Travel reports submitted by recipients of DUCIS’ research and travel grants.

  Funding Opportunities, graduate students, grants, research grants, travel grants, undergraduate students

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Ecology, Ideology, Politics: A Roundtable Discussion

When: Friday, April 17, 2009 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Where: Friedl Atrium
Cost: Free
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Description: Please join the Duke University Center for International Studies and the Polygraph collective for a roundtable discussion with Tim Morton and Kathy Rudy.

Friday, April 17 | Friedl 115 | 5-7pm

Food and drink will be provided. Questions? Contact: polygraph [Email: polygraph #AT# duke.edu ]

Tim Morton is Professor of (…)

  ecology, governance, graduate students, politics

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When: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Description: Dr. Daniel Schmitt, Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, Topic: “Evolution, Obesity, and Arthritis: Understanding Human Health from an Evolutionary Perspective” The University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students from (…)

  ethics, globalization, graduate students, health, Seminar on Global Health, University Seminar

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When: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 028
Cost: Please RSVP
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Description: Speaker: Tom Quinn, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health Dinner served at 7:15pm, Program commences at 7:30pm

  ethics, graduate students, health, working group

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When: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 028
Cost: Please RSVP
Dinner served at 7:15pm, Program commences at 7:30pm.

  ethics, globalization, graduate students, health, working group

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Wed, November 12, 2008
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240.
Free, open to the public.

The Graduate Student Human Rights Working Group will host a discussion with faculty on the lessons to be drawn from the past two decades in human rights law and advocacy. Join Professors Catherine Admay, Allen Buchanan, George Christie, John Dugard, Robin Kirk, (…)

  graduate students, human rights, working group

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When: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Where: Trent 40
Please RSVP.
Dinner served at 7:15 pm, program commences at 7:30 pm.

  ethics, graduate students, health, working group

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The DUCIS Graduate Awards for Research and Training provide graduate students working on international, regional or comparative research with funding for travel to archival and research sites inside and outside the continental United States, for attendance at specialized conferences, or for foreign language & methods training. Awards range from $500 to $2,500. Funding requests may include costs of international and in-country (…)

  culture, Funding Opportunities, globalization, graduate students, grants, research grants, travel grants

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The Human Rights Working Group is a student-run group sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies. It is a uniquely interdisciplinary collection of graduate and professional students.

Our goals include:

1. Organizing bimonthly meetings consisting of presentations and discussions on pertinent human rights issues;
2. Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among graduate and professional students at Duke and UNC, and
3. A critical engagement with human rights through (…)

  culture, democracy, ethics, globalization, governance, graduate students, human rights, working group

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