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April  2002
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1

READING
Karla Holloway
"Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories: A Memorial"
240 Franklin Center
7:00 pm
Reception to follow in
130 Franklin Center

2

Divinity School's Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture: "In the balance: Womanist Reflections on Beloved Community"
Divinity School's York Chapel
2pm

GLORIA STEINEM:
Her speach will be about: Her life and Work as well as contemporary Women's issues
FREE Tickets will be available on the BC Walkway Friday March 29th, Monday
April 1st, and Tues. April 2nd from 10 am till 4pm.
A limited number of tickets will be held at the door.
Page Auditorium
7:30-9pm


3

International Photo Exhibition @ the Perk
Sponsored by the International House
4pm

TALK: "Muslim Identity in Europe: The Bosnian Case"MICHAEL SELLS is Professor of Religion at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, where he has taught for 17 years in the areas of Islam; Islam and the West, Comparative Religions, Religion and Violence, Islamic and Comparative mysticism, and Middle East love poetry.
240 Franklin Center
7pm

TALK: "The Kashmir Conflict"
Sponsored by the International Association and the Pakistan Students
Assocation
Social Sciences 139
7-9pm

Talk: "Mars and Venus, or Planet Earth: Women and Men in a New Millenium"

TALK: MICHAEL KIMMEL, Ph.D., National Spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS).
Keynote Address: "Mars and Venus, or Planet Earth: Women and Men in a New Millenium"
GRIFFITH THEATER 7pm

TALK: Before and After 9/11: Ethnic Profiling and Academic Freedom in the USA and the case of Sami Al-Arian
Love Auditorium, LSRC
7:30pm




4

Interview Weekend

USP Seminar
"Health Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Approach"
230 Franklin Center
5:00 - 7:00 pm

Dinner with Faculty
7:30 pm

Mind, Brain & Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series
Jay McClelland, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
"Semantic Memory: A Parallel-Distributed Processing Approach"
4:00 pm
103 Bryan Research Building

Katie Trumpener, U. Chicago
Title: TBA
4:00 pm
Carpenter Board Room
223 Perkins Library
www.duke.edu/web/english

TALK: Jin Sook Lee, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
Center for Multicultural Affairs
5pm

FILM:Celebrated Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solas to screen: "Lucia"
White Auditorium
7:30pm

5

Interview Weekend

Morning Interviews
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Afternoon Interviews
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

President's Dinner
Searle Center

BOOK DISCUSSION : "Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indigenous Resurgence in Brazil"
Jonathan Warren Professor Warren of the African and African American Studies Department will be discussing his book
240 Franklin Center
4pm

TALK :"The Effect of Violent Video Games on Child Development"
Mary Ballard, Ph.D. Appalachian State University
319 Soc/Psych Building 4:00 pm

Allen Building Lock-In
In remembrance of the 1969 Allen Building Takeover
West Campus Quad --> Allen Building
6pm -7am

TALK: "Frank H. Wu, Professor of Law at Howard University"
Professor Wu?s Yellow: Race in America Beyond
Black and White was recently published by Basic Books and he is currently touring nationwide.
Multicultural Center
8pm


6

Interview Weekend

12.30pm-2.00pm: Lunch for undergraduate finalists and all current undergraduate University Scholars. 240 Franklin Center.

3:00-5:00 pm: Doubletake Documentary Film Festival “Ralph Bunche” (Buses pick up at 2:30 on East Campus, 2:45 at the Physics Building, 5:00 at Carolina Theater to return to East Campus)

CARNIVAL:
FREE LUNCH
Events Schedule
12:00 Falun Dafa Meditation Group (On stage)
12:30 Meditation Workshop by Falun Dafa (House EE Commons)
1:00 Gothic Queers present. (On stage)
1:30 Sabrosura
1:45 "What's in a Latino?" with Mi Gente
(House EE Commons)
2:00 African Dance Repertory (On stage)
2:30 Hip Hop Culture Discussion with African Dance Students
(House EE Commons)
3:00 Local Colour (On stage)
3:15 Muslim Students Association: Teach-in on Islam
(House EE Commons)
CROWELL QUAD

7

Interview Weekend

Concert - Borromeo String Quartet
Baldwin auditorium
1pm

STUDENT CONCERT: for Charity
Come hear some of Duke's most talented student musicians
playing everything from classical to bluegrass to African drumming. All
proceeds benefit children in need through UNICEF.
Tickets: $6
Nelson Music
Room (East Duke Bldg), 8pm.


8

COMEDY SHOW: "Second City"
General Public - $18, $15, $12
Duke Students - $13, $10, $7
The Second City has been the springboard for generations of the comedy world's best and brightest. Its alumni list includes Joan Rivers, Robert Klein, John Belushi, Bill Murray, John Candy, Gilda Radner, Dan Ackroyd, Martin Short, George Wendt, Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Ryan Stiles and many more.
8pm

FILM:Documenting Sexualities Film Series: "Gaea Girls"(d. Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, 2000, 106min, UK, Color, 35mm)
Gaea Girls follows the physically grueling and mentally exhausting training regimen of several young wanna-be 'Gaea Girls', a group of Japanese women wrestlers. Featured at the 2001 Doubletake Film Festival.
8pm

LAST LECTURE SERIES: "Dr. John Aldrich, Poly Sci"
Soc Sci Room 136
8pm



9

LUNCH: With Artist Pedro Sanchez, whose work will be on display at the Duke University Museum of Art from April 4- June 2. The exhibit, entitled _Ariel Dorfman on Pedro Sanchez -- Conjuros: The Bull in the Labyrinth of Spain and Chile_, will feature an opening event on April 11th.
For more information and to RSVP email <r.sikorski@duke.edu>.
12:15 - 1:30pm

SPEAKERL Community Service Center Speaker "Doctors without Borders"
Faculty Commons Room, West Union
7pm

Confronting Stereotypes in Islam

SPEAKER: DR. FARISH A. NOOR is a Malaysian political scientist and human rights activist. He is Secretary General of the International Movemant for a Just World and has studied the phenomenom of Islamist political movements in South East Asia.
7pm

SCREEN/SOCIETY: Blossoms of Fire
Contact:
irr@duke.edu
Richard White Auditorium
7pm

READING: Undergraduate Publications Board Blackburn Literary Festival Reading by Elizabeth Cox
Thomas Reading Room, Lilly Library,
7-9pm

SPEAKER: "David Horowitz"
The Second Annual Russell M. Kirk memorial Lecture from Duke Conservative Union
Author of Uncivil Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery
Page Auditorium
7:30pm

 








10

MARCH: for Campus Democracy
The Student Employee Relations Committee (SERC) is demanding that the Duke administration stop outsourcing and contracting campus operations
currently run by the university.
Join Duke employees, professors, and students.
East Campus busstop 3:30pm

HISTORY LECTURE SERIES: "Founding Fathers - Sigmund Freud/Theodor Herzl"
Lecturers: Professor Martin Miller & Professor
Ylana Miller
White Lecture Hall
4-5:30pm

 


11

Carlo Rotella, Boston College
Title: TBA
4:00 pm
Breedlove Room
Perkins Library
www.duke.edu/web/english

12

REGISTRATION ENDS FOR FALL 2002

TALK: Reynolds Price talks about Reading, Writing, and Teaching
Reynolds Theater
3:30-4:30pm

PSYCHOLOGY SERIES: "Origins and Consequences of Friendship Jealousy In Children"
Colloquium, Jeffrey Parker, Ph.D., Penn State
319 Soc/Psych Building 4:00 pm

Globalization Seminar : "Are Federal Nations Decentralized"
Prof. Pradeep Chhibber
Department of Pol. Science, Univ. of California, Berkeley
130/132 Franklin Center
4pm

TACO BELL BOYCOTT:
CONTACT: Alison Blaine, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF)
(919) 660-3660, alison.blaine@duke.edu
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, 1317 West Pettigrew Street
* Rides provided to the Hillsborough Road Taco Bell after.

4-5 p.m. Open Workshop: Supporting CIW on Your Campus
5- 7:30 p.m. Free Dinner and Teach-IN, Taco Bell action to follow

DISCUSSION: "Black men, where are you?"
A Discussion of the Black Male Shortage at Duke-
Discussion Led By Charles McKinney
Multicultural Resource Center (lower level Bryan Ctr)
6:30pm

READING: Blackburn Literary Festival Reading by Micheal Malone and Evie Shockley
Thomas Reading Room, Lilly Library, East Campus
7-9pm




13

DROP/ADD BEGINS

SPEAKER: Law School Alumni Present Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Page Auditorium
2-4pm

NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION SYMPOSIUM: "Talking Drums"

Opening Discussion 12:00 - 2:00
Breedlove Room
Perkins Library

Roundtable Discussion:
Saturday, April 13, 3-5pm Breedlove Room, Perkins Library

Special Film Presentation:
Who Owns the Past?: The American Indian
Struggle for Control of Their Ancestral Remains
Saturday, April 13, 8:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies,
1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham

 


14

NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION SYMPOSIUM
Concluding Discussion
Breedlove Room
10:30am

15

LAST LECTURE SERIES:
Duke Union Major Speakers presents Dr. Kristina Johnson, Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering and Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering. Soc. Sci. Room 136
8am

WORKSHOP: "The Clash of the Fundamentalists" with Tariq Ali, scholar, writer, and activist
240 Franklin Center
7-10pm

FORUM:Undergraduate Publications Board Blackburn Literary Festival Translation Forum with Duke Faculty
Von Canon Room A
7-9pm

 


16

Phil Harper, New York Univ.
Title: TBA
4:00 pm
Breedlove Room
Perkins Library
www.duke.edu/web/english

LECTURE: "Accounting, Financial Reporting and Management Discretion"
by Dr. Richard Willis, Assistant Professor of Accounting at Fuqua
School of Business
116 Old Chem
7:00pm-8:30pm

PUBLIC READING:
Undergraduate Publications Board Blackburn Literary Festival Reading:
W.S. Merwin
Rare Book Room
Perkins Library
7:00 - 9:00 pm

TALK: Professor John French, Dept of History,
"Framing a Social Dimension for the GATT/WTO from Tokyo to Seattle: The
Evolution of the International Policy Debate Regarding a Trade-Linked
Multilateral 'Social Clause', 1973-1999"
230/232 Franklin Center
7.30 p.m.

Theater 2002: New Works in Process-Playwriting workshop/open sessions.
Branson Theater, East Campus
7:30pm

PUBLIC SEMINAR
"Behind the Music"
A multi-media presentation by former Rush musician David Whitehead
136 Social Sciences
7:30 pm




17

FILM & DISCUSSION:
"Raices de mi Corazon" by Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando, featuring the 1912 massacre of 6000 by the Cuban army.
Room 375
African-American Cultural Center
12:00 - 2:00 pm

PUBLIC FORUM:
"Three Perspectives on Farmworkers and the Mt. Olive Pickle Debate"
Room 007, Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 Pettigrew Street
4:00 - 6:00 pm

LECTURE : "Monarch Notes for Marketing"
by Dr. Carl Mela, Associate Professor of Marketing at Fuqua
Soc Sci 136
7:00pm-8:30pm

CLASSICS OF FRENCH FILM SERIES:
"Le Samouraï", by Jean-Pierre Melville, and creative inspiration for John Woo and Jim Jarmusch.
Griffith Film Theater
Bryan Center
8:00 pm

PLAY: "Mao II by Don DeLillo"
a theatrical adaptation by Jody McAuliffe, Duke Theater Studies.
$6 students,
$8 general public.
Sheafer Theater
Bryan Center
8:00 pm

PUBLIC FORUM: Frank H. Wu, Howard University Law Professor
Von Canon A
8pm



18

Thoman Hahn, U. Rochester
Title: TBA
4:00 pm
Carpenter Board Room
223 Perkins Library
www.duke.edu/web/english

PUBLIC LECTURE:
"What is English Education?"
LouAnn Reid, Assoc. Professor Department of English,
Colorado State University
202 West Duke Building
4:00 pm

PUBLIC LECTURE:
"Language, Race, and Classroom Education"
David M. Bloome, Professor of Education, Vanderbilt University
202 West Duke Building
East Campus
5:00 pm

PUBLIC LECTURE:
"Border Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large"
Carolyn Cooper, Head of Dept. of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies.
02 West Union Building
Mary Lou Williams Center
West Campus
7:00 pm

PLAY: "Mao II by Don DeLillo"
a theatrical adaptation by Jody McAuliffe, Duke Theater Studies.
$6 students,
$8 general public.
Sheafer Theater
Bryan Center
8:00 pm

MUSIC:
"Jewish Music of Morocco" by Emil Zrihan
Page Auditorium
8:00 pm
$12 students,
$17 General Admission

19

LAST DAY OF GRADUATE CLASSES

PUBLIC LECTURE:
"The Ecology of Concealed Ovulation: A Chimpanzee Perspective"
143 Jones Building Cancer Research Center
Research Drive
4:00 pm

PLAY: "Mao II by Don DeLillo"
a theatrical adaptation by Jody McAuliffe, Duke Theater Studies.
$6 students,
$8 general public.
Sheafer Theater
Bryan Center
8:00 pm

20

GRADUATE READING PERIOD

PLAY: "Mao II by Don DeLillo"
a theatrical adaptation by Jody McAuliffe, Duke Theater Studies.
$6 students,
$8 general public.
Sheafer Theater
Bryan Center
8:00 pm

21

GRADUATE READING PERIOD

PANEL DISCUSSION: by the Mao II creative team
Brown bag lunch
To reserve your space please RSVP to Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu
12:15pm

PLAY: "Mao II by Don DeLillo"
a theatrical adaptation by Jody McAuliffe, Duke Theater Studies.
$6 students,
$8 general public.
Sheafer Theater
Bryan Center
2:00 pm


22

GRADUATE READING PERIOD


DJEMBE ENSEMBLE
(West African drumming)
Nelson Music Room,
East Duke Building, 8pm

23

GRADUATE READING PERIOD

CONCERT:Chevy Chase in Concert
Jazz Piano
Performin with the Duke University Jazz Ensemble
Paul jeffrey, Director
Page Auditorium
8pm


24

LAST DAY OF UNDERGRADUATE CLASSES

GRADUATE READING PERIOD

LECTURE: History Lecture Series: "My Life in the Twentieth Century -
John Hope Franklin
White Lecture Hall
4-5:30pm


25

GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE READING PERIOD

READING: "Gerda Lerner, Founding founding member of the National Organization for Women" reads from her autobiography, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography (2002),
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library.
5pm


26

GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE READING PERIOD

USP End-of-Semester Party!
Franklin Center Basement Cafe
5-7pm

BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL:
presented by the Brazilian Social Club. Come enjoy a Brazilian Band, playing Carnaval tunes, and Samba, Forró, and Axé Music by DJ during intermission.
info@urherenow.com
For your convenience, Tickets will be available for purchase Online at
$20.00 per ticket. You may Pay Cash and Pick it Up, at selected locations
throughout the Triangle, for $18.00 per ticket or $15.00 student rate.
The Armory, Durham
8pm-1am

DUKE CHORALE: - Rodney Wynkoop, conductor
Chorale Celebration
Biddle Fountain
8pm

CIOMPI QUARTET:
Haydn, String Quartet, Op. 20, No. 5; Beethoven, String Quartet Op. 135, and a "First Light" premiere performances of a new string quartet by the North Carolina Symphony’s Composer-in-Residence, Nathanial Stookey.
Tickets are $14 General Admission, $8 Students (free to Duke students with valid I.D.).
8pm

 


27

GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE READING PERIOD

DUKE STRING SCHOOL CONCERT:
Dorothy Kitchen, director
Spring Festival
Violin Concerto, Mvt. 1 by Stephen Jaffe: James Dargan, soloist
Baldwin Auditorium
3, 4, and 7pm

28

GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE READING PERIOD

29

FINAL EXAMS

30

FINAL EXAMS

       

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