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CulAnth major Eric Oberstein, Duke '07 produces Grammy winning album
Wednesday, February 13, 2019This past Sunday in Los Angeles, an album produced by Eric Oberstein, CulAnth major Duke '07, Back to the Sunset, by the Dafnis Prieto Big Band (DPBB), won the GRAMMY Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. Eric has had the pleasure of collaborating with Cuban-born drummer, composer,... Read More »
Harris Solomon, “On Life Support”
Wednesday, February 13, 2019Friday, February 22, 2019 Harris Solomon, “On Life Support” 9:30am (Breakfast available at 9am) Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse This paper considers the phenomenon of breath to understand the edges of living and dying. It is based on ethnographic research in a... Read More »
Faculty to Pursue Collaboration through 2019 Intellectual Community Planning Grants
Monday, February 4, 2019A key goal of Together Duke is to invest in faculty as scholars and leaders of the university’s intellectual communities. To foster collaboration around new and emerging areas of interest, Intellectual Community Planning Grants (ICPG) are available to groups of faculty. These grants... Read More »
China's Concentration Camps: What's at Stake?
Friday, January 11, 2019Monday, January 28, 2019 6-8pm Perkins 217 Credible reports have revealed that China has detained over a million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in internment camps, where they are forced to denounce their religion and ethnic identity. An Uyghur survivor of the camp system, Mihrigul Tursun,... Read More »
"Airing Grievances and the Atmospherics of Chinese Legal Reform"
Tuesday, November 13, 2018Cultural Anthropology is pleased to present Airing Grievances and the Atmospherics of Chinese Legal Reform Julie Y. Chu Dr. Chu is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of... Read More »
"Millennial Capitalism: Global Perspectives” (CULANTH 530S)
Friday, October 26, 2018The John Hope Franklin Center has chosen to feature Prof. Anne-Maria Makhulu's "Millennial Capitalism: Global Perspectives” (CULANTH 530S) course in its spring 2019 global course highlights. Please join us in spreading word about this fantastic... Read More »
The #metoo Movement Comes to the Kitchen
Thursday, September 27, 2018The #metoo Movement Comes to the Kitchen The free, public events Alexander organized include a conversation with Severson and other food writers Thursday, Oct. 4, at the Durham Hotel and a Friday, Oct. 5, panel discussion on ‘Violence in the Kitchen’ at 11 a.m. at Duke’s Forum for Scholars and... Read More »
Eric Oberstien nominated for a Latin Grammy Award
Tuesday, September 25, 2018Eric Oberstein graduated from Duke in 2007 with a degree in Cultural Anthropology. He is currently a producer and Associate Director, Duke Performances as well as Adjunct Faculty, Arts Management and Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Duke. An album Eric produced, Back to... Read More »
Jieun Cho wins best graduate student paper prize for the Society of East Asian Anthropology.
Friday, September 21, 2018Jieun Cho wins the 2018 Theodore C. Bestor Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper for the Society of East Asian Anthropology. She will be awarded the prize at American Anthropological Association Meetings in November.
Charlie Thompson: Small towns can rebuild from the ground up.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article213452879.html