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Duke University celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Ariel Dorfman

Posted: Sep. 30th, 2009 | Last modified: Feb. 9th, 2010 | Category: DUCIS News

Twenty-five years ago, the playwright and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman accepted an offer to teach at Duke University.

Ariel Dorfman: 25 Years at DukeIt is a decision he has never come to regret.

This academic year, the Duke University Center for International Studies celebrates “Ariel Dorfman: 25 Years at Duke University,” with a series of events highlighting his playwriting, film and academic career.

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A Conversation with Yu Hua

Posted: Mar. 20th, 2009 | Last modified: Apr. 28th, 2009 | Category: DUCIS Calendar Archive

Acclaimed Chinese writer Yu Hua will read from his new novel, “Brothers,” on Friday, March 20, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at Duke University in 0014 Herring Classroom in the Westbrook Building at the Divinity School.
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Following the reading, a panel of professors will engage in a conversation about (…)

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Inaugural Reading List 2009

Posted: Jan. 15th, 2009 | Last modified: Apr. 8th, 2009 | Category: DUCIS News, Outreach

The Duke University Center for International Studies recently asked several Duke faculty members to recommend works that they felt would be “good to think with.”  We were looking for books, movies and other works that would deepen our understanding of the cultural, philosophical and historical roots of the critical global issues.

Times of crisis bring countless suggestions for fixes.  Hundreds of (…)

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The World That Harold Pinter Unlocked

Posted: Jan. 5th, 2009 | Category: In the News

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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A Promise to the Dead wins 2 Gemini Awards

Posted: Oct. 21st, 2008 | Last modified: Oct. 22nd, 2008 | Category: DUCIS News

TORONTO, October 20, 2008 – A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman has won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program for Peter Raymont and Best Original Music Score for a Documentary Program or Series for composer Mark Korven. White Pine Pictures accepted the awards at tonight’s News, Sports and Documentary Gala at the (…)

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Death and the Maiden play premieres as opera in Sweden

Posted: Sep. 18th, 2008 | Category: Arts

In its 2008/2009 season, Malmö Opera is proud to present Death and the Maiden. Death and the Maiden, based on the play of the same name by Ariel Dorfman, is the second opera composer Jonas Forssell has created for the Malmö Opera, where he is in residence.

The world premiere is Sept. 20 in Malmö, Sweden.

Dorfman wrote the libretto (…)

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Ariel Dorfman film receives 3 Canadian Gemini Award nominations

Posted: Aug. 27th, 2008 | Last modified: Sep. 3rd, 2008 | Category: DUCIS News

TORONTO, August 27, 2008 – White Pine Pictures announced that its documentary film A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman was nominated for three Gemini Awards. The Gemini Awards are the highest honor given to Canadian English-language television and are the equivalent of the Emmy Awards in the United States.

The film, based on Ariel Dorfman’s (…)

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Faculty

Posted: Aug. 20th, 2008 | Last modified: Sep. 11th, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized

Ariel Dorfman

Artist-in-residence/Writer

Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American poet, novelist, playwright and human-rights activist who holds the Walter Hines Page Chair of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University. He has received numerous international awards, including the Sudamericana Award for novel, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play (“Death and the Maiden,” which has been made into a feature (…)

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Global Perspectives – Issue 5 – Winter 2006

Posted: Dec. 20th, 2006 | Last modified: Apr. 28th, 2009 | Category: Newsletter

  • 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.

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Global Perspectives – Issue 3 – Spring/Summer 2006

Posted: Apr. 10th, 2006 | Last modified: Apr. 28th, 2009 | Category: Newsletter

  • 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

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