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.
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Fri, August 21, 2009
9:00 AM
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 (…)
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When: Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Where: See description
Description: Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:30 AM Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAn interdisciplinary conference on the poetics and pragmatics of literary translation to be held at Duke and the UNC , April 23-25, 2009
This international, interdisciplinary, and transcultural conference will bring (…)
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When: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Where: R. David Thomas Conference Center
Description: An interdisciplinary conference on the poetics and pragmatics of literary translation to be held at Duke and the UNC , April 23-25, 2009
This international, interdisciplinary, and transcultural conference will bring together not only writers and scholars who translate literary texts, but cultural theorists, (…)
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When: Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Where: R. David Thomas Conference Center
Description: An interdisciplinary conference on the poetics and pragmatics of literary translation to be held at Duke and the UNC , April 23-25, 2009
This international, interdisciplinary, and transcultural conference will bring together not only writers and scholars who translate literary texts, but cultural theorists, (…)
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When: Monday, April 13, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: Free, open to the public PG I & II parking vouchers available, upon request.
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Description: The Duke University Center for International Studies Globalization and the Artist project presents a lunchtime talk/reading – “Museologies” with Diego Cortez – Director, Benetton Collection, Treviso; Curator of Photography, New (…)
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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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When: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: Free, open to the public. PG I & II parking vouchers available, upon request.
Description: The Duke University Center for International Studies and the Franklin Humanities Institute’s Wednesdays @ the Center present: “Are Institutions Bad for Children: A Five-Country Study of Children Who Have Been Orphaned” presented by Terry Sanford Institute of Public (…)
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When: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Description: South African musician Roger Lucey’s recordings and performances were routinely censored under apartheid. State security police aimed to destroy his music career, though he remained a celebrated voice of the liberation struggle in the singer-songwriter and rock music traditions. A prominent human rights activist, Ferhat Tunç is one of the iconic (…)
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When: Friday, March 20, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Where: Center for Documentary Studies 1317 W. Pettigrew Street
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Description: This new documentary, written and produced by Beth Holmgren (Duke University) and directed, filmed, and edited by Igor Sopronenko (Signature Media Productions) tells many stories of how Russians & Americans collaborated over the last two decades in reviving women’s activism and creating Russian women’s studies on in (…)
art, culture, Department of Education, Documentary Studies, Europe, foreign language, globalization, human rights, international studies, Russia, womens studies
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