Wednesdays at the Center

Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of African & African American Studies and the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at Duke University where he offers courses on Black Masculinity, Popular Culture, and Digital Humanities, including signature courses on Michael Jackson & the Black Performance Tradition, and The History of Hip-Hop, which he co-teaches with Grammy Award Winning producer 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit). Rochelle Newton is a Senior Manager of IT at Duke Law. Rochelle has worked in Information Technology (IT) for more than 30 years for public and private entities. Rochelle recently completed her doctoral studies at East Carolina. As technology has evolved, Rochelle has developed an analytical perspective of technology at the intersection of education. This perspective and her work in higher education led to her dissertation thesis, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This topic highlighted the underlying presumption of a one-size-fits-all model in education and has become a focus of her career. Rochelle has been a non-traditional student throughout her academic endeavors. This experience has influenced her thoughts on what is needed for academic success for each learner and formulizing academic achievement requires more than assessment and evaluation. Her interests include food insecurity on college campuses, diversity and equal pay, and mentorship for women in Information Technology.

Representatives from five Graduate Working Groups on Global Issues at Duke University will join in a panel to share interesting aspects of their topical groups. Included will be representatives from: Challenges in International Development, Foreign Aid & Intervention, Neurosurgery in East Africa, Ocean Policy, and Translation in Theory & Practice. These interdisciplinary groups, each comprised of students from multiple graduate programs and professional schools at Duke, meet several times per semester to discuss topics with a global focus, to share their research, and frequently to plan symposia, talks and conferences. Duke University Center for International & Global Studies is sponsoring eighteen such working groups in the 2016-2017 academic year, and Africa Initiative is co-sponsoring seven of them, including Foreign Aid & Intervention and Neurosurgery in East Africa, who are represented in this program. For more information, please visit: https://igs.duke.edu/academics/graduate-working-groups-global-issues This presentation is sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.

The Academy of Korean Studies, Duke Korean Forum, Asian Pacific Studies Center, Duke’s Program in Arts of the Moving Image in collaboration with the Department of Asian and Middle East Studies will host four South Korean members of the film cooperative ‘PINKS’. The PINKS cooperative creates films that advocate for sexual minorities and workers’ rights as well as investigating state violence. This panel will discuss PINKS work and the Korean film industry more broadly. This presentation is sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Asian / Pacific Studies Institute.

This talk will explore the history of Trieste with a focus on how the city and surrounding provinces in Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia reflect the transnational and multi-ethnic history of the region at the crossroads of the Italian, South Slav, and Germanic worlds. Through the lens of urban culture including local foodways, architecture, entertainment, and political display, the talk will explore the nostalgia for empire as well as the memory of Italian irredentism and Fascist nationalism, Cold War conflicts over “Slavic” (Slovene or Croatian) identity, and bitter resistance to Nazi German occupation (associated with Austro-Germanism) culture. Hametz will explain the ways in which these memories have played a fundamental role in the reconstruction of the city’s culture and reputation in the post-1989 period. Maura Hametz is a Professor of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Her research explores the history of Trieste and the northeastern Adriatic regions since the late nineteenth century with emphasis on the intersections of politics, culture, economy, law, religion, gender, and ethnic and national identity. Her most recent study In the Name of Italy (Fordham U. Press, 2012) explores nationalist naming in the Adriatic and the judicial system and justice in Fascist Italy. She is now working on a project that explores the memory of the Habsburg Empress “Sissi” in the Adriatic Littoral and on a monograph that examines Mussolini’s Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State. This presentation is sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Council for European Studies.

Rape has always been part of war, but in the 20th century as military technology increased the scale of warfare so did the rate of rape. During the 1990s, the Serb rape camps holding Bosnian Muslim women in sexual bondage and then the rape camps of the Rwandan Genocide galvanized international action. The ICC trials led to the declaration that rape in war constitutes a crime against humanity. Activists were elated, yet rape remains an authorized weapon of war. This talk will focus on the most alarming case of the 21st century: Islamic State and Fatwa 64, known as the Rape Handbook. miriam cooke is Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University. She has been a visiting professor in Tunisia, Romania, Indonesia, Qatar and Alliance of Civilizations Institute in Istanbul. She serves on several international advisory boards, including academic journals and institutions. Since coming to Duke University she has taught Arabic language and awide variety of courses on Arabic literature, war and gender, the Palestine-Israel conflict, postcolonial theory. She has directed several study abroad courses in Morocco, Tunisia, Cairo, and Istanbul. This presentation is sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Duke University Middle East Studies Center.

The Council for European Studies Society of Fellows is a community of European Studies scholars, consisting of graduate and professional students, visiting fellows, and postdocs. Fellows meet monthly to discuss their ongoing research with peers from a range of disciplines. The Society of Fellows is a collaborative program between the Council for European Studies, Duke University Center for Jewish Studies, and the Religions and Public Life Initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics which provides members with modest research scholarships, opportunities to interact on campus and at regional European Studies events. Fellows engage in lively academic discussion through a private blog and are given the opportunity to record a brief video highlighting their academic work. For the 2016 – 2017 academic year, the Society of Fellows has divided into two working group, ’Jews and Muslims: Histories, Diasporas, and the Meaning of the European,’ meeting at the John Hope Franklin Center for International Studies, and ‘Religions and Public Life in Global Europe,’ meeting at the Kenan Institute. The panel features current Fellows from across disciplines. This presentation is sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Council for European Studies.

Professor Dittmer will trace the outlines of Trump’s populism, power, and pugnacious foreign policy in the pages of Captain America comics. Captain America is a highly ambivalent text that proclaims liberal values even as the hero embodies a fundamentally illiberal American exceptionalism. As such, it provides resources from which President Trump can draw in his own political performance, while simultaneously offering a visual language of critique around which resistance can coalesce. In sum, the first part of the lecture will demonstrate that far from being an un-American threat to the Republic, Trump represents a recognizably American threat to the Republic. The second part of the lecture will pivot to demonstrate how the demise of the liberal consensus in the United States and the subsequent fragmentation of the mediascape has been reflected in the proliferation of Captain Americas over the last several decades, each articulating a different strand of Americanism. Collectively, these two stories help us to understand the election of Trump as the apotheosis of long-running narratives and processes at the heart of what it means to be an American. This presentation is sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.

This panel will feature Duke graduate students who have attended the Vienna Summer School. Since 2001, Duke University has participated in an exchange program with the Vienna Summer School (formally the Vienna International Summer University). The flagship program, Scientific World Conceptions (https://www.univie.ac.at/ivc/SWC/), is particularly interesting to Duke’s faculty and graduate students. Each July, an international group of about thirty graduate students and postdocs, and three renowned international scholars – philosophers, scientists, and historians – meet for two weeks in Vienna for an intensive study of a central issue in science and its culture. There are lectures, seminars, and research workshops as well as explorations of the Vienna Circle legacy, and Vienna’s culinary virtues. Duke students from various disciplines, including philosophy, history, political science, economics, and literature, have participated in Vienna Summer School each year. Students significantly benefit from this program by establishing international networks, expanding their interdisciplinary education, and, in some cases, sharpening their research focus. Many returning students testify that the program has contributed significantly to advancing their professional career. This presentation is sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Council for European Studies.

Comprehensive internationalization (CIZN) is part of the vocabulary surrounding international education on college and university campuses. However, in the hectic pace of day-to-day responsibilities, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture including the relevance of internationalization on our campuses and our roles in advancing it. In this discussion, Dr. Pynes will review the basic tenets of CIZN and explore ways to promote it on campus. As the Associate Provost for International Programs, Penelope leads the internationalization efforts at UNCG. Since 1995, she has worked to promote student/faculty exchange at UNCG and in the state. She piloted the Baden-Württemberg state-to-state program, which led to the establishment of UNC’s system-wide exchange program housed at UNCG. In 2005, she represented the UNC system in an administrative exchange at the Ministry of Science and Arts in Baden-Württemberg. Penelope facilitates diversity and intercultural workshops on and off campus to prepare faculty and students for successful experiences abroad. She is a former Fulbright scholar to Heidelberg, Germany, and was awarded a Rotary Club Study Exchange Scholarship to Norway. She earned her master’s degree from the University of Alabama and a doctorate in Germanic linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This presentation is sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Association of International Education Administrators.

As fifty years of heavy-handed censorship and enforced isolation came to a close in 2011, with rescinding the military dictatorship and Myanmar’s sudden wide opening to the Internet —and through it, to the global artistic community— the malevolence scarring Burmese cultural expression is speedily fading and healing. A new visual vocabulary reflecting the transition between tradition and modernity is emerging: as evidenced by the extraordinary Thukhuma Collection assembled by Professor Holliday. Painters deeply scarred by long-term repression are trying to find their balance: some still deeply anchored in Burmese Buddhist culture within an idealized landscape; while others in growing numbers propose seemingly radical new approaches to style and content. Drawing equally on her extensive personal experience in Myanmar and on her recent provocative interviews with thirty contemporary artists in Yangon and Mandalay, Sorbonne-trained art historian Catherine Raymond explores this fascinating moment through her own multiple readings of the Thukhuma materials. Catherine Raymond holds a Ph. D. in Art and Archaeology and in Indian and Southeast Asian studies from La Sorbonne (Université de Paris III). She was trained in France under Professors Jean Boisselier (Thailand, Cambodia,Vietnam); Madeleine Giteau (Cambodia and Laos); and Denise Bernot (Burma/Myanmar). She also received her DREA (equivalent to an M.A.) in Burmese Languages and Civilizations at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales. This event is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center, and Asia Pacific Studies Institute.

This presentation will address the issues underpinning the reality that AIDS remains the number one killer of youth in Africa and second leading killer of adolescents globally. Primary research from Tanzania will be presented to describe mental health difficulties, stigma, and the association with anti-retroviral medication adherence. The process of developing and testing a novel mental health intervention, Sauti ya Vijana (the Voice of Youth) to address these problems will be discussed along with preliminary outcomes and policy implications towards an AIDS free generation. Dr. Dorothy Dow is an Assistant Professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Global Health Institute. She has a Master of Science in Global Health from Duke university and has been living and working in Moshi, Tanzania since 2011 focused on research in pediatric HIV. Dr. Dow’s current research project is investigating the feasibility and acceptability of a uniquely designed mental health intervention, developed specifically for HIV-infected Tanzanian youth to improve mental wellness, anti-retroviral therapy adherence, and overall HIV outcomes. This event is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University’s International and Global Studies Center, and Duke’s Africa Initiative.

Speaker: Bruce B Lawrence, Professor Emeritus, Duke University This event is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke University Middle East Studies CenterThis video is about WATC_BruceLawrence

Mark Perry teaches play analysis and playwriting in the Department of Dramatic Art. His most recent play, The Will of Bernard Boynton—a story about isolated New Englanders, Sufi mysticism, and George Jones—was produced in 2015 by the Kenan Theatre Company (KTC). His play A New Dress for Mona, about the wrongful execution of a young Iranian Baha’i, was produced by the Department of Dramatic Art. Both Bernard Boynton and Mona have now been published by Drama Circle. Last season, Perry directed The Cherry Orchard with KTC after teaching a companion course on Anton Chekhov. For Playmakers Repertory Perry has served as the dramaturg for Trouble in Mind, Metamorphoses, Surviving Twin, A Raisin in the Sun, An Iliad, Noises Off, The Parchman Hour, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, and The Little Prince. Perry earned an MFA at the University of Iowa and was awarded the 2005-2005 NC Arts Council Literature Fellowship for playwriting. This event is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center.

The Ancient Oriental Music Therapy represents a proven system of practical therapeutic, preventative and remedial methods, documented for over 1000 years. Its roots can be found in the shamanic wisdom tradition and in Sufism. Preserved and practiced throughout many centuries it finds today practical use in modern psychology and medicine. This event is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Islamic Studies Center.

This presentation will provide an overview of Duke’s Middle East and Islamic Studies collections; what has been collected, what will be collected and how collections are developed, particularly in conjunction with UNC. There will also be some discussion about the practical aspects of making collections available and the processes involved. Sean Swanick is the Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian. He previously worked at McGill University as the Islamic Studies Liaison Librarian. He holds a MA in Middle East history from the University of Exeter and a Master’s in Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University. He’s traveled and studied in Egypt, Oman, Syria and Tunisia and his research interests include book history, codicology and paleography. This event is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Islamic Studies Center.

This talk will be a retrospective look at these works and the way they furthered diversity in American opera and musical theatre. Diversity is used more often today than ever before, thanks to musicals like HAMILTON and the controversial OTELLO which made the authenticity of theatrical storytelling a hot topic. This talk will be led by William Henry Curry, Music Director of the Durham Symphony, who has conducted the Grammy-nominated recording of opera X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X, has reached thousands of diverse audience members with the DSO’s “All that Jazz” program and work with kidzNotes. Curry wrote “Eulogy for a Dream,” based on Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech which has been narrated by the late William Warfield of PORGY AND BESS fame. Jackson Cooper is a Theatre and Classical Music Critic for Classical Voice of North Carolina and a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and Music Critics Association of North America.

John Hope Franklin: The Global Scholar reflects on the international influence and scholarship of Dr. John Hope Franklin. Beginning with his first international trip in 1951, Dr. Franklin visited over thirty countries in his life, as a teacher, lecturer and special guest of the US State Department. As an expert in the history of the American South, he was routinely called upon to provide context to the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s to global audiences. This multimedia presentation highlights how his presence made him one of the most influential scholars responsible for sharing the history of the United States and African Americans around the globe.

Giovanni Zanalda is an Associate Research Professor at the Social Science Research Institute, Economics, and History and Director of the Duke Center for International Studies and Area International Studies. He is an economic historian specialized in financial history and history of development and globalization. The deepening of the Greek financial crisis has forced the inhabitants of some Greek cities and islands to use Alternative Local Currencies called TEM or Volos. In this talk we will show how the use of emergency money, which has a long history dating back to the time of the Peloponnesian Wars, has enabled economies to function under duress whether wars or financial crises. The talk will also cover issues related to the Greek debt crisis and the Eurozone. Zanalda’s lecture is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke University Center for International Studies.

Carolyn Lee is a Professor of the Practice teaching Chinese in the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department at Duke University. Mary Lagdameo is the Program Coordinator at the Asian Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University. Yan Liu is a lecturer in Chinese at the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department at Duke University. Duke in China is an cross-cultural communication, language learning intensive and immersive summer program based in Beijing. Students from the summer 2004 and 2015 program will share anecdotes, pictures and experiences. The discussion is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center and the Asian Pacific Studies Institute. A light lunch will be served after the event. Parking is available in nearby parking decks.

Mustafa Tuna is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian and Central Eurasian History and Culture in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University with secondary appointments in the Department of History and Duke Islamic Studies Center. His research focuses on social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia, especially Russia’s Volga-Ural region and modern Turkey, since the early-nineteenth century. He is particularly interested in identifying the often intertwined roles of Islam, social networks, state or elite interventions, infrastructural changes, and the globalization of European modernity in transforming Muslim communities. His first book, titled Imperial Russia’s Muslims: Islam, Empire, and European Modernity, 1788-1917 was published by Cambridge University Press as part of its “Critical Perspectives on Empire Series.” Imperial Russia’s Muslims offers an exploration of social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia from the late eighteenth century through to the outbreak of the First World War. Drawing from a wealth of Russian and Turkic sources, Mustafa Tuna surveys the roles of Islam, social networks, state interventions, infrastructural changes and the globalization of European modernity in transforming imperial Russia’s oldest Muslim community: the Volga-Ural Muslims. Shifting between local, imperial and transregional frameworks, Tuna reveals how the Russian state sought to manage Muslim communities, the ways in which both the state and Muslim society were transformed by European modernity, and the extent to which the long nineteenth century either fused Russia’s Muslims and the tsarist state or drew them apart. The book raises questions about imperial governance, diversity, minorities, and Islamic reform, and in doing so proposes a new theoretical model for the study of imperial situations.

Ellen McLarney is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. McLarney’s work focuses on Islamist movements, Islamic theological texts, gender in Islam, and North Africa. McLarney recently published Soft Force: Women in Egypt’s Islamic Awakening with Princeton University Press. This fall she’s teaching two courses— Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain and Islamic Awakening: Revival and Reform. Soft Force: Women in Egypt’s Islamic Awakening chronicles the exponential rise in writings on women and gender that accompanied—and catalyzed—the Islamic revival in Egypt in the decades leading up to the 2011 revolution. The book is about the soft revolution of Islamic popular culture, mass media, and public scholarship, a “passive revolution” criticizing military dictatorship in Egypt. Women’s Islamic cultural production, their lectures, pamphlets, theses, books, magazines, newspapers, television shows, films, and digital production, has been a critical instrument of this soft revolution. These revivalist writers describe themselves as waging jihad in the family, in the home, in childbearing and childrearing, in their selves and souls, in their bodies, and in the body politic. Reorienting Islamic politics in women’s spheres of influence, these writers put gender justice in the family on par with ritual worship in Islam, make this justice the heart and soul of Islamic law, and understand the family as a sacred domain for cultivating Islamic piety. Their jihad is performed within the “social units of the Islamic umma,” in Islamic organizations and groups, in communities, in the family, and in the home.

Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born multimedia artist. Her work spans multiple disciplines including experimental and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and HD video. Anna is also painter, printmaker, curator of exhibitions and programmer of screenings showcasing the works of contemporary international artists. Anna founded Manual Productions, a mobile artist space in 2003, organizing exhibitions nationally. In 2008, she founded On Look Films with Rodion Galperin as their first feature documentary film, CAIRO IN ONE BREATH, was taking form; CAIRO IN ONE BREATH premiered at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April 2015. Anna’s work has been recognized through awards from Hartley Film Foundation, National Geographic’s All Roads Film Project, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund, Carnegie Foundation, George Sugarman Foundation, New York Studio Program, Wilder Traveling Scholarship, and the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. Her moving image work has also screened at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Indie Grits Film Festival, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, and 12Gates Video Art Fest. She holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Class 2003. As of May 2015, Anna holds a Graduate Certificate in Middle East Studies, and, an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. It happened to be Ramadan when On Look Films took their first production trip to Cairo in August of 2009. They were beginning to work on their feature documentary film Cairo in One Breath which had its world premiere at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 2015. Over the course of these several years, the On Look Films team has been documenting the transformation of the 1,400 year-old tradition of the adhan as a government plan to systemize the call to prayer was being implemented. The Adhan Unification Project proposed to replace the thousands of individual muezzins who had been reciting the adhan five times each day with a single muezzin’s voice broadcast live from a central radio station to wireless receivers installed in all of Cairo’s officially recognized mosques. As the AUP took hold, Egypt underwent Revolution and regime change, and On Look Films kept filming. Cairo in One Breath follows muezzins from when they first heard rumors of plans to install wireless receivers through two years after implementation of the AUP, which has displaced thousands of employees and volunteers. Now, most mosques have receivers installed, though political changes have halted inspection and maintenance. This selection of photographs is an introduction to some of the film’s characters and their lives, taken between 2009 and 2014 by Anna Kipervaser, David Degner, Jeremy Johnson, and Meredith Zielke, and edited by Rodion Galperin.

Louis Yako is a PhD student in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. The title of this lecture is based on an article by Louis Yako published in openDemocracy on November 8, 2013, inspired by Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ballad “The Lady of Shallott” (1842 [1833]). Yako, an Iraqi-American poet, writer, and currently a PhD scholar of cultural anthropology at Duke University, will share personal memories about the first and second gulf wars, his experiences in Iraq following the US-led occupation in 2003, leaving Iraq in 2005, and his ongoing doctorate research project on Iraqi academics in exile. Some key questions this lecture raises include: do we really ever leave home? What does exile offer and what does it take away from us? And why we need to pay more attention to the stories of war, exile, and refugees today more than ever. Yako's Wednesday at the Center lecture was part of Duke University's Middle East Refugees Awareness Week and was presented by the Duke University Middle East Studies Center. openDemocracy, "The journey from Iraq to Camelot": https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/louis-yako/journey-from-iraq-to-camelot

Patricia Northover specializes in Development studies and is a Senior Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES, UWI, Mona, Jamaica). She received her doctorate in economics and philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She has been a Fellow of Girton College at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow at Duke University with the Race, Space and Place project. She is the author and co-author of several articles in the philosophy of economics and Caribbean development, published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cultural Dynamics, Caribbean Dialogue and Social and Economic Studies. She has published with Michaeline Crichlow, Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. Her forthcoming book is, Growth Theory: Critical Philosophical Perspectives (Routledge). Presented by Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Negar Mottahedeh is an Associate Professor in Duke University's Program in Literature. On April 1, 2015, Professor Mottahedeh presented on the power of social media during the Iranian election crisis of 2009. Unaccustomed as we are still to our own cybernetic existence, we tend not to notice the full sensory reality of a given tweet. A tweet serves as our eyes and ears and is a connector of sorts. This talk will discuss how one tweet in the early days of the Iranian election crisis of 2009 circulated as a sonorous alarm clock encoded at once to wake up God and to call in Judgment day. Professor Mottahedeh's presentation was organized by Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Duke University Islamic Studies Center as part of the John Hope Franklin Center's Wednesdays at the Center Series.

Walter Lippmann: A Different Kind of Journalist Craufurd Goodwin, James B. Duke professor of Economics, Duke University Presented by Duke University Center for International Studies

Matthew Specter, History, Central Connecticut State University. In the past quarter of a century, the academy has witnessed an explosion of interest in the political theory of Carl Schmitt (1900-1985). For some of the Left, Schmitt offers resources for a critique of U.S. Imperialism, the narrow spectrum of liberal democracies, and the idealism of deliberative democracy. This lecture uses Schmitt’s biography and political theory to highlight and criticize recent Schmitt appropriations on the political Left. It argues that Schmitt, or Schmittianism, as a leftist project is historically incoherent. The theorist of fascism and the ideologist of Nazi Lebensraum is simply not worth the tendentious stretching and pulling necessary to turn him into a progressive and emancipatory egalitarian thinker. Schmitt offers no new vision for the contemporary Left. Presented by the Council on European Studies

Bill Waiser, Department of History, University of Saskatchewan and Visiting Scholar with the Council of North American Studies, Duke University The talks is an illustrated examination of the homesteading experience for men, women, and children in Saskatchewan, Canada in the early twentieth century. Presented by the Council for North American.

Professor Miriam Cooke presents some of the artists working in Syria today. Professor Cooke teaches in the Asian and Middler Eastern Studies department at Duke University and is the director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center.

Hector Ceballos, Director General of the Program of International Consultancy on Ecotourism (PICE) and Special Advisor on Ecotourism to IUCN (The World Conservation Union), and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) Ecotourism is proving to be a very important component in protected areas management around the world. Strictly speaking, ecotourism is the only type of tourism that should be allowed in protected areas. All management plans should include strict guidelines for developing ecotourism activities within national parks and other natural protected areas, including development of appropriate physical infrastructure and facilities. An updated overview of developments in selected countries from around the world is given.

Flores recently graduated with a Bachelors in Graphic Design and a Bachelors in Business Marketing from North Carolina State University. Throughout his academic studies, Flores has been recognized by more than 20 fellowships, including Mercedes Benz, BI-LO, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, The Hispanic Scholarship Fund and The Caldwell Fellows Program at NC State. In 2011, Saul Flores was awarded the Role Model Leaders Forum Award to recognize his efforts in leadership and philanthropy. Past recipients include Governor James B. Hunt, Maya Angelou, and Ms. Kay Yow.

Students from the The Duke Women's Center share their experiences from their Alternative 2014 Fall Break trip. Through family home-stays, participation in a local women's conference, and volunteering at a community-based organization, students learn first hand from the experiences of women of all ages in low-income, immigrant, and farmworker communities in Apopka, Florida. Presented by The Duke Women's Center and Baldwin Scholars.

A group of Duke Students participating in DukeEngage South Korea will share their experiences. Speaking at the panel: Hwansoo Kim, Eunyoung Kim, Usman Mahmood, Drew Korschun, Rebecca Kim and Aimee Kwon Presented by Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University

Martin Conway, Department of History, Oxford University. A certain Europe, it is now clear, ended in the 2000s. Even if the nature of the new form of Europe – its frontiers, politics, economic model and political structures – remains unclear, the Europe which gathered momentum from the 1950s onwards and which achieved twenty years of almost unchallenged hegemony from the 1980s to the 2000s has entered a period of seemingly remorseless decline, characterized by volatile populist politics, institutional immobilism, and the emergence of nascent alternative alliances. This presentation will discuss the reasons for this decline, not in terms of the overused contemporary language of “crisis”, but through an analysis of how the reasons for the success of the European project from the 1950s onwards also provides an understanding as to why that project reached its terminus in the 2000s. The historic success of the European project in the second half of the twentieth century depended on a number of realities, notably the western orientation of the Continent, the ascendancy of a limited centrist democratic politics and a particular model of welfare capitalism, which proved sufficient to repulse challenges, both nationalist and communist, in the post-war decades. Indeed, with the demise of the Cold War frontiers in Europe around 1989, there seemed to be no alternative to this particular model of a united Europe. That moment of destiny – the equivalent two hundred years later of the dawn of 1789 – did not however, endure. Instead, expansion to the east, the neo-liberal economic transformations of the European economy, and the resurgence of Great Power Realpolitik destabilized the European Union, undermining its ideological legitimacy, the social basis of its support, and ultimately its bureaucratic structures. Presented by the Council for European Studies

Helmut Konrad, Vice-Rector University of Graz. Austria and Hungary, considered the “losers” of World War I, show divergent patterns of managing the imperial legacy and exploring paths to “national identity.” The lecture will compare the losers’ divergent war memories and political paths and elucidate their significance for twentieth-century Central Europe. Presented by the Duke Council for European Studies

Sheryl Grant, Director of Social Networking for the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning initiative and Lucas Blair, founder of Little Bird Games LLC. What are open digital badges? They are portable, transferable, information-rich credentials that bundle learning into one click, and can be issued by traditional and non-traditional institutions of learning alike. In this presentation, we’ll describe what open digital badges are, how they connect curricular and non-curricular learning, and how they can be implemented in higher education. We will also discuss real world examples that touch on the institutional, technical, cultural, social, and economic obstacles, opportunities, imperatives, and liabilities of an openly networked and alternative credentialing system. Sheryl Grant is Director of Social Networking for the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning initiative, and a Phd student at UNC-Chapel Hill where she is studying value-driven digital badge system design. She is author of book, What Counts as Learning: Open Digital Badges for New Opportunities, based on lessons learned from the 30 Badges for Lifelong Learning projects during their first year of design. Lucas Blair is the founder of Little Bird Games LLC, a serious game development company, which specializes in educational and therapeutic games. He received a M.S. in Instructional Technology from Bloomsburg University and a PhD in Modeling and Simulation from the University of Central Florida. His doctoral research explored the use of video game achievements to enhance player performance, self-efficacy, and motivation. Presented by HASTAC

Matthew A. Cook, Professor of Postcolonial and South Asian Studies
Department of Language and Literature, Department of History NCCU. In addition to a general focus on the relationship between language shift and identity among diaspora Sindhis in India, this presentation examines post-Partition debates within this community about what script was best for writing their mother tongue. It addresses debates in the 1950s and 1960s about whether or not the Sindhi language should be written in naskh or nagri (i.e., Arabic or a Sanskrit-based script), and describes how diaspora Sindhis perpetuate certain key socio-cultural modalities within their community when they advocate for changing their mother tongue and its script.

Shalom Goldman, Professor of Religious Studies and Middle Eastern Studies and Richard Riddell, Professor of Theater Studies, Vice President and University Secretary, Duke University. Akhnaten, the ancient Egyptian ‘rebel pharaoh,’ husband of Nefertiti and probable father of King Tutankhamen, has found immortality through art. This year, Philip Glass’s American opera Akhnaten, co-written with Shalom Goldman, is being performed in Germany, Belgium, and Australia. In the 30 years since its composition, “Akhnaten” has been performed throughout the world to great acclaim in many different productions. In this presentation Shalom Goldman will describe the research and creative processes behind this modern classic. Unique among modern operas Akhanten is sung in ancient Near Eastern languages—ancient Egyptian , Akkadian , and biblical Hebrew. Presented by the Duke Middle East Studies Center, Duke Center for Jewish Studies

Luis Herrera Robles, Professor Universidad Autonoma of Juarez, Mexico; Don Modesto Zurita, former Bracero; Charles D. Thompson, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University. Presented by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Program of Latino/a Studies in the Global South, CDS, and the Cultural Anthropology Department

The History of the Contested Map of Israel and Palestine Rachel Havrelock, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Presented by the Duke Center for Jewish Studies

Bob Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History, Duke University Sandy Darity, Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African & African American Studies, and Economics, Duke University Moderator: Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African American Studies, Duke University Presented by the Duke Consortium on Social Equity

Dr. Wonhout will provide an overview of the history of Catholic politics in Europe with a focus on Austria. He will highlight the changes of party politics within the member states of the European Union during the last decades. Finally, Dr. Wohnout will point out the possible future developments concerning Catholic politics within the framework of the European development. Professor Chappel will explore the “special relationship” between Catholicism and federalism that dates back nearly a century, explaining why Catholics, specifically, have been among the most robust and reliable defenders of the European project.

Students from the 2013 DukeEngage Egypt program share their thoughts on democracy, Mohamed Morsi, and their summer in Cairo.

RTI education experts will share data, methods, and approaches from early reading and mathematics initiatives in the developing world that help shape a global agenda focused on learning outcomes.