When: Thursday, October 8, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:30 PMWhere: Sanford 04Cost: Free and open to the publicMore Info
Description: Damon Wilson (Duke ‘95) is the Director of the International Security Program at the Atlantic Council of the United States, focusing on NATO transformation, European defense, emerging global security challenges and transatlantic defense and intelligence cooperation.The Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture in International (…)
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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). (…)
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The Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture in International Studies, inaugurated at Duke University on November 5, 1992 with The Honorable Vernon Anthony Walters as the first invited speaker, was established by Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and James H. Semans and their family to honor Mrs. Semans’ father, who had a distinguished career as a diplomat in the service (…)
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Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Sanford School of Public Policy, Room 04
Information: The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Nancy Hare Robbins at nancy.robbins [Email: nancy.robbins #AT# duke.edu ].
At the vanguard of Duke’s internationalization efforts from 1991 – 1995, Mark Lorey (Trinity ‘95), Damon Wilson (Trinity ‘95) (…)
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The Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture in International Studies was established by Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and James H. Semans and their family to honor Mrs. Semans’ father, who had a distinguished career as a diplomat in the service of the United States and was an original signer of The Duke Endowment.
This program is made possible by the (…)
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The Duke University Center for International Studies’ inaugural Inaugural Reading List, of books, movies and other works that would deepen our understanding of the cultural, philosophical and historical roots of the critical global issues, has been quite the hit, having been the top story on Duke’s internal news page, Duke Today, on January 28th, as well as a display in (…)
art, Barack Obama, culture, democracy, diplomacy, Duke University, economics, globalization, governance, human rights, In the News, Inauguration, international studies
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When: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: Rubenstein Hall 153
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Description: Career U.S. diplomat Stephen Kelly will discuss internship and career opportunities with the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Kelly is a Senior Foreign Service Officer who is assigned to Duke University as a Diplomat in Residence. His presentation will start at 5 p.m. in Rubenstein 153. (…)
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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 governmental (…)
Ariel Dorfman, Barack Obama, democracy, diplomacy, foreign policy, governance, human rights, Inauguration
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Duke News‘ Josh Stillman profiles Duke’s new Diplomat-in-Residence, Steve Kelly.
Kelly said he looks forward to his two years stationed at Duke, noting that it is both a great opportunity for him and a valuable resource for the university. He said that now more than ever, with the economic crisis and the increasing significance of foreign relations, is a perfect time (…)
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Professor Sattar Jawad, whom the Duke University Center for International Studies hosted as a scholar-at-risk from 2005 to 2007, discusses the ongoing campaign of anti-intellectual violence in Iraq and the devestating impact it is having on Iraq’s universities and the education of future generations in the current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Now a visiting fellow at the University of (…)
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