DURHAM—What if Picasso had not died in 1973 but was murdered by the Germans during the occupation of Paris in 1940?
This is the scenario playwright Ariel Dorfman has devised for his play, “Picasso’s Closet,” which will have a staged reading at the Nasher Museum of Art, beginning Oct. 29.
“Picasso’s Closet” is the first official event celebrating “25 Years of Ariel (…)
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Amy White, of The Independent Weekly, reviews Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency , now on display in the Franklin Center’s main gallery .
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Local press is abuzz with coverage of the Duke University Center for International Studies’ new gallery exhibition at the Durham Art Guild. Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground 1954 – 1968, co-sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, opens tonight at 120 Morris Street in downtown Durham.
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Duke News’ Geoffrey Mock recaps the Duke University Center for International Studies’ recent Faculty Institute for Global Studies, headed by Robin Kirk, entitled “Human Rights and Wrongs.” The Summer 2009 Institute, held July 13th through 17th at the John Hope Franklin Center, brought together expert speakers from across the country, was aimed at providing faculty members of North Carolina’s small (…)
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A Mind at Peace, translated into English 60 years after its original publication.
On his recent visit to Turkey, President Barack Obama was presented with an English translation of A Mind At Peace, during a meeting with Deniz Baykal, the leader of Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party, in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday.
Erdağ Göknar’s translation of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s 1949 novel, published by Archipelago books in (…)
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The Duke University Center for International Studies’ inaugural Inaugural Reading List, of books, movies and other works that would deepen our understanding of the cultural, philosophical and historical roots of the critical global issues, has been quite the hit, having been the top story on Duke’s internal news page, Duke Today, on January 28th, as well as a display in (…)
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It was in Chile, sometime in the early 1960s, that I saw my first Pinter play, that’s where and when I first heard Harold Pinter’s name spoken, that’s where and when and how something in my work and life changed forever.
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Duke News‘ Josh Stillman profiles Duke’s new Diplomat-in-Residence, Steve Kelly.
Kelly said he looks forward to his two years stationed at Duke, noting that it is both a great opportunity for him and a valuable resource for the university. He said that now more than ever, with the economic crisis and the increasing significance of foreign relations, is a perfect time (…)
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Professor Sattar Jawad, whom the Duke University Center for International Studies hosted as a scholar-at-risk from 2005 to 2007, discusses the ongoing campaign of anti-intellectual violence in Iraq and the devestating impact it is having on Iraq’s universities and the education of future generations in the current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Now a visiting fellow at the University of (…)
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The Duke University Center for International Studies’ recently revamped and redesigned website has been featured as the inaugural WordPress Showcase website. WordPress describes the Showcase as:
…a display of some of the best and brightest WordPress users, who are using it to do a whole lot more than blog.
Suffice it to say, we’re honored and thrilled.
If we’ve made a positive impression, (…)
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