Upcoming Fall 2009 Seminars

November 5 (Thursday)
Location: Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Professor Rose McDermott, Brown University
“Sex Differences in Aggression: Evidence from Experimental Wargames”
Click here for Professor McDermott’s biography
Background reading: Sex Differences in Aggression: Evidence from Experimental Wargames

November 19 (Thursday)
Location: Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Professor Clifford Bob, Duquesne University
“Globalizing the Anti-Gay Agenda: Conservative Activism & Implications for Transnational Politics & Law”
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  democracy, economics, Global Governance and Democracy, globalization, human rights, politics, University Seminar

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Twenty-five years ago, the playwright and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman accepted an offer to teach at Duke University.

It is a decision he has never come to regret.

This academic year, the Duke University Center for International Studies celebrates “Ariel Dorfman: 25 Years at Duke University,” with a series of events highlighting his playwriting, film and academic career.

Dorfman, who holds the Walter (…)

  Ariel Dorfman, art, human rights

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Thu, September 17, 2009 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Page Auditorium. open to the public. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will give a public lecture, entitled “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” about his new book due out in September. There will be a book-signing following the event.

Tickets will be distributed in (…)

  economics, human rights, womens studies

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Duke News’ Geoffrey Mock recaps the Duke University Center for International Studies’ recent Faculty Institute for Global Studies, headed by Robin Kirk, entitled “Human Rights and Wrongs.” The Summer 2009 Institute, held July 13th through 17th at the John Hope Franklin Center, brought together expert speakers from across the country, was aimed at providing faculty members of North Carolina’s small (…)

  Faculty Institutes in Global Studies, human rights, Outreach

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The Duke University Center for International Studies is pleased to announce our first annual Summer Institute on Human Rights. The focus of our inaugural seminar, held July 13-17, 2009, is “Human Rights and Wrongs: Terror, Truth and Political Conflict in Classroom Study” and is for faculty whose teaching focus is undergraduate students. Applicants must be regular rank faculty, preferably at the junior level. All disciplines are welcome to apply. Community college faculty are especially encouraged to apply.

  Faculty Institutes in Global Studies, human rights, Outreach

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African Ubuntu and South African Constitutionalism: Constructing a New Legal Culture

When: Friday, April 17, 2009 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240

Description: African Ubuntu and South African Constitutionalism, a public conversation between Justice Yvonne Mokgoro (Constitutional Court of South Africa) and Jean and John Comaroff (University of Chicago) will explore what the term Ubuntu, a concept encapsulating (…)

  Africa, Concilium on Southern Africa, human rights, justice

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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 (…)

  culture, human rights, Wednesdays at the Center

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Dr. John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, prolific scholar, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and inspiration for the Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies that bears his name and houses the Duke University Center for International Studies, passed away on March 25, 2009.

  education, ethics, Franklin Center, Gilbert W. Merkx, human rights, international studies, John Hope Franklin

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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 (…)

  Africa, art, Concilium on Southern Africa, culture, human rights, 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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