March  2002

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
         

1

OCEANS CONNECT CONFERENCE
Reading by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott
VonCanon A,B,C
8pm

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OCEANS CONNECT CONFERENCE
VonCanon A,B,C

"Beyond Civilizations: Maritime Networks in the World Geography Classroom" by Martin Lewis
9am

Panel 1: Ätlantic Pedagogies"
10:15am

Keynote Address by Sugata Bose Ïntroducing the Inter-Regional Arena through the eyes of a Poet: Rabindranath Tagore's Oceanic Voyages"
1pm

Panel 2: "Academicism/Activism Across tge Pacific Ocean"
2:15 pm

AN EVENING OF FRENCH CONTEMPORARY THEATER
**FREE**
Branson Theater, East
8pm

WEBSTREAMING of a LIVE ART PERFORmANCE by
Mendi Lewis (artist and Duke Lit grad student) and Keith Townsend (of local and growing art fame).
Franklin Center Basement
8:30pm




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OCEANS CONNECT CONFERENCE

Panel 3: "Writing Mediterranean Subaltern"
9am

Keynote Address by Janet Abu-Lughod "Oceans Also Disconnect: Some reflections on the Movement of People, Goods, and Capital."
11:15am

POETRY AND FICTION READING by Ammiel Alcalay of Queen's College, CUNY
Presented by Dept. os Asian and African Languages and Literature, Jewish Studies, and Mediterranean Studies.
204 Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
3pm

4

LECTURE: Henry Drewal, University of Wisconsin-Madison art historian speaking on "Snake Charmer, Mami Wata, and Santa Marta: Imag[in]ing Selves and Others in the Afro-Atlantic World"
240 Franklin Center
4pm

HEBREW POETRY READING by Taha Muhammed Ali
Presented by Dept. os Asian and African Languages and Literature, Jewish Studies, and Mediterranean Studies.
204 Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
5-6:30pm

TALK: "Washington Post Editors Discuss 'American Journalism in Peril'" Leonard Downie and Robert Kaiser, executive and associate editors of the Washington Post, will discuss their new book.
Terry Sanford Institute
7pm

5

USP Symposium Rehearsal
7:00 - 9:00 pm
130 Franklin Center

TALK: "Islamic Traditionalism and Reform on the Indian Sub-Continent" Jamal Mali, Erfurt University, Germany
240 Franklin Center
7pm

TALK: Frederick Mayer, PPS, Duke Univ.
"Constructing Globalization: the Role of Narrative in the Anti-Globalization Movement"
230 Franklin Center
7:30pm

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STUDENT -EMPLOYEE PICNIC
What: East Campus Student-Employee Picnic When: Wednesday, March 6 Where: GA Down Under (outside, if the weather's nice!)
Times (come to 1 or both): -Housekeeping Apprec. Picnic (12-1pm) -Dining Apprec. Picnic (3-4pm)

7

USP Annual Spring Symposium
"Exposing Privacy" with Keynote Address by Professor James Boyle, Duke Law and presentations by University Scholars
240 Franklin Center
6:00 - 8:30 pm

LECTURE: "Globalization, Restructuring and Democracy in South Korea: Theories and A Case"
Dr. Hyun-chin Lim
Visiting Prof., Department of Sociology, Duke Univ.
McKinney Room (329 Sociology/Psychology Building)
12:15 pm

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LECTURE
Professor Carol Ward, Dep't of Anthropology
University of Missouri
"Newest Evidence of Earliest Australopithecus"
143 Jones Building
4:00 pm

 

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SPRING BREAK

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SPRING BREAK

PUBLIC SEMINAR
Prof. Ernest R. Davidson, Dep't of Chemistry, Indiana University
"Descriptions of Bonding in Ice and Radicals"

Fritz London Lecture Hall (103), Gross Chem
3:30 p.m.


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SPRING BREAK

PUBLIC SEMINAR
Professor John M. Papanikolas, Department of Chemistry, UNC -CH
"Energy Migration
in a Light-Harvesting Polymer Based on Polypyridyl Ru(II) Complexes"
Fritz London Lecture Hall (103) Gross Chem
3:30 p.m.

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SPRING BREAK

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ART & LANGUAGE SEMINARS with Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison, and Mel Ramsden; organized by Kristine Stiles, Dept. of Art and Art History, Duke
"Modernism"
240 Franklin Center
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Click here for link to Webcast Address

WORKSHOP
Indigenous Movements in Bolivia
with Xavier Albo
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2114 Campus Drive
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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FREE TICKETS!
Actors from the London Stage
"Macbeth"
8:00 pm
Reynolds Theater
Bryan Center
followed by a
USP Post-Show Discussion with the troupe
For more info, go to:
www.aftls.org

The Divinity School and the Center for LGBT Life present:
Dr. Walter Wink
"Religious Ally"
Centenary Hall
Divinity School
12:20-1:20 pm

PANEL DISCUSSION
FOCUS "Exploring the Mind" Program presents:
Rodney Brooks, Director MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
"Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us"
with
Güven Güzeldere, (moderator), Philosophy, BIAC; Alan Bierman, Computer Science; Brian Cantwell-Smith, Philosophy, Computer Science; Anne Allison, Cultural Anthropology
Love Auditorium, LSRC
3:30-5:30 pm
Public Reception 3:00 pm

ART & LANGUAGE SEMINARS with Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison, and Mel Ramsden; organized by Kristine Stiles, Dept. of Art and Art History, Duke
"Conceptual Art?"
240 Franklin Center
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Click here for link to Webcast Address

Jennifer Brody, Univ. Illinois
Title: Impossible Putities; Blackness, Femininity, and the Victorian Culture
4:00 pm
Carpenter Board Room
223 Perkins Library
www.duke.edu/web/english

TALK: ETHNO-RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE AND SOCCER IN E. AFRICA'S LARGEST SLUM withRye Barcott and Salim Mohamed, who established Carolina For Kibera, Inc. (CFK) as the
first youth sports association in the Kibera slum of Nairobi.
230 Franklin Center
5-6pm

WORKSHOP
Rethinking Development Policy Workshop: "Governance, Politics, and the Failture to Reduce Global Poverty"
Dr. Jerry Silverman
Consultant and Retired World Bank Employee
Room 04, Sanford Institute.
5:00 pm
For more information call
613-7333

DISCUSSION: "Next Year in Jerusalem-- Our Relationship to Israel in Light of Today's
Conflict"

Avraham Infeld, Counsel for Jewish Affairs
Freeman Center
8pm

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Graduate Program in Literature presents Part 2 of 4 in the series "After September 11: Towards an Intervention:
with Aisha Karim, Jaya Kasibhatla, Firat Oruc

"Global Feminism, Islamic Fundamentalism, and the Crisis of Liberalism"
240 Franklin Center
10:00 am
For more info, go to:
www.duke.edu/~jad2/colloquia.htm

FILM: "Khaneh, ye doust kojast" ("Where is my friend's house?"). (90 minutes) An
Iranian film, of 1996, directed by Abbas Kiarostami
, followed by discussion
230 Franklin Center
2 pm

ART & LANGUAGE SEMINARS with Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison, and Mel Ramsden; organized by Kristine Stiles, Dept. of Art and Art History, Duke
"The Indexes: Discursive Robinsonades"
240 Franklin Center
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Click here for link to Webcast Address

HISTORY LECTURE SERIES:
Dean William Chafe and Prof. Lawrence Goodwyn
"The Hares and the Tortoise: The Kennedys and
Lyndon Johnson
Richard White Lecture Hall
4:00 pm
For more info, call 684-3046 or go to:
www-history.aas.duke.edu

CLASSICS OF FRENCH FILM SERIES:
"Chronique d'un été" (dir. Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin,1960)
Richard White Lecture Hall
8:00 pm

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CIS BROWN BAG LUNCH SERIES & ISIS present:
Dr. Betty Hanson, University of Connecticut
"Looking Back at the Future of the Internet"
Rhodes Conference Center, Sanford Institute
12:30-1:30 pm
Link to her essay, "Globalization, Inequality and the Internet in India"

ART & LANGUAGE SEMINARS with Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison, and Mel Ramsden; organized by Kristine Stiles, Dept. of Art and Art History, Duke
"Pictures?"
240 Franklin Center
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Click here for link to Webcast Address

PUBLIC LECTURE
Kamari Clark
"Mapping Transnationality: Globalization,
Mass Media, and Black Cultural Nationalism."
Breedlove Room,
Perkins Library
4:30 pm

CONCERT: Duke University Chorale
Baldwin Auditorium
8pm

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FREE TICKETS!
Urban Bush Women
8:00 pm
Reynolds Theater
Bryan Center followed by a USP post-performance discussion in the Multicultural Center

PUBLIC SEMINAR
Professor Stefan Franzen, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State
University
"Surface Attachment of DNA on Metals and Metal Oxides for Spectroscopic Applications"
Fritz London Lecture Hall
103 Gross Chemistry

3:30 pm

ART & LANGUAGE SEMINARS with Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison, and Mel Ramsden; organized by Kristine Stiles, Dept. of Art and Art History, Duke
"Museum Culture?"
240 Franklin Center
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Click here for link to Webcast Address

LECTURE
"Venezuela in Crisis" with
Dr. Steve Ellner, Prof. of History at the Universidad de Oriente (Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela)
Dr. Ellner is the author of "Organized Labor in Venezuela, 1958-1991: Behavior and Concerns in a Democratic Setting" and "Venezuela's Movimiento al Socialismo: From Guerrilla Defeat to Innovative Politics."
Center for Latin American Studies, 2114 Campus Drive
12:00 - 1:30 pm
229 Carr Building,East Campus
4:00 - 6:00 pm

LECTURE:
"American Studies in a Moment of Danger"
George Lipsitz, Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he serves as director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute.
103 Carr Bldg, East Campus
5:00 pm

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE at FUQUA:
"E-Vision 2002: The Competitive Advantage of Technology"
Panel topics include Media and Technology, Standards and Value Creation, Relationship Management, and Emerging
Technologies.
Space is limited. Registration is free - do it today at www.dukevision.org
Questions? Contact Christy Williams
(ckw4@duke.edu)

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FREE TICKETS!
Actors from the London Stage
"Macbeth"
8:00 pm
Reynolds Theater
Bryan Center
For more info, go to:
www.aftls.org

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE at FUQUA:
"E-Vision 2002: The Competitive Advantage of Technology"
Panel topics include Media and Technology, Standards and Value Creation, Relationship Management, and Emerging
Technologies.
Space is limited. Registration is free - do it today at www.dukevision.org
Questions? Contact Christy Williams (ckw4@duke.edu)

CONFERENCE: "International Conservation: New
Roles, New Partnerships"
The Carolina-Duke Working Group on the Env. in Latin Am. and Nicholas School of the Env. and Earth Sciences' Student Internatl. Discussion Group invite you to attend and participate.
04 Sanford Institute
1-5pm

TASTE OF GREECE
Featuring Greek Dancers, Greek Snacks, and Greek Music!
Alumni Lounge, West Campus
8pm



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ART:"Through the Eyes of a Child"
Art club reception. Come see the Duke art museum through a child-led tour of the collection. 2:30-3:30 p.m

HOLOCAUST CANTATA:by Donald McCullough
--based on songs written in Polish by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps
--includes readings based on interview transcripts, stories, and historical data
and a capella music by Henryk Gorecki, Arvo Part, and John Tavener
Chamber Choir from the Choral Society of Durham
Duke Chapel
5-6:30pm


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EXHIBIT OPENING:
"Haiti & Memory"
Franklin Center

PANEL DISCUSSION : "The Role of the Federal Communications Commission in the Digital Era."
William J. Friedman hosts James Boyle,
will moderate the discussion, which
features Friedman, Michael Katz, and others.
3043 Law School
2pm

LECTURE: "The Rise of GNP-ism in Postwar Japan"
Dr. Scott O'Bryan
Department of History
University of Alabama

Carpenter Board Room (223 Perkins Library)
3:30pm

LECTURE: "Relief of Suffering: Beyond Pain Control, Lessons From the Balm of Gilead."
F. Amos Bailey, Founder of Balm Gilead Center
240 Franklin Center
5-6pm

FILM: Documenting Sexualities Series: "Dirty Laundry & Nitrate Kisses"
Dirty Laundry (d. Richard Fung, 1996, 30min, Video)
Nitrate Kisses (d. Barbara Hammer, 1992, 67min, USA, Color 16mm)
White Lecture Hall
8pm

 




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USP LUNCH with Laurie Anderson
12:15 pm
Franklin Center Basement Café
For more information on Laurie Anderson, go to:
www.laurieanderson.com

LECTURE: Second Annual Lecture in Intellectual Property: "Freedom in
the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information"
Professor Benkler will explore the implications of the emerging technological-economic condition on the core values of a liberal democracy.
3043 Law School
12:15pm

Michael McKeon, Rutgers U.
Title: TBA
4:00 pm
Carpenter Board Room
223 Perkins Library
www.duke.edu/web/english

TALK: "The Political and Economical implications of Globalization in South Asia"
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) 2111
Campus Drive
4-6pm

TALK: "Islam in America"
Sulayman Nyang
Howard University
240 Franklin Center
7pm

FREE TICKETS!
Laurie Anderson
8:00 pm
Page Auditorium
For more information, go to:
www.laurieanderson.com

PUBLIC SCREENING: Llanthupi Munakuy (Love in the Shadows) and Angeles de la Tierra (Angels of the Earth)
and discussion with Jesus Tapia and Ivan
Sanjines: two of the central figures in the Latin American Indigenous video
movement.
White Auditorium
8-10pm



 

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LUNCH DISCUSSION/WORKSHOP: with Jesus Tapia and Ivan Sanjines: two of the central figures in the Latin American Indigenous video movement
240 Frankin Center
12-2pm

TALK: Sir Jeremy Greenstock, British Ambassador to the UN,
Chair of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee
“Ethics in Foreign Policy” in the context of the Middle East crisis, the war on terror, and more
Sanford 04
3pm

LECTURE: Women's History Month: "Of Blacks, Jews and Gender: What Happened When Women Pressed for Affirmative Action in Higher Education" with Nancy MacLean, Northwestern U.
Duke Univ. Museum of Art
4pm

WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES: Dr. Audrey Chapman, Dir. of the Science and Human Rights Program. Am. Assoc. for teh Advancement of Scienc3
223 Sanford
6pm

READING BY REYNOLDS PRICE: his translation of the Gospel of Mark
Perkins Library,Rare Book Room
7pm

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DISCUSSION: Land, Labor and the struggle for Identity in Brazil
Join the Carolina-Duke Working Group on Brazilian Culture: Contacts and Intertexts
Center for Latin Am. and Carib. Studies,
2114 Campus Drive
5:30pm

DISCUSSION: Tensions in Gujurat: "Communal Violence in India Today" Join Students of the World, Diya, Clocktower Quad and Prism for a discussion with
Professor Steven Wilkinson
Prism Commons Room
7pm

FILM: "Divorce Iranian Style"
Ziba Mir Hosseini
Richard White Lecture hall
7pm

LECTURE: "Sally Winn, Vice-President of Feminists for Life"
"Refuse to Choose: Reclaiming Feminism"
204B East Duke B
7pm

LECTURE: "Ursula Broschke Davis"
African American Artists and Intellectuals in Paris After World War II
In the Mary Lou Williams Center
7:30pm






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LECTURE: "Meaning Networks in Converstion To Venezuelan Evangelicalism: A
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Soc/Psych Bldg. 319
12-1:30pm

LUNCH DISCUSSION: "Dr. Dianne M. Stewart"
To reserve a space, contact Rob Sikorski at
r.sikorski@duke.edu
Franklin Center
12:15 - 1:30pm

LAW SCHOOL CONFERENCE
"Executive Privilege and the Bush Administration"
Papers presented by Mark J. Rozell, Catholic University Department of Political Science and Louis Fisher,* Senior Specialist in Separation of Powers at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Other panelists are William P. Marshall, UNC School of Law; Michael C. Munger, Duke University Department of Political Science; Christopher H. Schroeder, Duke University School of Law; and Terry Sullivan, UNC-Chapel Hill
Department of Political Science.
Panel 1: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m; Panel 2: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Duke University School of Law, Room 3043
Contact: dlj@law.duke.edu

For live webcast, click here: www.law.duke.edu/adminlaw

LECTURE: "African-Derived Religion in Jamaica: A Carribean Theological Perspective"
Dr. Dianne M. Stewart (Jamaica/USA) is an Assistant Professor of Religion
at Emory University.
Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, 02 West Union
4pm

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

TALK: Psychology Social and Health Sciences Series: "What Neurology Patients Teach Us About Motor Control"
Brown Bag, Martin McKeown, M.D., Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center
319 Soc/Psych Building
4:00 pm

POETRY OPEN-MIC READINGS
"Paces" Poetry Reading Series in conjunction with the art exhibition "Haiti and Memory" invites writers and listeners to an open-mic evening of poetry inspired by the show.
1st Floor Art Gallery
John Hope Franklin Center
8:00 pm
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski at r.sikorski@duke.edu

INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL:
Paul Jeffrey, director
With the Duke Jazz Ensemble - guest artist HARRY PICKENS, piano
General admission $15.00, seniors and students, $12.00
Baldwin Auditorium
9pm



 

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LAW SCHOOL: "Music & Theft: Sampling, Technology and the Law"
For more information: www.law.duke.edu/musicandtheft/ or contact keller@law.duke.edu

Clocktower Quad Cultural Festival
3-7pm

DJ SPOOKY AND DUKE PERFORMERS:
Duke DJs Porangui McGrew and Gustavo Arriaga will take the stage at the
Cats Cradle on a bill with internationally renowned deejay, DJ Spooky. The
event will also include performances by the Duke Capoiera Cooperative and
the Duke Djembe Ensemble.
Tickets are $12 general
admission; $8 for Duke students with ID before 10pm. Tickets will be on
sale on the Bryan Center Walkway the week before the show, and can be
purchased using Flex. Free bus service will be provided to Duke students
between West Campus and the Cats Cradle between 7:30pm and 2:00am.
Cat's Cradle
8pm


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SYMPOSIUM: Antony Tudor (Ballet Coreographer) Symposium: Reconstruction of The Planets (1934)
Free and Open to the Public
East Campus
10am-2pm

SOUTH AFRICAN THEATER GROUP: ARTH, from Washington D.C.
East Duke 209
6pm