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"Living with Grace" a film by Alexis Ligon
Monday, October 21, 2019Living with Grace Alexis Ligon Cultural Anthropology graduate student 2019 | 24 min | USA Director in Attendance Can exercise be a kind of medicine? Grace, the filmmaker’s mother, has been living with various cancers for 19 years. During that time, as a way of mastering her illnesses, she... Read More »
Sound, Citizenship, and Aural Ecologies of Place
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Race: Past, Present, and Future
Tuesday, October 15, 2019The event will be a conversation exploring the ways in which, over time, different fields conceptualize, interpret, and utilize the race concept.
A Duke Anthropologist Takes on the Politics of the Itaipu Dam, on the Border of Brazil and Paraguay
Monday, September 30, 2019Christine Folch examines water and energy politics that center on the Itaipu Dam at the border of Brazil and Paraguay. Read more...
Turkey’s Crackdown on Academics Represses History Once Again
Tuesday, July 16, 2019In support of Ayse Gul Altinay. Turkey’s Crackdown on Academics Represses History Once Again A campaign of silencing and prosecution is creating a vacuum at a pivotal moment. By Brennan Cusack Ms. Cusack, a journalist, was based in Cairo and Istanbul from 2017 to 2018. https://www... Read More »
DUKE FLAGS LOWERED: PROFESSOR EMERITA NAOMI QUINN DIES AT AGE 79
Tuesday, July 16, 2019https://today.duke.edu/2019/07/duke-flags-lowered-professor-emerita-naomi-quinn-dies-age-79
Statement of Support for Ayşe Gül Altinay
Friday, May 24, 2019The Turkish government is prosecuting hundreds of academics who signed a petition by a group called "Academics for Peace" advocating a peaceful solution to the Kurdish conflict. It is part of the on-going crackdown on free expression and speech in the country. A beloved academic and renowned... Read More »
The Fixer: Visa :Lottery Chronicles
Thursday, April 25, 2019https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-fixer
Senior Seminar Presentations
Monday, April 22, 2019Senior Seminar Thesis Presentations Room 225 Friedl Building, East Campus 1:30-3:00PM Lunch will be provided Please join us to celebrate our senior thesis writers! Erick Daniel Aguilar: A Home of Our Own: Social Reproduction of a Precarious, Migrant Class Margaret... Read More »
The Shining Path: Love, Madness and Revolution in the Andes
Thursday, April 11, 2019The Regulator welcomes Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna for a book reading and signing of The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes. The Shining Path tells the gripping history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that nearly took power in Peru before its final defeat. ... Read More »