January  2002

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SPRING SEMESTER BEGINS:

ALL classes normally meeting on Mondays meet on this
Wednesday only; Wednesday
ONLY classes begin
Wednesday, January 16

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USP Mentor Groups Social Event and Symposium Planning
7:00-9:00 pm
240 Franklin Center

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"Duke Medical School Admissions Process"
PUBLIC LECTURE by
Dr. Brenda Armstrong
Assoc. Dean of Duke School of Medicine
7:00 pm
130 Social Sciences Bldg.

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Paul D. Miller
a.k.a. DJ Spooky Reception
7:00 - 10:00 pm
"Abstrakt Aggregate"
Main Gallery
"Saturation Station" Lower Level Art Space Franklin Center

USP Post-Reception Discussion w/DJ Spooky
10:00 -11:30 pm
230-232 Franklin Center

NC Congressional Delegates Robin Hayes and David Price
"Congressional Issues"
4:00 pm
Fleishman Commons
Sanford Institute of Public Policy

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Sites, Times, Spaces presents a lecture by Paul D. Miller / DJ Spooky
"New Mix Applications in Cinema"
11:00 am
240 Franklin Center

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"Local Color: A Conference on Moviegoing in the American South"
9:00am - 5:00 pm
Richard White Auditorium, East Campus, Duke University

9-10:30am Conference Opening and Panel 1

Introductory Remarks: David Ferriero, Vice Provost, Library Affairs, Duke Unversity

“What’s Different about the South? Some Preliminary Thoughts”
Robert C. Allen
James Logan Godfrey Professor of American Studies, History, and Communication Studies,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

“Is There a Place in the History of American Film for Robert Southard? Itinerant Exhibition in Kentucky During the Depression and Before”
Gregory A.Waller
Chair and Professor, Department of English, University of Kentucky

10:45-12:15pm Panel 2

“Reception by the Numbers: A Headcount of Movie Fans in Black Atlanta, circa 1935”
Matthew Bernstein
Goodrich C. White Professor, Emory University Dana F. White and Associate Professor of Film Studies, Film Studies Program, Emory University

“Researching the Popular History of Film Exhibition and Fan Culture in Richmond”
Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
Associate Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University

1:45-3:15pm Panel 3

“Moviegoing in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: A Case Study”
Douglas Gomery
Professor of Media History, College of Journalism, University of Maryland

“An Alternative to the Buzzard’s Roost: Black Moviegoing in Durham and Other North Carolina Cities”
Charlene Regester
Adjunct Assistant Professor, African and Afro-American Studies,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

3:30-5:00pm Panel 4

“Maintaining the Main Street Monopoly: The State Newspaper's Promotion of Columbia, SC, Movie Theatres”
Ina Rae Hark
Professor of English and Director of Film Studies, University of South Carolina

“The Anderson [South Carolina] 'Our Gang' Film: Local Eccentricities of Marketing and Making Movies for the Cracker Proletariat”
Dan Streible
Assistant Professor of Film Studies/orphanista, University of South Carolina

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

For more info on MLK week events, go to:
www.dukenews.duke.edu/MLK2002/main.htm

8:30 a.m. - noon. Open House at the new Duke Multicultural Center: Complimentary continental breakfast.
Bryan Center, Lower Level

9 a.m. Discussion: "Racism & Stress," featuring Chris Edwards.
Von Canon Hall
Bryan Center

10 a.m. Panel Discussion: "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?"
Von Canon Hall
Bryan Center

11:30 a.m. Community Service Forum: Speakers to include representative from Edgemont Community Center.
Mary Lou Williams Center, room 02, West Union building

12:30 - 2 p.m. Luncheon and Public Forum: "Racial profiling." Event sponsored by The Duke Honor Council. Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy

1 - 3 p.m. Panel Discussion: "Scholarship and Social Activism," moderated by professor Charles Payne. Sponsored by The Graduate School at Duke. Accompanying exhibition produced by Duke's Center for Documentary Studies. Room 139, Social Sciences

3 - 5 p.m. Cultural Extravaganza: Performances and presentations by student cultural groups.
Page Auditorium

9 - 10:30 p.m. Speaker: Aaron McGruder, creator of "The Boondocks" comic strip and social commentator, on "Race, Society and Entertainment: The Future of Black Leadership in the 21st Century." Sponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee and Duke University Union Major Speakers Committee.
Page Auditorium

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Drop/Add ends, 5:00 pm

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FREE TICKETS for USP!
BAABA MAAL
8:00 pm
Page Auditorium
For more information, go to
www.duke.edu/web/dia/calendar.html or click here to go to Baaba Maal's website

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MLK Jr. Candlelight Vigil
12:00 - 3:00 pm
Duke Chapel

Reverend Al Sharpton
President of the National Action Network
www.nationalactionnetwork.org
"Speak Out"
3:00 pm
"Free Speech Quad" in front of House P
For more information, contact E. Abena Antwi
Black Student Alliance Political Chair: eaa4@duke.edu

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Multicultural Career Conference
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Von Canon Hall and Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center
For more information, contact:
LFCapers
Office of Intercultural Affairs
107 Union-West Bld.

Coffeehouse Concert
"Cody Cods, Yellow Stars, The Sames"
7:00 pm
All shows $5, BYOB
For more info, go to:
www.geocities.com/matisseyellow

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Film Screening:
"Lumumba" followed by discussion with Director, Raoul Peck 8:00 pm
Griffith Theater
Bryan Center

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Breakfast with Film Director Raoul Peck
9:00 - 10:30
240 Franklin Center
This event is sponsored by the Sites/Times/Spaces and Caribbean Crossings series of the Franklin Center.
For more information, contact r.sikorski@duke.edu

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The Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy presents a public lecture by Michael M. Burgess, PhD
Chair in Biomedical Ethics Univ. of British Columbia Centre for Applied Ethics Dept. of Medical Genetics
"Democracy, Ethics and Genomics"
12:00-1:00 pm
Room 125 Hudson Hall
Pratt School of Engineering
For more info, call 668-9011 or booth004@mc.duke.edu

Christopher Kirkey, Ph.D.
Professor of Canadian Studies & Political Science
Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater, MA
"The Origins and Implementation of the Ottawa Covention to Ban
Landmines: Canadian Foreign Policy at Work"
3:55-5:10 PM
Room 204D
East Duke Building

The Center for French and Francophone Studies and the Franklin Center present a documentary film:
"Pierre Bourdieu: La sociologie est un jeu de combat"
(dir. Pierre Carles, 2001, 154 minutes, in French, NO SUBTITLES)
240 Franklin Center

Dr. Christopher R. Browning, Professor of History at UNC, will lecture on "Holocaust Perpetrators: Another Look at the Debate over Motivation"
7:30 p.m.
T he Freeman Center for Jewish Life.
The Freeman Center is located at 1415 Faber Street at the corner of Swift Ave and Campus Dr.

Documenting Sexualities Film Series presents:
"Shinjuku Boys"
The documentary introduces three onnabes, women who live as men, who work at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo.
(1995, 53 min.)
8:00 pm
White Lecture Hall

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USP - Crest Street
Tutor Meeting
6:00 - 8:00 pm
New Bethel Baptist Church

Religion and the Arts Lecture
Brian Wren
Conant Professor of Worship at Columbia Theological Seminary
"What's the Point of Singing Together? The Theological Power of Congregational Song."
4:00 pm
York Chapel, Duke Divinity School, West Campus
The lecture is FREE and OPEN to the public.
For information, e-mail div-conted@duke.edu or call (919) 660-3448, toll-free (888) 845-4216.

Feminist Studies Across the Disciplines - Sexuality Speaker Series presents:
Judith Halberstam
Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego
4:15 pm
204-B East Duke Bldg.
East Campus
Halberstam is the author of Female Masculinity and Skin Shows: gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, and writes a regular film review column for Girlfriends magazine.

PUBLIC LECTURE by
Phillip Davis Troutman
Mellon Lecturing Fellow
First Year Writing Program
in conjunction with the exhibit
"Stony the Road They Trod - Forced Migrations of African-Americans in the Slave South, 1790-1865"
5:00 pm
Perkins Library Rare Book Room
For more info, call 660-5816
or e-mail ilene.nelson@duke.edu

Film Screening
"Chuquiago"
8:00-10:00 pm
Franklin Center basement TV Lounge For more info, contact Freya Schiwy at 683-8582 or e-mail fs7@duke.edu