Duke University Center for International Studies

Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans 1920-2012

Dan Smith — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:18:12 +0000

The faculty and staff of the Duke University Center for International Studies are deeply saddened by the passing of Mrs. Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans. From the very moment at which DUCIS was established, Mrs. Semans has been an ardent champion and impassioned partner in the cause of international studies at Duke.

Ewald Authors Classroom Guide on Literacy and Justice Through Photography

Dan Smith — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:11:47 +0000

DUCIS Artist-in-Residence Wendy Ewald, drawing upon the Literacy Through Photography methodology that she developed to teach schoolchildren reading and storytelling skills, has authored a new guide for educators seeking to promote critical thinking, self-expression, and respect in the classroom.

Ariel Dorfman will discuss his new book Feeding on Dreams

Dan Smith — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:38:48 +0000

On Wednesday, October 5, in the Gothic Reading Room of Duke University’s Perkins Library, Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist, and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman will read from his new memoir, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). This is the sequel to his award-winning book, Heading South, Looking North, which was the basis for the (…)

Pati: An exhibition by Sohrab Hura

Dan Smith — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:46:25 +0000

The Duke University Center for International Studies and the John Hope Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies are pleased to announced the opening of:

Pati
photographs by
Sohrab Hura

October 6th, 5.30 p.m.-7.00 p.m.
Franklin Center
2204 Erin Road
Duke University
Durham, NC

This is the first in an annual series of collaborations with the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, of (…)

Documentary photographer’s images of September 11 vernacular memorials featured

Dan Smith — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:34:53 +0000

Documentary photographer and artist, Jonathan Hyman, who took part in the Duke University Center for International Studies’ panel “Artistic and Visual Responses to 9/11 and Other Disasters“ and whose work is on exhibit at Perkins Library through October 16, 2011, has been featured in The New York Times, both in print – in Sunday, September 11th’s special section entitled “The Reckoning: (…)

Duke Welcomes New State Department Diplomat in Residence

Dan Smith — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:14:29 +0000

William E. Lucas, a 32-year veteran of the Foreign Service, recently assumed the post of Diplomat in Residence at the Duke University Center for International Studies. In that role, Bill, a North Carolina native and graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will provide insight on the foreign policy process and serve as a campus resource for information (…)

Artists, Historians to Discuss Artistic Responses to Tragedy and Disaster on the Eve of September 11

Dan Smith — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:59:40 +0000

Mostly our habit has been traditionally to look at art and, sometimes, wonder about its representation. Rarely do we think about the art piece as part of a long process that involves archival and research work. More recently, though, art historians have begun writing on the archive and the research that encircle the production of art works. To go along (…)

Dorfman: Epitaph for Another September 11

Dan Smith — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:27:48 +0000

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Ariel Dorfman has written an "Epitaph for Another September 11," detailing the sinister rise of the Chilean military junta, decades before 9/11 took on a different, yet similarly sinister meaning, to be published in next week's edition of The Nation.

DUCIS Launches ‘Dispatches’

Dan Smith — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:35:59 +0000

The Duke University Center for International Studies is thrilled to announce the launch of DUCIS Dispatches on its website. Inaugurating our collection of Dispatches is DUCIS Director, Gilbert W. Merkx, whose Dispatch, New Directions in International Studies, launches today with, “The Evolution of the International Center.”

More Dispatches will be launching soon, in addition to more changes to our online presence. (…)

New Global Rulers featured in U.S. and Germany

Dan Smith — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:22:35 +0000

Professor Tim Büthe’s new book, New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy, co-authored with University of Oxford Professor Walter Mattli and published through the support of the Duke University Center for International Studies, has been garnering growing attention, both domestically and abroad. On May 24, the work was featured (through an entry invited by the editor) on (…)