Here’s a question for you: What do the Director of the International Security Program at the Atlantic Council of the U.S., the Senior Director of Integrated Programming Effectiveness for World Vision International and a human rights activist and member of the Board of Directors of Romero House in Toronto, Ontario have in common? For a start, all three are Duke alumni (Trinity ‘95). (…)

  Biddle lecture, diplomacy, international studies, lecture series

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The Duke University Center for International Studies, in concert with the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Durham Art Guild are pleased to announce the opening of “Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground 1954 – 1968,” An exhibition celebrating the life of jazz musician, pianist, bandleader, mystic, philosopher and Afro-Futurist Sun Ra.

  art, culture, gallery exhibition, music

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Remzije Istrefi, a visiting Fulbright scholar at Duke and lecturer in the Political Science department at the University of Pristina and author focusing on human rights issues recently spoke on the issue of human rights in Kosovo, under the administration of UNMIK, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, at an event sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies, Center for Slavic and (…)

  conflict, democracy, ethics, Europe, foreign policy, Fulbright, globalization, human rights

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While there has been an explosion of scholarship specifically concerned with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, an upcoming conference, hosted by the Concilium on Southern Africa (COSA), hopes instead to use the AIDS epidemic as a way of expanding the definition of illness. The Social Coordinates of Illness in Post-Colonial Africa, (October 3rd and 4th, in the Franklin Center) thus aims to (…)

  Africa, colonialism, Concilium on Southern Africa, ethics, health, HIV/AIDS, human rights

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The Duke University Center for International Studies will host Miklos Haraszti, a Hungarian writer, journalist, human rights advocate and university professor, who has served as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media since March 2004, as he discusses the State of Media Freedom in the post-Soviet Republics, on Monday, September 22, at 4pm, in the John Hope Franklin Center. 

This event has (…)

  Asia, democracy, Europe, governance, human rights, Russia

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The Duke University Center for International Studies is pleased to announce the Fall 2008 schedule for the University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy. The seminar, now in its eleventh year, will kick-off the year on September 18th, at 5:30pm with “Why is Latin America Deindustrializing?” by Duke’s own David Brady.

Tthe full list of Fall seminar dates are listed below.

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  Global Governance and Democracy, globalization, University Seminar

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