When: Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:00 PM - 10:00 PMWhere: White 107 Lecture HallMore Info
Description: The film Morning Sun attempts in the space of a two-hour documentary film to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976). It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes’ and reflected in the hearts and minds’ of members (…)
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Wed, September 9, 2009
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
White 107 Lecture Hall.
Double features from China and Taiwan: “Meishi Street” (Ou Ning, 2006, a.k.a. “The Story of Zhang Jinli”), which focuses on a Beijing restaurant owner’s efforts to prevent the process of demolition that threatens to destroy not only his business but also his entire neighborhood. “The Gangster’s God” (He (…)
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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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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.
Following the reading, a panel of professors will engage in a conversation about the novel. Carlos Rojas, assistant professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke, and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, assoc. (…)
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After passing the dissertation proposal on May 9th, 2008, I started to plan for the trip to China. In my proposal, I planed to conduct part of my research project in China. My goal was to collect high-quality data of at least 30 adults and 70 3- to 6- year-old children in 6 weeks.
For the experimental purpose I need to (…)
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The cover of ‘A Mind at Peace’
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s A Mind at Peace, originally published in 1949, has been described as “a magnum opus, a Turkish Ulysses, and a lyrical homage to Istanbul,” but until now, it has only been enjoyed by those with a command of Turkish.
With the support of the Duke University Center for International Studies, Erdağ Göknar, Assistant (…)
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When: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: free and open to the public
rabhat Jha, Director, Centre for Global Health Research at the University of Toronto, will present the fourth University Seminar on Global Health for 2008-09. The title of the talk is Tobacco Mortality in India. Dr. Jha has also done extensive research and (…)
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When: Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Where: Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Cost: Free and Open to General Public
Music of the Japanese Biwa: Biwa in the Gardens Featuring Yoko Hiraoka. Durham-Toyama Sister Cities Pavilion in The Sarah P. Duke Gardens, (RAIN or SHINE). Second of two Biwa events. See October 21 for first Biwa event. Questions? Contact cindy.carlson [Email: cindy.carlson #AT# (…)
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When: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: Free, open to the public
Duke University Center for International Studies/Globalization & the Artist present: Poet and translator Jane Hirschfield. Hirshfield’s poetry volumes include “After”, “Given Sugar, Given Salt” and “The Lives of the Heart”. Her translations include “The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono no Kamachi (…)
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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 (…)
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