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In this week's episode, Tim and Jeremy are joined by writer and scholar Mark Anthony Neal. Mark's 1999 book ‘What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture' is a crucial text for us here at Love is the Message, so it was fantastic to have him join the show to discuss his life and work in music. We discuss how the Black popular music of the past 60 years provides an insight into black socio-political life, via Gospel, Soul, Hip Hop and more. Mark explores how his upbringing in the South Bronx, from spending Sunday mornings with his parents to heading to the Apollo to see the Jackson 5 and Aretha, shaped his view of the Black public sphere. The interview provides Jem and Tim with the opportunity to trace their interest in the progressive potential of the 1970s back to the slave experience, the development of spirituals that became a channel for acts of resistance, the African American church's reversioning of Christianity as a space of Black communion and expression, the importance of the jook and the rent party for expressions of Black pleasure. These spaces contributed to the shaping of an increasingly radical Black politics, from the burgeoning civil rights movement to Black Power, with rhythm and blues, soul and funk. We discuss the late-80s turn toward commodity culture within Hip Hop and consider what happened politically to black musicians into the 90s. For patrons, Mark, Tim and Jeremy also discuss early disco, Black dance music and Saturday Night Fever; consider the aspirational, entrepreneurial mindset of many of the 70s pioneers; and the role of sampling as an act of Black archival work undertaken by caretakers of Black musical lineage, bringing us right up to the listening practices of today. Mark Anthony Neal is the Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University host of the weekly webcast ‘Left of Black' in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University. He is the author of ‘What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture', ‘Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic', ‘Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation', ‘New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity' and ‘Looking for Leroy: (Il)Legible Black Masculinities'. Produced by Matt Huxley. Become a patron to hear an extended version of this conversation by visiting patreon.com/LoveMessagePod. Check out the back catalog, reading lists, playlists and more at our website: https://www.loveisthemessagepod.co.uk/ And listen along our Spotify playlist featuring music from the series at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZylmJYk5SxyyTI2OQp0iy Tracklist: The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight  The Jackson 5 - Dancing Machine Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes Eric B. And Rakim - Paid in Full Ray Charles - (Night time Is) The Right Time The Isley Brothers - Fight the Power Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!  Bessie Smith- Back Water Blues LL Cool J - The Boomin' System

Julius Pegues was the first Black varsity basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh, and went on to serve in the U.S. Air Force as a weather forecaster and later as an advisor to the Federal Aviation Administration.A star basketball at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, he was forced to matriculate to the University of Pittsburgh because University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and the University of Tulsa did not allow Black players.Julius quickly transitioned from a walk-on to a scholarship player after averaging 20 points per game in his first month. He finished as one of only 34 players in the program's history to score 1,000 career points.The NBA's St. Louis Hawks picked Pegues in the fourth round of the 1958 draft, but he had to serve in the military as he was in the Air Force ROTC at Pitt.In Tulsa, he was best known for his work to memorialize Tulsa's 1921 Race Massacre and the history and culture of Black Tulsans through the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation. His efforts laid the groundwork for the Greenwood Rising History Center.Julius served on the boards of the Tulsa NAACP, Tulsa Urban League, Tulsa Comprehensive Health Services, Family and Children's Services, Hutcherson Branch YMCA, Tulsa Housing Authority, and Tulsa Board of Education Human Relations Committee. He was a member of the City of Tulsa Economic Development Commission.Julius Pegues was 86 when he died March 29, 2022.

You are listening to Social Movements Lab hosted by Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra. To kick off the new season, Michael and Sandro speak with Paola Rivetti and Frieda Afary, navigating the social crises in Iran undergirding the upheaval known as the Woman Life Freedom struggle.  Social Movements Lab is brought to you by Red May in coordination with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University, Dinamopress, and EuroNomade.

Gone Missing in Harlem by Karla FC Holloway (TriQuarterly 2021) tells the story of an African American family trying to survive the early decades of the twentieth century. The Mosbys leave their life in Sedalia within hours after six-year-old Percy loudly notes that his father's boss has made a mistake in calculating what is owed. Percy's parents know what would happen if they stayed. They settle in Harlem, but the Spanish flu is raging around the globe, and Percy's father doesn't survive. His mother, DeLilah, is pregnant with Selma. Years later, Percy witnesses a murder in New York, and DeLilah sends him back to Sedalia. She does her best to make a home for her daughter, but Selma's childhood is cut short when a brutal rape leaves her pregnant. After her baby is kidnapped, the city's first ‘colored policeman', Weldon Haynie Thomas, vows that this kidnapping will not end like the Lindbergh kidnapping. Gone Missing in Harlem touches upon many things, including African American soldiers coming home from WWI, the Great Migration north, and the world of 1930's Harlem. Gone Missing in Harlem is historical, African American literary fiction and a mystery, but it's ultimately a novel about the lengths a mother will go to protect her family. Karla FC Holloway, Ph.D., M.L.S., is James B. Duke Professor Emerita of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. She is former Dean of Humanities and Social Science Faculty at Duke. Her research and teaching focused on African American cultural studies, bioethics, literature, and law. Her national and institutional board memberships have included the Greenwall Foundation's Advisory Board in Bioethics, the Trent Center for Bioethics and Humanities, the North Carolina Humanities Council, the College Board, and the Hastings Center. She is a co-founder of Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies and founding co-director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Professor Holloway is the recipient of national awards and foundation fellowships including the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Residency Fellowship and the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University's Du Bois Institute. Professor Holloway is the author of over fifty essays and ten books including Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics and the Color of Our Character (1995), Passed On: African American Mourning Stories (2002), BookMarks: Reading in Black and White (2006), and Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature (2014). In her emerita years she has shifted to fiction and has published A Death in Harlem (2019) and Gone Missing in Harlem (2021) both with Triquarterly. She's at work on the final book in the “in Harlem” series, A Haunting in Harlem, and tweets on bioethics, law, society, and popular cultures from @ProfHolloway. When she's not tweeting, or writing, she's deep into reading fiction or painting miniature acrylic landscapes and abstract compositions. Anything, she says, with colors that swirl into cerulean. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Gone Missing in Harlem by Karla FC Holloway (TriQuarterly 2021) tells the story of an African American family trying to survive the early decades of the twentieth century. The Mosbys leave their life in Sedalia within hours after six-year-old Percy loudly notes that his father's boss has made a mistake in calculating what is owed. Percy's parents know what would happen if they stayed. They settle in Harlem, but the Spanish flu is raging around the globe, and Percy's father doesn't survive. His mother, DeLilah, is pregnant with Selma. Years later, Percy witnesses a murder in New York, and DeLilah sends him back to Sedalia. She does her best to make a home for her daughter, but Selma's childhood is cut short when a brutal rape leaves her pregnant. After her baby is kidnapped, the city's first ‘colored policeman', Weldon Haynie Thomas, vows that this kidnapping will not end like the Lindbergh kidnapping. Gone Missing in Harlem touches upon many things, including African American soldiers coming home from WWI, the Great Migration north, and the world of 1930's Harlem. Gone Missing in Harlem is historical, African American literary fiction and a mystery, but it's ultimately a novel about the lengths a mother will go to protect her family. Karla FC Holloway, Ph.D., M.L.S., is James B. Duke Professor Emerita of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. She is former Dean of Humanities and Social Science Faculty at Duke. Her research and teaching focused on African American cultural studies, bioethics, literature, and law. Her national and institutional board memberships have included the Greenwall Foundation's Advisory Board in Bioethics, the Trent Center for Bioethics and Humanities, the North Carolina Humanities Council, the College Board, and the Hastings Center. She is a co-founder of Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies and founding co-director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Professor Holloway is the recipient of national awards and foundation fellowships including the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Residency Fellowship and the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University's Du Bois Institute. Professor Holloway is the author of over fifty essays and ten books including Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics and the Color of Our Character (1995), Passed On: African American Mourning Stories (2002), BookMarks: Reading in Black and White (2006), and Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature (2014). In her emerita years she has shifted to fiction and has published A Death in Harlem (2019) and Gone Missing in Harlem (2021) both with Triquarterly. She's at work on the final book in the “in Harlem” series, A Haunting in Harlem, and tweets on bioethics, law, society, and popular cultures from @ProfHolloway. When she's not tweeting, or writing, she's deep into reading fiction or painting miniature acrylic landscapes and abstract compositions. Anything, she says, with colors that swirl into cerulean. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Gone Missing in Harlem by Karla FC Holloway (TriQuarterly 2021) tells the story of an African American family trying to survive the early decades of the twentieth century. The Mosbys leave their life in Sedalia within hours after six-year-old Percy loudly notes that his father's boss has made a mistake in calculating what is owed. Percy's parents know what would happen if they stayed. They settle in Harlem, but the Spanish flu is raging around the globe, and Percy's father doesn't survive. His mother, DeLilah, is pregnant with Selma. Years later, Percy witnesses a murder in New York, and DeLilah sends him back to Sedalia. She does her best to make a home for her daughter, but Selma's childhood is cut short when a brutal rape leaves her pregnant. After her baby is kidnapped, the city's first ‘colored policeman', Weldon Haynie Thomas, vows that this kidnapping will not end like the Lindbergh kidnapping. Gone Missing in Harlem touches upon many things, including African American soldiers coming home from WWI, the Great Migration north, and the world of 1930's Harlem. Gone Missing in Harlem is historical, African American literary fiction and a mystery, but it's ultimately a novel about the lengths a mother will go to protect her family. Karla FC Holloway, Ph.D., M.L.S., is James B. Duke Professor Emerita of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. She is former Dean of Humanities and Social Science Faculty at Duke. Her research and teaching focused on African American cultural studies, bioethics, literature, and law. Her national and institutional board memberships have included the Greenwall Foundation's Advisory Board in Bioethics, the Trent Center for Bioethics and Humanities, the North Carolina Humanities Council, the College Board, and the Hastings Center. She is a co-founder of Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies and founding co-director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Professor Holloway is the recipient of national awards and foundation fellowships including the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Residency Fellowship and the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University's Du Bois Institute. Professor Holloway is the author of over fifty essays and ten books including Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics and the Color of Our Character (1995), Passed On: African American Mourning Stories (2002), BookMarks: Reading in Black and White (2006), and Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature (2014). In her emerita years she has shifted to fiction and has published A Death in Harlem (2019) and Gone Missing in Harlem (2021) both with Triquarterly. She's at work on the final book in the “in Harlem” series, A Haunting in Harlem, and tweets on bioethics, law, society, and popular cultures from @ProfHolloway. When she's not tweeting, or writing, she's deep into reading fiction or painting miniature acrylic landscapes and abstract compositions. Anything, she says, with colors that swirl into cerulean. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/historical-fiction

Gone Missing in Harlem by Karla FC Holloway (TriQuarterly 2021) tells the story of an African American family trying to survive the early decades of the twentieth century. The Mosbys leave their life in Sedalia within hours after six-year-old Percy loudly notes that his father's boss has made a mistake in calculating what is owed. Percy's parents know what would happen if they stayed. They settle in Harlem, but the Spanish flu is raging around the globe, and Percy's father doesn't survive. His mother, DeLilah, is pregnant with Selma. Years later, Percy witnesses a murder in New York, and DeLilah sends him back to Sedalia. She does her best to make a home for her daughter, but Selma's childhood is cut short when a brutal rape leaves her pregnant. After her baby is kidnapped, the city's first ‘colored policeman', Weldon Haynie Thomas, vows that this kidnapping will not end like the Lindbergh kidnapping. Gone Missing in Harlem touches upon many things, including African American soldiers coming home from WWI, the Great Migration north, and the world of 1930's Harlem. Gone Missing in Harlem is historical, African American literary fiction and a mystery, but it's ultimately a novel about the lengths a mother will go to protect her family. Karla FC Holloway, Ph.D., M.L.S., is James B. Duke Professor Emerita of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. She is former Dean of Humanities and Social Science Faculty at Duke. Her research and teaching focused on African American cultural studies, bioethics, literature, and law. Her national and institutional board memberships have included the Greenwall Foundation's Advisory Board in Bioethics, the Trent Center for Bioethics and Humanities, the North Carolina Humanities Council, the College Board, and the Hastings Center. She is a co-founder of Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies and founding co-director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Professor Holloway is the recipient of national awards and foundation fellowships including the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Residency Fellowship and the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University's Du Bois Institute. Professor Holloway is the author of over fifty essays and ten books including Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics and the Color of Our Character (1995), Passed On: African American Mourning Stories (2002), BookMarks: Reading in Black and White (2006), and Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature (2014). In her emerita years she has shifted to fiction and has published A Death in Harlem (2019) and Gone Missing in Harlem (2021) both with Triquarterly. She's at work on the final book in the “in Harlem” series, A Haunting in Harlem, and tweets on bioethics, law, society, and popular cultures from @ProfHolloway. When she's not tweeting, or writing, she's deep into reading fiction or painting miniature acrylic landscapes and abstract compositions. Anything, she says, with colors that swirl into cerulean. G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Over the last nearly 100 years, there has been speculation about whether or not the Tulsa Race Massacre was a planned attempt to launch an attack on Tulsa's Greenwood district. While there is no direct evidence of this, experts point to why this claim may or may not have any validity. Additionally, following the Tulsa Race Massacre there were concerted efforts to push African American property owners off of the land that they owned, on which mostly ashes sat. On June 2, 1921 - a day after the attack on Greenwood ended, representatives from the local Real Estate Exchange in Tulsa (which later became today's Realtors' Association, made a proposal to the Public Welfare Board: relocate Greenwood's black residents and turn parts of the burned district of what some referred to as "Little Africa" into a "wholesale industrial site." On Tuesday June 7th, the Tulsa City Commission took steps to guarantee that Greenwood would not be rebuilt. At the directive of the Real Estate Exchange, the body voted 4-0 to extend the city's fire code to all of the burned district south of the Sunset Hill brick plant and Haskell Street, making it nearly rebuilding "The Negro Wall Street" impossibly expensive for blacks in Tulsa.  These efforts ultimately failed due - in part - to a group of African American attorney B.C. Franklin who went to the Oklahoma Supreme Court to argue against a law that would allow African Americans in Greenwood to be stripped of their land. In this episode listeners will hear from Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Olivia J. Hooker. Featured guests include:  Reuben Gant, Executive Director of the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation. Attorney and consultant, Hannibal B. Johnson, who is also the author of a number of books, including Black Wall Street. Randy Krehbiel - Tulsa World Reporter and author of several books, including Tulsa 1921: Reporting A Massacre. Musical Attributions 1. Glueworm Evening Blues (ID 994) by Lobo Loco License, disclaimer and copyrite information. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Linked to music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Welcome/Glueworm_Blues_ID_994 2. Title: Driving to the Delta (ID 923) by Lobo Loco License, disclaimer and copywite information: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Welcome/Driving_to_the_Delta_ID_923_1563 Link to music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Welcome/Driving_to_the_Delta_ID_923_1563 3. Spirit Inside (ID 819) by Lobo Loco License, disclaimer and copyright information: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/0) Link to music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Tree_of_Meditation/Spirit_Inside_ID_819 4. African Moon by John Bartmann Link to license, disclaimer and copyright information: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Link to Music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/John_Bartmann/Public_Domain_Soundtrack_Music_Album_One/african-moon

Chris and Jesse are joined by special guest, Sam Sinyangwe, co-founder of We The Protestors, an organization building a scalable digital infrastructure to advance policy solutions at every level of government to end police violence. Sam will be the keynote speaker at the 2020 John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation National (Virtual) Symposium, this year's theme being "Reconciliation and Technology: Neutral Resources for Social Good." This is a topic at the heart of Sam's work and his passion is evident as he discusses how difficult collecting data on difficult topics can be, enabling those trying to make change, and how to use these tools to end over-policing, restrict the use of force, and strengthen community oversight.To virtually attend Sam's keynote address on Wednesday, May 27th at 6pm, you just have to register for free for the Evening Community Remembrance Events, here: https://www.jhfnationalsymposium.org/registration-pageTo find out more and to register for the John Hope Franklin 2020 Virtual Symposium go to their website: https://www.jhfnationalsymposium.org/. Sam is also the co-host of the popular Pod Save The People podcast, which you can find anywhere podcasts can be found.To find out more about Sam and We The Protestors, check out their website: http://www.wetheprotesters.org/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tulsa's John Hope Franklin Center will soon present the 11th Annual Reconciliation in America National Symposium, from May 27th through June 2nd. Given the pandemic, the symposium this year will happen online, and it will carry the theme of "Reconciliation and Technology: Neutral Resources for Social Good." This theme, per the John Hope Franklin Center website , "unites us as change agents, researchers of effective practices, and peacemakers in the intentional journey of reconciliation. By convening global scholars and practitioners, the John Hope Franklin Center hopes to promote a dialogue among those who work to bridge societal divides." Our guest is John W. Franklin, one of the presenters for this special event, who, until his retirement last year, was the Senior Manager in the Office of External Affairs at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Oil and the prospect of opportunity attracted people of various ethnicities, backgrounds, cultures and traditions to Oklahoma from across the country and beyond, One of the most culturally influential elements taking shape in the early 20th century in places across Oklahoma, particularly in dozens of all-black communities and towns, was Jazz. According to the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Encyclopedia on Jazz, “To understand the history of jazz in Oklahoma, one must first consider the settlement patterns of the state, because they reflect its cultural diversity." At the same time, the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma was a thriving, prosperous, predominantly African American business district. The amount of wealth contained within the community earned it the nickname Black Wall Street. The racial politics of the day meant that African Americans could neither live among whites, and if they did attempt to shop alongside of them, they were often discriminated against. While many African Americans at the time worked as servants or in service positions in Tulsa, they developed their own insular society and economy out of necessity. They desired to live in a place where they could enjoy their constitutional rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness while living in a community that allowed them to enjoy the fruits of their labor without facing the constant ugliness of racism or having to fear for their safety and lives. Black Tulsans in Greenwood decided to spend their wages in their own community, spawning an insular economy that included mostly black-owned businesses such as grocery stores, barbershops, hair salons, doctors offices, attorneys offices, hotels, transportation companies, newspapers and schools. Guests of Episode 3 include, John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation Executive Director, Reuben Gant. Historical artifacts include an audio recording of an interview between Tulsa historian and author, Eddie Faye Gates, and Tulsa Race Massacre survivor, Wilhelmina Guess Howell. Musical Attributions 1. Glueworm Evening Blues (ID 994) by Lobo Loco License, disclaimer and copyrite information. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Linked to music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Welcome/Glueworm_Blues_ID_994 2. Title: Driving to the Delta (ID 923) by Lobo Loco License, disclaimer and copywite information: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Welcome/Driving_to_the_Delta_ID_923_1563 Link to music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Welcome/Driving_to_the_Delta_ID_923_1563 3. Spirit Inside (ID 819) by Lobo Loco License, disclaimer and copyright information: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/0) Link to music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Tree_of_Meditation/Spirit_Inside_ID_819 4. African Moon by John Bartmann Link to license, disclaimer and copyright information: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Link to Music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/John_Bartmann/Public_Domain_Soundtrack_Music_Album_One/african-moon

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Community Forum was held on Thursday, October 6, 2016, at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. DESCRIPTION The forum was to educate people about racism, inspire people to take action, and encourage them to engage in the second civil rights movement that is taking place, right now, in our city, and in our nation. We invite white people, and our friends of color, to listen to African American and white leaders in our community who are actively doing the work to break down systemic racism. The focus of this program is the role of white people in the work of combating racism. PANELISTS: Kristen Oertel, Ph.D. teaches the Civil War and Reconstruction, African-American history, the history race and gender in America, and the history of sexuality at the University of Tulsa. She writes about how race and gender influenced social and cultural relations in the 19th century, especially during the Civil War era. Oertel's most recent book, Harriet Tubman: Slavery, the Civil War, and Civil Rights in the 19th Century, chronicles the life of this iconic leader of the Underground Railroad. Marq Lewis is the founder of We the People Oklahoma, a grassroots organization focused on transparency and accountability from public officials and law enforcement. We the People Oklahoma works on behalf of the citizens of Oklahoma, giving a voice for positive change. Lewis is a social activist on the local and national stage. He was recently honored with a United Nations Association Humanitarian award, and named 2015 Tulsan of the Year, as well as one of the four Oklahomans of the year. Rev. Dr. Rodney Goss is the Senior Pastor of Morning Star Baptist Church. Rev. Goss currently serves as the Vice-chairman for the Hattiesburg, MS chapter of the NAACP's Religious Affairs Committee. Rev. Goss earned his Doctorate and Master of Theology degrees from Andersonville Theological Seminary in Camilla, GA, graduating Magna Cum Laude in both degrees. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Christian Education from Southeastern Baptist College in Laurel, MS. Rev. Barbara Prose came to All Souls in 2011 and has served as the Executive Director of Ministry since 2014. Rev. Prose has more than twenty years of social justice experience, which includes immigration rights, reproductive justice, and racial justice. She was honored to receive the Unitarian Universalists Association’s Social Justice Sermon award for her work in immigration in 2013. Rev. Prose serves on the board for the Tulsa YWCA, whose mission is to eliminate racism and empower women. Chad Johnson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Human Relations and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma, Schusterman Center. In 2011, he directed a Tulsa-wide survey on race relations and the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot for the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation. In 2014, he published the 3-volume Praeger Handbook of Social Justice and Psychology. He actively engages in advocacy and facilitates training in racial justice, human rights, and LGBTQ issues. Justice Waidner-Smith is a Diversity and Inclusion professional, racial justice advocate, and All Souls board member. Justice came to All Souls more than 25 years ago and has served as a facilitator for Rewire, a racial identity group for white people to unlearn racism. She currently serves on the All Souls Intercultural Advisory Board and Personnel Committee and as the President of the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation. Rev. Chris Moore is the Senior Minister at Fellowship Congregational United Church of Christ. Chris received his BA in English from the University of Oregon and an Masters of Divinity from Phillips Theological Seminary. He serves on the boards of JustHope, a Tulsa-based nonprofit working to create sustainable partnerships in Nicaragua, and ACTION (Allied Communities of Tulsa Inspiring Our Neighborhoods), a community organizing institution. SUBSCRIBE TO AUDIO PODCAST: WATCH THIS COMMUNITY FORUM ON YOUTUBE: SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL: GIVE A DONATION TO HELP US SPREAD THIS LOVE BEYOND BELIEF: or text LOVEBB to 41444 LET'S CONNECT: Facebook: Twitter: All Souls Church Website:  

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.

In this Rethinking Global Cities event, Sibel Bozdogan outlines the shifting landscape of Istanbul over time as designed by political leaders. Sibel Bozdogan is a Lecturer in History of Architecture and Urbanism at Harvard University, and Professor and Chair, Department of Architecture, at Kadir Has University. Bozdogan's interests span cross-cultural histories of modern architecture and urbanism in Europe, America, Mediterranean and the Middle East with a specialization on Turkey. This events collaborators include Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies , Center for European Studies, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Center for International Studies, and John Hope Franklin Center. The Rethinking Global Cities project is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "Partnership in a Global Age".

The Cosby Show at 30: Reflections on Race, Parenting, Inequality and Education This September marks the 30th anniversary of the debut of The Cosby Show—the landmark television sitcom starring comedian and philanthropist Bill Cosby and Tony Award winning actress Phylicia Rashad. That fall the duo inaugurated their roles of Heathcliff and Clair Hanks Huxtable, two highly educated, professional and upper middle-class African-American parents of five children. The series, which ran from 1984-1992—shortly before the re-election of Ronald Reagan and ending months before the election of Bill Clinton—consistently ranked in the top-5 among American television viewers, including five straight seasons (1985-1990) where it was the most popular television show in America. To commemorate the anniversary of The Cosby Show’s debut, The Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at the Duke Consortium on Social Equity, in conjunction with the John Hope Franklin Center, is hosting a roundtable discussion, The Cosby Show at 30: Reflections on Race, Parenting, Inequality and Education, September 18, 2014 at 7:00pm at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University (2204 Erwin Road). Blair LM Kelley—Associate Professor of History and Assistant Dean for interdisciplinary studies and international programs at NC State University. Wahneema Lubiano—Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and Literature at Duke University Natalie Bullock Brown—Chair of the Department of Film and Interactive Media at Saint Augustine’s University Joshua L. Lazard --C. Eric Lincoln Minister for Student Engagement at Duke University Chapel Moderated by Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University and Director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship.

On January 21st the John Hope Franklin Center hosted a celebration of the Haitian Declaration of Independence. Duke Professors Laurent Dubois and Deborah Jenson along with Assistant Professor Julia Gaffield, and Professor Richard Rabinowitz partook in a roundtable discussion on the declaration's history and creation.

5:00 pm Spoken Word Performance: Poetic Portraits of a Revolution Featuring Triangle Area poets Will McInerney and Kane Smego, project translator and interpreter Mohammad Moussa, and professional photographer and videographer Sameer Abdel-khalek. Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center

Dr. Fitzpatrick is author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press, and of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, forthcoming from NYU Press and previously made available for open peer review online (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence). She is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org), and has published articles and notes in journals including the Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, and Cinema Journal. Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and INternational Studies with support from the Franklin Humanities Institute.

A specialist in western and northern Canadian history, Professor Waiser joined the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan in 1984 and is at present a Professor of History. Prof. Waiser is the author, co-author and/or editor of thirteen books. He served as Director of the Graduate Program from 1988-1991 and then Department Head, 1995-98. Prior to his Saskatchewan appointment, he was Yukon Historian for the Canadian Parks Service. In 2006, Prof. Waiser was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, the province's highest honor, and the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007. His current research project, “A World We Have Lost,” will bring together environmental and Aboriginal history to produce a dynamic, provocative, new history of the region now comprising the province of Saskatchewan from contact to the late nineteenth century. It is the logical extension of his recent award-winning history of the province for the 2005 provincial centennial (Saskatchewan: A New History) and will complement that monograph by completing the history of the region from the beginning of native-newcomer interactions to the late nineteenth century and the creation of the province. Prof. Waiser will spend six weeks at Duke in February and March 2011. Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and INternational Studies with support from the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Born in Cap-Haitien, Jacques Pierre studied Haitian Creole and French Applied Linguistics at the State University of Haiti. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in French, Haitian Creole and Culture in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University, as well as an affiliated faculty of the Haiti Lab. Before joining Duke University, he was a Visiting Lecturer in Haitian Creole and Culture at Florida International University. In addition, he has been coordinating the Haitian Summer Institute at Florida International University for four years. He was trained as a lexicographer at Indiana University and worked for six years as an Assitant Editor on the Haitian Creole-English Bilingual Dictionary (2007) published by the Creole Institute at Indiana University. He has an M.A. in Translation Studies with a concentration in French and Haitian Creole and an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language, both degrees from Kent State University. His research interests are: “The basilectal vs the acrolectal forms of Haitian Creole in Haitian Movies,” “The coexistence of French and Haitian Creole in Haitian movies,” and “Literary Translation in the context of a Less Translated Language.” Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Haiti Lab at Duke.

In episode # 21 of the weekly webcast Left of Black, host Mark Anthony Neal welcomes artist “extraordinaire” Carrie Mae Weems to the Left of Black studio in the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University. Later he is joined by Professor Thabiti Lewis (via Skype), author of the new book Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America (Third World Press). →Carrie Mae Weems is an award winning photographer and artist. Her photographs, films, and videos have been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad and focus on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity. She is perhaps most well known for her “The Kitchen Table Series” (1990) and recently initiated a public art campaign to address gun violence in Black and Brown communities in Syracuse, New York. →Thabiti Lewis Associate Professor of English at Washington State University Vancouver. He has published widely in the areas of African American literature, African American Studies, and sport and race. His areas of teaching are 20th century American literature, African American literature, Race and Cultural Studies, and Popular Culture. Dr. Lewis has worked as a journalist, talk radio host, and as an editor. His latest book is Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America.

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal welcomes independent artist and cellist Shana Tucker into the Left of Black studio at the John Hope Franklin Center. Tucker and Neal discuss her new fan-financed CD SHiNE and a style of music that Tucker calls “Chamber Soul.” Shana Tucker is a “ChamberSoul” cellist and singer/songwriter from New York currently based in North Carolina. Her music is a sultry pastiche of acoustic pop and soulful, jazz-influenced contemporary folk. Tucker’s debut solo project, SHiNE, outlines a musical journey that celebrates the major influences of everyday life: relationship, laughter, love…loss, rediscovery, and the never-ending journey towards heightened levels of peace, understanding and self-acceptance.

Women of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) defied prescribed notions of domestic duty; blurred the lines drawn for “true” women in the early 20th Century; derived their respectability through a practice of nationalist politics in public places resulting in an efficient womanhood that set the stage for what are now known as womanist consciousness and black feminist politics. While UNIA women helped set the stage for the development of the latter ideals and in varying ways demonstrated the virtues of the “Cult of True Womanhood” and “the politics of respectability,” their activism reached further than expressions of Victorian Motherhood andtheir endeavor to lift as they climbed meant leaving no person of African descent behind. At times their tactics seem to contradict their aims and the results of their efforts were not always immediately evident. "Credit for What We Do" seeks to highlight just some of the contributors and contributions that resulted in an all encompassing visionary approach to race progress that reveals another root of the nascent Civil Rights Movement tree. A root in desperate need of both study and nurture. Natanya Duncan is Mellon HBCU Faculty Fellow at the FHI for 2010-11. She is currently at work on a history of women activists in the UNIA. Series organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center; this program presented by the FHI

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In this special episode of Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas. Thomas’ works include Winter in America (2008), Branded (2008), ReBranded (2008), Black is Beautiful (2009), Fair Warning (2010) and UnBranded (2010) and he is the author of Pitch Blackness (2008). Neal and Thomas engage in a wide ranging conversation about Black masculinity, urban violence, the export of Black popular culture and Michael Jackson as well as a walk-thru of Thomas’ Hope Exhibition at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University. →Hank Willis Thomas is a photo conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture. He received his BA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and his MFA in photography and MA in visual criticism from the California College of the Arts.

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Presented by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies with support from the Franklin Humanities Institute.

This panel is presented by the Pauli Murray Project, an organization that seeks to build stronger community ties in Durham, North Carolina, through dialogue, education, storytelling centered on one of our city’s unsung heroes, the lawyer, activist, poet and priest, Pauli Murray. Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and INternational Studies with support from the Franklin Humanities Institute.

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The artists will discuss their respective work on Gitagovinda (the Song of Divine Love) in Odissi Dance and Indian Music. Ms. Mahapatra offer a demonstration in dance, with Ms. Vijayalakshmi vocal accompaniment. Presented by the North Carolina Consortium for South Asian Studies (NCCSAS). John Hope Franklin Center

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Ambassador Duddy brings over 30 years of personal experience in Latin America. During this time he served as Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs in Washington, DC and held diplomatic posts in Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama, Paraguay, and Haiti. Most recently he served as US Ambassador to Venezuela. This week's program is sponsored Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. John Hope Franklin Center

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This week's program is presented by series co-host the John Hope Franklin Center and will focus on the local food movement in Durham. Join Sam Poley of the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau and Phoebe Lawless, chef/owner of the Scratch Bakery downtown, for what promises to be a rich conversation! John Hope Franklin Center

Please join us this week for a conversation on "Trauma in Theory and Culture: the Case of Haiti" with: Deborah Jenson, Professor of French and Romance Studies and Co-director of the FHI Haiti Lab; Kathy Walmer, Director of the Family Health Ministries, Haiti Lab Core Affiliated Faculty; Allan Chrisman, psychiatrist and Medical Director, Duke Child and Family Studies Center; Ben Reese, clinical psychologist and Vice President of Institutional Equity; and Cynthia Frazier, clinical psychologist. The group will discuss background questions on trauma and the Haiti Lab's research project on PTSD Incidence and Cultural Presentation in Post-Earthquake Leogane. John Hope Franklin Center

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Join us for a presentation on "Brazil: Globalization and Modern-day Slavery" with writer, environmentalist, and human rights activist Binka Le Breton. Her latest book is Where the Road Ends: a Home in the Brazilian Rainforest She has authored numerous other books, including The Greatest Gift: The Courageous Life of Sister Dorothy Stang; Trapped: Modern Day Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon; and Voices from the Amazon. For more information about Le Breton's work, click here. This week's program is presented by the Duke Human Rights Center, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Department of African and African American Studies. John Hope Franklin Center

Join us for a conversation with musicians Brad Cook and Joe Westerlund of the band Megafaun, moderated by Duke faculty Laurent Dubois. Presented by Duke Performances and the Franklin Humanities Institute. On September 17, 18, and 19, Megafaun & Fight the Big Bull will perform in a series of three live-recorded concerts at the Hayti Heritage Center. The two groups will team up for the three nights of concerts with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Sharon Van Etten to perform tunes from Alan Lomax's seminal collection of folk songs, Sounds of the South. John Hope Franklin Center

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Guests: Author Zelda Lockhart joins ‘Left of Black’ to discuss her new book ‘Fifth Born II: The One Hundredth Turtle’ and how the issues of homosexuality, violence and shame affect Black communities. Lockhart also discusses her decision to publish independently. theLoop21.com columnist and Morehouse College professor Stephane Dunn discusses her recent essay ‘When Mega Churchin’ Fails’ and the new ESPN 30 by 30 documentary ‘One Night in Vegas.’ *** ‘Left of Black’ is produced by Jason Doty and Catherine Angst for the John Hope Franklin Center. Music provided by 9th Wonder of 9th Wonder Music

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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 values of African humanism, means in the context of the contemporary jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court. Reception to follow in Room 130 John Hope Franklin Center and Gallery space Co-sponsors: Concilium on Southern Africa, Duke University Center for International Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute, Provost’s Office, Vice Provost for International Affairs and DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy

The Duke University Center for International Studies Globalization and the Artist project presents a lunchtime talk/reading – “Museologies” with Diego Cortez – Director, Benetton Collection, Treviso; Curator of Photography, New Orleans Museum of Art; and frequent curator, John Hope Franklin Center, Durham. Cortez will discuss and read texts from two curated 2008 exhibitions: “Ari Marcoupolos: Architectures” and “Photography and Depression” as well as his liner notes from “Out of Noise,” a 2009 release by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Co-sponsors: Duke University Center for International Studies, John Hope Franklin Center, Nasher Museum of Art and Center for Documentary Studies