefits of introducing a biometric smart card based National Identification System. Two major benefits were expected: the system would improve the targeting of government welfare schemes and potentially achieve major efficiency gains. After returning to India, Rajesh was assigned by his government to work on the project he had advocated. This article from the NY Times describes progress so far.
Keywords: Master's Project, MP, Alumni, Alum, MIDP
September 16, 2011 - Mi Gente Kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 21:03:11
Mi Gente Kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month on the Plaza: 11am - 2pm, Bryan Center Plaza with FREE FOOD and CALENDARS detailing events planned by Mi Gente and other complimentary groups on campus, including Latino/a Studies and the Center for Multicultural Affairs.
September 20, 2011 - Mi Gente Dinner and Movie: Even the Rain
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 17:11:57
Mi Gente Dinner and a Movie: Even the Rain, 7:00pm, Center for Multicultural Affairs Lounge
First in our series, Even the Rain (También La Lluvia), encompasses a number of issues including the Cochabamba protests of 2000 after the privatization of water in Bolivia and the omnipresent prejudice against the indigenous citizens of Bolivia, told through a present-day filming of Columbus's arrival in 1492.
September 21, 2011 - Down to Earth Dinner: Dr. Jacob Vigdor
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 17:11:17
Down to Earth Dinner with Dr. Jacob Vigdor, 5:30pm, Center for Multicultural Affairs (Bryan Center)
Down to Earth is a dinner series where students can learn from the diverse experiences and research of staff and faculty in a relaxed environment.
September 26, 2011 - Mi Gente Dinner and Movie: Paraiso Travel
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 17:07:13
Mi Gente Dinner and a Movie: Paraiso Travel, 7:45pm, Center for Multicultural Affairs Lounge
Adapted from Jorge Franco's acclaimed novel of the same title, we bring you the story of a young Colombian man who flees his comfy life with girlfriend, traveling through Guatemala, and Mexico and into the US. Paraiso Travel lifts the veil of the immigrant dream and shows the harsh reality of immigrant life.
October 03, 2011 - Culture Clash
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 17:05:56
Culture Clash: 6:00pm, Center for Multicultural Affairs (Bryan Center)
Culture Clash aims to build and strengthen bridges between different cultural communities at Duke University and in the broader Durham community.
October 06, 2011 - Mi Gente Movie Night
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 17:05:37
Mi Gente Movie Night: Under the Same Moon 6:30pm, Ubuntu Common Room (215 Alexander, Apt E)
Third in series, this film centers on the journey of a young boy across the US/Mexico border to reunite with his mother, who is working undocumented in the United States hoping to one day send for her son.
October 12, 2011 - Mi Gente Dinner and Movie: Voces Inocentes
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 17:05:06
Dinner and a Movie with Mi Gente: Voces Inocentes-7:00pm, Center for Multicultural Affairs Lounge (Innocent Voices)
The final movie in the series, Innocent Voices tells the story of a young boy who is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he tries to avoid the war raging all around him. Set in the Salvadorian Civil War in 1980, the film shows the injustice against people forced to fight in wars.
October 14, 2011 - Race Speaks
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 17:04:24
Race Speaks: Time TBA, Center for Multicultural Affairs (Bryan Center)
RACE SPEAKS! is a multifaceted initiative that aims to increase understanding of the role that race plays in everyday life.
October 15, 2011 - HHM Game Day Cookout
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 17:04:03
Game Day Cookout for closing of Hispanic Heritage Month: Prior to Football Game
Join Mi Gente as we celebrate the closing of Hispanic Heritage Month with a Football Game Day Cookout. The cookout will occur before the Florida State home game. Join us for free food and a great time.
September 16-17, 2011 - The Future is Mestizo
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/13 15:58:01
The Future is Mestizo: Communities of New Creation at the Borders of Separation- September 16-17, 2011
Featuring Fr. Virgilio Elizondo, professor of pastoral and Hispanic theology at Notre Dame, and Kit Danley, founder of Neighborhood Ministries in Phoenix, Ariz.
The reconciliation conference, "The Future Is Mestizo: Communities of New Creation at the Borders of Separation," is designed specifically for congregational leaders, seminarians and anyone who loves the church. It brings a leading practitioner and a leading theologian, each dedicated to a life of Christian reconciliation, to share their stories and wisdom at Duke Divinity School.
Co-sponsored by the Duke Divinity School Center for Reconciliation and the Hispanic House of Studies
For more information: http://divinity.duke.edu/node/2963
September 20, 2011 - Alta Gracia Worker Tour: Clothes that Make a Difference
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/08 16:49:09
Duke Students for Humane Borders presents, Alta Gracia Worker Tour: Clothes that Make a Difference September 20, 2011 at 5pm in Social Sciences 105 Duke Students for Humane Borders presents “Alta Gracia Worker Tour: Clothes that Make a Difference" with 2 workers from a factory in the Dominican Republic, making clothes sold in Duke stores. Co-sponsored in part by Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
September 16, 2011 - Tucson, AZ Reportback from DukeEngage: Encuentros de la Frontera 2011
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/08 16:39:49
Tucson, AZ Reportback from DukeEngage: Encuentros de la Frontera 2011 Sept 16, 1:00pm, Friedl 1:00pm, Friedl 225 Students present summer work with immigrant communities in Arizona. Light lunch will be provided. Sponsored by Duke Students for Humane Borders, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and DukeEngage.
Tucson, AZ Reportback from DukeEngage: Encuentros de la Frontera 2011
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/08 16:36:38
Tucson, AZ Reportback: DukeEngage Encuentros de la Frontera 2011
September 16, 2011 at 1pm in Friedl 225
Students present summer work with immigrant communities in Arizona. Light lunch provided.
Sponsored by Duke Students for Humane Borders, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and DukeEngage
October 05, 2011 - Ariel Dorfman: Feeding on the Dreams
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/06 17:44:07
Ariel Dorfman: Feeding on the Dreams Wednesday, October 5, 2011 4:00 - 6:00 pm at Perkins Library Gothic Reading Room, Duke West Campus.
Chilean American novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist, and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman reads from and discusses his new memoir, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile. Dorfman is the Walter Hines Page Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke. Reception and book signing to follow. Books will be available for purchase.
Sponsored by the Duke University Libraries, with co-sponsorship from the Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS) and the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).
For more information, contact Aaron Welborn 919-660-5816
September 23, 2011 - Joan Soriano
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/06 17:33:24
Duke Performances presents- JOAN SORIANO 8pm at Motorco Music Hall 723 Rigsbee Avenue Durham, NC 27701
$15 General Admission $5 Duke Students
For more information: http://dukeperformances.duke.edu/artists-genre/gospel-country-blues/soriano [more]
October 14, 2011 - Orquesta GarDel
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/06 17:31:50
Orquesta GarDel October 14th, 2011 doors open at 9pm at Motorcross Music Hall 723 Rigsbee Avenue Durham, NC 27701 General Admission: $10
Orquesta GarDel is a thirteen-member ensemble that unites North Carolina's finest Latin music artists. Founded in 2006 by David Garcia, a professor of ethnomusicology at UNC Chapel Hill, and singer Nelson Delgado, the band pumps new life into Nuyorican salsa standards and breaks ground with original tunes in the timba style of modern Havana
A killer salsa co-bill! Bio Ritmo and Electric Cowbell Records LA VERDAD album release party
For more information: http://www.reverbnation.com/orquestagardel [more]
October 03, 2011 - Desarrollando Nepantler@s: Rethinking the Knowledge Needed to Teach Mathematics
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/09/06 17:30:26
The Latina/os and Education Project of the UNC Latina/o Studies Program & the UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Present: Desarrollando Nepantler@s: Rethinking the Knowledge Needed to Teach Mathematics-Rochelle Gutierrez
6-7:30 pm Monday Oct. 3, 2011 University Room, Hyde Hall
Institute for the Arts & Humanities UNC-Chapel Hill
For directions visit: http://iah.unc.edu/
As American researchers and policy makers race to close the "achievement gap," greater emphasis on mathematical knowledge for teaching has taken hold. School districts, concerned that their teachers do not know their mathematics in deep or flexible enough ways, are investing in professional development of teachers. These approaches, however fail to recognize that the achievement gap is a social construction, that equity in mathematics means much more than mere access to a rigorous curriculum, and that teaching is a negotiated practice (with students, parents, and others). Gutierrez argues that a model of knowledge needed for teaching mathematics and addressing equity involves political knowledge. An important component to developing this political knowledge is being able to recognize multiple realities (Nepantla), developing conocimiento with students, becoming comfortable with uncertainty, and seeing tension as a means to birth new knowledge.
Rochelle Gutierrez is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. http://education.illinois.edu/frp/g/rg1
Sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, the Institute for the Arts & Humanities, the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, and the UNC School of Education.
DCID team contributes to knowledge about the design of sustainable investments in dams
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2011/08/16 15:18:28
"Doing a Dam Better", just published by the World Bank, focuses on the lessons learned from the preparation of the $ 1.45 billion Nam Theun 2 (NT2) hydroelectric power project in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The book analyzes how the project concept evolved from being a mere infrastructure project to becoming a genuine "holistic" multi-faceted development and poverty reduction project. The book’s chapter 6 "Some Cross-Cutting Lessons" was written by DCID on the basis of the in-depth process it designed at the World Bank’s request to learn from the NT2 experience.
The Duke team was led by the late Dennis Rondinelli and Gary Nelson (UNC), and included Jonathan Abels, Rosemary Fernholz, Francis Lethem and Natalia Mirovitskaya. The World Bank Team was led by Messrs J. Shivakumar and Ian Porter, who are the book’s editors. Download a PDF or text version of the book here. [more, alt.]
Featured Members: Francis J. Lethem of Duke Center for International Development; Rosemary M. Fernholz of Duke Center for International Development; Natalia S. Mirovitskaya of Duke Center for International Development; Jonathan Abels of Duke Center for International Development
July 20, 2011 - The Department is pleased to host a presentation on
Chemistry, 2011/07/13 15:39:45
scientific photography by Felice Frankel on Wednesday, July 20. The lecture, "Visual Strategies for Scientists and Engineers: Improving Your Graphics for Articles, Posters and Presentations", will be held in French Science 2231 at 9.00am. Frankel and her work have been profiled in the New York Times, Wired, LIFE Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Science Friday, the Christian Science Monitor and various european publications. For more information on Ms. Frankel's work, please visit her personal website. [PDF]
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
April 10, 2010 - 7th Annual Rotary Spring Conference
Duke Center for International Development, 2010/03/05 14:14:16
The Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution will hold their 7th Annual Spring Conference entitled "Peace in Practice".
Date: April 10, 2010
Time: 8:30am-4:00pm
Location: FedEx Global Education Center-UNC Chapel Hill
For further information, including registration, please visit the Duke-UNC Rotary Center website: www.rotarypeacecenternc.org
March 12, 2010 - Duke Physics and TUNL host workshop
Physics, for researchers, 2010/02/02 13:51:24
Duke Physics is hosting a workshop on Partonic Transverse Momentum in Hadrons: Quark Spin-Orbit Correlations and Quark-Gluon Interactions
Featured Member: Haiyan Gao of Physics
February 18, 2010 - A Legacy of Public Service: The Peace Corps
Duke Center for International Development, 2010/02/16 14:54:34
The importance of public service, international volunteerism and why today's Peace Corps is more vital than ever.
Presented by Mr. Aaron Williams, Director, United States Peace Corps
When: Thursday, 2/18/10, 3-4pm,
Where: Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford Building room 04
Public metered parking is available at Duke visitor lots on Science Drive. (either the Science Drive lot or the Bryan Center lot). The Sanford School’s main entrance is conveniently located between both lots on the corner of Science and Towerview Drives.
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Aaron S. Williams was sworn in as the eighteenth Director of the Peace Corps on August 24, 2009. Nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U. S. Senate on August 7, 2009, Mr. Williams is the fourth director in the Peace Corps’ history to have served as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
Mr. Williams served as a Volunteer from 1967 to 1970, first in a training program for rural school teachers in the small town of Monte Plata, Dominican Republic, and extended his service for a third year to work as a professor of teaching methods at the Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in Santiago. Upon completing his service, he became the coordinator of minority recruitment and project evaluation officer for the Peace Corps in his hometown of Chicago (1970-1971).
Mr. Williams has pursued a career in the development and implementation of worldwide assistance programs. Mr. Williams was a vice president for International Business Development with RTI International. He was a senior manager at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where he attained the rank of Career Minister in the U.S. Senior Foreign Service. He also served as executive vice president of the International Youth Foundation.
As USAID Mission Director in South Africa, Mr. Williams led a billion dollar foreign assistance program during President Nelson Mandela’s administration. In addition, he has extensive experience in the design and management of assistance programs in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He was awarded the USAID Distinguished Career Service Award, and was twice awarded the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he was a member of the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. He served on the Obama-Biden transition team, the advisory board of the Ron Brown Scholar Program, the board of directors of CARE, and the boards of the Institute for Sustainable Communities, the Pan American Development Foundation, and the National Peace Corps Association.
Mr. Williams is fluent in Spanish. He is a graduate of Chicago State University, and has an MBA from the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Williams met his wife Rosa during his service as a Volunteer in the Dominican Republic. The couple have two sons, Michael and Steven.
February 18, 2010 - DCID Rethinking Development Policy Talk Series
Duke Center for International Development, 2010/02/15 16:10:14
Duke Center for International Development
presents:
Rethinking Development Policy Series
William B. Taylor
Vice President for Post-Conflict Operations
United States Institute of Peace
Washington, DC
Stabilization & Development in Post-Conflict Countries:
The Cases of Iraq & Afghanistan
When: February 18, 2010
Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm
Where: Sanford School of Public Policy, Rhodes Conference Room 223
Stabilization and development in conflict and post-conflict countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan present extraordinary challenges. Lack of security, the role of the US military in state building, the need to develop governing capacity--all complicate stabilization and reconstruction efforts. What lessons have we learned and what challenges remain?
Light refreshments will be served.
Parking for Visitors: Parking Lot opposite Fuqua School of Business on Science Drive. Five minute walk to Sanford.
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
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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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
October 01, 2009 - Graduate Certificate in Anthropology and History is now available
History, for faculty, 2009/09/04 11:55:08
The Graduate Certificate in Anthropology and History program will launch in fall 2009 with 24 affiliated faculty.
For more information, see www.duke.edu/~wmr/anthandhist.htm
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.
Conference
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/09/08 15:32:43
Conference on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics
April 24-25, 2009
at UNC-Chapel Hill and
Duke University
September 24, 2008 - Triangle Labor and Civil Rights Working Group
History, for grad, 2009/03/31 11:19:26
April 22, 2009 - Film Screening and Discussion, UNC, Love House, 6pm
The LCRWG seeks to foster greater dialogue between activists and scholars on issues related to civil rights and labor in the Triangle and beyond.
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
October 26, 2008 - Duke/UNC Jewish Studies Seminar
History, for faculty, 2009/03/31 11:18:01
April 19, 2009
Motti Inbari, Brandeis University
"Religious Zionism and the Temple Mount Dilemma."
Seminar is on Sunday at The Freeman Center for Jewish Life at Duke University at 3:00 pm.
November 16, 2008 - Intellectual History Seminar Program
History, for faculty, 2009/03/31 11:18:56
April 12, 2009
Amir Minsky (University of Pennsylvania): Revolution, Urban Experience, and the Making of Modernity in Early Nineteenth-Century German Cities
Seminar is on Sunday at the National Humanities Center at 7:00 pm.
April 03, 2009 - April 3, 2009 - Third Latin American & Caribbean Graduate Student Workshop - 229 Carr Bldg
History, for grad, 2009/03/31 11:24:12
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
History, for faculty, 2009/03/31 11:11:55
"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.
Conference
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/09/08 15:35:02
Conference to Honor David Sanford
March 27-79, 2009
Location/Times TBA
March 26, 2009 - Kenneth Reardon is Promoting Transformational Learning!
Education, 2009/03/11 14:44:10
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
October 01, 2008 - 2008-09 History Colloquiums
History, for faculty, 2009/03/16 09:37:48
March 23 - Claudia Koonz, Professor of History
The Muslim Headscarf in France: A Word, A Thing, and an Image.
11:30 in 229 Carr Bldg
March 20, 2009 - DNA-based Nanotechnology Symposium
Chemistry, 2009/03/19 15:18:45
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]
Colloquia
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/09/02 10:56:56
Kristopher McDaniels
Syracuse University
February 20, 3:30, location TBA
January 21, 2009 - Checkout the Most Exciting Courses on Campus: Spring 2009 History Courses
History, for faculty, 2008/12/09 15:22:48
View the highlights at http://www-history.aas.duke.edu/news/sp09courses.php
January 09, 2009 - January 9, 2008 - Writing Atlantic History: A Workshop - 12-2 Room 229 Carr
History, for faculty, 2008/12/22 15:16:50
Jean Hébrard teaches History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and will be visiting Duke in January as part of an exchange with the Ecole. With Rebecca Scott, he is writing a book entitled Freedom Papers (under contract with Harvard University Press), tracing the history of a family from Africa and Haiti to Louisiana, Cuba, France and Belgium. In this workshop, Jean will share several choice documents about the family, and discuss the challenges and possibilities of combining the approaches of micro-history and Atlantic history.
Facilitated by Peter Wood and Laurent Dubois
Lunch will be provided.
January 03, 2009 - Saturday, January 3, 2009 AHA Joint Reception 5:30-7:30
History, for faculty, 2008/12/09 11:28:44
The History Departments at Duke and UNC will hold a joint reception at the AHA meeting in New York City, Hilton Hotel, Second floor, Beekman Parlor from 5:30 to 7:30 on Saturday, January 3, 2009.
October 17, 2008 - New program for DukeReads
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/10/21 09:01:24
We notified you earlier that Valentino Achak Deng, the subject of What is the What by Dave Eggers would be on campus to be interviewed by Frank Stasio. Unfortunately, Deng had to change his plans and will not be coming to Duke on October 17. Instead for Homecoming, we have created a new panel, moderated by Stasio, that we hope you'll find provocative and thoughtful: political science professor Alexander Downes, whose principle research interests are the causes and effectiveness of civilian victimization in warfare and the origins and consequences of foreign-imposed regime change; Duke student Megan Foran '10, new co-chair of the First-Year Advisory Counselor (FAC) Program and co-chair of the Student Alumni Advisory Board, who's involved with the Inter-Community Council and DukeEngage; and Jin-Soo Huh '09, past co-chair of the FAC program, who's active in the International Relations Association and serves as a tour guide. Huh was on the committee that selected What is the What as the summer reading assignment for the Class of 2012. You can listen to session after October 18 on the iTunes U at http://itunes.duke.edu/
November 2008 - A President for All Americans
History, for faculty, 2008/11/13 11:33:35
Dr. John Hope Franklin discussed the election of Barack Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpUTRbXTRos
Librarian Office Hours
History, for grad, 2008/10/01 11:47:44
Need help finding primary sources for your history paper? Can't figure out where to begin your research for HI195S? Stop by Carr 121 on Tuesdays between 1:00 and 3:00 to get personalized assistance from a reference librarian who specializes in history. No appointment necessary. No question too big or too small. Save time, ask a librarian!
December 05, 2008 - Friday, December 5 - Second Latin American & Caribbean Graduate Student Workshop - 3:00 - 5:30 Room 229 Carr
History, for faculty, 2008/11/24 16:04:43
Discussing the following advance-circulated papers by two Duke ABDs:
Alejandro Velasco (Gallatin School-New York University), "'A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote': Urban Protest and Electoral Politics in Venezuela, 1978-1983"
Bryan Pitts (Duke), "The Audacity to Strong-Arm the Generals: Paulo Maluf and the 1978 Sao Paulo Gubernatorial Contest"
There is no oral presentation of the papers given that they are circulated in advance (the papers will be available on 28 November, six days in advance of the meeting; please rsvp).
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It begins with each of the two presenters offering a reading and comment on the other paper•
It then move from one grad student to next for their comments with the attending faculty joining in once we reach general discussion.•
It will be followed by a reception and party (details forthcoming)NOTE: Please RSVP to jdfrench@duke.edu to confirm your participation.
The event is funded by the History Department Colloquium and Speakers Committee and is open to all interested faculty and grad students in all fields. All students in residence are expected to attend and several of our ABDs in the field, including Kristin and Katharine, promise to put in their two cents as well.
October 17, 2008 - Triangle Legal History Seminar
History, for faculty, 2008/11/13 11:29:47
Friday, December 5, 2008 - National Humanities Center
Mary Beth Basile, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
UNC - Chapel Hill
" 'I Was Given a So-Called Hearing': The Treatment of Italians during World War II and the Constitution's Promise of Civilian Control"
All seminars are 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Colloquia
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/09/02 10:57:31
Jenefer Robinson
University of Cincinnati
December 5, 3:30 in East Duke 204D
September 19, 2008 - Triangle Seminar on the History of the Military, War, and Society
History, for faculty, 2008/10/30 10:59:29
Friday, November 21, 2008
John Lynn
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
"Gauging Women's Participation in Early Modern European Armies: Demostrable Certainties, Reasonable Inferences, and Sheer Speculations"
The seminar begins at 4:15 and is in Room 229 Carr Building.
Refreshments will be served afterwards.
Pre-circulated papers are available a week in advance at fbruehoe@email.unc.edu
For more information see the website: www.unc.edu/mhss/.
Co-sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies
Colloquia
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/09/02 10:41:56
Steven Nadler
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Gods of Philosophy"
November 21, 3:30 in East Duke 204D
November 07, 2008 - November 7, 2008 - Freedom Fighters: Regime Change and U.S. Foreign Policy - East Duke 204B
History, for faculty, 2008/10/30 11:10:14
Keynote Presentation: 9:30-11:00
Greg Grandin (NYU): Empire's Workshop: The New Deal to the New Right, Latin America to Iraq
Session one (11:15-1:15): U.S. in the Middle East
Salim Yaqub (UCSB): "Openings and Closings: The United States and the Arab World in the 1970s."
Commentator: miriam cooke (Duke, Lit & AMES)
Session two (2:30-4:30: Plan Colombia
Diana Marcela Roja (Universidad Nacional de Colombia): "Transforming Interventions: US Policy in Colombia, 1998-2008." Commentator: Robin Kirk (Duke, DHRC)
Closing discussion: 4:45-5:30
Reception to follow.
Refreshments and lunch with be provided.
Sponsored by: Duke University History Department, Marxism & Society, Trent Foundation, and Arts & Science Faculty Research Council
For more information, contact: Jocelyn Olcott, (olcott@duke.edu)
Colloquia
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/09/08 16:52:47
Mohammed Fadel
University of Toronto
"The True, the Good, and the Reasonable: The Theological and Ethical Roots of Public Reason in Islamic Law"
November 5, 4:00-5:30 in Breedlove Room in Perkins
Co-sponsored with Department of Economics and Duke Ismlamic Studies Center
Colloquia
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/09/08 15:02:34
42nd Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy
October17-19
UNC-Chapel Hill
October 10, 2008 - Duke/UNC Southern Historical Association Reception
History, for faculty, 2008/09/29 12:53:53
Friday, October 10, 2008
Sheraton Hotel, Maurepas Room
New Orleans
5:00-7:00
Colloquia
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/09/10 12:36:32
John Doris
Washington University in St. Louis
September 12, 1:30-3:30 in West Duke 204
Colloquia
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/08/25 16:44:57
Colloquia
March 26-28
Graduate Student Prospectives Visit
March 28
Philip Pettit
"Freedom,
Probability and Resilience"
April 11-13
Phil-Bio Conference: Cooperative
Alliances in the History of Life: Aggregation, Individuation, and the
Major Evolutionary Transitions
Conference
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/09/08 15:25:56
Conference in Honor of David Sanford
March 27-29, 2009
Conference
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/09/08 15:24:04
Conference in Honor of David Sanford
March 27-29, 2009
January 14, 2008 - Gopal Sreenivasan
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/01/14 10:04:58
Gopal Sreenivasan joins the Philosophy Department this semester with a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine.
Keywords: 1
February 15, 2008 - Laura Franklin-Hall Job Talk
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/01/14 10:04:38
Laura Franklin-Hall
Columbia
"Plato's Joints: Metaphors, Individuals, and Kinds"
February 15
202 West Duke
3:30-5:30 PM
Keywords: e
Russell Powell
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/02/01 16:59:23
Russell Powell
"Contingency and Convergence in Macroevolution"
January 25, 2008
West Duke 202, 3:30
January 18, 2008 - Lara Buchak Job Talk
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/01/14 10:03:36
Lara Buchak
Princeton
"Risk and Rationality"
January 18
202 West Duke
3:30-5:30 PM
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January 15, 2008 - Michael Titelbaum Job Talk
Philosophy, for faculty, 2008/01/14 10:03:22
Michael Titelbaum
UC Berkeley
"Unlearning What You Have Learned"
January 15
204 West Duke
11:30-1:30 PM
Keywords: a
Colloquia
Philosophy, for faculty, 2007/08/24 16:52:07
2007-08 Colloquia Series
Fall 2007 colloquia will be held on Fridays in the West Duke Building, Room 202 on East Campus from 3:30-5:00
PM, unless indicated otherwise. Questions should be addressed to
Professor Michael Ferejohn.
November 10, 2006 - Colloquium
Philosophy, for faculty, 2006/10/30 20:21:09
Dr. Michael Silberstein (Elizabethtown College) will give a talk on November 10th as part of the Fall 2006 Colloquium Series.
October 27, 2006 - Philosophy Colloquium
Philosophy, 2006/10/07 09:53:33
Dr. Evan Thompson (University of Toronto) is our next colloquium speaker, on October 27th. Click here for details.
September 22, 2006 - John M. Fischer
Philosophy, 2006/09/20 23:44:57
John M. Fischer will give a talk titled "Epicureanism about Death and Immortality" on September 22nd. Click here for details.
October 05, 2011 - Festival Flamenco
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Festival Flamenco October 5-9, 2011 - Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s Ensemble presents Festival Flamenco. This free festival will serve Durham residents and friends with workshops, classes and performances. http://danceprogram.duke.edu/news/archive/2011/08/31/festival-flamenco-october-5-9-2011
Additionally, the company will be visiting some Duke Dance Program Classes:
-Wednesday, October 5: Open demonstration and masterclass during African Dance Technique II, 6-7:30 at The Ark
-Company members will be part of Dance 128/Flamenco lecture class October 7, 1:15-2:45pm. Location TBA
October 04, 2011 - Follow-up Discussion Panel: Platanos Y Collard Greens
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The Department of African & African American Studies, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and the Center for Multicultural Affairs will present a follow-up discussion to the Platanos Y Collard Greens performance (see Sept 29 listing) on Tuesday, October 4th at 7:00pm in Room 136 of the Social Science Bldg on Duke West Campsus. A panel of faculty, staff, and student scholars will give comments and take part in audience q/a. Further details to follow soon.
September 29, 2011 - PLATANOS Y COLLARD GREENS: Don't miss this!
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Presented by the Department of African & African American Studies, the Program in Latino/a Studies, and the Center for Multicultural Affairs, the hit romantic comedy performance, "Platanos Y Collard Greens," is coming to Duke on September 29th (7pm, Reynolds Theater)! Check out the website www.platanosandcollardgreens.com/ and plan to arrive to Reynolds a few minutes early - tickets are free at the door to first 600 attendees. Follow-up panel discussion will take place Tuesday, Oct 4th at 7pm. You don't want to miss this performance and discussion!
Co-sponsored by: Black Student Alliance, Center for African and African American Research, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Center for Race Relations, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Duke Latino/a Graduate Student Association, DukeEngage, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc, Latino Medical Student Association, Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Mi Gente, Office for Institutional Equity, Omega Phi Beta Sorority Inc, Program in Latina/o Studies at UNC - Chapel Hill, Spanish Service-Learning, The Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, The Program in Literature, Theater Studies, Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority Inc, and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.
September 27, 2011 - On the Edge of Reason: Border dynamics and violence
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The Mexico Solidarity Network presents
On the Edge of Reason: Border dynamics and the spread of violence
with Macrina Cardenas Alarcon
Alarcon will speak about connections between violence on the Mesican border and ther Merida Initiatve, FBI and DEA participation, free trade agreements, and maquiladoras. Alarcon was formerly the Mexico Solidarity Network's Legislative Coordinator in DC and has spent the past 5 yeras aiding deportees and doing grassroots organizing in Tijuana with La Casa del Migrante.
Tuesday, Sept 27 at 6:30pm in Soc Sci 139
Sponsored by Romance Studies Department, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Women's Center, BorderWorks humanities lab, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Further information to be posted soon!
September 18, 2011 - La Fiesta del Pueblo in Raleigh: celebrate NC Latino community
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La Fiesta del Pueblo takes place this year on Sunday, Sept 18th from 12noon to 8pm in downtown Raleigh. Students from UNC and Duke may be organizing to travel togethter. Duke students should check out Mi Gente's Facebook Group if you are interested in carpooling to attend this festival celebrating the NC Latino community with food, music, dance, and fun! See http://www.elpueblo.org/eng/culture/lafiesta2011/lafiesta2011.shtml for more info.
September 17, 2011 - Outdoor Zumbathon in Durham
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BIGGEST OUTDOOR ZUMBATHON IS BACK SEPT 17!
Get up and get active, in support of El Centro Hispano
The 2.5 hr outdoor zumbathon will take place 4:30 to 7:00pm at Durham Central Park, 501 Foster Street.
See for more info: www.elcentronc.org
El Centro Hispano (ECH) a grassroots community based organization dedicated to strengthening the Latino community and improving the quality of life of Latino residents in Durham, Carrboro, Chapel Hill and surrounding areas. We accomplish our mission through service, education and community organizing.
September 15, 2011 - Launching Hispanic Heritage Month with Exhibit Reception
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September 15th at 6:00pm in the Friedl Gallery
The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South and Mi Gente Association of Latino/a Students will launch the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month with a public reception for BOLIVAR BLVD in the Fredric Jameson Gallery (Friedl Bldg, East Campus) from 6-8pm. Join us for great conversation, food, and dancing!
Exhibit information at: http://bolivarblvd.wordpress.com/
Exhibit coordinated by the NC Arts Council and the following Duke University units: Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South; Spanish Service-Learning; Romance Studies Department; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Office of Durham & Regional Affairs; and Department of Cultural Anthropology.
September 14, 2011 - Wednesdays at the Center: Talk on Bolivar Blvd
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Bolivar Blvd: Simon Bolivar's Journey in the United States -1807- Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:00-1:00 pm
Room 240 Franklin Center at Duke, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham
A talk by Miguel Chirinos, historian and collector, and organizer of the exhibition Bolivar Blvd which is on display at the Fredric Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building, Duke East Campus. This is the first talk in this year's Wednesdays at the Center series. A light lunch will be served. Co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies in the Global South and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, both at Duke.
September 11, 2011 - Report on Migration in Mexico: Roots, Realities, and Resistance
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REPORT ON MIGRATION IN MEXICO: ROOTS, REALITIES AND RESISTANCE- 5pm Sunday, September 11, 2011 at the Chapel Hill Church of the Reconciliation On June 11, 2011 19 delegates ranging in age from 18 to 73 from over 10 US States participated in the joint Witness for Peace/Chicle Language Institute MIGRATION IN MEXICO: ROOTS, REALITIES, AND RESISTANCE delegation to Oaxaca, Mexico. The delegates viewed both the realities of desperate conditions and some positive tactics of economic survival that are working for communities. The trip was organized by local community members, Sharon Mujica and Jane Stein and the the briefings and travels of this national delegation were planned by Tony Macias and other Witness for Peace staff in Oaxaca. On Sunday, September 11 at 5pm at the Chapel Hill Church of the Reconciliation many of the North Carolina delegates will be in Chapel Hill to present their findings and give ideas for a more humane economic and immigration policy. A discussion will follow the presentation. Please join us to share this briefing and exchange of ideas. Witness for Peace trips seek to equip both travelers and their audiences to press for sensible and humane economic and immigration policy.
September 09-11, 2011 - Toros y Salsa Festival
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TOROS Y SALSA FESTIVAL
9pm at Motorco Musical Hall 723 Rigsbee Avenue Durham, NC 27701
General Admission: $10
Festival lineup: Pibo Marquez y su Descarga Criolla, Cesar "Albondiga" Monge, Elio Pacheco, Rodrigo Mendoza, Bio Ritmo, Frankie Vazquez, Marcial Isturiz, Bloque 53, Diabloson, La familia Quintero de venezuela (Nene, Luis, Rafael, Luisito y Roberto) [more]
September 09, 2011 - Artistic and Visual Responses to 9/11 and Other Disasters:
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Artistic and Visual Responses to 9/11 and Other Disasters: A conversation with Jonathan Hyman, Pedro Lasch, and Gennifer Weisenfeld September 9, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., John Hope Franklin Center (Room 240), 2204 Erwin Road contact: r.sikorski@duke.edu
September 08, 2011 - Public Reception for Los Suenos Americanos in Chapel Hill
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Suenos Americanos/American Dreams: The Art of Cornelio Campos, an exhibit which runs August 1 - October 15 at the FedEx Global Education Center (301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill) is hosting a Public Reception on September 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM.
Modern yet traditional, and deeply personal, the paintings of Cornelio Campos illustrate complex realities of migrant life that are often concealed. A Mexican-born artist now residing in the US, Campos shares emotions and explores contemporary political issues, such as immigration, the U.S.-Mexico border and cultural identity. Other works in this exhibition highlight earlier experiences of the history and culture of his indigenous roots using a folkloric art style. These paintings represent everyday scenes of Mexican life, such as selling handmade crafts, connecting with family and celebrating religious traditions. Through vibrant colors and layer-upon-layer of symbolism, the work of Cornelio Campos challenges viewers to contemplate the American dreams of many, including their own.
This exhibition is hosted by UNC Global, the UNC Department of Geography and the North Carolina State University Interdisciplinary Studies Department.
Contact Laura Griest lauragriest@unc.edu for more information.
September 09, 2011 - Haiti: History Embedded in Amber
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Haiti: History Embedded in Amber- Opening Reception with Artist Edouard Duval-Carrie Friday, September 9, 2011 5:00 - 6:30 pm at the FHI Garage, C105, 1st floor, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse on the Duke campus
A celebration of the installation of Haiti: History Embedded in Amber with artist Edouard Duval-Carrie. He will speak briefly about the piece, and there will be music by renowned Haitian singer Erol Josue, along with Caribbean food and drink. Sponsored by the Haiti Lab/Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke. Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke. For more information about the event, go to http://www.fhi.duke.edu/
For directions to the Smith Warehouse, go to http://www.fhi.duke.edu/about/
August 06, 2011 - Latino Festival at Rock Quarry Park
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Durham Parks and Recreation hosts Latino Festival 2011 on Sat, Aug 6 from 1-6pm at Rock Quarry Park, 701 Stadium Drive, Durham. Free admission. More info at www.dprplaymore.org. "Celebrate the culture and traditions of Durham's Latino community- enjoy music, food, children's activities and more!"
July 28, 2011 - "Waste Land" Brazilian documentary at the Nasher
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Screen/Society presents "Waste Land" at 7pm! (free screening of Brazilian documentary at the Nasher Museum of Art)
The Nasher Museum of Art, Sustainable Duke, and Screen/Society present the next installment in the "Summer Days, Nasher Nights" film series. Art-themed films, shown on the 4th Thursday of the month. Screenings are at 7pm in the Nasher Museum of Art Lecture Hall and are free and open to the general public.
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2011 Academy Awards! Winner of the Amnesty International Film Prize at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival and the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival! Sponsored by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the First Citizens Bank, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, and Sustainable Duke.
July 09, 2011 - BOLIVAR BLVD Opening at 3:00pm: Open to Public
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You are invited to the BOLIVAR BLVD Exhibition Opening, Saturday July 9th at 3:00pm Fredric Jameson Gallery, East Campus, Duke University.
BOLIVAR BLVD: Simon Bolivar's Footprint in the United States
July 9 to September 22, 2011
OPENING: SATURDAY JULY 9th at 3:00PM (FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
Duke University presents BOLIVAR BLVD; a collaborative exhibition project mapping the footprint of Simon Bolivar, one of the most influential political leaders in South American history, in the past and present United States. The exhibit looks at the tribute paid to Simon Bolivar from New York to Missouri to North Carolina through monuments and names of places and products. Known as the "The Liberator," Simon Bolivar was a central figure in the 19th century wars of independence of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Panama. We join in this year's bicentennial celebration of independence in Venezuela.
Location: Fredric Jameson Gallery, 1316 Campus Drive. Friedl Building, Duke University, East Campus. Durham, NC. 27705.
Exhibit dates: July 9 to September 22, 2011.
Gallery hours: Mon. - Thurs. 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (except during special events); Friday and weekends by request; see website for further details. http://bolivarblvd.wordpress.com
The primary exhibit items are part of a larger collection by Miguel Chirinos, a local historian and native of Venezuela who has studied and written about Bolivar. The exhibition has been organized and curated by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo assisted by Marlon Torres.
For more information about BOLIVAR BLVD please contact: bolivarblvd@gmail.com. By phone: (919) 699-4036; (919)-681-3883.
This exhibition has been coordinated with the assistance of the N.C. Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Cultural Resources and the following Duke University units: Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South; Spanish Service-Learning; Romance Studies Department; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Department of Cultural Anthropology, and Office of Durham & Regional Affairs. Special thanks to Rafael Osuba, quickcolorprints.com
July 21, 2011 - Accion Emprendedora USA Meeting
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??Do you want to be a change agent and impact the lives of many Hispanic entrepreneurs that want to improve their businesses? Accion Emprendedora has a proven track record with more than 3.000 entrepreneurs trained in Chile with many of them having very successful results in their incomes and stability. And now we are bringing our model to Durham to support Hispanic entrepreneurs here in the road to success.
When: July 21st from 6 to 7pm
Where: Bull City Forward 101 W. Main Street, Durham, NC 27701 View map
RSVP and/or send questions to: asanchez@accionemprendedora.org
June 22, 2011 - Brasil 2014 the ugly face of the beautiful game with Christopher Gaffney
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?? Brasil 2014: The Ugly Face of the Beautiful Game, talk by: Christopher Gaffney-- Visiting Professor, School of Architecture and Urbanism-Universidade Federal Fluminense Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22ND- Noon to 1p.m. (a light lunch will be served) at Haiti Laboratory, Franklin Humanities Institute--Bay 4, SMITH WAREHOUSE, Duke University Dr. Gaffney's work on the World Cup has recently been quoted in Al Jazeera, The New York Times, the Guardian, Reuters, the Associated Press, ESPN, and multiple Brazilian media outlets. His first book, Temples of the Earthbound Gods (University of Texas Press 2006), examined the history and culture of soccer stadiums in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. Gaffney was a lecturer in the Departments of Geography and International Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill from 2006-2008, covered the Carolina RailHawks for the Independent Weekly and frequented the Triangle's pick up soccer games. His website, www.geostadia.com, analyzes the shifting political, economic, urban, and social dimensions of Brazil's current mega-event cycle. He lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. All are welcome. Parking is available next to Smith Warehouse along Buchanan Blvd.
June 21, 2011 - LATINO GALA GRADUATION
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?? LATINO GALA GRADUATION. Commencement speech by ARIEL DORFMAN. The "Latino Gala Graduation", will take place June 21st., 7pm-9:30pm at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The event will honor the 2011 graduates of El Centro Hispano's Adult Literacy Program "Plaza Comunitaria", and will give guests the opportunity to see firsthand the result of this education program. Everyone is invited! During this event, El Centro Hispano will also describe the work they currently do and seek support for their programs, which benefit the Triangle's Hispanic/Latino community. Your support will make it possible for El Centro to continue the education, health, community organizing and direct service programming to vulnerable community members. Thank you for your support of El Centro Hispano and for those in need in our community. [more] -- El Centro Hispano
June 17, 2011 - DPR Third Friday Latin Concert
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??PLAY MORE WITH DPR: Third Friday Latin Concert Friday, June 17 (6 p.m. - 8 p.m.) Durham Centre Plaza (top of the parking deck) 300 W. Morgan St. across from the Carolina Theatre--The Guillo Carias Trio's upbeat Latin rhythms will make you want to tap your feet or even get up and dance. Join us for an evening of fun, fellowship and entertainment. This event is free and will be held rain or shine. To learn more about Durham Parks and Recreation, visit www.DPRPlayMore.org or call (919) 560-4355. [more] -- Durham Parks and Recreation
June 09, 2011 - Tertulia Literaria, A Literary Gathering with Mexican Writer Jorge F. Hernandez
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The Consulate General of Mexico in Raleigh, North Carolina, in partnership with Rafael Osuba, is organizing a Literary Gathering with the Mexican writer Jorge F. Hernandez. Hernandez will be reading part of his work and signing his books. A mixer will follow for a more informal conversation with the author. The event will take place at the main facilities of the Consulate General of Mexico on Thursday, June 9th from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the general public. Space is limited so please send your rsvp to rsvp@consulraleigh.com or register at www.crecelatino.com
Jorge F. Hernandez is a PhD in History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and has taught in prestigious universities in Mexico City. His career as a writer includes essays, short stories, articles and novels. His novels "La Emperatriz de Lavapies" (The Empress of Lavapies) (Alfaguara, 1999) and "Requiem para un Angel" (Requiem for an Angel) (Alfaguara, 2009) have become very popular among the Spanish speaking public in Iberoamerica and the United States.
He recently published a compilation of short stories that has been translated into English entitled "Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories", represents a sample of the best Mexican short stories published during the first half of the 20th century featuring some of the most important writers of Hispanic literature. This masterpiece brings together stories written by well known authors such as the 1990 Literary Nobel Prize Winner Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Jose Arreola and Rosario Castellanos. It has been increasingly selected by Universities to teach Hispanic Literature.
May 28, 2011 - Zumbathon 2011: Zumba for a Cause
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El Centro Hispano invites the Triangle community to join the biggest Zumbathon Fundraiser May 28th at the Pavilion at Durham Central Park. 5:20pm-7:30pm (Free demo at 5pm). Purchase tickets at elcentronc.org or call 919-687-4635, ext. 46. Start the summer off right: Get UP get ACTIVE and get with the FAMILY FITNESS PARTY. Have a BLAST; Join the PARTY, and RAISE money for a FANTASTIC cause!
May 4-6: DECOLONIAL AESTHETICS: Workshop, Exhibit & Social Performance
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THE ANNUAL WORKSHOP OF THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDIES AND THE HUMANITIES. For more information please contact: tracy.carhart@duke.edu or visit http://trinity.duke.edu/
Workshop:
Wednesday, May 4: Brodie Duke Hall, The King's Daughters Inn 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday, May 5: Room 225 Friedl Building, East Campus 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, May 6: Room 225 Friedl Building, East Campus 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Exhibit:
Opening Reception Wednesday, May 4: Fredric Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building, East Campus 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Musical Performance by Ricardo Lambuley
Social Performance: The Nasher Museum of Art: Thursday, May 5: 6:45 PM - 8:00 PM Nomad Dream: Experimental interactive documentary and social performance by Raul Ferrera Balanquet with Ricardo Lambuley & Miguel Rojas-Sotelo
CO-SPONSORED BY At Duke: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Romances Studies Duke in the Andes the Program in Literature Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South From Abroad: Academia Superior de Artes de Bogota The Institute of Philosophy of ZRC SAZU Ljubljana, Slovenia The Roosevelt Academy (The Netherlands)
May 01, 2011 - PERNAMBUCO! Chamber music by Latin American composers
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Sunday, May 1, 3:00 pm
at Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (ERUUF)
4907 Garrett Road, Durham, NC
$18 in advance/ $20 at the door; $15 Educators; $5 Students w/ valid ID
Purchase tickets: www.mallarmemusic.org or (919) 560-2788
ABOUT MALLARME CHAMBER PLAYERS | The Mallarme Chamber Players is a flexible ensemble of professional musicians based in Durham, North Carolina, whose mission is to enrich the lives of their community through outstanding chamber music. The ensemble distinguishes itself by its innovative educational programs, its commitment to creative collaboration with other organizations, its creation of significant new work and its dedication to serve a diverse population.
Youthful Futures Conference: Africa & the Caribbean - this Friday & Saturday at Duke
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Youthful Futures: Africa & the Caribbean
Hosted by the Center for African and African American Research at Duke University
Friday 4/29 & Saturday 4/30, Friedl Building Room 225, East Campus. Please contact leigh.campoamor@duke.edu
for a more detailed schedule of speakers.
Seven out of ten
Africans south of the Sahara are under thirty, and four out of
ten under the age of fifteen. What comparisons might be drawn
with the Caribbean, a region that is transitioning from youthful
to aging if it is not yet graying (along with the rest of the
world)? The Center for African and African-American Research at
Duke University invites you to join us to discuss the
significance of population age structure in sub-Saharan Africa -
the only part of the world which will continue to grow younger
over the next two decades - and in the Caribbean, and to explore
the broad social, cultural and political implications of youth
demographics.
The Youthful
Futures conference will address these issues during five
sessions on Friday, April 29, and on Saturday morning, April 30.
Each session will feature speakers (30 minutes) with a
round-table discussion (1 hour) to follow. The number of
participants has been purposely restricted to permit direct and
lively exchanges. The singularity of this conference consists in
bringing together academics, policy makers, NGO field workers
and journalists. Its aim is to overcome the balkanization of the
youth question and, ultimately, to explore ways of keeping this
new and broader conversation going.
April 29, 2011 - Finals Study Break with Latino/a Studies!
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Students, join us on Friday 4/29 for a break from studying! Stop by the Latino/a Studies Resource Room, Friedl 124, between 1-4pm to unwind before finals start. We will have delicious tapas, including tamales, pupusas, and hojaldras. If you have any questions, email Michelle Bradshaw (mbb18@duke.edu). See you there!
April 29, 2011 - Cultural Competency in Medicine with Dr. Enrique Caballero
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The
Latino Medical Student Association would like to extend an invitation to the
Duke community. We will
be hosting a Cultural Competency presentation given by Dr. Enrique
Caballero, on April 29th at 12pm Duke South Amphitheater Room 0916. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about cultural
competency issues in medicine and to network with the leading diabetes
researcher in the Latino community. Also, food will be provided! http://www.joslin.org/care/
Racial and ethnic minorities in the United States suffer from type 2 diabetes and its complications at alarming high rates, according to A. Enrique Caballero, M.D. The rapidly increasing number of people from culturally diverse populations, the high rates of type 2 diabetes in these groups and the existence of diabetes care disparities between these groups and the White population contribute to a particular challenge in our current health care system--and these aspects form the basis for much of Dr. Caballero’s work at Joslin Diabetes Center.
Funded by the Multicultural Resource Center and the Department of Medicine.
April 28, 2011 - UNC-CH: "A Matter of the Few: Political Dynamics of Constitutional Reforms, Chile 1990-2010."
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Thursday, 4/28 at 5:30pm FedEx Global Education Center Room 2008.Please direct questions to Ali Stoyan, Dept. of Political Science, UNC-CH at stoyana@unc.edu.
Claudio Fuentes is Professor of Political
Science at the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile, and the Luksic
Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
at Harvard University. He
will present a talk entitled "A Matter of the Few: Political
Dynamics of Constitutional Reforms, Chile 1990-2010." The attached paper gives some background on
this topic; it is part of an ongoing book project entitled "Concertacion governments in Chile 1990-2010. Politics,
Economics and Social Policy under the Rainbow."
Sponsored by the Political Science Department at UNC-CH & the Duke-UNC Consortium Working Group on Social Policy, Labor, and the Informal Sector in Latin America.
April 27, 2011 - Duke FHI Haiti Lab Cholera Project Digital Map Unveiling
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Please join us for the unveiling of the Duke FHI Haiti Lab digital mapping project on 19th century Caribbean Cholera.3-4pm Bay 4, Smith Warehouse, Duke University
Who: Deborah Jenson, Victoria Szabo, and the Haiti Lab Student Research Team (Erin Cloninger, Matthew Hoyle, Alston Neville, Sedlin Mirtil, James Ivker, Dhrusti Patel, Edward Jernigan, Alfredo Rivera)
This is a collaborative project exploring both qualitative and quantitative data sources to deepen our understanding of cholera outbreaks in the Caribbean, especially as it allows us to understand the current Haitian epidemic.
WAS THERE EVER EPIDEMIC CHOLERA IN HAITI BEFORE 2010?
HOW LONG DID EPIDEMICS OF CHOLERA LAST IN THE CARIBBEAN IN THE 19TH CENTURY?
WERE THERE SEASONAL CORRELATIONS FOR 19TH CENTURY CARIBBEAN CHOLERA EPIDEMICS?
HOW DID SLAVERY AND COLONIAL/ANTICOLONIAL MILITARY CONFLICT CATALYZE CHOLERA EPIDEMICS?
WHAT CAN WE EXPECT OF CHOLERA IN HAITI IN 2011?
April 25, 2011 - Duke's Latino/a Graduate Student Association Final Meeting of the Year
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Duke's Latino/a Graduate Student Association invites you to join us on Monday, April 25th at 7pm in Friedl 225 for the final LGSA meeting of the year. The main item on the agenda is to promote new coordinators for next year, so we especially encourage those of you interested in taking a leadership role to attend. We will also discuss ideas for next year's events and activities. If you have any questions, please e-mail dukelgsa@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you on Monday!
Learn how to salsa!
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Basic Salsa Lessons every Friday! Lessons will be from 6:30-7:30pm and then an open dancing salsa social from 7:30-8pm. Von Canon in the Bryan Center (West Campus) $10/person/lesson CASH ONLY (part of proceeds go to Progressive Health Partnership).You can RSVP to the Facebook event Bring your friends! (in order to keep guy/girl ratio, bringing a partner highly encouraged)
April 20, 2011 - Entre Nos: A Conversation with Filmmaker Paola Mendoza
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Wednesday, April 20, 5:30-8:00PM in Perkins Library 217
Come watch the internationally acclaimed film, ENTRE NOS, which will begin at 5:30PM and will be followed by a discussion with Paola Mendoza, the film's lead actor, co-director, co-producer, and writer. If you have already seen it, please do join us for the discussion with Mendoza which starts at 7PM. As the final part of UCC, Political Affairs Committee brings Paola Mendoza, filmmaker, actor, and activist. ENTRE NOS is a film inspired by her mother's struggles upon her arrival in the United States, her family's commitment to survival and their relentless hope. Attendants will have the opportunity to openly discuss with Mendoza activism through art, immigration reform, immigrant family health and well-being, issues among immigrant women and mothers, children's roles, and the Moms for Family Unity campaign. A reception with refreshments will follow. She says of her work, "This is what I'm supposed to be doing. I wake up every morning, I breathe, live, dream about stories and how to get people's stories out there."
Sponsored by Mi Gente, Women's Housing Option, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke Wellness Center, and the Spanish Service-Learning Program.
Contact Stephanie Kenick stephanie.kenick@duke.edu for more information.
April 17, 2011 - Film presentation and talk on Witness for Peace
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Sunday, April 17, 5:00pm
CHICLE Language Institute offices, chicle@chi-cle.com, 919 933-0398
Open to anyone interested in joining the delegation or learning about Witness for Peace.
Witness for Peace and CHICLE are planning a trip to Oaxaca from June 11-19. The trip will be led by CHICLE's Sharon S. Mujica and Jane Stein. Today's program will be an information session about the trip, discussion, and a viewing of Witness for Peace's video The Roots of Migration. Community leader, Irene Godiniz and other past participants in Witness for Peace delegations to Mexico will be present to comment on their experiences on similar trips organized by Witness for Peace.
Witness for Peace is a politically independent, nationwide grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. WFP's mission is to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing U.S. policies and practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America.
The knowledgeable Witness for Peace Mexico Team in Oaxaca has extensive connections to people, organizations, and communities who will tell us the real story of migration in Mexico.
This trip is co-sponsored by the CHICLE Language Institute in Carrboro, NC.
April 16, 2011 - Mezcla
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As a part of Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW), Mi Gente is organizing MEZCLA, their annual multicultural showcase. Saturday April 16th, 2011 on the Main Quad from 2-5pm. Performing groups on campus will be competing for cash prizes to donate to charity. Come out and support Duke's talent and diversity!
Latino/a Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW)
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Thursday April 14, 2011 at 11pm
Cristopolis, Latino hip hop artist will be performing in Devil's Den.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214098188606902
Friday April 15th, 2011 at 7:00pm
The Rho Chapter of La Unidad Latino Fraternity Inc. will be hosting Noche Dorada, its annual banquet at the Wa.Duke Inn. Tickets will be sold in the Plaza this week.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212414128768945
Saturday, April 16th, 2011 at 2:00pm
Join Mi Gente at its annual multicultural show, MEZCLA. Performers such as the Pitchforks and Sabrosura will be competing for cash prizes to donate to charity in the Main Quad.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155807124478525
Saturday, April 16th 8:00pm
Mingle with pfrosh while partaking in various fun, interactive games at the LGBT Center. Cookout milkshakes will be provided.
April 16, 2011 - MEZCLA 2011: The Latin Grammys!
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As part of Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW), Mi Gente is organizing MEZCLA, our annual multicultural showcase! Join us Saturday April 16th, 2011 on the Main Quad from 2-5pm. Performing groups on campus will be competing for CASH prizes to donate to charity and YOU get to choose the winner! Come out and support Duke's talent and diversity and cheer on your favorite performer ! Bulkogi and Klausie's Pizza will be selling food during the event on food points/flex. Let's show prospective students what Duke is all about! Check out the Facebook Event
April 15, 2011 - Workshop with Patricia Kim-Rajal: "Assimilating America: Ugly Betty, Latina/o Identity, and Conditional Whiteness"
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A workshop with Patricia Kim-Rajal, sponsored by the Sociology Department’s Race and Ethnicity Workshop, the Latino/a Graduate Student Association and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
Friday April 15th at 10:00am in the Social-Psychology Building, Room 329 (McKinney Room). Light breakfast provided!
Patricia Kim-Rajal is a professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Sonoma State University. She specializes in Spanish-language media, Globalization, Latino audiences and Latino images in the media. Her current areas of research are "Ugly Betty", Telenovelas, and Gender and Globalization.
For more information on Patricia Kim-Rajal, view http://www.sonoma.edu/pubs/experts/kim-rajal.shtml
April 14, 2011 - "Reggaeton vs. Hip Hop" with artist Cristopolis
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The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, with support from Mi Gente and SOFC, presents Latino artist Cristopolis. Cristopolis will be discussing "Reggaeton vs. Hip Hop" on April 14th at 10:05am in Friedl 225. His presentation will be on the relationship between Reggaeton and Latin Hip-Hop within the Urban Latino genre and culture. Light breakfast will be provided. For more information on Cristopolis, see http://www.cristopolis.com/html/slideshow.php
April 14, 2011 - Cristopolis: Latino Hip Hop Concert
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11pm Devil's Den, Central Campus
This concert is *Free* so come out and enjoy some great music with friends!
Cristopolis is a Latino Hip Hop artist based in Washington, D.C. He is a trilingual emcee who performs in English, Spanish and French.
This will be his second performance at Duke and everyone who was there last year can tell you that this a concert you don't want to miss!
Sponsored by Mi Gente, SOFC and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
You can read more about Cristopolis and listen to his music at his website: www.cristopolis.com
April 16, 2011 - NC State University "Center Stage" presents Emeline Michel
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NC State University "Center Stage" presents Emeline Michel on April 14, 8 pm, in Stewart Theatre. ??Pre-show discussion with the aforementioned violinist, 7pm, Walnut Room.
Emeline Michel is the reigning queen of Haitian song. She is a captivating performer, versatile vocalist and one of the premier Haitian songwriters of her generation. She combines traditional rhythms with inspiring lyrics, merging native Haitian compas and rara with jazz, pop, bossa nova and samba. Emeline performed on the Center Stage series last season as the vocal soloist for Daniel Bernard Roumain's Darwin's Meditation for the People of Lincoln; rumor has it that her band will be joined by a guest artist with flying dreads and a hot violin. This performance is presented as part of the NC State University Haitian Celebration.
For more information, please see the NCSU Center Stage website (http://www.ncsu.edu/centerstage/currentseason/emelinemichel.html) or Emeline Michel's homepage (http://www.emeline-michel.com/).
April 14, 2011 - Farmworker Institute & Networking Event
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011 9 am-4:30 pm at the United Church of Chapel Hill. Farmworker advocates across the state will have the opportunity to network, learn, and update each other on the latest issues that affect North Carolina farmworkers. Do you want to be a volunteer? Contact April at asimon@mail.nccu.edu Do you want to be a sponsor? Contact Norma at marti.norma@gmail.com For general information or if you are interested in leading a workshop, contact Mary Johnson Rockers at Mary.j.rockers@dhhs.nc.gov More information, including registrations coming on March 1st 2011 www.ncfarmworkers.org
Duke Today covers visit of Peace Corps Director
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Duke Today featured an article on the visit of Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams on February 18, 2010. [more]
Duke Chronicle covers visit of Peace Corps Director
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The Duke Chronicle featured two articles about the visit of Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams on February 18, 2010. [more, alt.]
DCID SAFEA program featured in Duke Chronicle
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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]
DCID Customized Executive Education Program featured on Kazakhstan Civil Service website
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DCID's training for officials from the Republic of Kazakhstan was featured on Kazakhstan's Agency of Civil Service Affair's website. [more]
DCID finds a home on Facebook.com
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Join our Facebook network of students, staff, faculty and alumni!
April 12, 2011 - CANCELLED: Veronica Cruz Sanchez: 10 Years of Fighting for Reproductive Rights in Guanajuato.
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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Named Human Rights Defender 2006 by Human Rights Watch, Sanchez has worked for 15 years to advance and defend women's reproductive rights in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Join us as she talks about the work of Centro Las Libres fighting the criminalization of reproductive rights and the future of women's health in Mexico.
Sponsored by the Women's Center, International House, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and the Baldwin Scholars.
April 11, 2011 - "Interpreting Disaster": Duke Provost's Lecture Sesries with Damin Cave, New York Times
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Provost's Lecture Series: Natural Disasters and Human Responses. Monday, April 11, 2011
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Social Sciences Building, Room 139.
Please direct questions about this event to susan.booth@duke.edu
Damien Cave
The New York Times Correspondent, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
Three years after covering Iraq at the height of its sectarian war, Damien Cave found himself amidst the countless dead of Haiti's disastrous earthquake. He will discuss how reporters tackle the challenges of traumatic stories - how they get to where they need to be, how they choose which stories to tell, and how they are impacted by what they experience.
Damien Cave is a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, based in Mexico City. Along with two other reporters, he covers Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
From 2008 to 2010 he served as the Times' Miami bureau chief. In addition to covering the earthquake in Haiti, his coverage of Florida ranged widely from recession, politics, and veterans to out-of-control bunnies.
His previous assignment was in Baghdad. There, he wrote extensively about the American troop surge and the consequences of violence; and he was among a team of Times reporters who were finalists for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. He also led a smaller group that won the 2008 Overseas Press Club award for best international coverage on the Web.
Prior to Iraq, he covered New York's City Hall and Newark, N.J., where he founded the paper's first political blog, Newark '06, to cover Cory Booker's successful run for mayor. His music, arts and culture coverage has appeared in other sections of the Times, and before joining the paper in 2004, Damien worked as a staff writer and editor at Rolling Stone magazine and at Salon.com - though he started his journalism career in Bolivia as a freelancer.
Born in Oregon and raised in Worcester, Mass., he has a B.A. from Boston College and an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He is married to Diana Oliva Cave, a video and multimedia journalist who was also a part of The Times's Baghdad bureau, and with whom he often works wherever the news takes them.
You can follow Damien on Twitter @damiencave.
April 08, 2011 - The Department of Romance Studies Undergraduate Research Conference: Old Worlds, New Worlds, Future Worlds
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The conference is from 8:30am-5pm. Stop by for the The Latino/a Studies panel at 11:00am. Room 240 John Hope Franklin Center. Lunch at 12pm will be catered by Foster's Market.
11:00 AM Borders, Bodies, and Beats: Questioning the Latino Construction in Popular Culture
Moderator: Claudia Milian
Michelle Crow-Updating Borders: Anzaldua and Papa Papa
Rebecca Feinglos-The 'Girl Power' Latina: Does 'Dora the Explorer' reflect a changing image of Latina femininity in popular Culture?
Camilla Vignaud- "Colonized through Beats."
Dominique Villegas-The Bombshell from Macondo: Exploring the Unintelligible Otherness of Modern Family's Gloria Delgado-Pritchett
April 09, 2011 - UNC-CH: Sones de Mexico Ensemble
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Join us at The ArtsCenter: for a set of shows celebrating the richness of Mexico's varied regional "sons", or music and dance styles
11:00 a.m. Fiesta Mexicana a SuperFun Family Show
Tickets: $7 (kids 2 and under free)
7:30 p.m. Sones de Mexico Concert
Tickets: $12 in advance/$14 day of show/$30 pack of 3
Call The ArtsCenter Box Office at 919-929-2787 ext 201 or purchase online by clicking the links above.
Sones de Mexico performs
Fiesta Mexicana in a morning family-focused show, and takes
the stage again in the evening to present a concert of original
interpretations of Mexican traditional music. The band's members play a
wide array of instruments - guitars in a variety of sizes; percussion
made from donkey bones, tortoise shells, and deer antlers; and a wooden
box called the "tarima" played with hard heeled dancing shoes. This
Grammy-nominated group is known for bringing rock-n-roll energy to
their performances. Viva Mexico!
April 08, 2011 - UNC-CH: Living Juarez: Collateral Damage in Mexico's Drug War
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A film screening and discussion with Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy. From 12:00-1:30pm at the FedEx Global Education Education Center.
April 09, 2011 - UNC-CH: "The State of Latina/o Education in North Carolina"
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Saturday, April 9th from 10:00-11:00 am at the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, Seminar Wing, Craige North Residence Hall.
April 07, 2011 - Mi Gente's Last Latino Open Forum of the Semester
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Thursday April 7th, at 7pm. Location TBD Email Catherine Castillo with questions
catherine.castillo@duke.edu.
At the previous Latino Open Forums this semester a variety of issues were discussed such as the new housing model, the lack of visible minority faculty/administration/leaders, the ineffective recruitment of students for low-income neighborhoods and the lack of space for Latino students (such as the BSA office in OSAF).
We invite you to come share your thoughts on these issues or whatever you feel needs to be addressed to better serve the needs of Latino students on campus. In order to ensure that our voice is heard, it is also necessary for us to come up with a concrete plan of action to seek our demands. This last open forum will focus specifically on the steps we need to take to acquire our own space on campus and to increase the number of Latino faculty and administration who can serve as mentors for students.
Bring your dinner, invite your friends, and come ready to discuss!
April 07, 2011 - UNC-CH: Valley of Shadow a Dream: Documenting Change in California's San Joaquin Valley
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Thursday, April 7, 4:00 p.m. at Hamilton Hall, Room 271 (UNC-CH). Presentation by Ken Light, Graduate School of Journalism University of California - Berkeley.
April 07, 2011 - UNC-CH: Allison Bigelow's “hallandome como me hallo yndefensa: The Translation of Gender into the Colonial Sciences of the Americas
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Please join us on Thursday, April 7 at 4 pm in Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall, UNC. Refreshments will be served as always. For more information please visit the Furst Forum website (http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/complit/furst) or contact via email (rgaronzi@email.unc.edu or smriley@email.unc.edu).
Our final Furst Forum talk of the semester will feature Allison Bigelow, PhD. Candidate in English and Comparative Literature.
Allison will be presenting “hallandome como me hallo yndefensa: The Translation of Gender into the Colonial Sciences of the Americas.”
April 01, 2011 - Batizado and Capoeira Performance
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Open and free to the public. Friday April 1st 7-9pm in the Ark Dance Studio on East Campus. For more information contact Katya Wesolowski at kw87@duke.edu / (919) 660-7087
April 01, 2011 - Capoeira Master Class @ Duke
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Open and free to the public. Friday, April 1st 4:25-6pm in the Ark Dance Studio on East Campus. For more information contact Katya Wesolowski at kw87@duke.edu / (919) 660-7087
Capoeira is a dynamic Afro-Brazilian fighting art that incorporates dance, self-defense, acrobatics and music.
Please join awarding-winning Brazilian capoeira performer and teacher, Mestranda Marcia Treidler of ABADA-CAPOEIRA, students from the Duke Capoeira Class, students from Walltown Children's Theatre and other special guests in a celebration of capoeira!
March 31, 2011 - UNC-CH: Militarized Masculinities, US Imperialism & Transpacific Encounters: Puerto Rican Soldiers in the Korean War, 1950-1953
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Militarized Masculinities, US Imperialism & Transpacific Encounters: Puerto Rican Soldiers in the Korean War, 1950-1953 by Junyoung Veronica Kim, The City University of New York. Thursday, March 31, 5:30 pm at the FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 In August of 1950, two months after the outbreak of the Korean War, the 65th Infantry Regiment – an all-volunteer Puerto Rican regiment of the United States Army – was dispatched to fight in what will be (dis)remembered as the “forgotten war.” It was precisely in this war, which would set the tone for US Cold War policy in the Pacific, that “The Borinqueneers” (a nickname for the 65th Infantry Regiment) became recognized as brave and loyal American soldiers. Consequentially, in its preceding wars overseas, the US military would rely heavily on its colonial subjects turned national soldiers. How did the Korean War provide the necessary geopolitical condition for the transformation of suspect colonial subjects into brave patriotic national soldiers? What is the relation between US neoimperial policy in South Korea and its colonial rule of Puerto Rico? This talk will address these questions by focusing on the multivalent relationship between military labor and masculine sexuality in the overlapping contexts of class/racial stratification, the urbanization and primitive accumulation of Puerto Rico under the guise of modernization, the rising transnational anticommunism, and the neocolonizing capitalist logic of US policy in Asia. The first part of the talk will analyze the US state’s role in the mobilization of colonial working-class male sexuality as military labor, and the second part, will explore Emilio Diaz Valcarcel’s literary representations of Puerto Rican military labor in the Korean War, in particular his short stories “El soldado Damian Sanchez” and “Proceso en diciembre”. Sponsored by UNC-CH’s Latina/o Studies Speakers Series and the Institute for the Study of the Americas
March 31, 2011 - Making Memory Matter: The National Stadium of Chile and the Politics of Post-Dictatorship Memory
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??The Garage Speaker/Presenter: Wally Kuntsmann. March 31, 2011 from 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM at the Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. This talk will be in Spanish and will be simultaneously translated into English. ??For information, see the Duke Human Rights Center, call (919) 668-6511 or email rights@duke.edu
??After the 1973 military coup that deposed Chile's democratically-elected president, Salvador Allende, Santiago's National Stadium was converted into a site of detention, torture, and death. Two US citizens - Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi - were among the murdered. Human rights activist Wally Kuntsmann is President of the Santiago-based Metropolitan Organization of Ex Political Prisoners and a member of a group that is creating Estadio Nacional: Memoria Nacional, a public memorial at the National Stadium that promotes human rights by preserving memory. Ms. Kunstmann is a former militant in Chile's communist party and was forced into exile in Maracay, Venezuela. She is the co-founder of the Solidarity Committee with Chile, the Pablo Neruda Cultural Center, and president of the Casa Chile of Maracay. ??Sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center and cosponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Archives for Human Rights.
March 31, 2011 - Frances-Anne Solomon: "*I'm Nobody if not a Nation: the Age of Film in duke
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For you film buffs...a treat, with visuals..
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 5:00 pm in Room 225 Friedl Building, East Campus.
Frances-Anne Solomon is a Trinidadian-Canadian-British film maker, writer, producer and entrepreneur, CEO of Caribbean Tales. Caribbean Tales is a Canada-based multimedia company that produces educational videos, radio programs, audio books, theatre plays, and websites drawn from stories of the Caribbean Diaspora.
Ms. Solomon's best-known work includes /What My Mother Told Me/, a semi-autobiographical story of domestic violence in the context of a middle class Caribbean family: and /Peggy Su!/ produced by BBC Films. Set in a Chinese laundry in Liverpool in the 60's, it remains one of the only British films to depict the lives of the Chinese in Britain. /Lord Have Mercy/ produced with Claire Prieto and Vanz Chapman, was Canada's first multicultural sitcom, and starred Russell Peters alongside Caribbean stars Leonie Forbes and Dennis "Sprangalang" Hall. /A Winter Tale/, CityTV 2007, depicts a Caribbean-Canadian community plagued by gun violence in Toronto. (The Lilly library has a couple of her films, and they're ordering more).
Sponsored by the UNC-Duke Caribbean Studies Working Group in a Global Era and supported by the reading
group, Islands, Images, Imaginaries* and the *Dept. of African and African American Studies* at Duke
March 30, 2011 - “Elections and Democracy in Latin America, 2009-2010”
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Wednesday, March 30th at 5:30pm.
Room 4003, FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-CH Questions:
Please contact Ali Stoyan, Dept. of Political Science, UNC-CH at stoyana@unc.edu
Manuel Alcantara is Vice-Rector and Professor of Political Science and administration at the Universidad de Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. His research focuses on parliamentary elites, political parties and legislative powers in Latin America, as well as on electoral behavior and public opinion in Castilla y Leon. He will present a talk entitled: "Elections and Democracy in Latin America, 2009-2010."
Sponsored by:
The Political Science Department at UNC-CH & the Duke-UNC Consortium Working Group on Social Policy, Labor, and the Informal Sector in Latin America
March 30, 2011 - Capoeira Master Class @ Duke
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Open and free to the public. Wednesday, March 30th 4:25-6pm in the Hull St. Dance Studio For more information contact Katya Wesolowski at kw87@duke.edu / (919) 660-7087
Capoeira is a dynamic Afro-Brazilian fighting art that incorporates
dance, self-defense, acrobatics and music.
Please join awarding-winning Brazilian capoeira performer and teacher, Mestranda Marcia Treidler of ABADA-CAPOEIRA, students from the Duke Capoeira Class, students from
Walltown Children's Theatre and other special guests
in a celebration of capoeira!
March 29, 2011 - "Thinking about Grad School? Tips and Strategies for Pursuing Academia" with Professor Monika Gosin
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This one-hour informal lunchtime talk will focus on basic tips and strategies for preparing for graduate school and pursuing academia. Friedl 225 at noon. Lunch provided - Please RSVP to jennysw@duke.edu. Topics will include describing your research interests for personal statements, networking with professors, and choosing a graduate program. Geared towards students in the Social Sciences and Humanities but all students are welcome. Presented by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
March 28, 2011 - Harvest of Dignity Screening & Dinner
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Please join SAF, Mi Gente and Duke Students for Humane Borders for a dinner and screening of Harvest of Dignity, a brand new film by Minnow Media. This will take place at the Refectory Cafe Duke Divinity School
March 28th, 2011, 7-9pm with guest speakers. Tickets are $15 for the screening & a delicious meal from the Refectory Cafe. For more information, email saf-unite@duke.edu
Harvest of Dignity uses documentary photos and interviews done by SAF interns, film footage with North Carolina farmworkers, legislators and educators, and clips from the original Harvest of Shame documentary, made 50 years ago, and explores the conditions migrant and seasonal farmworkers still face in the United States today.
The Refectory Cafe is hosting the event and will have a meal of local meat pasta or dal & rice, garden salad, rolls & butter, freshly brewed unsweet tea, coffee, and a petite sweets platter, all for $15 (Duke Students can use food points).
A panel discussion will follow the film where you can learn more about the Harvest of Dignity Campaign and how you can be involved.
March 28, 2011 - UNC-CH: "The Other Latin@" by Lorraine M. Lopez
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The UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series presents:
The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Cultural Identity
Lorraine M. Lopez from Vanderbilt University. 6 PM, Monday, March 28, 2011 at the Institute for the Arts & Humanities, University Room of Hyde Hall, UNC - Chapel Hill. Q & A and book-signing to follow.
Lorraine M. Lopez's first book Soy la Avon Lady and Other Stories won the inaugural Miguel Marmol Prize. Her second book Call Me Henri was awarded the Paterson Prize, and her novel The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters was a Borders/Las Comadres Selection. Lopez's Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories was a Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize. She has edited a collection of essays titled An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on Their Poor or Working-Class Roots (University of Michigan Press, 2009). Her forthcoming works include a novel, "The Realm of Hungry Spirits" and an edited collection of essays, "The Other Latin@." Sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, the Institute for the Arts & Humanities, and the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative
March 27, 2011 - Latino/a Graduate Student Association and the Latino/a Medical Student Association Mixer!
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You're invited to attend the Latino/a Graduate Student Association and the Latino/a Medical Student Association Mixer! We're joining forces to bring Duke's graduate and professional Latino community together! Come join us for wine, beer, snacks and community!! Sunday, March 27th at 7pm in Friedl Buidling Room 115, Jameson Gallery Supported by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University. No need to RSVP. We hope to see you there! If you have questions, please contact Duke LGSA at dukelgsa@gmail.com
UNC-CH: SLI Salsa Night with Charanga Carolina
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Join us on Friday, March 25th at the Kenan Music Building for a great time and support scholarships for students in the Scholars' Latino Initiative. Salsa dance lessons will be offered at 6pm, so you can dance like a pro when the band starts. Tickets will also be sold at the door. $7 for a single ticket or $10 for two tickets (bring friends, a date, family, (seriously) anyone!).
The acclaimed Charanga Carolina and Pavlid Castaneda are partnering
with the Scholars' Latino Initiative to provide a night of great music,
dancing and fun for UNC's campus and the greater Chapel Hill community.
Check out Charanga Carolina's facebook page by clicking here:
UNC's Charanga Carolina.
March 24, 2011 - Political Ecologies of Post-Extractive Development in Ecuador: Geographies of Hope or of Dis(ex)tractions?
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Thursday, March 24th. 130 John Hope Franklin Center. 2204 Erwin Road, Duke University. 4.00pm. Event organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University and the Working Group on Political Imaginaries (LAPI). More information: las@duke.edu - (919) 681 3883.
The Ecuadorian people and much of the world seem to be celebrating post-extractive and "anti-imperialist" development (because of the Yasuni-ITT and the recent ruling on the Chevron-Texaco case) in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region. Yet, the purpose of this talk is two-fold.
-It asks if these post-extractive actions in the Amazon are anything more than a dis(ex)traction from the ways that the Ecuadorian state continues violent and extractive CO2lonial processes within the Afro-descendant and Indigenous territories of the Pacific Region? -It underscores the agro-ecological and cultural life practices and the inter-ethnic networks through which the ancestral peoples of Northwest Pacific Region construct and sustain "geographies of hope" amid landscapes characterized by fallen forests, poisoned rivers, social conflicts, and a sea of oil palms.
By Julianne Hazlewood, Geography Department, National University of Ireland, Galway
Preparatory talk for the Workshop: "Territory, Life, and Freedom in the Pacific Rain Forest Region of Colombia and Ecuador," UNC-CH March 25-27, 2011.
March 24, 2011 - UNC-CH: Reflections on Collaborative Feminist Research on Citizenship
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Reflections on Collaborative Feminist Research on Citizenship. Kathleen Coll and Kia Caldwell. March 24, 2011 at 4pm at the Global Education Center, Room 3009. Kathleen Coll and Kia Caldwell will discuss their involvement in the Inter-University Working Group on Gender and Cultural Citizenship and the dynamics of collaborative feminist research. Coll and Caldwell are co-editors of Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Culture, Activism, and Knowledge Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
March 23, 2011 - Brazilian Documentary Film Series: Framing Inequality and Social Justice- Jogo de Cena (Playing)
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Please join us for the North Carolina premiere of Jogo de Cena, the second film in the Brazilian Documentary Film Series, introduced by Aaron Lorenz, Post-Doctoral Associate for Brazilian Studies. Wednesday, March 23rd from 7-9pm in the Richard White Lecture Hall. For the complete schedule, please click here, and for more information, please contact Aaron Lorenz (aaron.lorenz@duke.edu), Post-Doctoral Associate in Luso-Brazilian Studies.
In this self-reflexive documentary, veteran filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho interviews 23 women who responded to a newspaper advertisement he placed that asked them to narrate an important moment in their lives. Mixing their interviews with improvised reenactments of the interviews by actresses, Coutinho calls attention to the performative quality of interpretation and confounds the audience's ability to distinguish between reality and fiction.
The documentary also calls attention to the profound depth and beauty of personal experience.
-- Winner of the APCA Trophy for Best Film at the 2008 Sao Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards, and the Jury Awards for Best Documentary & Best Documentary Director at the 2008 Premio Contigo Cinema, Brazil!
(Eduardo Coutinho, 2007, 105 min, Brazil, Portuguese w/ English Subtitles, Color, DVD)
Sponsored by Romance Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image.
March 23, 2011 - UNC-CH: Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American Politics
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Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American Politics.
Kathleen Coll, Stanford University. March 23, 2011 at the Global Education Center, Room 4003
5:30 - 7:00 pm.
Weaving the stories of Mexican and Central American women with history and analysis of the anti-immigrant upsurge in 1990s California, Kathleen Coll will discuss the impact of reform legislation on individual women's lives and their engagement in grassroots political organizing. Drawing on Latina immigrants' accounts of personal and political transformation, Coll argues for a reformulation of our definitions of citizenship and politics.
Sponsored by the Curriculum in Women's Studies, the Diversity Incentive Fund, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies.
March 22, 2011 - CANCELLED: Race and Ethnicity Workshop with Dr. Aida Hurtado
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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED, DUE TO FAMILY ILLNESS - The Sociology Department's Race and Ethnicity Workshop is delighted to bring Dr. Aida Hurtado to campus with the support of the Program in Latina/o Studies in the Global South at Duke and the Latino/a Graduate Student Association. Her talk will be from 12-1:30pm on March 22nd in Soc/Psych Room 329. Lunch will be provided. Her presentation will focus on her forthcoming book entitled "Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys: Invisible No More." Dr. Hurtado is the Luis Leal Endowed Chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
March 21, 2011 - Jose Munoz discusses new book "Cruising Utopia"
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Join us for Jose Munoz's discussion of his new book, Cruising Utopia: The Politics and Performance of Queer Futurity, March 21 in the Nelson Music Room from 4:30-6:30pm. ??Organized by the program in the study of sexualities; co-sponsored by the Women's Studies, Literature, Latino/a Studies, Theater Studies, and the FHI.
??Jose Esteban Munoz is Chair of the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is the author of Cruising Utopia and other works.
March 22, 2011 - "389 Miles" Documentary Screening
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Join Duke Students for Humane Borders and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South for the Screening of the Award-Winning Documentary, "389 Miles: Living the Border" + a Q&A with the Arizona-based filmmaker, LuisCarlos Davis. Tuesday March 22 at 6pm in (tentative) Social Sciences Building 136. Dinner will be provided.
"389 Miles" is a highly acclaimed documentary that tracks border native LuisCarlos's journey along the 389 miles that make up the Arizona-Mexico border. The film is filled with the voices of the border, from the migrants, men, women, and unaccompanied children who have attempted the dangerous desert journey; to the border enforcement; to the political figures--and for the first time on film, to a one-on-one interview with a coyote, the human smuggler paid thousands to guide immigrants through the Sonora desert. Davis takes a novel approach to the immigrant story with the film, one that will draw in anyone interested in Latino Studies, immigration, women's issues, human rights, border concerns, or the broader struggles that characterize life on both sides of the border.
About the filmmaker: Born and raised in the border town of Nogales, Davis produced "389 Miles" as his thesis project, with just a film camera in hand. Consequently, the film has shown at several festivals and won multiple audience awards. Davis was named "Man of the Year" by the Arizona Daily Star for his film and work with at-risk youth in border area.
Watch the trailer: http://www.389miles.com/trailer.html
March 21, 2011 - CANCELLED: Dinner discussion with Dr. Aida Hurtado
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APOLOGIES - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED, DUE TO FAMILY ILLNESS. The Program in Latina/o Studies in the Global South is hosting a dinner discussion with Dr. Aida Hurtado on Monday, March 21st from 6:30-8pm in Friedl 225. The discussion will focus on a chapter from her upcoming book entitled "Where the Boys Are: Explaining Young Latino Men's Educational Achievement." Dinner will be provided, but please RSVP to sarah.mayorga@duke.edu with RSVP in the subject line.
Dr. Hurtado is the Luis Leal Endowed Chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
March 19, 2011 - UNC-CH: Global American South Conference
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce its fifth interdisciplinary conference on the globalization of the southern United States, focusing on the effects of the 2007- 2008 economic crisis on the region. The conference will take place at the UNC Center for Global Initiatives. For more information, see http://globalsouth.unc.edu/program/ or call +1 919 962 6855 The conference in March 2011 will bring together academics, policy makers, and practitioners from North Carolina, the southern region, and beyond. A collaboration between the Center for Global Initiatives, the Global Research Institute, and the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC, the goals of the conference are to identify, analyze, and engage the key problems arising from or associated with the crisis, and to further the development of appropriate policy responses.
March 18, 2011 - El Kilombo's Cimarron Latin Night
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Don't miss this Friday's Cimarron Latin Night! Expect 2 awesome DJs on 2 awesome dance floors a the the Marvell Event Center! Free salsa lesson at 9:30pm led by Paso Salsa Studio Instructors! Dancing from 10-2am. Proceeds benefit El Kilombo nonprofit community center!
3rd Fridays of the month.
We're not bringing just any DJ for the Reggaeton/Merengue/Bachata/House floor! We're bringing "Dj Travieso El Mas Rankiiao," probably one of the best urban Djs in the Triangle! Combine that with DJ Salsa Mike on the top floor, playing the finest mix of salsa for all you salsero/as out there.
www.clubcimarron.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.
http://www.facebook.com/group.
March 17, 2011 - Duke in LA spring 2012 information meeting
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The Duke in Los Angeles spring 2012 semester program on
Thursday, March 17 (tomorrow), in Languages 211, starting at 5:00pm.
This will be a good opportunity for students to learn more about Duke in LA
and to speak with Jim Thompson and students currently enrolled in the program.
During this information meeting, the locally-based program director, Jim
Thompson - making a special visit to Duke this week- will be on hand to discuss
the program, along with a Duke student or two who are currently enrolled in the
program and will be in Durham for their spring break.
Jennifer Valentyn and Paul Paparella will also be attending this meeting representing the
Duke Global Education Office to answer any questions related to the office's policies and procedures
for domestic programs.
Don't forget that you can also go to the Duke Global Education website (http://global.duke.edu/geo)
for additional details on our domestic programs, including dates and fees,
student accommodations, etc.
Please note that some of the information for spring
2012 is still being updated on our website.
March 17, 2011 - UNC-CH: HIV in Guatemala: Social, Structural, and Behavioral Factors
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HIV in Guatemala: Social, Structural, and Behavioral Factors, Dr. Clare Barrington, Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education Department, 12:00-1:00pm, Room 1301, McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC.
March 16, 2011 - "The Guestworker: Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte" A Documentary Film by Dr. Charles Thompson
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This documentary explores the H2A Guest Worker program from both sides of the border, raising questions about labor and immigration policies, the agriculture system, and human rights. "The Guestworker" is the story of a North Carolina farm and Candelario, a Mexican agricultural laborer who strives to "work harder than all the others."
The film is being shown in connection with Public Policy 264S course "Narratives of Development: Stories of Poverty." Following the screening, two students will interview Dr. Charles Thompson, the director and producer of the film. A third student, who is not connected with the course, is being sought for this exchange. If you would like to volunteer, please be in touch with Prof. Catherine Admay at admay@duke.edu or with Tori Wilmarth at vaw@duke.edu
This screening is free and open to the public.
Learn more about the film at: http://theguestworker.com/
March 15, 2011 - Third Annual Languages and Pedagogy Discussion Series
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"Curriculum 2000 in 2011" A Town Hall Discussion with Dean Lee Baker. Tuesday March 15, at 5pm in the Languages Building, Room 305. Reception to follow. Please direct questions to debsreis@duke.edu.
March 05, 2011 - Brazilian Carnival for kids and adults in Durham!
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Thousands of people will be celebrating Carnival in Rio, on Saturday, March 5th. So, we thought we'd bring a little Brazilian Culture right here to Durham. There will be a party for kids and a party for adults, next Saturday! At 105 W. Corporation St. (corner of N Mangum St. in Downtown Durham)
From 6-8 pm: Bring the family out for our Carnival art night.
At 10 pm
: Samba, Capoeira performance, caipirinhas and much more.
While we're partying, we're raising funds at the door to sustain the Terreiro de Arte e Cultura. The Terreiro is a 100% grassroots, all-volunteer, non-profit Afro-Brazilian cultural arts center. Our work is focused on cultural arts education based on character building, cultural exchange, and community involvement in the artistic process.
We are asking for donations anywhere between $0-$50.
March 02, 2011 - Duke AAAS Working Group talk on informal adoption, servitude, and race in Brazil
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The African and African American Studies (AAAS) Graduate Student Working Group
at Duke University invites you to a talk by graduate student Elizabeth
Hordge-Freeman, "Family bonds and bondage: Pseudo-adoptions and unpaid
servitude in Salvador, Brazil." Wednesday, March 2, at 5pm in Friedl 225.
For more information or to inquire about presenting your research, please
contact Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell at (cgreend@duke.edu) or Anne Phillips (anne.phillips@duke.edu).
Refreshments will be served.
This paper by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (doctoral candidate, sociology, Duke) will explore how the legacy of slavery and servitude contribute to the contemporary exploitation of black women within the context of "adoptive" families in Salvador, Bahia. She will explore how notions of family and the informal adoption practice called ""criacao" allow black women to continue to be exploited in slave-like conditions under the guise of adoption. The dynamics that emerge in these family relationships reflect exploitation but because they are also associated with high levels of affection (sentimental ties), these relationships endure. These contradictions are a microcosm of the way that race functions more generally in Brazil.
March 01, 2011 - UNC-CH: Talk by Joselina da Silva on African Brazilian Movement
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A Social History of the African Brazilian Movement:
Twentieth-Century Perspectives.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Global Education Center, Room 4003
UNC-Chapel Hill.
Professor Joselina da Silva,
Department of Sociology,
Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
Sponsored by the Department of African & Afro-American Studies, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black History and Culture, the Institute of African American Research, and The Institute for the Study of the Americas
March 01, 2011 - UNC-CH: Opening Reception for Trayectos de Papel/Paper Trajectories
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Trayectos de Papel is a series of works on paper by Carolina Loyola Garcia. Join us for the opening reception and the opportunity to speak with the artist herself on March 1, 5-8pm at the The Carolina Latina/o Collaborative. For more information, please contact unc-clc@unc.edu.
??The exhibit will run March 1-June 1 2011, Monday-Friday 10am-7pm.
??Carolina Loyola Garcia is a Chilean media artist working in the US, whose work reflects upon such issues as biculturalism, language, technology, and post-colonialism, among others. Her work ranges from single-channel videos to video installations or 2D digital prints, and has been exhibited in festivals and art shows nationally and internationally. Formally, she explores the possibilities that digital media offers for layering as a means to communicate various levels of discourse. She studied theatre, film and video in Chile, and received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Visit Carolina Loyola Garcia'a website at http://www.
View an artist statement and bio at http://www.art.cfa.cmu.edu/
Sponsored by the CLC, the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, and the UNC Art Department.
February 24, 2011 - - Feb 26: The Black Atlantic and the Biographical Turn Symposium
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February 24-26 2011. The symposium will take place at the National Humanities Center. $35 registration fee includes all sessions and meals.
Graduate students with a valid ID may register for free by contacting Martha Johnson at 919-549-0661 x110.
In recent years, historians, writers, and others have begun to produce a surge of studies of the "black Atlantic" organized around particular life stories. Their approaches build on, and also suggest the limitations of, several waves of scholarship over the last generation. What are the opportunities and limitations of this biographical turn?
This symposium brings together leading scholars in Atlantic, American, American, Caribbean, European, and African history to discuss new works in progress and to consider the theoretical implications, possibilities, and dangers of the "biographical turn" for histories of the early modern and modern Atlantic world.
February 24, 2011 - Reception for "al margen" exhibit by Petra Barth
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An opening reception for the "al margen" exhibit will be held on February 24th from 4-6pm at the Frederic Jameson Gallery in the Friedl Building. The reception will include a panel, followed by a reception and gallery tour by Petra Barth. Please direct questions to Karen Glynn (karen.glynn@duke.edu; 919-660-5968).
A
panel of Duke and UNC faculty will discuss issues of poverty,
marginalization, environmental degradation, and responses to disaster
and crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean. Panelists include Dennis
Clements, director of the Center for Latin America and Caribbean
Studies at Duke, who also serves in Duke Children's Primary Care and
the Duke Global Health Institute; Erika Weinthal, associate professor
of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment; and
Sandy Smith-Nonini, adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Please see the full description of the exhibit, artist, organizers, and sponsors under our News page.
February 24, 2011 - Latino/a Studies' February Receso (Take a Break from the Day's Grind)
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Join us for our monthly Receso! This month's Receso will take place Thursday February 24th from 3-5pm in the Latino/a Studies' resource room (Friedl 124). In addition to Latino snacks, join us for the reception the for "al margen" exhibit by Petra Barth located in the Frederic Jameson Gallery in the Friedl Building.
Find out what the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South has to offer YOU (including events, an undergrad certificate, cool courses, travel awards, and more)!
Geared toward undergrads.
February 21, 2011 - UNC-CH: 2011 Ethnic Minority Visiting Scholar Lecture, "Children of the Road" presented by Mary Lou de Leon Siantz.
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The School of Nursing at UNC-Chapel Hill presents the 2011 Ethnic Minority Visiting Scholar Lecture
"Children of the Road"
presented by
Mary Lou de Leon Siantz, 3-5 pm February 21, 2011
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Fox Auditorium,L level of Carrington Hall.
Parking available in the Dogwood Visitors Deck
http://carolinanursingnews.com/category/upcoming-events/ For more information email Dr. Diane Berry at dberry@email.unc.edu
Mary Lou de Leon Siantz is currently the Assistant Dean of Diversity and Cultural Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. In this role, she leads the planning and implementation of the strategic goals in diversity throughout the research, education, and practice missions which are a top priority both for the University and for the School of Nursing partnering with faculty, staff, students, and the healthcare environment. Dr. de Leon Siantz chairs the Advisory Task Force on Diversity and Cultural Competence, the Master Teachers Taskforce for Cultural Competence Education, and is faculty advisor for the Minorities in Nursing (MNO) a student nursing organization that support and represent minorities in the School.
Dr. de Leon Siantz is internationally recognized for her research on risk and resilience with Hispanic migrant/immigrant children and their families funded by the National Institutes of Health as well as the Department of Health and Human Services and recognized by the Texas Migrant Council for her contributions to the mental health of migrant preschool children and families.
Dr. de Leon Siantz has a strong background in service and scholarship. She is a founding member and former President of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. She is also a former member of the National Academy of Science and Institute of Medicine Committees on the Health Status of Immigrant Children, Patient Safety and the Workforce Environment, as well as a Consultant to the Committee on Workforce diversity in the Health Professions. She is a former member of the Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality, appointed to serve two terms during the Clinton and Bush Administrations. She has also served on the National Advisory Council of the National Institute for Nursing Research, and has served on the Children and Families Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. She was also awarded a Senior Fellowship by the Fundacion Solaridad Mexicano Americano in Mexico City, 2003. She served on the Research Committee of the California/Mexico Health Initiative and collaborating with the Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente Muniz of Mexico.
February 21, 2011 - UNC-CH: The Fight Against Black Discrimination in Cuba Today
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A Talk by Tomas Fernandez Robaina. FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003. 5:30 p.m.
Tomas Fernandez Robaina* is a leading authority on Afro-Cuban culture
and author of many studies, including *La prosa de Guillen en defensa
del negro cubano* (1982), *El negro en Cuba (1990)*, *Hablen paleros y
santeros* (2008) and, most recently, a novel based on the life of
Reinaldo Arenas, *Misa para un angel* (2010).
A researcher at la Biblioteca Nacional in Havana, Tomas Fernandez
Robaina is a prolific author on Afro-Cuban issues. Among his many
publications is El negro en Cuba 1902-1958: Apuntes para la historia de
la lucha contra la discriminacion racial (The Blacks in Cuba 1902-1958:
Notes on the history of the struggle against racial discrimination). He
is a member of UNEAC (the Cuban Union of Artists and Writers) and of
the Cuban National Committee on Slave Routes. Over the past two decades
he has toured the United States several times speaking on university
campuses about the role of Afro-Cubans in Cuban Society.
February 21, 2011 - The United College Conference
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You Are Invited to The United College Conference, which is a three-part conference that will
explore the various issues of Latino immigration in the United States. Join us for dinner and a movie on February 21, 2010
7:00-9:00pm in room 130 in the Social-Psychology building.
The first part of the conference includes a movie showing of "Entre Nos", a movie based on a true story of an immigrant mother from Colombia (Mariana). In the movie, the mother, who speaks no English and has no money, works with her two children to find success despite the challenging moments in their lives.
After the movie, GANO, WHO, and the Duke Students for Humane Borders will offer their own reflections on what immigration means to them.
Dinner will be served.
February 18, 2011 - UNC-CH: Gender Violence and the Phenomenon of Femicides in the Americas
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A Conversation with Scholars, Attorneys, and Human Rights Activists
February 17, 2011 4 p.m., UNC School of Law Room 5046.
Panel Discussion
February 18, 2011, Noon, Room 4003,
Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro Street
(Reception to follow) Please direct questions to Professor Deborah Weissman weissman@email.unc.edu
Cynthia Berajano Department of Criminal Justice Latin American & Latino Studies, New Mexico State University
Rosa-Linda Fregoso Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Marcela Lagarde* National Autonomous University of Mexico
Hilda Morales Trujillo,* Attorney Guatemala's Network for Non‑Violence Against Women
Deborah Weissman University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill
*two presentation in Spanish.
Violence against women has increased throughout MExico and other Latin American countries. Law enforcement officials have often refused to investifate or prosecute these crimes, creating a climate of impunity for perpetrators and denying victims/survivors of violence and their families access to truth and justice. In 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a judgment against the MExican government for its failure to investigate the feminicides in Mexico. The 167-page decision included evidence of government negligence, coruption, torture and the obstruction of justice. As part of a feminist effort to catetgorise violence rooted in gender power structures as a violation of human rights, this panel will explore the analytical framework and response to the escalation of violence against women in Latin America.
Sponsored by:
UNC School of Law Immigration/ Human Rights Policy Clinic
UNC School of Law
UNC Center for Global Initiatives
Carolina Women's Center
UNC Institute for the STudy of the Americas
UNC School of Law Immigration Law
UNC School of Law Domestic Violence Advocacy Project Association
February 18, 2011 - Cimarron Latin Night this Friday, Febraury 18!
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Third Fridays of the month. This Friday at the Marvell Event Center. Free salsa lesson at 9:30pm led by Paso Salsa Studio Instructors! Dancing from 10-2am with music by DJ Salsa Mike! Proceeds benefit El Kilombo nonprofit community center!
Proceeds support ESL, kids' literacy, adult computer literacy, and other free programs at El Kilombo nonprofit community center. $10 guys, $5 ladies, 18 to party, 21 to drink. Facebook event. Facebook group.
February 17, 2011 - UNC-Ch: "Raising the Point" by Jason Mendez
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UNC's Latino Collaborative Center is hosting a showing of "Raising the
Point," a film by Jason Mendez on Thursday, February 17th at the CLC, room
144 in Craige North, Seminar Wing, at 6 PM. There will be a brief talk
after the film.
About Jason Mendez:
Dr. Jason Mendez received his doctorate in education with an emphasis in
Curriculum, Culture & Change from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. His research areas include social foundations of education,
cultural studies, Puerto Rican studies, critical race studies, and Arts
Education/Integration. Dr. Mendez is the founder of the Potentialis Centre,
a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization which combines research and the arts to
produce voices that advocate for social justice in education, health,
environment, and community development. Prior to taking time off to rebuild
and establish Potentialis, Jason taught as an assistant professor in the
Teacher Education department at CUNY's York College. Currently, Dr. Mendez
is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh's Center of Race
and Social Problems. Hunts Point approximately covers 2.1 square miles of
the South Bronx. In addition to 11,000 families, this small area is home to
the Hunts Point Cooperative Market, the new Fulton Fish Market, the
Spofford Juvenile Detention Center, 18 waste transfer stations, 40% of New
York City's sewage, 100% of the Bronx's waste, a sewage treatment plant, a
sewage pelletizing plant, 4 electrical power plants, more than 60,000
trucks per week and a few schools sprinkled in between. A major health
concern in Hunts Point is the number of children diagnosed with asthma.
Educational discourse typically focuses its critique on educational
improvements inside of the classroom. However, there are critical factors
that affect a student's educational experience before they even walk
through the schools door. Since the majority of school absenteeism is
related to asthma, giving a student an enriching educational experience in
a community overcome by heavy truck idling is an injustice that requires
action. Though the Hunts Point community faces many inequities, I focus on
the issue of poor air quality. "Raising the Point!" is a unique grassroots
effort to support Hunts Points mission in revitalizing the community.
February 15, 2011 - COMEDY IN CHICANA/O THEATRE: WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?
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The Duke Theater Studies department, in conjunction with UNC-Chapel Hill, is pleased to present an open seminar with Professor Jorge Huerta. Tuesday, Feb 15th from 9:30-11:30am in Page 106. Please RSVP and request readings from Prof Sean Metzger at sean.metzger@duke.edu
Co-sponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University.
Light breakfast included.
Audition for MEZCLA 2011!
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Mezcla is Mi Gente's annual showcase that takes place during Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW). To audition, email mezcla2011@gmail.com by February 13th. Auditions will be held on ThursdayFebruary 17th at 6pm at the Duke Coffeehouse on East Campus.
Can
you dance? Sing? Play an instrument? Mezcla is Mi Gente's biggest event
of the year - a talent show for the ages. Anyone can audition, just
show us what you got! Mezcla takes place in the Main Quad on West every
year during Latino Student Recruitment Weekend and Blue Devil Days, so
if you perform you'll have a crowd of many cheering at your talents.
ANYONE and EVERYONE is invited to audition. http://www.facebook.com/event.
February 15, 2011 - Provost's Lecture Series: Edwidge Danticat - "Writing Tragedy, Writing Hope: Haitian Writers at Home & Abroad Respond to the January 12, 2010 Earthquake."
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Tuesday 2/15/11 at 5:15 pm at the Franklin Humanities Institute "Garage" (C105, 1st Floor, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse). Part of the 2010-11 Provost's Lecture Series, "Natural Disasters & Human Responses." For more information, visit http://fhi.duke.edu/events/provosts-lecture-edwidge-danticat. ??Questions should be directed to susan.booth@duke.edu.
Edwidge Danticat will examine ways in which writers both in Haiti and in the Haitian dyaspora have responded creatively to the earthquake, and will also read excerpts from her own work. Two of Danticat's titles, Brother, I'm Dying and Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, will be available on site for purchase.
February 14, 2011 - Latino/a Studies Presents: Rachel Kahan
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LOVE BOOKS? Join us on Valentine's Day! The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South Presents: Editing, Publishing, and Book Culture: A Discussion with Rachel Kahan. Feb 14th 2:50-4:05pm. Allen Building Room 226. A senior editor at one of New York's major publishers discusses life with authors, how books "work", and what it means to be a reader, advocate, and consumer of book culture.
The Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies's Annual Conference
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In 2010 at least eight Latin American countries celebrated the bicentennial of their independence. Two hundred years of ideals, struggles, victories, and defeats. Mexico also celebrated the centennial of its 1910 revolution.
The conference opens with a panel that celebrates three decades of human rights work by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). WOLA works closely with civil society organizations and government officials throughout the Americas to promote human rights, democracy, and social and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. The conference will take place February 10-12. All attendees (including panel presenters, moderators, participants, and staff) are required to register by January 31st. There is no registration fee, but an accurate count is needed for all catered meals. Please help not to waste food by registering in advance.
The conference will take place on Thursday, February 10th at 5.00pm in the Rare Book Room, Perkins Library Duke University.
On Friday, February 11th from 8.30am to 4.00pm at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke, the first Community Colleges Forum will enable community college educators to integrate Latin American content into their classrooms. In interconnected sessions, it will explore creative ways to engage student in broad discussions of race, citizenship, and social inclusion using as a framework diverse resources ranging from the Latin American bicentennial of independence to the contemporary migration patterns that are transforming our local landscape. The Forum will be followed by a Keynote address and reception, beginning at 5:00 pm, also at the John Hope Franklin Center.
Finally on Saturday, February 12th from 9.30am to 4.30pm at the FedEx Global Education Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, panelists will deliver presentations from a great array of disciplines and perspectives on the two hundred years of autonomy and the current state of things in the region.
Special keynote speakers and round table discussions, on Friday and Saturday, will focus on topics related to history and the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Additionally, film screenings will complement three days of intense discussion and debate about the region. Films were selected from titles screened during the 2010 NC Latin American Film Festival, these titles have also been added to the Consortium Film Collection.
February 10, 2011 - First Latino Open Forum
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Join Mi Gente for our first Open Forum! The forum will take place Thursday, February 10th from 7-10pm at the Multicultural Center Resource Room, in the Bryan Center. Come share your thoughts on Duke's Diversity Policy and how it is or isn't being met. We will be discussing if the university is meeting its promise to provide minority students with adequate resources (including faculty and mentors) to succeed at this institution.
Mi Gente's Latino Open Forums will be a place to discuss topics such as this and to answer more general questions, such as:
Are you a Latino at Duke? What is a Latino? What does that mean to you? What does that mean to others? Are you a closet Latino? Are you a loud and proud Latino? Is our university addressing your needs? Do you have something to say?
This event is intended to provide a space for Latinos at Duke - whether or not you consider yourself a part of Mi Gente - to discuss issues that are important to us.
It's super casual - feel free to bring your dinner, and bring a friend!
February 08, 2011 - Working Group on the Environment in Latin America event with opportunities to intern in Mexico!
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The first installment of this semester's WGELA speakers series! A Peruvian feast will be held next Tuesday night (Feb. 8) at 6:30 in Levine Science Research Center A158 where Professor Elizabeth Shapiro will be giving a talk on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), in Latin America.
Professor Shapiro's talk will focus on the social and environmental impacts of Mexican national programs that provide payments to rural communities for hydrological services, biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration and improvement of agroforestry systems.
NOTE: Dr. Shapiro will be reviewing potential opportunities for WGELA members to collaborate with her and her team in Mexico through INTERNSHIPS and MP projects.
February 09, 2011 - UNC-CH: Celebration of John Ross's Life and Work
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DATE CHANGE to Feb 9th. The Greenwich Village-born poet, journalist, and chronicler of Mexico's popular movements will be remembered via a reading and a brief video. The event begins at 7:30 pm as part of the February meeting of Balance & Accuracy in Journalism at the Community Church of Chapel Hill Already scheduled for the February 9 program is a report from Witness for Peace co-founder Gail Phares and other participants in the Colombia delegation currently visiting Afro-Colombian communities suffering violent attack in Colombia
February 05, 2011 - UNC-CH: Charanga Carolina at Talulla's
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Charanga Carolina begins the spring semester with a performance at Talulla's this Saturday, February 5. Doors for dancing open at 10pm. $5 admission.
Charanga Carolina will perform two sets of salsa, merengue, and songo/timba featuring guest artists Nelson Delgado, Jaime Roman, Pako Santiago, Ramon Ortiz and Alberto Carasquillo.
Please join our Facebook page "UNC's Charanga Carolina" Also, please attend our Facebook event and invite your FB friends to do the same.
UNC-CH "Learn to be Latina"
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The 2010-2011 Process Series and the Teatro Latina/o Series present Learn to be Latina, a new play by Enrique Urueta, directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela. Friday Feb 4 and Saturday Feb 5 at 8pm at Gerrard Hall, UNC-CH. Free and open to the public. This play contains adult content.
Learn to Be Latina will be presented as the
next Process Series offering, under the direction of world renowned
director, Jose Luis Valenzuela. Learn to Be Latina is a story about
Hanan, a promising young pop singer, who has a record label dying to
record her...until they find out she's Lebanese. Not to worry, they
say: Hanan can still be a star--as long as she learns to be Latina!
Enrique Urueta is
a Columbian-American playwright whose plays have been developed and
produced throughout the country. He is currently the playwright in
residence at the Queer Cultural Center and has won numerous awards and
grants including the Creating Queer Communities grant, The Global Age
Project Award 2007, and the Theater Bay Area New Works Fund Grant 2008.
Jose Luis Valenzuela is
a world distinguished performer and director, as well as a professor of
Drama at UCLA. He has directed at venues including Los Angeles Theater
Center, the Mark Taper Forum, the Jorge Negrete Theatre, and El Teatro
de la Esperanza, where his production of Hijos won Drama-Logue Awards
for Best Direction, Ensemble and Actor.
Learn to Be Latina is
jointly sponsored by Teatro Latina/o Series, the Carolina Latina/o
Collaborative, the UNC Latina/o Speakers Series, and the UNC Latina/o
Gift fund and presented as part of the 2011 Process Series.
February 03, 2011 - 4th Annual Global Health Lecture - "In the Aftermath of the Earthquake: A Vision for the Future of Haiti"
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When: Thursday, February 3, 2011 4:30 PM - 6:00 P
Where: Duke School of Nursing Auditorium Room 101
Speaker/Presenter: Russell Porter, USAID Haiti Task Tea
Coordinator
Cost: This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Please register. ??For more information, contact Belinda Wisdom at 919-684-9554 or belinda.wisdom@duke.edu.
Description: Russell Porter leads in the coordination of the Haiti post-earthquake recovery effort in Washington, D.C. Porter will discuss the challenges that still lie ahead for Haiti, the effects on health care and other sectors, and USAID's recovery efforts.
Co-sponsors: School of Nursing, Duke Global Health Institute, Provost's Office and A World Together Initiative
February 03, 2011 - "Indigenous Peoples and Development: From Victims to Partners"
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The Duke Center for International Development presents the first Rethinking Development Policy Lecture of the Spring Semester. Light refreshments will be served.
Speaker: Anne Deruyttere
When: Thursday, February 3, 2011
Where: Sanford 03, Sanford School of Public Policy
Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm
??Anne Deruyttere has more than 30 years of experience with indigenous peoples, community development and and social safeguards, mostly at the Inter-American Development Bank where she was Chief of the Indigenous Peoples and Community Development Unit. She authored and coordinated the preparation of IDB’s policies on involuntary resettlement and on indigenous peoples and spearheaded innovative projects at the intersection of culture and development. Currently she is one of three members of the Asian Development Bank's independent Compliance Review Panel which investigates potential policy violations by the ADB. She has been consulting with the World Bank, IFC, IFAD, GTZ, private sector companies and several universities. She holds graduate degrees in economics and in anthropology from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Edinburgh (UK).
February 03, 2011 - The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power - A Discussion with Kate Ramsey
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Thursday Feb 3 2011 from 12-1:30pm at the FHI Haiti Lab - C106, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse. ??The Haiti Lab Working Group & Atlantic Studies Working Group present a lunch discussion with Kate Ramsey, University of Miami Department of History. ??Note: Participants should read the introduction to Kate Ramsey's forthcoming book to prepare for the discussion. To get a pdf of the introduction, please email Ryan O'Rourke: ryan.orourke@duke.edu.
??Prof. Ramsey works on colonial and postcolonial Caribbean histories with a particular focus on Haiti. Her research and teaching interests include the politics of law, religion, and performance in the Caribbean; the genealogy of the concept of "magic" under colonialism; Caribbean intellectual history and social movements; histories of health and healing; and the relationship between anthropology and history. Her forthcoming book, The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in April.
February 02, 2011 - UNC-CH: Talk by Cardinal Roger Mahony on Immigration Reform
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Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, an advocate of immigration reform, will speak from 5:30-7 p.m. in the FedEx Global Education Center at UNC-CH. Parking available in the McCauley Deck directly underneath the building starting at 5:00 p.m.
Overflow space available for both parking and seating. For more information, call 919-966-1484
Mahony, the highest ranking archbishop in the U.S. Catholic Church to speak about immigration reform, will title his speech "For Goodness Sake: Why America Needs Immigration Reform." He will discuss what he thinks should be done to change U.S. immigration policy - a topic President Barack Obama mentioned Tuesday (Jan. 25) in his State of the Union speech. "Cardinal Mahony has been deeply engaged in immigration issues throughout his ministry," said Jacqueline Hagan, Ph.D., a sociology professor and one of the event organizers. "On the eve of his retirement, he is coming to UNC to discuss his perspective on the importance of immigration reform."
Mahony heads the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, the 5-million member Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which is 70 percent Latino. A consultant to the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Migration, he has been interested in the treatment of immigrants and workers since he was a young priest and close friend of labor organizer Cesar Chavez in the 1960s. "Human dignity and equality are principles deeply held by all Americans," Mahony has said. "If laws reflect our principles, then something is terribly wrong with our laws on immigration. Because of our broken immigration system, millions of individuals and families are regularly exploited, demeaned and dehumanized."
Campus sponsoring units include the College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Parr Center for Ethics in the philosophy department, Center for Global Initiatives, political science and religious studies departments and the Center for the Study of the American South.
Background: For more information about Mahony, visit http://www.archdiocese.la/archbishop/profile.html or his blog at http://cardinalrogermahonyblogsla.blogspot.com/.
February 01, 2011 - Welcome Reception for Mellon Visiting Professor Catherine Walsh
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Please join us to welcome our 2010-2011 Mellon Visiting Professor, Catherine Walsh, to Duke and the Triangle on Feb. 1 from 4:30-6:30 at the Franklin Center Room 130/132. ??*Wine and great hors d' oeuvres will be served. Parking available behind the Franklin Center and across the street in Pickens Family Medical clinic.
??Professor Walsh teaches at the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador and is offering two courses at Duke this semester. She is also working with scholars such as Arturo Escobar, Walter Mignolo, and Michaeline Crichlow on projects related to black and indigenous social movements, plurinationalism, and affirmative action policy in Ecuador.
http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/
January 30, 2011 - Cuba Today, Talk and Discussion, Dan Whittle and Daylin Munoz, Environmental Defense Fund
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January 30th 5pm at the CHICLE Language Institute (3rd floor suite G-1). Dan Whittle and Daylin Munoz-Nunez will discuss current events in Cuba, including economic reforms, Obama policy, and how the environment can serve as a bridge for improved relations. For more info write chicle@chi-cle.com
Free and Open to the Public.
Dan Whittle and Daylin Munoz-Nunez will discuss current events in Cuba, including economic reforms, Obama policy, and how the environment can serve as a bridge for improved relations.
Daniel Whittle is a senior attorney and Director of the Cuba Program with Environmental Defense Fund. Since 2000, Dan has worked with Cuban scientists, lawyers, and policy makers to develop and promote conservation and environmental protection strategies for coral reefs, marine fisheries, sensitive coastal ecosystems and other natural areas in Cuba and the region. He is currently part of a team assessing the environmental implications of energy development in Cuba and the United States, including renewable energy form the ocean.
Daylin Munoz-Nunoz is a marine scientist from Cuba who took a long journey to the U.S. (about 6 years ago) to pursue her career in the marine conservation field. She graduated from Duke's Masters Program in Environmental Management in May 2009. Her interests have evolved from coral reef ecology to the challenging area of marine resources management. For more information, check out the CHICLE Language Institute's website.
UNC-CH: La Vida Loca, by Carlos Manuel
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Swain Hall. 9 pm Fri. 1/28, 8 pm Sat 1/29. La Vida Loca, an apolitical in-your-face odyssey of a Mexican immigrant
Written by & starring Carlos Manuel.
La Vida Loca is a monologue stuffed full of life. In a performance
carefully constructed to both heroize and expose the author/performer,
his "crazy" life is revealed through a quilt of memories, fantasies,
dialogues, and excerpts from pop culture.
January 28, 2011 - The UNC Latina/o Caucus & The LGPSA Spring Social
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The UNC Latina/o Caucus and the Latino/a Graduate Professional Student Association invite you to their Spring Social on Friday, January 28th from 4:30-6:30pm at the Faculty Lounge, Campus Y. R.S.V.P. by Friday January 21, 2011 to Josmell Perez at josmell@unc.edu
January 28, 2011 - Latino/a Studies Receso: 3-5pm in the LS Resource Room
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Come out for our first monthly Receso! Join us for Venezuelan hot chocolate and juices from the Dominican Republic, alongside Honduran and Mexican snacks such as Conchas, Hojaldras, and other sweets!
Find out what the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South has to offer YOU (including events, an undergrad certificate, cool courses, travel awards, and more)!
Location: 124 Friedl Building (East Campus main quad, between Wilson and Aycock).
January 21, 2011 - Cimarron Latin Night
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Free salsa lesson at 9:30pm! Dancing from 10-2am with music by DJ Salsa Mike! Proceeds benefit El Kilombo nonprofit community center! 3rd Fridays of the month Marvell Event Center $10 guys, $5 ladies, 18 to party, 21 to drink. Check out the Facebook event and the Facebook group.
Exciting ESL-Tutoring Opportunity!
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GANO: Gente Aprendiendo para Nuevas Oportunidades (People Learning for New Opportunities) is an ESL-tutoring organization that provides one-on-one tutoring for Latinos in Durham. We are looking for tutors to work with adults as well as tutors to assist children with their homework. GANO meets twice a week in Carr 114 (East Campus) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30-8pm. You can volunteer one of these days or both. Tutors should be comfortable speaking Spanish, although fluency is not necessary. We will be having tutor training sessions on Tuesday 1/18 and Thursday 1/20 at 6:30 in Carr 136.
January 14, 2011 - UNC-CH Colectivo Situaciones, Notes on the Latin American Political Anomaly
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This talk is presented by the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
January 14th, 5:30 PM, Global Education Center, UNC, Room 1005.
Reception to follow in GEC 1st Floor Lobby.
During the last decade Latin America has been
characterized
by a wave of anti-neoliberal movements that implied a rupture
with the direct
command of the global elites. Colectivo Situaciones will analyze
the current
direction and force of these movements and the new playing field
created by the
appearance of "progressive" governments throughout the region,
with a
particular focus on the Argentinean experience.Colectivo Situaciones is a militant research
collective
based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina with a long history ties to
Argentinean
social movements. Their most recent book, Conversations
in the Impasse is a series of conversations with
intellectuals worldwide on
the ambiguous contemporary global political moment. The other
work includes
essays and books, most famously La Hipotesis 891, and Genocide
in the
Neighborhood (soon to appear in English). More of their work can
be accessed on
their website www.situaciones.org.
This event is co-Sponsored by the Latin
American Political
Imaginaries Working Group, The Social Movements Working Group,
the Geo-graphing
Justice Working Group, and the Counter Cartography Collective.
January 13, 2011 - Hannah Gill Book Reading
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Hannah Gill will discuss and sign copies of her book, "The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State", at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham at 7pm.
From Independent Weekly:
"North Carolina's grade school textbooks have long noted the influx of
European immigrants, but they may need to be updated for the rising
numbers of Latinos. Hannah Gill's new book, The Latino Migration
Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State, looks
at how Latino migration has come to the Southeast, and sheds light on
the arrivals in North Carolina in particular. The book also examines
what this means for globalization and various facets of the culture at
large. Gill knows her stuff: She serves as assistant director of the
Institute for the Study of the Americas and works as a research
associate at UNC's Center for Global Initiatives.
November 29 - December 31, 2010 - Calling for Our DREAMs
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United We DREAM is asking everyone to make it a top priority to generate thousands of calls to their local senators, the GOP/Republican targets, and their House Representatives. We will be using 3 telephone numbers, to generate calls, which will allow us to keep track of how many calls each senator receives and how many calls each state makes.
The telephone lines we will be using are the following:
-Senate 866-996-5161: this line will forward your call to your local senator depending on your area code. Call your senator and ask them to vote "Yes" for the DREAM Act when it comes up for a vote.
-GOP/Republicans 866-587-610: this line will forward your call to one of the senators that said they supported the DREAM Act but then voted "NO" this past September. When you are connected ask them to support the DREAM Act and tell them why the DREAM Act is important for you and your loved ones.
-House: 866-967-6018: This line will forward your call to the capitol switchboard so you can ask for your house representatives and ask them to vote "YES" for the DREAM Act when it comes for a vote.
Facebook RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=164641826908466
December 01, 2010 - DukeEngage in Tucson, AZ Photo Exhibition all December - plus opening reception Dec 1st
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Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: TBA (Perkins Library
Duke Students for Humane Borders invites you to the opening reception for the DukeEngage in Tucson, AZ Photo Exhibition. Perkins Library will be displaying photography work from the 2009 and 2010 Tucson, AZ participants through the end of the year. Join us as we celebrate the work of our peers and get a glimpse of the experiences these students had while in the program.
Light refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
For more information, contact Shaoli Chaudhuri (shaoli.chaudhuri@duke.edu) or Sarah Whitaker (sarah.whitaker@duke.edu), past participants of the 2010 DukeEngage in Tucson, AZ program.
RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152921458087904
December 13-15, 2010 - Latino/a Studies Study Break!!
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FREE MILK AND COOKIES!!!
Stop by the Latino/a Studies Resource Room (Friedl 124) for a study break during finals week! Fresh baked cookies and milk will be available from 1-5pm on Monday 12/13 and Wednesday 12/15.
If you would like to use the room during afterhours or host a study group, please email Jenny Snead Williams at jennysw@duke.edu for more details and reservation options.
SPRING Registration - Check out Course Offerings
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Check out the Latino Studies Course Offerings for Spring:
http://latino.aas.duke.edu/academics/Springcourses2011.htm. Whether you are interested in Hip Hop, Autobiography, Health, Education, Food, Immigration, or The "Latinization" of the United States, we have something for you!
November 29 - December 10, 2010 - DSHB D.R.E.A.M. Act Calling Center
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Come out to Few FF Commons and join DSHB as we call on our nation's leaders to do the right thing and PASS THE DREAM Act.
This week and through the next, DSHB will be hosting a Calling Center in Few FF Commons (3rd Floor). We will have numbers of senators/representatives, information on their stances on the Act and scripts for you to call. The only thing we ask from you is 5 minutes of your time, and a voice message from you to our leaders.
Remember that those who support the Act, but remain quiet are just as liable for blame as those who oppose it and choose to oppress deserving youth.
For the full schedule, please visit the Facebook Event
For more information, contact Michelle Lozano Villegas (michelle.lozano@duke.edu or 919.943-6602) or Shaoli C. (shaoli.chaudhuri@duke.edu).
December 09, 2010 - Duke Exhibit Opening - MISSING REFLECTION - Pedro Lasch & Esther Gabara
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MISSING REFLECTION: A Collaborative Installation on Masking (Naturalizations Series). Exhibit opening & reception: 5pm, Thursday, December 9 at the Franklin Humanities Institute Gallery at C104, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse. Directions & parking: go to http://fhi.duke.edu/about/
This photography and
text-based
installation is grounded in a series of workshops that Gabara and
Lasch held in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti in the context of the first
edition of The Ghetto
Biennale, which took place between November 28 and
December 18,
2009. Pedro Lasch is Assistant Professor of the Practice in the
department of
Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University who has shown
his work
internationally. Esther Gabara is Associate Professor of Romance
Studies at
Duke. The group of works to be shown at the FHI is a collaborative
project
related to the recent Ghetto
Biennale in Port au Prince, Haiti. Extensive information on
Lasch's
work can be found at the artist's website.
December 07, 2010 - Duke Provost's Lecture Series speaker - Edouard Duval-Carrie]
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Tuesday, December 7, at 5:15 p.m at 'The Garage' - Smith Warehouse, C105 Bay 4, first floor.
This lecture is co-sponsored with the Franklin Humanities Institute Haiti Lab and the Vice Provost for the Arts. Questions? Contact susan.booth@duke.edu
Haiti: History Embedded in Amber
Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval-Carrie leapt into action after the
January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, establishing the Haitian Art
Relief Fund and curating exhibits of Haitian art. He also further
integrated disaster into his own widely exhibited art. For his
Provost's Lecture, Duval-Carrie suggested bringing the Duke community
together around the idea of disaster in Haiti through a collaborative
artwork with students and faculty, completed at the Franklin Humanities
Institute's Haiti Lab over the course of the semester. In "Haiti:
History Embedded in Amber," Edouard Duval-Carrie presents the story and
documentary video of this collective response to disaster in Haiti. A
reception following the talk features an exhibit of the work.
Parking: Enter the Smith South parking lot at Buchanan and
Maxwell or Campus Drive and Maxwell. Starting 5pm, Duke faculty, staff,
and students can swipe into the gated parking area with your ID cards.
Visitors parking is available along the front of the building (free)
and in the metered parking areas (first 30 minutes free, $2/hour
thereafter). For more information, see: http://fhi.duke.edu/about/
December 07, 2010 - "Gender-Based Violence, Trauma, and the Politics of Humanitarianism in Haiti"
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The Haiti Lab and the Duke Law School Present: Erica James, "Gender-Based Violence, Trauma, and the Politics of Humanitarianism in Haiti" on December 7 at noon at The Garage, Bay 4 Franklin Humanities Institute, Smith Warehouse. Erica James works in the Department of Anthropology, M.I.T. and is the author of “Democratic Insecurities.”
December 07, 2010 - HOSTAGE NATION: COLOMBIA'S GUERRILLA ARMY AND THE FAILED WAR ON DRUGS
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Tuesday, December 7, at 5:00 PM in the Perkins Library Rare Book Room. A reception follows the reading. This event is free and open to the public. The Regulator Book Store will provide books for purchase before and after the reading. For more information, contact rights@duke.edu. With Hostage Nation authors Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes and Jorge Enrique Botero. Hostage Nation won the 2010 WOLA/Duke Book Award for best book in English about human rights in Latin America. The authors will read from their blistering journalistic expose, which tells a story of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle. On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were rescued after being held for more than five years by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world was captivated by their personal narratives. But between the headlines a major story was lost: Hostage Nation tells this story by exploring the complex and corrupt political and socioeconomic situations that enabled the FARC to gain unprecedented strength, influence, and impunity. Co-sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center, the Archive for Human Rights and the Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies, with generous support from the Duke Office of Global Strategy and Programs.
December 01, 2010 - CIPC Conference: Liberty and Justice for All: A New Vision for Immigrant Rights in California
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The California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC) will be holding a statewide day-long conference in Los Angeles, CA on Dec. 1st, 2010. This conference is for service providers, immigrant rights advocates, and other individuals working with immigrant communities. Join forces with experts and peers to address policy, organizing, and communications on issues affecting immigrants in California.
Conference panels and workshops will discuss state legislation affecting immigrants, the state budget and the safety net, developments in federal immigration policy, the new health care reform law, access to public benefits, enforcement, and other critical issues immigrant communities are facing. Information about speakers, plenaries, and breakout skill-building and strategy sessions coming soon.
For full information or to register, visit the CIPC website: Liberty And Justice For All Conference.
December 01, 2010 - When Service is Not Enough: A Vision for the Future of the Engaged Campus
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Dan Butin is coming to Duke for a guest lecture. He will be here on December 1 from 4:00 to 5:30 at the Freeman Center. Details can be found here: http://educationprogram.duke.edu/about/news-and-events
November 29, 2010 - La Antorcha Guadalupana Visit Durham, NC
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Sponsor: Immaculate Conception Church
Location: Immaculate Conception Church, 810 W. Chapel Hill St., Durham, North Carolina
Come out and join the Durham Community, El Centro Hispano, and various other NC community and government leaders in welcoming the runners from the Antorcha Guadalupana in its 9th annual appearance. The Immaculate Conception Church will receive the runners and celebrate their safe arrival.
Schedule:
Monday, November 29th:
4:00pm - Runners departing from Highpoint, NC and headed to Durham, NC
5:30pm - Runner arrive in Durham, NC
6:30pm - Festivities in the Immaculate Church Begin
7:00pm - Mass (Spanish)
7:45pm - Festivities Continue
Tuesday, November 30th:
5:00am - Runners depart Durham, NC and head out to Richmond, VA.
For more information, contact Ivan Almonte at 919.667.6913 or ivalpi13@gmail.com
November 26, 2010 - Chapel Hill, NC - Dance Your DREAMs Off!
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Date and Time: Friday, November 26 at 10:30pm-November 27 at 2:00am.
Location: Vespa Ristorante, 306 West Franklin St #D, Chapel Hill, NC.
Come burn off all those mashed potatoes and pies from Thanksgiving by dancing the night away with the NC DREAM Team! DJ NYT will be providing the beats and the bar will be serving up $5 Margaritas and $5 Cuervo Shots.
Show up early and save:
$5 - 21+,
$10 - 18+,
$10 - everyone after midnight
Benefiting the NC DREAM Team
Invite your friends and learn more about NC DREAM Team HERE
November 22, 2010 - Video Conference With Alta Gracia Workers
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The video conference will be at 8:30 pm in Bassett Hall, East Campus. The event, facilitated by Orin Starn, is organized in collaboration with the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). Alta Gracia is a new apparel brand that was born out of a laborious struggle for union rights, labor standards and "living wage" for the workers of BJ&B, the Dominican Republic factory making Nike and Reebok caps for U.S. universities. Student activists affiliated with the USAS have played a critical role in this struggle. (For more on the story of Alta Gracia: http://usas.org/2010/07/19/worker-activists-make-college-apparel/). The apparel sold in bookstores (including the one at Duke) under the brand name Alta Gracia is produced in a union factory that pays the workers more than three times the minimum wage for apparel workers in the Dominican Republic. (For more on living wage and its impact: http://altagraciaapparel.com/story/living-wage-and-its-impact ). For those of you who want to know more about the story, here is a New York Times article on Alta Gracia: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/business/global/18shirt.html
November 19, 2010 - Djembe and Afro-Cuban Ensembles with guest artist Atiba Rorie
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Friday, November 19 from 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM at Baldwin Auditorium, Duke East Campus. Free.
The Duke Djembe and Afro-Cuban Drumming Ensembles are directed by Bradley Simmons. He is the former Music Director of Chuck Davis's African American Dance Ensemble. He has taught at the Berkeley School of Music, Texas Southern University, Wichita State University, and North Carolina State University. In the U.S., Atiba Rorie has studied with Babatunde Olatunji, Fahali Igbo, Chief Bey, Bradley Simmons and Osei Appiagyei. He has also studied in Ghana and Guinea, West Africa. He holds a B.A. in Music from UNC-Greensboro and currently teaches West African percussion at Guilford College. Sponsored by the Duke Department of Music and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
November 20, 2010 - Presentation of/performance by KIDZNOTES and Screening of the film TOCAR Y LUCHAR (To Play and to Fight)
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The performance by KidZNotes and the screening of the film Tocar y Luchar will take place at 4pm at the Holton Career and Resource Center Auditorium at 401 North Drive Street, Durham. A Latin American reception will follow in the courtyard afterward. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! - Free Parking
kidZNotes and El Sistema
EL SISTEMA is the method developed in Venezuela to create symphonic orchestras while challenging social stigmas and empowering children in the process. KidZNotes is North Carolina's first El Sistema inspired organization and a leader of developing El Sistema programs in the U.S. Led by Katie Wyatt, a member of the first class of Abreu fellows from the United States to live and work in the orchestras of El Sistema in Venezuela. KidZnotes is a partner of the East Durham Children's Initiative, and has an orchestra of 60 children and families from 3 Title 1 schools in Durham.
Violist and Abreu Fellow Katie Wyatt will present KidZNotes and share a short video from her time in the El Sistema orchestras of Venezuela. www.kidznotes.org
Screening of Tocar y Luchar/ To Play and To Fight
Alberto Arvelo. (Venezuela, 2006) 70 min.Tocar y Luchar presents the captivating story of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System - an incredible network of hundreds of orchestras formed within most of Venezuela’s towns and villages. Once a modest program designed to expose rural children to the wonders of music, the system has become one of the most important and beautiful social phenomena in modern history. The documentary portrays the inspirational stories of world class musicians trained by the Venezuelan system, including the Berlin Philharmonic’s youngest player Edicson Ruiz and world renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel. With interviews with many of the world’s most celebrated musicians including the great tenor Placido Domingo, Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Guiseppe Sinopoli, and Eduardo Mata, the film is an inspirational story of courage, determination, ambition, and love showing us that… only those who dream can achieve the impossible. Spanish with English subtitles.What is El Sistema?
The Venezuelans have created the most advanced music education system in the world based on two premises: (1) Every child is an asset (2) it's fun. Social reform is the top priority: they train and educate children of every social stratum on a national level. Children are empowered to own the program. They teach each other; they “compete” to improve as a whole. And we’ve all experienced the product of this formula.
Several people have joked that the secret of El Sistema is that there’s no system. There is some truth to that. Each nucleo is flexible, providing the artistic director with total creative freedom. Yet, the vision is unwavering. Even nucleo janitors understand that they are aiding social change. In a pyramid of creativity, Abreu empowers the directors to empower the teachers who empower the children. These children inspire social change in their communities. At every level of El Sistema there is a sense of pride, a feeling of ownership, and undeniable purpose.
See more about El Sistema USA
Watch the 60minutes special on EL SISTEMA
Watch TED Talks on EL SISTEMA
Watch TEDX on EL SISTEMA DURHAM
About Jose Antonio Abreu
Jose Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids' lives in Venezuela. Here he shares his amazing story and unveils a TED Prize wish that could have a big impact in the US and beyond.
Jose Antonio Abreu founded El Sistema ("the system") in 1975 to help poor Venezuelan kids learn to play a musical instrument and be part of an orchestra. 30 years on, El Sistema has seeded 102 youth… Full bio and more links
Ted Talk by Abreu
November 19, 2010 - Greensboro: Generation Exile
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This film by Rodrigo Dorfman (USA/Chile, 2009) 71 min. will be screened in the Frank Family Science Center, Guilford College, Greensboro as part of the Latin American Film Festival. When Rodrigo Dorfman was 6 years old, he was forced into exile because of the revolutionary activities of his father, Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman. Now, 35 years later, Rodrigo Dorfman weaves his experience of exile through the eyes of 4 women: a Taiwanese pianist haunted by nightmares of her past; an Afro Caribbean Whirling Dervish on a pilgrimage to Turkey; a Latina artist mourning the destruction of her community and a young American woman caught in a web of spiritual abuse. Spanning 4 continents and 100 years of personal history, GENERATION EXILE is a meditation on our search for identity in a world full of pain and wonder. English.
November 19, 2010 - Los Herederos / The Inheritors
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The screening of this film by Eugenio Polgovsky (Mexico, 90 minutes) is part of the Latin American Film Festival. It will begin at 7pm at El Centro Hispano.
??Los herederos is a portrait of the young children in the Mexican countryside who begin to work at an early age. The film focuses on their daily struggle for survival and their activities in farming, sculpting and painting alebrijes, shepherding, making bricks, weaving, looking after their siblings, collecting water, harvesting tomatoes, chilis, maize, and laboring in a myriad of other activities. They have inherited tools and techniques from their ancestors, but they have also inherited their day-to-day hardship because, as generations pass, child workers seem to remain captive in a cycle of inherited poverty. Spanish with English subtitles.
November 19, 2010 - UNC-CH: “Cartografias del siglo XXI”
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Jose Ramon Ruisanchez y Oswaldo Zavala presentan: “cartografias del siglo XXI.” Friday, November 19th at Toy Lounge, Dey Hall at UNC from 5:00-6:00pm. Jose Ramon Ruisanchez (Mexico DF, 1971) se dedica de tiempo completo a las letras: en la Universidad Iberoamericana, donde investiga y da clases, y haciendo critica y divulgacion en diversos medios, como el programa de television Entrelineas. En su narrativa impera siempre la imaginacion etica. Es autor de Novelita de amor y poco piano (1996), Y porque no tenemos otro perro (1997), Remedios infalibles contra el hipo (1998), Como deje de ser vegetariana (2005), Nada cruel (2008) y Autobiografia para jovenes y ninos de Leonardo Da Vinci (2008). Ha recibido el Premio Nacional Juan Rulfo de primera novela (1993) y ha sido becario del Centro Mexicano de Escritores (1994) y del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (1998). Sus trabajos academicos sobre literatura latinoamericana han aparecido en diversas publicaciones de los Estados Unidos y America Latina. Con Oswaldo Zavala ha co-editado Materias dispuestas: Juan Villoro ante la critica (2011). Oswaldo Zavala (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 1975) es narrador y profesor de literatura latinoamericana en el College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY). Obtuvo el doctorado en letras hispanicas en la Universidad de Texas en Austin y en literatura comparada en la Universidad de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. Fue reportero y columnista en periodicos y revistas de Mexico y Estados Unidos, incluyendo el semanario politicoProceso. Su trabajo academico ha sido publicado en la Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos, Altertexto y Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporanea, entre otras. Su ficcion ha aparecido en la antologia Los mejores cuentos mexicanos 2004 y en las revistas Textos, Rio Grande Review y Literal. Es coeditor, con Jose Ramon Ruisanchez, de Materias dispuestas: Juan Villoro ante la critica(2011). Actualmente prepara un estudio monografico sobre la obra del escritor chileno Roberto Bolano. Sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, the Curriculum in Global Studies, and the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative
November 01-20, 2010 - Latin American Film Festival
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From November 1 to 20, 2010 Durham, Chapel Hill/Carrboro, Raleigh and Greensboro will enjoy feature length movies, documentaries, animation, short movies, and video art from the Americas. This year the festival presents films from sixteen countries and will enjoy the presence of six film makers who will introduce their films and talk about their experiences of working in the region. The Festival is organized by the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.
The festival opens on November 1, at Durham's Carolina Theatre, with "Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos" by Duke's own Charlie Thompson and Michael Davey (USA/Guatemala, 2010), a film which follows two different towns connected through immigration, family and work (Jacaltenango is a highland Maya town in Guatemala and Jupiter is a coastal resort town in Florida).
Some other festival highlights include:
-"South of the Border" by Oliver Stone (USA/Venezuela, 2009)
-"The Two Escobars" by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist (USA/Colombia, 2010)
-"El Secreto de Sus Ojos" by Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina, 2009)
-"Chigualeros" by Alex Schlenker (Ecuador, 2009) -"Crude: the real price of oil" by Joe Berlinger (USA/Ecuador, 2009)
-"Terras" by Maya Da-rin (Brazil, 2009)
-"Coca Lives" by Roberto Lanza & Juan C. Millo (Bolivia, 2007)
and much more!
Visit the festival web site for the complete schedule: http://sites.google.com/site/22ndfilmfestivalnc/list-of-films
Contact Festival Director Miguel Rojas-Sotelo with any questions: Tel: (919) 681 3883 / (919) 358 0787 mobile. Email: dukeclacs@gmail.com or mlr34@duke.edu
November 19, 2010 - Cimarrron Latin Night
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Friday, October 19! 10:00pm-2:00am. The Marvell Event Center
Don't miss an awesome evening of salsa, merengue, bachata, and more!
-Free introductory salsa lesson at 9:30pm by Paso Dance Studios!
-Dancing from 10-2am with music by DJ Salsa Mike!
-Proceeds benefit El Kilombo nonprofit community center!
3rd Fridays of the month.
$10 cover ($5 women), 18 to party, 21 to drink.
November 19, 2010 - SAF Fellow Celebration
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Friday November 19. 5:00pm - 7:00pm. Center for Doc Studies
Reception with wine and snacks and Documentary Presentations.
Please join Student Action with Farmworkers in celebrating the completion of the 2010 Sowing Seeds for Change Fellowship program and honoring Dida El-Sourady, Charles Webster and Amanda Ross. The 3 fellows are recent college graduates who have been working for the past 6 months serving farmworkers in rural health clinics in North Carolina. Come hear about their adventures, see their documentary projects with individual farmworkers and enjoy refreshments.
RSVP to Laxmi Haynes, SAF Program Director at farmworker_justice@yahoo.com, 919-660-3660.
November 18, 2010 - Duke Alternative Spring Break 2011 Interest Meeting
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Info session. Thursday November 18. 7:00pm-8:00pm. Bryan Center: Meeting Room A
Two themed alternative spring break service trips will be held March 6-13, 2011. Students will travel NYC (issues such as HIV/AIDS surrounding hunger/homelessness) and Apopka, FL (working with migrant farmworkers).
Online applications due Friday Dec 3rd at midnight (that night).
Apply HERE
November 18, 2010 - CASA (Cuban American Student Association) General Body Meeting
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Thursday November 18. 7:00pm - 9:00pm. Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMA) in the Bryan Center
Come eat Cuban food, socialize and meet new people. CASA remember this meeting is important due to elections for council positions.
November 17, 2010 - Mi Gente Presents: Latinos In Higher Education
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Wednesday November 17. 7:00pm - 8:30pm. Old Chemistry Bldg 116
Mi Gente's Political Affairs Committee brings to you "Latinos In Higher Education."
We will be hosting a panel of past and current Latino graduate students from various areas of study who will discuss the process of getting and being in graduate school as well as their experiences, aspirations, and motivations.
The event celebrates Latinos in higher education (both graduate and undergraduate), past and present Latino leaders, and the vast opportunities that are available to us.
Light Refreshments will be served.
Come join us as we celebrate our roots, dreams, abilities, hard work and dedication.
Latinos in Higher Education is a reminder that we as a community have much to continue celebrating.
November 15, 2010 - The Clash of Indigenous Rights, the Environment, and Corporate Investor Rights: The Landmark Aguinda legal case in Ecuador
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This talk by Steven Donziger is part of the Latin American Film Festival. It will take place on Monday Nov. 15th from 12:15-1:15pm at the Duke Law School , Room 4055, 210 Science Diver. Cosmic Cantina Burritos served
November 14, 2010 - UNC-CH: Screening of the award-winning documentary CRUDE
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This film screening is part of the Latin American Film Festival. It will take place on Sunday Nov. 14th form 7pm-8:30pm at the FEDEX Global Education Center UNC-CH. Followed by Q/A with Steven Donziger and a reception
November 14, 2010 - UNC-CH: Litigating Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America: Latest from the Battlefields of the Ecuadorian Amazon
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This talk is part of the Latin American Film Festival. It will takes place on Sunday Nov. 14th 6-7pm at the FEDEX Global Education Center, UNC-CH, Room 1005, 301 Pittsboro Street (corner of McCauley and Pittsboro. Free Parking Available. *Pizza and drinks will be served.
November 10, 2010 - UNC-CH: The Republic of Poetry: A Reading by Martin Espada
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6 PM Wednesday November 10, 2010. University Room, Hyde Hall, Institute for the Arts & Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill. Q & A and book-signing to follow the talk. Called “the Latino poet of his generation” and “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors,” Martin Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published seventeen books in all as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. The Republic of Poetry, a collection of poems published by Norton in 2006, received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His next collection, The Trouble Ball, is forthcoming from Norton in spring 2011. A collection of essays, The Lover of a Subversive is Also a Subversive, was just released by the University of Michigan. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the American Book Award, the Robert Creeley Award, the National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. His work has been translated into ten languages; collections of poems have been published in Spain, Puerto Rico and Chile. Espada is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, the Institute for the Arts & Humanities, and the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative.
November 10, 2010 - "Mixing Horror with Ethnography: Tourism & the Representation of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s
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The CLACS working group, *The Caribbean in an era of Globalization,* (co directed by M.Crichlow and D. Jenson) presents a talk by Prof. Leah Rosenberg, National Humanities Institute scholar in the Friedl building, room 225, at 4:30 Wednesday November 10th.
Leah is an associate professor in the English department of the University of Florida, Gainesville and author of Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature (2007). Refreshments will be served. Please circulate.
November 10, 2010 - Pedro Lasch - Durham Launch of Black Mirror/Espejo Negro
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Wednesday November 10, 6-8pm, East Duke Building Gallery at Duke University
Following the production of the first segment of Pedro Lasch's project for the AND AND AND Platform of Documenta 13 in September (http://www.documenta.de/andandand30.html?&L=1), we are pleased to announce the international launch of the artist's first book 'Black Mirror / Espejo Negro.' The following cities and venues will hold launch events this fall, some of which will be accompanied by an exhibition of the works included in the book. Events for the Spring will be announced in January 2011. The book will launch in several cities across the United States and internationally.
Here in Durham, it will launch Wednesday November 10, 6-8pm, East Duke Building Gallery at Duke University
In conjunction with an exhibition of photographs from the "Black Mirror / Espejo Negro" suites (Nov 4, 2010 - May 13, 2011). Copies of the bilingual book will be available for purchase at all launches. There will also be order forms to make orders by mail or online.
For more information or updates on launches, visit this link: http://www.pedrolasch.com/blog/2010/10/29/black-mirror-espejo-negro-launches-fall-2010/
For more information on the project visit its website or see below: http://www.espejonegro.com/
The provocative three-part project Black Mirror/Espejo Negro by the artist Pedro Lasch encompasses a museum installation, photographs of the installation, and this bilingual book, including many of the photos, the artist's statement, and critical commentaries. The project began as an installation commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to accompany the exhibition El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III. In a gallery adjacent to the exhibit of Spanish Golden Age masterpieces, Lasch placed black rectangular mirrors on the walls, each with an image of a Spanish Renaissance painting behind it. Pre-Columbian stone and ceramic figures, chosen by Lasch from the museum's permanent collection of Meso-Ameri-can art, stood on pedestals facing toward each mirror and away from visitors entering the room. Viewers were drawn into a meditation on colonialism and spectatorship when, on looking into the black mirrors, they saw the pre-Columbian figures, seventeenth and eighteenth-century Spanish priests and conquistadores, themselves, and the contemporary gallery environment. The book Black Mirror/Espejo Negro includes full-color reproductions of thirty-nine photographs of the installation, as well as the text that Lasch wrote to accompany it. In short essays, scholars reflect on Lasch's work in relation to current debates in art history and visual studies, race discourse, pre-Columbian studies, postcolonial theory, and de-colonial thought.
Please see link above for more info.
November 09, 2010 - Cuban artist Sandra Ramos at Wake Forest U
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Ramos will discuss her work on November 9 at 3 pm in the Scales Fine Arts Building on the WFU campus. For more information contact Dr. Linda S. Howe at howels@wfu.edu.
November 09, 2010 - Gringo Next Door & Roberto's Dreams
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These two films will be screened as a part of the Latin American Film Festival on Tuesday 11/9 at 7pm at the Educational Resource Center Auditorium, Main Campus, Durham Technical Community College. Gringo Next Door, by Habib Yazdi & Javier Pabon. (USA/Latino, 2009) 15 min: When Jack fears that his chickens are missing he turns on the only people he thinks to blame – the Hispanic neighbors. The solution is to hire immigrant labor to build a wall between the two homes. A hilarious web of miscommunication ensues in this wildly funny satire. English and Spanish with English subtitles. Los Suenos de Roberto/Roberto’s Dreams by Rodrigo Dorfman,(USA/Chile, 2009) 90 min: Roberto's Dreams takes its storyline straight out of today's news headlines. It is now in the grips of an economic crisis. Roberto has been laid off, Angélica is still cleaning houses and their ten year old daughter, Brittany, struggles to mix her Latino roots with her American education. Roberto decides to start the long and perilous journey of owning his own business -- the first Latino "green" cleaning business in North Carolina. Once again mixing documentary and fiction, director/producer Rodrigo Dorfman shot the film entirely on location in Durham, North Carolina, plunging his main characters deep into the daily life of one of the most vibrant, new Latino communities in the U.S. With introduction by Directors Habib Yazdi & Javier Pabon and Rodrigo Dorfman. All Latin American Film Festival events are free and open to the public. For the complete festival schedule, directions to the venues, and other information, visit the Latin American Film Festival web site at http://latinfilmfestivalnc.com/
November 08, 2010 - Maria Elena Cepeda- Musical Imagination: US Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom
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Monday, November 8th from 3:00-4:30pm in room 107 in the Friedl Building (in between Wilson and Aycock; across from Carr). If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Monika Gosin at monika.gosin@duke.edu
In Musical ImagiNation: U.S. Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom (2010), Maria Elena Cepeda employs a cross-media analysis of popular music and media in her examination of internationally-known Colombian performer Shakira as a pan-Arab, pan-American symbol of the post 9/11 era. Specifically, she addressed the implications of a focus on Shakira and her double-volume Oral Fixation I and II recordings at this particular moment in the political and pedagogical trajectory of Latin America, American, Ethnic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
November 01-06, 2010 - November 1 - 6, 2010 - Duke/UNC-CH/NCSU - Immigrant Advocacy Group
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Students United for Immigrant Equality will be hosting Immigrant Advocacy Week November 1st through 6th! Come show support for the United States as a country of immigrants!
Monday, November 1st:
Film Screening of Brother Towns , 7:00pm
Carolina Theater, 309 West Morgan St, Durham
Charlie Thompson's (Director of the Cinema Studies Dept at Duke) newest documentary "Brother Towns/Pueblos Unidos" will be screened at the Carolina Theater. The documentary chronicles how and why people migrate across borders, how people make and remake their communities when they travel far from home, and how people maintain families despite their travels.
* Carolina students can take the Robertson to Duke; free vans will be leaving from Gilbert-Addoms Dorm at 6:15.
Tuesday, November 2nd:
S.U.I.E Meeting:287(g) / Secure Communities Presentation
7:30-8:30pm, Dey (UNC-CH)307
UNC Alum Ian Smith-Overman will be giving a presentation on 287(g) and Secure Communities, law leaving much of the immigrant population in fear of local law enforcement.
Wednesday, November 3rd:
"The Undocumented American"
6:00pm, Mangum Lounge, OCUQ
An intimate conversation with two undocumented students
living in North Carolina. They will share their stories and be open to questions and discussion with those who attend.
Thursday, November 4th:
7:00pm, Bingham 103
S.U.I.E. Meeting: Film Screening dealing with the undocumented struggle in the United States.
Friday, November 5th:
Give Up Your Dreams for the DREAM
7:00pm-2:30am, the pit (UNC-CH)
A night full of performances, speakers, movement building, stories, food, dancing, and music, all for the DREAM Act!
Saturday, November 6th:
Five Star Restaurant
511 West Hargett St.
Raleigh, NC 27516
10:30pm – 2:00am
Please come out and support UNIDOS!! Proceeds from UNIDOS events are used to help fund the all UNIDOS community service initiatives, social events, the Tri-University Scholarships (which will be awarded to two incoming Latino(a) freshman for the 2011-2012 academic year), and the Tri-University GALA in April.
November 05, 2010 - UNC-CH: Omara Portuondo at Carolina Performing Arts!
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Friday, November 5 at 8 PM at Carolina Performing Arts -- a stop on this rare US tour, Triangle audiences will have the chance to see one of Cuba's true artistic gems. Tickets run from $20 to $55. Direct any questions to Sean McKeithan, Marketing and Communications Coordinator, Carolina Performing Arts. Office: (919) 843-0516; Fax: (919) 843-2012. http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org
A living legend both in her native Cuba and around the world, singer Omara Portuondo is best known for her role as the sole female vocalist in Buena Vista Social Club. And she’s coming to Memorial Hall for a special performance as part of her 80th Birthday Tour –
Her career has been long and storied, from her start as a dancer in Havana's famed Tropicana cabaret to her work with beloved Cuban bands Cuarteto d'Aida and Orquesta Aragon, to her latest solo album, Gracias. She is widely known for her vocal range and for the joy and the pain which seep out of her stunning vibrato and her dramatic crescendos.
Portuondo is a spellbinding performer, and the stirring emotionality of her live performances leave audiences around the world gasping.
November 06, 2010 - UNC-CH: Mayan Weaving Sale for Aid to Guatemala
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9 AM - 12:30 PM, Saturday, November 6, 2010 at the Church of Reconciliation, 110 North Elliott Road, Chapel Hill. The sale supports Guatemalan peasants, abused and locked into poverty for five centuries. Guatemala Support Group: 929-6042, 732-7951. The sale will include gorgeous and colorful woven fabrics made on back-strap looms by Mayan Indian women, a few vests, bags, and table cloths.There are also vintage rugs and wall hangings made by the men on larger stationary looms. This year there also will be a few embroidered items from Yucatan, Mexico to raise money for scholarships.
November 05, 2010 - November 5, 2010 - UNC-CH - Give Up Your Dreams for the D.R.E.A.M.
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Students United for Immigrant Equality will be hosting an event on Friday, November 5th 2010 from 7:30PM tp 2:30 AM in the Pit called Give Up Your Dreams for the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act is a piece of legislation which allows post-secondary education or military opportunities to undocumented youth capable of contributing to the economy and progression of the United States.
To stand in solidarity with these students "Give Up Your Dreams for the DREAM" represents a night without dreams for those undocumented students for those who are prohibited from achieving their dreams. Our goal is to spread awareness of the importance of the DREAM Act bill and to motivate and mobilize members of the community to speak out in favor of the DREAM Act.
Come out and support the DREAM act! November 5th will be a night full of performances, speakers, movement building, stories, food, dancing, and music, all for the DREAM!
RSVP through this link to receive free food at the event! Otherwise, you will have to make a small donation to eat some grub!
http://tinyurl.com/293n8ny
This event is part of Immigrant Advocacy Week hosted by UNC Students United for Immigrant Equality. These events will lead up to National Action Week for the DREAM Act taking place November 8th-13th.
DREAM Act now!
November 05, 2010 - Haiti in the Time of Cholera Roundtable: History, Regional Implications, and Global Health Planning
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Friday, November 5, at 10am in Smith Warehouse, Bay 4. Jeff Baker, Dennis Clements, Deborah Jenson, Kathy Walmer, and others. In 1832, the Haitian government established measures to prevent cholera from passing from the United States and Europe into its ports. Throughout the 19th century, Haiti was one of the few nations in the Caribbean to remain apparently untouched by cholera. Now, following severe flooding in the Artibonite region, cholera has arrived in Haiti, although the extent of its establishment remains unclear. Please join us at the Franklin Humanities Institute Haiti Lab for a discussion with researchers from the humanities and Global Health on the history, regional implications, and global health planning around cholera in Haiti. What do we know about cholera on the island of Hispaniola in the 19th and 20th centuries? What are some of the key features of the medical history of cholera outside of Haiti? How is cholera related to climate change and especially flooding? How was cholera contained in Latin America? What are health NGOs in Haiti doing to respond or prepare for cholera?
November 03, 2010 - November 3, 2010 - UNC-CH - "The Undocumented American"
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Join OCUQ (Olde Campus Upper Quad) for an intimate discussion with undocumented youth! Two undocumented students will share their stories with UNC students to explain their experiences as undocumented students in and out of the university environment. We encouraged you to ask questions and participate in discussions! Refreshments will of course be provided!
Location: Mangum Lounge
204 Raleigh Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Time: 6:00 - 7:30pm
November 02, 2010 - November 2, 2010 - The Alta Gracia Worker Tour
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This Tuesday from 6:30 to 8 in the Old Trinity Room in the West Union Building, enjoy a FREE DINNER with the Worker Tour.
Was your Duke Sweatshirt made in Honduras or the Dominican Republic? If so, feel proud.
Alta Gracia Apparel, primary manufacturer of the Duke clothing line, is a new initiative that pays it's workers 338% more than workers at other factories normally receive. This 338% increase in wage, however, is nothing more than an actual minimum "living wage."
Join Duke Students for Humane Borders and Latino/a Studies in the Global South as we welcome the Alta Gracia Worker Tour to Duke. Maritza Vargas, an employee at the Alta Gracia plant in the Dominican Republic, will recount her experiences organizing for her rights against large brands like Nike. She will explain how that experience led to her current position, being part of a recognized union and being paid a living wage. Gina Cano will talk about her experience helping lead the "Just Pay It" campaign against Nike from Honduras, which eventually forced Nike to pay out 1.5 million in legally mandated severance.
More info on Alta Gracia: http://altagraciaapparel.com/
November 02, 2010 - UNC-CH: Swing and Salsa Dance
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??Tuesday, November 2, 8:30-10:30pm
Kenan Rehearsal Hall (Room #1201), Kenan Music Building. $5 admission. Please RSVP to the Facebook event titled "Swing and Salsa Dance
featuring the UNC Jazz Band and Charanga Carolina" and invite all of your
FB friends.
??Please come to dance to live swing and salsa music! Featuring the UNC Jazz Band, Jim Ketch, Director and Charanga Carolina, David Garcia, Director.
November 01, 2010 - Brother Towns - Rights! Camera! Action!
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The documentary film Brother Towns / Pueblos Hermanos will be screened at 7pm in the Carolina Theater as a part of the Latin American Film Festival sponsored by Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University with the Center for Documentary Studies and the Carolina Theater. This film was created by Dr. Charlie Thompson, director of the Duke undergraduate program at the Center for Documentary Studies. The film will be followed by a panel discussion. It is free and open to the public. Parking is available at the Durham Civic Centre Garage. The documentary film is a story of two towns linked by immigration, family, and work: Jacaltenango, a highland Maya town in Guatemala; and Jupiter, a coastal resort town where many Jacaltecos have settled in Florida. Brother Towns chronicles a story of how and why people migrate across borders, how people make and remake their communities when they travel thousands of miles from home, and how people maintain families despite their travel. Because we are all immigrants, this is a universal human story, and a quintessential American one.
Brother Towns is also a story of local and international controversy. News of undocumented immigrants is familiar in nearly every community across the U.S., and citizens must choose how they respond. The film includes voices of those opposed to undocumented immigrants as well as advocates helping migrants who seek work and hope, whether documented, or not. Amedia-rich website accompanies the film and provides resources for helping to understand and address these issues responsibly. To learn more, go to www.brothertowns.com.
Making Brother Towns / Pueblos Hermanos awas a collaborative effort involving citizens from two very different but interlinked communities. In Jacaltenango, the film crew worked with artists, farmers, students, teachers, construction workers, two officials, storeowners, and others. In Jupiter, they worked with and interviewed people in almost every office abnd occupation, from day laborers picking up trash to the office of the mayor, from those working with new immigrants to those protesting their presnce. The makers of this film are indebted to all of them for their cooperation and support, and will continue to work with both communities in a variety of ways as screenings, educational events, and related projects evolve.
October 30, 2010 - OPB Omicron Chapter 10 Year Anniversary Charity Ball
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Experience a night of enchantment with the Radiant Sisters of the Omicron Chapter of Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Spend an evening celebrating our 10th year anniversary on campus and enjoy a delicious meal, inspiring performances from various spoken word artists and a number of other surprises throughout the evening.
Performances include:
-Out of the Blue
-Danika Manso-Brown (Duke University, Spoken Verb Artist)
-Donovan Livingston (Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Spoken Word)
-Desi Marshall (Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Speaker)
In true masquerade fashion, guests are expected to wear masks, so be prepared for a night of elegance and mystery. We will be providing masks at the entrance of the ball but guest are more than welcome to bring their own. This will be a night like no other!
******Tickets are available on the plaza******
$25 Cash
$27 Food Points or Flex
******Support your favorite Sunflowers!******
Advertisements are available to show your support and will be presented in a slide show and video compilation.
Prices are as follows:
$25 for Half Slide
$45 for Full Slide
$ 60 for a Video
Event Location: Searly Center in the Seely G. Mudd Bldg.
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Contact either n.herrand@gmail.com or ms265@duke.edu for more information.
October 27, 2010 - Dia De Los Muertos GBM With Mi Gente
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Come celebrate Dia de los Muertos with Mi Gente at our General Body Meeting (GBM)! Of course, there will be music, fun, and FREE FOOD!
Location: GA Down Under
Time:7:30-8:30
October 26, 2010 - UNC-CH - Tony and Janina's American Wedding: A Deportation Love Story
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Nelson Mandela Auditorium (1015), located off the main atrium in the FedEx Global Education Center
301 Pittsboro Street
Chapel Hill, NC
Tuesday, October 26 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Film with a panel discussion to follow with:
Emily Nelson Guzman, Community leader whose family is experiencing the impact of a broken immigration system
Tana Liu Beers, Immigration Attorney with the NC Justice Center
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Tony & Janina's American Wedding is a feature length documentary that gets to the heart of the broken, red tape ridden U.S. immigration system. After 18 years in America, Tony and Janina Wasilewski's family is torn apart when Janina is deported back to Poland, taking their 6 year old son Brian with her.
Set on the backdrop of the Chicago political scene, and featuring Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez at the heart of the immigration reform movement, this film follows the Wasilewski's 3-year struggle to be reunited, as their Senator Barack Obama rises to the Presidency.
With a fresh perspective on the immigration conversation, this film tells the untold human rights story of Post-9/11 America, that every undocumented immigrant in our country faces today, with the power to open the conversation for change.
Directed by Ruth Leitman and co-produced by Steve Dixon
Sponsored by The Latin American Coalition and the Latino Migration Project at UNC Chapel Hill.
You can screen a trailer for TONY & JANINA'S AMERICAN WEDDING @ http://ruthlessfilms.com/
October 26, 2010 - Harvest of Shame with Humane Borders and Student Action with Farmworkers
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Join Student Action with Farmworkers and Duke Students for Humane Borders as we present a free screening of the 1960 television documentary "Harvest of Shame" starring legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow (NBC News).
The film takes a look into our country's agricultural system and the involvement of the migrant, and often foreign and undocumented workers.
Join us as we witness the difficult conditions under which farmworkers operated in the 1960s, various conditions which, after 50 years, have still not changed.
Following the film will be a brief presentation by Student Action with Farmworkers about their summer internship opportunities within the agriculture rights sector.
Place: Social Psychology 130.
Time: 6pm to 8:30p
Note:
This event is part of FOOD WEEK at Duke. Various groups will be having events throughout the week. For a full calendar of events, visit: http://foodatduke.wordpress.com/schedule/.
October 21, 2010 - PIZZA PARTY - meet profs, find out about courses for spring
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Friedl Building units - including African and African American Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Latino/a Studies, and Literature - invite all students to a PIZZA PARTY on Thurs, Oct 21 from 4:30 - 6:00pm in Friedl 115 (in between Wilson and Aycock on East). Come enjoy free pizza while finding out about courses for spring, meeting professors and staff, and hearing about majors, minors, and certificates with our departments and programs. Join us!
October 20, 2010 - DukeEngage in Tucson Info Session
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On October 20 from 5:30-6pm at the Smith Warehouse, Bay 7, 2nd Floor, Classroom B252. For more information on the program, see the DukeEngage website.
October 18, 2010 - CMA - Monday Motivations
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Join Mi Gente as they host this week's Monday Motivations! They will be taking part in this regular event with the students and staff of the Multicultural Center and welcoming the new Program Coordinator, Carla Rodriguez! Enjoy free food and friendly gatherings in the CMA's redecorated space. Bring a friend or come and make new friends :) We hope Mi Gente will be well represented!
Monday, October 18th
Center for Multicultural Affairs
11 AM - 12PM
October 18, 2010 - Carboro - "Time Out" with Bill Hendrickson - Radio Interview on the DREAM Act
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LIVE STREAM :: Click Here [Press on 'Listen Live']
Tune in to Carboro's WCOM (103.5FM) radio station and listen as representatives from Duke Students for Humane Borders along with representatives from nearby universities take on the DREAM Act.
The hour long interview will go through the breakdown of the Senate version of the bill, talk about the action going on in North Carolina in support of it (from die-ins to hunger strikes), highlight action in support of the bill in NC universities, colleges and institutions of higher education, and express the hopes for the future of this bill and the 2.1 million students' futures hanging from it.
Present and Representing will be:
Michelle Lozano Villegas
[Duke University, Duke Students for Humane Borders]
Christine Contreras
[Duke University, Student Action with Farmworkers: Student Organizing School]
Ariel Eure
[UNC at Chapel Hill]
Nelly Andrade
[Wake Technical Community College]
Guadalupe Arce
[North Carolina State University]
RSVP on Facebook Here
For more information on the DREAM Act:
Dream Act Portal
For more info on WCom:
wcomfm.org or check out Facebook
October 15, 2010 - UNC-CH: "Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos"
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This new film by Charles Thompson, director of the undergraduate program at the Center for Documentary Studies, will be shown at 7pm at the Fed Ex Global Education Center Auditorium, 301 Pittsboro Street, UNC campus. RSVP and see the list of sponsors online.
"Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos" tells the story of two towns, Jacaltenango, Guatemala, and Jupiter, Florida, that are linked by immigration, family and work. It traces the path of people who travel thousands of miles from home in the hopes of making a living and being able to send money back to their families. While conducting graduate field research in Jacaltenango, Thompson realized that violence and economics had driven thousands of men and women from the Guatemalan town to Florida. His film captures that as well as the voices of people opposed to undocumented immigrants and those who are advocates for helping migrants, regardless of their documentation status.
After the film, there will be a dialogue with the filmaker and reception (in English and Spanish.)
October 4 and 14, 2010 - UNC/NCSU - Saul Flores Presents: The Walk of the Immigrants
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On a community service visit to Puebla, Mexico, NCSU
junior Saul Flores was struck by the simple beauty and
contrastingly stark poverty that the natives of a small village, Atencingo, experience. Determined to help make a difference in the lives of the villagers' children and knowing that education provides youth a solid foundation, Saul decided to raise funds to rebuild their school. His idea quickly grew into what he called The Walk of the Immigrants, a three month, 5,326 mile journey that began in Ecuador and after countless hitchhikes, boat rides, and hostels ended in Charlotte, NC. Saul Flores will be coming to discuss the journey that he took, his motives for it, and ways that he hopes it will raise awareness of the issues that Latina/o immigrants face in the U.S. today.
Sponsored by UNIDOS, Scholars' Latino Initiative, Coalition for College Access, and the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative.
Two presentations will occur:
NCSU - Awards Presentation
October 4th, 2010 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Witherspoon Student Center
NCSU FB RSVP
UNC-CH - Project Presentation
October 14th, 2010 - 7pm - 9pm
Nelson Mandela Auditorium
UNC-CH FB RSVP
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October 12, 2010 - Raleigh - You Have Been Accepted to D.R.E.A.M. University
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Over the past decade, young immigrants have journeyed through our high schools, unaware of the hurdles ahead of them, as they walked across graduation stages only to find that the door to higher education and opportunity was shut, and all that was left for them was to go underground to continue to live in the shadows.
On October 12, 2010, the gates to higher education will be opened wide, as all those Dreams deferred are accepted and cordially invited to Raleigh, NC (location to be announced) to be the inaugural class of NC DREAM University (NCDU).
You may choose to attend the morning session from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. or the afternoon session from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
You can also register by calling (919) 835-1525 or (919) 919- 660-3652 or e-mail nayely@elpueblo.org / raul.granados@duke.edu
REGISTRATION FOR CLASSES IS NOW OPEN!
North Carolina DREAM University Registration Form
October 09, 2010 - Provost's Lecture Series: Edouard Duval-Carrie
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From 5-6:30pm, Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrie will be presenting on his fall, 20101 project. This lecture is co-sponsored with the Franklin Humanities Institute Haiti Lab and the Vice Provost for the Arts. Location TBA. Duval-Carrie's fall, 2010 project is designed on the theme of disaster, cultural fragmentation, and the recovery "montage" visible throughout the area affected by the earthquake in Haiti. The project is a collaboration between the artist and Duke faculty/students will also discuss initiatives around Haitian art in the wake of the earthquake. Additional details will be posted as they become available.
October 07, 2010 - October 7, 2010 - UNC-CH - Student Debate on Immigration: Young Democrats vs College Republicans
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Join campus political groups in an open forum-style debate over controversial topics such as the new Arizona law, birthright citizenship and the DREAM Act.
Young Democrats vs. College Republicans
Moderated by Daily Tar Heel Editor-in-Chief Sarah Frier.
UNC-CH: Bingham 103 (Next to the House Undergrad Library)
When: Thursday, October 7 - 6:30 - 8 pm
Sponsored By the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, The College Republicans, The Young Democrats, and The Parr Center for Ethics.
FB RSVP: Click Here
October 7, 2010 - Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail
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The Hispanic House of Studies is sponsoring a lecture with co-author, Kathryn Ferguson, and artist Debbie McCullough, on the book "Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail." This book collects stories heard about migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border and U.S. citizens who give them assistance. The stories are firsthand accounts told to volunteers for the Samaritans, a humanitarian group that seeks to prevent unnecessary deaths by providing these migrants with medical aid, water, and food. A free lunch will be available.
Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Divinity School: Westbrook Building 0013
(919) 660-3447
Hispanic House of Studies
October 06, 2010 - Trauma in Theory and Culture in Haiti
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The Haiti Lab, the first "humanities laboratory" at the Franklin Humanities Institute, will be leading the presentation at noon in Room 240, in the John Hope Franklin Center. The event is part of Wednesdays at the Center, a topical weekly noontime series in which scholars, artists, journalists and others speak informally about their work in conversation with the audience. The series is jointly organized and presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the John Hop Franklin Center. All events in the series are free and open to the public. A light lunch is served - no reservations are necessary.
October 01, 2010 - UNC-CH: Spice Street's Red Carpet Latin/International Night
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Come out to Spice Street on Friday, October 1st for Triangle Fiesta's Latin party complete with Latin and international music, dancing (salsa!), and DJs! Alianza (UNC-CH) is selling tickets now until a few hours before the event! A portion of every ticket that Alizanza sells will go directly to the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry, an organization that supports farmworkers and their families in North Carolina. Doors open at 9:30! Regular Tickets are $10. VIP Tickets are $20 (usually $25). For tickets, contact Michelle Lozano Villegas at ml117@duke.edu.
This month, it's no regular Latin night! October 1st only, the event will be Red Carpet, which means everyone gets to walk down a real red carpet and VIP ticket holders get their picture taken on it.
October 01, 2010 - UNC-CH: Alt-Latino supergroup Ozomatli performance
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Don't miss the world-famous urban-Latino sounds of Ozomatli on Friday October 1 at 8pm in Memorial Hall! Tickets to this concert run between $18-$55 with $10 tickets available for UNC students. For more information about the performance and to purchase tickets, please visit www.carolinaperformart.org, or call 919-843-3333. This Grammy-winning band mashes hip hop, salsa, dancehall, cumbia, samba and funk into their now-notorious sound, drawing from the varied musical influences of their native Los Angeles to create a high-tempo, party-rocking style all their own. In addition to the intensity of what the LA Times calls their "full-throttle live performances," Ozomatli has always fused passionate social consciousness into their music. Forged out of LA's grassroots political scene, the band has always been politically active, and has recently joined the debate on pressing issues like same-sex marriage and immigration.
October 01, 2010 - Reception with Haitian-American artist Edouard Duval-Carrie
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This event will take place at 5pm, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse. Undergraduates are particularly welcome! The reception is sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute. Come meet the artist and learn about the collaborative artwork he is producing with the FHI Haiti Lab.
September 29, 2010 - Latin Jazz at the Mary Lou
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Latin Jazz at the Mary Lou! As always, Jazz will begin at 9:30pm.
September 29, 2010 - HAITIAN Creole Coffee Hour
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The first meeting of the HAITIAN Creole Coffee Hour or Kafe Kreyol (ANN KOZE KREYOL!) with Jaques Pierre will take place at 4pm, C106, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse. This event is sponsored by the Franklin Hope Institute. Students and community members are welcome to come to the Haiti Lab to practice the language and learn much more about Haitian culture. This event will be a segue into the first meeting (4:40pm, same location) of a Haiti lab working group: "Make Your Own Discovery: Haiti and the U.S. through Digital Newspaper Research."
September 29, 2010 - "Make Your Own Discovery: Haiti and the U.S. through Digital Newspaper Research"
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The first meeting of this Haiti Lab working group will take place at 4:40pm, C106, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse. This event is sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute. Kafe Kreyol, which begins at 4pm in the same location, will be a segue into this meeting. Participants should bring a laptop.
In this working group, we will do collective research in the America's Historical Newspapers database, searching for new leads on insufficienty unerstood areas of inquiry, including 1) Toussaint Louverture in U.S. journalism; 2) Recognitions and Denials of Haiti's Independence; 3) 19th Century Migrations to Haiti from the U.S. and from HAiti to the U.S.; 40 U.S. Diplomacy in Haiti, Haitian Diplomacy in the U.S.; and 5) Durham's Hayti Neighborhood.
September 29, 2010 - First Latina/o Graduate Student Association Meeting
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The meeting will be held at 7pm in the Multicultural Center Resource Room in the lower level of the Bryan Center. The 2010-2011 LGSA coordinators are Rose Buckelew (rose.buckelew@duke.edu) and Sarah Mayorga (sarah.mayorga@duke.edu).
We will discuss current issues, needs and/or concerns of Latin@ graduate students as well as of those who are interested in issues related to Latin@ communities within and without Duke. Meet other Latin@ grad students, and be a vocal and active part of the planning of LGSA's upcoming agenda.
Food will be provided by the program in Latina/o Studies in the Global South at duke University.
September 24, 2010 - UNC-Greensboro: Colloquium on Memory and Violence in Contemporary Latin American Narrative
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This event will take place at 3pm in the Multicultural Resource Center, Elliott University Center, UNC-Greensboro. Young Mexican writer Yuri Herrera, Chilean scholar Rubi Carreno Bolivar, and Mexican writer Jose Antonio Moren will host the discussion in Spanish. For more information, please contact Veronica Grossi (v_grossi@uncg.edu). The conversatio will focus on the ways Yuri Herrera's award-winning novels represent in an unprecedented manner, breaking away from established topics and genres of Latin American narrative, the cultural complexities of US-Mexico immigration and drug trafficking. The representation of violence and memory and its relationship with the popular music will also be discussed in recent, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinian narrative. The event is sponsored by: The Department of Romance Languages; The college of Arts and Sciences; International and Global Studies Program.
Dr. Yuri Herrera (Visiting Professor, UNC-Charlotte) is the author of two novels Trabajos del reino and Senales que precederan al fin del mundo. Scholars and critics have praised his novels and he is now considered among the best and most promising young Mexican writers.
Dr. Antonio Moreno (Barton College) specializes in Latin American narrative, in particular the Mexican novel of the 20th and 21st century. He is the co-editor of Acercamientos a la narrativea de Luis Arturo Ramos and the editor of the forthcoming Avenida Juarez (Cronica de una frontera donde todo empieza), with the collaboration of several Latin American writers.
Dr. Rubi Carreno Bolivar (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) is the author of Leche Amarga: Violencia y erotismo en la narrative chilena del siglo XX (2007) and Memorias del nuevo siglo: jovenes, trabajadores y artistas en la narrativa chilena reciente (2009) as well as the editor of Diamela Eltit: redes locales, redes globales (2009).
September 24, 2010 - Binka Le Breton talk on conservation in Brazil
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Binka Le Breton's seminar will take place at 3pm in 201 Old Chemistry Building on Duke's West Campus. For more information, contact Paul Baker (pbaker@duke.edu).
Binka Le Breton is a human rights activist, author, and president of the Ircambi Institute in the Atlantic rain forest in Brazil. Her talk, "Last chance - Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest," is a report from the front lines of the conservation movement in Brazil. It will be followed by refreshments.
September 18, 2010 - Concertango: Latin American Music at Duke
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Free concert of Latin American Music for Flute and Other Instruments
Nelson Music Room- East Duke Building at 8:00pm
Co-sponsored by the Music Department, the Spanish Language Program, and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South
Contact jcliffor@duke.edu for more information.
September 16, 2010 - Deena Stryker: Photographs of Cuba, 1963-1964 Exhibition Opening
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The Exhibition Opening, Artist Talk, Panel Discussion, and Gallery Tour will take place on Thursday, September 16, from 4-7pm in the Perkins Library Biddle Rare Book Room on the Duke West Campus. For more information, contact karen.glynn@duke.edu. Panelists will include Holly Ackerman, Monika Gosin, Linda Howe, Lars Schoultz, and Heather Settle.
September 15, 2010 - at UNC-CH: "Broken Souths: a Latino Literary Geography of the Neoliberal Era'
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This event will take place at 5pm in the University Room in Hyde Hall. UNC alum Dr. Michael Dowdy (Ph.D., English), an assistant professor at the Hunter College of the City University in New York, uses Puerto Rican poet Victor Hernandez Cruz's image of "Broken Souths" to map a Latina/o literary geography of US and Latin American Souths in the neoliberal era.
Many US Latina/o and Latin American poems published between the early 1970s and the present offer critical figurations of neoliberalism's practical and ideological restructurings of citizenship, "freedom," and subjectivity. Situating these texts within the uneven southern geographies of neoliberalism charts an alternative inter-American literary periodization challenging prevailing thinking about borders, cultural norms, the free market, and globalization.
This approach illuminates Latina/o and Latin American remappings of the US South by giving voice to what Roman de la Campa calls the "full spectrum of the Americas" within the US.
Sponsored by the UNC program in Latina/o Studies, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative.
September 11, 2010 - Viva La Cooperativa! at the Carolina Theatre in Durham
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Latino Credit Union (LCCU) is delighted to invite you to the premiere of the documentary Viva La Cooperativa! This event will be held at the Carolina Theatre in Durham on Saturday, September 11 at 2pm. Please RSVP to alejandro@cooperativalatina.org or by phone (919-688-9270) if you plan to attend.
This documentary celebrates ten years of history and impact in the community. Since opening its doors in 2000, LCCU has become one of the fastest growing credit unions in the United States, serving low-income and unbanked individuals in North Carolina. The documentary highlights LCCU's members, employees, partners, supporters, and other people who have jointly helped to create a safe place for our community to save money, acces credit and build a better future for ourselves, our families and our communities.
August 07, 2010 - Durham Parks and Rec holds Latino Festival August 7th
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Durham Parks and Recreation hosts the 2010 Latino Festival (Rain or Shine). On Saturday, August 7, Latin music lovers will "feel the music" and will share in Hispanic traditions and folklore with Durham residents. The event will be held at Rock Quarry Park, 701 Stadium Drive, from 3 p.m. - 8 p.m. Festival-goers can dance to live music, taste authentic foods, shop at the marketplace for arts and crafts, and learn about health, education and employment opportunities available in the community. Children can explore hands-on activities and create traditional Latin American crafts. Continuing the five year tradition, the Latino Festival will also feature a soccer tournament. For the festival schedule, performers list, sponsors, and directions, visit: http://www.ci.durham.nc.us/departments/parks/latino_festival.cfm
North Carolina Public Radio "State of Things"
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On June 9 Margaret Humphreys spoke with Frank Stacio on WUNC's radio program, The State of Things, about her book, Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War. They discussed the high mortality rates suffered by black soldiers during the war, much higher than the comparable experience of white soldiers. While much of the mortality was due to the health conditions that these men brought into the war (75% of them came directly out of slavery), much more was caused by identifiable actions of the Union command. Humphreys recognizes the importance of self and community advocacy among troops and their families as a counterbalance to the (sometimes) indifference of government leaders.
April 29, 2010 - Ana de la O, "Information Dissemination and Local Goverments' Electoral Returns: Evidence from a Field Experience in Mexico"
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The UNC-Duke Latin American Political and Economic Regimes working group
is pleased to announce that Yale Assistant Professor Ana De La O will be
giving a talk at 6:00 PM on Thursday, April 29. The talk will take place in
room 230 of the John Hope Franklin Center (2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC
27708) at Duke.
Does information about local government's performance spark participation in local
elections? Are more informed voters more likely to topple incumbents who govern
badly? De la O will examine the e ects of an information campaign on electoral
participation and incumbent parties' vote share in the 2009 municipal elections in Mexico.
For more information, contact Gregory Schober at gregory.schober@duke.edu.
April 26, 2010 - at UNC-CH: Film Screening: Which Way Home (2009)
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7:30 PM, Greenlaw Room 301, UNC Campus
Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the United States. The film follows several unaccompanied child migrants as they journey through Mexico en route to the U.S. on a freight train they call “ The Beast ”. Director Rebecca Cammisa ( Sister Helen) tracks the stories of children like Olga and Freddy, nine-year old Hondurans who are desperately trying to reach their families in Minnesota, and Jose, a ten-year-old El Salvadoran who has been abandoned by smugglers and ends up alone in a Mexican detention center, and focuses on Kevin, a canny, streetwise 14-year-old Honduran, whose mother hopes that he will reach New York City and send money back to his family. These are stories of hope and courage, disappointment and sorrow. They are the ones you never hear about – the invisible ones.
April 22, 2010 - Haiti's History: Foundations for the Future
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April 22-23, 2010, East Duke Parlors, East Duke Building, Duke East Campus
This two-day event will bring together leading scholars from Haiti and the United States to explore Haiti's past and to work together toward guaranteeing a future for that past through projects aimed at supporting libraries, archives, and universities in Haiti in the wake of the January 12th earthquake.
For the complete conference schedule, visit the conference web site.
For more information, contact The Center for French and Francophone Studies.
April 22, 2010 - Former President of Costa Rica speaks about Democracy and Climate Change
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6:00pm - 9:00 PM, Goodson Chapel Divinity School, Duke West Campus
Can Latin American Democracies include in their agendas solutions to climate change in the face of high levels of inequality, poverty, and economic instability?
Jose Maria Figueres is a politician, businessman and international expert on Sustainable Development and Technology, but most importantly was the President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. He will be speaking to us about ways in which Latin America can include solutions to climate change in a democratic agenda.
Mi Gente invites you to their third part of the United College Conference "Democracy in Latin America: Opportunities and Challenges of Today". The Pitchforks of Duke University will be performing at the reception dinner, which will include FREE Cuban food, from Carmen's. Contact Valerie Tornini at valerie.tornini@duke.edu for more information.
April 21, 2010 - Mi Gente and CDS Film Screening: Brother Towns, Pueblos Hermanos
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6:30- 8:30 PM, Griffith Theater, Bryan Center, Duke West Campus
Two towns. Two nations. Thousands of paths connecting them.
Over a thousand immigrant workers from the highland Maya community of Jacaltenango, Guatemala live and work in Jupiter, FL, a coastal resort town thousands of miles away.Brother Towns/ Pueblos Hermanos, filmed in both Guatemala and the U.S., chronicles how and why people migrate across borders, how people make and remake their communities when they travel far from home, and how people maintain families despite their travel.
Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos is also story of local and international controversy. News of undocumented immigrants is familiar in nearly every community across the U.S., and citizens must choose how they respond to this issue. Our story includes voices of those opposed to undocumented immigrants as well as advocates helping migrants who seek work and hope, whether documented or not.
Because we are all immigrants, this is a universal human story, and a quintessential American one. All of us understand family, both its challenges and its promise.
Q & A session with Professor Thompson after screening
short synopsis of documentary. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information about the film visit www.brothertowns.com.
April 21, 2010 - "Mexico Matters" a talk by Luis Rubio
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12:00-1:00 PM, Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke West Campus
Mexico is frequently in the news these days and frequently for the wrong reasons. Renowned Mexican journalist and commentator Luis Rubio will talk about our 2nd largest oil supplier, our 2nd largest export market, and yes our largest supplier of drugs and undocumented immigrants. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available at Bryan Center Parking Deck.
For more information, email stephen.kelly@duke.edu.
April 15, 2010 - Farmworker Advocate Summit and Networking Event
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9:00-5:30 PM, United Church of Chapel Hill
Farmworker advocates across the state will have the opportunity to network, learn,
and update each other on the latest issues that affect North Carolina farmworkers.
For more information and/or to register, click here or visit www.ncfarmworkers.org. If you would like to volunteer, contact Emily Drakage at drakage@afop.org
April 15, 2010 - at UNC-CH: "This Journey on My Father's Back at My Mother's Side" a talk by Migdalia Cruz
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5:30 PM, Graham Memorial, Room 39, Kresge Foundation Common Room, Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence
Migdalia Cruz is an award-winning playwright who has written over forty plays, operas, screenplays, and musicals including: Fur, Miriam's Flowers, and Another Part of the House, produced in venues as diverse as National Theater of Greece/Athens, Old Red Lion/London, Houston Grand Opera, Ateneo Puertoriqueno, & Latino Chicago Theater Company (where she was writer-in-residence from 1991 to 1998). She is an alumna of New Dramatists, was mentored by Maria Irene Fornes at INTAR, and her latest play, El Grito Del Bronx, was seen at NYU (4/08), at Milagro Theater (4/09, Portland, OR), and opened in Chicago at the Goodman Theater in a co-production of Teatro Vista and Collaboraction this July. Her play Telling Tales will be produced by the University of Puerto Rico (11/09) at the Bellas Artes in Santurce where she will teach a master class in playwriting.
For more information, visit the UNC Program in Latino/a Studies's website.
April 15, 2010 - A reading by Oscar Hijuelos: Beautiful Maria of My Soul
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4:30 PM, York Room, Duke Divinity School
Hijuelos will read from his new novel, Beautiful Maria of My Soul. Hijuelos is currently the Professor of Practice in Duke's Department of English. Introduction by Lori Marie Carlson. Reception to follow.
April 10, 2010 - at UNC-CH: Carolina Latino/a Collaborative Grand Opening
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1:00 PM, Craig North Residence Hall, UNC South Campus
The purpose of The Carolina Latina/o Collaborative (CLC) is to explore and build collaborative relationships across campus and the community amongst diverse groups focusing on Latina/o affairs. The CLC seeks to foster collaboration in order to offer its space for programming that reflects cutting-edge, interdisciplinary innovations in scholarship, education, culture, and community engagement. For more information, visit clc.unc.edu.
April 08, 2010 - "Ciudad Juarez: Women, Maquiladoras, Narco-trafficking and Neo-liberal Dynamics Along the Border"
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12:00-1:30 PM, West Union Old Trinity Room, Duke West Campus
Mexico Solidarity Network/ Red de Solidaridad con Mexico presents speaker Veronica Leyva. Leyva, a native of Ciudad Juarez, worked for seven years in maquiladoras and six years as a labor/community organizer before joining the Mexico Solidarity Network staff in 2004. Ciudad Juarez is at the center of a failed neo-liberal experiment based on low-paid jobs in maquiladoras. In March, President Calderon sent nearly 10,000 army troops and federal police to Juarez, removing over half of the local police force for links with drug cartels. Leyva will speak about the state of security in this border city that has been at the center of drug-related violence. She will also discuss the failed neoliberal project that led to hundreds of femicides and massive migration.
Free lunch is available before the event at 11:30 AM.
Co-sponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies at Duke University.
April 07, 2010 - David Scott: "The Theory of Haiti: /the Black Jacobins/ and the Ethos of Universal History"
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2:30-4:00 PM, Friedl 225, Duke East Campus
David Scott is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. His research focuses on the question: what is Third World sovereignty? His lecture will focus on the racial and political issues present in Haiti as reconstruction begins.
Sponsored by the Department of African and African-Americans Studies at Duke University.
April 06, 2010 - at UNC-CH: Gloria Rolando screens "Roots of my Heart" and "1912: Breaking the Silence"
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7:00-9:00 PM, Sonja Haynes Stone Center, UNC Campus
Rolando is best known for films such as "Oggun: An Eternal Presence", which
explores how the Orisha Oggun, the god of war and peace, metals,
and civilization, was experienced in the life of Cuban Yoruba singer Lazaro
Ros; "My Footsteps in Baragua", a recounting of the history of a
West Indian community in Cuba; and "Eyes of the Rainbow", a documentary on
Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who
took refuge in Cuba after years of struggles in the United States.
She is also a founding member of Images of the Caribbean, a film collective
dedicated to developing projects that focus on
Afro-descendant communities in Cuba.
March 29, 2010 - Latino Education and Advocacy Summit: Town Hall Event and Discussion
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3:30-5:30 PM, Duke University, Friedl Building (East Campus) Room 225
Join the Duke Spanish Language Program and the Duke Office of Durham and
Regional Affairs for a Town Hall event featuring a live-streaming webcast from
California State University, San Bernardino. The summit convenes key
stakeholders--educators,academics, researchers, policy and program
specialists--to broaden the understanding of educational issues that impact
Latinos. Parking is available on city streets or in East Campus metered spots.
Seating is limited to 30 persons.
4:00 PM: Feature Presentation - Webcast: "White House Initiative"
(WHI), Speaker: Dr. Juan Sepúlveda, Director White House
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.
Refreshments will be provided by The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South. Contact Professor Joan Clifford with any questions at joan.clifford@duke.edu.
March 26, 2010 - at UNC-CH: Public Conference discussing "Latin American Migration: Transnational Perspectives, Regional Realities"
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Friday, March 26, 1-7:00 PM and March 27, 9-7:00 PM. All events at FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-CH.
Speakers will include:
David A. Martin, Principal Deputy General Counsel, Department of
Homeland Security;
David Bacon, author of "Illegal People: How Globalization Creates
Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants";
Juan Carlos López Rodríguez, Former Secretary of Social and Human
Development of the State of Guanajuato, Mexico. The conference will examine the transnational
impacts of Latin American migration to the United States, with a focus
on lessons learned in North Carolina, the Southeast region, and migrant
source communities in Latin America. North Carolina is a new migrant
destination and locus for nationally relevant debates on local migration
governance, demographic shifts and economic transitions. Conference
themes will include the transnational impacts of unauthorized
immigration, local and state migration governance, and return migration
and remittances. Presenters will include academics, practitioners
working in a number of different human services and non-profit fields,
attorneys, and students.
To register (free admission) and for more information, visit http://isa.unc.edu/migration/ConferenceMain.asp.
March 26, 2010 - at UNC-CH: Manuel Munoz presents "The Thin Brown Line: Chicano/a Literature and Narrative Expectations"
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11:00 AM,
Murphy 116, UNC Campus
Manuel Munoz is the author of two collections of short stories: Zigzagger (Northwestern University Press, 2003) and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007), which was shortlisted for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is a recipient of a 2008 Whiting Writers' Award and a 2009 PEN/O. Henry Award for his story "Tell Him About Brother John." Manuel is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Rush Hour, Swink, Epoch, Glimmer Train, Edinburgh Review, and Boston Review, and has aired on National Public Radio's Selected Shorts. A native of Dinuba, California, Manuel graduated from Harvard University and received his MFA in creative writing at Cornell University.
March 22, 2010 - Celebrate Carribean Awareness Week at Duke
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March 22-March 26, Duke University
March 22: Community Service: Ronald McDonald House, 6:00pm-8:30pm
We are cooking an authentic West Indian meal for the kids' and their families and we're going to be teaching them about Caribbean culture. If you want to help us out in the cooking and/or teaching aspect of the event please e-mail me back at vv9@duke.edu
March 23:
Immigration Stories, East Duke Building, 7:00pm
Come and hear us share our own families' immigration stories about how the came to America or even moved from island to island. We will also learn about how one can trace their West Indian roots so we can all learn about where our families are from.
March 24:
Mythbusters: Caribbean Style, MCC Lounge, 7:00pm
Tired of hearing about Bob Marley, ganja, and Cool Runnings as the only references people have to the Caribbean? SOCA is here to bust those myths and teach people our TRUE history.
March 25:
Movie Nights: Shottas, MCC Lounge, 7:00pm
Come watch the underground hit, Shottas, and join SOCA afterwards for a discussion about how these images can be helpful and or detrimental to our culture.
March 26:
East Campus, 6:00pm
CARIBBANA!!! We do it every year, and we do it big! This year will be no different! Come out and enjoy free food, great music, and free T-Shirts! We really need people to help serve, set-up and clean-up. Please follow this link to sign up to help!
For more information, contact Donald at dld12@duke.edu .
March 26, 2010 - Community Development speaker from Guanajuanto, Mexico speaks of U.S. Mexico Migration
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4:30 PM, Bio Sci 111 (West Campus)
Fundacion Comunitaria del Bajío director Adriana Cortes Jimenez has
spent 13+ years strategically battling the harsh realities of Mexico's
high rate of migration to the U.S. She will be discussing her approach to community development in regards to migrant welfare and postmigration work. Ms. Jimenez will also be taking questions and lead discussions regarding her work. She will be accompanied by her student volunteers from Universidad
IberoAmericana in Mexico City.
Presented by Alpha Phi Omega and The Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies.
Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Crystan Dowds at crystan.dowds@gmail.com.
March 19, 2010 - Save the Date: Dislocated Performances: Reimagining Latino Hip-Hop in the 21st Century
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9:30 AM-5:00 PM, East Campus Union, Upper East Side
Conference featuring Hip Hop activist and radio host Rosa Clemente; Pancho McFarland, author of Chicano Rap (2008); Jose Munoz, author of Disidentifications (1999); Mark Anthony Neal, co-editor of That's the joint! The Hip Hop Studies Reader (2004); Raquel Z. Rivera, author of New York Ricans from the Hip hop zone (2003) and co-editor of Reggaeton (2009); and Alexandra T. Vazquez who has published articles on Graciela, the "First Lady of Afro-Cuban Jazz" ( Women & Performance), Ivy Queen (Reggaeton), and the vocalists of Latin Freestyle (Social Text 102). Sponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
For more information, contact Monika Gosin at monika.gosin@duke.edu.
March 05, 2010 - Donate Chilean Relief Supplies to LUL this Spring Break
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From Lambda Upsilon Lambda, Inc. (LUL) at Duke:
As many of you know, on February, 27 2010 Chile was hit by a magnitude 8.8 earthquake, sending the country and entire Pacific Coast into a Tsunami watch. The devastation is catastophic and support and relief packages are needed. Please do not let the recent inundation for Haiti relief desensitize you to giving anything you can to assist.
Please help the Rho Chapter of Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. as we try to lend a helping hand once again during this tumultuous time. The Hermanos of LUL will be in travelling through Washington, DC during Spring Break and will make a trip to the Chilean Embassy to drop off food, clothing, and monetary donations. If you can spare anything please contact any of the Hermanos and we will be happy to deliver it to the embassy this weekend. We will be tabling this week in the Byran Center where you can drop off donations. Also we will be glad to stop and pick up any bags of goods you have to contribute. If you do not have the contact information of any Hermano, you can contact President Eduardo Meza (862 368 9046) or Vice President Dawil Sully (917 701 0636).
March 03, 2010 - at UNC-CH- Dr. Kimberley Simmons: "Stirring the Sancocho and Seeing Africa: The Emergence of Afro-Dominican Identities in the Dominican Republic"
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4:00 PM, Global Education Center at UNC, Room 4003
Dr. Kimberly Simmons is an assistant professor of Anthropology and
African and African American Studies at the University of South
Carolina. She is the current President of the Association of Black
Anthropologists and the author of the recent book "Reconstructing Racial
Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic."
This event is sponsored by the Carolina/Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin
Issues & Perspectives.
March 02, 2010 - Arief Dorfman: Stories Beyond the Dark (a film series)
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7:00 PM, Griffith Theater, Bryan Center, Duke West Campus
Deadline
and
Prisoners in Time
Introduction by Claudia Koonz (Duke Department of History).
Q&A after each film, with Ariel and Rodrigo Dorfman.
The series is co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Screen/Society at Duke.
For more information, contact r.sikorski@duke.edu.
February 25, 2010 - Education, Freedom, and Development: The Annual Workshop for Global Studies and the Humanities
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225 Frield Building, East Campus, Duke University
Thursday, February 25 10:30 AM - 5:15 PM
Friday, February 26 10:30 AM- 5:15 PM
Saturday, February 27 10:30 AM- 12:30 PM
Join the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities for the third in the ongoing series co-sponsored and co-organized by the Center of Global Studies and the Humanities; NiNsee, Amsterdam; and INPUTS, Bremen. The main goal of each workshop, here or in Europe, is to promote cross-fertilization in research, education and international scholarly collaboration against
racism, discrimination and oppression. We are promoting scholarship and dialogue oriented toward construction future societies organized around the idea of the
communal and the de-colonial common good. Economic democracy and cooperation would prevail - in this horizon - over competition, institutions would be at
the service of life rather than the other way around and reciprocity would take precedence over success.
RSVP to tracy.carhart@duke.edu.
February 25, 2010 - Dr. Connel Fullenkamp: Lecture on Brazil as a World Economic Power
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6:00 PM, Few Commons GG101
Mi Gente's Political Affairs Committee presents Connel Fullenkamp. How many times have you heard "Brazil will be one the future economic powers"? Get an educated notion of Brazil's economy. One of the highest authorities in Economics in the country will be talking about Brazil's economic profile, how did a country like Brazil solved the problem of an economic recession. How will the World Cup and the Olympics game affect the region?
February 24, 2010 - Wednesdays at the Center: Angelica Pujols, This Shall Be My Kingdom: Themes in a Sixteenth-century Mexican Manuscript
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12:00-1:00 PM, Franklin Humanities Institute
Angélica J. Afanador Pujol is a scholar of Pre-Columbian and Early Colonial Art of the Americas. She is currently teaching at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Art History.
February 22, 2010 - Venezuela's Curious Coup: A Portrayl of the 2002 Uprising
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7:00 PM, 116 Old Chem on West Campus
Take a close look at the turbulent three-day uprising against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002 using video footage, photographs, and eyewitness testimony. The presentation focuses on the human rights violations that sparked the coup, how the military and civil authorities tried to seize power, and how the coup ultimately bolstered President Chavez's revolutionary project.
Brian Nelson is a former Fulbright Grantee to Venezuela and the author of The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela. (Voted a top book of 2009 by The Economist).
Sponsored by: the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Center for International Studies. For more information, contact Diane Nelson at dmnelson@duke.edu.
February 22, 2010 - Professor Tanya Hernandez: "Latinos and Blacks in the Workplace and Judicial Misperceptions of Inter-Ethnic Discrimination
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4 PM, Franklin Center 240, Duke University
Tanya K. Hernandez is a Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. She received her A.B. from Brown University, and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as Note Topics Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Her work has been published in the California Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal amongst other publications. Hernandez serves on the editorial board of the Latino Studies Journal (Palgrave-Macmillian Press). In the Fall of 2003, Professor Hernandez served as an Independent Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Hispanic Business Magazine selected her as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics of 2007.
Sponsored by the Carolina/Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin Issues and Perspectives
Co-sponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University and the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies. For more information, contact Monika Gosin at monika.gosin@duke.edu.
February 15, 2010 - International Photographer Ernesto Bazan comes to Duke
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Internationally renowned photographer Ernesto Bazan comes to Duke for the week of February 15th 2010 to share his unique experiences documenting life in Cuba for fourteen years. While on campus, he will interact with Duke faculty and students and with the community at large through a series of classroom meetings, a public talk, a special student session, and a workshop. This project coincides with the publication of Bazan's new book, BazanCuba, which won the prestigious Best Book of the Year Award at the New York Photo Festival in 2009.
Ernesto Bazan's residency at Duke University is presented by the Center for Documentary Studies in association with the Cuban American Student Association, with support from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Duke Student Government's Student Organization Finance Committee.
February 17, 5 p.m.
Ernesto Bazan will talk about his extensive work photographing in Cuba over the past fourteen years and about developing his recent book BazanCuba, which won the prestigious Best Photo Book of the Year Award at the 2009 New York Photo Festival. In 2008, Bazan, who has published four previous books with independent publishers, created a new publishing house, BazanPhotos. At 5:30 PM, the Cuban American Student Association hosts a student discussion with free sandwiches. All events in the Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium.
February 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Workshop with Ernesto Bazan. Each year in a series of workshops around the world, internationally renowned photographer Ernesto Bazan helps committed photographers to edit and create a distinctive body of work around a particular theme or subject. For more information on the workshop, contact cdscourses@duke.edu. Center for Documentary Studies.
February 19, 2010 - A Path to Sustainable Fisheries in Cuba, Mexico, and Belize
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1:30-2:30 PM, Levine Science Research Center, A211
A talk by Denise Choy Stetten, Caribbean Project Manager at Environmental Defense Fund and Duke MEM alum. As the Latin America and Caribbean Project Manager at EDF, Denise oversees a team of staff and consultants working with key stakeholders and local fishing communities in Cuba, Mexico and Belize to transform destructive fishing practices and cultivate sustainable fisheries management through catch share plans.
For more information, see attached flyer or contact:
Michelle Loquine at mk113@duke.edu.
February 18, 2010 - Professor Faith Smith: "Sex and the Citizen: Reading the Carribean in an Age of Globalization"
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4:00-5:30 PM
225 Friedl Building,
Duke East Campus
Faith Smith of Brandeis University gives a lecture on sexuality and globalization. "If nationhood, and particularly small-state nationhood, is supposed to be one of the casualties of globalization, then how might the often hysterical discussions about sexuality be read variously as signs of an exhausted, compensatory nationalism, a vigorous and confident anti-western sovereignty, and a perversely homophobic barrier to a good vacation?"
Organized by the UNC-Duke Working Group on Caribbean Studies in a Globalized Era
with co-sponsorship from the UNC-Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin American Perspectives,
African and African American Studies at Duke, and Sexuality Studies at Duke. Contact Professor Michaeline Crichlow at crichlow@duke.edu for more information.
February 17, 2010 - Wednesdays at the Center: Monika Gosin, Citizenship and Belonging: Afro-Cubans in the U.S. Discuss Race
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12:00-1:00 PM, John Hope Franklin Center 240
Monika Gosin, Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South
Although restrictions upon Cuban immigration have intensified since 1994, Cubans who cross the Mexican border or who otherwise find their way onto United States dry land are still more likely to be admitted than most other migrants. Yet the experiences of post-revolutionary Afro-Cubans in the U.S. highlight the limitations of U.S. benevolence-- what does this privilege afford when racism enters into the equation and revokes it? Testimonials from Afro-Cubans living in Miami and Los Angeles reveal that the combination of their blackness and their Spanish accents prompts people from various communities (including some other Latinos and African Americans) to "other" them and place them "outside." This talk will present an analysis of these testimonials, which complicate U.S. racial frameworks by demonstrating the ways that the racialization of Cuban migrants is undeniably linked to that of other Latino immigrant and minority groups seeking a space of belonging. Their viewpoints provide insight into the continued significance of race in the dramatic 21st century political transformations occurring in the United States and in Cuba.
Free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.fhi.duke.edu or contact Allie Hayes at aah13@duke.edu.
February 16, 2010 - El Centro Hispano plans new branch in Carrboro
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A public meeting to talk about the collaboration and meeting the needs of the Latino community in Orange County will be held on Tuesday, February 16 at 7pm in the auditorium of the Seymour Senior Center in Chapel Hill. Address: 2551 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill NC 27516. Click here for map.
February 16, 2010 - Ariel Dorfman: Stories Beyond the Dark (a film series)
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7:00 PM, Griffith Theater, Bryan Center, Duke West Campus
Death and the Maiden
Introduction by Adam Versenyi of UNC and PlayMakers Repertory Co.Q&A afterwards with Ariel Dorfman.
The series is co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Screen/Society at Duke.
For more information, contact r.sikorski@duke.edu.
February 13, 2010 - UNIDOS: Noche de Pasion
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10:30-2:30 AM at Carmen's Cuban Cafe
$7 with Student ID and $10 without.
Co-host Carolina Latin Social. Proceeds will go towards the UNIDOS Tri-University Scholarship (UNC, Duke, NC State).
February 11, 2010 - Miguel Zenon Esta Plena Septet featuring Hector "Tito" Matos, Juan Gutierrez, and Obinlu Allende
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8:00 PM, Reynolds Theater, Duke West Campus
"Brought up in San Juan, sax phenom and 2009 Grammy-nominee Zenon won the MacArthur prize for linking classic jazz with Afro-Caribbean and Latin American folk- part of his effort to reimagine jazz for the 21st century. His barnstorming quartet is joined by three master pleneros, backcountry troubadours who sing like history depends on it."
Tickets: $22-28, students $5.
For more information contact Duke Performances at 919-684-4444.
February 11, 2010 - Alex Dupuy (Wesleyan University): "And the State came crumbling down: Haiti before and after the earthquake"
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12:00-2:30 PM, John Franklin Hope Center, Room 240
Alex Dupuy of Wesleyan University lectures on Haiti and the effects of the earthquake. Roundtable discussion on Haiti to follow. A great opportunity to converse with specialists on Haiti. CLACS's Mellon Visiting Professor, and former
Haitian Ambassador to the UN, Jean Casimir, will also be participating in
this conversation.
Contact Michaeline Crichlow at crichlow@duke.edu with any questions.
February 10, 2010 - at UNC-CH: Mapuche Shamanic Memory and Historical Consciousness
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Mapuche Shamanic Memory and Historical Consciousness: The Making of Francisca Colipi and her Mapuche Community in Chile.
A talk by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Buffalo)
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 5:00-7:00 PM
Global Fed-Ex Center, UNC Room 4003
For more information contact UNC Department of Romance Languages.
February 04, 2010 - at UNC-CH: Exhibit, La Sombra y El Espiritu: Womens' Healing Rituals in the Diaspora
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The exhibition opens on February 4 at 7 p.m. with an artist's reception
and talk by Wendy Phillips. Arturo Lindsay, Spelman College professor of
art, will make a special presentation. The exhibit will be on display in the Sonya Haynes Stone Center
through April 30, 2010.
Exhibit Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.- 8 p.m. or by appointment; closed
University holidays.
The exhibit brings together artists and photographer Lucia Mendez and Wendy Phillips. Both artist' meditations on rites, rituals
and women's roles as healers, provide us with a new window on
spirituality in the diaspora. Phillips' work, the La Limpia and La
Sombra Series, are conceptual projects where she uses the camera to
record the organic connections between the natural and spiritual worlds.
Lucia Mendez' work reflects her interest in both our material
investment in ritual and worship, as well as the subtlety implicit in
our performance of those rituals.
For more information, contact Beatriz Riefkol at riefkohl@unc.edu.
February 06, 2010 - Pilgrimage: A Haitian Benefit Concert
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8:00 PM, Baldwin Auditorium, Duke East Campus
Composer, choreographer and Haitian Vodou priest Erol Josue comes to Durham, NC for a special benefit concert. Presented by Duke University with contributions and donations from local businesses, including The Independent Weekly, The Poster Guys, Whole Foods, and more.
Josue writes: “This performance of song, drumming and dance is meant to support Haiti in the wake of the earthquake. We take this road in order to sing our country, to embark on a new pilgrimage, and gather together as we seek to change the destiny of our country." $10 donation
required for entrance and all proceeds will go to American Red Cross. Tickets Online: tickets.duke.edu, Phone: 919-684-4444, or at the door.
For more information call Daniel Ramini, 718-300-2510.
February 03, 2010 - Ariel Dorfman: Stories from Beyond the Dark (a film series)
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7:00 PM, Griffith Theater, Duke West Campus
My House is on Fire
and
A Promise to the Dead
Introduction by Ariel Dorfman. A brief Q&A with Ariel and Rodrigo Dorfman will follow the short film and finally a Q&A with Ariel Dorfman will complete the evening.
The series is co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Screen/Society at Duke.
For more information, contact r.sikorski@duke.ed.
January 29, 2010 - "I am a Liar Who Always Tells the Truth": A Roundtable on the Work of Ariel Dorfman
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4.00 - 6.00 p.m. Perkins Library, Room 217, West Campus
Five scholars who have studied the work of playwight/poet/novelist/essayist/activist Ariel Dorfman will discuss the many aspects of his work, from literature to human rights.
Reception and book signing to follow. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by DUCIS and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs.
For more info: r.sikorski@duke.edu or jprather@duke.edu
January 29, 2010 - "Taking Up Space": An Interdisciplinary Conference
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9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Duke's East Campus - Friedl and East Campus Union Buildings
Join emerging scholars across several disciplines who will discuss a wide
variety of approaches to questions of space
and consider their application to historical inquiry. Drawing on diverse traditions, we hope to explore how to understand the
production and productive capacity of sites, locations, scales, and
geographies. For more information and to RSVP, email pmm21@duke.edu. All events are free and open to the public.
Hosted by Duke History Graduate Students and the History Department and
co-sponsored by the Graduate School, History Speakers' Fund, Sociology
Department,
Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and the Women's
Studies Program.
January 29, 2010 - Save the Date: Sam Truett to speak on Borderlands
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Sam Truett, Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, will be giving the keynote address at the Taking Up Space Conference on Jan. 29, 2010. His talk, entitled “Taking up Space in Transnational and Borderlands History,” will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Upper East Side (second-floor) of the East Campus Union Building. His visit is supported by the History Speakers' Fund and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
January 28, 2010 - at NCSU: Invitation to Latino/a Studies Lectures at North Carolina State University
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The Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures at North Carolina State
University is glad to announce the lectures by Sophia A. McClennen (Penn
State University) and John Riofrio (The College of William & Mary) on
January 28th, at 4:00 pm. The lectures will be in 325 Riddick Hall on the
NC State campus.
McClennen's lecture will be entitled, "The Global Phenomenon of Three Amigos: Biopolitics and Border Crossing in Recent Mexican Cinema." Riofrio will be speaking on Gabriela Aleman's influence in Latino Studies.
For more information contact Greg Dawes at gadfll@unity.ncsu.edu.
January 27, 2010 - Wednesdays at the Center: Jonathan Hart, Crossing Borders: Some African, European, and Native American Poets.
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12:00-1:00 PM, Franklin Humanities Institute
Jonathan Hart is a Canadian poet and literary scholar. He has lived around the world and held visiting appointments at several prestigious universities.
For more information, email fhi@duke.edu.
January 26, 2010 - at UNC-CH: Upcoming Teatro Latino Series *Date Change
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In the Spring 2010 semester, UNC's Teatro Latino Series, in collaboration with the Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series, the Carolina Latina/o Collaborative, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center, and the Department of Romance Languages, will host three visits from Latina playwrights. All events are free and open to the public.
Tuesday, January 26, 5:30 PM at Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, UNC. ""In Search of Authenticity: A Chicana Playwright's Journey in Search of Her True Voice"
A talk by Evelina Fernandez.
Other events to follow. Contact Ashley Lucas (lucasa@email.unc.edu) with any questions.
January 26, 2010 - 'Escuela' part of Rights, Camera, Action Human Rights Film Screening
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7:00 PM Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke West Campus
Escuela (2002. USA. 53 minutes min., Directed by Hannah Weyer)
There are over 800,000 students enrolled in migrant education programs in the
United States and, of those, only 45-50% ever finish high school. Escuela, the
sequel to Hannah Weyer’s critically acclaimed documentary La Boda,
personalizes these glaring statistics through the honest portrait of a teenage
Mexican-American farm worker, Liliana Luis. Centered around the life of
Liliana, a daughter entering her first year of high school, Hannah Weyer
follows the back-and-forth movement of the family between their home in Texas
near the borderlands and the California agricultural fields. Despite the best
efforts of the school systems to accommodate students like Liliana, the social
and emotional life of this young woman is constantly in flux.
The film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Principal Jeanne
Bishop, E.K. Powe Elementary School, and TBA.
This screening is cosponsored by the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global
South at Duke University.
For more information, please contact us at rights@duke.edu, (919) 668-6511.
January 25, 2010 - Edward Telles presents on Race in Brazil
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Edward Telles will present on Race in Brazil and Colombia on Monday,
January 25, 2010 at 4:15 pm at the Friedl Building (Room # 225) at
Duke University.
Telles, is the author of Race In Another America:
The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil/ (2004) and co-author of
/Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation and Race/
(2008). He won the Best Book Award from the Brazil Section of the Latin
American Studies Association in 2006 and served as the Program Officer
in Human Rights for The Ford Foundation in Rio de Janeiro Office from
1997 to 2000.
For more information contact Gladys Mitchell, glm2@duke.edu.
January 22, 2010 - Multicultural Center Open House
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January 17, 2010 - MLK Commemoration: DOLORES HUERTA to give keynote
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Dolores Huerta, who worked alongside the late Cesar Chavez to organize boycotts and lobby on behalf of California's migrant workers, will give the keynote address for Duke University's Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, in Duke Chapel.
The speech is part of a program in the Chapel celebrating King's life. The program, which will include music and dance, is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Bryan Center Parking Garage (see map).
Huerta is the co-founder, with Chavez, of the United Farm Workers. Together, they also helped start the Farm Workers Credit Union, the first credit union for farm workers; the National Farm Workers Service Center, which provides affordable housing; and the Robert F. Kennedy Medical Plan, which provided medical coverage to union members. Today, she is president of the board of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, which helps teach poor working people how to organize.
"At a time when our nation faces extraordinary challenges in the areas of health care and workers' rights, as the world wonders how to deal with massive migrations across borders and questions about our food supply and a safe environment, Duke is privileged and honored to have a leader with the wisdom and experience of Dolores Huerta to help us think about how, in the best tradition of Martin Luther King, we can best come together today, right now, to offer real solutions for the future," said human rights activist and playwright Ariel Dorfman, a Duke professor of literature and Latin American studies who will introduce Huerta’s keynote address.
The theme for this year's commemoration events is "Where Do We Go From Here? Overcoming Inequity and Building Community."
Learn more about this year's commemoration, including an updated listing of events, at mlk.duke.edu.
January 15, 2010 - This weekend: N.C. Symphony Fiesta Latina in Raleigh
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Dates: January 15-16, 2010
Location: Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh
Artists: Mariachi Cobre
Program:
Hear the vibrant sounds and pulsing rhythms of sones, huapangos, boleros and more! Featuring the thrilling Mariachi Cobre, a traditional Mexican mariachi band best known for their frequent performances at Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center.
To purchase tickets, visit the N.C. Symphony website.
January 14, 2010 - Interfaith Prayer Vigil for Immigration Reform in Raleigh
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What: A Peaceful Rally & Interfaith Prayer Vigil
When: January 14th at 10:00 AM
Where: NC State Capitol Building (1 E. Edenton St. Raleigh)
Forty-seven years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of his dream for our nation. He urged our nation that "Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children." His message still rings true today. We challenge our elected officials to TAKE ACTION and support Immigration Reform in 2010 and help take another step towards realizing the American Dream!
For more information or to get involve contact:
Irene Godinez, igodinez@reformimmigrationforamerica.org
Gia Gillis, ggillis@reformimmigrationforamerica.org
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 - 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 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 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.
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 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
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. )
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).
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
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.
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 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 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 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 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).
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.
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 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
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
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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 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 18, 2009 - Pulitzer Pize winning author, Junot Díaz, reading, reception and book signing
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Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity
and
the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South
present
a reading, reception, and book signing with Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Junot Diaz.
Wednesday, Feb 18th at 6PM in Richard White Auditorium (East Campus).
Junot Diaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O'Henry Prize Stories 2009. For more info on Diaz, see http://www.junotdiaz.com/index.html.
This event is co-sponsored by the University Fund; Spanish Service Learning; the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Departments of African & African American Studies, English, and Romance Studies; the Program in Literature; Student Affairs; and the Office of the Dean & Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.
Books will be available for purchase on-site.
Please note: parking and seating are limited. Contact Jenny Snead Williams at jennysw@duke.edu for more information. [Event Flier, PDF]
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]
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.
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
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 .
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 15, 2009 - In Print: Publications by Faculty
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The Program in Women's Studies is delighted to invite you to In Print, our celebration of recent Publications by Duke faculty on gender-related topics. The participants will share their work through selected readings followed by a reception. Authors are: Jennifer Brody, Peter Burian, Tina Campt, Katherine Ewing, Esther Gabara, Negar Mottahedeh, Martha Reeves, Rebecca Stein. Please RSVP to melanie.mitchell@duke.edu. Signed books will be available for sale by the Gothic. Thursday, January 15 5:00pm East Duke Parlors. Click link for map. Duke University, 210 East Duke Building, Durham, NC 27708.
January 14, 2009 - Colombia the Presence of the Impossible: Film and Discussion Series
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Films to be shown:
"El Baile Rojo: El exterminio de la UP" / The Red Dance: the annihilation of the UP" by Yezid Campos (
It is the first film that explores the annihilation of the Union Patriotica, a leftist political party that emerged as part of the peace process in mid 1980s (it was the political arm of the FARC in their intent to return to civilian life). The title comes from the name of the operation that eradicated three thousand members of the party from 1987 to 1991. The film presents dozens of interviews with survivors of the killings and some of the former leaders in exile. Only ten out of thousands of cases have been solved by the justice system
"Hijos e Hijas: Todos somos
Sponsored by the
Contact las@duke.edu for more info.
Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Suenos/ Our Stories, Our Dreams Exhibit
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Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Suenos/ Our Stories, Our Dreams An Exhibition from the Center for Documentary Studies and Student Action with Farmworkers runs November 13, 2008 through January 4, 2009 at Kreps Gallery in the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Through the collaborative project Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Suenos/Our Stories, Our Dreams, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Student Action with Farmworkers collected stories about the experiences of Latino immigrants, illuminating their reasons for coming to this country and the obstacles they face once they arrive. In particular the project focuses on farmworker families in the Carolinas and their dreams for the future; on their traditions, their educational aspirations, and their challenges as they try to pursue higher education. In photographs and audio recordings, the exhibit uses the documentary arts to amplify the voices of Latino migrant youth and their families so that their stories can be heard. For more information see the Center for Documentary Studies page for the event. Student Action with Farmworkers offers workshops on subjects related to this project; for information, contact Tony Macias at 919-660-3652 or tmacias@duke.edu.
November 29, 2008 - The International 3,800 Mile "Run of Unity" to Stop in Durham
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Durham, N.C. - Immaculate Conception Catholic Church will welcome the International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana. Stay posted for time and location information. The International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana Mexico- New York is a 3,800-mile relay run from Mexico to New York carrying the Guadalupe Torch. It brings together two nations and thousands of families divided by the border. The torch leaves the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe to arrive at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in NYC. For Mexicans, Our Lady of Guadalupe is a national symbol of great importance. The Basilica in Mexico City where the International Run begins is the most sacred religious place in Mexico. Along the way, the Latino immigrant community, its supporters, and the local Catholic churches will offer hospitality and participate in the relay race. The local community will run with the torch in December along the 150-mile stretch from Durham, N.C. to Richmond, VA. The International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana, organized by the Tepeyac Association and the Archdiocese of New York, began in 2001. The event has an audience of more than 22 million people and the participation of over 7,000 runners who take turns carrying the torch according to the ancient Mexican indigenous tradition that has been sustained into the present. The welcoming of the Guadalupe torch and the participation in this run has the following objectives: To bring together thousands of families from both Mexico and the United States, grassroots organizations, international prize winning athletes, popular bands, clergy, politicians and leaders of business community. To promote friendship and solidarity among community groups. To call attention to the painful reality of the immigrant families and communities separated by the border and the dire economic situation in their countries of origin. To highlight the significant contributions of the Latinos to the economy and cultural vibrancy of our state and our country. A large crowd of the Durham Latino immigrant community, with their local community, religious and business leaders, will welcome the International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana at the Immaculate Conception Church in Durham on this day. Watch for more details.
November 02, 2008 - November 21, 2008 - 22nd annual Latin American Film Festival
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The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke is proud to present The 22nd Annual Latin American Film Festival with a focus on "Afro and Youth Cultures in the Americas" November 2 - 21, 2008. There will be different screenings on different campuses each night with 7 films introduced and discussed by their film directors for a total of 28 films to be screened, including feature-length films, documentaries, and short documentaries and art videos. For more details and the complete Festival schedule, visit the Festival web site. This event is made possible through funds provided by the US Department of Education and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Film Festival Committee would also like to thank the following sponsors for their cooperation, contributions, and enthusiasm: the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC-CH; the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Program in Film and Video and Screen/Society, the Center for Documentary Studies, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Department of Romance Studies and Perkins Library, all at Duke; the Witherspoon Student Center, the Department of Foreign Languages, and the Spanish Club at NC State; the Department of Foreign Languages at NC Central; the Department of Spanish at Durham Tech, Foreign Languages and International Studies at Guilford College; the Spanish Department at UNC-Greensboro; and the City of Durham Parks and Recreation.
November 20, 2008 - Panel and Reception for Black Mirror/ Espejo Negro
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6:00-7:30 pm Scholars and artists will discuss their work in relation to Black Mirror/ Espejo Negro. 7:30-8:30pm Reception and guided tour of the exhibition. Panelists include: Walter Mignolo (author of The Darker Side of the Renaissance and The Idea of Latin America), Jennifer Gonzalez (author of Subject to Display: Restaging Race in Contemporary Art), Marie Junaluska (Cherokee storyteller, N.C. Arts Council board member), George E. Stuart (Archeologist & President, Boundary End Archaeology Research Center), Arnaud Maillet (author of The Claude Glass), Peter Sigal (author of From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire), Pedro Lasch (artist and author of Black Mirror/ Espejo Negro). Co-sponsored by Duke Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Latino/a Studies, The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, The Center for French and Francophone Studies, and The Visual Studies Initiative. Free and open to all. For more information contact the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University at 919-684-5135.
November 19, 2008 - Border Deaths Exhibit on West Campus
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On Wednesday, November 19 from 8:00am-5:00pm a display of 183 crosses will be present on the West Union Quad on West Campus. These crosses symbolize the deaths of undocumented immigrants on the US Mexico border in Arizona in 2007-08. Duke Students for Humane Borders would like to remind the Duke community that it has a lot to be thankful for this upcoming holiday season. In particular, we owe many of our holiday comforts to undocumented workers who have supplied us items such as pumpkins, turkeys, and Christmas trees. What most of us do not know however, are the tragedies and physical risk these undocumented peoples undergo while crossing over. If you are on West Campus, take a few minutes to visit the display, give thanks and remember those lost in the struggle. Please also take time to visit the Border Stories photo exhibit located on East Campus at the Center for Documentary Studies. The exhibit will be up till January 4, 2009 A sign will be presented with the crosses: Each of these 183 crosses represents one human body recovered on the US-Mexico border in the state of Arizona alone, during the 2007-08 No More Deaths fiscal year. Since the mid 90s, over 4,000 undocumented immigrants have died attempting to cross our nation's southern border. Thousands of men, women, and even children begin the journey each year in an effort to escape extreme poverty in Mexico and Central America. These undocumented workers risk their lives to fill low-wage jobs in the US (agriculture, meatpacking, landscape and construction, service industry) that few US citizens have been willing to do for the pay offered. Meanwhile, our broken immigration policy, which does not permit proper papers for the number of jobs we have open, relegates these immigrants to a life of fear, and dwelling in the shadows of our society, without protections. This display by Duke Students for Humane Borders and the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South. To find out more about border policy and immigration issues, contact plz@duke.edu www.nomoredeaths.org: Oct 1, 2007 - Sept 30, 2008
November 18, 2008 - Francisco Goldman, The Art of Political Murder
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Francisco Goldman, "The Art of Political Murder" Tuesday, November 18, 7:00 pm, Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke University. Free and open to the public, a reception will follow the reading. Novelist Francisco Goldman is the winner of the first Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)- Duke University Book Award, meant to honor the best non-fiction work on Latin America published the previous year that deals with human rights and social justice. In part, the award recognizes a new partnership between WOLA and Duke, which houses the group's institutional archives. Goldman's book, published by Grove Press, recounts the 1998 killing of Bishop Juan Gerardi, four days after he and a group of lawyers presented a devastating report on human rights abuses committed by the Guatemalan military against civilians, and the trial of several military officers for the assassination. The judges were unanimous in their praise for Goldman's book as not only well-written but researched with a rigor that will inform both Guatemala experts and general scholars of Latin American Studies. The event is sponsored by the Archives for Human Rights and the Duke Human Rights Center and co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The Regulator Book store will have copies of Goldman's book available for sale and signing after his reading. For more information contact Robin Kirk, director of the Duke Human Rights Center at (919)668-6511 or email at rights@duke.edu For a map see Duke Map
November 17, 2008 - The Appearance of Progress: Connecting Public Health and Race at the Mexican Border, 1890-1903
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John McKiernan Gonzalez will give a talk entitled "The Appearance of Progress: Connecting Public Health and Race at the Mexican Border, 1890-1903" on November 17, 2008 at 12:00 pm in 225 Friedl Building on Duke University's East Campus. Dr. McKiernan Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Mckiernan-Gonzalez studies the intersection of public health, civil rights and transnational social movements. Sponsored by Latino/a Studies and the History Department. For directions, see this map.
November 13, 2008 - Nuestras Historias/Nuestros Suenos Exhibit Grand Opening!
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Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, November 13, 2008 from 6pm to9pm, free to the public. Through the collaborative project Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Suenos / Our Stories, Our Dreams: Latino Immigrants in North Carolina, the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) collected stories about the experiences of Latino farmworkers and their families, illuminating their reasons for immigrating and the obstacles they face once they arrive in the United States. In particular, this project focuses on immigrant farmworkers' dreams for their children, especially their educational aspirations, and on some of the barriers migrant youth encounter as they try to pursue higher education. Click here for a map.
November 13, 2008 - "Writing Who You Are (And Who You're Not)" at UNC- Chapel Hill
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On Thursday, November 13, at 6:00 pm, The UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series presents a talk by Cristina Henriquez, with Q&A and a book signing following in The University Room at The Institute for the Arts & Humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill. Henriquez is the author of Come Together, Fall Apart, a collection of eight stories and a novella. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, and elsewhere, and she was featured in Virginia Quarterly Review as one of "Fiction's New Luminaries." She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the recipient of an Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award founded by Sandra Cisneros. Cristina's first novel, The World in Half, will be published in 2009 by Riverhead Books. She lives in Chicago. For questions please contact John Ribo at for more information and for directions click here.
November 10, 2008 - Danny James: "Quemando el parquet": 'Cabecitas negras', urban legends and the construction of regional identity in an Argentine working class community
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Monday, November 10, 2008 at
2:15 pm
in 201 Flowers
The Romance Studies Department presents Daniel James giving a talk entitled "Quemando el parquet": 'Cabecitas negras', urban legends and the construction of regional identity in an Argentine working class community. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Daniel James was educated at Oxford University and received his doctorate from the London School of Economics. He was a Research Fellow at Cambridge University and from 1979 to 1982 taught sociology at the University of Brasilia. Since coming to the United States he has taught Latin American history at Yale University and Duke University until coming to Indiana in 1999 to take up the Bernardo Mendel Chair in Latin American History.
His primary research interests have been in Argentina. Since first going to Argentina in 1972 he has spent frequent prolonged periods in Argentina. His principle interest has been in modern Argentine labor, social and cultural history. Much of the focus of his work has been on Peronism. His first book, Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class 1943 - 1976, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. Since the late 1980s he has been engaged in a long-term collaborative project with Professor Mirta Zaida Lobato of the University of Buenos Aires focused on the history of the meatpacking community of Berisso. A central part of this project has involved the collection of oral testimonies in the community.
For more information please contact Cathy Knoop at 919-660-3102 or cknoop@duke.edu
November 05, 2008 - Talk by Rey Andujar: "Candela: cronica de una llama" (UNC-CH)
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The UNC Latina/o Studies Working Group presents: Rey Andujar "Candela: cronicas de una llama" 5:30 PM, Wednesday, November 5th at Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC-CH Campus. Rey Andujar (Santo Domingo, 1977) is the author of El Hombre Triangulo (2005), El factor carne (2005) and a collection of short stories called Amoricidio (FIL National Short Story Award, 2007). He has received numerous awards including The Central Bank Award, the Theater House International Short Story Award and the Cibaena Alliance Short Story Prize. His story "The Blood of Philippe" appeared in Pequenas Resistencias 4: Antologia del nuevo cuento norteamericano y caribeno published in Spain and Narradores dominicanos del Siglo XX published in Guatemala. Rey Andujar lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico where he is working on a Doctorate in Caribbean Literature. Click here for directions. Sponsored by the UNC Chapel Hill Program in Latina/o Studies, the UNC Chapel Hill Latina/o Studies Working Group and the UNC Department of Romance Languages.
October 31, 2008 - Global Displacements: Geographies of Work and Garment
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A lunch-time talk by Marion Traub-Werner PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota will Friday, October 31, 2008, 12:00 - 1:00 pm in Room 130-132 at the John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Duke Campus. Lunch will be served. Talk abstract: "Academic research on transnational production networks has generally followed industrial shifts to “new” regions. Feminist analyses of these shifts have illuminated their dependence on the production of gendered subjects. The feminist literature has highlighted both the contingent position of women workers in export factories and the centrality of gender in global capitalist accumulation. Nevertheless, neither the mainstream nor the feminist literatures adequately consider the space-times of these networks themselves, and in particular, those locations and workers displaced through shifts in production. To address this gap, I develop the concept of "global displacements" -- drawing on feminist and post-colonial theory -- to undertake two inter-related challenges: first, to deconstruct the implicit developmentalism in the critical literature on transnational industries in the global South, and, second, to rethink the space-times of global production." This event is organized on behalf of members of the Afro-Latin American Perspectives working group. For more information, please contact Professor Michaeline Crichlow (AAAS, Duke, crichlow@duke.edu) or Professor Tanya Shields (Women's Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, tshields@unc.edu).
October 29, 2008 - Hispaniola: From Yelida to Movimiento de Mujeres DominicoHaitianas
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A Lecture by Dr. Dawn Duke on Wednesday, October 29th, 3:30pm at Toy Lounge Dey Hall at UNC-CH. Dawn Duke is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She specializes in Afro-Hispanic Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian Literature and Cultural Studies. Particularly interested in nineteenth-century, twentieth-century, and contemporary writings, her research places emphasis on race and gender, and their effects on literary production. Her first book, Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment: Towards a Legacy of AfroCuban and AfroBrazilian Women Writers (Bucknell University Press, forthcoming 2008) proposes a tradition of Afro- Hispanic and Afro-Brazilian women's writings initiated primarily during the nineteenth-century and continuing with ever-increasing success towards the twentyfirst century. She has published various articles on race, gender, and writing in Cuba, Brazil, Guyana, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. This event is sponsored by Romance Languages and Literatures, The James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, The Institute for the Study of the Americas, and The Center for Global Initiatives. If you have any Questions contact: Emilio del Valle Escalante
October 29, 2008 - Undergraduate Research Funding Workshop: Plan it, Write it, Win it
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October 29, at 3:00 pm in the 225 Friedl Building (formerly Art Museum), we will be conducting a workshop for undergraduates on how to obtain funding for research (primarily summer funding, some for school-year).
The event is sponsored by Latino/a Studies, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University Center for International Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the Undergraduate Research Support Office and more.
For further general information see the Undergraduate Research Suppport Office. For information on the Latino/a Studies Summer Research Awards, see this link.
October 28, 2008 - Duke Engage Info Session: US-Mexico Border Civic Engagement
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The Duke Engage Info Session for "Encuentros de la Frontera: US-Mexico Border Civic Engagement" will be held from 6:30 pm -7:00 pm at the McClendon Commons (NOT McCLENDON TOWERS), 2138 Campus Drive (just behind Admissions).
This Duke Engage summer program will be based in Tucson, Arizona with time also spent in Nogales, Mexico.
Program Co-Directors are: Charlie Thompson & Jenny Snead Williams.
This info session is part of a larger 2-week series of information sessions offered by DukeEngage. For more info, see http://dukeengage.duke.edu/.
October 27, 2008 - Latino Outreach Event Hosted by LUL
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A Q&A for Senator Obama's campaign representative with La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc (LUL) acting as sort of devil's advocate in order to ensure that it's not a one sided event. (Note that the McCain representative was unable to attend, notifying the group at the last minute.)The event is at 8pm tonight (10/27) in Social Psychology building room 130. Food and refreshments will be provided.
October 27, 2008 - Queer Latino Historical Debris: Archiving the Erotic Immigrant Body
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Come listen to Horacio Roque Ramirez give a talk on "Queer Latino Historical Debris: Archiving the Erotic Immigrant Body" at 12:00, Monday, October 27th in 229
Carr Building.
Dr. Ramirez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa
Barbara and specializes in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies. Co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies and the History Department. For more information please contact Carla Rusnak: carla.rusnak@duke.edu or call 919-684-2343.
October 23, 2008 - Looking for a major or interesting Spring courses??
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Come eat pizza and join other students in learning more about the following majors and programs: African and African American Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Latino/a Studies, and the Literature Program
Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:00-6:30 pm
Friedl Building (old Science Building), Room 225
For more information, please contact Maria Maschauer at (919)684-5255 or go to http://literature.aas.duke.edu
October 23, 2008 - "Immigration: From the US-Mexico Border to North Carolina"
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Thurs, October 23 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free Dinner!
Mary Lou Williams Center, West Campus, Duke University
Presented by Duke Engage: US-Mexico Border Civic Engagement, the Center for Documentary Studies, and Latino/a Studies
October 23, 2008 - Talk by Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez (UNC-CH)
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The UNC Latina/o Studies Working Group is proud to present a talk by Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez October 23, 2008 at 4:00 PM at Saunders 220, UNC-CH. Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez is a writer, painter, academic, and unrepentant border crosser who has published stories in international literary journals and newspapers (Tinta, Los universitarios, El Pais, The Barcelona Review, Paralelo Sur) as well as in major anthologies on contemporary literature in the Americas (1998, Lineas aereas; 2000, Se habla espanol, voces latinas en USA; 2005, Pequenas resistencias 4; 2008, En la frontera. I migliori racconti della narrativa chicana). He has been invited to give readings from his work at universities and conferences in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, and the United States. An Assistant Professor of Latino/a and Latin American studies, and Creative Writing in the Department of Spanish, and Portuguese at the University of Iowa, Vaquera-Vasquez is currently editing his first novel, Esperando en el Lost and Found, and completing a collection of short stories. For directions, please see the map. For more information please contact John Ribo at jdribo@email.unc.edu. This talk is sponsored by the UNC Program in Latina/o Studies, the UNC Latina/o Studies Working Group and the Department of Romance Language.
October 23, 2008 - Domesticating the Pachuca
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Come listen to Catherine Ramirez give a talk on "Domesticating the Pachuca" at 12:00 Thursday, October 23rd in 229 Carr Building. Dr. Ramirez is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her studies focus on Chicana and U.S. Latino literature and ethnic studies. This talk is co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies and the History Department. For more information please contact Carla Rusnak: carla.rusnak@duke.edu or call 919-684-2343.
October 20, 2008 - Racial/Ethnic Politics in the U.S.: Research (in progress) on Black-Latino Relations
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Latino/a Studies and the Political Science Department are bringing Professor Rodney Hero to campus on Monday, Oct 20th to give a talk at 11:45am in the Breedlove Room of Perkins Library. Professor Hero is the Packey J. Dee III Professor of American Democracy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of three celebrated texts in the field of racial diversity (with a focus on US Latinos/as) and American democracy: Latinos and the U.S. Political System appeared in 1992, and received the Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association; Faces of Inequality (1998) won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Award; and Racial Diversity and Social Capital was published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press. Since the publication of his first book, Professor Hero has been one of the leading figures, worldwide, on US Latinos and U.S. Politics, policy and racial diversity. He has extensive administrative experience, having served as chair of the University of Notre Dame's Political Science department (2002-2007). Professor Hero has also served as President of the Midwest Political Science Association (2007-08), President of the Western Political Science Association (1999-2000), and Vice-President of the American Political Science Association (2003-04).
October 23, 2008 - The Annual Weiss Lecture in Women's Studies at UNC-CH
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Dr. Carol Hardy-Fanta will speak on Oct. 23, 2008, 7:00 - 8:00 pm, followed by a reception at Tate Turner Kuralt Auditorium. Dr. Carol Hardy-Fanta, Director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at UMass Boston's John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies will deliver an address entitled "Eleccion Latina: Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and the Roles of Latina Women in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Dr. Hardy-Fanta is author of two books: Latina Politics, Latino Politics: Gender, Culture, and Political Participation in Boston (Temple University Press, 1993) and Latino Politics in Massachusetts: Struggles, Strategies and Prospects (Routledge Press, 2002). She is a nationally recognized scholar on Latina/o politics. For directions see: http://ssw.unc.edu/about/directions. This event is sponsored by the UNC Program in Women's Studies, the Carolina Women's Center and the UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series.
October 02, 2008 - Jacob Lawrence, Experiences in Migration Event 10.2
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Thursday, October 2, 2008,
6:30 pm
Join us for a powerful discussion, "Epics of Black and Brown: A Public Panel on the Representation, Culture and Experience of African American and Latino/a Migrations," led by esteemed scholars and members of the community. The panel will feature Harry Harrison, director of YMI Cultural Center in Asheville; Pedro Lasch, visual artist & Duke art professor; and Claudia Milian, cultural theorist & Duke Spanish professor.
Enjoy wine and cheese while you view the Jacob Lawrence show and mingle with our panelists. This event will be located at
Building 2, Floor 3, 807
East Main Building 2
Downtown Durham, NC 27701
For more information, please visit the website.
October 02, 2008 - "The Hopes and Worries of a Vulnerable Observer"
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Thursday, October 2, 7 p.m.
A Public Lecture by Ruth Behar
Richard White Auditorium, East Campus, Duke University
McArthur Prize-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar will discuss a range of issues regarding the relationship between the observer and the observed focusing on her most recent encounters with Jewish Cubans living on the island and in the diaspora. Years ago I declared myself to be a vulnerable observer. I had only hopes at first--hopes of writing about the human condition with greater compassion and poetry; hopes of being able to express how observation transforms the observer as well as the observed. But the practice of being a vulnerable observer eventually led me to worries of various sorts-worries about blurring the boundary between fiction and non-fiction; worries about writing in a way that is "too personal" or even "self-indulgent"; worries about exposing my subjects to a gaze that erases distance and is intimate and revealing. I plan to discuss these issues drawing from a range of fieldwork experiences, including my most recent encounters with Jewish Cubans living on the island and in the diaspora.
The event is free and open to everyone. For more information, call (919) 660-3680 or contact Alex Harris alex.harris@duke.edu, Charlie Thompson cdtomps@duke.edu, Melynn Glusman melynn.glusman@duke.edu, at the Center for Documentary studies.
Click HERE for directions.
Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies with additional support from the Department of Cultural Anthropology, the Cuban American Student Association (CASA), the Hart Leadership Program, Jewish Life at Duke, Latino/a Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), all at ??
Black Mirror/Espejo Negro: Museum Installation by Pedro Lasch
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Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presents:
Black Mirror/Espejo Negro: A Museum Installation by Pedro Lasch
Although the opening event has already taken place (June), you can still visit this installation through the fall semester.
This large-scale installation incorporates 16 works from the Nasher Museum's permanent collection. For more info, see Nasher Musuem website faculty page http://www.nasher.duke.edu/duke_faculty.php and/or contact plasch@duke.edu.
Supported by the NC Arts Council with funding from the state of NC and the National Endowment for rthe Arts.
Co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, both at Duke University, and by Diamante, Inc.
- Oct. 27, 2008- The United States and Cuba: Rethinking Reengagement Conference
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Sonja Haynes Stone Center
150 South Road, Chapel Hill
The conference is conceived around the imperative of advocacy, to advance the logic of a new national debate leading ultimately to the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba. Planned on the eve of national elections in the United States and the fiftieth anniversary of the triumph of the revolution in Cuba, the conference is designed to provide a venue in which to examine the wisdom and contemplate the strategies leading to an improvement of relations between Washington and Havana. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, will deliver the keynote address, On Day One, on September 26, 2008 at 7:00pm in the auditorium of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Attendance to all conference events is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit the website.
September 26, 2008 - September 27, 2008- The United States and Cuba: Rethinking Reengagement Conference
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Sonja Haynes Stone Center
150 South Road, Chapel Hill
The conference is conceived around the imperative of advocacy, to
advance the logic of a new national debate leading ultimately to the
normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba. Planned
on the eve of national elections in the United States and the fiftieth
anniversary of the triumph of the revolution in Cuba, the conference is
designed to provide a venue in which to examine the wisdom and
contemplate the strategies leading to an improvement of relations
between Washington and Havana.
Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin
Powell, will deliver the keynote address, On Day One, on September 26,
2008 at 7:00pm in the auditorium of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.
Attendance to all conference events is free and open to the public. For more information, contacts, and directions, please visit the website.
September 25, 2008 - Latin@ Graduate Student Association
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The Latin@ Graduate Student Association (LGSA) will be holding its first organizational meeting of the Fall 2008 semester on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 6.00 PM at the Multicultural Center, Bryan Center, West Campus. The meeting seeks to discuss and generate the focus and agenda for LGSA during this Fall semester, particularly in light of the fact that LGSA has just been reactivated (as of Spring 2008). Hence, another purpose of this first meeting is to re-evaluate what we managed to do (and how we did it) in the Spring, and to propose new ideas in order to generate a greater participation in and presence of LGSA. Those of you who have participated in LGSA's events before, as well as those interested in being part of the agenda of LGSA for this Fall semester are welcome. LGSA is an association for and of graduate and professional students who, regardless of whether or not they identify themselves as "latin@s", are interested in issues related to Latin@ communities in the U.S., and, more specifically, in Duke and Durham. We seek to generate an environment in which we can come together to meet and support each other, as well as to engage in productive conversations and debates about, for instance, our positions in the university, our and others' academic work, and the latter's relationship with our social and political concerns.
September 24, 2008 - Leonel Rivero Rodriguez, Mexican Human Rights Lawyer to Speak (UNC-CH)
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Law
School (Van Hecke Hall, Ridge Rd.) Rm. 505
Wed. Sept. 24 6:00 pm
Mr. Rivero will address the connection
between the trends of the U.S. labor market, that draw Mexican
workers to the U.S., and the spiraling black market of human
trafficking. He will also speak about his work on the
assassination of Santiago Rafael Cruz, an organizer with FLOC,
the N.C. farm labor union, who was beaten to death in the union’s
Mexico office in Monterrey in 2007 shortly after the union won a
lawsuit restricting excess fees charged by H2A recruiting networks in
Mexico. Leonel’s visit to the U.S. was
arranged by FLOC President Baldemar Velasquez, who will
accompany Leonel at the event.
Mr. Rivero's past work has included: Providing
defense for ATENCO (People’s Legal Defense for Defense of their
Land) movement, prosecuted for impeding construction of Mexico City
Airport on indigenous land · Serving on Delegacion
Cuauhtemoc, investigating corruption of high level government
officials in Mexico City · Providing defense to students
prosecuted for participation in the student strike at the Autonomous
University of Mexico · Associate of assassinated human
rights lawyer Digna Ochoa. Co-sponsored by: the
Immigration Law Association; the National Lawyer’s Guild;
Student Action with Workers; Latino Studies at UNC; and ALIANZA
For
more information: floc_triangle_organizer@yahoo.com
September 23, 2008 - LATINO/A STUDIES FALL SEMESTER LUNCH MEETING
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2008, 11:30-1:00PM
Students (grads and undergrads), faculty, and staff- COME HEAR AND SHARE IDEAS FOR LATINO/A STUDIES DIRECTION IN THE UPCOMING YEAR(S). Please rsvp to jennysw@duke.edu for this lunch meeting.
This event is located at 225 FRIEDL BUILDING (2nd FLOOR, OLD ART MUSEUM/SCIENCE BUILDING, EAST CAMPUS) Link to campus map
September 19, 2008 - Latino/a Studies Welcome Back Reception
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Please join us on Friday, September 19th from 5:00 - 6:30pm as we celebrate the beginning of Latino/a-Hispanic Heritage Month with a Welcome Back Reception. Come enjoy good food/drinks and company on the 2nd floor of the Friedl Building (Old Art Museum, East Campus).
September 17, 2008 - "Tolerance Wears Thin"- Panel Discussion on Johnston County at UNC- CH
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Tolerance Wears Thin
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 5:00PM-7:00PM
Room: 4085, UNC School of Law, Van Hecke-Wettach Hall
Understanding the Tension in Johnston County
The University of North Carolina School of Law's Hispanic Latino Law Student Association is hosting an open discussion with academics, community leaders, and politicians @@ to address:
- How immigration has changed the demographics in North Carolina An overview of North Carolina's response to changing immigration demographics The underlying issues behind the tension in Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell's comments* and anti-immigration rhetoric
- Where North Carolina is headed in respect to these issues
- How you can take action
Panel to Include:
University of North Carolina's Center for Civil Rights
American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina
North Carolina Justice Center
UNC School of Law: Immigration/Human Right's Clinic
El Pueblo, Inc.
*As published in the News & Observer on Sunday September 7th, 2008
Link to campus map
Please contact Deborah M. Weissman for more information at
(919) 962-3564 email: weissman@email.unc.edu
September 15, 2008 - STRANGERS IN OUR MIDST (UNC-CH)
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PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES FOR THE PUBLIC
Do you support the idea that public universities and community colleges should be open to all members of the community? Would you like to learn more about the exclusion of aliens in NC community colleges? Why has hatred and fear of foreigners been a powerful force in the United States? How is this impacting the next generation? Is there something you could do? Come to a talk and discussion of these issues next Monday.
Director of UNC's Latina/o Studies, Dr. María DeGuzmán will introduce: Student Body President JJ Raynor and Ron Bilbao will talk about how to get involved and about a new state-wide coalition working to ensure access for all. This will be followed by a public talk and discussion.
Who: Emeritus Professor (UNC School of Law) Daniel H. Pollitt
When: 5 pm, Monday, September 15th
Where: Pleasants Room, Wilson Library, UNC campus
The event is sponsored by Latina/o Studies, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, CHispA, La Unidad Latina, and Institute for the Study of the Americas. Contact John Ribó at jdribo@email.unc.edu with any questions.
August 09, 2008 - Learning Story: SAF Presents Farmworker Narratives
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Saturday, August 9, 2008, 1 - 5 pm Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium, Durham SAF interns and fellows gather to share the personal narratives and educational stories of Farmworkers living on the East Coast. Every summer SAF and the Center for Documentary Studies train and equip students to do in-depth and personal documentary projects with farmworkers they meet in the course of their site-work. You won't want to miss our students when they give their final presentations! Presented in Spanish and English, interpreting provided. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP to Tony Macias tmacias@duke.edu before August 7th Please Contact: Tony Macias 919-660-3652 tmacias@duke.edu for more information.
June 6-15: The Line in the Sand: Stories from US/Mexico Border
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Presented by "the justice theater project," Raliegh NC
The Line in the Sand: Stories from the US/Mexico Border
The Line in the Sand was written by a group of actors and writers from Catholic Relief Services (a national organization based in Baltimore, MD), who visited areas on both sides of the border between Mexico and Arizona in 2005 and interviewed citizens of both countries, immigrants and non-immigrants.
The Line in the Sand presents the dire situation that those people find themselves in. Not only is the story line compelling and moving, but it is told in the voices of real people and shows the various ways that many people, again not just immigrants, are affected by the lack of practical and humane immigration legislation.
Performance schedule and post-show discussions and events details online at: http://thejusticetheaterproject.org/index.php/jtproject/production/32/
June 14, 2008 - Latino Festival in Durham
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Latino Festival Sat, June 14, 2008 Forest hills Park 3-8pm 1639 University Dr, Durham Music, Info Booths, Arts and Crafts, Food, and Children's Activities. For more info contact: Rosalie Bocellior Ray Gravis: 919-560-4355.
May 04, 2008 - In the Durham Community: Sister Communities of San Ramon Celebration
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Sister Communities of San Ramon, Nicaragua is celebrating our 15th anniversary with wine, cheese (thanks Sage and Swift!) and fine music this Sunday, May 4, 5-7 pm at Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4907 Garrett Road, Durham. Cesar Davila, retired Sandinista Army captain and charismatic community activist will speak about CAFTA, impact of US foreign policy, and how citizen activism is the key to a better world. We are launching a drive to raise $16,500 to build a rural school and school kitchen where children will receive a free meal very school day. PLEASE HELP US GIVE A JOYOUS WELCOME TO THE DELEGATION FROM SAN RAMON! Suggested donation is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Contact: Lonna Harkrader, 489-1656 for more info.
May 03, 2008 - Waterboarding, Ghost Plans, Guantanamo
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Tomorrow, Saturday, May 3 (10am-3pm, 240 Franklin Center), our colleages at the Duke Human Rights Center and NC Stop Torture Now will cohost Waterboarding, Ghost Planes, Guantanamo: Inside America's Secret War. The conference will feature former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg (via videoconference), former FBI officer Brad Garrett, leading human rights lawyer Tina Monshipour Foster, and others. More information can be found at the DHRC website: http://www.duke.edu/web/rightsatduke/
April 27, 2008 - Community Series on Immigration - at UNC-CH
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TOPIC: Politics and Immigration
Location: The FedEx Global Education Center, Corner of McCauley and Pittsboro Streets, The University of North Carolina.
This series is sponsored by CHICLE (/The Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Studies/) and ISA (/Institute for the Study of the Americas - UNC-CH/).
Free and open to the public. Free Parking Available under the GEC
Politics and Immigration
*4:00 pm - 6:00 pm* Discussion and actions
The following Tuesday will be the NC primary election. How have the national candidates addressed the immigration issues that this series has discussed? What can we expect from our state legislature and new governor? Are there some actions and activities that participants can agree to work on in NC? Local political scientists, politicians, and representatives from community organizations will be available for discussion.
* Readings on related issues will be available.
Funding Provided by: The UNC Center for Global Initiatives
With Support from: ACLU-NC, CALDO, Chapel Hill/Carrboro CITCA, El Centro Latino, El Pueblo, Institute for Southern Studies, NC Council of Churches, NC Justice Center, Pa’lante, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), The UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic.
April 24, 2008 - Jornada Medica en las Montanas de Honduras
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April 24, 2008 - At UNC-CH: The Limits of La Raza Cosmica
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The Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Working Group presents:
The Limits of La Raza Cosmica: The Refiguration of Chicano Nationalist Politics in Post-Movement Chicana/o Literature with Timothy Libretti
Thursday, April 24 2008 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm Room 3033 (Global Education Center, UNC-CH)
This talk will explore ways in which the contemporary post-movimiento Chicana/o literary productions of Alejandro Morales, Rolando Hinojosa, Graciela Limon, Helena María Viramontes, and Cherrie Moraga conceptualize nationalism, internationalism, and transnationalism to comprehend the complex dialectical mediations between race, class, sexuality, and gender within the racial-patriarchal capitalist world system. Specifically, it will argue that one of the objectives of post-movement Chicana/o literature, in grappling with the internationalization of Latino identity, is precisely to foster a national consciousness that can properly comprehend and resist the international conditions of neo-imperialism euphemistically referred to as "globalization."
Tim Libretti is Professor of English, Women's Studies, and Latino and Latin American Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. He has published several articles on issues of class, race and ethnicity on the topic of Third World literatures in the United States. He is the author The Making of U.S. Working-Class Literature and Consciousness: The Nations, Genders, and Sexualities of U.S. Proletarian Literature from the 1930s to the Present (forthcoming from SUNY Press).
April 20, 2008 - Community Series on Immigration - at UNC-CH
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TOPIC: Education, Health Care, Social Services and Immigration
Location: The FedEx Global Education Center, Corner of McCauley and Pittsboro Streets, The University of North Carolina.
This series is sponsored by CHICLE (/The Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Studies/) and ISA (/Institute for the Study of the Americas - UNC-CH/).
Free and open to the public. Free Parking Available under the GEC
Irene Godinez, Advocacy Director of El Pueblo, will lead a discussion on the impact of immigration on our schools, looking at issues such as low test scores, high dropout rates and gangs in the schools and the community. The discussion will also cover the impact of immigration on our health facilities, emergency rooms, healthcare costs and other health-related issues, including possible implications for future immigration.
*4:45 pm – 6:00 pm* Film: */La Vida no es Facil
Through an interview process, this documentary focuses on various issues affecting Latinos in North Carolina. Topics covered include in-state tuition and education, misconceptions of the Latino community, permanent residency, and the impact of Latinos on the economy. The video maker's son, Torin Martinez, will present this film. After the film students from Pa’lante will talk about their personal experiences with US education.
Readings on related issues will be available.
Funding Provided by: The UNC Center for Global Initiatives
With Support from: ACLU-NC, CALDO, Chapel Hill/Carrboro CITCA, El Centro Latino, El Pueblo, Institute for Southern Studies, NC Council of Churches, NC Justice Center, Pa’lante, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), The UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic.
April 18, 2008 - A Korea-US Symposium on Race, Culture, and Policy
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A Korea-US Symposium on Race, Culture and Policy
Co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies at ??
for Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS) at
4-6pm, followed by reception
225 Friedl/Science (
Opening Remarks by symposium moderator, Myoung Ah Shin (Professor of English and Director of American Studies, CAPS,
4:00 pm - 4: 40 pm Session I -Korean Studies
Dong-Ho Pak (Korean Language, Director of Korean Studies, CAPS,
Commentator: Hae-Young Kim, Asian & African Languages & Literature,
Jae Sung Kwak (Professor of Graduate School of Pan-Pacific International Studies and Director of Latin American Studies, CAPS, Kyung Hee University, and Visiting Scholar, Inter-American Development Bank, USA
"Assessing Ten Years of Experiment of Area Studies in
"The Transnational Origins of Chicano/a Studies and
Contact Myoung Ah Shin for more info: ms241@duke.edu
April 17, 2008 - La Unidad Latina presents: State of Latinos Forum
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Dear Administrators, Faculty, and Students,
On April 17th, 2008 the hermanos of La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Incorporated will be hosting its 3rd annual State of Latinos forum.
This forum has brought Latino issues to the forefront of changes in campus resources for students. With a growing Latino population in our own backyard, the growing importance of nationwide Latino issues is a topic of importance for the entire student body. This year we will be co-sponsoring this event with cultural groups on campus and discuss how changes in Latino life affect and relate to other minorities an overall student life. We will discuss overall plans for socioeconomic and campus culture change that will help to increase Latino presence as well as providing useful tools applicable to overall diversity at Duke.
Your attendance would be greatly appreciated as we look to reach a broad base of administrators, faculty, and students in hopes of creating a more diverse representation of Latino life and provide an outlook for further overall diversity at Duke.
What: State of Latinos 2008: Connecting the Struggle
When: Thursday, April 17th 2008
Where: Soc/Pysch 130
Time: 7 PM
Thank you, Brian Ovalle (Trinity '08) (ba09@duke.edu for further info)
April 15, 2008 - and April 17: Ugrad Presentations- Framing the Immigration Debate
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***** Immigration Event ***** On Tuesday, April 15th and Thursday, April 17th, first-year students from my Writing 20 class, "Framing the Immigration Debate," will be delivering presentations on their final research projects. All presentations will be held in Art Bldg, Room 116 (East Campus). Everyone is welcome to attend! Liz Drogin Note: Please email Prof Liz Drogin (drogin@duke.edu) for a full schedule of presentation titles and student names.
April 17, 2008 - Sports and Cuban Nationalism
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April 16, 2008 - RECYCLE: 3 artists in conversation
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Wednesday, April 16 from 2:00 - 6:30 PM at Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center (2204 Erwin Road), Duke University
Recycle, the 2007-08 Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar, considers why and how used objects, ideas, places, images, practices are profitably or problematically reappropriated and put to different purposes. Through the empirical and theoretical consideration of specific historical salvage – texts, works, products, sites, methods, practices – either in the past or in the present, the seminar has met throughout the year to investigate the cultural and economic life of things and ideas. What do these instruments give up and what do they retain, what do they receive and what do they impose? Are there patterns or cycles of reuse and how do knowing agents join and modify them? How do changes in the work that objects perform document shifts in their political and economic circumstances? In this year-end event, the seminar fellows will explore these questions and more with guest artists working across a range of media (installations, performance, design, film and video, digital media).
Alex Rivera, whose work addresses concerns of the Latino community, is one of three main artists in the conversation.
Latino/a Studies Community Liaison, Pedro Lasch, will be moderating one panel.
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April 14, 2008 - On the Border of Order: Contemporary U.S. Immigration Principles and Policies
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The Kenan Institute for Ethics is pleased to present its Annual Public Ethics Spring Symposium for 2008:
On the Border of Order: Contemporary U.S. Immigration Principles and Policies
Monday, April 14, 12:00-5:00 pm
Doris Duke Center, Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Disaffection with the deadlock in U.S. immigration policy is widespread. These concerns are rooted in competing claims about human rights and the rule of law, social order and national identity, and the economic and civic dimensions of citizenship. The symposium gathers scholars, policymakers, and community leaders to assess the principles at stake in national policy debates, the meaning of citizenship at the state and local level, and the implications for social cohesion of large-scale demographic change.
Contact kie@duke.edu for full program info.
The symposium is made possible by support from the Matt and Susan Mackowski Fund.
The Kenan Institute for Ethics is grateful to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens for the use of the Doris Duke Center. The symposium is cosponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Center for Documentary Studies, Latino/a Studies, the Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, the Wildacres Leadership Initiative, and the Department of Political Science.
This event is free and open to the public. Participants may attend all or any portion of the symposium. Free parking is available at the Doris Duke Center. Boxed lunches will be available starting at 11:30 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please call 919-660-3033 or email kie@duke.edu for additional information.
April 10, 2008 - Inter(Cambio): Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: The Duke Cuba Conference
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APRIL 10-APRIL 13
Hosted by Raices de Esperanza and the Duke University Cuban American Student Association
From April 10-13, join us at the campus of Duke University for Raices de Esperanza's 5th anniversary youth Cuba conference, hosted by the Cuban American Student Association at Duke. This three-day event will unite prominent figures that are active in the study of Cuban and Cuban-American affairs, young professionals, and students from universities and high schools across the nation. Visit www.dukecubaconference.com
About Raices: Founded in 2003, Raices de Esperanza is an international network of more than 1,000 students and young professionals passionate about Cuba and its future. With students at more than 44 universities and young professionals in New York, Washington D.C., and Miami, we seek to educate ourselves about Cuba's complex realities and proactively support our young counterparts on the island. Raíces members are united by their shared hope of seeing a free, democratic Cuba in the future, but do not all agree on the best way to get there. We welcome debate, diversity, and a humanistic portrayal of the dilemmas that divide the Florida straits, hoping that our conduct can serve as an example for others. For more information, contact Alicia Castilla Zelek at alicia.zelek@duke.edu
April 13, 2008 - Community Series on Immigration - at UNC-CH
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TOPIC: Economics and Immigration
Location: The FedEx Global Education Center, Corner of McCauley and Pittsboro Streets, The University of North Carolina.
This series is sponsored by CHICLE (/The Chapel Hill Institute for Cultural and Language Studies/) and ISA (/Institute for the Study of the Americas - UNC-CH/).
Free and open to the public. Free Parking Available under the GEC
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm *Film: *Morristown: In the Air and Sun *
Filmed over an 8-year period in the mountains of east Tennessee, interior Mexico, and Ciudad Juarez, TT. /Morristown: In the air and sun TT is rooted in the authentic expression of workers who speak about their lives, work, disappointments, and hopes. These conversations are combined with scenes in factories, fields, union halls, Mexican stores, city parks, and employment agencies.
After the film there will be a discussion led by Dani Martínez-Moore and Ajamu Dillahunt from the NC Justice Center. They will address such issues as why immigrants travel to America, whether or not they are depressing wages and if they are taking jobs from non-immigrant North Carolinians.
Readings on related issues will be available.
Funding Provided by: The UNC Center for Global Initiatives
With Support from: ACLU-NC, CALDO, Chapel Hill/Carrboro CITCA, El Centro Latino, El Pueblo, Institute for Southern Studies, NC Council of Churches, NC Justice Center, Pa’lante, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), The UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic.
April 07, 2008 - Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza reading and book signing at UNC-CH
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Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza
"The General Insane Asylum La Castañeda from the Future:
History and Literature in the Early 20th and Early 21st Centuries in Mexico"
The lecture will conclude with a reading in Spanish from her latest novel, La muerte me da (2007). Book signing after her lecture!!!!
When: Monday, April 7th at 5:00 p.m.
Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
Novelist, poet and short-story writer, Cristina Rivera Garza received her B.A in Sociology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and her Ph.D. in Latin American History at the University of Houston-Texas. Her work, written in English and Spanish, has received the most important literary awards in Mexico. Her most prestigious novel, Nadie me verá llorar (No one will see me cry, 1999), won the Premio Nacional de Novela José Rubén Romero, the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the Premio IMPAC-CONARTE-ITESM, and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Prize. She is currently a Felice Massie Distinguished Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Sponsored by: UNC-CH Department of Romance Languages; UNC-Duke Consortium Working Group: "Nation Building, Popular Culture, and Marginalities"; UNC-CH Curriculum in International and Area Studies; UNC-CH Latina/o Studies Minor and Program.
April 05, 2008 - Open Panel Discussion with Lourdes Portillo - at Full Frame
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The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (www.fullframefest.org) has announced that the curated series for the 2008 festival will focus on the theme of migration. Full Frame selected Lourdes Portillo, an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker whose films focus on the search for Latino identity, to curate the series. On Sat, April 5, 11 am, he will conduct an open panel discussion with this year's filmmakers. See http://www.fullframefest.org/festival/grid/date/2008-04-05
March 30, 2008 - April 6: Mon- Sun: Visit the Border Wall in Perkins Library
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Experiencing LA FRONTERA
Border Stories: On the Wall
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Monday, March 31through Sun, April 6
Join Duke's "Farmworkers in NC" class and Latino/a Studies as we share with you the Border Wall, a creation stemming from our study of migration, security, and human rights at the US/Mexico Border. We'll share images, objects, and stories that we encountered during our spring break trip.
April 06, 2008 - At UNC-CH: Impacts of Local Policy Responses to Undocumented Immigration
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Community Conference: Examining the Impacts of Local Policy Responses to Undocumented Immigration, April 6, 2008
Free and open to the public
The Institute for the Study of the Americas, the Chapel Hill Institute for Culture and Language Education (CHICLE), the UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic and The Center for Global Initiatives, present the Community Conference, "Examining the Impacts of Local Policy Responses to Undocumented Immigration."
The Community Conference will take place in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium of the Global Education Center, UNC Chapel Hill, (301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill) from 12:30pm to 6pm on April 6.
Participants from UNC Chapel Hill, the UNC School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Policy Clinic, Elon University, the NC American Civil Liberties Union and the NC Justice Center will examine the following questions: In the wake of failed federal immigration reform, how are law enforcement agencies, state, and local policy makers in North Carolina responding to undocumented immigration? How is deportation being used as a solution to undocumented immigration in North Carolina counties, and what is its impact in communities in Alamance and Mecklenburg County? Presentations will be followed by a film screening of Al Otro Lado, a 2005 documentary about immigration and drug trafficking through the lens of Mexico's 200-year-old tradition of corrido music. (see http://isa.unc.edu/ for program details).
The community conference will kick-off a four part series of Sunday afternoon discussions and films in April entitled "Immigration: Asking the Hard Questions." (see http://chi-cle.com/sundayevents/sundayeventimmigration.html)
Additional event supporters include El Centro Latino, El Pueblo, The NC-ACLU, the NC Justice Center, CITCA, CALDO, The Institute for Southern Studies, and the NC Council of Churches.
Directions located at http://isa.unc.edu/about/directions.asp. Free parking available.
April 06, 2008 - A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
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A PROMISE TO THE DEAD: THE EXILE JOURNEY OF ARIEL DORFMAN premieres in North Carolina at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
The film was directed by acclaimed filmmaker Peter Raymont (Emmy Award for SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL) and based on Ariel Dorfman's memoir "Heading South, Looking North." The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festivals and has been shown at many
film festivals around the world. It was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary and selected as one of the 10 best Canadian films for 2007.
When Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende in an extraordinarily violent coup on September 11, 1973, cultural advisor Ariel Dorfman was among the very few in Allende's administration to survive. More than thirty years later, the renowned novelist and playwright returns to Chile with filmmaker Peter Raymont for a probing meditation on memory,exile, and democracy as he searches for a way to remember the dead. Together the two men revisit the scenes of Dorfman's past, such as the balcony of the presidential palace where Allende made his last farewell, as Pinochet lies dying nearby under house arrest. Weaving previously unseen archival footage with affecting contemporary scenes and Dorfman's vivid reminiscences, Raymont offers us an unforgettable story of repression and resistance.
2007. Canada. 92 mins. Directed by Peter Raymont. Produced by Peter Raymont
Sunday, April 6, 7 p.m.
Durham Civic Center
http://www.fullframefest.org/festival/grid/date/2008-04-06
April 03, 2008 - April 3-6: Latino Student Recruitment Weekend
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Watch for details on a number of events to take place between April 3 - 6, when prospective Latino/a undergraduate students visit campus.
March 26, 2008 - April 5: Farmworker Awareness Week - lots of great events
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From March 26-April 5th, Students, Advocates, Farmworkers, and Community Members are organizing events around the Triangle in honor of Farmworkers-
Show your support for those who harvest our food by coming to one of these great local events:
1. "Slavery Still Exists: A Conversation with the CIW" | March 26th
2. Protest at Burger King! | March 26th
3. Fair Food Dinner & Border Stories Presentation | March 31st
4. Panel Discussion on Religion & Farmworkers | April 1st
5. Helena Maria Viramontes Talk | April 1st
6. Screening of Invisible Chapel | April 2nd
7. Border Stories Documentary Presentation| April 2nd
8. Screening of De Nadie | April 3rd
9. Farmworker Awareness Week Table at Springternational | April 4th
10. Farm Labor Camp Delegation | April 5th
For more info, see http://cds.aas.duke.edu/saf/involved/faw.htm or contact Tony Macias, tmacias@duke.edu.
April 05, 2008 - Calavera Highway to premiere April 5 at Durham Civic Center
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Premiere at the Full Frame Film Festival
Durham Civic Center Theater
Saturday, April 5, 7pm
Filmmakers will be present
Tickets: http://fullframefest.org/ or call 1-800-514-3849.
* Winner, Best Documentary Feature, San Diego Latino Film Festival
* National broadcast on PBS's “P.O.V.' series, fall 2008.
THE STORY
When ARMANDO and CARLOS PENA set off to carry their mother's ashes back to South Texas and reunite their far-flung brothers, the road reveals more than they bargained for. Calavera Highway traces the odyssey of two brothers as they decipher a complex story. Why their mother was an outcast, and what happened to their father who disappeared during "Operation Wetback," the 1954 U.S. government program that deported over a million Mexican and Mexican Americans. Calavera Highway is a sweeping story of seven brothers grappling with the meaning of masculinity and fatherhood, and the nature of family ties.
A co-presentation of Latino Public Broadcasting. Funded in part by the Center for Asian American Media with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Calavera Highway will be aired nationally on the PBS series, P.O.V., in the fall of 2008.
Contact: Renee at 323-376-3799, tajimapena@aol.com
April 04, 2008 - Angelica's Dreams with Q & A to follow
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Angelica's Dreams/ Los Suenos de Angelica, a film by Duke alum, Rodrigo Dorfman, which premiered this past fall to great reviews at the Carolina Theater in Durham, will be screened at the Terry SANFORD INSTITUTE for Public Policy, Room 104 on Friday, April 4th from 11:30-1:30pm, with FREE LUNCH from CHIPOTLE for the first 50 to arrive and a Q & A to follow with director/producer, Rodrigo Dorfman and the CEO of Latino Community Credit Union, also a Duke alum, Luis Pastor. Angelica's Dreams is the first Latino feature to come out of NC, the moving story of an immigrant copule torn between staying in the US or returning back to their native country. Shot entirely on location in Durham NC. Location: Sanford Institute of Public Policy Sponsored by: Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Spanish Service Learning, Latino/a Studies, and the Multicultural Center.
April 04, 2008 - The African Presence and Persistence in Mexico: Memory and Modernity
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"The African Presence and Persistence in Mexico: Memory and Modernity"
A discussion with Padre Glyn Jemmott of El Ciruelo, Oaxaca.
Friday, April 4, 2008
4:00pm
Friedl Building, Room 225
East Campus (Formerly Old Art Museum)
Padre Glyn Jemmott Nelson is a native of Trinidad and Tobago and has worked in the Costa Chica region of Southwestern Mexico for nearly a quarter of a century helping his parishioners recover their African memory and identity. In 1997, he was involved in launching the First Meeting of Afrodescendant Communities (Encuentro de Pueblos Negros) of the coastal region of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico, and in recognizing March as Mexico?s Black History Month. Padre Glyn has worked with other regional residents, to open and maintain a library and a secondary school. He is also a founding member of the grassroots organization México Negro A.C.
For more information, contact Talia Weltman tw10@duke.edu
Sponsored by:
Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Latino/a Studies at Duke University; Duke Center for Multicultural Affairs; Duke Center for Global Studies and the Humanities; La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc.
April 01, 2008 - Helena Maria Viramontes presentation and book signing (at UNC-CH)
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On Tues, April 1 at 6pm, Helena Maria Virramontes presents:
"Cemeteries, Freeways and the Bones of the Forgotten: How Geography Shaped One Writer's Inspiration"
Q & A and book signing to follow talk
Location: Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture & HistoryHelena Maria Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories (1985) and Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), a novel. Her most recent novel, Their Dogs Came with Them, just published by Atria Books, focuses on the dispossessed, the working poor, the homeless, and the undocumented of East Los Angeles, where Viramontes was born and raised. Her work strives to recreate the visceral sense of a world virtually unknown to mainstream letters and to transform readers through relentlessly compassionate storytelling.
In the 1980s, Viramontes became co-coordinator of the Los Angeles Latino Writers Association and literary editor of XhistmeArte Magazine. Later in the decade, Viramontes helped found Southern California Latino Writers and Filmmakers. In collaboration with feminist scholar Maria Herrera Sobek, Viramontes organized three major conferences at UC-Irvine, resulting in two anthologies: Chicana Creativity and Criticism-Charting New Frontiers in American Literature (1988) and Chicana Writes: On Word and Film (1993).
Viramontes' work has been included in nearly every anthology of American literature published in the last ten years, including, most recently, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. Named a USA Ford Fellow in Literature for 2007 by United States Artists, she has also received the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, a Sundance Institute Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Luis Leal Award. A teacher and mentor to countless young writers, Viramontes is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Cornell University.Sponsored by the UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series & The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture & History.
March 31, 2008 - Border Stories: live performance and local, healthy dinner
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Border Stories: Experiencing La Frontera
Join Duke's "Farmworkers in NC" class as we share stories from our trip to the US/Mexico Border in a live performance.
Monday March 31, 2008 from 6-8:00 pm
At The Refectory in the ??
Live Music and a Cash Bar
Delicious, Healthy, Local Dinner (all you can eat!)
A Unique Performance of Stories from the Borderlands
Tickets can be purchased at the Refectory for $15
For more information contact: fiona.osullivan@duke.edu
March 27, 2008 - March 30, 2008- Festival on the Hill: Latin American and Latino Music in NC and the U.S. at UNC-CH
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The Music Department at UNC-CH will host a festival recognizing and celebrating the contributions of Latin American music and culture to the United States. For more information on the festival please visit: http://music.unc.edu/festivalonthehill2008/
Please contact: David Garcia at daga@email.unc.edu for more information.
March 29, 2008 - Sonidero Expo-Pachanga-NC/Carrboro- P.Lasch presenta
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Tianguis Transnacional Pedro Lasch presenta / presents... PACHANGA+EXPOSICION=PARTY+EXHIBITION GRAN MARATON SONIDERO 2008
Saturday March 29 from 6pm - 2am
Arts Center, Carrboro, NC (300 G Main Street, in front of KFC)
Sonideros, djs, and groups all over Mexico and the US making history in the Carolinas!
6-8pm Public conversation about sonidero/dj phenomenon*
8-9pm Public reception, sonidero workshop, and interviews
9pm-2am Gran Baile
Sonidero Sonidos and Dance Groups: Sibarey, Ilusion, Son Poquitos, Los Reyes de la Presalsa, Alucinaci
This exhibition and its related events present collaborations by Pedro Lasch and various North Carolina artists for his ongoing transnational projects. Belonging to his Naturalizations Series, and created with Carrboro Arts Center's bilingual arts collective.
For more info on the Sonidero Expo-Party, contact Prof Pedro Lasch at plasch@duke.edu
March 28, 2008 - LGSA: Dinner Conversation on Caribbeanness and Mestizaje
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The Latin@ Graduate Student Association would like you to join us for a dinner conversation with Professor Claudia Milian and Professor Hernandez-Adrian. They will address the categories of "Caribbeanness" and "Mestizaje, followed by a collective dialogue and delicious food. All are welcomed.
WHEN: Friday, March 28 2008
WHERE: Lounge Area @ Multicultural Center (Bryan Center, West Campus)
TIME: 5.00pm - 6.00pm
Food will be provided.
Please RSVP to: kency.cornejo@duke.edu asap.
March 18, 2008 - Film, dinner, and discussion
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6:30pm in 225 Friedl (Science, Old Art Museum on East Campus)
Screening of La Boda - The Wedding
You are invited to the wedding of Elizabeth and Artemio in Nuevo León, Mexico. The video introduces a young couple whose lives and community have roots in Mexico while they encounter the challenges of migrant life in the United States.
The film will run about an hour, followed by dinner and discussion, including the summer DukeEngage opportunity on the US-Mexico Border.
Co-sponsored by Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latino/a Studies, and Mi Gente.
March 08, 2008 - Spring Break
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Spring Break: Classes break on March 7 at 7pm and resume on Monday, March 17 at 8am.
February 29, 2008 - Latin Chic at the Library: Mi Gente, DU Libraries, DU Union
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Mi Gente, Duke's Hispanic Student's Association, is working with Duke University Libraries in collaboration with the Duke University Union (DUU) to bring you a never-before-seen interpretation of elegance on the evening of Friday, February 29, 2008.
The central theme, "Latin Chic," is a style based on fundamental pan-Latin elements crafted together with beauty and taste. The mood of this formal event will convey the unique liveliness of Latin-American culture.
Performances by: -Bio Ritmo Salsa Band -Stella by Starlight -Smooch -Latin Jazz Band -Holy Samba Drums, a Brazilian Samba troupe -Sabrosura -Plus an eclectic mix of international beats playing throughout the night.
Be ready to be transfixed by: -The smooth vibes of a vintage Caribbean Jazz Club -A scintillating splash of color in the tropical VIP lounge -Elegance inspired by a popular South Beach Hotel
Each niche of the library will serve a different purpose: dancing, mingling, listening, lounging, eating.
Special Features: Mojitos for seniors at 9 pm -VIP/Senior lounge - Tapas by Triangle Catering -Cash bars featuring Spanish, Chilean, and Argentine wines, sangria, mojitos, and more....
Students, alumni, faculty, and staff are invited to come celebrate Mi Gente's 15th birthday in style!
(With support from Latino/a Studies and various other units across campus.)
February 29, 2008 - Book Reception: Dead Subjects by Antonio Viego
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Latino/a Studies will host a wine and cheese reception for colleagues, students, friends and fans of Professor Antonio Viego (Literature and Romance Studies) to celebrate the recent publication of his book, Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies (Duke University Press, 2007). See DUP link.
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: 225 Science Building (Old Art Museum) on East Campus
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
February 26, 2008 - Political Outlook:Immigration -presentation by Baldemar Velasquez, President of FLOC
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Baldemar Velasquez, President of Farm Labor Organizing Committee, will give a public talk on Tuesday, February 26th at 6pm in Social Psychology 130 (West Campus). See location map. This event is co-organized by: Latino/a Studies and Mi Gente. With additional support from Institute for Critical US Studies, Spanish Service Learning, the Archive for Human Rights (RBMSCL), Student Action with Farmworkers, and the Multicultural Center. Read more about FLOC here: http://www.floc.com/ and see the Wikipedia entry on Mr. Velasquez here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldemar_Velasquez.
February 21, 2008 - February 22, 2008- Reflections on the De-colonial Option & the Humanities: An International Dialogue
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Where: Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Presented By: The Center for Global Studies and the Humanities (Duke
University) in collaboration with The Institute for Transcultural and
Postcolonial Studies (Inputs, University of Bremen, Germany) and The
Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee,
Amsterdam, Holland).
Thursday, February 21, 2008; Noon-5:00 pm
Panelists: Gregson Davis (Duke University) Sabine Broeck (INPUTS, University of Bremen, Germany) Guo-Juin Hong (Duke University) Commentators and discussion leaders: Esther Gabara (Duke University) Jessica Eaglin (Duke University) Arnold Ho (Duke University)
Friday, February 22, 2008; 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Panelists: Kwame Nimako (the National Institute for the Study for Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee) Madina Tlostanova (People's Friendship University of Russia) Claudia Milian (Duke University) Nelson Maldonado-Torres (The University of California at Berkeley) Commentators and discussion leaders: Joseph Tucker Edmonds (Duke University) Beatriz Llenin-Figueroa (Duke University) Jose Venegas (UNC - Chapel Hill)
February 21, 2008 - Hispanic Faculty, Graduate and Professional Student, and Friends Luncheon
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The Office of Graduate Student Affairs is hosting the Hispanic Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, and Friends Luncheon and panel discussion on Thursday, February 21 from 12:00 -1:30 pm in the Von Canon room of the Bryan Center.
The panel discussion will provide Duke's Hispanic graduate students, faculty, staff and friends with information on 1) the current status of Latino issues in Durham and in NC, 2) what various organizations are doing to address these issues, and 3) how we, as scholars, leaders, and volunteers, can contribute. Susan Denman (Assistant Professor of Nursing and Latino health advocate) will introduce the topic and speakers. Rebecca Reyes (Program Coordinator for the Latino Health Project) will give a brief history of the Latino community in Durham and NC to give the group some background before the panel begins. Panelists include: Emilio A. Parrado (Associate Professor of Sociology), Joan Clifford (Director Spanish Language Program), Liliana Paredes (Assistant Professor of Romance Studies), Pilar Rocha (researcher, Duke dietition, Latino advocate), and Andy Caamano (North Carolina Society of Hispanic Professionals).
This event is supported by Latino/a Studies.
Please RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/38mvfc by Friday, February 15. If you have questions, contact Tomalei Vess at tomalei.vess@duke.edu.
February 20, 2008 - Nelson Maldonado Torres: Coloniality and Latiniwhat?
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The UNC-CH/Duke Working Group, "Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge" and Latino/a Studies at Duke University present:
COLONIALIDAD/LATINIDAD Discussion Series with Guest Speaker
NELSON MALDONADO-TORRES
Wed, Feb 20 from 6 - 8:30pm
John Hope Franklin Center, 240 (brick building, corner of Erwin & Trent)
Dinner will be provided
Dr. Maldonado-Torres will present "Coloniality and Latiniwhat?: Decolonization in Multiple Voices" This is a short introduction to four different projects (local, national, and international) in which questions of identity, liberation, and decolonization are central: 1) Rethinking U.S. Ethnic Studies in its Fortieth Birthday, 2) the Latino/a Academy of Arts and Sciences, 3) Reparation, Affirmative Action, and the Decolonization of Knowledge in Brazil, and 4) the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
For readings and supplemental material visit: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/programs.html
In addition to the readings, please view: Quilombo Vivo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9vqBPMvBrI.
February 18, 2008 - Celebration of New Home: George Lipsitz Lecture, followed by program and reception
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President Richard Brodhead and Provost Peter Lange invite you to a lecture and reception in celebration of the opening of the new home of the Departments of African & African American Studies and Cultural Anthropology, the Programs in Literature and Latino/a Studies, the Institute for Critical US Studies, and the Duke Human Rights Center.
Monday, February 18, 2008 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Lecture in the Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building followed by a brief program and reception in the Science Building (formerly the Duke Art Museum) and tours of the building.
Alternative Knowledges, Social Spaces, and Historical Times: Mind Work as Exercise of Citizenship
George Lipsitz, PhD Professor of Black Studies and Sociology University of California at Santa Barbara
With a response from Duke faculty members Michael Hardt, Program in Literature, and Wahneema Lubiano, African & African American Studies
Universities can be places where evidence and argument matter more than influence, where original and generative thinking matters more than entertainment. Yet the public, which the university is supposed to serve, becomes constructed as a series of market interests. Countering that understanding requires interrupting current and recycled attempts to distract our attention away from the consequences of various domestic and foreign policies by fixing on the university as the problem needing management. However, the mind work possible in the university, necessarily difficult, offers not simply critique of existing conditions but demonstrations also of the transformative power of educational ideas and civic activism. And such work expresses itself not just in complicated epistemological practices but in activism as well, born out of the seemingly ordinary processes of everyday life. Mind work as citizenship is a way of thinking both about the university and about activism. Widely known as one of the preeminent scholars in the field of American popular culture studies and described as one of the world's finest scholars of working-class culture, social movements, and urban history and culture, George Lipsitz is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of eight books, including his most recent monograph, Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music, along with The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, American Studies in a Moment of Danger, Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s, and Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. Professor Lipsitz serves as editor of the Critical American Studies series at the University of Minnesota Press and as co-editor of the American Crossroads Series at the University of California Press. Active in struggles for fair housing and educational equity, Professor Lipsitz's work in political and civic activism goes back to the early 1970s when he worked in union organizing.
February 15, 2008 - LGSA conversation/reflection about "Latinidad" with Profs. Saldivar & Mignolo
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February 14, 2008 - Chocolatl-Kakaw: The New World Origins of Chocolate
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When: 7:00 pm @ Nelson Mandela Auditorium & Atrium, UNC Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro Street - click to view map
Celebrate Valentine's Day with a discussion and reception on chocolate! Public Lecture followed by Chocolate Reception
Dr. Dorie Reents Budet, an expert on Mayan ceramics and curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will give the 2008 Robert Howren Lecture in Mayan Studies sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas. This talk explores the origins of chocolate and the social and ritual uses of this wonder-filled food. After the lecture, enjoy a delicious chocolate reception with treats including Mexican cafe de ollo, tacos de Mole, Mayan chocolate cake, Aztec chocolate bark and much more!
Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Global Cup Café with support from Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Foster's Market of Chapel Hill, Harris Teeter, A Southern Season, Chocolaterie Stam and Daniel's Catering.
February 13, 2008 - La Bracereada: Institutional Actors and the Creation of Internal and International Labor Migration Streams During the Bracero Era
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When: Wednesday, February 13 from Noon-1:00 pm @ 271 Hamilton Hall, UNC-CH Campus - click to view map
Presented by: Dr. Sergio Chavez, UNC-CH postdoctoral fellow in Sociology
ABSTRACT:
This paper traces the journeys of male migrants to Empalme, Sonora, Mexico to uncover the development of the often overlooked domestic bracero program that operated in conjunction with its well-known international equivalent. Drawing on interviews and observations with ex-braceros who met at a park near the Mexico-U.S. border, I examine their experiences and participation in Mexico?s domestic bracero program, an unintended and unexplored consequence of its internationa counterpart. The study shows how regulation and control were constantly reinvented at every step of the selection process by state actors and their affiliates in Mexico. The paper reveals how the oversupply of migrant labor resulted in the development of a migration industry where local municipal leaders, coyotes, the state, and Mexican agribusiness capitalized from men?s displacement. The migration industry during the bracero selection process controlled who gained access to the U.S. labor market by capturing migrant labor en route to the U.S. in the process fueling a thriving cotton industry in the otherwise stagnant Empalme, Sonora economy. The study concludes by taking the lessons of the domestic bracero program to understand
the link between internal and international labor markets.
February 12, 2008 - Political Outlook 2008: The Latino/Hispanic Vote in the Presidential Election
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Where: Rare Book Room @ 7:00 pm, Free Dinner!
With Visiting Professor of Political Science: Jason Casellas
An evening talk
on Latino/a political participation in the coming elections. Featuring
Professor Jason Casellas, visiting from The University of Texas at
Sponsored by: Mi Gente and Latino/a Studies
With support from Institute for Critical US Studies, Duke Democrats,
Duke Political Science Student Association, and Bench and Bar.
February 12, 2008 - Save the Date: Latino Political Participation with Prof Jason Casellas
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Latino/a Studies and Mi Gente: Latino Student Association will co-sponsor an evening talk by Professor Jason Casellas, visiting Duke this year from teh Univeristy of Texas at Autstin Department of Government. Prof Casellas will speak about political participation in the coming elections. Watch for more details.
February 09, 2008 - 5th Annual UNC-Duke Consortium Spring Conference
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When: All day; Saturday, February 9
"The Politics of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean" in FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-CH. All conference activities are free and open to the public. To view the program please visit:
http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/index.html
Please contact: Beatriz Riefkohl 919-966-1484 riefkohl@email.unc.edu for more information. Directions to FedEx Global Education Center: http://gi.unc.edu/aboutus/directions.html
February 08, 2008 - 5th Annual UNC-Duke Consortium Spring Conference
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"The Politics of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean" in the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
All conference activities are free and open to the public. To view the program please visit: http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/index.html
Please Contact: Natalie Hartman 919-681-3983 njh@duke.edu for more information.
February 05, 2008 - Faculty Bookwatch: Rereading the Blacklegend: The Discourses of Racial and Religious Difference in the Renaissance Empires
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When: 6:30 PM; Tuesday February 5, 2008
Where: Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Book Sale + Reception to Follow
The phrase "The Black Legend" was coined in 1912 by a Spanish
journalist in protest of the characterization of Spain by other
Europeans as a backward country defined by ignorance, superstition, and
religious fanaticism, whose history could never recover from the black
mark of its violent conquest of the Americas. Challenging this
stereotype, REREADING THE BLACK LEGEND contextualizes Spain's uniquely
tarnished reputation by exposing the colonial efforts of other nations
whose interests were served by propagating the "Black Legend." A
distinguished group of contributors here examine early modern
imperialisms including the Ottomans in Eastern Europe, the Portuguese
in East India, and the cases of Mughal India and China, to historicize
the charge of unique Spanish brutality in encounters with indigenous
peoples during the Age of Exploration. The geographic reach and
linguistic breadth of this ambitious collection will make it a valuable
resource for any discussion of race, national identity, and religious
belief in the European Renaissance.
Panelists include:
Lewis Gordon, Temple University <http://www.temple.edu/philosophy/Gordon/index.htm>
Margaret R. Greer, Duke University <http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Romance/faculty/mgreer>
Leslie Peirce, New York University <http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/lesliepeirce>
With:
Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University <http://waltermignolo.com/>
Maureen Quilligan, Duke University
<http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/English/mquillig>http://www.lib.unc.edu/stone/location.html
Biography:
Professor Pulido researches race, political activism, ethnic studies, and Los Angeles. Currently, she is working on two related projects. First, she is exploring Latino (especially ethnic Mexicans') racial identity. In particular, she is examining how the racial identity and position of Latinos has varied over space and time. Second, she has been researching the relationships between African Americans and Latinos in Los Angeles. The two studies are intimately related because it is impossible to understand the racial position of Latinos outside of their relationship to African Americans.
Abstract:
The subject of Latino and Black relations is growing rapidly in significance across the country. Dr. Laura Pulido is particularly interested in Latinas/os and African Americans attitudes towards each other and what it suggests about the larger racial formation.
Books:
Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.
For further information, please contact: jdribo@email.unc.edu.
January 31, 2008 - Latino Graduate Student Association (LGSA) Meeting
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WHEN: 6-8 PM; Thursday, 31 January 2008
WHERE: Resource Room, Multicultural Center Bryan Center (west campus)
Dinner from Torero's will be served (compliments of Latino/a Studies)!
The Latino Graduate Student Association (LGSA) at Duke is being reestablished. Please join us for our FIRST meeting to discuss current issues, needs and/or concerns of Latino graduate and professional students as well as of those who are interested in issues related to Latino communities within and without Duke. Meet other Latino grad students, and be a vocal and active part of the planning of LGSA's upcoming agenda.
Please direct questions to: Kency Cornejo kc67@duke.edu or Beatriz Llenin-Figueroa cbl55@duke.edu
January 31, 2008 - UNC-CH: Andrew Fuligni speaks on Youth from Immigrant Families
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Family Identity, Obligation, and Support among Youth from Immigrant Families
The FedEx Global Education Center at UNC-CH will offer a free public lecture by psychologist Andrew Fuligni at 5:00pm on Thursday, January 31 in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium as part of a series sponsored by the Latino Issues Workgroup and the Center for Global Initiatives. Fuligni will discuss the experiences of immigrant children in the U.S. and the cultural traditions that support their development and prosperity.
DAY: Thursday, January 31st
TIME: 5pm
PLACE: FedEx Global Education Center (corner of Pittsboro & McCauley Streets), Nelson Mandela Auditorium
Many immigrant families carry with them cultural traditions that emphasize the role of children in supporting, assisting, and respecting the authority of the family. These traditions take on practical significance as immigrant families attempt to adapt to American society.
In this talk, Fuligni will discuss a program of research that has investigated the extent to which youth from different immigrant and ethnic backgrounds identify with and provide support and assistance to their families of origin. Using findings obtained from questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and daily diary techniques, the presentation will focus on how immigrant status, ethnic background, and economic resources shape adolescents' psychological sense of obligation to the family as well as the different ways in which that obligation gets fulfilled on a daily basis. The implications of family obligation and assistance for aspects of youth' mental health, adjustment, and development will be highlighted.
*Andrew J. Fuligni* is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA and is Co-Director of the NIMH Family Research Consortium IV. He has received extensive recognition for his teaching and research including the William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholars Award, FIRST Award from the NICHD, Distinguished Teaching Award from the Department of Psychology at New York University, and the APA's Boyd McCandless Award for Early Career Contribution to Developmental Psychology. Fuligni's work is also well supported through private foundations and the National Institutes of Health including grants from the William T. Grant Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, and the National Institute of Child Health Development. His research focuses on family relationships and adolescent development among culturally and ethnically diverse populations. Much of his work has examined the adaptation of immigrant families to American society, and how that adaptation process ultimately influences the development and adjustment of adolescents in those families. Fuligni is currently following these youths as they make the transition into young adulthood, and is employing both quantitative and qualitative methods in order to understand how the youths' sense of duty and obligation to the family shapes their psychological well-being and decision-making about education, employment, and family formation.
Note: pls direct inquiries to: perreira@email.unc.edu
January 28, 2008 - "An Evening with Veronica Cruz Sanchez"
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You are invited to a public talk by Mexican activist and 2006 International Human Rights Watch winner Veronica Cruz Sanchez
"Gender, Rape, & Abortion: Working for Reproductive Rights and Dignity for Women in Mexico"
When: 6:00-7:30, Monday, January 28th, 2008
Location: White Lecture Hall, Duke's East Campus
Veronica Cruz Sanchez is the founder and head of Las Libres, the only organization to tackle the issue of access to abortion after rape in the conservative Mexican state of Guanajuato, where unsafe abortion is one of the highest causes of death among women of reproductive age. In Guanajuato, abortion has been legal in cases of rape for over thirty years. However, due to official negligence, obstruction, and a wealth of administrative hurdles, few if any rape victims in Guanajuato have ever obtained a state-provided abortion. Veronica leads the fight against this injustice by connecting rape victims with medical and legal aid, training youth to hold health workshops for peers, and challenging policy makers to ensure real access to abortion as allowed under the law.
Event co-sponsors: The Duke in Madrid Program; UNC School of Law; Duke Program in Women's Studies; the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Baldwin Scholars; Duke Women's Center; Duke Department of Romance Studies; Duke Program in Latino/a Studies; Duke Department of History; Duke Spanish Service-Learning Program; UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas; Duke Institute for Critical U.S. Studies
For directions and further information about this event, see http://clacs.aas.duke.edu/program//veronicacruzdirections.php or contact Caroline Light clight@duke.edu
January 23, 2008 - Modernity/Coloniality/Latinity Working Group Meeting
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From: venegas@email.unc.edu [mailto:venegas@email.unc.edu]
Dear friends,
I am pleased to announce our next Modernity/Coloniality/Latinity meeting. Our main focus will be to prepare for Nelson Maldonado Torres's visit in February. We will discuss the readings that Nelson kindly forwarded and come up with issues/concerns/problems that we would like to address during his visit. His talk in February is titled: "Coloniality and Latiniwhat?: Decolonization in Multiple Voices." and involves a short introduction to four different projects (local, national, and international) in which questions of identity, liberation, and decolonization are central. See details under separate listing.
This dinner and discussion meeting will take place at Room 3009 (Global Education Center, UNC-CH) on Wed., January 23 from 6 to 8. Dinner will be served. Best, Jose Luis Venegas
Note: Please email Jose for the readings
January 23, 2008 - Mi Gente and DUU present comedian, Pablo Francisco
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Mi Gente and DUU have teamed to bring you PABLO FRANSISCO, the hilarious comedian who has been featured on his own Comedy Central special and is a regular voice on The Family Guy, will be at Duke on January 23rd in Page Auditorium. Tickets are $15 for students, and will go on sale TOMORROW January 14th. This is an event you won't want to miss.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7pm
Page Auditorium
$15 Duke Students
$20 General Public
For more information about buying tickets go to:
www.tickets.duke.edu
Check out You Tube clips of Pablo Francisco on the facebook event page at:
http://duke.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6970158255&ref=share
January 17, 2008 - DukeEngage: US/Mexico Border Program
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Encuentros de la Frontera: US-Mexico Border Civic Engagement - Summer 2008 Faculty and staff organizers of the DukeEngage project on the US/Mexico border will be presenting information on this opportunity on Thurs, Jan 17th at 7pm in Social Science 139. Program updates and information can be found at the Center for Civic Engagement and DukeEngage website: http://dukeengage.duke.edu//.
January 17, 2008 - Latino Student Recruitment Weekend -Dinner Meeting
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The Undergraduate Admissions Office is calling all undergraduates, alumni, faculty, and staff affiliated with the Duke Latino community to share their input over a free dinner Thurs!
WHAT: El Concilio Focus Group for Latino Student Recruitment Weekend 2008
WHEN: Thursday, January 17, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
WHERE: McClendon Commons, Behind Admissions Office on Campus Drive
WITH: Free dinner! (provided by Latino/a Studies at Duke)
RSVP TO: Kim Reyes, Senior Admissions Officer (kimberly.reyes@duke.edu) Or on Facebook (Search Events: LSRW 2008)
Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (April 3 -6, 2008) is quickly approaching and the Undergraduate Admissions Office is calling all undergraduates, alumni, faculty, and staff affiliated with the Duke Latino community to share their input for this year’s events. Whether you have new ideas, comments from past LSRWs, or suggestions for how you or your organization can help – PLEASE COME! Kim Reyes ('03), Coordinator of Latino Student Recruitment, is creating a planning committee for this year’s LSRW with broad representation from ALL Latino student groups on campus. Come find out how you can be a part of this planning committee which will have a fun way for everyone to participate in recruiting the best and brightest Latino students for the Class of 2012.
January 16, 2008 - Saldivar presents: Transnationalism Contested: Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Caramelo
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Transnationalism Contested: Sandra Cisneros' The House on ??
a Wednesdays at the Center Program with
Jose David Saldivar
Professor of English and Literature, Director of Latino/a Studies
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
12:00 - 1:00 PM with free lunch
Room 240,
Wednesdays at the Center is presented by the
Lunch from Chipotle is provided by event co-sponsor: Latino/a Studies at Duke University (see http://latino.aas.duke.edu// for more info).
Free parking at the
Details: Professor Saldivar's presentation will focus on some of the transnational stories (historias) and novels written by Sandra Cisneros. It begins by considering how Cisneros thematizes the plight of Greater Mexico's beleaguered multiculture in The House On Mango Street and Caramelo and then defends it against the charges of failure. The presentation ends by turning toward the issues of figural language and border identities in Cisneros' fiction.
Questions? E-mail jennysw@duke.edu
About the Speaker: see http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/latino/staff/jose.saldivar
December 06, 2007 - Los Chapeljilenos: Latin Vocals of John and Carmen Chasteen
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7 pm at the Global Education Center Auditorium, UNC-CH
Los Chapeljilenos: Latin Vocals of John and Carmen Chasteen
There's no simple way to describe the music of John and Carmen Chasteen—an eclectic mix of North and South American folk styles, rhythmically up-beat with strong vocal harmonies and lyrics in both English and Spanish. Some songs are old standards from Carmen's native Colombia, some sound like down-home North Carolina, and some speak to current political issues, such as immigration. Direction to the GEC available at http://gi.unc.edu/aboutus/directions.html
December 03, 2007 - Public lecture on Latina Literature at UNC-CH: "Clamped Tongues"
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Dr. Laura Halperin, Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, presents: "Clamped Tongues: Linguistic Terrorism in Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera and Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" on December 3rd, 3:00 Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall UNC-CH
Dear Colleagues, Please join us for Dr. Laura Halperin's upcoming public lecture on December 3rd at 3:00 PM in Donovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall.
Dr. Halperin will be previewing exciting research from her book manuscript Narratives of Transgression:Deviance and Defiance in Late Twentieth Century Latina Literature.
Please see the abstract and biography below for further information or contact: jdribo@email.unc.edu.
Abstract: Laura Halperin's lecture begins by providing an overview of her work on the gendered, raced, and ethnicized pathologization of Latinas in late twentieth century Latina literature. The remainder of the talk draws from the last chapter of Halperin's book project, focusing on the relationship between Latina artistry and deviance in Chicana writer Gloria Anzald?Borderlands/La Frontera and Dominican American?novelist Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. These texts reveal how mainstream society interprets linguistic dexterity, bilingualism, multilingualism and Spanish monolingualism as impediments to mental health and raced, ethnicized, and gendered determinants of mental illness. In "Clamped Tongues," Halperin pays particular attention to the pathologization of Alvarez's Yolanda. Halperin draws from Gloria Anzald theories of linguistic terrorism to argue that the representation of Yolanda as mentally unstable is connected to her vocation as a writer and her bilingual word play. Given the intersectionality of language, race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the medicalization of language depicted in these texts disguises the racism, xenophobia, classism, and sexism that underlie diagnoses of Latina writers as mentally imbalanced. These individual ascriptions of Latina deviance cannot be separated from collective histories of oppression.
Bio: Laura Halperin received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on the gendered, raced, and ethnicized pathologization of Latinas in Latina literature. Last year, she taught an undergraduate Latina/o Studies course, joined the Latina/o Studies board, presented her work in several venues, and received a UNC Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence. This year, she is a postdoctoral advisor for the Office of Postdoctoral Services and a facilitator in a Duke and UNC co-sponsored working group on Modernity/Coloniality/Latinidad. She is also working on her book manuscript, Narratives of Transgression: Deviance and Defiance in Late Twentieth Century Latina Literature, and has an article about Dreaming in Cuban forthcoming in Volume 6 of Latino Studies.
November 30, 2007 - The International 3,800 Mile "Run of Unity" Stops in Durham this Friday, Nov 30 at 5pm
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Durham, N.C. - Immaculate Conception Catholic Church will welcome the International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana. The event will take place at 810 West Chapel Hill St. on November 30, 2007 beginning with the public welcoming of the Antorcha at 5pm, followed by a press conference at 6 pm.
The International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana Mexico- New York is a 3,800-mile relay run from Mexico to New York carrying the Guadalupe Torch. It brings together two nations and thousands of families divided by the border. The torch left the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on October 7 and will arrive at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in NYC on December 12. See also http://www.tepeyac.org/antorcha/07/index.htm
For Mexicans, Our Lady of Guadalupe is a national symbol of great importance. The Basilica in Mexico City where the International Run begins is the most sacred religious place in Mexico. Along the way, the Latino immigrant community, its supporters, and the local Catholic churches will offer hospitality and participate in the relay race. The local community will run with the torch on Saturday, December 1, along the 150-mile stretch from Durham, N.C. to Richmond, VA.
The International Run: Antorcha Guadalupana, organized by the Tepeyac Association and the Archdiocese of New York, began in 2001. The event has an audience of more than 22 million people and the participation of over 7,000 runners who take turns carrying the torch according to the ancient Mexican indigenous tradition that has been sustained into the present. The welcoming of the Guadalupe torch and the participation in this run has the following objectives:
To bring together thousands of families from both Mexico and the United States, grassroots organizations, international prize winning athletes, popular bands, clergy, politicians and leaders of business community.
To promote friendship and solidarity among community groups.
To call attention to the painful reality of the immigrant families and communities separated by the border and the dire economic situation in their countries of origin.
To highlight the significant contributions of the Latinos to the economy and cultural vibrancy of our state and our country.
A large crowd of the Durham Latino immigrant community, with their local community, religious and business leaders, will welcome the International Run: Antorcha Guadalupanaat the Immaculate Conception Church in Durham on this day. For more information on the local organization, please contact Javier Garcia at (919) 225-3395/ immigranthousing@earthlink.net or Fr. Jacek Orzechowski, ofm at (919) 682-3449 ex. 258/ jacekofm2002@yahoo.com. For any press or media information, contact Pedro Lasch (919) 684 3308/ plasch@duke.edu
November 29, 2007 - Farmworkers Feed Us All: Dotter and Watson at UNC-CH
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Thursday, November 29, 7 p.m. EARL DOTTER / TENNESSEE WATSON: "Farmworkers Feed Us All: The Work and Health of Migrants in Maine" Hyde Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill
DIRECTIONS: http://www.unc.edu/iaar/ISC/isc2005directions.htm Part of ENGAGING DOCUMENTARY: Community Values and Artistic Visions A Series Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University with support from the Robertson Scholars Program http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/engagingdocumentary.html
Additional UNC-Chapel Hill support for this event is provided by the School of Public Health, the Department of Anthropology, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Center for Integration of Research and Action, the Social Movements Working Group, the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, the Kellogg Health Scholars Program, the Center for Public Service, the Carolina Community Network, and the Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes Program.
Earl Dotter, widely known for his photographs documenting the lives of workers, and Tennessee Watson, an audio producer from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, will present new work from a project in Maine, where an estimated 10,000-15,000 migrant farmworkers are employed. Dotter and Watson photographed and interviewed Guatemalan, Honduran, Jamaican, and Mexican migrants, Native Americans, and Mainers at work and in camps from Aroostook County next to the Canadian border to the coastal region of Washington County to Western Maine. They also documented access to health-care services provided by the Maine Migrant Health Program, which reaches out to farmworkers involved in the state's harvests via mobile health clinics.
An exhibit of this work will premiere in January 2008 during the opening of Maine's Legislative Session at the Capitol in Augusta. In the spring the exhibit will travel to the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and then throughout Maine's agricultural areas.
The project and exhibition were sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health (NIOSH Education and Research Center and NIEHS Center for Environmental Health), the Maine Migrant Health Program, the Maine Occupational Research Agenda, and the Maine State Department of Labor, and the Maine Health Access Foundation.
For more information on presenters, see http://cds.aas.duke.edu/events/engagingdocumentary.html.
November 16, 2007 - The Idea of Cuba: Alex Harris with Lillian Guerra
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Friday, November 16, 6:30 p.m. (Reception, 5:30 p.m.) THE IDEA OF CUBA / Alex Harris with Lillian Guerra Talk and Book Signing Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
DIRECTIONS: http://www.nasher.duke.edu/visitus_directions.php
Additional support provided by the Nasher Museum of Art; the Cuban American Student Association; the Center for International Studies; the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library; and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, all at Duke University; and Ann Stewart Fine Art and Fundación Amistad. To mark the publication of a new book of photographs and writing, Alex Harris, a professor of the practice of public policy and documentary studies at Duke University and a founder of the Center for Documentary Studies, will discuss his remarkable journey into contemporary Cuba and how his perspectives have shifted over thirty-five years as a documentary photographer. He will be joined by Yale historian Lillian Guerra, an American daughter of Cuban exiles who has visited the island repeatedly to conduct research and to try to understand what it means to be Cuban. Copies of The Idea of Cuba, published in Fall 2007 by the University of New Mexico Press in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, will be available for purchase at the event. An exhibition of The Idea of Cuba organized by the Southeast Museum of Photography will travel from 2008 to 2010.
November 01, 2007 - Nov 1-14 Latin American & Caribbean Studies Film Festival
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The 21st annual Latin American & Caribbean film festival is coming to UNC-CH, Duke, NCCU, Guilford, and Durham Tech November 1-14, 2007. Presented by The Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. See http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/. [more]
November 14, 2007 - Maria Lugones - Colonialidad/Latinidad Discussion
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Wednesday, November 14: part II, COLONIALIDAD/LATINIDAD DISCUSSION SERIES with Maria
Lugones
COLONIALIDAD/LATINIDAD DISCUSSION SERIES
A joint initiative of the Working Group on "Globalization,
Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge"
(a working group of The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies)
PRESENTS:
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
speaker Maria Lugones
6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
The John Hope
November 01, 2007 - Nov 1-14: Latin American & Caribbean Studies Film Festival
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The 21st annual Latin American & Caribbean film festival is coming to UNC-CH, Duke, NCCU, Guilford, and Durham Tech November 1-14, 2007 http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium/. Presented by: The Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University [more]
November 13, 2007 - Charlie King Performs on Campus 8:00pm
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Charlie king and colleen kattau in concert Tuesday November 13 8:00 pm at the Mary Lou Williams center, west campus, Duke University
Charlie King has been at the heart of American folk music for over 40 years. His songs have been recorded and sung by other performers such as Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, John McCutcheon, Arlo Guthrie, Peggy Seeger, Chad Mitchell and Judy Small. Charlie has released a dozen solo albums since 1976, three albums with Bright Morning Star, and numerous compilation albums with other artists. Folk legend Peggy Seeger says, "If we had more Charlie Kings in the world I'd be less worried."
Co-sponsored by Romance studies, AAAS, the Ethno musicology working group, Latino/a Studies, the Institute for Critical US Studies, International Studies, and cultural anthropology, Contact Professor Diane Nelson (dmnelson@duke.edu) for more info on the performance at Duke.
November 13, 2007 - Pollitical Art for Dark Days: Colleen Kattau
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Artist/activist colleen kattau will present a "for use now" workshop on combining artistry, creativity, and effective political action on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 4:30 in social psychology 126, on the west campus of duke university.
On her way to the annual "close the school of the Americas" protest in fort benning, Georgia, musician and activist colleen kattau will discuss the soa, its role in latin America and latin America's role as a proving ground for current US counterinsurgency projects. more importantly, she'll share ideas and strategies for making sure our voices are heard on the pressing task of ending torture and war and building a more sustainable planet.
Co-sponsored by Romance studies, AAAS, the Ethno musicology working group, Latino/a Studies, the Institute for Critical US Studies, International Studies, and cultural anthropology. contact Professor Diane Nelson (dmnelson@duke.edu) for more info.
November 13, 2007 - Malaquias Montoya, professor and artist, at UNC-CH
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Tuesday November 13, 2007, Malaquias Montoya, professor and artist at the
Through an art of protest embodied in the images of his silkscreened posters, Professor Malaquias Montoya raises counterpoints to images of disempowerment, hopelessness and criminalization all too common in the mass media. Montoya writes in his artist statement, "In my images I pay tribute to those who struggle on a daily basis. I pay homage to the workers and I aggrandize their efforts. I celebrate small and large victories of the human spirit. I depict people in control of their lives working together to change and transform their reality." Yet the transformational spirit of community in Montoya's work "reaches beyond the barrio" embracing the international in the broadest sense of the term. Rather than being confined to the
This free, public event in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room of the
November 09, 2007 - Nov 9 & 10 in Pittsboro: Pulitzer Prize Winners Hector Tobar and Jose Galvez
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Featuring: Pulitzer Prize winners Hector Tobar, journalist and author of Translation Nation, and documentary photographer Jose Galvez will give two presentations in Pittsboro, NC on Nov 9 and 10. Community Dialog Across Borders will combine visual and literary arts to generate a dialog about Latino immigration in our community. The moderator will be Dr. Maria DeGuzman, Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature, and Director of Latina/o Studies Minor & Program at UNC Chapel Hill. Jose Galvez's pictures will be on display at the event. The artists' respective books and other select reading materials will be available for purchase and autographs. Please click on the following link to see the full information: [more]
October 30, 2007 - through Nov 4: Days of the Dead/ Dias de los Muertos at Duke
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Display Opens October 30 at 4pm in the Perkins Library, with a small reception. In honor of Mexico's Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) several organizers at Duke University and in the Durham community are designing ofrendas (altars) to be displayed in the open entryway to Perkins Library, with a traditional altar and unique art on view in the Rare Book Room. Eight ofrendas will be on display from Tuesday Oct 30 - Sunday Nov 4th for public viewing, with one altar set aside as an Open Altar for everyone's involvement. Classes participating in the Dia de Los Muertos project cover a broad range of topics including human rights in Latin America, contemporary humanitarian challenges, and educational and labor issues facing latino immigrants in
November 02, 2007 - Photographic Exploration of Rural Afro-Mexican Life
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The Carolina/Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin Issues and Perspectives PRESENTS "Pieces of the Indies: From Ebony to Cinnamon Skin / Piezas de Indias: de ebano a piel canela" Please join us in this photographic exploration of rural Afro-Mexican life and cultural expression. 5:30-7:30pm at Duke – Center for Documentary Studies – Auditorium Contact dlt9@duke.edu for more info.
November 01, 2007 - Days of the Dead at UNC-CH and kick-off Film Festival
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Nov 1 at 6PM, continue celebrating Days of the Dead and also kick-off the Latin American Film Festival at UNC-CH
Thursday, the Atrium of the new
Join, ISA, the new Institute for the
Study of the
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Opening Reception - Tamales, Day of the Dead Bread and Ponche Thursday, November
1, 2007 6:00pm Atrium of the Global Education Center, 301 Pittsboro St., UNC
Campus
October 31, 2007 - Memoria Abierta - with Patricia de Valdez
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12-1:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Center Room 240 Patricia de Valdez is the director of the Argentina-based "Memoria Abierta," a physical and digital memorial to the dirty war. She will be talking about her work as part of the Wednesday at the Center series. "Memoria Abierta," or Open Memory, is a ground-breaking effort to not only collect and display objects from Argentina's period of state terrorism, but also to use memory-gathering activities as a way to strengthen a social conscience that values active memory and influences Argentine political culture and the construction of identity and the strengthening of democracy. "Memoria Abierta" is a founding member of the "Sites of Conscience" association of museums, which include New York’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Cape Town’s District Six Museum. Hosted by the Archive for Human Rights and the Duke Human Rights Center. Cosponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Carolina and Duke Consortium for Latin American and Caribbean Studies John Hope Franklin Center 240 12:00-1:30 pm Lunch is provided Parking is free with a voucher (in the medical center lot). Free and open to the public Free and lunch provided Please Contact: Robin Kirk 919-323-4868 rights@duke.edu for more information.
October 30, 2007 - Diversity without Domination: lecture by Prof Hardt
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At the Multicultural Center (lower level of the Bryan Center), West Campus, at 5:30pm. "Diversity without Domination," a lecture by Professor Michael Hardt. Capital and white supremacy perhaps increasingly thrive on certain forms of diversity and even some kinds of hybrid identities. How can a politics of liberation practice diversity in a context where the forms of domination it confronts also rest fundamentally on diversity? Hardt will explore this question and highlight movements in Bolivia that simultaneously address race and class differences. About Michael Hardt: Michael Hardt received his MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington, 1990. Michael Hardt's recent writings deal primarily with the political, legal, economic, and social aspects of globalization. In his books with Antonio Negri he has analyzed the functioning of the current global power structure (Empire, 2000) and the possible democratic alternatives to that structure (Multitude, 2004). Dinner will be provided. Please RSVP to vcw@duke.edu.
October 30, 2007 - 2pm Procession to Open Altar: Days of the Dead
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TUES at 2PM - Join the Procession to the Open Altar - Participate in Remembering
Home
All people - no matter
their circumstances of life here in the
October 26, 2007 - Visualization Friday Forum featuring Pedro Lasch
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Pedro Lasch, Latino/a Studies Community Liaison, and Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Visual Arts, will be presenting his mirror-mask work this Friday at noon in the Levine Science Research Center (LSRC) at Duke.
(Directions to the LSRC at http://vis.duke.edu/contact-new.html.) ***Please direct inquiries to _rbrady@duke.edu_***
Friday, October 26th noon-1pm in D106 LSRC, lunch will be served.
Pedro Lasch, Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Social Systems, Spatialization & Cognitive Masking/Demasking This workshop will focus on my 'Naturalizations Series,' an ongoing interdisciplinary experiment based on the use of a set of mirror-masks designed in 2002. The initial perception created by these masks is one of spatial and psychological confusion. Subjects are reversed if only one person is wearing the mask. If several people wear them, their faces disappear and transform into an endless set of reflections of other mirrors, other faces, environments, and objects. Landscape and subject are one and many. Subjects are inseparable from each other, their bodies dismembered by rectangular planes departing and arriving through reflected gazes. Light breaks and travels on these masks with unpredictable speed and variety. Space and movement become counter-intuitive. We will together enter this perceptual, psychological, and social labyrinth to reconsider the value of such low-tech cognitive tools -- formerly called philosophical toys, as useful complements to the expensive technology and encoded language most prevalent in (scientific) visualization. Network theory, systems theory, and current ideas around spatialization in art and science will also be discussed before and after our experience with the masks. The Visualization seminar series is a forum for faculty, staff and students from across the university to share their research involving the development and/or application of visualization methodologies. Our goal is to build an interdisciplinary community of visualization experts whose combined knowledge can facilitate research and promote innovation. See the full Friday Forum Fall 2007 Schedule. [more]
October 25, 2007 - Photography of Jose Galvez at UNC-CH
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"Images of Self - Then and Now" at UNC-CH The photography of Jose Galvez Freedom Forum Center, Room 305 Thursday, October 25, 4-5 p.m. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jose Galvez will present his work Oct. 25 from 4 to 5 p.m. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Galvez's talk will cover his more than 35 years documenting the lives of Latinos in the United States. Galvez has used black and white photography to document Mexican American culture, and capture Latino lifestyles in the United States for more than three decades, portraying his heritage in a realistic and positive fashion. His career includes work at the Los Angeles Times, where he led a photo staff that, along with a team of reporters and won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on the Latino experience in Southern California. The Smithsonian is among the countless museums and galleries that have exhibited his work, and he served as senior photo editor and contributed to Americanos, a multi-media exhibition documenting Latino life in the United States. Now living in Durham, Galvez travels the country discovering the new Chicano communities that now flourish in the South and Midwest. His talk will cover his work documenting Latinos in the United States. For more information, contact Lucila Vargas, (919) 962-2366, lcvargas@email.unc.edu. The free, public event in Carroll Hall's Freedom Forum Conference Center (Room 305) is presented by the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series, and the UNC Latina/o Studies Gift Fund.
October 24, 2007 - Modernity/Latinity meeting at UNC-CH
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Dear colleagues:
I am pleased to announce the next meeting of the "Modernity/Latinity" working group of the UNC/Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This year the working group will concentrate on the connections between the constructions of Latinity in the US (and beyond) and the global transformations of the modern/colonial world.
The meeting will take place at room 3033 in Center for Global Initiatives (UNC-CH) on October 24 at 6pm. See http://gi.unc.edu/aboutus/directions.html for directions. Dinner will be served. We will focus primarily on the intersections of gender and coloniality in preparation for our meeting with Maria Lugones in November. I have attached an article by Lugones herself as well as an older (though still relevant) piece by Mohanty. In addition, Joe wanted to discuss one of his writings, a paper that addresses the connections between modernity/coloniality and Latinidad.
Please contact me, Jose Luis Venegas, venegas@email.unc.edu for the readings and for more information.
October 24, 2007 - Support the DREAM Act: place a call from the Plaza Wednesday
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Wednesday, Oct 24 8:30-5:30 0n the Plaza Plese stop by the DREAM ACT table to place a call to our senators to support the DREAM Act The "DREAM Act" and "American Dream Act" provide an opportunity for U.S.-raised students to earn U.S. citizenship. The DREAM Act would allow certain immigrant students to adjust their status to that of a legal permanent resident on a conditional basis for six years based on the following requirements: 1.) Age. Immigrant students must have entered the U.S. before age 16. 2.) Academic requirement. Students must have been accepted for admission into a two or four-year institution of higher education or have earned a high school diploma or a general educational development (GED) certificate at the time of application for relief. or served in the U.S. armed forces for at least 2 years. 3.) Long-term U.S. residence. Students must reside in the U.S. when the law is enacted. In addition, those eligible must have lived in the U.S. for at least five years preceding the date of enactment of the Act. 4.) Good moral character. Immigrant students must demonstrate good moral character, a defined term in immigration law. In general, students must have no criminal record. Contact sab39@duke.edu or bao9@duke.edu for more info.
October 23, 2007 - Durham Mayoral Forum
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Page Auditorium 6:30-7:30pm Want to learn more about Durham politics? The Duke College Republicans and Duke Democrats are collaborating to put together Duke's first-ever campus mayoral forum between incumbent Mayor Bill Bell and challenger City Councilman Thomas Stith. The candidates will be discussing their approaches to targeting crime and Duke-Durham relations, among other issues. Political Science Department Chair Michael Munger will moderate the forum, which will have ample opportunities for Duke students, faculty, and community members to pose their own questions to the candidates. For anyone registered to vote in Durham, this forum will be an invaluable opportunity to gauge the difference between the candidates. There will be an OPEN Q&A with an opportunity for students to talk to the candidates individually at the end. Email for more info: vikram.srinivasan@duke.edu
October 21, 2007 - PREMIERE Screening: Los Suenos de Angelica/ Angelica's Dreams
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Los Suenos de Angelica/ Angelica's Dreams portrays the drama of an immigrant couple from Latin America, Angelica and Roberto, who are discussing whether to return to their home country or stay in the United States. A sudden event motivates the couple to stay in the United States and try to buy a home. In addition to the educational and entertainment value of this film, viewers will also find opportunities to examine issues about our changing local community, the influence of immigrant cultures, the economic impact of immigrants, political representation and community engagement, interaction between Duke and the Hispanic community in Durham, public policy, community service and public education, the changing roles of immigrant women, and the breaking of stereotypes. Latino Community Credit Union (LCCU) produced this film with a grant from the CDFI Fund. Boldly mixing documentary and fiction, telenovela and comedy, director/producer Rodrigo Dorfman shot the film entirely on location in Durham, North Carolina, plunging his main characters deep into the daily life of one of the most vibrant new Latino communities in the United States. View a 3-minute trailer. The premiere screening will bring together the Duke and Durham communities at the Carolina Theater in downtown Durham. Tickets may be obtained from any of the Duke sponsors and/or by contacting jennysw@duke.edu. FREE Transportation will be provided: get on "Angelica’s Dreams" bus at West Campus bus stop at 3:15pm. Panel discussions related to themes addressed in the film are currently being scheduled for the Duke campus. Film presented by Latino Community Credit Union. Screening co-sponsored by: the City of Durham Department of Community Development and the following Duke University units: Latino/a Studies, The Multicultural Center, Community Affairs, the Institute for Critical US Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Spanish Service Learning, Duke Women's Studies Program, Center for Documentary Studies, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Community Service Center, John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, and Campus Life Unit of Student Affairs. [Additional Information for interested Duke students, faculty, and staff]
October 19, 2007 - Conflict, Illicit Crops, and Environmental Degradation in Colombia
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The Working Group on the Environment in Latin America would like to invite you to attend "Conflict, Illicit Crops, and Environmental Degradation in Colombia", a talk by Dr. Manuel Rodríguez . How have narco-trafficking activities and armed conflict in Colombia effected the environment? What impacts have narco-trafficking activities had on the Colombian tropical forests and the communities that inhabit them? Can conservation and sustainable use of forests ecosystems become assets to attain social stability and peace?
4:30pm (Reception will follow) at Duke University, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Lecture Hall 04
Sponsored by: WGELA, Duke Council on Latin American Studies, UNC-Duke Consortium on Caribbean and Latin American Studies
Manuel Rodríguez-Becerra is currently Professor on Environmental Policy and Public Policy in the School of Management of Universidad de Los Andes. From 1976 to 1990, he was General Secretary, Dean of the School of Management, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Vice-president of this University. For more info on the speaker and for any questions please contact Angela Gillingham (ang6@duke.edu) or Ian Varley ( iav3@duke.edu).
October 18, 2007 - NORMA CANTU: "Celebrating Identity: Three Fiestas in Laredo, Texas"
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7 p.m. at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
NORMA CANTU: "Celebrating Identity: Three Fiestas in Laredo, Texas"
As the first presentation of the "ENGAGING DOCUMENTARY: Community Values and Artistic Visions" Series, presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Norma Cantú will focus on three fiestas: the quinceanera, a coming-of-age celebration; the matachines folk dance drama tradition; and the secular George Washington birthday celebration in her hometown, Laredo, Texas. She will examine resistance to the hegemonic powers of Mexico and the United States and the hybrid nature of the confluence of cultures. Each fiesta can be read as a hybrid text that reveals what Gloria Anzladua claims is "the wound that will not heal": the U.S.-Mexico border. Even in celebratory expressions, there are hints of the ways that this community has had to battle for its own cultural survival.
Norma E. Cantu is a professor of English and U.S. Latina/o Literatures at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Author of the award-winning Canicula Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera and co-editor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change and Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, she is working on a novel titled Champu, or Hair Matters, and an ethnographic work, Soldiers of the Cross: Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz. Her scholarly and creative work focuses on life along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
With additional support from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of English, and Latino/a Studies, all at Duke University
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October 18, 2007 - Far from the Island (Lejos de la Isla) - a screening and discussion with Director
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CASA (Cuban-American Student Association) would like to invite you to a special screening on Thursday Oct. 18th at 7:45pm: Far from the Island (Lejos de la Isla) in English and Spanish (subtitlted).
Where: Duke University - Duke West Campus, Social Science Building Room 139
Cuba is in a transitional period. Now more than ever, a Dialogue needs to be open for an audience that has not and might not understand what has happened and continues to happen on the island of Cuba. Lejos de la Isla (Far from the Island), is an examination of the waves of emigration from Cuba to the United States over the past 48 years told by the exiles who lived through them. Issues such as differences of opinion, the Cuban Revolution and its flaws, the destruction of the family unit and foreign policy. Join CASA as we screen this independent documentary, that has been making waves in the academe adding various schools, colleges and universities such as The University of Missouri - Columbia, The College of New Jersey, Boston College, The University of Virginia, Cornell University, Marquette University, Seton Hall University, Yale University and Harvard University. Independent filmmaker L.E.
Salas will be present to introduce the film and present a question and answer forum immediately following the screening. Contact yisel.valdes@duke.edu for more info.
October 12, 2007 - A RADICAL RAINBOW COALTION: Event with Former Black Panther and Young Lords Member
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October 12, 5:30PM at the WHITE LECTURE HALL, EAST CAMPUS
Denise Oliver-Velez is a former member of The Young Lords Party (YLP), a Puerto Rican/Latino organization, serving as their Minister of Economic Development and was the first woman on the YLP Central Committee. She is also a former member of The Black Panther Party. Denise will be giving a lecture as part of the Multicultural Center’s "Identities in Movement" series, which aims to offer insights into the interrelation of race, class, gender, sexuality in the context of social change. Denise will assist us in understanding "identity" within the context of community struggles for justice, democracy, and dignity. She will describe the community-based projects that both organizations fought to create, and the cross-racial alliances that were built. She will share the history of people of color organizations that had a powerful role in changing our society for the better, revolutionizing our social relations. And she will show how struggles against exploitation along lines of gender, sexuality, and race, are not mutually-exclusive, nor one more primary than the other. Click here for more information or email: vivian.wang@duke.edu.
Organized by the Center for Multicultural Affairs. Co-sponsored by the Women’s Center; Sexual Assault Support Services, Lambda Upsilon Lambda, Latino/a Studies, the Black Student Alliance, the Black Graduate and Professional Students Association, and the Department of Cultural Anthropology.
October 12, 2007 - Latino/a Studies Welcome Reception and Open House
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The Latino/a Studies Welcome Reception and Open House will take place on Friday October 12th, 4:00 -5:30pm. We welcome all our affiliated students, faculty, staff and administrators, and community members to join with us in celebration of our +rebirth+ under new leadership (Professor Jose David Saldivar) and in our new space (Science Building). The reception will take place in the central upstairs wing of the Science Building (Old Art Museum) on East Campus. You may find directions under the "About" link.
October 10, 2007 - Uneven Transitions: How Indigenous Peoples Contributed to Mexico's Democratization and Why They Got Little in Return"
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/26 13:14:00
A talk by Professor Guillermo Trejo of Duke's Department of Political Science. Part of the "Wednesday's at the Center" lunch-time series of talks at the John
October 03, 2007 - Wake Forest Conference on Immigration: Oct 3-5
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/10/01 18:44:05
Wake Forest University will address one of the United States' most hotly debated issues-immigration-at a three-day conference Oct 3-5. Titled "Immigration: Recasting the Debate," the conference will feature keynote addresses by major public figures giving both Democratic and Republican perspectives, including Ray Marshall, a former member of both the Clinton and Carter administrations, and Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida. The event will also include forums with leading immigration policy experts from organizations including the Cato Institute, the Economic Policy Institute, The Heritage Foundation and the World Policy Institute, and top-rated scholars from institutions such as Princeton University and the University of Southern California. The first day of the conference will include a film screening of the award-winning documentary "Crossing Arizona" followed by a keynote address from a Democratic perspective by Ray Marshall. The remainder of the conference will feature six forums on various aspects of immigration from migration effects on social, political and economic life to policy choices and their consequences; another screening of "Crossing Arizona" with a question-and-answer session with director Dan Devivo; and a keynote address from a Republican perspective by Martinez. Throughout the conference, public question-and-answer sessions will also be offered. The conference is free and open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. For complete event information, including a conference schedule and biographical information on the participants, visit www.wfu.edu/voices. Voices of Our Time is an annual guest speaker series that exposes students, the Wake Forest community and the general public to some of the world's leading thinkers for discussions on the important national and international issues of our time. It was established in 2006 by Wake Forest President Nathan O. Hatch. Please Contact: Todd Drake 336-253-2328 todd@tdrake.com for more information.
October 04, 2007 - Jose Galvez: Documenting Latino Life on Film
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/26 21:30:06
Thursday, October 4
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Jose Galvez has been documenting Latino life on film for over thirty years. As a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, he won a Pulitzer Prize in Community Service for his work on Latinos in Southern California. His work has been shown in galleries across the United States. Galvez now makes his home in Durham, NC where he continues to document Latino life on film. He will be speaking at Duke as a part of a course on "Latino/a Voices in Duke, Durham, and Beyond" offered through the Spanish Service-Learning Program and co-sponsored by Latino/a Studies. For more info, contact bonniemc@duke.edu.
October 03, 2007 - The Guestworker: A film by Charles Thompson and Cynthia Hill
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/28 16:04:43
The Guestworker, a flim produced by Duke faculty members Cynthia Hill and Charles Thompson, will be shown Wednesday October 3rd, 6-8pm at the Broad St. Cafe, 1116 Broad St., in Durham. The film focuses on 66-year-old Mexican farmer, Candelario Moreno Gonzales, who works on the tobacco, cucumber and pepper fields of the Wester Farms in North Carolina. Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) has teamed up with SURGE (Students United for a Responsible Global Environment) to host an evening of film, food, and conversation this coming Wednesday- don't miss it! For more information about this event, please contact SAF at 919-660-3652 or tmacias@duke.edu [more]
October 01, 2007 - CANCELLED: Jorge Huerta at UNC-CH: Dangerous Comedy
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/28 13:12:03
CANCELLED: Oct 1, 6:00pm at Hitchcock Multipurpose , Sonja Haynes Stone Center
Jorge Huerta, Associate Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officers of UC, San Diego will be giving a talk entitled DANGEROUS LAUGHTER: COMEDY IN CHICANO THEATRE.
Q &A and book signing to follow. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series, the UNC Latina/o Studies Gift Fund, and the Sonya Haynes Center. Contact Prof Maria Deguzman for more info: deguzman@email.unc.edu.
September 30, 2007 - Sept 30, Launch Party at Museum of Life and Science for Mariposa Stories
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/24 12:43:59
You are invited to the
The Mariposa Stories Project is a collaboration of Duke undergraduates and staff, community members, and local authors who have come together create bilingual story books for pre-school children in
Location: Museum of
The Mariposa Stories Project is funded by the Community Affairs Office, DukeEngage, and the Spanish Service-Learning Program at
September 24, 2007 - Juan for All: Implicit Attitudes and the Group-Specific Nature of Anti-Immigrant Opinion
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/20 17:49:07
The Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences presents: Monday Seminar Series
Efren Perez, Duke "Juan for All: Implicit Attitudes and the Group-Specific Nature of Anti-Immigrant Opinion"
Sept 24, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Erwin Mill Building, A103
In this talk, I present the findings of a survey-experiment on anti-immigrant opinion. Using an explicit-implicit attitudes framework, I examine the degree to which public evaluations of immigration policy are swayed by negative attitudes toward Latino immigrants. The analysis reveals that implicit anti-Latino attitudes shape support for immigration policy even if Latino immigrants are not directly referenced by these proposals, and in spite of one's disavowal of dislike for this group. The influence of these attitudes, moreover, is felt even as individuals register their opposition to immigration through ostensibly non-racial concerns (e.g., crime). The Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences (PARISS) hosts a regular Monday evening speaker series presenting innovative social science research during the academic year.
All are welcome to attend; the seminar begins at 6:00 p.m. and meets in Erwin Mill; a light supper is served. Contact courtney.orning@duke.edu for more information.
September 21, 2007 - Cimarron Noche Latina Dance Night - Friday
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/20 17:28:59
September 20, 2007 - First El Concilio Meeting of the Academic Year
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/18 15:10:23
Sept 20, 12:30pm - Latino/a Studies offices, Science Building, East Campus Latino/a Studies hosts the first El Concilio meeting of the academic year, with introductions and information sharing over lunch. Formed in 1997, El Concilio currently operates as an umbrella network, with representation from the various Latino/a student groups as well as from the Multicultural Center, Latino/a Studies, Admissions, the Latino Alumni Association, and interested faculty. Contact Jenny Snead Williams (jennysw@duke.edu) to inquire further.
September 19, 2007 - Coloniality and Latinidad: A Conversation with José Saldívar
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/18 15:10:06
Sept 19, 6-8:30pm - John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road Coloniality and Latinidad: A Conversation with José Saldívar The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Consortium UNC/Duke & the Working Group on "Globalization, Modernity/Coloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge" invite you to the first dinner meeting of 2007 - 2008. For more information on this meeting and to download the readings prior to the event, see http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/programs.html. Supported by Latino/a Studies at Duke University.
September 18, 2007 - Race, Racism, and Methodology Discussion
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Sept 18, 12-1:30pm - Science Building (old Art Museum,East Campus), Room 225
The Institute for Critical US Studies hosts a lunch discussion entitled "Race, Racism, and Methodology: How to Study Racial Matters in Contemporary America. The Institute for Critical U.S. Studies invites you to take part in the first in a yearlong series, "Methodologies on U.S. Studies: A Conversation," which will engage scholars from different disciplines in discussions of how different methodologies address like-minded projects on the United States. Our first Conversation will engage Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology, African and African American Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Bob Korstad, Professor of History and Public Policy. Please contact Caroline Light at clight@duke.edu or 668-1945 for more information.
Events from Academic Year 2006-07
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2007/09/19 10:53:58
PDF of events to be attached.
Farmworker Awareness Week March 26 - April 5
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/03/18 22:19:06
From March 26-April 5th, Students, Advocates,
Farmworkers, and Community Members are organizing events around the Triangle in
honor of Farmworkers
Show your support for those who harvest our food by
coming to one of these great local
events:
1. "Slavery Still Exists: A Conversation with the CIW"
| March
26th
2. Protest at Burger King!
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March
26th
3. Fair Food Dinner & Border Stories Presentation
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March
31st
4. Panel Discussion on Religion &
Farmworkers
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April 1st
5. Helena Maria Viramontes
Talk
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April 1st
6. Screening of Invisible
Chapel
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April
2nd
7.
Border Stories Documentary
Presentation|
April
2nd
8.
Screening of De
Nadie
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April
3rd
9.
Farmworker Awareness Week Table at
Springternational |
April
4th
10. Farm
Labor Camp
Delegation |
April
5th
For full information on all events, see http://www-cds.aas.duke.edu/saf/involved/faw.htm and/or contact Tony Macias, tmacias@duke.edu.
February 29, 2008 - Save the Date: Book Reception: Dead Subjects by Antonio Viego
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2008/02/07 10:09:02
Latino/a Studies will host an afternoon wine and cheese reception for colleagues, students, friends and fans of Professor Antonio Viego (Literature and Romance Studies) to celebrate the recent publication his book, "Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies" (Duke University Press, 2007). See DUP link.
Time: 4:30pm
Location: 204 Science (Old Art Museum) on East Campus
Details To Follow
Headline for News Item on Science & Synthesis
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2006/11/01 11:11:40
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The BEST Award for Student Research 2010
Statistical Science, 2010/03/23 15:18:11
The BEST Award for Student Research 2010
The Department of Statistical Science invites submissions for the 2010 BEST Award, the annual prize awarded to a student or students in recognition of student research in Bayesian statistical modeling related to time series and other methods in financial applications.
For full details of the 2010 competition, the BEST Award and Foundation, and past awards, visit the BEST Award page
Great News!
Political Science, for faculty, 2010/01/29 11:09:16
Alex Downes, has just been told that he will receive the "Lepgold Book Prize" for his book, Targeting Civilians in War. This is excellent news, and an important recognition for our friend Alex! Congratulations....
The BEST Award for Student Research 2009
Statistical Science, 2009/11/09 09:14:18
Statistical Science PhD student Hao Wang is the recipient of the 2009 BEST Award for his research on "Sparse Seemingly Unrelated Regression Modelling: Applications in Econometrics and Finance".
Statistical Science PhD student Jouchi Nakajima received an honorable mention for his research on "Bayesian Analysis of GARCH and Stochastic Volatility: Modeling Leverage, Jumps and Heavy-Tails for Financial Time Series".
For full details, pictures and papers, visit the BEST 2009 web page
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Statistical Science, 2009/10/02 17:01:54
The Department of Statistical Science invites applications for faculty appointment at the level of Assistant Professor of the Practice to begin in Fall 2010. This position is a regular rank faculty with a term renewable appointment. Preference will be given to candidates demonstrating outstanding teaching and strong interests in developing a new and growing undergraduate major. Complementary interests in Bayesian statistical science research and collaboration will also be considered.
The Department of Statistical Science is an internationally recognized center of excellence for research and education in the development and application of contemporary statistical methodology. Particular emphasis is directed toward Bayesian modeling in many scientific fields as well as emerging computationally intensive methods. The Department offers outstanding computational facilities and opportunities for interdisciplinary research. It currently has 14 regular rank faculty along with 14 visiting, adjunct, and post doctoral faculty and 35 Ph.D. students.
The educational program (graduate and undergraduate) as well as the Department's research agenda benefit from strong connections with the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), both located nearby in the Research Triangle. More information about the Department is available at the Statistics web site.
All applicants should provide a letter, curriculum vitae, personal statement, and three reference letters. All materials should be submitted online at Academic Jobs Online. For inquiries and e-mail correspondence please write to dalene@stat.duke.edu. The application pool will remain open until the position is filled but screening will begin on 1 December, 2009.
Duke University is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. The department is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty, and we strongly encourage applications from women and underrepresented minority candidates.
Positions for Postdoctoral Research Associates in Statistical Methods and Computation for Immunological Applications
Statistical Science, 2009/10/01 13:08:04
Two positions for postdoctoral research associates in statistical methods and computation for immunological applications are available at Duke University. These positions are available immediately and will be filled as soon as possible.
Appointment will be to the Department of Statistical Science, working with Mike West and his research group in development and implementation of structured mixture models for high-dimensional variables and very large data sets. Applied contexts are those of structure identification and discrimination in studies immune monitoring and immunotherapy applications in vaccine research, infectious disease and cancer, using huge data sets generated by flow cytometry technologies. The RA will join an interdisciplinary team of researchers and students in statistical science, computational biology and clinical sciences, working together to develop statistical models and software for flow cytometry data analysis.
The RA will be involved in theory and methods developments related to hierarchical mixture modelling and Bayesian analysis, and implementation of MCMC and Bayesian EM methods including aspects of parallel and multi-core computation. Candidates should have a PhD in statistics or closely related discipline, knowledge and experience in Bayesian methods and computation, strong computational orientation and programming skills, and interests in biological applications.
This position is available immediately and will be filled as soon as possible. Appointment will be made on a renewable, one-year contract with the expectation of a two-year term.
Applications should be submitted by email only (as pdf attachment) to tameka@stat.duke.edu. Applicants should arrange for 3 letters of recommendation to be emailed to the same address.
Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and Educator
Postdoctoral research associate in computational statistics for flow
cytometry.
(NIH - ARRA RC1 grant funding)
The department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University Medical Center has a postdoctoral research associate (RA) position open in computational statistics for flow cytometry. Flow cytometry is an advanced technology assay for measuring individual cell phenotype and function, and is critical for immune monitoring and immunotherapy applications in vaccine research, infectious disease and cancer. The RA will join an interdisciplinary team of researchers and students in computational biology, statistics and clinical sciences working together to develop statistical models and software for flow cytometry data analysis.
The RA roles include the management and analysis of cancer and HIV data sets, as well as working with our collaborators in statistics to develop an open source software suite for Bayesian machine learning in flow cytometry. Candidates should have a PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science or related technical field, and strong programming skills in Python and C/C++. Knowledge of databases and a biological background are desirable but not necessary. The successful candidate will be expected to interact with experimentalists and clinicians, and to have a strong interest in learning the relevant biology.
This position is available immediately and will be filled as soon as possible. Appointment will be made on a renewable, one-year contract with the expectation of a two-year term.
Please submit a cover letter (including a brief statement of interest), CV, and contact information for 3 references to Dr. Cliburn Chan, cliburn.chan@duke.edu.
Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and Educator
Postdoctoral Associate in Bayesian Statistics
Statistical Science, 2009/10/01 12:57:29
The Department of Statistical Science at Duke University is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Associate to work on Bayesian methods for massive dimensional predictors, with an emphasis on applications to studies of gene-environment interactions and complex phenotypes. Some areas of particular interest include random and nonlinear projections for dimensionality reduction, sparse latent factor models and Bayesian nonparametrics. The ideal candidate will hold a Ph.D in statistics or a related field and will have a very strong theoretical and computational background. This research will focus on advancing the theory and methods available for massive dimensional predictors, with an emphasis on practically useful methods that can be applied broadly by non-statisticians.
Applicants should email their CV, a brief statement of their background and interests and contact information for at least three references to:
David Dunson, Professor
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University
dunson@stat.duke.edu
Assistant Professor Position
Statistical Science, 2009/09/23 10:50:28
The Department of Statistical Science invites applications for faculty appointment at the level of Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2010. Preference will be given to candidates whose core statistical science research interests are complemented with collaborative research interest in systems biology, neurosciences, social sciences, or environmental science.
The Department of Statistical Science is an internationally recognized center of excellence for research and education in the development and application of contemporary statistical methodology. Particular emphasis is directed toward Bayesian modeling in many scientific fields as well as emerging computationally intensive methods. The Department offers outstanding computational facilities and opportunities for interdisciplinary research. It currently has 14 regular rank faculty along with 14 visiting, adjunct, and post doctoral faculty and 35 Ph.D. students.
The Ph.D. program as well as the Department's research agenda benefit from strong connections with the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), both located nearby in the Research Triangle. A Statistical Science major, started in Fall 2007, provides the primary focus of our undergraduate program. More information about the Department is available at the web site http://www.stat.duke.edu.
All applicants should provide a letter, curriculum vitae, personal statement, and the names of three references. All materials should be submitted online at Academic Jobs Online. For inquiries and e-mail correspondence please write to here. The application pool will remain open until the position is filled but screening will begin on 1 December, 2009.
Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women and minorities are strongly encouraged.
Visiting Faculty Positions
Statistical Science, 2009/09/23 10:48:02
The Duke University Department of Statistical Science invites applications for Visiting Faculty positions to begin in Fall 2010. Preference will be given to candidates whose core statistical science research interests are complemented with collaborative research interest in systems biology, neurosciences, social sciences, or environmental science.
The Department of Statistical Science is an internationally recognized center of excellence for research and education in the development and application of contemporary statistical methodology. Particular emphasis is directed toward Bayesian modeling in many scientific fields as well as emerging computationally intensive methods. The Department offers outstanding computational facilities and opportunities for interdisciplinary research. It currently has 14 regular rank faculty along with 14 visiting, adjunct, and post doctoral faculty and 35 Ph.D. students.
The Ph.D. program as well as the Department's research agenda benefit from strong connections with the Statistics and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) and the National Institute of Statistical Science (NISS), both located nearby in the Research Triangle. A Statistical Science major, started in Fall 2007, provides the primary focus of our undergraduate program. More information about the Department is available at the web site http://www.stat.duke.edu.
All applicants should submit a letter, curriculum vitae, and the names of three references at Academic Jobs Online. For inquiries and e-mail correspondence, please write to Dalene Stangl, Associate Chair. The application pool will remain open until the position is filled but screening will begin on 15 January, 2010.
Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women and minorities are strongly encouraged.
2009 BEST Award for Student Research
Statistical Science, for faculty, 2009/09/08 10:05:53
The 2009 BEST Award competition is open and will receive submissions from eligible Duke students up until the September 30th 2009 deadline. The Award will be announced and made at a ceremony in late October 2009. For full details of the Award see the BEST Award web site.
Duke Statistics Alumni Network Web Site and Newsletter
Statistical Science, for faculty, 2009/06/18 13:26:08
The first issue of the Duke Statistics Alumni Letter is available on the Duke Statistics Alumni Network homepage. The Alumni Network home page is available via a link at the bottom of the Duke Statistics homepage.
Jared Niemi among winners for 2009 Student Paper Competition
Statistical Science, 2009/05/04 12:18:31
Jarad Niemi , who will graduate PhD in May, is one of the winners of the 2009 Student Paper Competition run by the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association. Jarad will present his winning paper, entitled Adaptive Mixture Modelling Metropolis Methods for Bayesian Analysis of Non-Linear State-Space Models, at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington DC in August this year, and receive a certificate and $1000 award at the SBSS social/business event at the meeting.
Visit our blog
Duke Lemur Center, 2009/02/20 11:17:33
You can keep up with the Lemur Center by visiting our blog! You can also visit us on our YouTube Channel to see some amazing videos.
Disability and Aging Research Findings
Population, Policy and Aging Research Center, 2008/08/28 13:27:00
Disability and Aging Research Results have been covered in a NY Times article. Dr. Kaare Christensen (DuPRI) and researchers: M. McGue, I. Petersen, B. Jeune and J. W. Vaupel (DuPRI) published findings in late August 2008 related to one of their NIA grants in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS): 10.1073/pnas.0804931105, entitled: Exceptional longevity does not result in excessive levels of disability. In an Aug 25th NY Times article, Longevity: Independent Even in Old Age, it states that the research tracked all Danes born in 1905 for seven years beginning in 1998. The researchers examined them with four assessments at ages 94, 96, 98 and 100, and found that the percentage living independently decreased only slightly in the seven-year span, to 32.7 percent from 38.9 percent. "Some worry that extreme old age leads to extreme levels of disability," said Dr. Kaare Christensen, the lead author of the study, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Southern Denmark, and a senior research scientist in PPARC at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, "But our study shows that people are no more dependent at 100 than at 92." [more]
Erik Wibbels in the N & O
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/08/11 10:23:49
Erik's op-ed, "Why it's so unlikely" was in the August 8th issue of the N & O.
Chris Gelpi in the News and Observer
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/08/11 10:21:57
"Good news from Iraq is a boost for McCain" by Chris is in the May 26th issue of N & O.
Bruce Jentleson in the N & O
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/08/11 10:20:04
Bruce's op-ed, "Saving lives when governments won't" was in the May 25th N & O.
Applied Math moving to FDS WWW system
Applied Math, 2008/08/07 09:26:20
We are shifting the Applied Mathematics web pages to be centrally maintained under the University's Faculty Database System. This will allow for more flexible access to data and better distribution of information on current and upcoming events.
HSDEC Now Accepting Applications for Summer-Fall 2008 Interns
Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, 2008/07/08 10:32:42
HSDEC has been recently approved to continue the HSDEC intern program through summer and fall 2008. We anticipate having several positions available in Colorado Springs and San Antonio at present. (more)
Alexander Downes' new book
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/05/02 15:07:35
In this book, Downes asks why states engage in civilian victimization -- military strategies that target an enemy's civilian population in wartime. He argues that such strategies are employed in two circumstances: to coerce an adversary to give up when leaders become desperate to win or to reduce their military casualties in costly wars of attrition, and to eliminate actual or potential resistance by the population in wars to conquer and annex an enemy's territory. http://www.duke.edu/~downes/publications.htm
Congratulations Alex!
Student Fellowship Awards
Chemistry, 2013/07/09 11:27:12
Congratulations to our fellowship award winners for 2013-2014. These fellowships are made possible by the generous donations of various individuals and companies, and are intended to recognize our strongest students. Please take this opportunity to congratulate the awardees, who were selected from many outstanding nominees.
Adams Fellow
JongKang Park (Therien/Warren Groups)
Bradsher Fellow
Tana Villafana (Warren Group)
Burroughs-Wellcome Fellows
Lily Du (Yang Group)
Andrew Franks (Franz Group)
Minhee Lee (Hong Group)
Jerry Ortiz (Wang Group)
Gross Fellows
Yusong Bai (Therien Group)
Yang Yang (Yang Group)
Hauser Fellows
Zachary Kean (Craig Group)
DoYeon Kwon (Hong Group)
Megan Lanier (Hong Group)
Hobbs Fellow
Keely Glass (Simon Group)
Krigbaum Fellow
Tana Villafana (Warren Group)
Wilder Fellows
Ariel Geer (Fitzgerald Group)
Jason King (Toone Group)
Zeilik Fellows
Robert Harris (Widenhoefer Group)
Yingrong Xu (Fitzgerald Group)
“My Mother Now Sells Pap”
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/04/15 18:44:58
Ray of Hope Children’s Foundation Social Integrated Development Program
Contributed by Stella Ndubuisi
After completing her MIDP program, Stella Ndubuisi’s (’08) efforts are once again directed at her life project: providing an education for the street children of Lagos. Her organization, “Ray of Hope Children’s Foundation” not only provides these children with educational opportunities, but also covers their medical expenses, school meals and even pays the rent on behalf of families facing eviction. These services have drawn attention from local benefactors, who together support about 50 “HOPE” children. One of their future goals is to replicate these programs in other parts of Nigeria. For the programs to grow, Stella has sought ways to make service delivery more impactful and sustainable.
One initiative was the Ray of Hope integrated social development program, launched on May 27, 2009, which coincided with Nigeria’s national Children’s Day. This program is aimed at improving entire families’ livelihoods, adding components like economic empowerment and healthcare coverage to the welfare support and education packages provided to the children. As part of the activities for Children's Day, a Lagos-based microfinance bank, King Solomon Microfinance Bank, gave micro loans ranging from N7,000 to N49,000 (about $45 to $315) to eleven mothers and caregivers of HOPE children. The women got a group guarantee so they are their own social capital and the repayment tenures are three to six months. The loan recipients are mainly petty traders, such as pepper or fruit sellers. These loans have made a significant difference to their businesses and families’ livelihoods. None of the recipients have defaulted on their repayment plans. Each now has a savings account and endeavors to save a set sum on a weekly basis, apart from the regular repayments on their loans. Some have already finished repaying their initial loans.
As a result, some of the women will be have their loans increased and four new mothers will join the program. Warees Semiu, a primary three HOPE child, explained that his mother’s clientele base has upgraded since she got the loan and now includes some of the rich in their neighborhood. During an interview, he quipped: “before she got the micro loan, my mother used to sell ‘akamu’ (a colloquial name for porridge), but now she sells Pap”, (the “upgraded” word for the same porridge). In practical terms this means that Mrs. Fatima Semiu no longer buys small measures of maize at a premium, but can now buy a big bag of maize at a discount rate and sell her ‘akamu/pap’ at a 100% profit. Aside from improved self esteem, this will ensure that Warees stays in school, better nutrition for him and his siblings and a better quality of life for the whole family.
ROHCF’s work is affecting more than each child’s literacy and numeracy; it is touching the community at large. Apart from the above efforts, workshops are held for the mothers on good parenting practices and managing small businesses, while providing a platform for these women to develop leadership skills and social responsibility. The children also participate in extra-curricular leadership development programs. This is particularly significant because good leadership has been the bane of Nigeria’s development.
Children who would otherwise have grown up on the streets facing a dismal future are getting education and learning to give back and serve their country thanks to the goodwill shown them and their families by mostly unknown benefactors.
For more information on Ray of Hope Children’s Foundation and its work in Nigeria, visit www.hopechildrenng.org.
Bernhardt Coauthors Policy Recommendation
Biology, 2010/10/11 12:58:30
Prof. Emily Bernhardt coauthored a paper in the January 8 issue of Science magazine calling for an end to mountaintop mining due to overwhelming scientific evidence of significant environmental impacts. "Mountaintop Mining Consequences" reviews the scientific evidence for run-off of toxic contaminants in ground water and streams, as well as other negative impacts. [more]
New Book by Steve Vogel
Biology, 2010/08/05 11:22:48
Prof. Steve Vogel has published his 9th volume, "Glimpses of Creatures in their Physical Worlds: Essays on inescapable impact of the physical world on design of organisms" (Princeton University Press). "This charismatic book is a fascinating read and Vogel is exceptionally good at presenting the material so that it is accessible to a general audience. The book presents . . . a wide range of diverse examples collected in one place, displaying a lifetime's worth of accumulated knowledge and wisdom."--Amy S. Johnson, Bowdoin College
New Paper by Julie Reynolds et al.
Biology, 2010/08/05 11:22:21
Dr. Julie Reynolds has published "BioTAP, the Biology Thesis Assessment Protocol: A Systematic Approach to Teaching Scientific Writing and Evaluating Undergraduate Theses" in the November issue of BioScience. The paper describes the undergraduate Thesis Assessment Protocol she developed in consultation with faculty and students of the Biology Department. The goal is to provide uniform supervision and grading of senior honors theses.
Prof. Hunt Willard receives prestigious award.
Biology, 2010/08/05 11:22:02
The American Society of Human Genetics honored Prof. Huntington F. Willard with the 2009 Allan Award on Oct. 23, 2009. "Dr. Willard is an outstanding scientific leader, having made seminal findings in the understanding of chromosome structure and behavior. ... Dr. Willard leads a model organization in genetics – the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University – as well as demonstrating the importance of outreach by teaching undergraduate courses at Duke. Hunt Willard is an outstanding example of a model 'citizen-scientist' in the human genetics field." [more]
The Vascular Plant Herbarium
Biology, 2010/08/05 11:21:29
Duke Today (issue of October 2, 2009) features the Vascular Plant Herbarium and its new facilities in the Phytotron. With the help of funding from the NSF, Duke has provided a secure, climate-controlled environment for an invaluable resource of some 400,000 specimens of flowering plants from all over the world. [more] -- http://news.duke.edu/2009/10/herbarium.html
Prof. Charbonneau is co-organizing a workshop
Chemistry, 2009/12/18 08:02:17
on the role of dimensionality in particulate matter at the MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, May 31-June 4. For more information, see http://www.pks.mpg.de/~pardim10/.
Aldrich Receives APSA’s 2008 Eldersveld Career Achievement Award !
Political Science, for faculty, 2010/06/16 10:12:38
Our own John Aldrich has been selected to receive the 2008 Samuel Eldersveld "Career Achievement Award," given annually by the American Political Science’s Political Organizations and Parties Section, “honoring a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field." Congratulations John!
John is the third member of our department to receive this award. Alan Kornberg won it in 1989 and Herbert Kitschelt in 2006. Duke faculty represent 1/6 of all the Eldersveld career achievers in the entire discipline. No other university has even won TWO, and now we have THREE.! For more information: http://www.apsanet.org/~pop/awards.htm and Political Organizations and Parties Section Award WinnersAaron Rathmell, a graduate student in the Wiley group,
Chemistry, 2010/02/09 14:14:04
has won a $13,000 fellowship from the Duke Nanoscience Certificate Program for his work with copper nanowires. Congratulations Aaron!
Chemistry is excited to announce a new feature of the department's website:
Chemistry, 2010/02/16 09:24:02
a regulary updated listing of predoctoral fellowship, training grant, and internship opportunities from federal agencies, professional societies, and private sponsors. The Graduate Student Funding Opportunities website will be updated weekly to provide the most recent information on alternate funding sources to Chemistry doctoral students. The list includes Duke certificate programs and training grants that provide generous stipends, such as the well-known Pharmacology Sciences Training Program and the graduate program in Nanoscience, alongside ACS, DOD, and NSF graduate fellowships, in addition to privately sponsored internships.
Duke in the Andes Fall 2010!
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2010/03/22 12:57:26
Learn about diverse Andean culture, indigenous movements, environmental issues facing the region, and excursions to Machu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands. more info
Spring 2010 Course Highlights
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2010/03/22 12:57:09
Congratulations Susan Ashley Wilson
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2010/03/22 12:57:01
The Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies congratulates Susan Ashley Wilson on her retirement from Duke at the end of January 2010 after 33 years of continuous service. During her years at Duke, Susan worked as Coordinator of Public Relations and Performing Organizations in the Department of Music, as Administrative Assistant in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literature, and most recently as the Financial and Program Coordinator in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Susan also managed her own business in the late 1980s and 1990s, as an Artist Representative, working with several classical musicians including violinist Nicholas Kitchen. Congratulations, Susan, and we wish you much happiness and success as you embark on your new (ad)ventures!
Welcome Visitng Professor Jean Casimir
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2010/03/22 12:56:44
Sociologist and former Haitian Ambassador to the U.S., Jean Casimir, will be teaching two courses during the Spring term. more info
Cunningham Anchors Game-changing Paper on Arthropod Phylogeny
Biology, 2010/02/16 15:46:50
Prof. Cliff Cunningham, along with scientists from the University of Maryland and the Natural History Museum of LA County, has published a study of arthropod DNA which has rearranged their family tree. Besides revising relationships of insects and crustaceans, e.g., the paper establishes 5 new groupings of species. Among other revelations, it is now clear that insects and millipedes/centipedes evolved from 2 separate transitions from water to land. The paper appears in Nature online, 10 February 2010. [more, alt.] -- Nature advance online publication 10 February 2010; doi 10:1038/nature08742.
WISER School Opens in Kenya
Biology, 2010/02/05 16:08:25
After five years of work and $1.5 million in fundraising, the WISER 7 acre campus for 120 high school girls in rural Kenya started classes for the first time on Feb 1. The school has a 7-acre campus and the best science lab in the region. The Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research was founded in 2002 by Dr. Sherryl Broverman of Duke University and Dr. Rose Odhiambo of Egerton University (Kenya). WISER’s vision is to create a replicable model for ending the cycle of gender disparity in education, health and community leadership in the global south. [more, alt.]
Robert Holbrook, a senior undergrad researcher
Chemistry, 2010/01/27 15:56:27
in the Franz lab and a member of the Duke wrestling team, was featured in the January 27 issue of GoDuke Weekly, page 7.
Noor Lab Sweeps Dean's Mentoring Awards
Biology, 2010/01/22 12:10:19
Prof. Mohamed Noor and his graduate student Laurie Stevison are the winners of the 2010 Dean's Awards for Excellence in Mentoring. These competitive awards are given by committees of faculty and students to the individuals who best "embody both the letter and spirit of mentoring." Noor and Stevison will receive $2000 and $1000 awards respectively at the reception on April 15, 2010.
WISER opens boarding school in Kenya for teenage girls
Biology, 2010/01/07 13:59:38
The Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research, an NGO founded by Prof. Broverman, opens its first school in Muhuru Bay, Kenya this month. The school has a 7-acre campus, 6 classrooms, a science lab and an internet cafe, and will boost the number of girls going to high school and beyond. WISER also engages in improving primary education for girls and boys, sanitation projects, and HIV prevention. [more]
Professor Hong's recent research
Chemistry, 2009/12/10 09:17:23
on candidate inhibitors for drug addiction is highlighted here.
Al Crumbliss
Chemistry, 2009/12/01 09:26:28
has been appointed as an Associate Editor of BioMetals, effective Jan 1, 2010.
Professor Warren has assumed the chair position
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 16:03:38
for the Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society. He is also a member of the Laserfest Technical Advisory Committee, which is coordinating the yearlong worldwide activities celebrating 2010 as the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the laser.
The 5th Annual Evening of Chemistry Demonstration Program
Chemistry, 2010/01/07 11:25:02
The Department of Chemistry, Duke University, cordially invites you, your students, and families to The 5th Annual Evening of Chemistry Demonstration Program, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 (Oct. 1 Rain Date), 7:15 – 8:30 PM, on the front lawn of the French Family Science Center, 124 Science Drive. Parking is available in the Chemistry Lot off of Circuit Drive. Contact Dr. Ken Lyle for more information (kenneth.lyle@duke.edu, 681-9952).
A novel four-way collaboration involving
Chemistry, for faculty, 2009/12/16 08:30:29
the research groups of Professors Beratan (Duke), Rubtsov (Tulane), Sessler (UT-Austin) and Skourtis (Cyprus) has demonstrated that charge transfer kinetics can be manipulated by exciting vibrations in chemical bonds of bridging groups that link chemical electron donor species to electron acceptors. These experiments, and the associated theory, begin to draw a link between the control of electronic pathways of mesoscale "double slit" style electron transmission experiments and chemical electron transfer reactions. Interestingly, this collaboration began while Prof. Rubtsov was at Duke for an unscheduled "sabbatical" during Hurricane Katrina. The paper appears on the J. Am. Chem. Soc. ASAP site. Click here to view Monday's C&EN concentrate describing the work. An additional article about the research can be found in Nature Chemistry.
Departmental research funding is up again.
Chemistry, 2009/11/24 07:53:41
Our best estimates for Chemistry research funding for 2009 reflect a 19% increase over 2008, and an 84% increase over 2007. This increase comes from many sources: new senior hires over that time, excellent success by our junior faculty in getting their first federal grants, and (most recently) stimulus funding. Overall, Duke University ranks fifth nationally in the amount of NIH funding won under the stimulus program.
Prof. Livingstone receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Biology, 2009/11/19 09:23:49
Each year, the International Paleolimnological Association bestows its "Lifetime Achievement Award" to honor a senior colleague for their career contribution to palaeolimnology. This year, our own Prof. Daniel Livingstone will receive this prestigious award at the annual meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico, Dec. 15-18, 2009. Congratulations, Dan! Dan Livingstone is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biology and came to Duke in 1956.
Three Duke Chemistry alumni start their independent academic careers:
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:32:04
Dr. Alex Shestopolav, a postdoctoral fellow in the Toone lab, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester.
Dr. Andres Cisneros, a former graduate student of Professor Yang, has started his Assistant Professorship of Chemistry at Wayne State University.
Dr. Mike Serpe, a postdoctoral fellow in the Craig lab, has started his Assistant Professorship of Chemistry at the University of Alberta.
Jeremy Lenhardt Wins ACS Fellowship
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:16:53
Congratulations to Jeremy Lenhardt, who has been awarded the 2009-2010 Schering Plough Fellowship from the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. These national awards are highly competitive and fellowship winners are selected based on their academic record, research productivity, and career potential.
Krigbaum Memorial fellowship
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:16:42
Elizabeth Jenista is the recent recipient of the Krigbaum Memorial fellowship for her research in advanced applications in magnetic resonance imaging. Liz's research focuses on developing new methods for contrast enhancement by extracting endogenous contrast (generated by manipulating the inherent physics of the system) or through development of exogenous contrast agents using hyperpolarized carbon. Her recent work has developed methods for enhancing tissue contrast using unevenly spaced refocusing pulses resulting in an increase in signal in tissue by 70%, intermolecular multiple quantum temperature imaging for in vivo absolute temperature detection, and the development of long lived, hyperpolarized contrast agents for metabolic imaging.
P.M. Gross fellowship
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:16:14
Kai Zhang is the recent recipient of the P. M. Gross fellowship for his study of modulated phases. He uses Monte Carlo methods and thermodynamic integration to calculate the free energy and phase diagrams of modulated phases, which contain periodic patterns such as lamellae, cylinders or clusters.
P.M. Gross fellowship
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:15:50
Emily Tarsis is the recent recipient of the PM Gross fellowship for her research on the development of methods for the asymmetric alkylation of ketones. In her current project, she is applying this methodology to the total synthesis of Apratoxin D, which has potent cytotoxicity against H-460 lung cancer cells (IC_50 = 2.6 nM).
C. R. Hauser and Kathleen Zielik fellowships
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:15:04
Marina Dickens is the recent recipient of the C. R. Hauser and Kathleen Zielik fellowships for her research in developing prochelators to minimize oxidative stress. She recently developed a new boronic ester masked prochelator called QBP which is activated under conditions that mimic early Alzheimer's pathology where copper, amyloid beta, and reductants exacerbate reactive oxygen species formation. Once activated to its unmasked form, the released chelator diminishes copper's pro-oxidant reactivity and inhibits amyloid beta aggregation.
Burroughs Wellcome and Kathleen Zielik fellowships
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:14:51
Timothy Brown is the recent recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome and Kathleen Zielik fellowships for his research in gold(I) pi-activation catalysis. His reseach is aimed at better understanding the mechanisms of gold(I)-catalyzed hydrofunctionalization reactions for the development of improved synthetic methods. Most recently, he has isolated and studied novel cationic gold(I) pi-alkene complexes which are proposed intermediates in a number of gold(I)-catalyzed reactions of alkenes.
CR Hauser and Hobbs Endowment fellowships
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:14:38
Marcus Cheek is the recent recent recipient of the CR Hauser and Hobbs Endowment fellowships for his research in antiviral alpha-P-borano modified triphosphates. Alpha-/P/-Boranotriphosphates, where the alpha-phosphoryl oxygen is substituted by a borane (BH3) group, have been shown to exhibit diverse and unique properties including being a good substrate for DNA and RNA polymerases. Marcus and others in the Shaw lab are currently testing the effects of this modification on the antiviral potency of chain terminating sugar and base modified purine nucleosides against Hepatitis C Viral RNA dependent RNA polymerase (HCV RdRp).
Burroughs Wellcome fellowship
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:14:24
Leigh Allen is the recent recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome fellowship for her research on a novel enzyme involved in the peptidoglycan recycling pathway. This pathway shows promise as a potential target for new antibiotics. Recently, the de novo crystal structure of the enzyme was solved and kinetic activity was demonstrated. Future and ongoing efforts include the synthesis of the natural substrate in addition to potential enzyme inhibitors.
Burroughs Wellcome fellowship
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:14:11
Meghan Blackledge is the recent recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome fellowship for her research on the synthesis and mechanistic studies of WAP-8294A2. WAP-8294A2 is a novel cyclic depsipeptide antibiotic active against gram-positive pathogens such as S. aureus. We are interested in using synthetic and semisynthetic methods to elucidate its mechanism of action and relevant structural characteristics.
Kathleen Zeilik and the CR Houser fellowships
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:13:31
Mariam Lucila Sharaf is the recent recipient of the Kathleen Zeilik and the CR Houser Fellowships from the Duke Chemistry department at Duke University for her research in boranophosphate modified RNA as potential anticancer therapies. Borane (*--BH_3 *) chemistry offers unique chemical characteristics that make these compounds promising for enhancing the potential of anticancer strategies such as RNA interference (siRNA) and tumor specific aptamers.
C.R. Hauser fellowship
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:13:06
Maria M. Bednar is the recent recipient of the C.R. Hauser Fellowship for her research on the enzyme Chlamydial Protease/Proteosome-like Activity Factor (CPAF). CPAF has been identified has one of the main factors in Chlamydia infection and survival. CPAF is involved in both infection and immune evasion, making it an interesting subject for enzymology studies and a prime target for drug design.
CR Hauser and J.T. Adams fellowships
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:12:30
Alexander Shestopalov is the recent recipient of the CR Hauser and J.T. Adams fellowships for his research in Catalytic Microcontact Printing. With other members of Eric Toone's group, he has developed several inkless catalytic microcontact printing techniques that achieves accurate, fast, and complete pattern reproduction on SAMs of Fmoc-, Boc- and TBS-protected amines and alcohols immobilized on gold and Si-H using a polyurethane-acrylate stamps functionalized with covalently bound catalysts. Currently, he is working on an inkless µCP protocol that permits patterning and subsequent patter-specific functionalization of the passivated silicon substrates bearing SAMs that render complete Si-C-type termination of all surface-exposed Si atoms.
Guillermo Trejo in APSR
Political Science, for faculty, 2009/09/22 10:06:53
Congratulations to Guillermo who had the lead article in the current issue of APSR. To view the article click here. This is a very important achievement. Congratulations Guillermo!
April 28, 2009 - Ralph Bunche Summer Institute renewed for three years
Political Science, for faculty, 2009/04/28 10:07:21
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $404,000 to Duke University to continue the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute for the next three summers, beginning this year. The institute encourages highly competitive minorities to pursue graduate programs in political science. "I am pleased that the National Science Foundation remains impressed with the work we are doing here at Duke," said Paula McClain, a political science professor and the institute's director. "Bunche is considered a cross-directorate program of the Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, which means the proposal is reviewed twice by two different panels and both reviews were stellar." The five-week summer program is designed to simulate the academically intensive graduate school experience as well as provide mentoring for African-American, Hispanic and American Indian students. The program's top students are given the opportunity to present their research at the American Political Science Association's annual meeting. "The success of the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute is unmatched by any other pipeline program in the country," McClain said. "For example, six former Bunche students will receive their doctorates this spring and will move into faculty positions in the fall. There are another 25 that are writing their dissertations, and numerous others in graduate programs around the country." Sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA), the institute is funded by the National Science Foundation and Duke. The institute, named in honor of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner and first black American to receive a doctorate in political science in 1934, moved to Duke in 2000 from the University of Virginia when McClain joined the Duke faculty.
March 18, 2009 - Welcome: Dr. D. Sunshine Hillygus
Political Science, for faculty, 2009/03/23 16:17:48
We are pleased to announce that Dr. D. Sunshine Hillygus, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University, has accepted our offer to take a tenured Associate Professor Position in the Department of Political Science. Dr. Hillygus has research and teaching interests in political behavior and elections, and is the author of many articles, as well as the recent book The Persuadable Voter, published by Princeton University Press.
March 23, 2009 - Welcome: Dr. Michael D. Ward
Political Science, for faculty, 2009/03/23 16:16:29
The Department is pleased to announce the successful recruitment of Dr. Michael D. Ward, Professor of Politcal Science at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has been an affiliate of the Cemter for Statistics and Social Sciences for some time. Dr. Ward's primary interests are in international relations (spanning democratization, globalization, international commerce, military spending, as well as international conflict and cooperation), political geography, as well as mathematical and statistical methods. Dr. Ward's hiring is a very significant addition to the International Relations and Methods offerings at Duke, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
March 01, 2009 - Mike Munger in the N & O
Political Science, for faculty, 2009/03/04 10:16:52
Mike had a small piece in the Sunday Opinion section, on regulation, also in the N&O, in a little discussion of policy: ' Is more regulation the answer?'.
February 27, 2009 - Feaver and Gelpi in the News & Observer
Political Science, for faculty, 2009/03/04 10:13:21
Peter and Chris in the February 27th issue of News and Observer - 'The Weight of War Casualties'.
February 19, 2009 - Congratulations to Donald Horowitz
Political Science, for faculty, 2009/02/19 14:31:15
On February 17, 2009, Donald L. Horowitz received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association. A panel was convened to discuss his work as part of the award celebration.
January 22, 2009 - Erik Wibbels in The San Diego Union-Tribune
Political Science, for faculty, 2009/01/22 10:52:06
Erik's and Jonathan Rodden's article "A federal bailout for the states?" is in today's San Diego Union-Tribune.
The Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging,
Chemistry, 2009/11/18 15:41:31
together with Coherent, Inc., is organizing a three-day meeting in French Family Science Center, December 14-16, 2009. The first half of the meeting (CMBI) is "New Directions in Microscopy: Sharper, Deeper, Smarter" with an international collection of speakers; the second half (Coherent) is the Southeast Regional Ultrafast laser conference. Preregistration for both meetings guarantees meals and the conference proceedings, and can be done at the CMBI website.
Congratulations to Al Crumbliss
Chemistry, 2009/12/10 12:37:40
for receiving the 2009 Distinguished Lecturer Award from the NC section of the American Chemical Society.
December 03, 2009 - Harvard Business School
, 2009/10/09 10:07:48
Meet HBS Admissions...Learn About 2+2. Thursday, December 3, 2009, 136 Social Sciences, 6:00pm.
Dr. Julie Reynolds expands her service roles.
Biology, 2009/11/09 11:53:41
Dr. Julie Reynolds, Lecturer, was recently elected to a two-year term as Chair of the Ecological Society of America’s education section. She was also chosen by the American Society for Microbiology to be one of 21 Biology Scholars in the Research Residency Program. "The Research Residency seeks biologists who have been trained in effective teaching strategies for biology education and are curious about student learning." [more, alt.]
2009 NC Latin American Film Festival
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2009/10/19 15:59:53
feature length movies, documentaries, animation, short movies, and video art from the Americas. November 1-22.
From November 1 to 22, Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Greensboro will enjoy feature length movies, documentaries, animation, short movies, and video art from the Americas. This year the festival presents films from twelve countries (for the first time films from North America, Central and South America and Caribbean) and will enjoy the presence of eleven film makers who will introduce their films and talk about their experiences of working in the region.
The 23rd NC Latin American Film Festival (which started in 1986) is organized by the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, a multidisciplinary and open institution that brings attention to the Cultures of these regions. Under the artistic direction of Miguel Rojas-Sotelo (for a second year), the Festival is gaining ground on community exchange and participation throughout the Americas.
All Festival activities are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Save the dates and be ready to experience a visual and cultural immersion in the stories of the Americas.
For more info: http://latinfilmfestivalnc.com/
Festival trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De_h4_dt9gU
Professor Michael Therien
Chemistry, 2009/10/23 09:48:34
is one of only eight new faculty members (out of 275) featured in this year's new faculty profile at Duke.
Faculty Scholar Award
Chemistry, 2009/10/16 11:18:15
One of our undergraduate majors, Yun (Rose) Li, has won a Faculty Scholar Award. There are usually only three such awards per academic year! The Faculty Scholar Award is the highest honor awarded by Duke faculty to our undergraduates. The award was established in 1974 by the faculty and is administered by the Academic Council through its Faculty Scholar Committee. Candidates demonstrate achievement in independent scholarship and offer outstanding academic records. For more information on the Faculty Scholar Program and a list of past recipients please go to the Academic council website: http://academiccouncil.duke.edu/faculty-scholars/.
Chemistry of Fire
Chemistry, 2009/10/09 09:45:20
On Sept. 29, at 7pm the Department of Chemistry held its 5th Annual Evening of Chemistry Demonstration program (Photos). This year's program focused on the chemistry of fire, flammability properties of various substances, and how fire is effected by various chemical compositions.
Dr. Ivan Piletic was a poster prize winner
Chemistry, 2009/10/08 15:50:37
at the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics' annual meeting October 6 for his presentation "Imaging Melanomas with Nonlinear Infrared Transient Absorption Microscopy". This was the only prize awarded outside of the Engineering School. The work reflects a joint effort between Duke's Chemistry, Dermatology, and Pathology Departments.
Prof. Koelle receives Cozzarelli Prize
Biology, 2009/11/05 09:41:36
Assistant Professor Katia Koelle and her collaborator Yoshi Nagao have been awarded the Cozzarelli Prize for their 2008 article in PNAS entitled 'Decreases in dengue transmission may act to increase the incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fever'. The Cozzarelli Prize is an annual award that recognizes recently published PNAS papers of outstanding scientific excellence and originality.
Another article celebrating
Chemistry, 2009/10/07 14:49:12
James Bonk's fifty years on the faculty here in Chemistry has been published, this time in the October 7 Raleigh News and Observer. There will be more formal activities here at Duke later this year.
Warren's group has been awarded
Chemistry, 2009/10/01 11:53:11
an NIH Challenge Grant for their work on detecting melanoma with nonlinear laser microscopy. This work includes a collaboration with multiple groups at the Medical Center to demonstrate clinical relevance. The two-year, $1M Challenge Grant program attracted more than 20,000 applications nationwide, and had one of the lowest success rates in the history of NIH.
Thursday, October 15, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, Reading by Chilean ambassador to the UN, Heraldo Muñoz
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2009/10/12 16:13:37
Reading from The dictator's Shadow: Life Under Pinochet by Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz, winner of the 2009 WOLA/Duke book Award. Rare Books Room, Perkins Library. http://library.duke.edu/news/main/2009/article90.html
Wednesday, October 14, 12:00 - 1:00 pm DukeEngage Chile: Lessons from Urban Volunteers and Micro-Entrepreneurs
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2009/10/12 16:21:01
featuring students who participated in the program in Santiago, Chile. Room 240 Franklin Center.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE:
Chemistry, 2009/11/10 16:41:15
Will conduct work on the Inverse Design Project with an emphasis on nonlinear optics, mentoring graduate students and assisting with grant writing. Requires Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry. Knowledge of electronic structure theory molecular chirality metrics required. 40 hrs. 08.30am to 5.00pm. Work location: Department of Chemistry at Duke University in Durham NC 27708. Apply: Cecilia Eichenberger, Dept. of Chemistry, Duke University, Box 90347, Durham NC 27708. Email: TheoryOffice@chem.duke.edu.
Prebusiness Meeting for Seniors
, 2009/08/19 11:19:08
Information meeting for Seniors interested in applying to Business School. Thursday, September 17, 139 Social Sciences, 5:00pm. Please attend!
Congratulations to Amanda Kasper,
Chemistry, 2009/09/02 09:15:19
a graduate student in the Hong laboratory, who has been selected to attend the Fourth Annual NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival and present her research.
Dr. Paula Mori-Sanchez,
Chemistry, 2009/08/28 09:10:09
a research associate in the Yang laboratory, has recently received the Ramon y Cajal Fellowship, a prestigious faculty fellowship in Spain. She will join Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
Dr. Andres Cisneros,
Chemistry, 2009/08/28 09:09:02
a former graduate student of Duke Chemistry Department under the supervision of Professor Yang, has recently taken an Assistant Professorship of Chemistry at Wayne State University.
JOB OPENING in Schmid Lab: Associate in Research
Biology, for jobs, 2009/09/09 16:50:06
An associate in research position is open in the Schmid lab, which investigates the genome-wide response to environmental stress in archaea. Required: at least a BS/BA in molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, or related field; good organizational skills; 2-year time commitment. Preferred: experience with common molecular biology techniques such as PCR, cloning, and RNA extraction. Candidates with knowledge in systems biology (e.g. microarrays and bioinformatics) are strongly encouraged to apply. Duties include assisting research projects (both computational and wet lab) and lab managerial functions such as autoclaving, media and buffer preparation, and ordering. Interested candidates should send their CV and at least three references (letters and contact information) to Amy Schmid, amy.schmid@duke.edu. Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Biology Grads Moran and Hersh Receive Awards
Biology, 2009/08/07 11:58:48
Grad student Emily Moran has received the 2009 Amy Lutz award from the Association of Women in Science, while Michelle Hersh was given the award for Best Student Paper at the Mycological Society of America. The Amy Lutz Award is given to an outstanding female student in plant biology and includes a grant of $1000 for the student's educational expenses.
Drug Abuse Research Highlighted
Chemistry, 2009/08/05 09:25:25
Recent work led by Prof. Jiyong Hong has been selected as a Highlight in Chemical Biology by the RSC. Prof. Hong, Prof. Beratan, and their collaborators have identified three benzopyranone derivatives that might serve as the scaffolds for future therapeutics for treating drug dependency.
Congratulations to Prof. Katherine Franz,
Chemistry, 2009/07/20 14:42:45
who has been awarded a Camille-Dreyfuss Teacher Scholar Award in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments in research and education.
The Sea is History: Moun Kante, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2009/05/15 11:09:39
Caribbean artists represent the struggles of boat people trying to reach the United States. Franklin Center 1st Floor Gallery. more info
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce
Chemistry, 2009/08/13 13:59:01
that fourth year Ph.D. student, Claire Siburt, of the Crumbliss lab has been chosen as one of only three graduate students to receive the 2009 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching by Duke University Graduate School. She will be honored during the Annual Teaching Awards Banquet on April 21, 2009.
This award recognizes the considerable efforts and accomplishments of faculty and graduate students who consistently serve as effective mentors. Designed to allow the university community to identify faculty and graduate students who embody both the letter and spirit of mentoring, these awards are important examples of the university's continuing efforts to cultivate a culture of mentoring.
Congratulations to the Class of 2009!
Chemistry, 2009/05/13 14:20:32
On May 10, the Chemistry Department held a diploma ceremony for its bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degree graduates of the Class of 2009. The accomplishments of these students are noted in the program for this event. We wish them well as they move on in their lives.
The Chair's presentation at graduation is included here as well.
National Science Foundation Applauds Duke Lemur Center
Duke Lemur Center, 2009/02/03 11:53:40
The National Science Foundation recently selected the work done by Dr. Anne Yoder, director of the DLC and studies done through the Duke lemur Center as examples of the work they like to support.
We're in the News
Duke Lemur Center, 2009/03/19 14:56:28
Duke Lemur Center is in the news - with an eye to helping young people learn about lemurs. [more]
AERGC Annual Meeting July 20 - 23 at Duke and NCSU
Biology, 2009/07/21 10:40:18
The Association of Educational and Research Greenhouse Curators is holding its annual meeting at Duke and NCSU from Monday, July 20th through Thursday July 23rd. About 100 participants from all over North America will tour the plant growth facilities at both universities, attend talks and workshops, and learn about cutting-edge science being done in the Triangle. Greenhouse and Phytotron Manager Marcia Kirinus is Vice-Chair of the AERGC and host of the meeting.
Congratulations to Professor Thavolia Glymph
African & African American Studies, 2009/07/22 15:43:24
Professor Glymph's book, House of Bondage: the Transformation of the Plantation Household, has won the Taft Book Prize for 2008. The prize recognizes the
best book of the year in labor and working-class history.
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Dr. Benjamin Wiley
Chemistry, 2009/07/20 14:42:10
joined the department July 1, 2009 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Wiley has authored 39 papers in a wide range of journals. He received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering in 2003 from the University of Minnesota and received his graduate degree from the University of Washington under the direction of Professor Younan Xia.
Congratulations to Lauren Ruderman Miller
Education, 2009/07/15 10:30:18
Congratulations to Lauren Ruderman Miller, Trinity ’05 and Elementary Teacher Preparation Program Graduate. Lauren is the 2008-09 Durham Public Schools Teacher of the Year nominee representing Hope Valley Elementary School.
Duke Sports Medicine and Duke Lemur Center--what a team!
Duke Lemur Center, 2009/02/20 11:45:30
When a six pound lemur dislocates its elbow and fractures its arm, Duke Sports Medicine's surgeons join the DLC Veterinarians to save the day.
February 19, 2009 - Ruth Grant in search of Goodness
Political Science, for faculty, 2009/02/20 10:24:25
Ruth is the the Duke News.
Journal of Cell Biology features Prof. David Sherwood
Biology, 2009/05/20 12:31:15
The Journal of Cell Biology has featured the work of Duke's David Sherwood in its "People and News" section (JCB 185/4, pp 568-9). The interview describes Sherwood's research and his infectious enthusiasm for biology, along with the mentors who have influenced his path. [more]
AAAS 2009 Graduates
African & African American Studies, 2009/05/19 11:01:00
Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2009/05/15 11:14:18
Recent work by artists living and working in Mexico City embracing non-traditional forms such as video, photography, intallation art and performance. Nasher Museum Jan.15-July 7,2009. more info
The Department congratulates Prof. Jiyong Hong,
Chemistry, 2009/05/01 14:21:48
who has received an Early Career Award in Chemistry of Drug Abuse and Addiction from the NIH.
Congratulations to Yongho Park and Mays Ali!
Chemistry, 2009/04/29 09:29:13
The North Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society awarded two NC ACS Undergraduate Scholarships to Duke chemistry undergraduate students, Yongho Park and Mays Ali. Yongho is a rising senior of the Hong group researching the synthesis of biologically interesting natural products. He will be receiving the Howie James Scholarship. Mays, a rising junior, is also conducting her research in the Hong group to identify and characterize small molecule modulators of histone deacetylases for treatment of a variety of human diseases.
PPARC moves to SSRI Offices in Erwin Mill Building
Population, Policy and Aging Research Center, 2009/01/27 17:07:31
Most of PPARC has now moved to the Social Science Research Institute located in the Erwin Mill Building, 2024 West Main Street, Durham NC 27708. PPARC administrative staff, Tanya Exum Coston (now in Bay C) and PPARC research staff, Magdalena Muszynska (now in Bay A) are now enjoying easy access to Ninth Street, getting to know new colleagues, and still working hard on PPARC grants.
DCID expands Managers in Transition Program
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:11:55
The Duke Center for International Development's Managers in Transition Program, originally developed for the World Bank, has a new client: Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI).
The World Bank executives and HFHI senior managers oversee global regions, and therefore face similar challenges in their new positions. This weeklong executive coaching and leadership training program is tailored to each manager’s experience and future challenges. It provides time for reflection and planning, while drawing on the relevant expertise of the academic community.
The new chief learning officer for HFHI heard about the program during a previous consulting assignment with the World Bank and contacted DCID Executive Director Jonathan Abels.
“We thought the program model could be successfully adapted for Habitat for Humanity,” said Abels.
In September 2007, Steven Weir was the first HFHI manager to participate in the program. After serving as Vice President of Asia and Pacific regions, Weir was preparing for a position with HFHI headquarters. In his new role, he works with affiliated NGOs and local governments and provides oversight of HFHI branch offices in more than 30 countries.
During his week with the Managers in Transition Program, Weir met with faculty and students from Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill to share his experiences and hear from others working in development. He spent time with Public Policy faculty Phyllis Pomerantz, Jerry VanSant, Elizabeth Frankenberg and Francis Lethem, discussing topics such as organizational development and leadership. Weir’s schedule also included a discussion with the Rev. Sam Miglarese, an instructor in the Department of Religion and Director of Community Engagement for the Duke Office of Community Affairs, about the spiritual component of community service. After speaking to students about his work with Habitat for Humanity, he attended a dinner with the Robertson scholars and later met with PIDP graduate student Tetsuya Morita from Japan to talk about his research in service delivery.
Two additional members of HFHI’s management team are scheduled to complete the Managers in Transition Program this spring.
For more information about the Managers in Transition Program at DCID, please e-mail Kurt Meletzke at meletzke@duke.edu
Managers in Transition Program hosts World Bank - MENA
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:11:42
In December of 2007, The Duke Center for International Development (DCID) welcomed members of the World Bank senior management team for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for a two-day management and planning retreat on the campus of Duke University. This was the first official gathering of the new MENA leadership team since several positions were recently filled.
The retreat brought eight of the eleven-member management team together for a series of sessions with the core Management in Transition Program (MTP) faculty. Additionally, Sanford Institute Director Bruce Kuniholm spoke at the opening dinner about current political and policy issues of the Middle East region, and political science professor Bruce Jentleson was a featured presenter later in the week.
Prior to working with the MENA group, Jonathan Abels and Gary Nelson led the leadership team of the South Asia Region (SAR) of the World Bank in a successful one-day management retreat and planning session in Washington, DC.
During the fall of 2007, DCID hosted five World Bank participants in the Managers in Transition Program, including the World Bank Regional Vice President for Middle East and North Africa Region.
The Managers in Transition Program core faculty includes Jonathan Abels (DCID), Gary Nelson (UNC), Francis Lethem (DCID) and sports psychologist Greg Dale (Duke). For more information, please contact Kurt Meletzke at meletzke@duke.edu
PIDP Fellows visit Washington, DC
Duke Center for International Development, 2009/05/28 16:11:33
A group of PIDP Fellows, along with DCID faculty and staff, traveled to Washington, DC, from January 6-8, for meetings with World Bank officers and professional associates. This annual professional development program is the culmination of several weeks' planning by DCID staff and includes: six meetings within the World Bank, nine organizational visits, and four panels featuring 16 panelists from different international organizations based in DC.
"This annual visit to Washington, DC, gives our PIDP Fellows an opportunity to meet with prominent specialists from international organizations, consulting firms, the World Bank, and NGOs," says Linda Scovill, Professional Development Coordinator for the PIDP. "It is also an opportunity for our Fellows to plan for informational interviews that will potentially lead them to a summer internship or a job."
This year, for the first time, the PIDP expanded its reach into both the national and international Washington communities by coordinating joint sessions with students from the Fuqua School of Business and the Sanford Institute's MPP program. We are also grateful to Rotary International who, with DCID, sponsored an alumni reception at the Embassy Suites Hotel. Many PIDP alumni from the Washington/Baltimore area attended, as well as local Rotarians.
In all, about 60 PIDP fellows, and 15 DCID faculty and staff participated in this year's Professional Development Washington, DC, program.
Duke Chemistry is pleased to host
Chemistry, 2009/02/17 12:44:39
the 2009 Southeastern Theoretical Chemistry Association Meeting May 15-16, 2009 in the French Family Science Center.
Saturday April 25 7:00 pm Celebration of the music of Brazilian composer and Mellon Visiting Artist in Residence Sergio Roberto de Oliveira
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2009/05/15 10:39:18
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. The concert will be held in the Nelson Music Room in the East Duke Building on Duke's East Campus. Free and open to the public.
Thursday April 16, 2:00-5:30 pm The Sea is History: Moun Kante, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2009/05/15 10:39:01
A Symposium on Human Dispersion and the Caribbean Sea featuring presentations by Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrie and Duke faculty Srinivas Aravamudan, Laurent Dubois, Michaeline Crichlow, Deborah Jenson, and Holly Ackerman. The event will be held in Room 240 Franklin Center on the Duke campus. See the Web site http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/gallery/upcoming.php for more information about the symposium.
Wednesday April 15, 12:00 pm Miguel Rojas-Sotelo speaking on The Havana Biennale
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2009/05/15 10:38:51
as part of the Wednesdays at the Center Series at the Franklin Center. Dr. Rojas-Sotelo will present "The Other Network: The Havana Biennale & the Global South (1984-2009) in Room 240 Franklin Center on the Duke campus. 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 Biennale 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.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Jenista of the Warren Group!
Chemistry, 2009/03/25 16:17:00
From June 28th to July 3rd, 2009 about 20 Nobel Laureates will meet at Lindau, Germany with young researchers from around the world for the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates. The 2009 Lindau Meeting will be dedicated to chemistry and Liz has been selected to attend this meeting.
Liz is a fourth-year graduate student who is a coauthor on two Science papers in the last five months (and the senior student author on the most recent one, which comes out this Friday). She has also recently been invited to speak at several other meetings, and is one of our Departmental fellowship winners for 2008-2009.
"DUKE SYMPOSIUM: ARCHAEOLOGY, POLITICS AND THE MEDIA: RE-VISIONING THE MIDDLE EAST"
Jewish Studies Program Certificate, for faculty, 2009/03/24 10:00:22
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, APRIL 23-24, 2009
0014WESTBROOK, DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL, DUKE UNIVERSITY
The Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University will host a Symposium on "Archaeology, Politics, and the Media: Re-visioning the Middle East." ??
The conference will explore media coverage of archaeological excavations in the Middle East, the ramifications in both the United States and the Middle East and investigate ways to improve communications to the scientific community as well as the lay public.
Key presenters include Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem Chief of the New York Times, Patty Gerstenblittr of De Paul Law School.
Sponsors: The Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Religion, The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, The Graduate Program in Religion, The Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research, The American Schools of Oriental Research.
[Symposium Flyer]Professor Warren's group has just published its second Science paper in five months.
Chemistry, 2009/03/30 12:54:17
In this paper, they develop a new class of "hyperpolarized" magnetic resonance contrast agents that could dramatically extend the utility of magnetic resonance spectroscopy in vivo to detect the changes in metabolism caused (for example) by cancer. In this paper, the group extended the concept of singlet states from the quantum mechanics of very small molecules (such as the hydrogen molecule), and shows that near-singlets can be found in much larger molecules. These very long lived states can be used as MR targets. This work is done in conjuction with the Small Molecule Synthesis Facility.
In Memoriam
African & African American Studies, 2009/04/03 12:30:56
The 2009 Holton Prize Application!
Education, 2009/02/06 16:51:48
Submissions are due by April 22, 2009 to Dean Lattimore. Information about the Holton prize can be found here.
April 19, 2009 - "RELIGIOUS ZIONISM AND THE TEMPLE MOUNT DILEMMA"
Jewish Studies Program Certificate, for faculty, 2009/03/24 10:00:00
MOTTI INBARI
SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2009 - 3 PM
THE FREEMAN CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE
Motti Inbari is the first postdoctoral fellow at the newly created Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. Dr. Inbari focuses his research on Jewish fundamentalism in Israel. He earned his PhD at the department of Modern Jewish
History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to his fellowship at Brandeis, Dr.Inbari served as the Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor for Israel Studies at the
University of Florida. His first book Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount was published by Magnes Press in Hebrew. The English version of the manuscript is forthcoming
by the State University of New York Press.
This Lecture is part of the Carolina Seminars on Jewish Studies 2008 - 2009 Program.
Center for Global Change RFP
Biology, 2009/04/08 12:36:49
The Center on Global Change (CGC) is soliciting proposals from Duke faculty to establish innovative collaborations in all aspects of global change science, policy, and education. Priority will be given to activities with a clear description of scientific advancement and plans for submission of large-scale proposals to agencies or foundations. Proposals to CGC are due April 15th, 2009, with projects to begin during the FY09/10 fiscal year. Please see the attached document for details. [CGC RFP Details, PDF] [more]
Tenure Track Systems Biology position in DSS
Statistical Science, 2009/04/15 10:26:29
The Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) and the Duke University Trinity College of Arts & Sciences invite applications for tenure-track faculty positions in the areas of computational, quantitative, or systems biology. We seek applicants with strong quantitative backgrounds (for example, in computer science, mathematics or statistics) and with experience in addressing challenging questions in the life sciences, including genome biology, systems biology, evolutionary genomics, functional genomics, or modeling across biological scales. Appointees will enjoy and contribute to existing strengths in the broad areas of computational and systems biology at Duke and will be affiliated with the IGSP Center for Systems Biology, a campus-wide intellectual center supported as a National Systems Biology Center by the NIH.
A successful candidate will have a tenure-track academic appointment in a suitable department in Arts & Sciences, as well as an appointment as an Investigator in the IGSP, with the possibility for a joint appointment in other departments or schools as appropriate. While the current search is directed to faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor, exceptional candidates may be considered at more senior ranks.
Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a brief summary of current and proposed research, a statement of teaching interests and experience, and reprints of up to three publications via the web at www.academicjobsonline.org. Candidates should arrange for at least three letters of recommendation to be uploaded to the website. Applications received before 5 January 2009 will receive full consideration; applications after this date may be considered until positions are filled. Questions about the search may be addressed to bbooher@duke.edu; additional information may be found at http://www.genome.duke.edu/centers/csb/facsearch.
Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer; women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
Noorfest!
Biology, 2009/04/07 10:02:57
Every 50 years, the Linnean Society of London has awarded a Darwin-Wallace medal to a handful of individuals for "major advances in evolutionary biology". This year, our own MOHAMED NOOR is a recipient of this prestigious honor!
He goes to London to receive it on February 12, 2009, Charles Darwin's 200th birthday. You can see an article and video profile at: http://research.duke.edu/darwin/
Here's a .mov file of Dr. Dan Kiehart's presentation at Noorfest.
2009 AAAS Conversation
African & African American Studies, 2009/04/02 17:21:58
Locating Global Health
Helene Gayle, President and CEO, CARE
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
April 3, 2009
- 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 Latina/o Studies Program.
Professor Mark Anthony Neal
African & African American Studies, 2009/03/31 09:40:24
On-the-Air with Good Morning America
Jiyong Hong's research group has reported in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
Chemistry, 2009/02/17 12:53:59
that the immunosuppressive compound Subglutinol A has dose- dependent osteogenic activity across a full range of potentially clinically relevant concentrations. Their finding, enabled by the group's stereoselective synthesis of Subglutinol A reported in the same article, is in stark contrast to that of most immunosuppressive drugs (cyclosporin A, FK506), which tend to lead to undesirable side effects on bone structure. With their collaborators, the Hong group goes on to show that activating protein 1 (AP-1) family transcription factors could be one of the key regulators for the anabolic activity of subglutinol A.
March 18, 2009 - Italian Short Film Showcase
Romance Studies, 2009/02/12 16:52:09
Italy's Young Talent: An Italian Short Film Showcase will be held on March 18, 2009 in White Hall 107, at 7:00 pm. Curated by Edward Bowen.
February 25, 2009 - Lecture by Lara Lomicka Anderson
Romance Studies, 2009/03/05 14:22:09
There will be a lecture by Professor Lara Lomicka Anderson,U South Carolina, on Wednesday, February 25, 5:00 pm in the LINK Classroom 5, a reception will follow.
February 20, 2009 - Lecture by Julie Singer
Romance Studies, 2009/03/05 14:21:39
Julie Singer, Assistant Professor of French at Washington University in St. Louis (and Duke alum, PhD '06) will be giving a lecture at Duke in February 20,2009 at 5:30 pm in 319 Social Sciences. Title - "Metonymy and Prosthesis."
For more information see: http://rll.wust1.edu/people/singer
February 12, 2009 - Pascale Casanova Lecture
Romance Studies, 2009/02/12 16:50:56
Pascale Casanova, Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage, Equipe Fonctions Imaginaires et Sociales des Arts et des Littératures, will lecture in Thursday, Feb 12 at 4:30 pm in Room 240, Franklin Humanities Center. The title of her lecture will be "Transation as a weapon: language, value and literary capital"
Business Today Regional Conference 2009
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Looking Forward: The Evolution and Ethics of Business in the 21st Century March 28-29, 2009 Houston, Texas businesstoday.org Learn from the experience of those who have made it to the top. Listen to our keynote speakers and executive semniar leaders as they share their business knowledge and expertise. Get a free trip to Houston and the chance to interact face-to-face with dozens of top executives and powerful leaders from the business, academic, and political worlds.
February 25, 2009 - MA in Management - Wake Forest University
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Representative from Babcock Graduate School of Management, February 25, 2009, Room 105 Social Sciences, 4:30pm - 5:30pm. Information Table, The GREAT HALL, 11:00am - 1:00pm. All classes invited. Sponsored by the Prebusiness Advising Office.
A team led by Professor Jie Liu
Chemistry, 2009/01/23 10:04:03
discovered a method to prepare well aligned semiconducting carbon nanotubes by adjusting growth conditions. These nanotubes are suitable for large scale fabrication of electronic devices. A report on their achievement, co-authored by Liu and a team of collaborators from his Duke laboratory and Peking University in China, was published Jan 20, 2009 in the research journal Nano Letters.
No Headless Horseman Here!
Duke Lemur Center, 2009/02/19 16:56:05
While Washington Irving compared his character, "Ichabod Crane" to a grasshopper, the Duke Lemur Center's newest baby aye-aye, also named "Ichabod", is often described as belonging to the world's most bizarre-looking primate family.
February 18, 2009 - De Beers' Executive to Speak At Fuqua School
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"Turning Natural Resources into Shared National Wealth" featuring Rosiland Kainyah, President, De Beers Inc, USA, February 18, 4:15pm - 5:15pm Geneen Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business.
Chemistry professor Jie Liu, Duke adjunct physics professor Henry Everitt,
Chemistry, 2009/01/09 16:59:27
and their graduate student John Foreman have found that a cheap and nontoxic sunburn and diaper rash preventative can be made to produce brilliant light best suited to the human eye. They have discovered that adding sulfur to ultra-fine powders of zinc oxide at about 1,000 degrees centigrade allows the preparation to convert invisible ultraviolet light into a remarkably bright and natural form of white light. They are now probing the solid state chemistry and physics of various combinations of those ingredients to deduce an optimal design for a new kind of illumination. Everitt and Liu have applied for a patent on using the preparations as a light source. More details are available at http://news.duke.edu/2008/12/zincoxide.html.
News & Observer article
Chemistry, 2009/01/09 16:56:38
concerning the above discovery.
Sherwood lab publishes on cell invasion
Biology, 2009/01/02 15:22:22
The laboratory of Prof. David Sherwood recently published on the mechanism of cell invasion in basement membranes in Nature Cell Biology. Their research has important implications for understanding cancer biology. Because of the significance of these results, the paper was selected for advance online publication and may be viewed at the Nature Cell Biology website. [more]
Spanish Language Program has moved to East Campus
Romance Studies, 2009/02/06 15:18:27
On May 19, 2008, the Spanish Language Program moved from their existing headquarters in the Language Building to the Bell Tower site on East Campus. The move had been carefully planned throughout the 2007—2008 school year with the intent of providing more office space to all the Language Program, which had been crammed into the basements of Perkins and the Language Building up to this point.
All of the Spanish Language instructors, Liliana Paredes, the Program Director, Pat McPherson, the Administrative Secretary, and Bonnie McManus, the Service Learning Coordinator, now occupy offices in the Bell Tower site.
A “house-warming” party is planned for late August at the Bell Tower offices.
Giant protist discovered.
Biology, 2008/12/09 16:05:03
Sonke Johnsen discovered -- and is the senior author of a recent Current Biology paper on -- the largest known motile protist. The deep-sea organism is a one-inch-diameter testate amoeba that moves by rolling as it eats. It leaves trails that reopen the debate about whether some of the Ediacaran fauna were actually over-sized protists and whether trace fossils in the Proterozoic can be unambiguously assigned to metazoans. This paper has been featured in Nature, The Scientist, New Scientist, Discover and the New York Times. Sonke Johnsen's "advice for potential graduate students" has also been featured in "Nature Jobs" (December 4th edition of Nature). [more]
Departmental Events and Photos
Romance Studies, 2009/02/12 16:14:25
Please click the links below to enjoy photos and summaries from some of our departmental events!!
East Campus "House-Warming" for the Spanish Language Program
Fall Reception
Retirement Party for Philip Stewart
Visiting Faculty Positions
Statistical Science, 2009/03/18 12:07:30
The Department of Statistical Science invites applications for Visiting Faculty positions beginning Fall 2009. Candidates must have a PhD in statistics and potential for success in teaching and collaborative research. Submit a letter, CV, and names of three references at Academic Jobs Online . Send inquiries to Dalene Stangl, Associate Chair. Applications accepted until positions are filled. Screening begins on 15 January, 2009.
Women and under-represented minorities are encouraged to apply. Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Tenure Track Opportunities in DSS
Statistical Science, 2009/03/18 12:07:00
The Department of Statistical Science invites applications for faculty appointment at the level of Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2009. Preference will be given to candidates whose core statistical science research interests are complemented with collaborative research interest in systems biology, neurosciences, social sciences, or environmental science.
The Department of Statistical Science is an internationally recognized center of excellence for research and education in the development and application of contemporary statistical methodology. Particular emphasis is directed toward Bayesian modeling in many scientific fields as well as emerging computationally intensive methods. The Department offers outstanding computational facilities and opportunities for interdisciplinary research. It currently has 13 regular rank faculty along with 12 visiting, adjunct, and post doctoral faculty and 34 Ph.D. students.
The Ph.D. program as well as the Department's research agenda benefit from strong connections with the Statistics and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) and the National Institute of Statistical Science (NISS), both located nearby in the Research Triangle. A Statistical Science major, started in Fall 2007, provides the primary focus of our undergraduate program. More information about the Department is available at the web site http://stat.duke.edu/.
All applicants should provide a letter, curriculum vitae, personal statement, and the names of three references. All materials should be submitted online at Academic Jobs Online. For inquiries and e-mail correspondence please write to search@stat.duke.edu. The application pool will remain open until the position is filled but screening will begin on 1 December, 2008.
Duke University is an Equal opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women and minorities are strongly encouraged.
The BEST Award for Student Research 2008
Statistical Science, 2009/03/18 12:06:15
Statistical Science major Craig Reeson (Trinity 2009) is the recipient of the 2008 Best Award in recognition of his research on "Financial Time Series, Graphical Modelling & Portfolio Analysis"
Statistical Science PhD student James Scott receives an Honorable Mention in recognition of his research on "Nonparametric Bayesian Multiple Hypothesis Testing of Autoregressive Time Series"
BEST Award for Student Research
Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
http://www.stat.duke.edu/research/BEST/
A paper from David Beratan and his collaborators
Chemistry, 2008/12/09 16:51:30
in the December 5, 2008 issue of Physical Review Letters [101, 238301 (2008)] explains a puzzle associated with the photoionization of electrons from metals coated with chiral adsorbates. Experiments indicate that the yield of photoelectrons is different when the surface is illuminated with left vs. right- circularly polarized light. This effect is mysterious because the energy spectra of left vs right handed systems are identical. In an international collaboration involving scientists at Duke, the University of Cyprus, Tel Aviv University, the Weizmann Institute, and the University of Pittsburgh, the group showed that electronic states prepared with angular momentum (as arises with circularly polarized light) have characteristic phase lags associated with both the angular momentum of the excited state and the handedness of the bridge. This lag translates into different electron yields when the adsorbate handedness or the light polarization is reversed. This effect could be useful for distinguishing between tunneling and resonant electron transfer mechanisms for charge transfer systems of interest in biology and nanoscience.
Congratulations to
Chemistry, 2008/12/08 12:57:36
Manchuta Dangkulwanich, Romin Bonakdar, and Eric Wang on their initiation into Phi Betta Kappa. The Department of Chemistry is justifiably proud of all of our chemistry majors, but it is especially impressive and rewarding to see students like these who rise to the highest levels of academic achievement while pursuing one of the most challenging majors in the university.
Holiday Hours
Duke Faculty Club, 2008/12/01 09:35:10
Saturday, Dec. 20 - Close at 5pm
Christmas Eve - 7am-12pm
Christmas Day - Closed
New Year's Eve - 7am-12pm
New Year's Day - Closed
Mike Munger as guest columnist
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/07/07 14:50:38
It took a Frenchman to define American dream
By Michael Munger : Guest columnist The Herald-Sun Jul 3, 2008 As we approach Independence Day, I am proud to reflect for a moment on America, and what it has meant to those of us who care deeply about liberty and responsibility. The American dream is simple, at its core. If you work hard, you will succeed. But what is the essence of the American dream? What is the system that we think other nations should look to, and adopt? Remarkably, it took an outsider, a Frenchman, to recognize what makes America unique. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville published a memoir of his travels in the U.S. It was called "Democracy in America," but it could have been called, "How Americans Get Things Done." Tocqueville marveled at how Americans worked together privately to solve civic problems. Tocqueville was no fan of majority rule. The problem with political democracy, he said, is that citizens are isolated and feeble. They can hardly do anything by themselves, and they can't force others to help them. He admired the American solution to this problem: organize into private groups, and leave government out of it. Specifically, Tocqueville said: "They all, therefore, become powerless if they do not learn voluntarily to help one another. If men living in democratic countries had no right and no inclination to associate for political purposes, their independence would be in great jeopardy, but they might long preserve their wealth and their cultivation: whereas if they never acquired the habit of forming associations in ordinary life, civilization itself would be endangered." Translation: rely on people, not rules! Private voluntary associations are the very essence of liberty, and hence of authentic American society. Citizens freely associating promote liberty, protect liberty and provide increased welfare for everyone. If you want to go out and persuade some people to work with you -- and all voluntarily work for the benefit of each -- then that is libertarian democracy. If someone wants to drop out and form a different association, then he is free to do so. Tocqueville was very critical of his countrymen in France. He had seen, in the legacy of the French Revolution, the damage that political democracy and a reliance on majority rule could do. But when I read his critique today, I get a sick feeling. His criticism on France in 1831 is an even more scathing indictment of American society today. We have come to focus on politics, rather than action. Voting, for far too many of us, is the extent of our civic action, leaving lobbying by interest groups the only route open to solve civic problems. Tocqueville said the mistake the French made was to believe that the more enfeebled the citizens become, the more active government ought to be. He questioned whether the state can do what individuals can no longer do for themselves. The real American dream is not more, but less, government from the top down. Given the freedom to do so, and the responsibility to act, citizens organize to solve problems. After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people tried to help. They organized mountains of contributions of food and supplies, they donated money to rent trucks and they gave their time to drive those loaded trucks toward New Orleans. And they were turned away. Turned away! Instead of keeping order inside the ruined city, the one job government really can do, federal troops "kept order" by turning away relief supplies at the borders. The spirit of America does not allow for sitting back and waiting for the state to do it. If you are my neighbor, I'll help you. And you'll help me. We have a direct, powerful voluntary connection, complete with reciprocal obligations, complex organizations, relationships voluntarily negotiated and ended. Top-down government crowds those out. If the government is supposed to take care of all of us, then I have no moral obligation to help out. I see you attacked, and I look up and down the street and cluck to myself, "Why don't the police do something?" If I see a bad school, I wonder why the state doesn't improve it. In spite of all its flaws, all its taxes and regulations, America itself, 232 years after the founding, represents a limitless sense of the possible. The American dream rests on individuals, working together in complex, interconnected organizations that they have designed, trying to solve problems. Michael Munger is chair of the Duke University political science department and the Libertarian candidate for governor of North Carolina.Congratulations to Kerry Haynie
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/06/30 09:48:27
Congratulations to Professor Kerry Haynie for his recently published co-edited volume, New Race Politicsin America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics. The volume was co-edited with Jane Junn and published by Cambridge University Press.
Kerry Haynie, a guest faculty for the Bravarian-American Academy's Summer Institute on Ethnicity and Society in America
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/06/30 09:46:57
Professor Kerry Haynie will serve as guest faculty for the Bravarian-American Academy's Summer Institute on Ethnicity and Society in America, that will be held in Munich, Germany, July 21-25.
May 23, 2008 - Munger, Keynote speaker at the Libertarian Party's national convention
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/05/21 13:18:36
Mike will be the keynote speaker at the Libertarian Party's national convention which is being held in Denver, CO this weekend. CSPAN is very likely to cover the convention. Mike's speech is scheduled for around 2pm on Friday. Good luck Mike!
April 30, 2008 - Congratulations to Dennis Rasmussen
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/04/30 10:15:01
Dennis Rasmussen's dissertation has been published - "The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society" - congratulations Dennis!
RDU NBMBAA - 2008 Scholarship Program
, 2008/11/19 14:25:03
MINORITY SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. The Raleigh Durham Chapter of the National Black MBA Association Inc. is pleased to announce it's 2008 scholarship program awarding graduate and undergraduate scholarships to deserving minority candidates. For more information, please visit the following website: www.rdumba.org.
Sustaining Innovation in Practice -- The International Society for Disease Surveillance to host Annual Conference in Raleigh. December 3-5, 2008
Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, 2008/11/10 22:47:06
The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) Conference is
the premier annual gathering for global leaders in public health,
epidemiology, health policy, biostatistics, computer science, and related
fields focused on cutting-edge research in biosurveillance and emerging
challenges to public health practice. The multi-disciplinary field of
disease surveillance brings together biostatistics, mathematical
modeling, natural language processing, GIS visualization, and decision
theory to address public health challenges including communicable
diseases, non-infectious diseases, adverse drug events, and zoonotic
outbreaks. In addition to presentations describing novel research, the
conference also highlights case studies from real-world surveillance
practice by public health practitioners.
(more)
NMR work in the Warren lab
Chemistry, 2008/10/28 09:59:49
is featured in the cover story of the October 27 issue of Chemical and Engineering News. This article discusses dynamic nuclear polarization, a new method that dramatically increases NMR signals, and the Warren lab's efforts to create very long lived contrast agents which use this effect.
The most recent issue of Science
Chemistry, 2008/10/16 16:28:52
includes a paper by Professor Warren's group on the development of a new method to image temperature deep in the body using magnetic resonance. The resonance frequency of water depends on temperature, since the hydrogen bonding network changes, but in tissue the small shifts are overwhelmed by magnetic field imperfections and motional artifacts. Warren's group has developed a method to flip up a water spin, while simultaneously flipping down a nearby fat spin (which has a temperature-independent resonance frequency). Such transitions evolve at the difference frequency between water and fat, which retains the temperature dependence while eliminating most of the artifacts. They have demonstrated high speed imaging using this method, which will now be incorporated into ongoing clinical trials at Duke on hyperthermic therapy (heating tissue to kill cancer cells). Radiation and heat affect cancer cells at different stages in the cell division cycle, so adding a heating stage to cancer treatment could improve patient outcomes, but the problem to date has been the inability to accurately measure the heating (and, hence, to give a reproducible heat dose).
The Optical Society of America
Chemistry, 2008/10/16 16:05:08
is highlighting the recent development in Professor Warren's laboratory of methods to image neuronal firing using shaped laser pulses. This work will be featured in a presentation by Henry Liu, one of Warren's students, at the Frontiers in Optics meeting.
A paper from David Beratan's group
Chemistry, 2008/10/13 11:38:49
was featured on the October 10 cover of Physical Review Letters. Post-doctoral associate Ilya Balabin and Visiting Professor Spiros Skourits (from the University of Cyprus) working with Beratan have identified an average transition distance at which protein-mediated electron tunneling becomes dominated by thermal fluctuations of the protein. Although these fluctuations control the tunneling mechanism in most cases, the researchers find that fluctuations do not "wash out" the influence of the underlying protein fold on the kinetics. Electron transfer reactions play a central role in photosynthesis, oxidative phosphorylation, and biocatalysis.
Djembe and Afro-Cuban Ensembles
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2008/11/19 16:17:54
Director: Bradley Simmons, with Monti Ellison. Free Admission. Friday, November 21, 8pm. Baldwin Auditorium.
Bradley Simmons, a native of New York City, began playing Afro-Cuban and African percussion when he was 9 years old. Throughout his teenage years he worked to enhance his knowledge of Haitian, Cuban and African percussion, becoming a sought after Conguero and shekere player for community and religious events. He has done several on and off Broadway plays and performed at nightclubs with artists including Eartha Kitt, and Gregory and Maurice Hines. Simmons has also appeared on Television including the Mike Douglas Show and the Cerebral Palsy Telethon. He directed his own show "Cultural Journey: The Elements of Percussion" in 1990 at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta and again in 1996, in Durham, NC. Simmons has taught throughout the United States and is currently a Musical Director at Duke University, teaching West African Music and History, focusing on djembe, songba, djun-djun and kenkeni. Off campus he teaches classes on Afro-Cuban percussion and is the leader of the percussion ensemble, Elements of Percussion that tours both locally and nationally.
As a teenager, Monti Ellison trained as a dancer and then an actor through HARYOU-ACT (also known as Harlem Youth Opportunities Limited). He credits Bradley Simmons as serving as being an encouraging influence as he was first emerging as a young performer. During a fifteen year tenure with The Alvin Ailey School , Ellison served as head musician. His reputation at the Ailey School won the attention of musical greats such as Harry Belafonte, for whom Ellison performed as a featured soloist, and Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul (headed by Steven Van Zandt, guitarist with Bruce Springsteen), with whom Ellison toured internationally for several years. Currently, Ellison teaches several dance and drumming classes for Loyola Marymount University, CSU-Long Beach, Orange County College and St Josephs Ballet. He continues performing professionally with groups like Rhapsody in Taps , an organization founded by his wife to honor the tradition of tap dance.
Entre los Muertos/Among Death
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2008/11/19 15:07:03
Final film of the 22nd annual Latin American Film Festival. Friday, November 21, 7pm. UNC-Chapel Hill - Nelson Mandela Audiorium, Fedex Global Education Center.
Cuba/El Salvador, 2004. Director: Jorge Dalton.
Introduced by the director.
This film chronicles the cultural approaches to the familiar presence of death in El Salvador, presenting it not merely as a celebration, but also as an aspect of Salvadoran life that even advances the country's economy.
57 min. Spanish with English subtitles.
Reception to follow.
lecture by Justin Crumbaugh
Romance Studies, 2008/11/10 11:52:13
The Department of Romance Studies is proud to present a lecture by
Justin Crumbaugh
entitled The Power of Inauthenticity and the Rise of Spanish Neoconservatism:
The “Spain Is Different” Tourism Campaign of 1964
Friday, November 21, 2008
4:00 pm
305 Languages Building
Reception to follow lecture
http://www.romancestudies.aas.duke.edu/romancestudies/JustinCrumbaughLecture.html
Since Justin Crumbaugh received his doctorate from Emory University, he has taught at the University of
Pennsylvania and at Mount Holyoke College, where he is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Film
Studies. His research focuses on Spanish public discourse of recent decades with a particular emphasis
on tourism, political conflict and the tensions associated with Spain’s transition to a postindustrial
society. His book, Destination Dictatorship: The Spectacle of Spain’s Tourist Boom and the Reinvention
of Difference (SUNY Press 2009), examines the media frenzy surrounding the rise of mass tourism
during the1960s as it relates to the Franco regime’s attempts to shore up power through modernization
and “economic government.” Professor Crumbaugh’s most recent work connects the so-called Basque
problem and the symbolization of the “victims of terrorism” to debates about historical memory of the
Franco dictatorship.
For more information, please contact the Department of Romance Studies at 919-660-3100
Video Art from Latin America
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2008/11/19 15:06:50
Viewing of select documentaries. Thursday, November 20, 7pm. Richard White Auditorium. Part of the 22nd annual Latin American Film Festival.
"Bocas de Ceniza" - Columbia. Director: Juan M Echavarria.
"Street is a Mutha" - Canada & Street is a Mutha 2 - Colombia. Coordinators/Producers: Jorge Lozano and Guillermina Buzio.
"Cuando Yo Sonaba un Mundo al Reves/When I Dreamed a World Up Side Down" - Cuba/El Salvador. Director: Jorge Dalton.
"Terminal" - Chile/USA. Director: Andres Tapia-Urzua.
"Water/Sea of Words/February" - Palestine, Colombia, Canada. Director: Julieta Maria.
November 10, 2008 - Lecture by Danny James
Romance Studies, 2008/11/04 13:42:20
The Department of Romance Studies is proud to present a lecture by
Danny James
called
"Quemando el parquet": 'Cabecitas negras', urban legends and the construction of regional identity in an Argentine working class community
Monday, November 10, 2008
2:15 pm
201 Flowers
Reception to follow lecture. This lecture is free and open to the public.
http://www.romancestudies.aas.duke.edu/romancestudies/Danny_James_Lecture.html
Daniel James was educated at Oxford University and received his doctorate from the London School of Economics. He was a Research Fellow at Cambridge University and from 1979 to 1982 taught sociology at the University of Brasilia. Since coming to the United States he has taught Latin American history at Yale University and Duke University until coming to Indiana in 1999 to take up the Bernardo Mendel Chair in Latin American History.
His primary research interests have been in Argentina. Since first going to Argentina in 1972 he has spent frequent prolonged periods in Argentina. His principle interest has been in modern Argentine labor, social and cultural history. Much of the focus of his work has been on Peronism. His first book, Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class 1943 - 1976, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. Since the late 1980s he has been engaged in a long-term collaborative project with Professor Mirta Zaida Lobato of the University of Buenos Aires focused on the history of the meatpacking community of Berisso. A central part of this project has involved the collection of oral testimonies in the community.
For more information please contact Cathy Knoop at 919-660-3102 or cknoop@duke.edu
Life is a Dream (La vida es sueño)
Romance Studies, 2008/11/10 11:47:06
Life is a Dream
Performance of Alejandra Juno's 21st century adaptation in English of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's La vida es sueño. Introduction by Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
8:00 pm on Thursday, November 6, 2008, 209 E. Duke Theater
For more information and to confirm your attendance, please contact David Baxter in the Department of Romance Studies at 919-660-3100
Postdoc position in Computational Biology
Biology, 2008/09/04 16:37:20
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS in the Duke University IGSP Center for Systems Biology. The DCSB is seeking highly motivated postdoctoral candidates with experience in computational and/or mathematical approaches relevant to the understanding of the function of biological systems. Positions are available in several collaborative research groups investigating a broad range of topics in systems biology with a focus on network control. Currently, there are six projects investigating various aspects of cell cycle control, development, and network evolution (see http://www.genome.duke.edu/centers/csb/ for project summaries and faculty). All appointees will be affiliated with the Duke Center for Systems Biology, a cross-school, campus-wide academic center that is also one of the NIH-supported National Systems Biology Centers. Highly qualified candidates will compete for the DCSB Postdoctoral Fellow Award. All Fellow Awards provide stipend support for one year, with the expectation of renewal for a second year. Women and members of under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply. U.S. citizenship is not a requirement; however, international scholars should contact us before applying because of visa restrictions. Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, a brief summary of current research and future research interests, and reprints of 2 or 3 key publications at www.academicjobsonline.org. Applicants should also arrange for 3 letters of recommendation to be uploaded to this website. Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. [more]
May 28, 2008 - Mohamed Noor wins Darwin-Wallace Medal.
Biology, 2008/06/16 11:24:18
The Council of the Linnean Society of London announces the awarding of 13 Darwin-Wallace Medals 2008 for "major advances in evolutionary biology since 1958." The award is presented every 50 years and commemorates the 150th reading of the joint Darwin-Wallace paper "On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection" at the Linnean Society of London in 1858. The President of the Society, Professor David F Cutler, will award medals on Thursday 12th February 2009, the 200th birthday of Charles Robert Darwin, to: Professor Nick Barton FRS, Professor M W Chase FRS, FLS, Professor B C Clarke FRS, FLS, Professor Joseph Felsenstein, the late Professor Stephen Jay Gould, Professor P R Grant FRS, FLS, Dr Rosemary Grant FRS, Professor J L B Mallet FLS, Professor Lynn Margulis FLS, the late Professor John Maynard-Smith FRS, FLS, Professor Mohamed Noor, Professor H Allen Orr and Professor Linda Partridge FRS. [more]
Ethics in the Professions Series Symposium: Torture & Interrogation Have We Gone Too Far?
Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, 2008/11/10 22:48:08
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill September 13, 2008. The aim of this symposium is to explore the ethical issues raised by the methods of interrogation practiced by the U.S. government. The second day of our program features distinguished speakers addressing this timely topic from perspectives and disciplines ranging from psychology, law, philosophy and government. (more)
International Justice/ Asymmetrical Justice?
African & African American Studies, 2008/10/30 12:36:42
AAAS Brown Bag Series with Professor Stephen Smith
October 29, 2008
225 Friedl Building
12:00 pm
(light lunch provided)
A conversation about international justice in Africa, with regard to special tribunals, the International Criminal Court, and the question of "asymmetrical justice."
Professor Stephen W. Smith will begin with a brief account of his recent testimony at the Charles Taylor trial in the Hague, where Taylor stands charged with responsibility for serious international crimes.
Other panelists include Louisa Lombard and Jatin Dua (Cultural Anthropolgy).
Lecture by Christopher Prendergast
Romance Studies, 2008/10/29 14:18:24
The Department of Romance Studies is proud to present a lecture by
Christopher Prendergast
USES AND ABUSES OF THE CLASSIC
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
4:45 pm
The Rare Book Room
Perkins Library, West Campus
Reception to Follow
Professor Prendergast is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and a Professor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge. He has taught at Pembroke College, Oxford, and at Downing College, Cambridge. has been Distinguished Professor in French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School in the City University of New York, and was a Fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities. He has held the title of Visiting Professor at UCLA, SUNY-Albany, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Copenhagen. He has been Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and the Remarque Institute of New York University.
His numerous publications include Balzac: Fiction and Melodrama; The Order of Mimesis; Paris-Spectacle: Images de Paris dans la peinture au Musée d’Orsay; Writing the City: Paris and the Nineteenth Century; Napoleon and History Painting; The Triangle of Representation; and For the People, By the People? Eugène Sue’s ‘Les Mystères de Paris.’ Professor Prendergast has edited a number of important volumes on 19th and 20th century French literature, and was General Editor of the recent six-volume English translation of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu [In Search of Lost Time] (Penguin, 2002).
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http://www.romancestudies.aas.duke.edu/ChristopherPrendergastlecture.html
October 22, 2008 - Graduate and Professional School Day 2008
, 2008/09/16 09:42:39
This one-day event, to be held on Wednesday, October 22, Bryan Center upper level will bring representatives from over 100 graduate, business, health professions, and law schools around the country to the Duke campus to talk with undergraduates and local alumni interested in pursuing graduate or professional study.
September 16, 2008 - Research Tech Opening
Biology, 2008/09/16 12:41:37
Research technician wanted to participate in research in evolutionary ecology and genetics. Research will combine work in the field, laboratory, and greenhouse. Duties include plant care; preparations for molecular and biochemical work; setting up and maintenance of field and greenhouse experiments, and keeping supervisor informed of results; data collection and organization; instruction of others in basic laboratory techniques and procedures; general lab and clerical tasks; other related duties as required. Available immediately. Competitive salary and full Duke benefits. Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Please send CV and names of references to Kathleen Donohue: k.donohue@duke.edu DEADLINE FOR CONSIDERATION: OCTOBER 20, 2008
Chemistry department t-shirts
Chemistry, 2008/09/29 15:50:17
are now available. Click here to see the winning design on our PLU sponsored t-shirt contest. To purchase t-shirts please contact Jeff Rubino: j.t.rubino@duke.edu.
Lecture by Michael Noone
Romance Studies, 2008/09/30 12:29:59
http://www.romancestudies.aas.duke.edu/MichaelNooneLecture.html
Monday, October 6, 2008
Michael Noone will give a lecture entitled Newly-discovered musical masterpieces from El Greco’s Toledo: from 16th-century illuminated manuscripts to 21st-century CD’s. The lecture will take place in Room 104, Biddle Music Building (East Campus) at 4:00 pm. Reception to follow.
Musicologist and choral director at Boston College, Michael Noone has held teaching, research and performance posts at universities on four continents. His research focuses on early modern sacred music. He is the author of Music and Musicians in the Escorial Liturgy under theHabsburgs and El Códice 25 de la catedral de Toledo. Prof. Noone has recorded more than a dozen CDs, including award-winning recordings by the Ensemble Plus Ultra, which he co-founded specifically to perform Spanish music.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Music, the Department of Romance Studies, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in relation to the Nasher Museum of Art’s exhibit, “El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III.” For more information, please contact Cathy Knoop (cknoop@duke.edu, 660-3102).
A Symposium: Image and Illusion in Early Modern Spain
Romance Studies, 2008/09/30 12:29:32
http://www.romancestudies.aas.duke.edu/ImageIllusionConference.html
Thursday and Friday, October 2 and 3, 2008
Keynote Speakers:
William Egginton, Johns Hopkins U. “The Theater of Truth”
Frederick De Armas, U. of Chicago. “Framing Francisco Ribalta: From Lope’s La viuda valenciana to the Rimas del licenciado Tomé Burguillos.”
Margaret Greer, Duke University. “Honra es aquélla que consiste en otro: the reflected subject in Lope's Los comendadores de Cordoba.”
This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies, the Nasher Museum of Art and Duke in Madrid and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. For more information, please contact Cathy Knoop (cknoop@duke.edu, 660-3102)
A Colloquium will close the event on Saturday, October 4, 2008 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon in the Breedlove Room at Perkins Library. The colloquium will be led by Prof. Frederick de Armas. Breakfast will be provided.Lecture by Elizabeth Rhodes
Romance Studies, 2008/09/30 12:28:16
http://www.romancestudies.aas.duke.edu/ElizabethRhodesLecture.html
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Elizabeth Rhodes will give a lecture entitled "Inquisitions: Spain in the Pre-Modern Age." The lecture will take place from 1:30 to 3:00 pm in the Breedlove Room of Perkins Library.
Elizabeth Rhodes, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and an award-winning teacher, adviser and mentor at Boston College, is a specialist in early modern Spanish literature, particularly the fields of theology and religious literature, and women's studies. She recently lectured on the arts and the Inquisition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in conjunction with the "El Greco - Velázquez" exhibit.For more information, please contact Cathy Knoop at 660-3102 or cknoop@duke.ed. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Researchers in the Franz Group
Chemistry, 2008/09/18 08:53:40
have put copper in a cage. The work, which was highlighted in the Science and Technology Concentrates of the Sept. 1 C&E News was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. and was spearheaded by graduate student Katie Ciesienski, who synthesized the new photoactive complex that releases its copper cargo when irradiated with light. The team envisions that their strategy could be used to deliver the redox-active metal in a time- and site-dependent manner as a way to induce oxidative damage selectively in cancer cells or as a tool to study mechanisms of intracellular copper trafficking.
September 18, 2008 - Prebusiness Meeting for Seniors
, 2008/09/11 09:02:10
Information meeting for Seniors interested in applying to Business School. Thursday, September 18, 130 Social Psychology, 5:00pm. Please attend!
Congratulations to Dr. Aron J. Cohen,
Chemistry, 2008/08/12 16:18:27
who will launch his independent career in the fall of 2008 at Cambridge University in the UK with a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Dr. Cohen has been a research associate with Professor Weitao Yang and has been developing density functional theory.
Teaching Awards
Chemistry, 2008/08/12 13:05:38
A great chemistry department needs to be judged on research, teaching and service. To complement the research awards, the Department is pleased to announce this year's recipients of the Pelham Wilder teaching award, presented in recognition of outstanding dedication as a teaching assistant.
Pelham Wilder was a faculty member here for many years, with an outstanding teaching reputation. As with the research awards, this award includes a monetary prize to the recipients.
Please take an opportunity to congratulate these students:
James Harrington
John Stanko
Amanda Kasper
Allison Schmidt
Congratulations to Dr. Hao Hu,
Chemistry, 2008/08/11 13:29:53
who will take up a tenure-track position in the fall of 2008 as an Assitant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong. Dr. Hu has been a research associate with Professor Weitao Yang and has been developing theory and computational methods for simulations of biological systems.
"Masking and Unmasking": Romance Studies Graduate Student Conference
Romance Studies, 2008/09/17 12:35:59
Mark your calendars!
The Annual Romance Studies Graduate Student Conference is coming up next weekend, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 12-13 in the Women's Studies Parlors on East Campus. This year's conference is entitled "Masking and Unmasking."
We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker, Trevor Burnard, 2008-2009 Fellow at the National Humanities Center and professor at the University of Warwick. His talk is entitled:
"Intimate Strangers: The Multiple Masks of Slavery in Jamaica and Berbice, 1750-1823."
We welcome all undergraduates, graduate students and faculty who wish to attend.
For more information, please go to
http://www.duke.edu/web/romance08/schedule.html
[more]May 07, 2008 - Haase Lab publishes important finding on cell cycle
Biology, 2008/09/04 13:56:09
Prof. Steve Haase and his collaborators have published an important discovery in the journal Nature in their paper "Global control of cell cycle transcription by coupled CDK and network oscillators," Nature advance online publication, 07 May 2008 doi:10.1038/nature06955. Using genomic techniques, the team examined about 6,000 genes in mutant yeast cells to discover that many cell cycle activities are driven by a series of transcription factors acting one after another. For more information follow the link to the paper. [more]
March 06, 2008 - Katia Koelle publishes on Dengue Fever
Biology, for articles, 2008/09/04 13:55:44
Prof. Katia Koelle and her collaborator, Prof. Yoshiro Nagao (Osaka University) recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 105, no. 6, pp. 2238-2243. The paper is entitled "Decreases in dengue transmission may act to increase the incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fever."
June 19, 2007 - David Sherwood has been named to the Pew Scholars Program
Biology, for awards, 2008/09/04 13:55:25
David Sherwood has been named to the highly selective Pew Scholars Program. The Pew program invests in early to mid-career scientists, seeks to expand foundation of biomedical knowledge & advance scientific frontiers.
Check out the Program Press Release.
Check out Dave Sherwood's Program page. [more]
Featured Member: David R. Sherwood of Biology
Keywords: Sherwood, Pew Scholar
2008 Commencement
Romance Studies, 2008/09/19 15:25:34
For photos and more information about our
2008 Commencement
ceremony, please visit:
http://www.romancestudies.aas.duke.edu/romancestudies/2008Commencement.html [more]
Postdoc Position in Systems biology
Biology, for jobs, 2008/09/03 15:19:04
The Benfey Lab at Duke University is seeking a research associate with a broad range of engineering expertise and innovation experience to join our systems biology team. The successful candidate will be involved with multiple projects to design and implement high-throughput systems biology methods. Immediate duties will be in efforts to improve our novel automated imaging experimental platforms for gene expression and root architecture. The ideal candidate would have experience relating to SolidWorks drafting, microfluidic devices, stereolithography, physical-chemical micro-sensors, microscopy, image analysis and Java programming . The successful candidate is exceptionally creative and organized and must be equally effective working independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team. Applicants with a B.S. or M.S. in engineering or related fields should provide a description of their research experience and contact information for three references to: Blythe Boquist (bbooher@duke.edu). Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Faculty position in Neural Circuits and Behavior
Biology, for jobs, 2008/09/03 15:12:53
Neural Circuits and Behavior Position at Duke University Duke University’s Department of Biology and the Duke Institute of Brain Sciences (DIBS) seek applications for a tenure-track faculty position, within the thematic core of Neural Circuits and Behavior. We are especially interested in applicants working at the intersections between molecular neuroscience, neural circuits, and behavior using an invertebrate or non-mammalian vertebrate system. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, locomotion, sound production and communication, chemo-, photo- and phonotaxis, migratory and homing behavior, sensation and perception, sensorimotor integration, and learning and memory. DIBS is a cross-school, campus-wide, interdisciplinary Institute with a commitment to building an interactive community of brain science research and scholarship. The Department of Biology is a broad department with strengths in evolution, ecology, behavior, and cell and molecular biology. It is in close proximity to the Medical School and the School of Engineering, and there are excellent opportunities for interactions with faculty and students from other departments and programs across campus. Successful candidates must have a Ph.D. and will be expected to establish extramurally funded research, train graduate students, and actively participate in undergraduate education and research. We anticipate hiring at the Assistant Professor level but will consider outstanding individuals at a more senior level. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a brief summary of current and proposed research, reprints of 2 or 3 key publications and a statement of teaching interests via the web at www.academicjobsonline.org. Candidates should also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be uploaded to this website. We will begin to review candidates on Oct 1. Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer; women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
Faculty position in Neurobiology at a cellular/molecular level
Biology, 2008/09/03 15:11:12
The Department of Biology at Duke University and the Duke Institute of Brain Sciences (DIBS) seek applications for a tenure-track faculty position in neurobiology at a cellular/molecular level. We are especially interested in applicants using model invertebrate systems, or zebrafish, and genetic, molecular, developmental and/or systems level approaches to address problems of fundamental importance to neural function. DIBS is a cross-school, campus-wide, interdisciplinary Institute with a commitment to building an interactive community of brain science research and scholarship. The Department of Biology is in close proximity to the Medical School and the School of Engineering, and there are excellent opportunities for interactions with faculty and students from other departments and programs across campus. Successful candidates must have a Ph.D. and will be expected to establish extramurally funded research, train graduate students, and actively participate in undergraduate education and research. We anticipate hiring at the Assistant Professor level but will consider outstanding individuals at a more senior level. Applicants should submit a curriculum vita, a brief summary of current and proposed research, reprints of 2 or 3 key publications and a statement of teaching interests via the web at www.academicjobsonline.org. Candidates should also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be uploaded to this website. We will begin to review candidates on Oct 31. Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer; women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
Postdoc Positions in Systems Biology
Biology, for jobs, 2008/09/03 15:08:37
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS in the Duke University IGSP Center for Systems Biology. The DCSB is seeking highly motivated postdoctoral candidates with experience in experimental biology and an interest in understanding the function of biological systems. Positions are available in several collaborative research groups investigating a broad range of topics in systems biology with a focus on network control. Currently, there are six projects investigating various aspects of cell cycle control, development, and network evolution (see http://www.genome.duke.edu/centers/csb/ for project summaries and faculty). All appointees will be affiliated with the Duke Center for Systems Biology, a cross-school, campus-wide academic center that is also one of the NIH-supported National Systems Biology Centers. Highly qualified candidates will compete for the DCSB Postdoctoral Fellow Award that provides stipend support for one year, with the expectation that preliminary findings from the initial appointment will support applications for external funding in subsequent years. Women and members of under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply. U.S. citizenship is not a requirement; however, international scholars should contact us before applying because of visa restrictions. Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, a brief summary of current research and future research interests, and reprints of 2 or 3 key publications at www.academicjobsonline.org. Applicants should also arrange for 3 letters of recommendation to be uploaded to this website. Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. [more]
We are pleased to welcome Patrick Charbonneau,
Chemistry, 2008/07/24 12:52:23
who has joined the Department of Chemistry as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Charbonneau comes to Duke from a post-doctoral research position at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, and his research interests are in the simulation and theory of the dynamics and thermodynamics of soft matter.
Education Award Winners
Education, 2008/08/21 10:40:44
Congratulations to all of our winners! Kim McCallum won the DT Stallings award! Jennifer Herring and Michele Farber won the Holton Prize! Elizabeth Kelly won an honorable mention for the Holton prize. The DT Stallings award honors a Duke senior who has shown sustained and dedicated service to tutoring local school children. The Holton Prize is given to a Duke junior or senior for outstanding innovative or investigative research focused on education. The winners papers are: Michele J. Farber “How Expectancy-Value and Possible Future Self Perceptions Impact Motivation to Study Science” Jennifer L. Herring “Situational Interest in Gifted Science Classrooms: The Influence of Teacher Practices on Student Interest”
Teacher Preparation Program
Education, 2008/08/21 11:23:20
New PiE Programs
Education, 2008/08/21 11:20:52
Program in Education (PiE) in collaboration with Duke TIP
initiates an innovative teacher preparation program in Gifted Education,
K-12. PiE has a long-standing
partnership with the Durham Public Schools to prepare highly qualified teachers
at the elementary and secondary level. http://dukenews.duke.edu/2007/01/gifted.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/559/story/537523.html.
In addition to the new AIG program we are making progress with our Center for Teacher Learning and Collaboration Program (TLC). Last Spring Durham Public Schools Superintendent Ann T. Denlinger and Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead announced the expansion of their longstanding partnership with three new initiatives designed to significantly boost support for classroom teachers. TLC is one of these initiatives. http://dukenews.duke.edu/2006/05/DPS_teachers.html
Postdoctoral Research Associate appointment in David Dunson's group, August 2008
Statistical Science, 2008/08/20 16:27:42
A Postdoctoral Research Associate appointment in Dr. David Dunson's group is available. Applicants should email their CV, a brief statement of their background and interests and contact information for at least three references to:
David Dunson
Professor, Department of Statistical Science
Duke University
dunson@stat.duke.edu
Congratulations to Jim Maloney
Chemistry, 2008/07/07 12:04:25
on his retirement. Jim retired from Duke and the Department of Chemistry after 33 years as Sr. Electronics Technician. He was honored at a departmental reception on June 30 and began his well-deserved retirement July 1.
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS in the Duke University Center for Systems Biology.
Biology, for jobs, 2008/05/14 15:55:28
The DCSB is seeking highly motivated postdoctoral candidates with experience in experimental biology, computation, or quantitative analysis relevant for understanding the function of biological systems. Positions are available in several collaborative research groups investigating a broad range of topics in systems biology (see http://www.genome.duke.edu/centers/csb/ for project summaries). Successful candidates with computational and/or analytical expertise may choose to work with several groups. All appointees will be affiliated with the Duke Center for Systems Biology, a cross-school, campus-wide academic center that is also one of the NIH-supported National Systems Biology Centers. All DCSB Postdoctoral Associates receive salary support for one year, with the expectation of renewal for a second year. Experimentalists will use preliminary findings from the first year to support applications for external funding that could support additional years. Women and members of under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply. U.S. citizenship is not a requirement; however, international scholars should contact us before applying because of visa restrictions. Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, a brief summary of current research and future research interests, and reprints of 2 or 3 key publications at www.academicjobsonline.org. Applicants should also arrange for 3 letters of recommendation to be uploaded to this website. Applications received by May 31, 2008 will be guaranteed consideration. Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Graduate student Dan Lim and Prof. Don Coltart
Chemistry, 2008/06/16 09:35:46
have reported a simple and efficient method for the asymmetric α-alkylation and α,α-bisalkylation of acyclic ketones, a long-standing problem in the field of asymmetric synthesis. Their method uses chiral N-amino cyclic carbamates (ACCs), which substantially diminish the drawbacks associated with the use of chiral dialkyl hydrazines, yet provide excellent stereoselectivity and high yields. In addition, ACCs exhibit a unique directing effect that overrides the inherent selectivity of lithium diisopropylamide (LDA), providing the first ever method for the asymmetric α,α-bisalkylation of ketones. The work has been selected for review in upcoming editions of Chemical and Engineering News, Chemistry World and Drug Discovery and Development.
Vaupel Recognized for his Work in Mathematical Demography
Population, Policy and Aging Research Center, 2008/04/25 14:47:20
James W. Vaupel, research professor at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University and also director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, was honored by being the recipient of the Mindel C. Sheps Award on 18 April 2008 for his contributions to the methodological foundations of demography. This award is one of the most prestigious international awards in demography and is given biennially for outstanding contributions to mathematical demography. It was presented to Vaupel by the Population Association of America and the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). The award is named for Mindel C. Sheps, MD (1913-1973), who became an expert in statistics as well as demographic and biological aspects of fertility through her studies on the impact of social factors on public health. Although demography brings together many disciplines and includes methodological approaches from the humanities and social sciences as well as from medicine and biology, it is mathematical methodology that is often the key to solving demographic problems. Among Vaupel's pioneering contributions in the field of mathematical demography is the introduction and application of so-called frailty models to the field of population science. Frailty models bring new understanding to an individual's or a group's risk of death with age. At Duke University, Vaupel recently founded the Duke Population Research Institute, comprised of highly interdisciplinary researchers. Some of Vaupel's work in the institute has been focused on the new field of evolutionary demography. Vaupel and colleagues propose to use complex mathematical functions to model the impact of various factors on the aging of different organisms. As the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, which is now one of the most renowned research institutions in the world in the population sciences, Vaupel emphasized mathematical demography from the outset. To understand the long-term development of populations or the life histories of individuals, Vaupel says that a solid mathematical foundation is required. To interpret the relationships between complex phenomena, Vaupel will often advise his institute researchers to go back to the basics of "births, deaths, and mathematics." To Vaupel, this is the heart of demography. In addition to this current honor, the Population Association of America awarded James W. Vaupel its Irene B. Taeuber Award for lifetime research achievement in 2001. Vaupel is now only the 4th demographer in the history of the Population Association of America to be the recipient of both these awards.
Request Duke Participation in U-Grad History Journal
History, 2008/05/13 11:58:48
Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History is currently soliciting submissions for the Fall 2008 issue. Any questions you have may be addressed to reb2123@columbia.edu or cujh@columbia.edu
Undergraduates and professors, please submit papers to the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History. Articles submitted to the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History may be either research or historiography papers. All undergraduate papers submitted to the Journal must be nominated by a faculty member for recognition as outstanding and exemplary undergraduate scholarship. All nominated papers will be posted on the website of the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History, at cujh.columbia.edu. From the many nominated papers, the editors select five to six articles to be published in the Journal, and three authors are invited to the Herbert Aptheker Undergraduate History Conference at Columbia University to give talks on the papers published in the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History. The authors invited to the History Conference receive an honorarium of at least one-hundred-and-fifty dollars.
Robert J. Niess/Alexander Hull Award
Romance Studies, 2008/08/25 16:04:04
We are happy to announce Annalies Heinrichs has won the Robert J. Niess/Alexander Hull Award in French for excellence in the major. She recently defended her Honors Thesis, directed by Paol Keineg, “Kay Koule Tronpe soley, min li pa tronpé la pli En route vers l’assurance des soins de santé en Haïti” and received Highest Distinction.
Please join us in congratulating Annalies!
Richard L. Predmore Award
Romance Studies, 2008/08/25 16:03:58
We are happy to announce Kathryn Husted Wooten is the 2008 recipient of the Richard L. Predmore Award in Spanish for excellence in the major. She will receive the award and gift at our commencement luncheon and diploma presentation on Sunday, May 11th.
Please join us in congratulating Kathryn!!
Guido Mazzoni Award in Italian
Romance Studies, 2008/08/25 16:03:51
Brian Alberto Ovalle is the 2008 recipient of the Guido Mazzoni Award in Italian for excellence in the major. He will receive the award and gift at our commencement luncheon and diploma presentation on Sunday, May 11th.
Please join us in congratulating Brian!!
The first total synthesis of the natural product largazole has been completed
Chemistry, 2008/05/30 15:42:05
by Yongcheng Ying, Hyoungsu Kim, Prof. Jiyong Hong, and their colleagues. The biological evaluation of largazole and its key analogues, suggested that histone deacetylases (HDACs) are molecular targets of largazole and that largazole is a class I HDAC inhibitor. In addition, structure−activity relationship studies revealed that the thiol group is the pharmacophore of the natural product. Largazole is a cyclic depsipeptide with a thioester functional group that is uncommon in natural products, and it exhibits highly differential growth-inhibitory activity, preferentially targeting transformed over nontransformed cells and favorably comparing to other natural products drugs such as paclitaxel in this respect.
Congratulations to Zhibin Zhang from the Widenhoefer group and Dan Fu from the Warren group,
Chemistry, 2008/05/29 08:56:39
who recently received highly competitive "Awards for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad" from the Chinese Government. The awards are for Chinese self-financed students under 40 who are studying in PhD degree programs and have completed one or more years of their studies. The awards were established to encourage research excellence and to recognize achievement among Chinese students abroad. They cover all fields of study, and were given to 72 Chinese students in the United States this year. The awards were presented at the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in May.
May 07, 2008 - The Perry Prize awarded to Dr. Steven Spoel
Biology, 2008/05/07 17:06:51
Prof. Paul Manos, chair of the prize committee, writes "Steven is on a fast research track, publishing at least five papers during his graduate career at Duke. He has outstanding scholarly abilities and excellent command of his thesis project." Steven writes, "In their natural environment, plants are continuously exposed to very different attackers, such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, and herbivorous insects. Immunity against these attackers depends on various defense responses that are regulated by the plant hormones salicylate and jasmonate. Whereas salicylate is closely related to the human anti-inflammatory drug aspirin, jasmonate is a derivative of the fragrance jasmine. The work in my dissertation has uncovered that molecular communication between salicylate and jasmonate provides the plant with a means of fine-tuning its immune response specifically against the attacker encountered. Understanding the communication between such key hormones in plant immunity is essential for the development of environmental friendly crop protection strategies for, amongst others, the food and bio-fuels industry.” [more]
Annual Awards
Education, 2008/06/19 12:51:44
Apply Online Now
Focus Program, 2008/05/27 15:20:42
The Focus Program is now accepting online applications for fall 2008! The application deadline has been extended to May 31, 2008. Don't miss your chance for this fantastic learning opportunity! [more]
Grant Submission - Male Versus Female Health and Survival
Population, Policy and Aging Research Center, 2008/04/25 14:50:17
PPARC researchers and collaborators (both at Duke and at other universities and research organizations) submitted a Program Project (PO1) grant application to NIA in May 2007. The application text included seven different research projects all looking at various aspects of a human paradox. In terms of human longevity, it is a fact that women outlive men even though medical data suggest that men are healthier than women. The seven research projects investigate this paradox. It is hoped that this project, after resubmission in May 2008, will receive funding sometime in 2009.
Prof. Jie Liu's laboratory
Chemistry, 2008/04/28 09:08:37
has reported a new method for fabricating dense arrays of oriented, single-walled carbon nanotubes. The ability to make large numbers of identical nanotubes would allow future nanoengineers to bundle them onto multiple ultra-tiny chips that could operate with enough power and speed for nanoprocessing. With their research, the Liu lab has removed a major roadblock in the path to ultrasmall devices.
Alvin L. Crumbliss, Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the Natural Sciences,
Chemistry, 2008/05/01 10:53:56
has been appointed as the new Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Chemistry and as a member of the Bass Society of Fellows, effective July 1, 2008. Congratulations to Prof. Crumbliss on this well-deserved recognition.
Research Technician Opening
Biology, for jobs, 2008/04/29 16:45:32
Research Technician, Biology Dept., Duke University. Great lab opportunity on a developmental genetics project in plant roots. Full time, BA/BSc and lab experience required (some molecular biology experience preferred). Duties will include plant care and basic molecular analyses. Please send cv/resume to Jaimie Van Norman: jaimie.vannorman@duke.edu Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
AAAS Graduation Ceremony and Reception
African & African American Studies, 2008/04/11 14:01:13
Honoring 2008 Graduating Majors, Minors
and
Graduate Student Certificate Recipients
Friday, May 9, 2008
2:00-4:00 PM
Front Lawn of the West Duke Building East Campus
Reception immediately following
115 Ernestine Friedl Building
John Simon, George B. Geller Professor
Chemistry, 2008/04/08 15:10:20
and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, will recive the 2008 Photon Award from the American Society for Photobiology at their national meeting in June. The ASP Photon Award was established to honor members who have made exceptional contributions and who have served the ASP above and beyond the call of duty.
Recent work by Charlotta Wennefors and colleagues in the Shaw lab
Chemistry, 2008/05/01 10:51:05
reveals the properties of boronated nucleoside diphosphate (NDP) analogs as substrates for creatine and pyruvate kinases. The conversion of the NDP's into their triphosphate derivatives reported in this work has implications for the treatment of HIV, because the P-borano triphosphates have been shown to be promising chain terminators targeting HIV reverse transcriptase.
John Hope Franklin Scholars Ceremony and Reception
African & African American Studies, 2008/04/15 16:07:28
The John Hope Franklin Scholars Program at
Duke University will hold a graduation and reception to honor the scholars.
April 26, 2008.
4pm - 115 Ernestine Friedl Building
April 24, 2008 - "Tertulias" Series Continues
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2008/04/15 11:00:13
Thurs., April 24, 4:30 - 6:00 pm Room 028 Franklin Center, with Dr. Dennis Clements. The "tertulias" provide a forum for Duke faculty and students to discuss their work related to Latin America and the Caribbean in an informal setting. This week's speakers are Dr. Dennis Clements (Duke Children's Primary Care and Duke Global Health Institute) and students in the "Exploring Medicine in Foreign Cultures" class. Refreshments will be served. After 4:00 pm parking is available free of charge behind the Marshall Pickens Health Clinic at the corner of Erwin Road and Trent Drive, across the street from the Franklin Center. Please Contact: Natalie Hartman njh@duke.edu for more information.
Duke Law To Host National Security Conference
Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, 2008/04/24 09:21:03
The Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security at Duke Law School will hold its annual national security conference on April 10-11, 2008 entitled "Combating Terrorism: Charting the Course for a New Administration." To register (free of charge) and view the program see: (more)
Kenan Institute To Explore Immigration Policy
Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, 2008/04/24 09:20:48
The Kenan Institute for Ethics will focus during its annual public ethics symposium on the topic of immigration policy. This event, "On the Border of Order: Contemporary U.S. Immigration Principles and Policies," will be held on April 14, 2008 at 12:00pm. For more information, see (more)
April 21, 2008 - Paul Farmer to Give Global Health Lecture
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2008/04/15 11:06:08
Monday, April 21, 6:30-8:00pm Page Auditorium Farmer is the founding director of Partners in Health (PIH), a Boston-based charitable organization dedicated to providing direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. PIH, whose work began in Haiti, has expanded its reach to include Lesotho, Malawi, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, and the USA, with support to projects in Mexico and Guatemala. Please Contact: Rosa Solorzano (919) 684-9334 rosa.solorzano@duke.edu for more information.
Legal Risks & Business Opportunities in Latin America
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2008/04/08 13:33:35
April 4th, 2008 symposium organized by the Latin American Business and Law Association! more info
March 27, 2008 - Jacques Revel: lecture and discussion
Romance Studies, 2008/04/21 15:54:57
The Department of Romance Studies along with the Center for French and Francophone Studies, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Center for European Studies, Duke Interdisciplinary Studies, Center for International Studies, Department of History, Program in Literature are proud to present??
Jacques Revel
Jacques Revel is a directeur d’études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in ??
French Studies at New York University.* He is known for his significant contributions to the Annales school and also, more recently, for the promotion of microhistory, Revel’s work focuses on social history, cultural forms and practices, and the Ancien Régime. In 2006, he published Un Parcours Critique
(Galaade Editions). He is currently at work at on a project that examines the link between religious practices, political and philosophical critiques of religion, and historical thought.
LECTURE: Religions, History and Society: A Debate around 1720
Thursday, March 27
5:30 pm (refreshments begin at 5:00 pm)
Room 240,
BROWN BAG LUNCH DISCUSSION: Friday, March 28
11:00 am—1:00 pm
Location TBA
Lunch provided, please RSVP to ham5@duke.edu by March 17
These events are free and open to the public
For more information, please email
*We are grateful to NYU for extending the conditions of Professor Revel’s visa to permit him to participate in these events at Duke.
March 17, 2008 - Christopher Miller discussing his new book
Romance Studies, 2008/04/21 15:54:48
The Department of Romance Studies and Atlantic Studies Present??
Christopher Miller discussing his new book
The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
March 17-19, 2008
Miller’s visit will involve three events:
LECTURE
Tuesday March 18th at 6:00 p.m.
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
SEMINAR
Monday, March 17th, 4:25-7:25 in 305 Languages
Wednesday, March 19th, 4:25-7:25 in Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
PLEASE NOTE: Participants in the seminar are expected to have read the book in advance. Copies are available at the Gothic Bookstore. Please register for the seminar by writing to Laurent Dubois at ld48@duke.edu
Locker Room Closing
Duke Faculty Club, 2007/12/17 10:11:36
The men's and women's locker rooms will be closed from Dec. 3-17 for much needed repairs to the flooring. The restroom facilities in the Le Bar building will remain available during this time.
Holiday Food and Clothing Drive
Duke Faculty Club, 2007/12/14 09:44:04
The DFC will be hosting a Holiday Food and Clothing drive from Dec. 1-16. All collected items will be donated to Urban Ministries of Durham (www.umdurham.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the emergency needs of poor people in our community. If you would like to donate items, please bring them by the DFC office. Suggested items include: canned goods, clothing and blankets, toiletries, single bed linens, towels and wash clothes, diapers and baby food. Thank you for your generosity.
The new Duke Faculty Club website has been launched!
Duke Faculty Club, 2007/10/08 11:58:01
It will take a little while to get all of the information you are used to seeing in the newsletter and and other areas on the new site pages, but we are getting the content in place as quickly as we can. You will also begin to notice various additions and enhancements so please continue to check back as we find ways to improve your Faculty Club experience. Please contact the office if you have any questions about any information you find here.
June 29, 2006 - Don Taylor - SURGEON GENERAL’S REPORT ON SECONDHAND SMOKE
Center for Health Policy, 2009/06/30 14:53:25
In light of the surgeon general's recent report on secondhand smoke, it's clear that the smokers aren't the only ones who bear the cost of their habit, says a Duke University health policy researcher. The true cost of each pack of cigarettes sold in the United States is $40, and smoker’s families bear more than 13 percent of that cost, says Donald Taylor, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Community and Family Medicine at Duke and co-author of the book, “The Price of Smoking.” “Children of smokers are the most vulnerable to the harms of secondhand smoke, and are likely to be consistently exposed to this harm,” Taylor says. The cost calculation takes into account the costs to society, broadly defined. The true cost of a pack of cigarettes was estimated by Taylor and his colleagues by identifying how smokers and their families compared to non-smokers and their families in areas such as illness, mortality, wages, and payments such as Social Security and life insurance. Although the majority of the cost -- $32.78 -- is borne by the smoker in shortened lifespan, lower wages, and increased health care costs, Taylor found that families or households of the smoker pay $5.44. Society pays $1.44 of the cost, he said. Donald Taylor can be reached for additional comment at (919) 613-9357 or dtaylor@hpolicy.duke.edu
Duke Students to Testify Before Senate Committee on Ryan White CARE Act
Center for Health Policy, 2009/06/30 14:53:46
On Monday, March 6, a group of Duke University students took center stage in the national debate to reauthorize funding for the Ryan White CARE Act targeted to people with HIV. Testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), the 16 Duke health policy certificate students will provide senators and staff an overview of the act and make recommendations on how future funding should be allocated.
The students will make a 15-minute presentation to the committee and participate in a 45-minute discussion period. The student delegation to Washington will be led by Kathryn Whetten, an associate professor in Duke’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and director of Duke's Center for Health Policy.
The health policy certificate students are: Smita Aggarwal, Vishal Amin, Anne Berry, Larissa Goodwin, Elizabeth Groeger, Kimberly Hayez, Nazaneen Homaifar, Courtney Katz, Jeffrey Leibach, Dinushika Mohottige, Yuval Patel, Kevin Peng, Marcus Peterson, Alissa Redmond, Michael Rosenberg and Benjamin Rowland.
The federal Ryan White CARE Act provides health care for people with HIV. Enacted in 1990, it fills gaps in care faced by those with low incomes and little or no insurance. Senators are to make recommendations to the White House later in March.
Led by Chairman Sen. Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.) and ranking member Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions has broad jurisdiction over the operation of our country’s health care, schools, employment and retirement programs.
The Duke Health Policy Certificate Program is offered to students interested in careers in global health, health care policy, management and associated professions. The Center for Health Policy at Duke explores the differences in health status and outcomes and the allocation of health resources in order to inform policy decisions.
Media Contact:
Geelea Seaford
Communications Director
919-613-7318
gseaford@duke.edu
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Nicholas School of the Environment, 2007/01/02 13:40:40
Testimony on the Healthy Forests Restoration Act (.pdf file) [more]
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National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2006/11/01 11:11:18
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Nominations for Creason Memorial Award
Physics, 2009/04/28 00:43:05
Nominations for the Mary Creason Memorial Award for undergraduate teaching are open. [more]
Nominations for Mary Creason Memorial Award
Physics, 2008/12/04 00:00:57
Call for nominations for the Fall 2008 Mary Creason Memorial Award for Undergraduate Teaching.
Kristine Callan receives award
Physics, for grad, 2008/06/10 14:01:19
Kristine Callan is the first recipient of the Mary Creason Memorial Award for Undergraduate Teaching.
Keywords: Mary Creason Memorial Award, Undergraduate Teaching
New Book Series on Development and Conflict
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2013/03/07 17:14:23
DCID Faculty Dr. Natalia Mirovitskaya and DCID Founder Professor William Ascher have recently published the first in a series of books on economic development and conflict, entitled: Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America. Their book explores the links between Latin American governments' economic policies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence. Based on the patterns of ten countries, the contributions to this volume trace the remarkable transformation from open ideological conflict to the explosion of social (seemingly apolitical) violence, the upsurge of urban crime, and the confrontations over natural resources and drugs across the region spanning from Mexico to Argentina. The variations in economic success and in conflict prevention and transformation can guide policymakers, development professionals, and activists committed to conflict-sensitive development. The book was published by Palgrave MacMillian, New York, NY in 2012. For access to its first chapter please click on ”more", or go to http://vox.lacea.org/?q=books_latinamerica [more]
DCID advising Egypt on taxation and governance
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/08/16 15:48:20
While on an assignment to advise the Government of Egypt on its tax policies, DCID Professor Roy Kelly spoke on April 7, 2011 at the American University in Cairo on some of the governance and tax policy challenges that post-revolutionary Egypt might need to consider. For a full summary of his address, please click "more". [more]
Duke math earns top 10 world ranking
Mathematics, for faculty, 2011/06/17 15:47:29
Duke’s mathematics department is 10th in the world, according to Times Higher Education. Times released its rankings June 2, placing Duke above institutions such as Columbia University, Cornell University and MIT. The publication considered the number of research papers published by the departments as well as the percentage of those that were highly-cited, between January 2001 and February 2011. The ranking system defines highly cited papers as those “that rank in the top 1 percent by citations for their field and year of publication.” [more] -- Duke Chronicle
2013 ACS Fellows
Chemistry, 2013/10/02 12:16:21
Congratulations to Professor David Beratan and Professor Emeritus Louis Quin, who have been selected as 2013 Fellows of the American Chemical Society, in recognition of their outstanding contributions both to science and to ACS. [Beratan and Quin inducted as ACS Fellows at the Fall 2013 Meeting of the ACS, PDF]
Prof. Bass wins NSF CDI Award
Physics, 2009/07/24 11:16:13
Prof. Steffen Bass awarded a Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation grant for Advanced Modeling and Data Analysis. This project will bring together scientists from Michigan State, Duke and UNC in Nuclear Physics, Cosmology, Astophysics, Athmospheric Sciences, Statistical Sciences and Computer Science to develop novel statistical analysis and advanced visualization techniques.
Melting Space-Time
Physics, 2009/07/23 21:39:03
This article in Duke Research focuses on how Profs. Bass and Mueller's research on the hottest & densest matter created by mankind relates to Prof. John Thomas' work on ultra-cold atoms.
Prof. John Thomas research featured
Physics, 2009/12/21 12:55:29
John Thomas' work with the physics of ultracold temperatures is featured in Duke Research
Littleton-Griswold Prize for 2010 of the AHA
History, for faculty, 2009/10/22 11:00:32
Laura Edwards has just been awarded the Littleton-Griswold Prize for 2010 of the AHA for her new book, "The People and their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South."
Established in 1985, this prize is offered annually for the best book in any subject on the history of American law and society. Only books of high scholarly and literary merit are considered.
Coaxing Order From Chaos
Physics, for faculty, 2009/09/25 10:48:25
Physics professor Dan Gauthier has experimented with chaotic systems as diverse as the fluctuations of laser beams and the electrical dynamics of the human heart in an effort to exploit their hidden order. [more] -- Duke Magazine
October 22, 2009 - Faculty Bookwatch: Thavolia Glymph's Out of the House of Bondage - Rare Book Room - 4:30
History, for faculty, 2009/10/08 14:32:00
FACULTY BOOKWATCH panel discussion on
OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE
The Transformation of the Plantation Household
THAVOLIA GLYMPH Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and History, Duke University
Thursday, October 22, 2009
4:30 PM Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Duke University Book sale & Reception to Follow
Panelists Ira Berlin Distinguished University Professor,
Department of History, University of Maryland
William A. Darity Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy / Professor of African & African American Studies and Economics, Duke University
Barbara Fields Professor of History, Columbia University
Peter Wood Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University
and
Thavolia Glymph
ABOUT THE FEATURED BOOK & AUTHOR Out of the House of Bondage (Cambridge University Press, 2008) views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal. Out of the House of Bondage is co-winner of the 2009 Taft Labor History Prize and a finalist for the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
Thavolia Glymph is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and History at Duke University. In addition to Out of the House of Bondage, Professor Glymph is the author of several essays on slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, economic history, and southern women. She is co-editor of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1861, ser. 1, vol. 1;
The Documentary of History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 3; The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South and Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy.
April 19, 2009 - Duke Team Discovers New Mathematical Principle
Mathematics, for faculty, 2009/04/21 13:23:46
(Durham Herald-Sun) Prof. Arlie Petters and his graduate student have discovered a universal principle that unites the curious interplay of light and shadow on the surface of your morning coffee with the way gravity magnifies and distorts light from distant galaxies. [more]
Featured Member: Arlie O. Petters of Mathematics
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Profs. Mueller and Bass awarded Topical Collaboration Grant
Physics, for faculty, 2010/01/12 15:07:53
Profs. Mueller and Bass awarded Department Of Energy (DOE) funding for a Topical Collaboration on "Jet and Electromagnetic Tomography in Heavy-Ion Collisions." [more]
Goshaw Family endows graduate fellowship in physics research
Physics, for faculty, 2009/01/29 21:07:43
The family of Alfred T. Goshaw, James B. Duke Professor of Physics, contributed $250,000 to endow support for a graduate fellowship in physics research. The gift from the Goshaw Family Endowment Fund was made as part of Duke’s Financial Aid Initiative, a four-year effort to raise endowment funds to support undergraduate scholarships and graduate and professional school fellowships. The initiative raised $308.5 million, surpassing its $300 million goal. [more]
Featured Member: Alfred T. Goshaw of Physics
June 13, 2008 - Congratulations to Bill English
Political Science, for faculty, 2008/06/16 11:39:38
William English has received a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. And, we just got approval from IRB to carry out the experiments! Congratulations Bill!
March 02, 2013 - MIDP Team Selected for Hult Prize Regional Challenge
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2013/02/07 14:03:56
An MIDP team made up of 5 fellows from 5 different countries has been selected to attend the Hult Prize regional challenge in Boston on March 2. 10,000 teams competed worldwide representing more than 150 countries and over 350 colleges and universities. Of those, 200 teams were selected to compete in regional finals in 5 cities across the world (Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai and Shanghai).
The Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator for social good, dedicated to launching the next wave of social entrepreneurs through identifying, funding, mentoring, advising and launching new social businesses. The 2013 challenge addresses the Global Food Crisis.
A detailed case study on the Global Food Crisis, narrated by President Bill Clinton, has been released to all selected teams to set the framework for this year's challenge. The challenge can be found here. Competitors are asked to develop social enterprises that answer the President's Challenge.
The MIDP team is comprised of Ana Lucia Garcia Briones, Pankhuri Dutt, Silvia Fontana, Aung Thant, and Hrachya Topalyan. Special thanks to Frank Webb for providing the inspiration and congratulations and good luck to our team!
-- http://www.hultprize.org/MIDP Alumna’s Master’s Project Published Online
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2011/04/27 16:58:48
Duke's Center on Globalization, Governance and Competetiveness (CGGC), where recent MIDP alumna Ghada Ahmed currently works as a Research Associate, has included her May 2010 Master's Project among its online research publications under the title "Employment and Human Resource Services in Egypt." The report looked into the question of what Egypt should do to develop and attract private sector staffing organizations to improve the country's employment services. You can view the report by clicking here.
[more]Anne Firor Scott Award Winners
History, for faculty, 2010/03/26 14:32:25
Congratulations to the 2010 Anne Firor Scott Award Winners:
Lindsey Andrews, "Gender and Race in Treatment: On the History and Aesthetics of American Psychiatric Treatment."
Andrew Byers, "Southern, French, and German Women and The U.S. Army."
Katherine Rose Filler, "Black Sash: Crossing Race, Gender, and Class Divisions through White Women's Unlikely Protest Against Apartheid."
March 12, 2010 - Anne Firor Scott Research Awards - Deadline March 12
History, for grad, 2010/02/24 14:50:46
Anne Firor Scott Research Awards are available for graduate students working on any aspect of women's history. The application deadline is March 12. For more information and/or an application contact Carla Rusnak at carla.rusnak@duke.edu.
Students Laurels and Honors 2008
Mathematics, for ugrad, 2009/02/16 20:19:15
Goldwater Scholar: Mark Hallen
Menger Prize: Tirasan Khandhawit, Aaron Pollack, Lingren Zhang
Fift place Putnam team: Tirasan Khandhawit, Peng Shi, Lingren Zhang
Julia Dale Prize: Tirasan Khandhawit, Charles Staats III; Mikhail Lavrov, Tanawit Sae Sue
Outstanding MCM teams:
Jason Chen, Joonhahn Cho, Brian Choi
(Duke News, May 12, 2008)
Photos from Undergraduate Math Award Parties
Mathematics, for ugrad, 2015/05/05 15:31:44
Master in Biostatistics Program - Duke University
Mathematics, for ugrad, 2010/11/17 11:48:23
Offered by the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, this two-year degree program is designed to provide students with the analytical, biological, and communication skills that will ensure successful contribution to the rapidly-expanding field of biomedical research. More information and applications available here. [more]
Keywords: Biostatistics, master, Duke
M.S. in Commerce Program - University of Virgina
Mathematics, for ugrad, 2009/02/16 15:12:25
The University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce has a M.S. in Commerce program. Designed for recently graduating liberal arts, science, and engineering majors, the one-year degree features specialty tracks in either Financial Services or Marketing & Management, as well as six-weeks of international study to either Europe or Asia. The M.S. in Commerce is a pre-experience program and requires no work experience. View the current class profiles.
November 02, 2011 - Study: Most U.S. forests not adapting to climate change
Environmental Sciences and Policy Major, for grad, 2011/11/15 11:26:35
none -- USA Today
Featured Member: Kai Zhu of Environmental Sciences and Policy Major
MIDP Fellows and Faculty discuss “The Significance of the Emerging Middle Class in Latin America” at the annual UNC-Duke Consortium Conference
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2013/03/08 10:03:34
Six MIDP fellows and a graduate student from the Duke Law School formed two panels on this theme during the UNC-Duke Consortium Conference "Realizing Visions of Latin America and the Caribbean" on February 15-16, 2013. The panel members from MIDP were: Janina Cuevas, Susana Garcia, Zoila Navarro, Luisa Fernanda Cardozo Romero, Matias Arrau, and Carlos Guiza; and Xiao Recio Blanco from the Duke Law School. MIDP professor Fernando Fernholz, who served as moderator, helped organize the panels and provided the framework for the discussions. The MIDP program participated actively through presentations and panel discussions in this year UNC-Duke Consortium Conference following a tradition of past years.
The fellows presented their findings on the increase in size and importance of the middle class in the region, before a full audience (despite the falling snow) during the sessions on Saturday morning at the UNC Global FEDEX Center. They discussed significant changes in the region as an emerging and stronger middle class affects governance, politics, the economies and social outcomes. -- http://uncdukeconsortium.org/
Provost Peter Lange speaks at graduation lunch of second USAID cost-benefit analysis program
Duke Center for International Development, 2011/08/16 15:15:22
Provost Peter Lange congratulated the twenty-five senior USAID officials from around the world who completed on July 29, 2011 a four-week intensive workshop on Applied Cost-benefit and Cost-effectiveness Analysis at the Duke Center for International Development (DCID). He underlined the importance attached by Duke University to such a program that extends the university’s global reach while putting knowledge at the service of society both in the US and developing countries.
This is the second year that DCID offers this program, which uses an integrated analytic framework based on the pioneering work of Professor Arnold Harberger to ensure judicious selection of investment projects in developing countries. The framework consists of three main components: financial analysis, economic analysis and distributive (stakeholder) analysis, complemented by sensitivity analysis, and risk analysis and management. At the end of their program, participants grouped in 8 country teams demonstrated their mastery of the methodology by publicly presenting its application to a project selected from their country’s portfolio.
DCID Alumna (and Rotary Peace Fellow) Helps with Haiti Reconstruction
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2011/04/27 18:26:49
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| Louisa Dow and Bernard D. Togba Jr., meet at the Habitat for Humanity office in Haiti. Photo by Alyce Henson/Rotary Images. |
Louisa Dow is the Habitat for Humanity partnership coordinator for Haiti disaster response, responsible for the organization's relationships with the United Nations, USAID, and other agencies.
Dow manages the USAID Emergency Community Assistance and Planning (ECAP) program. Designed by Habitat for Humanity, ECAP is a nine-month, US$ 3 million emergency program that provides community-focused, on-the-ground technical support to government agencies that oversee Haiti's post-earthquake shelter and settlement initiatives.
“I feel so privileged to be in Haiti, helping families rebuild their lives by giving them the pathway to permanent housing,” says Dow.
Dow, who is from Australia, says her 2008-10 studies at Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, helped prepare her for the work. Her applied field experience with Habit for Humanity in Latin America and the Caribbean opened her eyes to the role of permanent housing in developing a peaceful and just society.
“Peace fellows work in diverse sectors,” she says. “Not all of us are about mediation or negotiation. Providing access to shelter, education, and health care services has a direct impact on people living in conflict nations.”
Dow says her fellowship, which focused on international development policy, gave her the time and space to think about how she could help people improve their quality of life.
“I don't think there is a program that could have given me a better education in development and peace than the peace fellow curriculum,” Dow says. “Being in an environment that nurtured all of us to find new and innovative areas to research was an experience like no other.” […]
Written for Reconnections by Ryan Hyland, Rotary International News, April 12, 2011. The full article is available here.
[more]DCID hosts a student-led initiative: "Innovation Expo: Innovative Ideas for the International Development Challenge," April 14, 2011
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2011/04/15 15:35:49
This conference brought together a group of professionals to exchange views among themselves and with the DCID faculty and student audience on their organizations' perception on innovation, their reliance on innovation, the need for collaborative efforts in international development and their vision for global innovation in the future. Panelists were Gary Gereffi, Director, The Center of Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness at Duke University; Phil Psilos, Senior Economic Growth Specialist, RTI International; Rodney Maddox, Deputy Secretary of State, North Carolina; and Anthony Lewitt, Program Director, Rational Cloud Development, IBM Corporation, with MIDP Professor Jerry VanSant as moderator.
Panelists highlighted how problems can be solved by bringing together professionals from different disciplines, the potential benefits of sharing an innovation with others, how a minor research project undertaken for altruistic reasons can lead 
to a major new line of business, the importance of collaborating with the end-user to achieve success, and the exceptional potential of cell-phone technology to revolutionize service delivery (e.g. in agriculture or health) to rural areas of developing countries.
The conference was the brainchild of MIDP students Chris Ammon (US), Abeer Dagestani (Iraq) and Ignacio Torres (Chile) for their seminar on Innovative Policies led by MIDP Professor Rosemary Fernholz.
Featured Members: Rosemary M. Fernholz of Duke Center for International Development; Jerry C. VanSant of Duke Center for International Development
Keywords: MIDP, Fellows, Panel, Innovation, Policy
November 27, 2006
Nicholas School of the Environment, 2006/12/08 10:42:35
Environment Dean to Become Director of Institute of Ecosystem Studies [more]
July 30, 2009 - For These Students, Durham Is Their Classroom
History, for faculty, 2009/08/25 10:37:13
Work outside the classroom provides hands-on opportunities for learning.
History Professor Susan Thorne's seminar on the history of Durham's past and present will engage students exploring issues that range across ethics, race, human rights and class.
Read more about it here.
Why Science Makes for Great Drama
Focus Program, 2008/04/08 12:40:18
Richard Palmer talks about his latest Focus Program course, The Drama of Science! [more] -- Duke News, 4 April 2008
The Drama of Science
Focus Program, 2008/04/08 12:39:49
Read more news about the Faces of Science Focus cluster! [more] -- Duke News, 4 April 2008
Biology Profs among Most Influential Scientists
Biology, 2014/07/02 17:53:33
Rob Jackson, Philip Benfey, Tai-ping Sun and Xinnian Dong are among the top 1 per cent of faculty whose publications are cited by other authors,according to Thomson Reuters. The study identified 3,215 researchers around the world, of whom 32 work for Duke. [more]
In Plain English VIa: John Willis
Biology, 2013/11/05 10:56:44
John Willis loves figuring things out--specifically, how the wildflower Mimulus adapts to different environments. Colonies adapt to different elevations, or degrees of drought, or soil types. Some have even evolved to live on highly contaminated soil near a copper mine. Which of their genes change, and do they change in many little ways or one big way? Why do some separated groups lose the ability to reproduce with their neighbors? Are the genes that help them adapt the same ones that prevent living hybrid offspring???
The Willis group tests this with "tricky crosses" between different varieties. If the copper mine variety mates with nearby types, the offspring all die. But when one parent is crossed to a third and their viable offspring to the other parent, it produces some living offspring and some that die. By analyzing which parts of the parents' chromosomes each type inherited, the lab can zero in on the killer gene. Scientists assumed that the copper-tolerant gene was the killer, but Willis recently showed that a near neighbor, which "hitchhiked" with copper tolerance into the population, was guilty.
Philip Benfey Featured in Current Biology!
Biology, 2013/10/08 10:23:02
The October 7 issue of Current Biology features an interview with Philip Benfey, describing his unconventional path to the research lab and the study of root development. Most interesting! [more]
July 18, 2013 - New book explores link between economic development, violence in Asia
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2013/07/22 10:48:32
Dr. Natalia Mirovitskaya, senior research scholar and lecturing fellow at the Duke Center for International Development (DCID), and Dr. William Ascher, founder of DCID and professor of government and economics at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif., have released the second in their series of books exploring the connection between economic development and conflict.
Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia provides an overview of the evolution of development doctrines, patterns of socio-economic development and levels of violence in all Asian subregions. Through a set of carefully selected case studies, the book explores the often surprising impacts of development initiatives on inter-group conflict from West Asia to Southeast Asia.
These studies demonstrate the “need to get past the conventional wisdom about economic development and violence,” Mirovitskaya said.
“For instance, the most explosive current conflicts in East and South Asia do not reflect the resentment against governments for neglecting the least developed areas, but rather the clashes that emerge from efforts to develop those areas,” she said. “Also, although it is plausible that poverty would engender resentment and increase struggles for wealth, in some of the poorest Asian countries violence has been more likely in wealthier, more economically advanced areas.”
The new book is part of a major multi-country research project on Economic Development Strategies to Avert Collective Violence, launched by Ascher and Mirovitskaya in 2009. The research is designed to help policymakers, development professionals and activists design conflict-sensitive strategies for development and avoid creating or magnifying fault lines between groups.
“Clearly, governments must be concerned about large gaps between the wealthy and the poor, about restricted social mobility, and about circumstances of economic desperation,” Mirovitskaya said. “Yet development strategies and economic hardship attributed to government policy may also contribute to animosity toward other ethnic, religious or linguistic groups.”
The book follows Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America, released last year, which explores the links between economic policies and the nature and dynamics of intergroup violence in Latin America. Based on the patterns of 10 countries, the first volume traced the transformation from ideological conflict to the explosion of social violence, urban crime and confrontations over natural resources and drugs across the region from Mexico to Argentina.
Although there are some similarities between Asia and Latin America, Mirovitskaya said, “the liberalization reforms that brought acute disruption all over Latin America have generally been enacted with far less turmoil in Asia. Much of Asia’s general success in economic growth and eventually in societal stability is owed to the elimination of inefficient state interventions combined with carefully designed compensation for reform losers.”
The third book in the series, The Economic Roots of Conflict and Cooperation in Africa, is due out this fall. These books are part of the Palgrave Macmillan series entitled “Politics, Economics, and Inclusive Development," which is available online.
July 17, 2013 - New program introduced for Indian Civil Accounts officers
Duke Center for International Development, 2013/07/17 09:57:55
The Duke Center for International Development (DCID) introduced a new customized program for Indian Civil Accounts Service officers on Monday, July 15. Twenty senior-level officials are participating in the two-week program, which focuses on budgeting and public financial management.
Jawahar Thakur, Controller General of Accounts at the organization, expressed interest in providing a training program for civil accounts officers last year. He worked with Dr. G.P. Shukla, professor of public policy, and Tej Prakash, senior fellow and former economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to put the program in place earlier this year. Shukla and Prakash also have experience working for the Indian government.
“[Thakur] wanted the officers to get exposure to international practices in public financial management, especially in accounting, budgeting and public debt management,” said Ravtosh Bal, Associate in Research at DCID. “The course is designed to provide an overview of the current best practices in specialized functions of their organization.”
While at Duke University, the officers will receive training from DCID faculty, as well as World Bank and IMF officials. They will also travel to Washington, D.C., to visit these organizations and learn more about their operations.
The Indian Civil Accounts Service, made up of about 200 officials, is responsible for establishing and maintaining the country’s management accounting system, monitoring government receipts and disbursements, and ensuring a sound and effective internal audit system. It also prepares the annual Appropriation and Finance accounts for the country’s Parliament.
MIDP Team Featured in Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs Newsletter
Duke Center for International Development, 2013/06/13 13:06:07
"A team from the Sanford School of Public Policy traveled to Boston in March to compete in the regional round for the $1 million dollar Hult Prize for student social entrepreneurs. In partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative, the Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator. Each year, more than 10,000 college students submit proposals and 200 teams are selected for the six regional competitions. The six winning teams pitch their start-up ideas at the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting.
'We are a team of five international students, from Armenia, India, Italy, Mexico and Myanmar. Our backgrounds are as diverse as our nationalities: medicine, environment, business management and nonprofits. We call ourselves ‘Food Rangers’ and our brand is synonymous to healthy, hygienic and nutritious food which is culturally acceptable,' their proposal said. The five students are enrolled in the school’s international development policy master’s degree program."
The Food Rangers' efforts have also been recognized by Sanford schools' Social Entrepreneurship and Policy Initiative organization and have been won the 'Risk Takers Award' this year. [more]
Sanford and the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD) sign Cooperation Agreement
Duke Center for International Development, 2013/04/17 12:08:26
On April 12, 2013, Sanford Dean Dr. Bruce Kuniholm and Dr. Joyce Teo Siew Yean, Dean Faculty of Business and Economics (FBEPS) & Director of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) at UBD signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and Cooperation Agreement. Others in the picture are Dr. Anita Aziz, Vice-President for Education and Internationalization, UBD, Associate Dean for Executive Education Dr. Francis Lethem, and Director of Graduate Studies (MIDP) Dr. Cory Krupp.
Under these agreements up to five students studying at UBD’s Institute of Policy Studies towards their Master’s degree in Public Policy and Management (MPPM) will be at Sanford for one semester as visiting students. They will attend classes under the MPP and MIDP programs starting in Spring of 2015. This will be the final semester of their 18 months program of studies.
This agreement is the culmination of discussions that started in November 2011 with a visit by a delegation from UBD headed by Dato Dr. Zulkarnain Hanafi, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University.
MIDP Program Hosts 2nd Annual Alumni & DC-Based Intern Picnic
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/08/21 15:55:37
MIDP alumni and interns, along with their families, gathered at the Second Annual Alumni & DC-Based Intern Picnic this past June. The event was held at the Columbia Island Marina Café on the Potomac River, opposite the Pentagon. Attendees enjoyed networking with their peers and reminiscing about their time spent at Duke. MIDP staff members Stephanie Alt Lamm, Alicia Jones, and Linda Scovill were also in attendance at the event, along with DCID’s Director Francis Lethem.
The MIDP Program also hosted a Triangle-area Alumni Picnic at the Duke Faculty Club that included families as well as MIDP students who stayed in Durham for the summer.
DCID Launches a Customized Executive Training Program with a Policy Product
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/08/21 15:49:54
In response to a request from the Government of Vietnam, DCID designed a training workshop for mid to senior officials from the Ministry of Planning and Investment designed to help them strengthen their planning systems at the central and provincial levels. The program was conceived as a strategic planning exercise carried out by the 15 participants. Prior to coming to Duke, the participants prepared a SWOT analysis of their present system experience, presenting their findings to the DCID faculty upon arrival, along with their vision for the future.
In turn, the DCID faculty took the participants through a rigorous and intensive program, fine-tuned on the basis of the Vietnamese presentation. The program covered the most relevant worldwide experience in public finance management, with emphasis on decentralization of public investment planning, decision-making, and budgeting, and how to ensure that it would result in high quality investments responsive to both central and local level objectives. The course also examined the merits of public-private partnerships, and looked into the practical details of the US experience as exemplified by the State of North Carolina, Durham County Government and the Research Triangle Park.
The program concluded with a joint discussion of possible lessons and strategies that might be beneficial for Vietnam. The delegation will refine its ideas after their return home and present them to the appropriate authorities. This visit, which might lead to further consultations between the Ministry of Planning and Investment and DCID faculty was organized and funded by the Belgian Aid Agency and was preceded by visits to planning and investment systems in England, Poland and Belgium.
DCID hopes that other countries and aid agencies will be interested in this type of executive training program targeted to specific policy products.
Welcome new CLACS Director Deborah Jenson!
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2012/07/09 16:53:09
Please join us in welcoming our new CLACS director and UNC-Duke Consortium co-director Deborah Jenson. As many of you know, Deborah is Professor of French in the Department of Romance Studies. She also co-directs the Haiti Humanities Lab and the Neurohumanities Research Group. Her research interests include French and Haitian Studies; Creole/Kreyol language; Global Health; and Neurohumanities. Deborah may be contacted at deborah.jenson@duke.edu We look forward to working with her over the next couple of years.
Eduardo da Costa recipient of first Dennis A. Clements Outstanding Service Award
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2012/07/09 16:51:31
CLACS was proud to present the first Dennis A. Clements Outstanding Service Award in Latin American and Caribbean Studies to Eduardo da Costa (MA in International Development Policy and CLACS Graduate Certificate Recipient) For service and dedication to the people of the Amazon rainforest impacted by natural resource extraction, for innovation and dedication in helping to establish the new Duke in Brazil program in the Amazon region, and for donating over 600 books to Duke libraries related to environmental policy in the region. The award was presented during the CLACS Certificate Ceremony on May 11, 2012.
CLACS creates Dennis A. Clements Outstanding Service Award in Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2012/06/01 17:11:12
In honor of the dedication, creativity, leadership, humor, and social entrepreneurship offered by our Director, Dennis Clements, to the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, to the entire Duke community of students, faculty, and administrators devoted to studying this region of the world, and to the people of the central highlands of Honduras who have benefited from his Exploring Medicine program for the last 11 years, CLACS has created an outstanding service award in his name, to be presented to one certificate student each year who exemplifies these qualities. Dr. Clements' ability to bring people together from different disciplines and centers, his dedication to providing health care to rural areas of Central America, his mentorship as a teacher in the Global Health program, his support for scientific and artistic research in Latin America and the Caribbean, and his support for the people of CLACS in their own professional endeavors has made our community a better place. This award is a small token of our appreciation for Dr. Clements' leadership and friendship over the past 4 years and a way to maintain his legacy in our Center. This award will be presented each year to an undergraduate or graduate certificate student who has demonstrated extraordinary commitment to service, civic engagement, and social entrepreneurship in Latin America and/or the Caribbean and comes with an award of $500.
Fall 2012 course "Colonial/Decolonial Aesthetics" taught by Prof. Deborah Jenson (Romance Studies/Haiti Lab) and Edouard Duval-Carrie (Haitian Artist and Mellon Visiting Professor)
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2012/05/14 17:23:56
Fall 2012 course "Colonial/Decolonial Aesthetics" taught by Prof. Deborah Jenson (Romance Studies/Haiti Lab) and Edouard Duval-Carrie (Haitian Artist and Mellon Visiting Professor). ROMST 490S.02; ARTSVIS 490S.01; LATAMER 490S.02. Thursdays 4:40 - 7:10 pm. Perkins LINK 2-065, Classroom 2. Course description: An introduction to colonial aesthetics, fashions, poetics, as well as to the aesthetics of the resistance to colonialism and slavery. Team-taught by acclaimed Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrie and Haiti Lab co-director Deborah Jenson. This course will familiarize students with the cultural history of the Haitian Revolution. There is a studio art component involving, among other possible projects, collaborative illustrations of an 18th century Creole opera that dramatizes social relationships across racial, class, and religious groups. Course taught in English; no pre-requisites. FL preceptorials in French and Spanish for French and Spanish majors and minors. For more information contact deborah.jenson@duke.edu
Fall 2012 course "Visions of Haiti" taught by Prof Laurent Dubois (Romance Studies and History) and Edouard Duval-Carrie (Haitian Artist and Mellon Visiting Professor)
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2012/05/14 17:17:23
Fall 2012 course "Visions of Haiti" taught by Prof Laurent Dubois (Romance Studies and History) and Edouard Duval-Carrie (Haitian Artist and Mellon Visiting Professor). Open to undergraduate and graduate students. FRN 690S-2; AAS 690S; ARTSVIS 690S; HISTORY 590S; LATAMER 690S; VMS 590S. Tuesdays 1:25 - 3:30 pm. Course description: In this class we'll work with renowned Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrie as we explore the visual representations of Haiti. We'll examine how the country has viewed both by outsiders and by Haitians themselves, examining to understand how visual culture has intersected with political, cultural, and religious life in Haiti. To better understand the art of Haiti – including paintings, photography, and film – we'll study the political and economic history, study the impact of both Vodou and Christianity on the country’s culture, and read poetry and fiction. Students will do independent research projects and have the opportunity to participate in the conceptualization an exhibit on the history of Haitian photography (being curated by Duval-Carrie at the Fort Lauderdale Museum). For more information contact laurent.dubois@duke.edu. The class is open both undergraduate and graduate students and will meet in the Haiti Laboratory at the Smith Warehouse.
Check out the updates for the DFC Master Plan!
Duke Faculty Club, 2012/02/22 16:59:54
The DFC is excited to present the latest updates to the Long Range Master Plan Project. Head to the the Master Plan Project page for more details.
Panelists address NGO-military relations in post-conflict situations
Duke Center for International Development, 2012/01/27 17:40:38
Collaboration between civilian organizations and the military is crucial in providing support to fragile and post-conflict areas, panelists said Thursday evening.
Representatives from military and developmental civilian groups discussed both the challenges and potential benefits of working together in relief operations. As the latest installment in the Sanford School of Public Policy’s Rethinking Development Policy Lecture series, the panel addressed key policy issues to a large audience.
The differing roles of military and nongovernmental organizations complicate collaboration efforts in post–conflict areas, said Chris Seiple, president of the Institute for Global Engagement, which promotes sustainable religious freedom around the world.
“There are differences in the overall goals of the military and NGOs,” Seiple said. “For example, while the military brings security and instant reconstruction, NGOs raise situational awareness and provide measures for effectiveness.”
Read [more] -- The Chronicle
Dr. Alan Gelfand delivers 15th P. C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lectures
Statistical Science, 2012/01/23 15:16:21
In January, Alan Gelfand delivered the 15th P. C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lectures – seven lectures over two weeks in three cities (Kolkata, Delhi, Bengaluru). These lectures honor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founder of the Indian Statistical Institute and pioneering contributor to statistical theory and methodology in sample survey work and in multivariate analysis. Previous winners include Samuel Karlin, Sir David Cox, Peter Hall, and Jim Berger.
Dr. Gelfand also presented the Presidenti al Invited Lecture at the 22nd annual meeting of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES2012) in Hyderabad.NSF Awards $3 Million To Triangle Scientists To Improve Federal Data
Statistical Science, 2011/10/13 13:16:06
Faculty from the Duke Departments of Statistical Science, Economics and Political Science in collaboration with NISS have been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (in partnership with the US Census Bureau) to improve the way that federal statistical agencies analyze and disseminate economic and demographic data to the public. Investigators from Statistical Science include Jerry Reiter (PI), David Dunson, and Fan Li. The team will use the award to create the Triangle Census Research Network (TCRN), one of eight such networks across the country. The TCRN will develop cutting edge statistical methodologies to help statistical agencies (i) release data that maintain subjects' confidentiality while still enabling valid inference, (ii) handle missing and faulty values, and (iii) combine information across sources. The team will apply methodologies to high profile Census Bureau datasets, thereby improving analyses for hundreds of other researchers.
There are multiple opportunities for graduate students, both PhD and Masters, to be a part of the TCRN research. Interested students should contact Jerry Reiter.
World Bank Research Working Paper by MIDP Alum Hiroshi Saeki
Duke Center for International Development, for fellows, 2011/08/16 15:16:09
This week, the World Bank published a new Research Working Paper (WPS 5640) co-authored by MIDP alumnus Hiroshi Saeki on the employability of newly graduated engineers in India. Please click "more" below for a summary of the paper and access to its full text. Hiroshi, who graduated in May 2004, is with the Human Development Unit (Education) of the World Bank’s South Asia Region. [more]
BEST Award for Student Research 2010/11
Statistical Science, 2011/05/19 13:53:48
Statistical Science PhD student Jouchi Nakajima is the recipient of the 2010/2011 BEST Award for his research on "Bayesian Dynamic Factor Models: Latent Threshold Approach".
Statistical Science undergraduate student Derrick Hang received an honorable mention for his research on "High-Frequency Bayesian Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Volatility in Finance ".
For full details, pictures and papers, visit the BEST 2010-11 page.
And see details of the BEST Award past, present and future at http://www.stat.duke.edu/research/BEST/.
May 15, 2011 - Departmental Graduation Reception
Statistical Science, 2011/05/11 11:25:01
LOCATION: Von Canon A (Bryan Center)
12:00pm Luncheon and Cocktails
12:20 pm Welcome
Professor Alan Gelfand - Department Chair
12:40 pm Presentation of Bachelor’s Degrees
Professor Dalene Stangl - Director of Undergraduate Studies
1:00 pm Presentation of Masters & PhD Degrees
Professor Mike West - Director of Graduate Studies
1:20 pm Presentation of BEST Award
Faculty News
Statistical Science, 2011/05/09 11:28:44
Dr. Jerry Reiter has been elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. The official awards ceremony will take place at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Miami Beach in August. Dr. Sayan Mukherjee has received tenure and has been promoted to Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2011. Dr. David Dunson has been chosen as a recipient of an Outstanding Alumni Award from the Eberly College of Science at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Alan Gelfand delivered the 40th Craig Lectures at the University of Iowa in April 2011.
The 2010/2011 BEST Award
Statistical Science, 2011/05/05 15:35:13
This year's award announcement and ceremony will be during the Statistical Science departmental graduation reception on May 15th. See the BEST award flyer with full details.
Building Hope Project
Latino/a Studies Certificate, 2011/01/25 16:58:32
Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) is coordinating a volunteer day during Farmworker Awareness Week April 2-3rd. We want to involve staff, board members, alumni and students participating in our programs. Read more below and let us know if you're interested in participating with us. Sign up with Laxmi Haynes at farmworker_justice@yahoo.com or 919-660-3660.
The Building Hope Project is an opportunity to connect with the workers who put food on our plates, hear their stories, learn more about farmworker issues and take action to support them. Volunteers help in small-scale construction of chicken coops and greenhouses for farmworker families in NC. This is a way to help them save money and supplement their nutrition by growing their own food. Build days are scheduled on weekends this spring. Check out the webpage for more information: http://www.ncfarmworkers.org/student/
The Building Hope Project is a collaborative effort led by the Farmworker Ministry Committee of the NC Council of Churches. Other partners include Design Corps, Student Action with Farmworkers, National Farm Worker Ministry, and more.
Dr. Jim Berger awarded the 2011 Rao Prize
Statistical Science, 2011/01/19 12:21:20
The Department of Statistical Science is delighted to announce Dr. Jim Berger is the 2011 recipient of the Rao Prize. The C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize was established to honor and recognize outstanding and influential innovations in the theory and practice of mathematical statistics, international leadership in directing statistical research, and pioneering contributions by a recognized leader in the field of statistics. The Rao Prize is awarded by the Department of Statistics at Penn State University to a nominee selected by the members of the Rao Prize Committee.
Previous winners are Brad Efron, Jayaram Sethuraman, Larry Brown, and Peter Bickel.
Postdoctoral Research Associate (RA) in Statistical Science
Statistical Science, 2010/11/18 12:02:11
The departments of Statistical Science and Mathematics are inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Associate to work on inference of network controls. The primary goal is the development of methods to infer nonlinear dynamics from times series data. Special focus will be on dynamics supported on networks, where the inference problem will also include information about network topology
The candidate will work under the supervision of Profs. John Harer (Mathematics) and Sayan Mukherjee (Statistical Science) at Duke on a project funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The project is a joint effort with Prof. Konstantin Mischaikow of Rutgers University.
An ideal candidate will have a strong background in topological methods for the analysis of dynamical systems and statistical inference or stochastic processes. As this is a rare combination strong candidates with either background are encouraged to apply.
Applicants should email their CV, a brief statement of their background and interests and contact information for at least three references to:
Sayan Mukherjee Department of Statistical Science Duke University sayan@stat.duke.edu
Fabrizio Ruggeri elected as ISBA President, Hedibert Lopes elected as ISBA Treasurer
Statistical Science, 2010/11/18 11:25:21
Fabrizio Ruggeri (Stat Sci PhD 1994), currently Research Director of CNR-IMATI in Milan, Italy (Italy's leading national research center for mathematical sciences and its applications), has been elected as President of ISBA, the International Society for Bayesian Analysis -- the world's leading professional organization for Bayesian statistics and related disciplines. Fabrizio will serve as President Elect of ISBA in 2011, President in 2012 and Past President in 2013.
Hedibert Lopes (Stat Sci PhD 2000), currently associate professor of econometrics and statistics at the University of Chicago Booth Business School, has been elected as Treasurer of ISBA. Hedibert will serve as Treasurer of ISBA for a 3-year term, 2011-2013 inclusive.
Dr. David Dunson wins 2010 COPSS President's Award
Statistical Science, 2010/08/16 18:44:27
The Department of Statistical Science at Duke University is proud to announce that David Dunson, a professor in our group, is the recipient of the 2010 COPSS Award. The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a person under the age of 40, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. It is awarded by the five sponsoring statistical societies:
The American Statistical Association (ASA)
The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
The Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society (ENAR)
The Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society (WNAR)
The presentation of the award takes place at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings and, in fact, was awarded on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 in Vancouver, BC. This award is widely regarded as the "Nobel Prize in Statistics," as it is a worldwide competition encompassing the entire field and only a single award is given each year.
The citation on Dunson\u2019s award is as follows: For his wide-ranging and fundamental contributions to the development of parametric and nonparametric modeling within complex Bayesian frameworks; for making significant concurrent scientific progress in machine learning through this development; for use of this methodology in substantive applications, notably in reproductive epidemiology; and for outstanding service to the profession as well as mentoring of students and post-doctoral researchers.
This has been a remarkable year for Professor Dunson. He was also elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and he was named the 2010 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer at Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. David Dunson named the 2010 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer at Harvard School of Public Health.
Statistical Science, 2010/06/29 13:13:07
The lectureship was established in perpetuity in memory of Dr. Myrto Lefkopoulou, a faculty member and graduate of Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Lefkopoulou tragically died of cancer in 1992 at the age of 34 after a courageous two-year battle. She was deeply beloved by friends, students, and faculty.
Each year the Myrto Lefkopoulou Lectureship is awarded to a promising statistician who has made contributions to either collaborative or methodologic research in the applications of statistical methods to biology or medicine, and/or who has shown excellence in the teaching of biostatistics. Ordinarily, the lectureship is given to a statistician who has earned a doctorate in the last fifteen years. The lecture is presented to a general scientific audience as the first Department colloquium of each academic year. The lectureship includes travel to Boston, a reception following the lecture, and an honorarium of $1000. Previous recipients of the Lefkopoulou Memorial Lectureship have been Xihong Lin, Heping Zhang, Francesca Dominici, Jianqing Fan, Mark van der Laan, Geert Molenberghs, Marie Davidian,Danyu Lin, Bradley P. Carlin, Steven N. Goodman, Ronald Brookmeyer, Michael Boehnke, Trevor Hastie, Hans-Georg Mueller,Giovanni Parmigiani, Kathryn Roeder, and Louise Ryan.
Duke using game systems to crunch scientific problems
Statistical Science, 2010/05/19 14:41:09
New scientific programming tools developed at Duke University can help scientists tap the processing power of graphics processing units, or GPUs, from video gaming systems to handle complex calculations, such as better understanding the body’s response to experimental treatments for AIDS and other diseases.
Dr. Jerry Reiter received endowed chair
Statistical Science, 2010/05/05 17:07:31
Dr. Jerry Reiter is the recipient of an endowed chair through the University’s Bass Program for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, a $40 million initiative that recognizes faculty members who are gifted teachers as well as scholars. His new title is Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Associate Professor of Statistical Science. Congratulations to Jerry! Wonderful for him and for the Department. For further details on the Bass Chairs please see http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2001/01/bass126.html.
Irina Oryeshkevich Lecture
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, 2008/03/24 14:22:24
Monday, March 24, 2008, 4:45 pm, 108 East Duke Building "Roma sotterranea: The Origins of an Urban Legend" (link)
Michael Corris, "The Difficult Freedom of Ad Reinhardt"
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, 2008/03/18 14:48:54
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 5:00 pm, Nasher Museum of Art, Nasher and Haemisegger Lecture Hall (link)
Sara Galletti Lecture
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, 2008/03/18 09:00:05
Thursday, March 20, 4:45 pm, 108 East Duke Building (link)
Opher Mansour Lecture
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, 2008/03/18 08:58:17
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 4:45 pm, 108 East Duke Building (link)
UNC To Head Homeland Security Center of Excellence
Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, 2008/03/10 11:21:56
A consortium led by the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has won a nationwide competition to run a new Center of Excellence on Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure, and Emergency Management. The new Center, which will be co-led by Jackson State University, will conduct research and develop educational programs focusing on the mitigating the effects of and responding to coastal storms and other natural disasters. Duke University and the Renaissance Computing Institute are part of the consortium. (more)
Venice Program "Church and City"
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, 2008/01/30 12:43:39
Prof. Caroline Bruzelius, Spring 2008 (program announcement )(Spring 2008 Prospectus)
New Major:
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, 2008/01/30 12:28:25
Visual Studies Major (link) (??
Jane Maienschein (School of Life Sciences, Arizona State)
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, 2008/01/10 12:39:04
Friday, April 25, 2008
3:30 PM, 202 West Duke
April 14, 2008 - Hans Jörg-Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin)
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, 2008/01/10 12:37:11
President Brodhead announced a university-wide effort to raise $300 million in endowment for 
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Are you looking to add a spark to your workouts?
Are you looking for something different to do for your sweetheart in February? How about learning to jump start his/her heart? The DFC will be offering 2 Adult CPR/AED courses: one on Tuesday, February 19 and one on Wednesday, February 20. Both classes will be held in the upstairs of the LeBar Building from 6-9pm. The cost of the class is $30 for members and $35 for non-members. Register for the class by calling the office at 684-6672. Space is limited. 
The trustees approved an operating budget of $1.7 billion for the 2006-07 fiscal year. 
President Brodhead said Duke has no plans to change its 
A panel of faculty, staff, students, and alumnae will succeed the commission that implemented recommendations of the 
Early Monday morning, a large willow oak tree met its demise in the 50 mile per hour gusts that crossed our region. The tree, approximately 5 feet in diameter, knocked out 1st and 2nd story windows of the building, coming to rest outside the offices of the Web Solutions Team.
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After 16 years as separate units, the social psychology and psychology and brain science departments will merge into the 
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Calling all DFC tennis players!! It's not too early to begin thinking about spring 2008 USTA league tennis play! Spring teams form in January and February, and league play happens from early March through early June. At this point, we are thinking that DFC will field women's teams at the 2.5, 3.0, and 3.5 levels (probably mostly evening, but we are open to the idea of daytime if demand exists), and men's teams at the 3.5 and 4.0 levels (evening play). Play at other levels is an option if enough interest exists! USTA play is a lot of fun! Teams typically play one night per week either at DFC courts (when home) or away at other clubs in the area. In the spring USTA season, teams field 2 courts of singles and 3 courts of doubles for each match. Teams can contain 14 individuals, and only 8 play on a given night, so not everyone plays every week. As a player, you can estimate that your playing commitment will be about 4 to 6 matches over the 3 month period (the exact number of matches depends on number of teams in each league). Even if you have never participated in USTA League play before, we welcome you to give it a try. You'll meet a lot of fun people, and play some great tennis! If you are interested, or think you might be interested, or have any questions about USTA league play, please contact Kelly Baker (DFC pro) at kelly.baker@duke.edu (or see him on the courts!), or Charlotte Clark (club member) at cclark@duke.edu. You must let us know of your interest by early February so we can determine what teams we want to field at each level. The January newsletter will contain a specific notification deadline date. See you on the courts!!! 
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