Sat, November 7, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater. $30/$5 Duke Students. In this special evening of collaborative performance, the world-renowned KLR Trio take the stage with the Miami String Quartet, who play wtih "sweeping authority, fluency, and hushed poignancy" (Miami Herald). The program is anchored by a new, CAS-commissioned piano septet from Ellen Taafe Zwillich, the first woman to ever win the Pulitzer for music composition.
PROGRAM:
Boccherini: String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5
Dvo'ák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81
Ellen Taafe Zwillich: Piano Septet (2008, CAS Commission)
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Mon, November 9, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. (Luis Lopez & Trisha Ziff, 2008, 86 min, Mexico, in Spanish with English subtitles, Color/Black & White, DVD) The revolution may not have been televised, but Che Guevara, one of its key advocates, was transformed into a pop icon that appeared on everything from t-shirts to posters to cigarette lighters to bikinis and a thousand other everyday objects. "Chevolution" tells the story of Che Guevara, the Argentinean doctor who chose to take up the gun and join Castro in the fight against imperialism in Cuba. But it isn't simply a bio-pic, instead it examines how Guevara became an image, immortalized by fashion photographer turned revolutionary photojournalist Alberto Korda, whose story is also woven throughout this rich film. -- Discussion to follow; Part of the Latin American Film Festival series.
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Tue, November 10, 2009 4:25 PM - 5:50 PM Ark. Discussion of American Dance Festival's Pearl Primus Archive & UBW's "Walking with Pearl" with UBW's Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, ADF's Archivist Dean Jeffrey and ADF Associate Director Jodee Nimerichter.
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Tue, November 10, 2009 4:30 PM - 4:30 PM LSRC B101. Free and open to public. ¿The Meaning of Wilderness and the Rights of Nature,¿ Dr. Roderick Nash, Professor Emeritus of History and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Parking is available in the parking deck on Science Drive at a cost of $2.00. A reception will follow in the Hall of Science. For more information contact Dr. Steven Anderson, Forest History Society president, (919) 682-9319.
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Tue, November 10, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Ark. Master class with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and UBW company members. (Dance 63) Free and open to the public (limited space available)
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Tue, November 10, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium. Lilian Thuram, Caribbean-born French soccer player, activist and writer, is well-known both for his successes on the turf and for his frequent political interventions off of it. He will share his thoughts on sport, racism, and immigration as well as discussing the work of his new foundation: Fondation Lilian Thuram, Education contre le racisme, www.thuram.org.
The discussion will be facilitated by Visiting English Professor Achille Mbembe and Duke French and History Professor Laurent Dubois. A reception will follow.
This event is free and open to the public and is also sponsored by the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation.
For more information, please see the Soccer Politics Series website: www.soccerpolitics.com.
Wed, November 11, 2009 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM Ark. Class Visit: the Role of Gender in Dance, with UBW's Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. (Dance 175 & Dance 73 combine)
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Wed, November 11, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. free & open to the public. Wednesdays at the Center is a topical weekly noontime series in which distinguished scholars, artists, and journalists speak informally about their work in conversation with the audience. All events in the series are open to the public and a light lunch is served; no reservation is necessary. The series is presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute and John Hope Franklin Center with other campus partners. Questions? Please e-mail fhi@duke.edu
Wed, November 11, 2009 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Brody Theater. Brody Theater: Dance Dept. Lunchbox series. Discussion of UBW's aesthetic, how it was formed and how it has developed over the last 25 years. RSVP to Cyndi Bunn cpbunn@duke.edu by NOON on Tuesday, 11/10, to get a FREE box lunch!
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Wed, November 11, 2009 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Achille Mbembe (University of the Witwatersrand, WISER), Sarah Nuttall (University of the Witwatersrand, WISER), Diane Nelson (Duke University, Cultural Anthropology), Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke University, Cultural Anthropology), moderator.
Please join us in the Franklin for what we hope will be a lively discussion of District 9, Johannesburg, sci-fi and the politics of horror. This event has been co-organized and co-sponsored by African and African American Studies and the Concilium on Southern Africa. For further information please contact Katie Joyce (katiejoy@duke.edu).
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Wed, November 11, 2009 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Perkins Library Rare Book Room. We invite all honors researchers to a reception at Perkins Library on Wednesday, November 11 from 3-5 p.m. Drop in to enjoy refreshments, meet the librarians in your discipline, find out how the Libraries can support your thesis research, and learn about the new spaces for honors researchers in Perkins and Bostock.
RSVP to Diane Harvey at diane.harvey@duke.edu by Friday, Nov 6.
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Wed, November 11, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art. During the seven weeks that Mary Ellen Mark and her husband, Martin Bell, spent in Iceland from 2005 to 2007, Bell made Alexander, a film that focuses on an extraordinary boy and his family.
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Wed, November 11, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Webcast. Tune in to Professor Ranjana Khanna in discussion with NPRs Frank Stasio on THE WHITE TIGER, by Aravind Adiga, on the Duke Ustream channel. Submit your questions in advance or during the session by email to live@duke.edu, on the Duke University Live Ustream page on FaceBook, or via Twitter with the tag #dukelive.
After the session, you can download video and post further comments on the DukeReads discussion forum. To view, go to http://www.ustream.tv/dukeuniversity
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Wed, November 11, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:15 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. (Lue Simopoulos, 2008 , 83 min, USA , in English, Color, DVD) --Introduced by Prof. Eric Meyers, Director of Duke's Center for Jewish Studies. Followed by a Q&A with Exec. Producer Steven Channing, director Lue Simopoulos, and writer Leonard Rogoff! -- This documentary provides a unique view of Jewish emigration to, and life in North Carolina. The film illustrates how the Jewish search for opportunity and religious freedom played out in a region that, while deeply rural and impoverished, was also ready for growth and change. Jews, an immigrant people, were welcomed to communities that were overwhelmingly conservative and Christian. They maintained a multicultural identity as local citizens and neighbors and as members of a global Jewish community. For more than three centuries Jews have helped transform the culture and economy of NC, while the state's rich southern culture has resonated strongly with these immigrants to Dixie. -- Co-sponsored by the Jewish Heritage Foundation of NC.
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Thu, November 12, 2009 10:00 AM - 9:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art. Free and open to all. Exhibition opens
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Thu, November 12, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Women's Center. Join us for a FOOD FOR THOUGHT featuring Jennette Williams, a fine arts photography instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and winner of the fourth Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. She will talk about her work photographing women in European and Turkish bath houses, and lead a discussion on how this relates to conceptions of beauty.
Lunch will be provided! Please RSVP to Erin Stephens by Wednesday at 10am at es120@duke.edu
See her work on exhibit in the Special Collections Gallery in Perkins Library or online at:
http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/williams/index.html
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Thu, November 12, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Carr 103. "The New World Meets the Old: Rethinking Slavery Across the Early Modern Middle East "
Madeline Zilfi, History, University of Maryland, College Park November 12, 2009, 4:30-6:00pm, 103 Carr Building
Madeline Zilfi specializes in Middle East history in the period of the Ottoman Empire. Her research interests focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly with regard to Ottoman-Islamic urban culture and social movements, Islamic law and legal practice, and women's experience.
Her lecture is sponsored with the History Department.
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Thu, November 12, 2009 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Perkins Library Rare Book Room. Free. Photographer Jennette Williams will discuss her recent work, some of which has been assembled for "The Bathers," currently on exhibit in Perkins Library's Special Collections Gallery. Her work, which recently won the fourth Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, captures a broad age range of women in the ancient communal bath houses of Budapest and Istanbul. For more information, please contact Karen Glynn at karen.glynn@duke.edu.
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Thu, November 12, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Sarah P. Duke Gardens. FREE and open to the public . Professor John Supko discusses Bartók.
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Thu, November 12, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater. $28/ $22 / $5 Duke Students. Pounding out double-dutch rhythms with bare feet, the Brooklyn-based UBW are "fierce" and "smart" and "shake the theater" when they move (Village Voice). The mostly-black, all-female ensemble comes to Duke for a three-day residency, culminating in a performance where chants and drums are the backbeat for these "physically poetic" dancers (New York Times), who turn the stage into a place they own.
Residency runs November 10 - November 12, 2009
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Thu, November 12, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admission; $5 students and senior citizens. Based on The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky.
Directed by Jay O'Berski, Theater Studies faculty.
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Fri, November 13, 2009 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM SSRI B140. Taught by Chongming Yang
Logistic and Probit regressions are commonly used in social science to predict probabilities of events. This workshop is to introduce the basic of these models and how to interpret the results. There models are also essential to understand more advanced latent variable modeling techniques--Mplus.
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Fri, November 13, 2009 4:30 PM - Sun, November 15, 2009 4:30 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. FREE. "Civic Engagement in the Middle East Conference." Organizer: Prof. Mbaye Lo, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke Engage
November 13-14, 2009 Keynote address on Friday, Nov. 13th in White Auditorium at 4:30pm.
Conference will be held all day on Saturday, Nov. 14th, Room 240 Franklin Center.
Continental Breakfast and lunch provided.
To register email: disc@duke.edu
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Fri, November 13, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art. Reservations suggested. 7:30 PM The President and Eloise W. Martin Director of The Art Institute of Chicago on ¿The Promise of the Encyclopedic Museum." Reservations suggested: www.nasher.duke.edu.
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Fri, November 13, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater. $28 ¿ $22 ¿ $5 Duke Students. Escovedo started life as a punk rock axe-handler and has incorporated his earlier selves into a strange new art "thoughtful" and "meticulous" guitar poetry (New York Times) that snarls. Lambchop creates rock's most willfully singular music, an atmosphere of slide guitar, Stax soul, and broken-down lyrics evoking the town they still call home: Nashville. They split a double bill of Americana that wouldn't answer to the name.
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Fri, November 13, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admission; $5 students and senior citizens. Based on The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky.
Directed by Jay O'Berski, Theater Studies faculty.
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Fri, November 13, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM East Duke 201. Free. New works by Duke graduate student composers.
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Sat, November 14, 2009 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM Nasher Museum of Art. For ticket information, call 919-684-3411 or visit www.nasher.duke.edu/gala.. Nasher Museum Benefit Gala honoring Mary D.B.T. Semans and celebrating the works of Picasso and Warhol. For ticket information, call 919-684-3411 or visit www.nasher.duke.edu/gala.
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Sat, November 14, 2009 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. Details TBA! -- Discussion to follow; Part of the Latin American Film Festival series.
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Sat, November 14, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM See description. The Minor American Poetry Reading Series is sponsored by the Department of English Poetry Working Group. All events are free and open to the public. Readings will be held at "The Space" (715 Washington St). Sat. Nov. 14th: Lucy Corin and Guillermo Parra (See website for further schedule details.)
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Sat, November 14, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater. $20/$5 Duke Students. Mozart: Quartet in D Minor, K. 421
Bartók: Quartet No. 4
Beethoven: Quartet in C Major, Op. 59 #3
Additional Events:
First Course Concert No. 2
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 6 pm
Duke Gardens
Professor John Supko discusses Bartók.
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Sat, November 14, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admission; $5 students and senior citizens. Based on The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky.
Directed by Jay O'Berski, Theater Studies faculty.
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Sun, November 15, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Bryan Center Sheafer Theater. $10 general admission; $5 students and senior citizens. Based on The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky.
Directed by Jay O'Berski, Theater Studies faculty.
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Sun, November 15, 2009 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM East Duke 201. Free. Small group student jazz performances
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Sun, November 15, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:15 PM Nasher Museum of Art. $5 - Duke Ticket Office - 919.684.4444 or tickets.duke.edu. The Duke University Center for International Studies presents a staged reading of: "Picasso's Closet" by Ariel Dorfman. The acclaimed author of "Death and the Maiden" unveils an extraordinary reimagining of Pablo Picasso living in a time of terror: What if Picasso didn't die in 1973, but was murdered by the Germans during the occupation of Paris? A work of dazzling innovation, romantic intrigue and probing dilemmas for our time. All proceeds will be donated to the Durham Literacy Council, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International and PEN American Freedom to Write. The reading will be directed by Jay O¿Berski, artistic director of Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern. There will be a Q&A session with Ariel Dorfman following the Thurs., Oct. 29th performance.
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Sun, November 15, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:40 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2005, 92 min, Germany, in German with English subtitles, Color, DVD) Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds - a cool, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism. People, animals, crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistics of this system which provides our society's standard of living. "Our Daily Bread" is a wide-screen tableau of a feast which isn't always easy to digest and in which we all take part -- a pure, meticulous, and high-end film experience that enables the audience to form their own ideas. -- Part of the Politics of Food Film series.
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Wed, November 18, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. free & open to the public. Wednesdays at the Center is a topical weekly noontime series in which distinguished scholars, artists, and journalists speak informally about their work in conversation with the audience. All events in the series are open to the public and a light lunch is served; no reservation is necessary. The series is presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute and John Hope Franklin Center with other campus partners. Questions? Please e-mail fhi@duke.edu
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
