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Erica Lorraine Williams, former FHI Mellon HBCU Fellow, on her new book, Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. When Brazil's tourism department uses Black sexuality to promotes their nation as a paradise of escape, how are Afro-Brazilian women viewed and treated in light of this marketing? Fantastic talk from Prof. Williams. Erica Lorraine Williams is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Spelman College. Professor Williams won the National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize for Sex Tourism in Bahia.
Ato Quayson delivers a public lecture as part of his short-term residency at the FHI, dealing with diasporic literature in greater context of post-colonialism. Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, where he has been since August 2005. He did his BA at the University of Ghana and took his PhD from Cambridge University in 1995. He then went on to the University of Oxford as a Research Fellow, returning to Cambridge in Sept 1995 to become a Fellow at Pembroke College and a member of the Faculty of English where he eventually became a Reader in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. - See more at: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/events/quayson-lecture#sthash.YH2kucH0.dpuf
This talk investigates the use of fast fashion -- cheap chic pedaled by behemoths such as Zara and H&M -- by a group of undocumented immigrant women who wear the clothes to labor in New York City's nail salons. In the wake of Rana Plaza, how can we move forward with a critique of fast fashion that accounts for the diversity of users and uses? Jessamyn Hatcher teaches fashion studies and the humanities in the Global Liberal Studies program at New York University. She is working on a book about the politics of fast fashion. She is the co-editor, with Cathy N. Davidson, of No More Separate Spheres!: A Next Wave American Studies Reader (Duke University Press). Learn more at http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/phdlab/!
Launched in 2012, Public Books is an online monthly review magazine devoted to spirited debate about books and the arts and was recently named a "Best Site" by the Daily Beast. Publishing timely, provocative essays that bring academic ideas to bear on recently published works of fiction, non-fiction, and media culture, Public Books establishes a forum where scholars can write in a publicly appealing voice, develop strong arguments, and bring their deep knowledge of their subjects to bear on important questions that define both public debate and important scholarship." In this conversation with FHI Director Ian Baucom, Public Books fiction editor Sharon Marcus discusses the project in detail, with a particular interest in engaging the Duke public and potential reviewers and writers. Sharon Marcus is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her specializations include 19th century French and English literature, architecture and urbanism, and feminist theory and LGBT studies. Her books include Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (University of California Press, 1999) and Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton: 2007). Marcus has won a myriad of awards and fellowships, including the Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and ACLS fellowships, the Lambda Literary award for best book in LGBT studies, and the Perkins Prize for best study of narrative, among others.
BorderWork(s) Lab (http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/borderworks/) students Elizabeth Blackwood, Mary Kate Cash, Katie Contess, Rachel Fleder, Lauren Jackson, Jordan Noyes, and Jeremy Tripp led a gallery tour of Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire (http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/defininglines/). Defining Lines is on view at Duke's Nasher Museum from September 9 - December 15, 2013. This student-curated installation draws exclusively from the holdings of Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library and explores the mutual relationships between maps and empires. As imperial colonial structures rose, consolidated, and ultimately collapsed, the legacy of how their maps delineated colonial holdings, visualized spaces, and reinforced control remains with us. As varied and conflicted as their purposes and perspectives may be, maps continue to function as a powerful and popular medium through which we understand the world and the man-made lines that define and ultimately control it. The BorderWork(s) Lab is housed at the Franklin Humanities Institute (http://fhi.duke.edu/) and supported by the Mellon Foundation Humanities Writ Large grant (http://humanitieswritlarge.duke.edu/).
Trading Races is an elaborate paper-based role-playing game set at the University of Michigan in April 2003. Players take on the roles of real historical characters and multi-ethnic and multi-national members of an imaginary Student Assembly as they tackle the Supreme Court affirmative action cases brought against the university. Adeline Koh is Director of DH@Stockton and and assistant professor of literature at Richard Stockton College in NJ. She came to Duke on a fellowship.
Writing is Thinking II: Taking It to the Next Level, a writing event and workshop sponsored by the Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature (PAL), The Thompson Writing Program, and the Graduate School, built on the concepts introduced in the original workshop held on Friday, January 28, 2011, titled “Writing as Thinking: Writing as a Way of Life in the Academy.” Here, the next step was taken by posing key questions necessary to the graduate student writer. How do we figure out what to keep and what to throw away? How do we revise without fear and without tears? Among the key questions are: how to be your own editor, how to cut without fear, how to peer review, how to make your writing clearer. Writing is Thinking II provides a unique opportunity for graduate students and other young scholars at Duke to develop their craft and to get inspiration for their future life of writing and thinking.
Chimamanda Adichie, author of the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and the short story collection That Thing Around Your Neck (2009), discusses her work with the Africa Initiative, a co-sponsored event with the Center for African and Africa American Research . Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2008). Half of a Yellow Sun is set to be released this year as a major motion picture starring Thandie Newton and 12 Years a Slave's star Chiwetel Ejiofor.
The Graduate Students of the Duke University Department of History were pleased to invite Dr. Thomas Laqueur, professor of history at University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Laqueur was the keynote speaker for Navigating Place and Power, an annual one-day conference at Duke University, which took place on Friday, February 15, 2013. This interdisciplinary conference sought to promote dialogue between scholars of various disciplines in order to explore how individuals and groups negotiate systems of power. In this talk, Dr. Laqueur discusses the concept of deep time & necrogeography while analyzing the impact of the collective dead on building culture & communities throughout human history.
The 2013 FHI Annual Distinguished Lecture will be delivered by Rob Nixon, Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prof. Nixon's visit will be jointly sponsored by the FHI and the Nicholas School of the Environment. Rob Nixon is currently the Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Nixon received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the author of London Calling: V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford University Press); Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (Routledge); Dreambirds: the Natural History of a Fantasy (Picador); and Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard University Press 2011). - See more at: http://calendar.duke.edu/events/show.html?fq=id:CAL-8a087089-3c6dc6ed-013c-8d71be35-00007076demobedework@mysite.edu#sthash.XwcDeftU.dpuf
Panelists include François Noudelmann, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and the European Graduate School, journalist at France Culture, and author of the essay The Philosopher’s Touch: Sartre, Nietzsche and Barthes at the Piano; Professor Jacqueline Waeber, a specialist of Rousseau from the Duke Department of Music; Olivier Dejours, composer, conductor, and former member of Les Percussions de Strasbourg.
Panelists include François Noudelmann, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and the European Graduate School, journalist at France Culture, and author of the essay The Philosopher’s Touch: Sartre, Nietzsche and Barthes at the Piano; Professor Jacqueline Waeber, a specialist of Rousseau from the Duke Department of Music; Olivier Dejours, composer, conductor, and former member of Les Percussions de Strasbourg.
Panelists include François Noudelmann, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and the European Graduate School, journalist at France Culture, and author of the essay The Philosopher’s Touch: Sartre, Nietzsche and Barthes at the Piano; Professor Jacqueline Waeber, a specialist of Rousseau from the Duke Department of Music; Olivier Dejours, composer, conductor, and former member of Les Percussions de Strasbourg.
Join us for a lecture vie teleconference with Jean-Luc Nancy, the seminal French philosopher in the tradition of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida. Please note that the lecture will be in French, with simultaneous translation. An English translation of the conference paper will be circulated before the lecture. His work questions politics, ontology, and aesthetics and has shown a particular interest in music. He recently collaborated with composer Sergio Perezzani on "Au bord du sens” for the Stuttgart Contemporary Music Festival. Nancy’s texts have been set to music by Michael Levinas (“Dies Irae”) and Mark André (Noli me tangere).
Neve Gordon teaches politics at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and is currently a member at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. He is also a founding member of Hagar school for Jewish Arab education for equality. Professor Gordon’s most recent book is Israel's Occupation (University of California, 2008) -- acclaimed by critics as one of the most important works on the military occupation to date. He has written numerous scholarly articles primarily on issues relating to human rights and political theory and is a contributor to a variety of media outlets including The Washington Post, Al-Jazeera, LA Times, The Guardian, The Nation, The London Review of Books, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Erving Goffman used the language of theater, and a close analysis of what happens on stage, to generate a theory of social experience. This paper adopts Goffman’s approach, based on elementary “strips” of interaction, and repurposes it for the quantitative study of plays as micro-encounters that build into macro-structures. The encounter provides a computational signal and an interpretive concept in the “window,” an arbitrarily cut strip of a given number of speeches in a play. As the window moves through the play, a micro-network is built based on the speech-acts within the window’s range. While the overall network of a play can reveal something about a play’s social and dramatic structure, the window helps us capture, quantitatively, the basic units of social experience that go toward creating those larger structures. The window also allows for the comparison of many plays of varying length and structure, putting, for example, the Ancients, Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brazilian playwrights together in a new analytical frame. Zephyr Frank is an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University, Director of the Spatial History Project, and the principal investigator for the Terrain of History project. He is also the director of CESTA. The Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), an interdisciplinary collective of labs operates independently of any one particular home department, and is organizationally housed within the Dean of Research at Stanford University.
Harnessing the “data deluge” is promoting new conversations between disciplines. Prof. Marciano and his collaborators have been pursuing research in a number of areas including: big cultural data, access to big heterogeneous data, records in the cloud, federated grid/cloud storage, visual interfaces to large collections, policy-based frameworks to automate content management, and distributed cyberinfrastructure to enable data sharing. But more importantly, innovative technical approaches require the convergence of creative insights across computer science, the social sciences, and the humanities. This talk touches on these topics and highlights a new collaboration with partners at Duke.
Jennifer Doyle is Associate Professor of English at UC Riverside. She is the author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (Minnesota 2006) and the forthcoming Hold it Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (Duke). Her blog, From A Left Wing, is a leading site for the discussion of women's soccer and gender and of sport more broadly. She will be speaking about her perspective on the 2011 Women's World Cup, which she spent in France and Germany, and about the past and future of women's soccer in the U.S. and around the globe.
Poet Nikky Finney, winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry, reads from her latest book, "Head Off & Split". Following the reading, Finney has a conversation with Thavolia Glymph, Duke Professor of African and African American Studies and History and Michael Taussig, Columbia University Professor of Anthropology.
Kathryn Sikkink, recipient of the 2011 Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)-Duke University Human Rights Book Award, reads from and discusses her award-winning book, The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics. Sikkink is a Regents Professor and the McKnight Presidential Chair in Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
It is a truism that light creates space; however, both the absence and the presence of light can create provocative visual effects. With her installation, UltraSuper, Stacy Lynn Waddell employs the power of hyperbole to highlight the connections between blinding light and seemingly absent forms of blackness. As such, she questions and responds to Andy Warhol’s outré productions made in his glittering, 1960s proto-glam loft, the Silver Factory. Characterized by overabundant blasts of light and sheen, floating silver balloons, tinfoiled walls and the sparkle of Superstars, the factory was a place of and for extreme performances. Like an overly lit photographic exposure, it produced a quasi-phosphorescent whiteness that predominated among shades of grey. Such formal properties of light, space, and contrast come to matter in American culture via the reflection that is UltraSuper.
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Yvonne Mokgoro obtained the BA Law degree at the North-West University in 1982, the LLB degree two years later, and completed her LLM in 1987 at the same institution. Between 1984 and 1989, she worked as a lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence at the North-West University and was also appointed as a maintenance officer and public prosecutor in the Mmabatho Magistrate Court. From 1989 to 1990, she attended the University of Pennsylvania in the USA, where she obtained a second Master of Law degree. Between 1992 and 1993, Mokgoro served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of the Western Cape. From there she moved to the Centre for Constitutional Analysis at the Human Sciences Research Council where she was a specialist researcher in human rights. During this time, she also acted as a part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria. In 1994, she was appointed as a judge of the Constitutional Court, where she continues to serve. She is one of only three women (the others being Justice Kate O’Regan and Justice Bess Nkabinde) and the first black woman on the first Constitutional Court.
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