TIME magazine’s LightBox blog has coverage of “Walking on Quicksand,” an ongoing exhibition at Duke’s John Hope Franklin Center, part of Afghan documentary photographer, Zalmaï’s, upcoming residency with the Duke University Center for International Studies and the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund.
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Emma Baccellieri, writing for The Duke Chronicle, explores the new exhibit of photographs by Zalmaï, now on display, as part of his upcoming residency, a joint effort of the Duke University Center for International Studies and the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund:
“It’s a powerful exhibit—it brings home the tragedy in which these people are living,” said sociology professor Gilbert
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A new exhibit, co-sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies and the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, now on display at Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies focuses on the work of documentary photographer and photojournalist, Zalmaï in documenting the Afghan diaspora.
Twelve years after the fall of the Taliban and international community’s intervention (…)
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Author and historian Amitav Ghosh will present the Second-Annual Lecture in Comparative World History, entitled “China and the Making of Modern India: A Story of Fantasy, Abuse and Recovered Memory,” on at 4pm on Wednesday, April 25, in Duke University’s Smith Warehouse.
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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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On Wednesday, October 5, in the Gothic Reading Room of Duke University’s Perkins Library, Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist, and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman will read from his new memoir, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). This is the sequel to his award-winning book, Heading South, Looking North, which was the basis for the (…)
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The Duke University Center for International Studies and the John Hope Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies are pleased to announced the opening of:
Pati
photographs by
Sohrab Hura
October 6th, 5.30 p.m.-7.00 p.m.
Franklin Center
2204 Erin Road
Duke University
Durham, NC
This is the first in an annual series of collaborations with the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, of (…)
Art, Asia, ethics, Franklin Center, gallery exhibition, human rights, India, Magnum Foundation, photography, poverty
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Wed, September 7, 2011 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center 240. DGHI is proud to host this global health seminar by noted human rights champion Edwin Cameron, a sitting justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court. Judge Cameron’s legal work and personal experience as an HIV-positive public figure have been instrumental in improving access to antiretroviral therapy and (…)
Africa, GHI, health, HIV/AIDS, human rights, international studies, justice, public policy, University Seminar
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The Duke University Center for International Studies has sponsored a wide variety of publications, films and CDs, including scholarly journals, economic analysis, art catalogs, ethnographies, documentaries and more.
about DUCIS, Africa, Art, Asia, Australasia, China, culture, Documentary Studies, Erdag Goknar, gallery exhibition, human rights, Latin America, publications, sociology, South America, Turkey, Wendy Ewald
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When: Monday, July 12, 2010 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Speaker/Presenter: Robin Kirk
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Description: The Duke University Center for International Studies is pleased to announce our first annual Summer Institute on Human Rights. The Institute, which will run from July 12-16, 2010, will provide up to $1,000 to cover expenses for the (…)
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