Video Display: The Cardo

 

Currently being presented on the East Duke Corridor Gallery video screen is a short documentary, made in May 2009, by Annabel Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor of Art and Art History. The video, made with a Flip Camera granted to Wharton by Duke University, walks the viewer from Damascus Gate in the north to Zion Gate in the south and back again. It shows something of the vibrant life of the market streets in the northern part of the city, and offers views of the excavation of the ancient Cardo. The Cardo was the main north/south artery of Aelia Capitolina, the Roman garrison town built by Hadrian to replace Jerusalem after his suppression of the Second Jewish Revolt, 132-136 CE. It also documents some of the differences between the Jewish Quarter and the rest of Jerusalem that have developed since the 1967 War. Wharton is teaching a graduate seminar this semester on Jerusalem.
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Lehman Brady Chair in Documentary and American Studies: Paul Hendrickson  

The Center for Documentary Studies coordinates a visiting joint chair professorship in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, known as the Lehman Brady Chair. This collaborative, cross-campus arrangement affords significant opportunities for study, research, and participation in educational activities associated with distinguished writers, photographers, filmmakers, and other practitioners and scholars of the documentary arts. The Lehman Brady Professor teaches courses on both campuses and engages in lectures, film screenings, and other events for students and the general public. The Lehman Brady Chair is supported by two endowment funds, one established at the Center for Documentary Studies by the Lyndhurst Foundation and the other established at Duke University by the bequest of Lehman Brady, an attorney from Durham, North Carolina, who died in 1995.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2005, Paul Hendrickson worked for thirty years in daily journalism. He was a staff feature writer at the Washington Post from 1977 to 2001.

Paul Hendrickson's most recent book, Sons of Mississippi (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), a study of the legacy of racism in the families of seven Mississippi sheriffs of the 1960s, won the National Book Critics Circle Award in general nonfiction and the Heartland Prize presented annually by the Chicago Tribune. In addition, it was named by many newspapers to their "Top 10" lists for books published in 2003. The research and writing, which took about five years, were supported by a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship.

Yale Distinguished Alumni Award

The Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal

Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History, has been named a Wilbur Lucius Cross Medalist for 2009 by Yale University. The Medal is the highest honor given by the Yale Graduate School to distinguished alumni. Powell received his MA in African American Studies in 1982 and his Ph.D. in the History of Art in 1988. Medals will be presented at a ceremony on October 6 at the Yale Center for British Art by Jon Butler, Dean of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Powell will also give a lecture, "Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture," at the Jeffrey Loria Center of the History of Art, Yale University, for graduate students and faculty before the medal ceremony.

The Yale Graduate School Alumni Association established the Medal in 1966 to honor alumni for outstanding achievement in some phase of activity in which Dean Wilbur Cross excelled. An alumnus of Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Ph.D. 1889, English), Cross was a scholar of distinction and author of definitive works in English literature. He was a distinguished literary critic, rejuvenating and editing the Yale Review. He headed the Graduate School from 1916-1930, and, following his retirement from academia, served as governor of Connecticut for four terms.
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Keynote Lecture at Seoul Symposium

Bill Seaman, professor of visual studies, gave a keynote lecture at the 21C Transmedia Innovation Symposium, held in Seoul, Korea, September 23-25. The theme of the symposium was New Century, New Media, New Living and New Industry; Transdisciplinary Creativity: The Future is Now! The title of his lecture was "The Body As Electrochemical Computer ? Observations Surrounding A New Transdisciplinary Research Paradigm." Seaman also provided the Welcome Address on the conference's website.

For additional information please go to: http://www.21ctis.or.kr/
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Franklin Humanities Institute Working Group

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Digital Collaborations