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• September 24, 2007 - New faculty member joins us!
  , 2007/11/30 10:47:13

  
  
  
  Stephen W. Smith is the former Africa editor of the French newspaper Le Monde and has been working on Africa for twenty-five years, previously for Reuter's News Agency, Radio France International and the French daily Liberation. Since 2005, he has established himself as an independent journalist and book author. His latest book, co-authored with Antoine Glaser, was published in 2005 under the title How France Lost Africa.
  
  He is also the author of a report on Nigeria by the International Crisis Group, "Nigeria: Want in the Midst of Plenty" (July 2006). Other publications include The Cocoa War in Ivory Coast (1990), biographies of Morocco's General Oufkir (1998), and, together with Geraldine Faes, Bokassa (2000), two volumes with Antoine Glaser on Ces Messieurs Afrique (1992 and 1997), an account of the Somalia crisis (1993), The Lost Humanitarian War, and, in 2003, a travel book on the Congo River as well as an essay entitled Negrology: Why Africa Is Dying. A biography on Winnie Mandela, co-authored with Sabine Cessou, will be published this fall.
  
  Dr. Smith, though born in Milford, CT, has spent most of his life in Europe. He studied African law and anthropology at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and philosophy, history and political science at the Free University of Berlin, where he completed his doctorate in semiotics on foreign news coverage.
  
  He is currently also teaching, as an adjunct professor, a course at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS).  

• April 05, 2007 - PANEL DISCUSSION
  
  , 2007/03/26 16:09:07

  Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop
  April 5, 2007 - 5:00pm
  Visit our Faculty Forum

   

• February 22, 2007 - TOWN HALL MEETING
  
  , 2007/03/14 10:31:46

  Comments and paper by Professor Wahneema Lubiano
  Visit our Faculty Forum to view.  

• February 08, 2007 - Black History Month
  , 2007/02/05 09:26:01

  
  Discussion and Book Signing with local author Zelda Lockhart
  (adult program)
  
  Date/Time: Thursday, February 8, 7 to 8:45p.m
  Location: East Regional Library, 211 Lick Creek Ln.
  
  Free and open to the public  

• A Conversation with Davarian Baldwin, Author
  , 2007/09/27 16:48:18

  
  
  
  Associate Professor of History and African & African Diaspora Studies @ Boston College Author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (UNC Press).
  
  Wednesday October 3, 2007 @ 4:30 pm
  Science Building, Room 107
  
  Professor Baldwin (Ph.D., New York University, 2001) has taught a range of courses on the African American experience and the history of modern thought.
  
  His research interests include intellectual and mass culture, Black radical thought and transnational social movements, race, space, and urban culture, competing conceptions of modernity, political economy and heritage tourism. Baldwin has been the recipient of the Erskine Peters Dissertation Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame (2000-2001) and the Carter G. Woodson Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Virginia (2003-2004). He is currently at work on two manuscript projects: "Black Belts and Ivory Towers: The Racial Foundations of U.S. Social Thought" and "UniverCities: How Knowledge Institutions are Re-Structuring the Urban Landscape."
  
  This event is sponsored by African & African-American Studies, The Institute for Critical US Studies and "The Center for the Study of Black Popular Culture" at Duke University.
  
     

• GRADUATION 2007
  
  , 2007/04/23 18:34:01

  2007 African & African American Studies
  Graduation & Reception
  Date: May 11, 2007
  Time: 2-4pm
  Location: John Hope Franklin Center- Rm. 240
  (reception to follow- Rm. 130)
   

• RACE, SPACE, PLACE CONFERENCE
  
  , 2007/03/26 15:46:59

  The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World and Beyond
  April 14-15, 2007
  Please visit the Race Space Place web site.

   

• "Freedom School"
  , 2007/01/10 15:06:51

  
  A series of "Freedom School" discussions on contemporary social issues, led by Duke professors and students, as well as invited speakers. The discussions are inspired by the Freedom Schools organized during the civil rights movement.
  
  Contact: Sharon Caple 684-8353
  
  Date:  January 15, 2007
  
  Time: 11:00 - 4:45pm
  
  Location: Bryan Center [more]