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Wednesdays at the Center will return on Jan 21, 2010

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The Fall 2009 Wednesdays at the Center series is now complete. Please check back soon for our Spring 2010 schedule!

Podcasts available for Fall 2009 FHI programs

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Video and audio podcasts are now available for many of our Fall 2009 programs (iTunes is required to view or listen). Please browse this listing or go to the FHI’s “albums” at Duke’s iTunes University site here, here, and here.

1st Wednesdays at the Center of Spring 2010

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The Spring 2010 Wednesdays at the Center series will begin on January 21. Please check back soon for full program schedule!

Upcoming application deadlines: Book Manuscript Workshops (Nov 30), HBCU Fellowships (Jan 11), Graduate Fellowships (Jan 11)

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Faculty Book Manuscript Workshops, Spring 2010

We welcome proposals for the Spring 2010 round of the Franklin Humanities Institute’s Faculty Book Manuscript Workshops. Full-time Duke faculty in the humanities, arts, and interpretive social sciences, at the Assistant and Associate rank are eligible to apply. Please click here for more details on the program and application process. Deadline: Monday, November 30, 2009.

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2010-11 Mellon HBCU Faculty Fellowships

We are now accepting fellowship proposals from regular-ranked faculty in the humanities, interpretive social sciences, and arts at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Supported by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation, the program is designed to support a year of research in a collegial environment, with many opportunities for interaction and collaboration with Duke faculty and students. The fellowship carries no teaching responsibilities. For more information about eligibility and the application process, please click here. Deadline: Monday, January 11, 2010.

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2010-11 Annual Seminar Graduate Student Fellowships

Advanced (post-prelim) Duke graduate students in the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to apply for fellowships in the 2010-11 FHI Annual Seminar, Expression/Performance/Behavior: Rethinking the Humanities, to be co-convened by Toril Moi (Literature, Romance Studies, English) and Paul Griffiths (Divinity). To access the full Call for Proposal with seminar project description and eligibility/application information, please click here (and find link to PDF). Deadline: Monday, January 11, 2010.

Jacqueline Goldsby Gender, Race and Visual Culture series - Mon, November 23, 2009

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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.

Duke Opera Workshop - Sun, November 22, 2009

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Sun, November 22, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM East Duke 201. Free. Duke Opera Workshop is directed by Susan Dunn. There is a second performance of this show at 3 pm this afternoon.

Duke Opera Workshop - Sun, November 22, 2009

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Sun, November 22, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM East Duke 201. Free. Duke Opera Workshop is directed by Susan Dunn. There will be a second performance of this show at 8 pm this evening.

November Dances 2009 - Sun, November 22, 2009

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Sun, November 22, 2009 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater. $15 General, $5 Students. Duke Dance faculty, students and guests provide a vibrant, varied program of Modern, ballet, and African dance. Contact adrienne.brandon@duke.edu for more information.

The Lower D’s - Sat, November 21, 2009

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Sat, November 21, 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.

November Dances 2009 - Sat, November 21, 2009

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Sat, November 21, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater. $15 General, $5 Students. Duke Dance faculty, students and guests provide a vibrant, varied program of Modern, ballet, and African dance. Contact adrienne.brandon@duke.edu for more information.

Djembe and Afro-Cuban Ensembles Concert - Fri, November 20, 2009

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Fri, November 20, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Free. The Duke Djembe and Afro-Cuban Ensembles, directed by Bradley Simmons, welcome guest artist Michael Spiro. Michael Spiro is an internationally recognized percussionist, recording artist, and educator, known specifically for his work in the Latin music field. He has performed on thousands of records with such diverse artists as David Byrne, Ella Fitzgerald, David Garibaldi, Gilberto Gil, Bobby McFerrin, Carlos Santana, and others. Michael Spiro is Professor of Music in the Percussion Deparment at the renowned Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.

The Lower D’s - Fri, November 20, 2009

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Fri, November 20, 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.

Flying on One Engine - Fri, November 20, 2009

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Fri, November 20, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Center for Documentary Studies. free. A reception for the filmmaker will be held beforehand at 6 p.m.

Wheelchair bound, without a larynx, and diagnosed with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm, Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet now lives only so he can travel to India to perform free operations in marathon-like surgery sessions in which up to 700 children receive treatment for their cleft lips and other deformities. Although Dicksheet survives on Social Security while living in his Brooklyn apartment, his life is drastically different in India, where the eight-time Nobel Prize nominee is treated like a living god.

Screen Society–Latin American Film–Latino Farmworkers Short Films Program - Fri, November 20, 2009

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Fri, November 20, 2009 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. The Latino Portrait Project presents: Un Hogar Lejano/A Distant Home (2009 SAF Folklife Documentary Project) — Discussion to follow with the artists!
Each spring & summer, fields across the US South bloom with abundance and fill with laborers to tend them. What do these workers think about as they work under the blazing sun, or when they rest after the long workday? How do they make a home here in the South, how does it compare to their distant home? This past summer, SAF (Student Action for Farmworkers) Interns and farmworkers collaborated to document personal stories and the meaning of home for those workers, both here in the South and in their community of origin. Featuring: “Manos Sin Identidad” by Laura Valencia, Wooster College (Ohio); “Harvesting Dreams” by Adriana Sanchez, California State University-Fresno; “Un Hogar Lejano” by April Leanne Simon (SAF Intern) and Derek Anderson, Photographer & Documentarian. — Part of the Latin American Film Festival.

Rare Music– Viola: Child of the 20th Century - Fri, November 20, 2009

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Fri, November 20, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Perkins Library Rare Book Room. Free. Jonathan Bagg will discuss the ways in which the viola’s unique voice evolved over several generations, coming into its own finally in the 20th century as a result of several factors: composers realizing its potential as a solo instrument, virtuosi taking up its cause, and perhaps most importantly, its special role in chamber repertoire written by the great composers, allowing audiences to develop a taste for its particular charms and the instrument to come into its own. Jonathan Bagg is Professor of the Practice of Music and violist of the Ciompi String Quartet, and he is Artistic Director of the Monadnock Music festival in New Hampshire. The Rare Music series is sponsored by DUMIC (Duke University Musical Instrument Collections) and Duke University Libraries.

LUNCHBOX - Stage Combat with Jeff Jones - Fri, November 20, 2009

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Fri, November 20, 2009 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Bryan Center. LUNCHBOX - Stage Combat with Jeff Jones. Come see a demo and learn about the art of stage combat with a pro. Please note location: Rehearsal Studio on West Campus (127 Bryan Center) RSVP to Cyndi Bunn cpbunn@duke.edu by NOON on Thursday, 11/19, to get a FREE box lunch!

Screen Society–AMES Presents–Workshop on the Politics of Representation - Fri, November 20, 2009

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Fri, November 20, 2009 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Friedl 225. Free and open to the public.. Featuring filmmaker Carma Hinton and guest speakers Prof. Michael Renov (USC), Prof. Bruce Cumings (Chicago), Prof. Zhen Zhang (NYU), and Prof. Hyangjin Lee (Sheffield).

Duke Wind Symphony Concert: Made in America - Thu, November 19, 2009

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Thu, November 19, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Free. The Duke Wind Symphony, directed by Verena Mosenbichler, presents a program that includes Persichetti, “Symphony No. 6, Op. 69″; Bennett, “Suite of Old American Dances”; Lo Presti, “Elegy for a Young American”; Mackey, “Undertow”; Bolcom, “Song for Band”.

The Lower D’s - Thu, November 19, 2009

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Thu, November 19, 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.

Screen Society–AMES Presents/Cine-East–"Morning Sun" - Thu, November 19, 2009

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Thu, November 19, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. (Geramie Barmé, Richard Gordon, & Carma Hinton, 2003, 117 min, USA, in English/Mandarin, Color/Black & White, DVD) The film “Morning Sun” attempts to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c. 1964-1976) in the space of a two-hour documentary film. It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes — and reflected in the hearts and minds — of members of the high-school generation that was born around the time of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and that came of age in the 1960s. Others join them in creating the film¿s conversation about the period and the psycho-emotional topography of high-Maoist China, as well as the enduring legacy of that period. — Q&A to follow with director Carma Hinton; Part of the AMES Present Documentaries and Cine-East Film series.

Nov 19: Inaugural Pauli Murray Lecture with Beverly Guy-Sheftall

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** These events are presented by the Pauli Murray Project, an initiative of the Duke Human Rights Center (DHRC). The DHRC is an affiliate center of the Franklin Humanities Institute **

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, November 12, 2009

CONTACT:

Barbara Lau, (919) 613-6167, balau@duke.edu
Robin Kirk, (919) 668-6511, rights@duke.edu
www.paulimurrayproject.org

PAULI MURRAY LECTURE TO FEATURE DR. BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL

DURHAM, N.C. – Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall will deliver the inaugural Pauli Murray Lecture as part of the Durham-based Pauli Murray Project, the Duke Human Rights Center announced. As a leading scholar and women’s studies proponent, Guy-Sheftall will reflect on the significant role that this Durham native made as a civil and human rights activist, writer, and Episcopal priest. “Beverly Guy-Sheftall embodies Pauli Murray’s courageous spirit it both her words and her activism,” said Project director Barbara Lau.

The Pauli Murray Project employs community dialogue, education, storytelling and historical research to enrich our understanding of the past and use it to seek social justice. As a historian, poet, lawyer and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray’s legacy inspires this work. Guy-Sheftall will connect Pauli Murray’s legacy to her own work as a scholar who examines the intersections of race, class, gender, and gender identity in the civil and human rights struggles of today.

Guy-Sheftall is the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College. Currently, she is the National Women’s Studies Association President. She writes about African American women’s literature and activism and has included several of Pauli Murray’s writings in her anthologies.

The Pauli Murray Project is supported by the Andrus Family Fund and the North Carolina Humanities Council. The November events are sponsored by Dr. Jeff Levin and Dr. Lea Steele. They are co-sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project, Women’s Studies, African and African American Studies and the Office of Institutional Equity at Duke University.

The Pauli Murray Lecture will be held on Thursday, November 19 at 7 p.m. at the Community, Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park, 1313 Halley Street in Durham. A light reception will follow.

The Pauli Murray Birthday Party is scheduled for November 22, 2009 from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the Community, Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park, 1313 Halley Street in Durham. Celebrants will share birthday cake, arts activities and an open poetry forum kicked off by members of Pauli Murray’s Durham family.

To join the Pauli Murray Project mailing list go to: https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/subscribe/paulimurrayproject

Lecture: "Picasso’s Experimentalism" - Thu, November 19, 2009

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Thu, November 19, 2009 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art. Free and open to all. 6 PM Patricia Leighten, professor in Duke¿s Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies. Reservations suggested: www.nasher.duke.edu

Global Governance and Democracy - Globalizing the Anti-Gay Agenda - Clifford Bob - Thu, November 19, 2009

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Thu, November 19, 2009 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. Free and open to the public. The University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy presents: Professor Clifford Bob of Duquesne University on “Globalizing the Anti-Gay Agenda: Conservative Activism & Implications for Transnational Politics & Law.” -|- Founded in 1997, GGD is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together faculty and graduate students from across the social sciences, especially from political science, public policy, economics, sociology, and law. Our shared interest in this seminar is to gain a better understanding of the causes and consequences of recent global economic and socio-political changes; we are especially interested in how globalization affects the distribution of wealth and well being, as well as governance among and within nations. -|- Seminars as held on Thursday evenings from 5:30-7pm, in Room 240 of the John Hope Franklin Center.

Arts & Engagement Class Showing - Thu, November 19, 2009

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Thu, November 19, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Biddle 19. Free.. Students at Carter Community Charter School, who worked with Duke Students this fall in Arts & Engagement projects to further their understanding of South America, Native Americans, and Jazz will share their experiences with family, friends, and the Duke community on November 19th at 5:30pm in Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building, East Campus. All are invited. Reception to follow.

Just Art? Voices from South Africa - Thu, November 19, 2009

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Thu, November 19, 2009 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM John Hope Franklin Center 130-132. Talk based on recorded interviews with South Africans about the art in and around the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Make Your Own Zine Workshop - Thu, November 19, 2009

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Thu, November 19, 2009 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Women’s Center. Bring your inner riot grrrl to the Women’s Center and get ready to cut and paste with the staff of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture. You’ll learn about the Bingham Center’s massive zine collection and how to make your own zine.

Nov 19: THE INVENTION OF AFRICA: Legacies and Impacts

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In 1989, Valentin Mudimbe’s The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge was awarded the Herskovits Prize, given annually by the African Studies Association for the best scholarly book on Africa published in English. Please join us on Thursday, November 19 (4pm, Rare Book Room) for a roundtable marking the 20th anniversary of this important occasion, with reflections from Gaurav Desai, Achille Mbembe, Charlie Piot (moderator), and Prof. Mudimbe himself. More information here.

Islam in the Public Square Presents: Nader Hashemi - Thu, November 19, 2009

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Thu, November 19, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Social Sciences 311. “Where Bernard Lewis Went Wrong: Rethinking Secularism Across the Islam-West Divide”

Nader Hashemi, International Studies, University of Denver

November 19, 2009, 12:00-1:30pm, 311 Social Sciences Building

Nader Hashemi received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie at the intersection of political theory and comparative politics of the developing world with a regional specialization in the Middle East and the Islamic World. Specific research areas include secularism and its discontents in Muslim societies, Western and modern Islamic political thought, religion-state relations, the politics of Islamic fundamentalism, and the history and development of liberal democracy.

His lecture is sponsored with the Political Theory Workshop Series.

The Invention of Africa: Legacies & Impacts

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Thu, November 19, 2009 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Perkins Library Rare Book Room. In 1989, Valentin Mudimbe’s /The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge/ was awarded the Herskovits Prize, given annually by the African Studies Association for the best scholarly book on Africa. To mark the 20th anniversary of this important occasion, please join us for discussion of the book’s legacies and impacts with Gaurav Desai (Tulane) and Achille Mbembe (Duke/Wits Institute), with Charlie Piot as moderator and Valentin Mudimbe himself in response.

Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), FHI Working Group on Atlantic Studies, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Duke University Libraries, and Program in Literature.

Questions? email FHI@duke.edu

Screen Society–AMES Presents/Cine-East–"The Game of their Lives" - Wed, November 18, 2009

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Wed, November 18, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:20 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. (Daniel Gordon, 2002, 80 min, UK, in English, Color/Black & White, DVD) A BBC documentary producer is given unprecedented access in North Korea to chronicle the story of the famed 1966 World Cup team from the North that advanced to the quarterfinals. The feature includes interviews with surviving members of the team, English fans and soccer pundits who saw the North Koreans upset Italy, 1-0, and go up 3-0 in an exciting game against Portugal.– Part of the AMES Presents Documentaries and Cine-East Film series.

AMES Presents Film Screening- "The Game of Their Lives" (2002) Director: Daniel Gordon - Wed, November 18, 2009

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Wed, November 18, 2009 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. A BBC documentary producer is given unprecedented access in North Korea to chronicle the story of the famed 1966 World Cup team from the North that advanced to the quarterfinals. The feature includes interviews with surviving members of the team, English fans and soccer pundits who saw the North Koreans upset Italy, 1-0, and go up 3-0 against Portgual before Eusebio eventually rallied the Portugeuse.
Contact: orichm021@duke.edu or 668-2603

CANCELLED: Duke University Seminar on Global Health: Harley Feldbaum - Wed, November 18, 2009

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Wed, November 18, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. free and open to the public. Dr. Harley Feldbaum - Director, Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Topic: TBD. The 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.

Anne Walthall, Department of History, Univ. of California, Irvine, presents Introducing the Gun: Masculinity and Shoguns - Wed, November 18, 2009

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Wed, November 18, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Perkins Library Breedlove Room. Free and Open to the Public. This talk is part of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute’s Fall Speaker Series.

Nov 18: Hugo Award-winning writer & game designer Maureen McHugh on “Story in the New Technology”

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The Franklin Humanities Institute Working Group on Experiencing Virtual Worlds is presenting a public lecture by writer/game-designer Maureen McHugh. She will speak at East Duke 204D on the topic of “Story in the New Technology” at 4pm, Wednesday, November 18. Download event flyer here.

To learn more about Experiencing Virtual Worlds and other FHI-supported interdisciplinary working groups, please click here.

Brown Lunch Presentation with Damien Schumann - Wed, November 18, 2009

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Wed, November 18, 2009 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Center for Documentary Studies. Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in partnership with Student Action with Farmworkers

Photographer Damien Schumann will talk about his audiovisual exhibit Face It! — The Stigma Exhibition, for which he documented stories from every race, class, gender, age group, and major religion in his hometown, Cape Town, South Africa. He will also discuss his recent installation piece Nuestra Casa, or Our Home, in which he re-created a home (now gallery space) that he was welcomed into many times during his two-month stay documenting harsh realities and community resilience in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

Student Chamber Music Recital - Tue, November 17, 2009

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Tue, November 17, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM East Duke 201. Free. Journey back to the time of the great salons, when an evening’s entertainment might include an eclectic mix of musical offerings performed in an intimate setting. This concert features music for strings, winds, piano, and voice in various combinations, performed by students in Duke’s chamber music program.

Screen Society–Latin American Film–"Sleep Dealer" - Mon, November 16, 2009

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Mon, November 16, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. (Alex Rivera, 2008, 90 min, USA/Mexico, in English/Spanish, 35mm) Set in the near-future the film unfolds largely in Mexico, where private corporations control the nation’s water supply. With their employment options literally drying up back home, many rural workers make their way to big cities like Tijuana, where they are fitted with “nodes” that allow them to plug their nervous systems directly into the World Wide Web. Once connected to the Net, they are able to earn some money by working in factories where they build skyscrapers, care for infants and tend to gardens all without crossing the border. Their bodies remain in Mexico as their consciousnesses are downloaded into millions of robots that now perform the majority of America’s manual labor. — Q&A to follow with the director! Part of the Latin American Film Festival. — “Sleep Dealer” won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at Sundance Film Festival, where it was described as “a combination of The Matrix, Blade Runner and The Border.”

Ann Cvetkovich "Photographing Objects as Queer Archival Practice" Gender, Race and Visual Culture series - Mon, November 16, 2009

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Mon, November 16, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM East Duke 108. Ann L.Cvetkovich is a Professor in the Department of English at University of Texas-Austin. In her recent exhibition, An Archive of Feelings, Tammy Rae Carland endows ordinary objects from domestic life with archival significance by photographing them. In Analogue, Zoe Leonard documents a disappearing way of life on New York’s Lower East Side and the effects of globalization and gentrification through a series of photographs of storefronts as still lives. This paper will consider the relation between these two projects, one focused on domestic objects, the other on public spaces, as ways of documenting the feelings associated with losses that are simultaneously intimate and historical. It will also explore how the intersections between objects and photographs, and the material and the ephemeral, inform these queer archival practices.Part of the Gender, Race and Visual Culture Series.

Zine Mania!: Christy Road - Mon, November 16, 2009

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Mon, November 16, 2009 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Women’s Center. Free. The Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture and the Duke Women’s Center are pleased to host zinester and illustrator Christy Road. Blending the inevitable existence of social principles, cultural identity, sexual identity, mental inadequacies, and dirty thoughts, Road thrives to testify the beauty of the imperfect. Her endeavors in illustrating and publishing began when writing a punk rock zine, Greenzine, for ten years. Today, Road has moved onto illustrated novels, taking both writing and visual elements more seriously, but her visual diagram of lifestyles and beliefs stay in tune to the zine’s portrayal of living honestly and unconventionally.

(Artwork courtesy of Cristy Road: “Hope Beyond Despair,” from Greenzine 14, 2004.) For more information, contact Kelly Wooten at kelly.wooten@duke.edu.

Remembering Claude Levi-Strauss with Marshall Sahlins - Mon, November 16, 2009

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Mon, November 16, 2009 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Friedl 225. “Infrastructualism” A lecture and conversation with Marshall Sahlins. Professor Sahlins, Charles F. Grey Distinguised Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, is the author of Stone Age Economics, Culture and Practical Reason, How “Natives” Think, About Captain Cook For Example, and Islands of History, among other works. He recently published a book of his anthropolgical and policical essays ranging from the 60s through the 90s, ans is working on two others: a set of studies in history and histriography and a multi-volume work on “The Polynesain War,” a history of the great Fijian War, 1843-1855. Contact Pat Bodager at (919) 684-5012 for more information.

Nov 11 & 13: Slavoj Žižek Seminars

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The FHI is pleased to collaborate with the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke to present two seminars with Slavoj Žižek on November 11 (Wednesday) and 13 (Friday) - both at 5:30 PM in Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center. Each session will be followed by a reception. No registration is necessary. Click here to download a PDF of the flyer.

Slavoj Žižek Seminar #2

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The FHI is pleased to collaborate with the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke to present two seminars with noted critical theorist Slavoj Žižek:

Wednesday, November 11, 5:30 PM, 240 Franklin Center
IDEOLOGY IN A POST-IDEOLOGICAL ERA: HOLLYWOOD TODAY

Friday, November 13, 5:30 PM, 240 Franklin Center
IS IT STILL POSSIBLE TO BE A HEGELIAN TODAY?

- Reception to follow each session -

No registration is necessary.

Pauli Murray Project in the Durham Herald-Sun

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From Durham Herald-Sun, November 12, 2009

Pauli Murray Project Expands

BY DAWN BAUMGARTNER VAUGHAN
dvaughan@heraldsun.com; 419-6563

DURHAM — An interactive Google map of historic civil and human rights sites around Durham is one part of the Pauli Murray Project that honors the late interracial lawyer, activist, poet and Episcopal priest from Durham.

The project of the Duke Human Rights Center was launched in March, and aims to “activate history for social change” by engaging the community, acknowledging the past and working together for positive change.

Director Barbara Lau gave a project update Wednesday at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke along with students working on the project through a Center for Documentary Studies class. The Pauli Murray Project recently launched its Web site, http://paulimurrayproject.org, and will link to the Google map when that goes public on Dec. 1. The map will include sites like the Royal Ice Cream Parlor, St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation at the Hayti Heritage Center, White Rock Baptist Church, N.C. Mutual Life Insurance, the Durham Armory, law office of Floyd McKissick Sr., and Murray’s childhood home on Carroll Street in the West End.

See the rest of the article here

Nov 12: 1st meeting for Ecology & the Humanities Working Group

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**Ecology and the Humanities is one of five interdisciplinary working groups supported by the Franklin Humanities Institute in 2009-10. To find out more about the FHI working groups, their respective projects, and how to get involved, click here.**

Note from the working group co-conveners:

The editors of Polygraph 22 (“Ecology and Ideology”) will be convening a year-long working group entitled “Ecology and the Humanities,” co-convened with Priscilla Wald (English) and sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute. Our first meeting will take place on Thursday, November 12, 6-8 PM at Franklin Humanities Center 240. Polygraph is an annual interdisciplinary journal affiliated with the Literature Program of Duke University. It is edited and produced by a collective of humanities graduate students.

We are interested in mapping the multi-directional flows between ecological science and the humanities; in particular, we plan to investigate how the humanities extracts and applies ecological metaphors, and to what effects, as well as how modes of critical inquiry developed in the humanities can translate into tools of critique for the ecological sciences. Can post-structuralism assist ecological thought and practice? How can the philosophical/discursive reconfiguration of existing theories of nature and culture inform ecological action? Does the tension between anthropocentric and ecocentric approaches to political and cultural inquiry reflect similar divisions between the humanities and sciences regarding the study of ecology?

The group will meet twice this semester and continue into the spring. We happily invite participation from undergraduates and graduate students from all disciplines, as well as interested faculty.

We hope you will be able to attend our first meeting on November 12, which we hope will help contextualize the history of ecological science against the use of ecology in politics and the humanities through several chapters from Joachim Radkau’s Nature and Power and Dana Philips’s The Truth of Ecology. We will also discuss a tentative plan for the rest of the year, which will include a December meeting on ecological metaphors in the humanities, a January conversation with visiting science-fiction author and Polygraph contributor Kim Stanley Robinson, and an early-spring-semester discussion of the work of Jared Diamond. We invite suggested readings or topics, and our budget includes limited funds to support visiting speakers from other institutions.

The chapters for the Nov. 12 meeting are available here: Philips, Radkau 1, Radkau 6, Radkau epilogue (optional).

Please feel free to write the graduate conveners with any questions, comments, or suggestions, and please forward this invitation to anyone you think might be interested in attending. We hope to see you on Nov. 12th.

Best,
Gerry Canavan (gerry.canavan@duke.edu)
Lisa Klarr (lisa.klarr@duke.edu)
Ryan Vu (ryan.vu@duke.edu)

"Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids" Exhibition - Thu, November 12, 2009

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Thu, November 12, 2009 10:00 AM - Sun, February 21, 2010 5:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art. “Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids” provides insight into the artist who sought to capture the world like a camera. The exhibition includes about 250 Polaroids and 75 silver gelatin black-and-white prints taken by Warhol from 1969 to 1986, many of them on public view for the first time.

Slavoj Žižek Seminar #1

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The FHI is pleased to collaborate with the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke to present two seminars with Slavoj Žižek:

Wednesday, November 11, 5:30 PM, 240 Franklin Center
IDEOLOGY IN A POST-IDEOLOGICAL ERA: HOLLYWOOD TODAY

Friday, November 13
IS IT STILL POSSIBLE TO BE A HEGELIAN TODAY?

- Reception to follow each session -

on November 11 (Wednesday) and 13 (Friday) - both at 5:30 PM in Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center. Each session will be followed by a reception. No registration is necessary.

Nov 11 Wednesdays at the Center: Pauli Murray and Human and Civil Rights Activism in Durham

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At noon on Wednesday, November 11, the Duke Human Rights Center (DHRC) will present The Pauli Murray Project: Mapping Human & Civil Rights Activism in Durham with Barbara Lau and her students. Lau is the Director of the Pauli Murray Project, which is housed at the DHRC and supported by the Andrus Family Fund. She is currently teaching a documentary fieldwork course exploring the legacy of civil and human rights activism in Durham and the American South through the life and work of Pauli Murray as a historian, lawyer, poet, activist and priest .

Wednesdays at the Center (WATC) is a topical weekly noontime series in which distinguished scholars, artists, journalists, and others speak informally about their work in conversation with those who attend. Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute and John Hope Franklin Center, all events in the series are free and open to the public. A light lunch is served. No reservations are necessary, and vouchers to cover parking costs in the Duke Medical Center parking decks are provided.

Nov 5 & 6: Darwin Across the Disciplines

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In collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Duke’s University Institutes, the FHI is pleased to present a 2-day symposium marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origins of Species. The core idea of the symposium is to mark these dual anniversaries by discussing Darwin’s work (its impacts, legacies, etc) from a range of disciplinary perspectives crossing the sciences, humanities, arts, and social sciences, and to use that opportunity as an occasion for thinking about the kinds of knowledge projects and practices that can emerge when we traffic those disciplinary divides. A complete program schedule is available here.

Undrabörn/Extraordinary Child (Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark) - Thu, November 5, 2009

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Thu, November 5, 2009 12:00 AM - Sun, January 10, 2010 12:00 AM Center for Documentary Studies. In Undrabörn/Extraordinary Child Mary Ellen Mark portrays in intimate detail the lives of Icelandic children coping with a variety of physical and mental challenges as they go about their daily activities. Moving, poignant, sad and joyous, these photographs take us into a reality that adjoins our own but is seldom seen. The images also powerfully illuminate one of Iceland’s core values, a basic educational policy that calls for schools “without differentiation.” While parents are increasingly enrolling their children in conventional schools, there are those who continue to choose schools that specialize in teaching children with severe learning disabilities, believing that with experienced support and encouragement their children will gain independence and develop abilities that defy expectations.

Related film screening: “Alexander” (A film by Martin Bell) and Q & A with Martin Bell and Mary Ellen Mark will be held on November 11, 2009 at 7 p.m. at the Nasher Museum of Art

Nov 2 & 4: “Hunger” Screening & David Lloyd Lecture on “Beckett’s Thing”

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On Wednesday, November 4, the 2009-10 FHI Annual Seminar Innovating Forms will be hosting David Lloyd (University of Southern California) for a closed session with the seminar and a public lecture at 4:30pm (Franklin Center 240). The lecture is entitled Beckett’s Thing: Bram Van Velde and the “Art of Incarceration.“ As a prelude to Prof. Lloyd’s visit, the seminar will present a screening of the 2008 film Hunger, directed by British artist Steve McQueen and based on the story of IRA member Bobby Sands’ hunger strike, on Monday, November 2, 7pm (Griffith Theater). A panel discussion with seminar co-convener Fred Moten (English), seminar faculty fellow Jody McAuliffe (Theater Studies), and Art History faculty Richard Powell will follow. The film is presented with the support of the Program in the Art of the Moving Image.

Nov 4 Wednesdays at the Center: Iain McCalman on Darwin & Visual Media

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At noon on Wednesday, November 4, the FHI will present the distinguished cultural historian Iain McCalman (University of Sydney) in a talk on The Struggle to Picture Evolution: Darwin and Visual Media. During his short visit at the FHI, Prof. McCalman will also deliver a lecture at the Darwin Across the Disciplines symposium on November 5 and 6. For more information about the symposium, please click here.

Nov 3: Barbara Johnson Roundtable & Memorial Discussion

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Please join Duke faculty David Bell, Toril Moi, Ranjana Khanna, and Deborah Jenson for a discussion of the work and legacies of literary critic Barbara Johnson (1947-2009). Click here for more program information. Presented with the Department of Romance Studies.

History Prof. Sucheta Mazumdar on theories of civilization

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From This Month at Duke:

Political scientist Samuel Huntington, who was well-known for his theory of the “clash of civilizations,” argued that post-Cold War conflicts are fueled primarily by competing cultural and religious identities. His theory resonated beyond the academic world among Americans concerned about terrorism or immigration.

But they didn’t resonate with Sucheta Mazumdar, associate professor of history at Duke. From an East Campus office crammed with books in several languages, she challenges the very premise that civilizations are clashing. “We are eating, breathing global beings,” she says. “It makes no sense to cling to a 19th century view of clashing civilizations.”
Mazumdar, a historian whose interests range from Chinese and Asian-American history to the global flow of commodities and people, says “the ‘clash of civilizations’ is often a way of saying we really think we’re better than they are. It’s a kind of shorthand for the superpowers’ game.”

In a new book of essays, she looks at the evolution of the modern concept of “civilization.”

Continue reading article here.

SSRI/RNREI~ The African American Economic Summit - Mon, November 2, 2009

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Mon, November 2, 2009 8:00 AM - 12:45 PM SSRI A103. No cost. Day 1 of the African American Economic Summit will be held at UNC-Chapel in collaboration with the Institute of African American Research (IAAR). Day 2 will be held at Duke University by the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality. Invited participants include Jim Johnson, Julianne Malveeaux, William Spriggs, Algernon Austin, Sandra Phillips, Arthur Paris, Lance Freeman, Darrick Hamilton, Cecilia Conrad, Cecilia Rouse, Sam Myers, Edward Montgomvery, Patrick Mason, William Rogers, William Darity, Gregory Price, and Karolyn Tyson. The discussion will center around the current economy and its affect on black america, and policy recommendations to be submitted to the current administration.

SSRI/RNEI~ Sports, Race and Power Conference - Fri, October 30, 2009

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Fri, October 30, 2009 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Erwin Square Mill 103. 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 is scheduled to be held October 29-30th, 2009. It will be conducted with collaborative support from the Office of the Vice Provost, Social Science Research Institute, Office for Institutional Equity, Office of the Provost, Josiah Trent Foundation, and the Center for French and Francophone Studies. The conference will focus on the history of desegregation of intercollegiate and professional sports, Africa and the World Cup, the interplay between racial inequality in the society at large and in the arena of competitive athletics, and questions of authority and hierarchy in the management, administration and coaching of sports programs.

Oct 28 Wednesdays at the Center: Current graduate research in Canadian Studies

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At noon on Wednesday, October 28, the Center for Canadian Studies will host a two-part program with Duke History doctoral students Tamara Extian-Babiuk and Jacob Remes, who will each present their current research. Extian-Babiuk will speak on “Race, Nation-Building, and Citizenship: a History of Canadian National Identity and Racial Exclusion through Political Cartoons” and Remes on “Relief and Resistance: Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State.”

Oct 22: Faculty Bookwatch on Thavolia Glymph’s OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE

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On Thursday, October 22 (4:30 PM, Rare Book Room), please join us for a Faculty Bookwatch discussion and celebration of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, the award-winning book by Professor Thavolia Glymph of Duke’s African & African American Studies and History Departments. The FHI, in conjunction with our Bookwatch series co-sponsor the Duke University Libraries, is pleased to have fielded a distinguished panel that includes Ira Berlin (University of Maryland), Sandy Darity (Duke), Barbara Fields (Columbia), and Peter Wood (Duke). For more information, please click here.

SSRI/DuPRI~ Seminar Series: Magda Muszynska and Seth Sanders, Duke University - Thu, October 22, 2009

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Thu, October 22, 2009 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Perkins Library Breedlove Room. “The Great Migration and Mortality of African Americans”

Two inextricably linked phenomena lie at the heart of African American social history in the twentieth century: The first is ¿black-white economic convergence¿ that accompanied the decline in discriminatory barriers and narrowing of the black-white gap in human capital. The second is ¿the great migration¿¿the movement of millions of African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest, and West. This talk will examine Black white differences in earnings within specific locations. It will also look at how place of birth effects black-white differences in mortality.

Oct 21: Screening of Mark Morris Dance Group’s Dido & Aeneas

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We are pleased to announce a new opera screening series organized by FHI Program Coordinator John Orluk. The series begins on Wednesday, October 21, 7pm (240 Franklin Center), with a screening of the Mark Morris Dance Group’s production of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (more information about the production here). Duke faculty Kerry McCarthy (Music) and Clare Woods (Classical Studies) and FHI Postdoctoral Fellow Öykü Potuoğlu-Cook will participate in a discussion afterwards. Undergraduates welcome - pizzas and sodas will be provided.

Oct 21: Kristina Luce on “Reforming Architecture”

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At noon on Wednesday, October 21, the 2009-10 FHI Annual Seminar Innovating Forms will present Reforming Architecture, a talk by architectural historian Kristina Luce (Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, UNC Charlotte). The talk will explore how changes in the media of architectural design - e.g. from drawing to computation methods - inform architectural works. Please click here to read a more complete description of the lecture and Prof. Luce’s work.

Second Showing, Student Choreographic Opportunity to present work in November Dances, 2009. - Mon, October 19, 2009

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Mon, October 19, 2009 9:00 PM - 9:00 PM Ark. The Dance Program faculty have set aside up to 15 minutes of the November Dances 2009 concert for student works that are of a choreographic caliber that would benefit from the full production values of this mainstage concert. We invite all students who are interested in presenting work on November Dances 2009 to notify us of their interest and to begin working on a piece to be shown to a panel of faculty at the following times. More info at: http://duke.edu/web/dance

Exhibit | Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968

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Fri, August 21, 2009 9:00 AM - Sun, October 18, 2009 6:00 PM See description. Free and open to the public. The Durham Art Guild - in partnership with the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke University Center for International Studies - presents a collection of paintings, drawings, prints, manuscripts, ephemera, and video produced by and about Sun Ra and his associates, much of it previously unseen. -|- August 21-October 18 at the CCB Gallery, 120 Morris Street, Durham, NC. Mon-Sat 9am-9pm, Sun 1-6pm. -|- Co-sponsors include: Downtown Durham, Inc., Raleigh Little Theater, Durham Blues Festival and the Duke University Vice Provost for the Arts.

Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 1 with Susan Fancher, saxophone - Sun, October 18, 2009

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Sun, October 18, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater. $20 ¿ $5 Duke Students. Haydn: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20 #3
Max Raimi: Quintet for Saxophone and Strings
Dvo’ák: String Quartet No. 11 in C Major, Op. 61

Guest artist: Susan Fancher, saxophone

Additional Events:
First Course Concert No. 1
Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 6 pm
Nelson Music Room
Composer Max Rami discusses his premiere.

Anonymous 4 - Sat, October 17, 2009

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Sat, October 17, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Duke Chapel. $26 / $5 Duke Students. Exuding “ethereal clarity” (BBC Music), the four women of Anonymous 4 fill Duke Chapel’s gothic alcoves with music from a convent in northern Spain, a crossroads of medieval Europe that turned out a new kind of sacred polyphony. As soul-shaking vocals resonate off stone walls, “the sound of heaven” fills the Chapel (American Record Guide).

PROGRAM:

Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas, Music of Thirteenth Century Spain

Additional Events:
Master Class with Anonymous 4
Sunday, October 18, 2009 - noon
Nelson Music Room
Free & open to the public

Music Lecture: Manuscript Chantilly 564 and Ars Subtilior - Fri, October 16, 2009

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Fri, October 16, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Biddle 101. Free. Lecture given by Anne Stone (Queens College, CUNY). This lecture is part of the Duke Festival for Medieval and Renaissance Music.

Oct 16: Hope & Hopelessness in Times of Economic Decline

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Please join us for a lunch discussion with Ian Buruma (2009 Kenan Distinguished Lecturer in Ethics) and Anne Allison (Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology) on Friday, October 16, 2009, 12pm at Room 240, Franklin Center. RSVP by Monday, October 12 to fhi@duke.edu.

People across the globe are facing economic distress, postindustrial reform, and the desecuritization of daily life. Hopelessness is one response to these times yet hope — attached to a vision of a future that while, “not yet,” promises change — is sometimes as well. In dialogue with Ian Buruma and his recent article about two Japanese films Tokyo Sonata (dir. Kurosawa Kiyoshi) and Departures (dir. Takita Yojiro, winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film) — both stories of men who lose their jobs and struggle to maintain familial/social attachments — this discussion will take off from, but invite conversations beyond, Japan.

IAN BURUMA will deliver the 2009 Kenan Distinguished Lecture in Ethics (”Eurabia: Truth or Paranoia?”) on Thursday, October 15, 5:00 PM at the Sanford School for Public Policy at Duke. Buruma is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. He writes about a broad range of political and cultural subjects for major publications, including The New York Review of Books (NYRB), The New Yorker, The New York Times, Corriere della Sera, The Financial Times, and The Guardian. Buruma’s NYRB article on Tokyo Sonata and Departures can be found here.

ANNE ALLISON is Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke. Her research explores the ways in which desire seeps into, reconfirms, or reimagines socio-economic relations in various contexts in postwar Japan. She is the author of Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994), Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (1996, 2000), and Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (2006). Her current project focuses on Japanese kids, family, and affect in the 21st century.

* Image on home page listing from Tokyo Sonata

A. S. Byatt - Fri, October 16, 2009

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Fri, October 16, 2009 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Perkins Library Rare Book Room. Master Class with author A. S. Byatt - students should rsvp to Prof. Joe Porter in the English Department. (japorter@duke.edu)

Co-sponsored by the William Blackburn Fund, Duke University Libraries, and the Center for Philosophy, Arts and Culture

A. S. Byatt - Thu, October 15, 2009

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Thu, October 15, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Perkins Library Gothic Reading Room. Award winning author A. S. Byatt will read from her work. Byatt is the author of Possession: A Romance, and Morpho Eugenia, both of which became major films (Possession and Angels and Insects). Her other fiction includes The Biographer’s Tale, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, The Matisse Stories, and a quartet of novels about the 1950s and 1960s (The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman). Her latest novel is The Children’s Book (2009). This even is free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the William Blackburn Fund, Duke University Libraries, and the Center for Philosophy, Arts and Culture

Amb. Heraldo Muñoz and The Dictator’s Shadow

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Thu, October 15, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Perkins Library Rare Book Room. Free and open to the public. The Dictator’s Shadow: Life Under Pinochet, a memoir of dictatorship and exile and their long aftermath in Chile, has won the second annual WOLA-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Written by Amb. Heraldo Muñoz and published by Basic Books, the story explores Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of violence and corruption from a uniquely personal perspective. The author, currently Chile’s ambassador to the United Nations, was imprisoned and exiled by the Pinochet regime because of his political views. The ambassador will read from his poignant and wide-ranging memoir, recounting how Chileans brought the former dictator to account for some of his crimes right until his death in 2006.

Ariel Dorfman, the Walter Hines Page Chair of Literature and Latin American Studies and a long-time friend of the ambassador, will introduce.

The Gothic Bookshop will provide copies for sale and signing.

Jin-Kyung Lee, Dept. of Literature, UCSD, will speak on Military Labor and Military Prostitution Across South Korea, Viernam and the United States, 1960s-1970s - Thu, October 15, 2009

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Thu, October 15, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Perkins Library Breedlove Room. Free and Open to the Public. This talk is part of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Fall Speaker Series. It is co-sponsored by the Korea Forum at Duke University.

Oct 14 Wednesdays at the Center: DukeEngage Chile students on urban volunteers & micro-entrepreneurs

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At noon on Wednesday, October 14, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) will present DukeEngage Chile: Lessons from Urban Volunteers and Micro-Entrepreneurs. The discussion will feature CLACS senior program coordinator Antonio Arce along with undergraduate participants in the DukeEngage Chile program this past summer - Joe Rapp, Elizabeth Clipp, Jordan Stone, Elana Berger, Rachel Hanessian, Karna Mital, Grant Alport.

Provost’s Lecture Series - Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author - Tue, October 13, 2009

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Tue, October 13, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Page Auditorium. Mr. Hersh will be speaking on “A Report Card on Obama’s Foreign Policy” as part of the Provost’s Lecture Series. The lecture series is entitled, “The Future of the Past, the Future of the Present: the Historical Record in the Digital Age.” This event is free and open to the Duke and local communities. No tickets are needed. Seating on the lower level of Page Auditorium will be available on a first come basis.

Jerusalem Women Speak Tour 2009

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Tue, October 13, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Social Sciences 139 LaBarre. Partners for Peace brings Jerusalem women ¿ Christian, Jewish and Muslim, Palestinian and Israeli — who work for peace across the existing divides. They will talk about how they see the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Territories and what students can do to get involved. Prof. Shai Ginsberg, Assistant Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies, will moderate. This event is open to the public and Duke Community.

ISIS Tech & New Media Tuesday ft. Timothy Lenoir, Casey Alt, Patrick Jagoda and Harrison Lee - Tue, October 13, 2009

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Tue, October 13, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. FREE. “EMERGENCE: Your Choice. Your Consequence.”

The goal of the biweekly Tech & New Media Tuesdays lunch forum is to create a shared dialogue around innovative uses of technology that spans Duke’s faculty, graduate student, and IT development communities. In doing so, Tech & New Media Tuesdays seeks to fuel increased collaboration and integration among Duke’s technology developers by allowing members to pool resources and expertise. Each Tech & New Media Tuesday session features a 30 minute project presentation followed by an open discussion. Lunch is provided at each meeting. Parking vouchers are provided for the Medical Center parking decks.

A Workshop with Film Director Ram Loevy

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Mon, October 12, 2009 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. A Workshop with Film Director Ram Loevy. Mr. Loevy will show clips from his films and discuss his position as a filmmaker in each and in general.
Contact: shaig@duke.edu

Oct 12: Stanley Cavell on memory, autobiography, and philosophy

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The Center for Literature, Arts, and Philosophy (PAL) will present its inaugural lecture with Stanley Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University, on Monday October 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium. The lecture, entitled “Excerpts from Memory,” is based on the concluding part of Cavell’s autobiography to be published next year. This excerpt deals with memory, autobiography, and philosophy. The FHI is extremely pleased to present Prof. Cavell’s lecture with PAL.

Duke University Seminar on Global Health: Fiona Terry - Mon, October 12, 2009

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Mon, October 12, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Perkins Library 217. free and open to the public. Topic: Helping or Harming? The Dilemmas of Humanitarian Action in Conflict. Fiona Terry has spent most of the past 15 years involved in humanitarian relief operations in different parts of the world, including in Northern Iraq, Somalia, the Great Lakes region of Africa, Liberia, and along the Sino-Korean border. From 2000 to 2003 she worked as a research director with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) in Paris, before spending three years in Myanmar (Burma) with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Terry holds a Ph.D. in international relations and political science from the Australian National University and is the author of Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action (2002). She won the 2006 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference - Mon, October 12, 2009

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Mon, October 12, 2009 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Carr 229. A 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.”

Reception held in 226 Carr Building - Faculty Lounge

Screen Society–Cine-East–”Spring in My Hometown” - Sun, October 11, 2009

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Sun, October 11, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. (Lee Kwangmo, 1998, 120 min, S. Korea, Korean with English subtitles, Color, DVD) Set in a country village toward the conclusion of the Korean War (1950-1953), “Spring in My Hometown” is an autobiographical account of director Lee Kwang-mo’s own childhood. Rigorously filmed only through long and medium-long takes, Spring tells the story of a boy’s wartime experience without ever directly editorializing on the tragedy and destruction wrought by the fratricidal conflict. The war only appears through silent-film-like intertitles informing its progress, and its echo-like aftereffects on the relationships among the characters. The Korean characters’ deeply ambivalent engagement with the American presence is represented, among others, by a cigarette lighter that becomes Chang-hee’s talisman, only to be transfigured into a tool for his tragic vengeance. — Part of the Cine-East Film series.

Dianne Reeves with Russell Malone & Romero Lubambo - Fri, October 9, 2009

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Fri, October 9, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Page Auditorium. $42 / $34 / $22 / $5 Duke Students. Reeves is the most commanding jazz vocalist on earth: her creamy, shattering contralto has a “skyscraper authority” (New York Times) that was shaped by Sergio Mendes and Harry Belafonte but breathes the sultry gospel-blues of Mahalia Jackson. Here the Detroit-born legend appears with two ace guitarists - Georgia native Malone and Lubambo, from Rio, who’s “the best practitioner of his craft in the world today” (Jazziz).

Doc U Arts: Words and Images (Artist’s Talk with Teru Kuwayama) - Fri, October 9, 2009

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Fri, October 9, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Center for Documentary Studies. suggested donation $5. Freelance photographer Teru Kuwayama, based in New York, was awarded the 2009 Lange-Taylor Prize by the Center for Documentary Studies for his project “Unnatural Borders, Open Wounds: The Human Landscape of Pakistan,” with writer Christian Parenti. http://cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/2009winners.html. Kuwayama’s photographs have appeared in such magazines as Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, Outside, Fortune, and Vibe. He has received awards and fellowships from the Eugene Smith Fund, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Alexia Foundation, and the South Asian Journalists Association, among others. He is a 2009-2010 John S. Knight Foundation Fellow at Stanford University, with a focus on conflict reporting in South Asia. He is also cofounder of the web-based network Lightstalkers and curator of the traveling exhibition Battlespace: Unrealities of War.

Capoeira Demonstration by Capoeira Master Edna Lima - Fri, October 9, 2009

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Fri, October 9, 2009 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM Ark. Mestranda Eda Lima is currently one of the highest ranking female capoeiristas in the world. As a guest in Katya Wesolowski’s “The Culture and Practice of Capoeira” course, Mestranda Eda Lima will give a master class on Friday morning in the Ark from 11:40-12:55. She will also be doing a talk and an open “roda” on Thursday, Oct 8th at 7pm in Bassett Dorm.

Capoeira Demonstration by Capoeira Master Edna Lima - Thu, October 8, 2009

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Thu, October 8, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Bassett. Mestranda Eda Lima is currently one of the highest ranking female capoeiristas in the world. She will be doing a talk and an open “roda” on Thursday, Oct 8th at 7pm in Bassett Dorm. As a guest in Katya Wesolowski’s “The Culture and Practice of Capoeira” course, Mestranda Eda Lima will give a master class on Friday morning in the Ark from 11:40-12:55.

Gertrude Stein and the Visual Arts

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Thu, October 8, 2009 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art. Free. Talk by Priscilla Wald, professor in Duke’s English Department.

Exhibition Reception and Artists’ Talk, “The Collector: Joseph Mitchell’s Quotidian Quest” - Thu, October 8, 2009

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Thu, October 8, 2009 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Center for Documentary Studies. 0. Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996), a staff writer for “The New Yorker” for almost sixty years, became famous for his captivating, carefully constructed stories about ordinary people, who, in his hands, came alive on the page in all of their human complexity. His keen interest in his subjects led him to explore the physical world they inhabited. Over time, Mitchell became increasingly concerned with the loss of that world, and he amassed an incredible collection of artifacts that documented places and practices falling into decay, or being rendered obsolete. Writer/photographer Steve Featherstone and writer Paul Maliszewski have embarked on a restoration effort not unlike Mitchell’s, to understand and document the past, through selected objects from Mitchell’s collection, and to tell these stories in the present moment.

The Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture on International Studies - Thu, October 8, 2009

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Thu, October 8, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Sanford 04. Free and open to the public. Mark Lorey, Damon Wilson & Sonya Wu-Winter, all Trinity ‘95 will speak of how their Duke education contributed to their interest in serving the world community, why they chose the careers they did in fulfillment of their commitment, & what they envision to be the opportunities in international service for current students. The Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture in International Studies was established by Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and James H. Semans and their family to honor Mrs. Semans’ father, who had a distinguished carrer as a diplomat in the service of the United States & was an original signer of The Duke Endowment. This program is made possible by the Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Lectureship Endowment and by the Mary Trent Jones-Sarah Trent Harris-Rebecca Trent Kirkland Endowment, recognizing Dr. and Mrs. Semans’ daughters, who received their education at Duke. The Lecture symbolizes Duke University’s continuing commitment to promoting international understanding.

Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series

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Thu, October 8, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Duke North 2002. Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Future of the Health System

Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA
Professor of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Professor of Business Administration
Duke University Fuqua School of Business

President Obama describes the cost of health care as the problem, but economists suggest that health insurance is a factor in the cost. So what is the relationship between health costs and health insurance, and what are potential pathways forward for the system?

Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA, is a professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics and as an associate director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He also serves as the director of the Health Sector Management Program at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.

Lunch provided at Noon.
Talk begins at 12:15 PM.

For more information, please contact us at 919 668-9000 or trent.center@duke.edu

Screen Society–AMES Presents–”Ford Transit”

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Wed, October 7, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:20 PM White 107 Lecture Hall. Free and open to the public.. (Hany Abu-Assad, 2002, 80 min, Palestine/Israel, in Arabic with English subtitles, Color, DVD). “Ford Transit” shows us how the driver of a makeshift West Bank bus - the bright, charismatic Rajai Khatib - negotiates the treacherous border while lending an ear to the Palestinian passengers’ points of view along the way. This “Han Solo” of the West Bank, who drives Palestinians from checkpoint to checkpoint as they cross from the West Bank to Israel and back again, is worth the price of admission by himself.– Part of the AMES Presents Documentary Film series. Discussion to follow with Prof. miriam cooke (Duke-AMES) and Prof. Nadia Yaqub (UNC-Asian Studies)!

Oct 7: Trombonist, composer, musicologist George Lewis on the aesthetics of improvisation

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Innovating Forms, the 2009-10 FHI Annual Seminar, is pleased to present a lecture by the legendary composer, performer, improvisor, and scholar of experimental music, Prof. George Lewis of Columbia University. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 7, 4:30 PM at the Mary Lou Williams Center. More information coming soon!

Free Community Day at the Nasher Museum - Tue, October 6, 2009

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Tue, October 6, 2009 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Nasher Museum of Art. Free. Limited free tickets available at the door only.

Beyond Beauty: Conversations about Photography

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Fri, October 2, 2009 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium. This half-day conference will feature three conversations with locally and nationally known photographers, dealers, curators, and scholars. Paul Hendrickson, the Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will deliver the keynote address. A reception, during which visitors will be invited to view the exhibit, Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library, will follow. For further information, please contact Amy McDonald at amy.mcdonald@duke.edu.

Duke Wind Symphony Concert: 500 Years of Winds

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Thu, October 1, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Free. The Duke Wind Symphony, directed by Verena Mosenbichler, presents a program that includes Sousato, “Dances from the Dansereye”; Holst, “Second Suite in F”; Vaughan Williams, “English Folk Song Suite”; Hindemith, “March” from Symphonic Metamorphosis; Grantham, “Southern Harmony”

Artist Talk and Book Signing: “Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present” with Deborah Willis

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Thu, October 1, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Center for Documentary Studies. Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (W. W. Norton, October 2009) is the first photographic history of black beauty. It tells a story overlooked by most of America, and promises to transform the way we think about the history of African American visual culture. Deborah Willis, whose much-celebrated Reflections in Black provided the first definitive history of black photographers, has now collected over two hundred photographs that provide a lasting statement on beauty in the African American community. From posed studio portraits to dandies on parade to elegant debutantes, Willis has constructed a bold narrative of the ever-changing idea of beauty, both female and male, and shows how history books, newspapers, and mainstream magazines deliberately excluded black models until the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Duke Symphony Orchestra with Cicilia Yudha, pianist, and Eric Pritchard, violinist

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Wed, September 30, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Free. The Duke Symphony Orchestra, Harry Davidson, music director, continues the Mendelssohn Bicentennial Celebration! The program includes the Trumpet Overture, Op. 101; Piano Concerto No. 3 in E minor (reconstruction by Duke professor R. Larry Todd, the “Dean of Mendelssohn Scholars”); Hebrides Overture (Fingal¿s Cave), Op. 26; and the Concerto in E minor for Violin, Op. 64 (1st version, ed. R. Larry Todd). This concert is part of A Grand Piano Celebration, a year-long series of concerts celebrating the arrival of four new Steinway concert grand pianos at Duke.

Screen Society–Cine-East: East Asian Cinema–”Rouge”

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Wed, September 30, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:40 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. (Stanley Kwan, 1987, 96 min, Hong Kong, in Cantonese with English subtitles, Color, DVD) In 1930s Hong Kong, the courtesan Fleur (Anita Mui) and son of a wealthy family, Master Chen (Leslie Cheung), fall in love but are forbidden to go through with a marriage by Chen’s family. In order to be together for all eternity, the two form a suicide pact and agree to meet in another life. After waiting for Chan in hell for 50 years, Fleur returns to the world of the living to look for him, wondering why he has not emerged. A spirit now, she searches for her lover in a Hong Kong she no longer recognizes. With its Romeo & Juliet-esque storyline combined with a truly Chinese atmosphere, “Rouge” is a touching piece of cinema with a quietness that adds to the enchantment of director Kwan’s supernatural romance. — Part of the Cine-East Film series.

9/30 Wednesdays at the Center - Food: Sustainability, & Resistance

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At noon on Wednesday, September 30, the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Program in Women’s Studies, and Sustainable Duke will present Food: Sustainability and Resistance with Kathy Rudy (Associate Professor of Women’s Studies) and Charlie Thompson (Education and Curriculum Director, CDS).

Rights! Camera! Action! film series begins 9/29

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The FHI is pleased to be a co-presenter of the new film series with our affiliate the Duke Human Rights Center (DHRC) and the Archives for Human Rights. Rights! Camera! Action! features documentaries about human rights themes that were award winners at the annual FullFrame Documentary Film Festival. For more information about the series and about the first screening, At the Death House Door (Tuesday, September 29, 7pm, Rare Book Room), please click here or visit the newly redesigned DHRC website.

Muslim Cultures Lecture Event Presents: Mohammed Shahab Ahmed

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Tue, September 29, 2009 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM Flowers 201. September 29, 2009, 4:15-5:45pm, 228 Gray, CMW: Lecture: “The Problem of the Satanic Verses and the Formation of Islamic Orthodoxy,” Muhammad Shahab Ahmed, Islamic Studies, Harvard University.

Screen Society–French Film Series–”The Secret of the Grain”

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Mon, September 28, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:40 PM Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater. Free and open to the public.. (Abdel Kechiche, 2007, 151 min, France, in French with English subtitles, Color, 35mm) Though it is seldom discussed (or acknowledged) in the West, modern-day France incorporates a substantial number of immigrant communities, with many from North Africa populating the bucolic regions of southern Gaul. Abdel Kechiche’s “The Secret of the Gain” hones in on one such community, located on the ocean, which exudes a laid-back, unforced rhythm and a slower pace of life for all of its residents. Inspired by director Kechiche’s own family remembrances, “The Secret of the Grain” is a warm and sharply observed portrait of the immigrant generation contending with its French-born offspring and the dominant culture in a time when they are no longer the freshest émigrés off the boat. — Part of the French Film series.

Guest Recital: Thomas Otten, piano

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Sun, September 27, 2009 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Baldwin Auditorium. Free. Thomas Otten, Associate Professor of Piano at UNC-Chapel Hill, will perform Debussy’s Piano Preludes, Book 2. Otten has been hailed by the New York Times as “an extremely original player who puts a formidable technique at the service of his ideas.” He has appeared in recital and as orchestral soloist in such venues as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the National Press Club, the German Embassy, and the Chautauqua and Brevard Summer Festivals; he has also performed at Severance Hall with the Miami String Quartet. This recital is part of A Grand Piano Celebration, a year-long series of concerts celebrating the arrival of four new Steinway concert grand pianos at Duke.