When: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:00 AM - 5:00 PMWhere: Friedl 225More Info
Description: Filmmaker: Carma HintonGuest Speakers: Michael Renov (USC, keynote); Bruce Cumings (Chicago); Zhen Zhang (NYU); Hyangjin Lee (Sheffield)Contact: orichm [Email: orichm #AT# duke.edu ] or 668-2603
Co-sponsors: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University Center for International Studies, Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), (…)

  ethics, film, human rights, politics

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When: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Where: White 107 Lecture HallMore Info
Description: A BBC documentary producer is given unprecedented access in North Korea to chronicle the story of the famed 1966 World Cup team from the North that advanced to the quarterfinals. The feature includes interviews with surviving members of the team, English fans and soccer pundits who saw the (…)

  film, human rights, politics, soccer

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When: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:30 PM - 4:00 PMWhere: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Description: Achille Mbembe (University of the Witwatersrand, WISER), Sarah Nuttall (University of the Witwatersrand, WISER), Diane Nelson (Duke University, Cultural Anthropology), Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke University, Cultural Anthropology), moderator. Please join us in the Franklin Center for what we hope will be a lively discussion of District 9, Johannesburg, sci-fi (…)

  Africa, colonialism, Concilium on Southern Africa, film, human rights

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When: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMWhere: Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium
Description: Lilian Thuram, Caribbean-born French soccer player, activist and writer, is well-known both for his successes on the turf and for his frequent political interventions off of it. He will share his thoughts on sport, racism, and immigration as well as discussing the work of his new foundation: Fondation (…)

  Caribbean, culture, human rights, politics, soccer

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Fall 2009 Seminars

September 17 (Thursday)
Location: Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Professor Joanne S. Gowa, Princeton University
“Institutions & Outcomes: The GATT/WTO & Postwar Trade”
Click here for Professor Gowa’s biography
Background reading: “Institutions & Outcomes: The GATT/WTO & Postwar Trade”

October 8 (Thursday)
Location: Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Professor Michael D. Ward, Duke University
“International Trade Networks & International Institutions: The Role of Democracy & the WTO in Contemporary Trade”
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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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