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Learn more about tgiFHI here: https://fhi.duke.edu/engagement/tgifhi/
“A Promise is a Promise: Loving and Caring for Renee”
Abstract: "My talk is inspired by a promise I made to my mom that I would care for my mentally disabled sister, Renee. When my mom died twelve years ago, I became Renee's legal guardian. I've been caring for Renee and recently had to move Renee to assisted living. I'll discuss the importance of keeping a promise, the ups and downs of caretaking and juggling a career as an artist and professor. I will also show a short trailer of the HBO documentary that was made about me and Renee. The filmmakers followed me and Renee for 5 years in order to create "Raising Renee." Raising Renee "was nominated for an Emmy and was selected and shown at [the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival] 12 years ago."
Beverly McIver is Professor of the Practice of Art in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University.
Watch the trailer for "Raising Renee" here: youtu.be/7bTePE7Pj7c?feature=shared
tgiFHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current research to their departmental and interdepartmental colleagues, students, and other interlocutors in their fields.
tgiFHI events take place from 9:30–11:00 a.m. on Friday mornings in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse). Our director introduces at the speaker at 9:30 a.m., and the speaker gives a talk of about 45–50 minutes. We then open the floor for discussion, and close at 11:00 a.m.
Learn more about tgiFHI here: https://fhi.duke.edu/engagement/tgifhi/
“A Promise is a Promise: Loving and Caring for Renee”
Abstract: "My talk is inspired by a promise I made to my mom that I would care for my mentally disabled sister, Renee. When my mom died twelve years ago, I became Renee's legal guardian. I've been caring for Renee and recently had to move Renee to assisted living. I'll discuss the importance of keeping a promise, the ups and downs of caretaking and juggling a career as an artist and professor. I will also show a short trailer of the HBO documentary that was made about me and Renee. The filmmakers followed me and Renee for 5 years in order to create "Raising Renee." Raising Renee "was nominated for an Emmy and was selected and shown at [the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival] 12 years ago."
Beverly McIver is Professor of the Practice of Art in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University.
Watch the trailer for "Raising Renee" here: youtu.be/7bTePE7Pj7c?feature=shared
tgiFHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current research to their departmental and interdepartmental colleagues, students, and other interlocutors in their fields.
tgiFHI events take place from 9:30–11:00 a.m. on Friday mornings in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse). Our director introduces at the speaker at 9:30 a.m., and the speaker gives a talk of about 45–50 minutes. We then open the floor for discussion, and close at 11:00 a.m.
