- Lecture by Marian Hobson (Cambridge University)
, 2006/02/21 08:39:09
Breedlove Room,
Thursday, January 19, 2006 at
7:30pm ??
Diderot: the (w)hole of history. The
lecture discusses the limits to what we know
about Diderot’s life and activity: what sort of
investigations could in the future make the
limits less severe? And it asks whether these
limits are particular to Diderot or rather
inherent to history.
Marian Hobson is for her part
a much-respected eighteenth-century scholar,
author notably of The Object of Art : the
theory of illusion in eighteenth-century
France, but also a book on Derrida:
Jacques Derrida : opening lines.
- Duke University Celebrates 2005: The Year of Languages
, 2006/01/06 11:37:27
Under the guidance of the American Council on the
Teaching of Foreign Languages and its affiliated
organizations, elementary, middle and secondary
schools as well as colleges and universities will
observe The
Year of Languages with special cultural and
literary events, competitions and distribution of
informational materials promoting the value of
language education. We invite you to review our
calendar of events and the language resources to
see how you may join in the celebration!
- Year of Languages
, 2005/04/26 14:49:15
This web site is designed to promote
2005:
The Year of Languages at Duke
University.
- Transatlantic Working Group Meeting
, 2005/11/30 12:00:28
Monday, November 21, 2005 at 7:00pm,
Languages Building, Room 305. "Drawing
the Trans-Atlantic Space: A Comparative
Perspective"
This year, we will focus our attention on the
Atlantic Slave Trade. This week, we will explore
theories of property prevalent in the XVI-XVIII
centuries in order to advance our understanding
of the figure of the slave in commercial, legal,
and literary texts.
The readings for the next meeting are:
1. "Transformations of Value and the
Production of Investment in the Early History of
the English East India Company" by Valerie
Forman.
2. "John Locke, Natural Law and Colonialism"
by Barbara Arneil.
3. "Natural Law and the Theory of Property:
Grotius to Hume" by Stephen Buckle.
PLEASE email Beatriz (br9@duke.edu) to get the
readings. Refreshments will be served. We hope to
see you there.
- Using Languages on the Job
, 2005/11/09 11:08:47
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
5:30-7:30pm in the Faculty Commons
How are languages important in the job market?
On November 8, 2005 the Year of Languages
Committee will host a panel discussion to answer
the question of how languages are used in certain
professions. Three panelists will present their
work experiences and how language knowledge has
played a role in determining their career path.
Please join us to listen to R. Calvin Dark II
(Duke, Trinity 2001) who works with the Moroccan
American Trade and Investment Council, in
Washington D.C. where he uses French and Arabic;
Lee Richardson (Duke, Trinity 1976; UNC-CH MA,
International Relations 1982) uses his Japanese
skills in the Biotech Industry, Software, High
tech Industry, Real Estate Investment and
Brokerage, Health Supplements.; and Rick Fleming
(NCCU, JD 2001, MA UNC-CH) is a Lawyer in Law
Offices of James Scott Farrin, NC Personal Injury
Lawyers where he uses his Spanish. He has taught
(domestic and international), and has been an
Administrator of study abroad programs as well.
- Quebec Cinema Week at Duke
, 2005/11/14 10:23:35
November 7 - 11, 2005
http://www.duke.edu/web/cffs/2.html.
??
November 7
Jésus de Montréal
Denys Arcand, 1989
7:00 pm, Teer Engineering Library
November 8
Emporte-moi (Set Me Free)
Léa Pool, 2000
7:00 pm, Teer Engineering Library
November 9
L'ange de gourdon (Tar Angel)
Denis Chouinard, 2001
2:00 pm, Griffith Theater, Bryan Center
Followed by Q & A and reception with the
director
Comment conquérir l'Amérique (How to Conquer
American in One Night)
Dany Laférrière, 2004
8:00 pm, Griffith Theater, Bryan Center
Followed by Q & A with the director
November 10
Elles etaient cinq (The Five of us)
Ghyslaine Côté, 2004
7:00 pm, Teer Engineering Library
November 11
La
face cachée de la lune (The Far Side of the Moon)
Robert Lepage, 2004
7:00 pm, Teer Engineering Library
- Sherwin K. Bryant Lecture and luncheon
, 2005/11/04 10:57:25
November 1, 2005 12:00
noon at the Duke Center for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies Conference room. For
more information, please contact cknoop@duke.edu
Summary: "Expanding the Diaspora:
Africans, Afro-Creoles, and the Context of
Identity Formation in Colonial Quito (Ecuador and
southern Colombia), 1600-1730" by Sherwin K.
Bryant.
Sherwin K. Bryant, Assistant Professor of
African American Studies and History at
Northwestern University, will be giving a lecture
on the topics of Colonial Latin America and
comparative slavery Details: Sherwin K. Bryant
(PhD, Ohio State University, 2005) is a member of
the Department of African American Studies with a
courtesy joint appointment in the Department of
History here at Northwestern University. He
specializes in colonial Latin American history,
with a particular emphasis upon comparative
slavery and the African experience in Latin
America. His dissertation, "Slavery and the
Context of Ethnogenesis: Africans, Afro-Creoles
and the Realities of Bondage in the Kingdom of
Quito, 1600-1800," looked comparatively at slave
experiences in two of Quito¹s three principal
slaveholding regions, Popayán and Quito, while
exploring Quito's unique context for African and
Afro-Creole identity formation. Mr. Bryant is
currently revising his dissertation for
publication.
[Lecture Flyer (PDF)]
- Wednesdays at The Center series: Black Macho Disturbed: Luther Vandross and Black Masculinity Re-Imagined
, 2005/11/10 09:11:23
Wednesday November 9, 2005 at 12:00
noon (lunch served beginning 11:45 a.m).
Speaker: Mark Anthony Neal, Associate
Professor, Black Popular Culture, Program in
African and African American Studies, Duke
University
This event is presented by the Program in
African and African American Studies. Visit the
sponsors on the web at:
http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/ For
questions, contact Phone: (919) 668-1902 -- Web:
http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi
- Reading in French by Jean Delabroy
, 2005/11/04 10:57:06
November 1, 2005.
7:30 pm in 305 Languages.
Please joint us for a special reading of
selections in French from Les Dernières annès
du monde by the author Jean
Delabroy.
Wine and hors d'oeuvres
- Moriscos Conference
, 2005/10/26 14:53:08
Friday November 4, 2005 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference Room. For more information, please contact cknoop@duke.edu
Summary: Series of Lectures includes:
*Sacred origins and memory of Islam: Writing history in early modern Granada (Mercedes García Arenal,Madrid)
*How Does A Morisco Tale about a Visigoth Become a Gothic Tale about the Moriscos? (David Castillo,Buffalo, NY)
*The Politics of Memory in Calderón's El Tuzaní de la Alpujarra (Margaret Greer, Duke, NC)
*Granada Moriscos and the Origins of the Sacromonte Affair (Gerard Wiegers, Netherlands)
Mercedes García Arenal is Professor in the Department of Arab Studies at the Institute of the Superior Council of Scientific (CSIC, Madrid). She is interested in the religious history and culture of the Muslim West in the early Modern Age, religious minorities, the processes of conversion and the religious sincretismo.
David Castillo is Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Literature at the University of Buffalo (SUNY). His Areas of Specialization include Early Modern and Baroque Studies, Spanish Golden Age, and Cultural criticism.
Margaret Greer is Chair and Professor of the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. Her research interests include Spanish Early Modern Literature and Culture, Women Writers, Text Editing.
Gerard Wiegers is professor of Islamic Studies in the University of Leiden (Netherlands). He is author of numerous articles on the Islam minority religion in Christian Spain.
[Conference flyer (PDF)]
- ROMANCING THE HUMANITIES (2005-2006), Part I
, 2005/11/14 10:23:43
Friday, November 11, 2005,
1:30 pm to 5:30 pm in 305 Language Building.
Arrivals, Visits, and Departures: What
knowledges/understanding? Whose
knowledges/understanding? For what?
The workshop will be organized around three 15
minutes presentations by Jose Antonio Ramos
Arteaga, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Martin Eisner, Assistant Professor of Italian,
Duke University Vincent Desroches, Visiting
Assistant Professor of French and commentaries by
Mariana Past, Graduate Student, Romance Studies,
Duke University
There will be plenty of time for the audience
to join in the conversations initiated by the
speakers, as well as refreshments to make the
conversation more enjoyable.
- Spring 2005 Awards
, 2005/10/26 16:34:05
The Spanish department announces our Spring
2005 recipient of the Richard L. Predmore
Award in Spanish:
AMY WAI-JUA CHENG
The French department announces our Spring 2005
recipient of the Robert J. Niess/Alexander Hull
Award in French:
BAHIJ JUSTIN TAMER
Congratulations Amy and Justin!
- Lecture in Spanish by Carlos Jáuregui
, 2005/11/16 13:07:44
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 5:00pm
in the Breedlove Room, Perkins Library.
Lecture is in Spanish and entitled “Apetitos
coloniales, salvajes críticos y razón de imperio”
Carlos Jáuregui es Assistant Professor,
Literatura Latinoamericana y Antropología,
Vanderbilt University. Su libro Canibalia obtuvo
el premio Casa de las Américas 2005. Autor de
Querella de los indios en las “Cortes de la
Muerte” (1557) de Michael de Carvajal (México:
UNAM, 2002) y co-editor con J. P. Dabove de
Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y
alteridad latinoamericana (Pittsburgh: IILI,
2003).
Esta presentación examina la cooptación
imperial de los tratados de Fray Bartolomé de las
Casas en la que será la definición de la Razón
imperial del dominio ultramarino. Dicha razón
imperial—en contradicción con las relecciones de
Vitoria—coopta el alegato lascasiano así como sus
tropología y geopolítica imperial. De ello es una
muestra elocuente el retablo XIX de las Cortes de
la Muerte (1557), suma dramático-alegórica de la
formación moderna de la razón imperial y de las
dudas morales y debates respecto de la conquista
del Nuevo Mundo y la dominación de los indios.
- Romance Studies Students Initiated into Phi Beta Kappa
Ryn Nasser, 2005/05/12 09:35:41
Congratulations to our Romance Studies students
newly initiated into Phi Beta Kappa!
Ruth Denali Carlitz--Italian minor-Spring 04
Julia Connors--French Studies Major-Spring 04
Scott Jay Frommer-Spanish minor-Spring 04
Barry Jordan Gewolb-Spanish/Latin American
Major-Spring 05
William K. Hoskyn-French Studies Major-Spring 05
Jessica Harris Laun-Spanish minor-Spring 05
John Strudwick Lewis, Jr.-Spanish minor-Spring 06
Michelle Anne Mangan-French/European Studies
Major-Spring 05
Jessica Marie Parrish-Spanish minor-Spring 04
