Duke International Comparative Studies

Presenter: Theater Studies
Sponsors: Theater Studies, Dance Program, Music, and Hoof 'n' Horn (HnH)
Location: Bryan Center Reynolds Industries Theater
Cost: $10/general, $5 students and sr. citizens, tickets.duke.edu, 919-684-4444 or at the door
When: Thursday April 5th, 7:30 p.m.Friday April 6th, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 7th, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 13, 7:30 p.m. , Saturday, April 14, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. , Sunday, April 15, 2 p.m.

The Duke University Departments of Theater, Music and Dance in collaboration with Hoof 'n' Horn proudly present the Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime. Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime offers a unique combination of modern musical theater with a classic American music. Ragtime follows three groups in collision at the dawn of 20th Century America. The lives of a family of upper-class WASPs in suburban New York, an African-American couple in Harlem, and a small immigrant family in the Lower East Side all intersect as they all search for success in America. Exhilarating and exciting, Ragtime offers a story for the whole family. Please join us in celebrating this unprecedented partnership as Duke students and faculty pay homage to a fusion of marches, cakewalks, gospel and of course, ragtime.

Regions and Regionalism: (East) Asia in a Global World
Sponsors: Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Provost's Office
When: Monday, March 12, 2012: 9:30 am - 6:00 pm and Tuesday, March 13, 2012: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Rubenstein Hall 200 - Map
Cost: Free and open to public
Contact: Registration requested to Debbie Hunt: ddhunt@duke.edu
Phone: 684-2604

The two day international workshop will bring together members of a long-term faculty network between Duke and several universities in Germany, Korea, and Singapore. The network investigates regions and regionalism as key topics of academic research which have emerged during the past decade. The conference investigates the regional configurations of "East Asia" on three levels. Firstly, regional ties: after all, processes of interaction and exchange - of goods, people, and ideas - were not confined to nation-states or other political realms, and at the same time they did not necessarily extend across the globe. Secondly, regionalist projects: reaching back into the early modern period, various kinds of historical actors have pursued larger regionalist visions, for example ideas of an East Asian cultural unity. Thirdly, it investigates modern processes of regionalization, at least to some extent, as the products of larger processes of global integration.Organized by Professor Dominic Sachsenmaier.

Friday, February 24, 2012

Lucinda Ramberg, Cornell University

"Clinical Encounters and Citizenship Projects in South India"

AMES Presents 2012  REEL REVOLUTIONS Film Series

The series is offered in collaboration with the Centers of Middle East & Islamic Studiesas part of Duke’s 2012 programming about the Arab Spring

All films screened in Griffith Theater, Bryan Center, Duke at 7:30P

Annual Duke-UNC Middle East Studies Conference

16-18 February 2012  

Duke University

Free and open to the public.

Registration

Conference Program Overview

Friday, January 27, 2012

Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago

"Property, Rights, and the Constitution of Indian Biomedicine: Notes from the Gleevec Case"

Incendies | 130 minutes
Denis Villeneuve (2010)
January 23 | 7:00pm
Griffith Theater | Bryan Center

Les Amours Imaginaires
(Heartbeats) | 95 mins
Xavier Dolan (2010)
January 30 | 7:00pm
Griffith Theater | Bryan Center

Route 132 | 113 mins
Louis Bélanger (2010)
January 31 | 7:00pm
Griffith Theater | Bryan Center

Wetback follows undocumented migrant workers from their home in Nicaragua across Central America and Mexico to the U.S.-Mexican border, meeting many other migrants along the way. They encounter gangs, vigilantes, corrupt law enforcement, physical danger, and safe havens in their attempt to be among the 10% of migrants who actually make it all the way into North America. The migrants, those who aid them, and those who turn them back all give their own perspectives on how this vast, illegal system trafficking in cheap labor and dreams actually functions, and what its terrible costs and perils are.

Immediately following the screening join us for a panel discussion including North Carolina Rep. Paul Luebke (D), 2011 SAF Fellow Nandini Kumar, and SAF Advocacy and Organizing Director, Nadeen Bir.

Cosponsored by Student Action with Farmworkers and BorderWork(s).

January 24, 2012 7:00 pm

Free and open to the public, with free drinks and popcorn and free parking
The Garage, Smith Warehouse, 114 S. Buchanan St. (map)
92 minutes
In Spanish and English with English subtitles

In association with the Marxism & New Media Conference (Jan 20-21, 2012): Marx Reloaded

January 19th, 6 PM, Richard White Lecture Hall

• Introduced by Duke PhD candidate Abraham Geil!
• Skype discussion to follow with director Jason Barker,moderated by Shilyh Warren, PhD!
  Reception to follow!
   

Sponsored by the Program in Literature and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)

REEL REVOLUTIONS FILM SERIES: 18 Days

January 18th, 7:30 PM, Griffith Film Theater

18 days. That is what it took for Egyptians to change the course of
history. It is also the title of a collective work on the revolution of
January 25th in Egypt. A group of ten directors, including two
women, and their crews agreed to act fast and shoot ten short films
about the revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard or
imagined. With the participation of wellknown
filmmakers such as Yousri Nasrallah, and the new generation of Egyptian filmmakers
like Kamla Abu Zikr, and Ahmad Abdalla, 18 DAYS includes films
about kidnapped revolutionaries, love torn apart and brought
together by the action, citizens motivated to participate and others
frightened enough to lock themselves inside and listen.

Sponsored by AMES and AMI

Free and Open to the Public

In his Chronicle column Musings on majors, Scott Briggs relates how an ICS student changed his perception of "real" and "fake" majors at Duke.

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