November  2001

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1

Non-Profit Career Forum
Join Duke Alumni working for non-profits
Panel Discussion
4:00 PM
Dinner
6:00 PM (tickets $4 each), Von Cannon, Bryan Ctr.

Choral Vespers Candlelight Service featuring Vespers Ensemble conducted by Dr. Sue Klausmeyer
5:15 pm
Duke Chapel
http://www.chapel.duke.edu/

Nicholas Penny, Curator of Italian Paintings at the National Art Gallery in London, and Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (2000-2002) presents: "Soaps, Relics, and Uncles in Renaissance Venice"
5:30 pm
204B East Duke Building Sponsored by the Dept. of Art & Art History. For more info, call (919) 684-2224 or e-mail: lbst@duke.edu

UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University present:
"Women Fight Fundamentalisms: Before and After September 11"

7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Hanes Art Center Auditorium
(behind the Ackland Museum, close to the Franklin St. and Columbia St. intersection)
UNC-Chapel Hill
featuring: Gita Sahgal, "Secular Spaces in Women's Organizing", Mab Segrest, "Women, the Rise of the Religious Right and
the New Global Order",
Closing Remarks by Cathy Lutz, Professor of Anthropology, UNC.

A Reading by Nathaniel Mackey, author of three chapbooks and three books of poetry, and Professor of Literature at the University of California-Santa Cruz
7.30 p.m.
240 Franklin Center
for more info contact:
r.sikorski@duke.edu

The Phoenix Poetry Series presents Latina Poet
Sandra Maria Esteves
8:00 pm
East Campus Coffeehouse

2

UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University present:
"Women Fight Fundamentalisms: Before
and After September 11"
3:00 pm-5:45 pm
107 Richard White Auditorium (next to the Museum)
East Campus, Duke University featuring: Nawal el Saadawi, "Religious Fundamentalism, Globalization and Women", Plenary Session:
Nawal el Saadawi, Gita Sahgal and Mab Segrest

"Sculptures" Unveiling
by Paris Alexander
Public Reception for the Artist
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Louise Jones Brown Gallery
Bryan Center top level
FREE & Open to Public!

The Center for Documentary Studies presents "The Sixth Annual Documentary Film and Video Happening"
Click here for more details!
For SCHEDULE, click here!

"Day of the Dead: A Mexican Celebration and Offerings to the Spirits"
6:00 - 8:00 pm
1st Floor Gallery
Franklin Center
FREE & Open to Public!

Splendor & Solace
Music of Baroque France featuring Marc-Antoine Charpentier's
"Te Deum" and works by Marin Marais, Louis Couperin, and Guillaume Bouzignac
8:00 pm
Duke Chapel
FREE and Open to Public!

3

The Center for Documentary Studies presents "The Sixth Annual Documentary Film and Video Happening"
Click here for more details!
For SCHEDULE, click here!

SUNAYANA HAZARILAL: KATHAK DANCE RECITAL
7:30 pm
Baldwin Auditorium
East Campus
$12 Students/$17 General
for more info, go to:
www.duke.edu/web/dia/calendar.html

Duke Music Faculty Recital
"Tangos Y Canciones," a recital by guitarist Randy Reed, with Alma Coefmen, flute, and Ariel Reed, soprano
Works by Piazzolla, Falla, Torrega, Pujol and Gerhart
8:00 pm
Nelson Music Room
East Campus

4

A Memorial Service will be held for Celeste Torres Victoria, victim of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, and mother of USP student Jasmine Victoria
2:30 pm
St. Augustine's Church
290 Henry Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 673-5300

The Center for Documentary Studies presents "The Sixth Annual Documentary Film and Video Happening"
Click here for more details!
For SCHEDULE, click here!

Arts Career Forum
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Duke University Museum of Art
aderas@duke.edu

Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, leader of human rights delegations
5:00-5:30 pm reception
6:00-7:15 pm speech
7:15-7:30 pm book signing
Page Auditorium

2001-2002 Southern Circuit presents Independent Filmmaker George Wallace
"Settin' the Woods on Fire"
3 hour documentary
7:00 pm
Richard White Auditorium
East Campus
FREE with DUKE ID!

5

Slavoj Zizek, Public Lecture
“For a Lacanian Critique of Political Economy”
4:00 pm
East Duke 204B
Reception to follow outside room 112 of the Art Museum

City Documents Film Series presents 3 short films:
3 Filmmakers Take on NY
featuring:
"New York Portraits, 2-3" (1980-1, 1990, 30 min.) directed by Peter Hutton
"City Edition" ((1980, 9 min.)
directed by Alan Berliner
"This is a History of New York"(1988, 23 min.)
Directed by Jem Cohen
8:00 pm
Griffith Film Theater
Bryan Center

6

Lunch Talk with
Inga Muscio, author of
"Cunt: A Declaration of Independence"
12:00 pm
Duke Women's Center
wc.studentaffairs.duke.edu

Mladen Dolar, Author
“The Voice: It’s Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics”
4:00 pm
East Duke Parlors
Reception to follow

Ballet Folklorico “Quetzalli” De Veracruz
8:00 pm
Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center
$12 Students

www.duke.edu/web/dia/


7

Paul Shambroom, Photographer
presents a public lecture:
"Photographs of the Nuclear Age"
12:40-1:55 pm
108 East Duke Building

Slavoj Zizek, Public Lecture
“The Only Good Neighbor is a Dead Neighbor”
4:00 pm
East Duke 204B
Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Literature, The Film and Video Program and The Center for International
Studies.


8

The Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy presents
Michael Waitzkin, JD, LLM
"Developing Technologies: Blending Law, Ethics, and Policy"
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Perkins Library, Room 226
for more info, call 668-9011 or e-mail booth004@mc.duke.edu

Fr. Jacques Dupuis, S.J., Belgian Jesuit
"Towards a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism"
12:30 pm
Gray Building, York Chapel

The Center for International Studies and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies presents a public discussion:
"After September 11th, a NATO Briefing"
4:00 pm
240 Franklin Center
featuring
Lt. Col. Peter W. Reynolds, British Army, Chief, Public Service Section, Public Information Office, Strategic Command Europe and
Lt. Col. Robert E. Craig, Jr., USAF, Political-Military Affairs Officer, Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic
for more info, contact:
r.sikorski@duke.edu

Jeff Masten, Northwestern U.
"On Q: an Introduction to Queer Philology"
4:00 pm
Breedlove Room
Perkins Library
www.duke.edu/web/english

Hiwar presents:
Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein
Public Lecture on
"A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict to the present: The Effects of September 11th"
7:00 pm
Sanford Institute
04 Lecture Hall

The American Constitution Society presents:
"Take Back the Constitution!"
7:30 - 9:30 pm
UNC School of Social Work
featuring
Walter Dellinger, Duke Law and Acting Solicitor General during the Clinton Admin., Peter Rubin, Georgetown Law and ACS co-founder, and
Lisa Brown, Legal Advisor to Al Gore during Florida Election contest

Screening: "Unfinished Business"
The story of three men, Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi & Minoru Yasui, who defied the US Govt. order for the internment of Japanese Americans
7:30pm
Old Chemistry 116
A discussion will follow the screening

Elinor Ostrom, Indiana U.
"Understanding Institutions"
7:30 pm
240 Franklin Center
for more info, contact:
r.sikorski@duke.edu

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11

USP Seminar
"Undergraduate Life at Duke: Academics, Extracurriculars, and Life in General"
5:00-7:00 pm
230-232 Franklin Center

12

USP Coffee with Molly Tyson "Feminism and Fundamentalism:
A Follow-up Discussion"
7:00-8:30
East Campus Coffeehouse
Crowell Building
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Rachel Brady
"Using Virtual Reality to Explain Volumetric Data"
12:45 pm
CECT Seminar Series
130-A North Building
4:00 pm
Computer Science Colloquium
130-A North Building


Michael Chanan,
Public Lecture
“The Conundrum of Cuban Cinema in the 1990’s”
4:00 pm
Franklin Center, Room 240
Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Literature, The Film and Video Program and The Center for International Studies.

EMP's Electric Bus
11 AM - 7 PM
Beta Parking Lot
(Tower View Road at Union Drive)
FREE Admission
www.emplive.com
www.union.duke.edu

13

The University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance presents:
Ashutosh Varshney, Political Science, University of Michigan
"Democracy, Markets & Poverty"
7:30 pm
028 Franklin Center
For more information, contact Rob Sikorski, Center for International Studies, 684-2867, r.sikorski@duke.edu

EMP's Electric Bus
9 AM - 7 PM
Beta Parking Lot
(Tower View Road at Union Drive)
FREE Admission
www.emplive.com
www.union.duke.edu

14

USP Dinner with Debra Van Ausdale, Prof. of Sociology, Syracuse Univ.
"Biker Chicks!"
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Franklin Center

The Center for French and Francophone Studies presents the Franco-American Lunch Series of Bilingual Readings with Professor Anne Quinney,
University of Mississippi
"Translation as Transference" 12:00-2:00 pm
230-232 Franklin Center
RSVP to Shannon Mullin
call 668-1938 or e-mail shannonm@duke.edu

Elliot Oring, Professor of Anthropology, UCLA
Public Lecture
“Aupres de ma blonde: The Semiotics of a Contemporary Joke Cycle”
2pm
Von Canon A, Bryan Center, Lower Level

VOICE III
Beverly Chen, MSW
"WHAT LIES BENEATH: The Subtleties in the Glass Ceiling"
8:00pm
Mary Lou Williams Center

City Documents Film Series presents:
"Smoke"
(1995, 112 minutes)
directed by Wayne Wang and based on the story by Paul Auster. Author Paul Auster will be at the screening for a discussion session.
8:00 pm
Griffith Theater
Bryan Center

EMP's Electric Bus
9 AM - 7 PM
Beta Parking Lot
(Tower View Road at Union Drive)
FREE Admission
www.emplive.com
www.union.duke.edu

15

Debra Van Ausdale
"How Children Learn Race and Racism"
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Miller-Morgan Auditorium
NC Central University

EMP's Electric Bus
9 AM - 7 PM
Beta Parking Lot (Tower View Road at Union Drive)
FREE Admission
www.emplive.com
www.union.duke.edu

Rebecca Bushnell, U. Penn
"Secrets and Lies: Science and Fiction in Early Modern English Culture"
4:00 pm
Carpenter Board Room
223 Perkins Library
www.duke.edu/web/english

** ELAINE BROWN **
7:00 PM
Page Auditorium
Ms. Brown was the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party, and she will be speaking on issues regarding the interrelationship between the struggle of blacks and other oppressed groups in America, including women, as well as the global struggle to end oppression worldwide.

FREE ADMISSION but ticket required. Tickets will be available on the BC
Walkway on West Campus, the Marketplace on East Campus, as well at the University Box Office (in the Bryan Center) and at the Women's Center, 684-3897.

The Working Group on the Environment in Latin America is delighted to present:
Mr. Nigel Pitman, from the Center for Tropical Conservation
"Conservation and extinction in the world's richest forest: experience in Ecuador" including the rapid biological assesment recently done in order to create a national park.
7:00 p.m.
LSRC A109
Nicholas School of the Environment

16

Sites/Times/Spaces Discussion Series presents:
Kwame Dawes, Poet, Playwright, Reviewer, Professor of English, University of South Carolina
Born in Ghana, lived in Jamaica, England, and now the U.S., a reggae-musician and author of 6 volumes of poetry.
12:15 - 1:30 pm
230 Franklin Center

Caribbean Crossings presents a lecture by Kwame Dawes
"Reggae Poetics: Beyond Post-Colonialist Poetics in
Caribbean Poetry."
4:00 pm
240 Franklin Center

Visiting Blackburn Creative
Writing Professor

PAUL AUSTER
(Author of Timbuktu, Mr. Vertigo, Leviathan, The Music of Chance, Moon
Palace, In the Country of Last Things, and 'The New York Trilogy': City
of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room)
will read from his fiction
7:00pm
Rare Book Room
Perkins Library
Reception and Book Signing to follow

Gaelic Storm- sponsored by OnStage
8:00 - 10:00 pm
Page Auditorium
General Public - $15, $12, $9
Students - $11, $8, $5

WXDU benefit show
8:30 pm
$5
Duke Coffeehouse featuring:
Holy Roman Empire
Work Clothes
2nd Third Party
Razzle and
Sorry About Dresden

EMP's Electric Bus
9 AM - 5 PM
Beta Parking Lot
(Tower View Road at Union Drive)
FREE Admission
www.emplive.com
www.union.duke.edu

17

VOICE IV
WRITERS' WORKSHOP
3:00pm
Wannamaker IV Commons
Facilitated by feedBACKpoets

VOICE V
"YOU HAVE A VOICE: An Evening
with Performing Artists"

feedBACKpoets and re: verse
Local Colour – opening act
8:00pm
doors open at 7:30pm
Von Canon, Bryan Center

18

2001-2002 Southern Circuit presents Independent Filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt
"King of the Jews"
"Human Remains"
"Nine Lives"
8:00 pm
Richard White Auditorium
East Campus
FREE with DUKE ID!

"In and Out of the Light"
A Play by Elaine May, Directed by Meghan Valerio '04
and " Wall/Flower"
By Talya Klein '02, Directed by Julie Foh '02
2:00 pm
Branson Theater- Next to Biddle on East

19

Professor WILLIAM DARITY
"Acting Black, Acting White, or Not Acting at All"
4:00 pm
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
sponsored by AAAS Program

"HOW DOES MORAL LEADERSHIP MAKE A DIFFERENCE?"
A Panel Discussion with
James A. Joseph, Rushworth Kidder, Amanda Smith
followed by a Presentation of the 2001 William C. Friday Award in Moral Leadership to Mrs. Elna B. Spaulding
5:00 pm
240 Franklin Center

A reception will follow the panel discussion and award ceremony.
6:00 pm
130-132 Franklin Center
All events are free and open to the public. For further information, please call (919) 660-3033.

Los Fakires
The Premiere Son Cubana Band
7:45 pm
Pre-Concert Discussion of Cuban Music with Dr. Tamara Isenhour, Dept. of Music and Alberto Faya, Cuban Music Commentator.

Los Fakires Performance
8:00 pm
Nelson Music Room
202 East Duke Building
$17 General Admission
$12 Students
for more info, go to:
www.duke.edu/web/dia/calendar.html

 

20

Duke D'Jembe Ensemble
West African Drumming
Guests include an Afro-Cuban drumming ensemble
8:00pm
Nelson Music Room
East Duke Building
East Campus

21

12:40 pm
Thanksgiving recess begins

22

Thanksgiving recess

23

Thanksgiving recess

24

Thanksgiving recess

25

Thanksgiving recess

26

USP Breakfast with
Colin Chinnery
International Dunhuang Project, British Library
8:30 am
Washington Duke Inn
Click here for more on the International Dunhuang Project

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28

"The Challenge of the Euro"
A Public Talk by:
Tommaso Padao-Schioppa
Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Fuqua Geneen Auditorium

HUMANITIES in MEDICINE
"The Age of Genetic Medicine: Ethical and Regulatory Issues In Pharmacogenetics"
Allen Buchanan, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Duke North, Room 2002

Massage Workshop
7:00-8:30pm
Women's Center

29

USP Seminar "Spring Symposium Planning"
7:00 - 9:00 pm
028 Franklin Center

CENTER FOR GENOME ETHICS, LAW & POLICY presents a public lecture by:
Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD
Professor of Genetics, Health Policy, Pediatrics and Law at Vanderbilt University
"Genomic Medicine in the Real World"
12:00-1:00 pm
Duke North, Room 2003
for more info, contact Susan Booth at 668-9011 or e-mail booth004@mc.duke.edu

""Notes of an Other Rican: Race, Nationality, and Identity in the Caribbean Americas,"
a reading and talk by Dr. Roberto Marquez, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Mount Holyoke College
5:30 PM
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC for more info, contact:
deguzman@email.unc.edu

The John Hope Franklin Center "First Readings Series" presents:
HOUSTON A. BAKER, JR.
"Turning South Again"
7:00 pm
240 Franklin Center

Houston Baker is the Susan Fox and George D.
Beischer Arts and Sciences Professor of English and Professor of African
and African American Studies at Duke University, editor of American Literature, and a noted critic and poet.

30

Fuqua School of Business presents a Distinguished Lecture Series with
Rich Fairbanks, CEO of Capital One.
All interested students from the university are welcome.
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Fuqua Geneen Auditorium

PUBLIC LECTURE BY Thomas Grey, Prof. of Music, Stanford University
"Masters and Their Critics: Wagner, Hanslick, Beckmesser & the Politics of Art in Die Meistersinger"
4:00 pm
104 Biddle Music Bldg.
East Campus
Lecture is FREE and OPEN to the public

Professor Thomas Grey, editor of The Journal of the American Musicological Society, has written extensively on Wagner.