Mon, November 23, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM East Duke 108. Come hear Jacqueline Goldsby, Visiting Associate Professor
Dept. of English, New York University/
Associate Professor, Department of English at The University of Chicago speak as part of the Gender, Race and Visual Culture Series. (CANCELLED)
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Tue, December 1, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. "Betaville: a Massively Collaborative Mirror World Editor for Public Art and Urban Planning Applications"
Betaville is a prosocial MMO, built by prosocial means: a mod of of an open-source game engine, under development by an international consortium in the USA and Europe, led by the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (BxmC) at NYU's Polytechnic Institute and the Media2Culture Institut für angewandte Medienforschung at the Hochschule Bremen.
Skelton will discuss the current status of the project, near-term development strategy, and some of the interesting possibilities for new uses and research in underlying technologies.
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Tue, December 1, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Free. Darrett Adkins serves on the cello and chamber music faculties of the Juilliard School, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. The Boston Globe describes his playing as "fiery." Adkins will perform with the Duke Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 2.
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Tue, December 1, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Duke Chapel. One non-perishable food item. This Durham holiday tradition begins with seasonal music on the carillon and for organ at 6:30 pm. The Duke Chorale is directed by Rodney Wynkoop.
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Wed, December 2, 2009 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Friedl 225. Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, speaker
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Wed, December 2, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Free. The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Harry Davidson, music director, presents a salute to Purcell, Handel and Haydn, plus Beethoven's symphonies continued! Program: Purcell, "Chacony in G minor for Strings, (London)"; Handel, "Concerto Grosso in C Major, (Alexander's Feast)"; Haydn, "Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Op. 101"; Beethoven, "Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67". Darrett Adkins serves on the cello and chamber music faculties of the Juilliard School, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. The Boston Globe describes his playing as "fiery." Hsiao-mei Ku is a member of the Ciompi Quartet and Associate Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke. Frances Hsieh is a graduate of Duke, where she served as concertmaster of the Duke Symphony Orchestra for three years. She received her Masters in Violin Performance from the Eastman School of Music and is currently a member of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.
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Thu, December 3, 2009 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. free and open to the public. DGHI/DuPRI seminar - Dr. Geoffrey Garnett - Professor, Microparasite Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London. Topic: TBD. Duke University Seminar on Global Health series is a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative which connects those from Duke and area universities with nationally-recognized experts to explore critical issues in the field of global health. This lecture is also part of the DuPRI seminar series.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
