Duke University Center for International Studies » Newsletter http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu The Duke University Center for International Studies promotes internationalization across Duke's campus and beyond. It accomplishes this through curriculum innovation, instruction in new languages, expanding international holdings in the Duke Library, programs that explore global themes, bringing international visitors to Duke, travel support for graduate and undergraduate students’ research abroad, among other means. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Global Perspectives – Issue 8 – Fall 2008 http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/about/newsletter/200810/global-perspectives-issue-8-fall-2008 http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/about/newsletter/200810/global-perspectives-issue-8-fall-2008#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:34:24 +0000 Jennifer Prather http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/?p=1031



Global Perspectives Issue 8 cover
Global Perspectives issue 8 cover

In this issue:

  • Medical student practices Spanish with patients in Peruvian capitol
  • Dash Shaw ‘Bottomless‘ exhibit
  • No Man’s Land: Competing sovereignties in the Central African borderlands
  • Steve Kelly joins DUCIS as Diplomat in Residence
  • DUCIS unveils new website with new logos
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  • “Duke launches new policy: students must register for international travel”
  • “Workshop focuses on challenges to international studies centers in the 21st-century university”
  • “Die Another Day: Healthcare in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela” a field report by 2007 travel award recipient Edgar Mkrtchian.
  • “A Fulbright Year in Israel: spreading the word on HIV/AIDS” a field report by 2007 Fulbright Scholar Adam Yoffie.
  • Announcement congratulating the 15 undergrad (…)
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  • “Democracy, growth on the rise in Latin America; but crime, corruption remain serious issues,” by Jennifer Prather from the April 9th Phillips lecture by José Miguel Insulza, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States.
  • “Interviewing HIV patients in Kenya makes African continent less abstract, more human,” a field report from DUCIS 2006 travel award recipient Corey Sobel, Trinity ‘07.
  • Announcement (…)
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  • “ACC universities collaborate on international education” A recap of the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference International Academic Collaborative (ACC-IAC) meeting, held at Duke University on Nov. 20-21.
  • “Duke Faculty and Staff seek training to increase empathy, Intercultural Competency, towards international students” by Jennifer Prather.
  • “Iraq’s neighbors should help broker reconciliation in Iraq” by visiting Iraqi Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad.
  • “Iraq’s deadliest zone: schools” (…)
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  • “Picture Mourning: Photography as companion in public and private remembrance” by Rob Sikorski
  • “Key to making a successful application? Start thinking now!” by Nazaneen Homaifar, 2006-07 Fulbright Scholarship recipient
  • Announcement of travel and Fulbright award competitions for 2007-08 study
  • Announcement of 2006-07 Fulbright Awardees
  • “POMP takes its program abroad” by Cheryl Lin
  • Korean PASS Fellows pass on Duke’s reputation as an ‘academic mecca’ (…)
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  • Duke and DUCIS launch new Global Health Institute
  • Shakespeare in Iraq (News re. Abdul Sattar Jawad, DUCIS visiting scholar and professor from Iraq)
  • “Deemed exports rules cause concern for Duke and other research universities” by Jennifer Prather
  • “South African activist brings an HIV positive message: We can win the battle against AIDS” by Jennifer Prather
  • Ariel Dorman’s Play ‘Picasso’s Closet’ opens (News re. Artist-in-Residence, (…)
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  • “From a global education at Duke to a hopeful mission in Uganda” by George Piwang-Jalobo
  • “Homeland security ate my speech to the MLA” by Ariel Dorfman
  • University Seminar: Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance
  • DUCIS News & Upcoming Events
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  • “The Rise, Fall, & Recovery of International Studies” by Gilbert W. Merkx
  • 2006 DUCIS Research & Travel Award Competitions
  • “Towards a Promised Land: the Works of Wendy Ewald”by Rob Sikorski
  • Entering the Global Gateway
  • “Engineering student receives DUCIS research award to spend summer helping Nicaragua’s hospitals” by Michael Scott
  • DUCIS News & Upcoming Events
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