When: Sunday, November 15, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:15 PMWhere: Nasher Museum of ArtCost: $5 – Duke Ticket Office – 919.684.4444 or tickets.duke.eduMore Info
Description: The Duke University Center for International Studies presents a staged reading of: “Picasso’s Closet” by Ariel Dorfman. The acclaimed author of “Death and the Maiden” unveils an extraordinary reimagining of Pablo Picasso living in a time of terror: What (…)
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When: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMWhere: Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium
Description: Lilian Thuram, Caribbean-born French soccer player, activist and writer, is well-known both for his successes on the turf and for his frequent political interventions off of it. He will share his thoughts on sport, racism, and immigration as well as discussing the work of his new foundation: Fondation (…)
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Sun, October 18, 2009
6:00 PM
CCB Gallery, 120 Morris Street, Durham.
Free and open to the public.
The Durham Art Guild, the John Hope Franklin Center and DUCIS presents a collection of paintings, drawings, prints, manuscripts, ephemera, and video produced by and about Sun Ra and his associates—much of it previously unseen. August 21-October 18 at the CCB Gallery, 120 Morris Street, Durham, (…)
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Where: White 107 Lecture HallMore Info
Description: Avi Mograbi and Ram Loevy will discuss Israeli documentaries and their politics of representation.Respondents: Rebecca Stein, Yaron Shemer, Shai GinsburgContact: shaig [Email: shaig #AT# duke.edu ]
Co-sponsors: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University Center for International Studies, Program in Arts of (…)
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Where: Bryan Center Griffith Film TheaterMore Info
Description: In what he calls a “musical-documentary-tragedy,” Avi Mograbi features an Israeli ex-soldier who participated in a revenge operation where several Palestinian policemen were murdered. The soldier now seeks forgiveness for what he has done, but his girlfriend does not think it is that simple, and raises issues (…)
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Thu, September 17, 2009 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center Main Gallery. Free and open to the public. Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency, opens with a reception on 9/17 at 5:00 pm in the Main Gallery of the Franklin Center and runs through 11/29/2009. Kristine Stiles, professor of art, art history, and visual (…)
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When: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PMWhere: Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater
Description: Bhutan vs. Montserrat face-off in _The Other Final_. Dutch filmmakers arrange for the two lowest-ranked soccer teams in the world to play one another in this humorous and empathetic look at the global passion for soccer. Catch a rare screening of this film, which is not distributed in (…)
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Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency, opens on September 17 in the main gallery of the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and runs through November 29, 2009.
Kristine Stiles, professor of art, art history, and visual studies, curated the exhibition from her extensive archive of art, artists’ letters, documents, posters, and ephemera. A 48-page (…)
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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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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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