The New York Times’ Benjamin Genocchio reviews “Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography,” an exhibition at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, featuring photography by DUCIS Artist in Residence, Wendy Ewald and Globalization and the Artist participant Alfredo Jaar, amongst others.

Ms. Ewald spent 18 months interviewing children in Margate, taking their photographs and teaching (…)

  art, culture, gallery exhibition, In the News, Wendy Ewald

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Ariel Dorfman

Artist-in-residence/Writer

Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American poet, novelist, playwright and human-rights activist who holds the Walter Hines Page Chair of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University. He has received numerous international awards, including the Sudamericana Award for novel, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play (”Death and the Maiden,” which has been made into a feature film by (…)

  Ariel Dorfman, Wendy Ewald

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• “Democracy, growth on the rise in Latin America; but crime, corruption remain serious issues,” by Jennifer Prather from the April 9th Phillips lecture by José Miguel Insulza, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States.
• “Interviewing HIV patients in Kenya makes African continent less abstract, more human,” a field report from DUCIS 2006 travel award recipient Corey Sobel, Trinity ‘07.
• Announcement (…)

  art, Global Perspectives, health, research grants, Wendy Ewald

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• “The Rise, Fall, & Recovery of International Studies” by Gilbert W. Merkx
• 2006 DUCIS Research & Travel Award Competitions
• “Towards a Promised Land: the Works of Wendy Ewald”by Rob Sikorski
• Entering the Global Gateway
• “Engineering student receives DUCIS research award to spend summer helping Nicaragua’s hospitals” by Michael Scott
• DUCIS News & Upcoming Events

  Funding Opportunities, Global Perspectives, international studies, Wendy Ewald

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