The arts have a long global history. The movement of both artists and their products reaches far back in time and over wide geographical expanses. Perhaps the difference today is that it is now hard to determine the geographical origin of a work. Styles and technologies, sites of production and sites of distribution are no longer bound by national traditions, (…)
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Renowned writer and translator Lydia Davis, whose The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis was published in 2009 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, will be speaking as part of the University Seminar on Globalization and the Artist on October 19, 2012.
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Journalist and graphic novelist Joe Sacco, author of ‘Palestine,’ ‘Footnotes in Gaza,’ ‘Safe Area Gorazde’ and ‘The Fixer’ will discuss “Comics and Journalism” on Duke’s East Campus, at 5pm on Tuesday, April 24.
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Curator Diego Cortez’s April 13, 2009 discussion and reading for the Seminar on Globalization and the Artist, “Museologies” is now available on iTunes U. (…)
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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 – (…)
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Tue, November 18, 2008
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 130-132.
Free, open to the public. PG I & II parking vouchers available, upon request.
Martin von Haselberg and Brian Routh made up The Kipper Kids, a performance duo begun in the early 1970s. The Kipper Kids performed both in the US and Europe, drawing on Japanese (…)
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Wed, November 5, 2008
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 230-232.
Free, open to the public.
Duke University Center for International Studies’ Global and the Artist conversation series
welcomes
British environmental sound artist & experimental musician
Peter Cusack
in a discussion of his work.
For more information on Peter, please visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cusack (…)
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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 (…)
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When: Monday, October 20, 2008 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Where: Perkins Library Rare Book Room
Cost: Free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Bryan Center.
Globalization and the Artist, a project of the Duke University Center for International Studies, opens its Series on Suffering with novelist and essayist Peter Trachtenberg, reading from his new book: (…)
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FantaGraphics, publisher of Dash Shaw‘s Bottomless Belly Button featured a recap of the opening of Bottomless, curated by Diego Cortez and now on display in the Franklin Center gallery, through October 31, as well as highlights of the Globalization and the Artist seminar, featuring Dash Shaw and Gary Panter.
Read Eric Reynolds’ Report from Duke on Dash Shaw Show (…)
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