The Duke University Center for International Studies is pleased to announce that, through the use of Google translate, the DUCIS website is now available in forty-two languages.

  about DUCIS, foreign language, website

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Translatable: Creativity and Knowledge Formation Across Cultures – Conference

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 (…)

  culture, Erdag Goknar, foreign language

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Translatable: Creativity and Knowledge Formation Across Cultures – Conference

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, (…)

  culture, Erdag Goknar, foreign language

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Translatable: Creativity and Knowledge Formation Across Cultures – Reception

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, (…)

  culture, Erdag Goknar, foreign language

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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 (…)

  art, Asia, Barack Obama, culture, Erdag Goknar, Europe, foreign language, Middle East, Turkey

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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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The Women's Dialog: International Women's Journal

The Duke University Center for International Studies is pleased to announce the premiere of Modern Russian Feminism: Twenty Years Forward, a documentary produced with the support and assistance of DUCIS, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 20, at the Center for Documentary Studies auditorium, 1317 W. Pettigrew St.

Modern Russian Feminism: Twenty Years Forward tells many stories of how (…)

  art, culture, Department of Education, Documentary Studies, Europe, foreign language, globalization, human rights, international studies, Russia, womens studies

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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 (…)

  art, Asia, culture, Duke University, Erdag Goknar, Europe, foreign language, Middle East, Turkey

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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. (…)

  diplomacy, Diplomat in Residence, foreign language, Outreach, steve kelly

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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 (…)

  conflict, diplomacy, ethics, foreign language, human rights, Middle East, Scholar-at-Risk

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