Moving Science from a “Nice to Have” to a “Must Have” in U.S. Foreign Policy_Benjamin L. Schmitt John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2026-09-25 | Moving Science from a “Nice to Have” to a “Must Have” in U.S. Foreign Policy_Benjamin L. Schmitt
Karakorum: Ecology of the Frist Mongol Royal Capital and Seeds of Urbanism in the Steppe John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-11-10 | Karakorum: Ecology of the Frist Mongol Royal Capital and Seeds of Urbanism in the Steppe | A Conversation with Dr. Susanne ReichertSusanne Reichert is a visiting researcher, funded by a Feodor Lynen-scholarship of the German Alexander von Humboldt-foundation. Her work spans the Eurasian continent with a focus on Western early medieval archaeology and the archaeology of the Mongol World Empire in Mongolia. In her project, she will look into the Empires of Charlemagne of the 8th and 9th centuries CE in Western Europe and the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan in the 13th century in a cross-cultural perspective in order to overcome the hackneyed cliché of the Nomad-sedentary dichotomy. Her research will explore the areas of economy, military, ideology, and administration through intensive comparisons between the two case studies. In recent years, Susanne led several field research campaigns around Karakorum, the first capital of Mongol Empire in the Orkhon Valley, Central Mongolia, as well as Khar Khul Khaany Balgas, a contemporaneous habitation site in Central Mongolia, to arrive at a better understanding of city–hinterland relations and the nature of pastoralist city foundations.Fields of Study:Early Medieval Archaeology of Western EuropeEast Asian ArchaeologyEmpire StudiesArchaeology of Pre-Modern EconomiesPower and AuthorityUrbanism
Seeing Asia from the Oceans: Maritime Connections, Shipwreck Archaeology, and Illicit Histories John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-11-10 | Seeing Asia from the Oceans: Maritime Connections, Shipwreck Archaeology, and "Illicit Histories" | A Conversation with Dr. Eric TagliacozzoEric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University, where he teaches Southeast Asian history. Much of his work has centered on the history of people, ideas, and material in motion in and around Southeast Asia, especially in the colonial age. His first book, Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier (Yale, 2005), examined many of these ideas by analyzing the history of smuggling in the region. His last book project was called The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Oxford, 2013), and this book attempted to write a history of this very broad topic from earliest times to the present. He is also the editor or co-editor of a number of other books, on the global Hajj (Cambridge, 2016); on trans-nationalism in Asia as seen through time-periods (Harvard, 2015a), through place (Harvard, 2015b), as well as through people (Harvard, 2019); on Burmese lives under a coercive regime (Oxford, 2014); on the state of the field of Indonesian Studies (Cornell, 2014), and Indonesian sources more generally (Duke, 2009); on Chinese trade down to Southeast Asia (Duke, 2009), and Southeast Asian contacts west to the Middle East (Stanford, 2009); and finally on the relationship between History and Anthropology as disciplines (Stanford, 2009). He has recently finished a monograph about the linked maritime histories of Asia, from Yemen east to Yokohama (Princeton, 2022).
Persistence of Nationalism: North China, Manchukuo, and Reflections on the Present John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-10-27 | Persistence of Nationalism: North China, Manchukuo, and Reflections on the Present | A Conversation with Dr. Prasenjit DuaraDr. Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He was born and educated in India and received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was previously Professor and Chair of the Dept of History and Chair of the Committee on Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago (1991-2008). Subsequently, he became Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director, Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore (2008-2015).In 1988, he published Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (Stanford Univ Press) which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS, USA. Among his other books are Rescuing History from the Nation (U Chicago 1995), Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (Rowman 2003) and most recently, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge 2014). He has edited Decolonization: Now and Then (Routledge, 2004) and co-edited A Companion to Global Historical Thought with Viren Murthy and Andrew Sartori (John Wiley, 2014). His work has been widely translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and the European languages
Nature and the Political Ecology of the Ottoman Empire | A Conversation with Dr. Alan Mikhail John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-09-26 | Alan Mikhail is widely recognized for his work in Middle Eastern and global history.He is the author of four books and over thirty scholarly articles that have received multiple awards in the fields of Middle Eastern and environmental history, including the Fuat Köprülü Book Prize from the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association for Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History and the Roger Owen Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association for Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History.His latest book is God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World.In 2018, he received the Anneliese Maier Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for internationally distinguished humanities scholars and social scientists.His writing has appeared in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
The Webs of Humankind, Ecological Teleconnections and the Anthropocene Debate John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-09-12 | Chris Reed Coggins is a professor of Geography and Asian Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock (Open Society University Network). He is the co-editor (with Bixia Chen) of Sacred Forests of Asia: Politics, Ecology, Cosmology (Routledge/Earthscan, forthcoming), and the co-editor (with Emily Yeh) of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes of the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (University of Washington, 2014). He is the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China (University of Hawaii Press, 2003) (runner-up for the 2003 Julian Steward Award for best book in environmental/ecological anthropology and nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in non-fiction. He has published numerous refereed articles and chapters in geography, environment, and Asia-related books and periodicals. In 2019, he was selected to serve as one of fourteen scholars in Asian Studies on the ASIA Network Speakers Bureau.
The Qing Dynasty in the Global Colonial History; China and Environment History John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-08-29 | Dr. Peter Perdue, Professor of History, Yale University in Conversation with Dr. Yuan Chen, Postdoctoral Associate at Duke's Franklin Humanities Institute and Global Asia InitiativePeter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University. He has taught courses on East Asian history and civilization, Chinese social and economic history, the Silk Road, and historical methodology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His first book, Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 A.D. (Harvard University Press,1987), examined long-term agricultural change in one Chinese province. His second book, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005), discusses environmental change, ethnicity, long-term economic change and military conquest in an integrated account of the Chinese, Mongolian, and Russian contention over Siberia and Central Eurasia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is a coeditor of two books on empires: Imperial Formations, (SAR Press, 2007) and Shared Histories of Modernity, (Routledge, 2008), and a co-author of Global Connections, a world history textbook forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, and Asia Inside Out, three volumes on inter-Asian connections forthcoming from Harvard University Press. His current research focuses on Chinese frontiers, Chinese environmental history, and the history of tea.
The Webs of Humankind, Ecological Teleconnections and the Anthropocene Debate John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-08-15 | Prof. J. R. McNeill discusses his latest book 'The Webs of Humankind' with Dr. Yuan Chen, Postdoctoral Associate, Franklin Humanities Institute & Global Asia Initiative, Duke University. J. R. McNeill is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of award-winning works in world and environmental history. These include The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History (co-authored with his father and world history pioneer, William H. McNeill), and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, both published by Norton. McNeill is a recent past president of the American Historical Association.
The Science and History of Climate Change and Public Health | A Conversation with Dr. Alex More John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-08-01 | Alex More, a Member of the Board of Directors of TMX, Inc., and an Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Long Island University discusses the science and history of climate change and public health with Dr. Yuan Chen, Postdoctoral Associate at Duke's Franklin Humanities Institute and Global Asia Initiative.Alexander More's research focuses on the impact of climate change on population and ecosystem health and the economy. By using ultra-high-resolution climatic, epidemiological, ecological and archeoscientific records, More brings recent drastic environmental changes into a broader perspective, one that permits stark comparisons between current and past trends in temperature, pollution, pandemic disease, and extreme weather, all of which directly impact food production, human health, economic prosperity, and political stability. He is author of several landmark studies of the impact of climate on pandemics and pollution, and an active contributor to the fields of environmental health and planetary health. He currently holds an appointment in the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard University, and is also Assistant Research Professor at the Climate Change Institute (University of Maine) and Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Long Island University in New York City.Combining the expertise and resources of these institutions, More leads a project on the impact of climate change on human and ecosystem health and the economy in the last millennium. In addition to academic journals, his work has been featured in The Washington Post, CNN, The Guardian, Popular Science, Forbes, Smithsonian Magazine, Natural History Magazine, Der Spiegel, Archaeology Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemein, AGU's Eos, Science et vie, and more than 150 other print and online publications (see media page).His findings bring him to study government responses to environmental and public health crises. He is completing a book on the origins of welfare and health care policy in the western world, a long-standing interest that gained him a position in the Office of Senator Ted Kennedy while he was drafting the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). More’s interests have taken him to traditional archival repositories, as well as to expeditions to sites across Europe, North America and Oceania, including several underwater surveys in the Mediterranean, North Atlantic and South Pacific. Dr. More is a published photographer, specializing in underwater, archaeological and wildlife subjects related to his research, and is the Managing Editor of Harvard's Digital Historical Atlas (formerly DARMC, now MAPS). Raised and educated in Italy and Greece in the early part of his life, More moved permanently to New York City to complete his secondary education. He attended college in Chicago and eventually Washington University in St. Louis. Immediately after graduation, he continued his studies in an interdisciplinary PhD program at Harvard University, where he has taught ten different courses and earned as many teaching awards. He has supervised seven theses, with topics ranging from the creation and evolution of Medicaid and Medicare legislation in the United States, to the establishment of the public health system in post-revolutionary Mexico and the Sultanate of Oman, the early history of modern foreign relations, the leading role of women in the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO), and the first food enrichment policies in interwar United States. Dr. More is a frequent contributor in media coverage of climate change, public health and economic trends. His work extends into the non-profit world, where he has supervised a Harvard-Columbia student-run, public-health/environmental initiative in Bolivia—now a full-fledged NGO, Refresh Bolivia—securing initial funding with two grants from the Ford Fund. More also served as Managing Director of the World Ocean Forum, and serves as Communications and Education Director at Blue Ocean Watch, a climate-oriented ocean non-profit. More is a fellow of the Theodore Roosevelt Institute, a fellow and former director of the Explorers Club, a former fellow of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D.C. and a recipient of the Arango Fund and Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Research Grants.
Year 1000: When Globalization Began | A Conversation with Prof. Valerie Hansen John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-07-18 | The celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen discusses her book 'The Year 1000 (When Explorers Connected the World-and Globalization Began with Dr. Yuan Chen, Postdoctoral Associate at Duke's Franklin Humanities Institute and Global Asia InitiativeThe Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began (Scribner, publication date April 14, 2020) explains how a new system of global pathways formed in the year 1000 following the Vikings’ arrival in northeastern Canada. In 1000, for the first time in world history an object or a message could travel all the way around the world. Trade goods, people, and ideas moved along these newly discovered routes. Globalization affected both those who went to new places (traders, explorers, slaves) as well as those who stayed home (religious change, riots, onerous labor conditions to produce goods for overseas markets). Europeans didn’t invent globalization. They changed and augmented what had been there since 1000. If globalization hadn’t yet begun in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, Europeans wouldn’t have been able to penetrate the markets in so many places as quickly as they did after 1492.Valerie Hansen teaches Chinese and world history at Yale, where she is professor of history. In the course of writing The Year 1000, she traveled to some twenty different countries and was a visiting scholar at Xiamen University in China, University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and the Collège de France in Paris.Her other books include The Silk Road: A New History, The Open Empire: A History of China to 1800, Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China, Changing Gods in Medieval China, 1127-1279, and Voyages in World History (co-authored with Kenneth R. Curtis).
Global Asia Initiative | 2022 Conversation with Scholars | Introduction John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-07-18 | In the summer of 2022, Global Asia Initiative (GAI) at Duke University launches new project to foster the conversation between scholars working on different geographical regions, different time periods and different disciplines. GAI invites scholars of Asian Studies and translational history to our platform to introduce their research. We are going to discuss pressing issues facing human society and our shared planetary future. Guests of this project range from historians to scientists. Their research expertise spans Asia and beyond. The series has a particular focus on environment and society in Asia. We also welcome other TransAsia themes.The Global Asia Initiative (GAI) launched in 2015 to support research on trans-Asia topics that are collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature.The initiative explores the connections between Asian nations, cultures and ecosystems, particularly these nations' shared challenges related to politics, security, and environmental pollution and climate change.By working closely with the Social Science Research Council’s Inter-Asia Program and drawing on the resources of Duke and the Triangle area, the Global Asia Initiative hopes to become an important hub for the study of these issues and the discussion of other trans-Asia themes. At Duke University’s Global Asia Initiative, a hub for the SSRC’s Inter-Asia program in Environmental Humanities, we seek to develop Environmental Humanities in Asia as a way of raising consciousness and provoke new ways of thinking about the human-nature relationship in Asian societies and its impact and connections with the rest of the world.
Body, Medicine, and Feminism: The Life & Work of Nawal El Saadawi | Keynote & Panel I John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-05-31 | Keynote: "Reading Nawal Zaynab's Mind in The Death of His Excellency," Shereen Abouelnaga | Cairo UniversityThe Feminist Subject:• Mohamed Tonsy (U. of Edinburgh), “How Nawal El Saadawi’s Narrative Structures Liberate Text from kitabat al-jasad”• Jessica Frazier (U. of Rhode Island), “Challenging Feminist Stereotypes: Nawal El Saadawi’s Creation of Transnational Solidarity in the1970s and 1980s” • L. Carspecken (Indiana U.), “Real and Imagined Lives: Immediacy, Possibility and Rebellion in the Memoirs of Nawal El Saadawi"------------------------------------------------Introduction by miriam cooke: 0:00 – 11:20Introduction by Hind Zaki:11:25 – 24:38Keynote Shereen Abouelnaga:25:00 – 1:02:00Keynote Q&A / Discussion1:03:18 – 1:27:15Panelist Introductions:1:28:10 – 1:31:44Mohamed Tonsy:1:31:45 – 1:55:40Jessica Frazier: 1:55:47 - 2:11:40Lucinda Carspecken2:11-40 – 2:27:44Hind Zaki Analysis2:27:45 – 2:42:03Q&A / Discussion2:42:05 – 3:24:11Conference Sponsors: Duke University Middle East Studies Center, UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, Duke Department of Asian & Middle East Studies, Association of Middle East Women’s Studies, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, UCONN Humanities Institute, The University of Alabama, Counseling and Educational Psychology (CEP), Indiana U., Bloomington, Feminist Research Collective (FRC), and UMRAN Green Perspective Foundation
Space Diplomacy and Humanitarian Intervention: The Case of Ukraine and Beyond_Saadia Pekkanen John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-05-25 | Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, data from government and commercial space assets has helped the general public understand the trajectory of the war in a transformative way. For diplomats and aid workers, the growing availability of data from satellite-based imagers has helped drive diplomatic strategies to support Ukrainian sovereignty, while providing the capability to deliver aid to Ukrainian citizens in need. To hear more about the role that space assets have played in delivering humanitarian assistance for Ukraine, while applying these space-enabled diplomatic and aid strategies to other ongoing and future global challenges, our Space Diplomacy Lab invited space security and law expert, Professor Saadia Pekkanen, the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor at the Jackson School of International Studies and Adjunct Professor in the School of Law, both at the University of Washington.This event was hosted by Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt and Dr. Giovanni Zanalda, Co-chairs of the Space Diplomacy Lab of Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.Learn more about the Space Diplomacy Lab: https://sites.duke.edu/spacediplomacylab/This event is part of the Space Diplomacy Webinar Series organized by the DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy Program with a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund.
Speaking Truth to Power: Activism and Social Change in the Films of Bennett Singer John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-05-18 | For the final Wednesdays at the Center presentation of Spring 2022 we were thrilled to host filmmaker Bennett Singer, who has been making social-issue documentaries for more than 25 years. His award-winning films have reached millions of viewers worldwide and have been shown by organizations including Amnesty International, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Action Network, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. While his documentaries address a broad range of topics - including civil and human rights, voter suppression, and LGBTQ equality - they are united thematically by their focus on activists striving to bring about systemic change and, in some cases, achieving surprising and unexpected victories. In this session, Singer shared clips from 2 films he has co-directed (Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, and his latest doc "Cured") along with his reflections on the elements of effective activism. To watch trailers and learn more, visit www.bennettsinger.com.The event was moderated by Nishani Frazier (University of Kansas) and Giovanni Zanalda, Duke University professor and the Director of the Duke Center for International and Global Studies.About Bennett Singer:Born and raised in Chicago and currently based in Los Angeles, Bennett Singer is a documentary filmmaker whose work has been shown at The United Nations, The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian, and The British Museum, among other venues. His latest film, CURED, premiered on PBS' Independent Lens series in the fall of 2021. Described as "fascinating" (Hollywood Reporter) and "one of the best documentaries of this or any year" (British Film Institute), the film - which Singer produced, directed, and wrote with Patrick Sammon - won the American Historical Association's John E. O'Connor Film Award for best historical documentary of 2021, along with a $50,000 award in the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.The event was part of Wednesdays at the Center, a series produced by Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Center for International & Global Studies.Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
The Architecture of Living Difference among Alevi and Sunni Neighbors in urban Turkey_B.Gökarıksel John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-05-05 | At this Wednesdays at the Center talk, Dr. Banu Gökariksel offered a presentation titled: "Balconies, Windows, and Doorways: The Architecture of Living Difference among Alevi and Sunni Neighbors in urban Turkey."While encounters with strangers in public spaces have been central to ideas about the politics of difference, this presentation argues for the ethical and political significance of encounters among neighbors that take place within the liminal, porous, and ambiguously public/private spaces of neighborhoods. Drawing on research conducted between 2013 and 2016, the researchers focused on the dynamic entanglements of everyday relations between Alevi and Sunni neighbors in three cities across Turkey. Balconies, windows, and doorways in apartment buildings provide uncertain boundaries between interiority/exteriority that simultaneously generate intimacy and distance, privacy and exposure. The researchers argue that the effective architecture of neighborhood life creates multiple openings for receptive ethical engagement with difference among neighbors. However, there are also anxious antagonisms that exacerbate the precarity of marginalized populations such as Alevis. Dr. Banu Gökarıksel is Professor of Geography and the Chair of the Curriculum in Global Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.The event was part of Wednesdays at the Center, a series produced by Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Center for International & Global Studies.Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
Fulbright Canada Information Session with Paulo Carvalho_Duke University John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-05-05 | This is an information session for faculty (current and retired), postdocs and independent researchers interested in the Fulbright opportunities available in Canada.The session is led by Paulo Carvalho, Fulbright Canada's Program Officer for Recruitment and Outreach. In the presentation, Carvalho explains the Fulbright Canada Research Chair opportunities and provides valuable tips on how to submit a competitive application.Canada is the country that hosts the most Fulbright awards with over 50 opportunities.Presenter's Bio:Paulo Carvalho is Program Officer, Outreach at the Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States of America (Fulbright Canada). Paulo is responsible for the planning, implementation, and management of the Foundation’s recruitment strategy for both the student and scholar awards and is the primary point of contact for grantees, alumni, and partners on matters relating to recruitment.This event was organized by the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies and co-sponsored by the Duke Office of Global Affairs.For more, please contact:Paulo Carvalho info@fulbright.ca
Embodied Enactments: Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production _ Duke University John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-05-04 | In this Wednesdays at the Center, Spring 2022 event, we hosted a presentation of the book, "Embodied Enactments: Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production," with editors Kevin Guerrieri (UC San Diego) and Carlos Gardeazabal-Bravo (Rhodes College), and authors Daniel Coral (UC Davis), Carolina Sánchez (Rutgers), and Miguel Rojas-Sotelo (Duke University).This volume explores how Colombian cultural production seek to enact-to perform, to stage, to represent-human rights that are otherwise enacted discursively, that is, made public or official, in juridical and political realms. Through a wide range of disciplinary lenses, the different chapters explore counter-hegemonic concepts of human rights and enacted justice via art and cultural production, amplifying the discourses of human dignity and emancipation within and beyond academia.The event was part of Wednesdays at the Center, a series produced by Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Center for International & Global Studies.Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
The Role of Space Diplomacy in Modern Conflicts. A Conversation with Frans von der Dunk. John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-04-21 | On April 8, 2022, our Space Diplomacy Lab hosted Professor Frans von der Dunk, Harvey and Susan Perlman Alumni and Othmer Professor of Space Law at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.The Space Diplomacy Lab team discussed with Professor von der Dunk the legal and regulatory norms that need development to build a policy toolkit for diplomats to avoid destabilizing scenarios in space related to Russia's war against Ukraine - especially those that could endanger the future safe and sustainable use of low-Earth orbit. Professor Dr. Frans G. von der Dunk holds the Harvey and Susan Perlman Alumni / Othmer Chair of Space Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s LL.M. Program on Space and Telecommunication Law since January 2008. He also is Director of Black Holes BV, Consultancy in space law and policy, based in Leiden. Von der Dunk was awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) in Vancouver, in October 2004, the Social Science Award of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) in Valencia, in October 2006 and the Social Science Book Award of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) in Jerusalem, in October 2015. He was a signatory, together with various Nobel Prize winners, dozens of astronauts and cosmonauts and other luminaries from the global science and entertainment community, of the ‘Asteroid 100x Declaration’, December 2014. Von der Dunk has acted as legal advisor or legal task manager in more than 130 projects, advising various government agencies and international organizations as well as a number of non-governmental organizations and industrial stakeholders on matters of space law and policy, including major space applications such as satellite navigation, remote sensing and private commercial spaceflight.The Space Diplomacy Lab has been recently launched by the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS)/Rethinking Diplomacy Program. Learn more about the lab: https://sites.duke.edu/spacediplomacylab/
Protecting Civilians in an Age of Instability: Lise Grande at Duke Universitys 2022 Biddle Lecture John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-04-11 | Lise Grande, President and CEO of the U.S. Institute of Peace, was the keynote speaker at the 2022 Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture on International Studies at Duke University. She spoke on how to protect civilian populations in a time of international tension and the role of the U.S. Institute of Peace. Ms Grande has 25 years of continuous overseas experience leading, managing, and coordinating complex operations for the United Nations. She has held leadership positions in humanitarian, stabilization, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and development operations in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Caucasus.The United States Institute of Peace is a national, nonpartisan, independent institute, founded by Congress and dedicated to the proposition that a world without violent conflict is possible, practical and essential for U.S. and global security. In conflict zones abroad, the Institute works with local partners to prevent, mitigate, and resolve violent conflict. The Institute pursues its mission by linking research, policy, training, analysis and direct action to support those who are working to build a more peaceful, inclusive world.Ambassador (ret.) Patrick Duddy (Duke University) introduced the speaker. Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans provided initial remarks about the lecture series.The Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture on International Studies was established by Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and James H. Semans and their family to honor Mrs. Semans' father, who had a distinguished career as a diplomat in the service of the United States and was an original signer of The Duke Endowment. This lecture series symbolizes Duke University's continuing commitment to promoting international understanding and public service.The Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. Lecture is organized by the Duke Center for International & Global Studies (DUCIGS). This event was co-sponsored by the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy (AGS).
What Comes Next in Colombias Peace Process?_with Gabriella Levy and Mateo Villamizar-Chaparro John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-04-04 | Five years after Colombia’s peace deal, the FARC is no longer on U.S. terrorist group lists but Colombia’s peace is far from secure. The peace agreement outlined plans to transform the FARC from an armed group into a peaceful political party created transitional justice institutions to address wartime atrocities and established programs for rural development. Five years later, Colombia has achieved several milestones in the FARC’s reintegration into civil life — and there’s less violence. But Colombia’s peace agreement still polarizes politicians and the public, and implementation is slow. Both ex-combatants and noncombatants in many parts of the country are facing insecurity.Gabriella Levy and Mateo Villamizar-Chaparro are Ph.D. Candidates in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, moderates the conversation.The event was part of Wednesdays at the Center, a series produced by Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Center for International & Global Studies.Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub - John Wong John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-04-04 | Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. Rather than understanding air travel as an inevitable outcome of Hong Kong's arrival in the era of global mobility.John Wong, Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, argues that Hong Kong's development into a regional and global hub was not preordained. During the second wave of globalization, Hong Kong weathered the Cold War geopolitical shifts, the closing and subsequent reopening of the skyways over mainland China, and the economic liberalization of its major aerial connections to extend the reach of its commercial aviation network. Viewing the globalization of Hong Kong through the prism of its airline industry, this talk examines how policymakers and businesses in Hong Kong asserted themselves alongside their international partners and competitors in a bid to accrue socioeconomic benefits, negotiated their interests in the city's economic success, and articulated their expressions of modernity.John Wong's research focuses on the flow of people, goods, capital and ideas. With a particular interest in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta area, he explores how such flows connected the region to the Chinese political center in the north as well as their maritime partners in the South China Sea and beyond. Professor Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University moderated the talk.The event was part of Wednesdays at the Center, a series produced by Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Center for International & Global Studies.Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
A Conversation about the Study of Spirituality and Asian Religions in the Global Age John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-03-11 | At a Wednesdays at the Center talk at Duke University, three editors of the recently published volume "Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power (Oxford, 2021)" discussed spirituality broadly from global and international perspectives. The essays collected in Situating Spirituality examine not only individual engagements with spirituality, but also how seemingly personal facets of spirituality, as well as definitions of spirituality itself, are deeply shaped by diverse religious, cultural, and political contexts. About the speakers:Anna Sun is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at Duke University and two-term co-chair of the Chinese Religions Unit of the American Academy of Religion. In addition to Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power (Oxford, 2021), which she co-edited with Brian Steensland and Jaime Kucinskas, she is the author of Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities (Princeton, 2013). A sociologist of religion who has conducted extensive fieldwork on religious life in contemporary urban China, she has published on issues related to religious identity, the social nature of prayer, and Chinese ritual pluralism. Her most recent projects are on sacred time in urban religion and the politics of the concept of magic.Brian Steensland is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). His research interests include religion, culture, politics, and civic life. His books include Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power (Oxford, 2022), co-edited with Jaime Kucinskas and Anna Sun; The New Evangelical Social Engagement (Oxford, 2014), co-edited with Philip Goff; and The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy (Princeton, 2008).Jaime Kucinskas is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Hamilton College. She is the author of The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing from the Inside Out (Oxford, 2019), co-editor of Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power (Oxford, 2022), and has published on spiritual and religious movements, inequalities, and the importance of situating studies of spirituality, religion, and morality in specific temporal, group, institutional, and national settings.The talk was presented by the Duke University Center for International & Global Studies, Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center, and the Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) at Duke. Learn more about the Wednesdays at the Center Series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
A Conversation with Andrew Leon Hanna at Duke University Center for International & Global Studies John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-03-08 | Andrew Leon Hanna (Duke University '14) returned to Duke to discuss his award-winning book, "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs," which will be released by Cambridge University Press on May 26th (available for pre-order at: amazon.com/dp/1009181491/). 25 Million Sparks takes readers inside the Za'atari refugee camp to follow the stories of three inspiring women entrepreneurs: a wedding dress shop and salon owner named Yasmina, an artist named Malak, and a storyteller and teacher named Asma. Anchored by these stories, the narrative expands beyond Za'atari to explore the broader refugee entrepreneurship phenomenon in more than twenty camps and cities across the globe. In its proposal form, 25 Million Sparks won the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize in London. In this discussion, Andrew shared about the book itself and the process of writing; refugee entrepreneurship, economic opportunity, and human rights; and how to get started in writing as a student. Andrew was joined in conversation with Giovanni Zanalda, director of the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.Bio: Andrew Leon Hanna is a first-generation Egyptian American lawyer, entrepreneur, and author born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. He is co-founder and CEO of DreamxAmerica, a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and Siebel Scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize. Hanna has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. At Duke, where he graduated with highest distinction in public policy, he was Senior Class President, a Robertson Scholar, and winner of the Terry Sanford Leadership Award.This event was organized by the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies and co-sponsored by the Sanford School of Public Policy and by Cambridge University Press.
A Conversation with Andrew Leon Hanna at Duke University John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-03-07 | Andrew Leon Hanna (Duke University '14) returned to Duke to discuss his award-winning book, "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs," which will be released by Cambridge University Press on May 26th (available for pre-order at amazon.com/dp/1009181491 ). 25 Million Sparks takes readers inside the Za'atari refugee camp to follow the stories of three inspiring women entrepreneurs: a wedding dress shop and salon owner named Yasmina, an artist named Malak, and a storyteller and teacher named Asma. Anchored by these stories, the narrative expands beyond Za'atari to explore the broader refugee entrepreneurship phenomenon in more than twenty camps and cities across the globe. In its proposal form, 25 Million Sparks won the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize in London. In this discussion, Andrew shared about the book itself and the process of writing; refugee entrepreneurship, economic opportunity, and human rights; and how to get started in writing as a student. Andrew was joined in conversation with Giovanni Zanalda, director of the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.Bio: Andrew Leon Hanna is a first-generation Egyptian American lawyer, entrepreneur, and author born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. He is co-founder and CEO of DreamxAmerica, a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and Siebel Scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize. Hanna has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. At Duke, where he graduated with highest distinction in public policy, he was Senior Class President, a Robertson Scholar, and winner of the Terry Sanford Leadership Award.This event was organized by the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies and co-sponsored by the Sanford School of Public Policy and by Cambridge University Press.
Ready for Launch - Space Diplomacy Lab: Media Perspectives on Challenges of the Next Year in Space John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-03-02 | With the recent proliferation of countries and companies with access to low earth orbit (and beyond), a host of geopolitical and geoeconomic issues have arisen which require diplomacy informed by sound science and technology analysis. Space Diplomacy needs to consider the involvement of multiple nation-state and private sector actors, burgeoning space infrastructure and satellite internet service providers, launch and space junk scenarios, and deep space regulatory and extractive industry issues. To address these challenges, the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies(DUCIGS)/Rethinking Diplomacy Program’s Space Diplomacy Lab (SDL) welcomed three leading space policy journalists, Loren Grush (The Verge), Jeff Foust (SpaceNews) and Ramin Skibba (Wired) to offer media perspectives on what they view as the greatest geopolitical challenges in space over the next year. The event was moderated by Dr. Benjamin L. Scmitt (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy Fellow), joined in conversation by the members of the Space Diplomacy Lab. The DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy Program is supported by a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund. About the Speakers: Loren Grush is a science reporter for The Verge, the technology and culture brand from Vox Media, where she specializes in all things space—from distant stars and planets to human space flight and the commercial space race. The daughter of two NASA engineers, she grew up surrounded by space shuttles and rocket scientists—literally. She is also the host of Space Craft, an original online video series that examines what it takes to send people to space. Before joining The Verge, Loren published stories in Popular Science, The New York Times, Nautilus Magazine, Digital Trends, Fox News, and ABC News. Jeff Foust is a senior staff writer for SpaceNews, joining the publication in 2014. He covers civil and commercial space topics, ranging from NASA programs to developments in the entrepreneurial NewSpace field. He has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, commercial space, and related topics. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and a B.S. with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology in 1993. Ramin Skibba is WIRED’s space writer, where he covers the vastest beat, including space politics, space diplomacy, space science, space environmentalists, space conflicts, and the space industry, from launch to reentry. Prior to joining WIRED, he freelanced for Scientific American, The Atlantic, Undark magazine, Slate, and other magazines, and before that, he explored the cosmos himself as an astrophysicist, and he earned a master’s degree in science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He’s based in San Diego.For more on the Space Diplomacy Lab: https://sites.duke.edu/spacediplomacylab/
Perdón | To Forgive is to Remember, Differently - Felipe De Brigard, Duke University John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-03-02 | In this Spring 2022 Wednesdays at the Center at Duke University, Felipe De Brigard, a neuroscientist and philosopher, presented his studies on the relationship between forgiveness and memory through the experiences of people who survived political violence in Colombia.The decades of conflict included bombings, massacres, kidnappings for ransom, extortions, forced displacements, assassinations. Through his work, De Brigard hopes to learn how memory affects forgiveness, and how memories are affected by different ways to approach the act of forgiving. He is also tackling a question many Colombian survivors are grappling with now, and which has dogged humanity since forever: “How do you help the person who cannot bring herself to forgive, and yet wants to move on?The talk was presented by the Duke University Center for International & Global Studies, Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Duke. Learn more about the Wednesdays at the Center Series: https://igs.duke.edu/news?dws_event_unit_tid=214
The Tyranny of Merit: Whats Become of the Common Good? With Michael Sandel John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-02-24 | In this event, Harvard Professor Michael J. Sandel led a conversation with Duke University faculty on his award-winning book The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?In the book, Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success--more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility and solidarity, and more affirming of the dignity of work. The Tyranny of Merit was listed among the best books of 2020 by Bloomberg, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement, Le Point (Paris), and New Weekly (Beijing), and was influential in the recent German election, where Social Democratic candidate Olaf Scholz (now Chancellor) drew upon its themes.Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University where he is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government. His writings—on justice, ethics, democracy, and markets—have been translated into over 30 languages. He has been described as “the world’s most influential living philosopher.” (New Statesman).In the talk, Professor Sandel was joined by Judith Kelley, Dean and Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, Michele Longino, Professor Emerita of Romance Studies, Malachi H. Hacohen, Bass Fellow and Professor of History, Political Science and Religion, and Gopal Sreenivasan, Crown University Distinguished Professor in Ethics. The event was moderated by Giovanni Zanalda, Director of the Duke Center for International and Global Studies.This event was organized by the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies and co-sponsored by the Sanford School of Public Policy, Religions and Public Life @ the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and POLIS: Center for Politics at Duke University.
The Making and Unmaking of One America_Nishani Frazier at Duke University John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-02-17 | At a Wednesdays at the Center talk at Duke University, Professor Nishani Frazier spoke about the flaws and fallout of President's Initiative on Race, launched by Bill Clinton in 1997.The initiative, titled One America, promised to "help educate Americans about the facts surrounding issues of race, to promote a dialogue in every community of the land to confront and work through these issues, to recruit and encourage leadership at all levels to help breach racial divides, and to find, develop and recommend how to implement concrete solutions to our problems -- solutions that will involve all of us in government, business, communities, and as individual citizens." Clinton's Race Initiative was the last of the major presidential-led commissions that specifically addressed the issue of racial inequality.In this talk, professor Frazier discusses the country's way forward. Frazier focuses on the President's Initiative on Race, to learn all the lessons it has to teach. In what way can America retool PIR to force a reckoning with American politics and history.Nishani Frazier is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Kansas, and previously held positions as Associate Curator of African American History and Archives at Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS) and Assistant to the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Archives at the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. While at the Center, Frazier's public history work incorporated oral history, including: interviews for Anacostia's Black Mosaic Project, WRHS's Black veteran project, King Archives and Library civil rights activist programs, and community training sessions in oral history. Frazier was the personal assistant to Dr. John Hope Franklin before and during his tenure as chair of President Bill Clinton’s advisory board on “One America” and as a result, was an immediate participant and witness to the story of PIR. Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies. Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
How Could Mexico Contribute to Manage the Haitian Migration? Giovanni Lepri, UNHCR John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-02-16 | In this webinar by the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Giovanni Lepri, Mexico Representative of United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), discussed the situation of Haitian migration to Mexico, which reached unprecedented numbers in 2021.The rapid increase of Haitian asylum seekers challenged Mexican government with a policy dilemma. On the one hand, having resided in Chile and Brazil prior to arrival in Mexico, many Haitians do not qualify for refugee status in Mexico. On the other hand, persisting socio-economic crisis in Haiti makes their repatriation to Haiti highly difficult from humanitarian and logistical point of view. Mr. Lepri was joined by Piotr Plewa, Visiting Research Scholar at Duke University who recently wrote "Recent Trends in Haitian Migration to Mexico": https://igs.duke.edu/news/recent-trends-haitian-migration-mexico
Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit Book Talk _ Bruce Lawrence John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-02-08 | At the second Wednesdays at the Center, Spring 2022, at Duke University, Bruce B. Lawrence presented his latest book, "Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit." Neither juridical nor creedal, the book expresses a desire for the just and the beautiful. The author sets out an original and fascinating theory, that Islamicate cosmopolitanism marks a new turn in global history. An unceasing, self-critical pursuit of truth, hitched to both beauty and justice, its history is marked by male elites who were scientific exemplars in the pre-modern period.The talk was moderated by Robert Rozehnal, Duke Alum and Professor of Islamic Studies and South Asian Religions at Lehigh University.Bruce Lawrence is Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, where he taught for four decades. He holds a PhD in History of Religions from Yale University and has been awarded honorary ThDs from both Virginia Theological Seminary and Episcopal Divinity School. Professor Lawrence specializes in the Comparative Study of Religious Movements; Institutional Islam, especially in Asia; Indo-Persian Sufism; the Religious Masks of Violence; Contemporary Islam as Abrahamic Faith and Religious Ideology.Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies. Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
“Dainty as Needs Be”: Madame Butterfly and Cosmetic Yellowface_Esther Kim Lee, Duke University John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-01-31 | Duke Professor Esther Kim Lee opened Spring '22 "Wednesdays at the Center" series with a talk about the most famous and enduring stereotype of Asian women in the U.S., Madame Butterfly. A tragic heroine, the character has been represented by white actresses onstage and on screen for over a century around the world, and she has come to embody the West's fantasy of Asian womanhood. The talk examined how the stereotype was created as a particular form of yellowface (the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors portraying East Asian characters), how the first production of the play Madame Butterfly was staged, and how the white actress who played the role utilized the technology of yellowface.Dr. Esther Kim Lee is Professor in the Department of Theater Studies the International Comparative Studies and the Director of Asian American & Diaspora Studies at Duke University. Dr. Lee teaches and writes about theatre history, Asian American theatre, Korean diaspora theatre, and globalization and theatre. Dr. Lee received her Ph.D. in Theatre History, Criticism, and Literature at The Ohio State University in 2000 and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2000 to 2012 and at the University of Maryland from 2013 to 2018. She is the author of A History of Asian American Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which received the 2007 Award for Outstanding Book given by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She is the editor of Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2012). From 2013 to 2014, she was the Chief Editor of Theatre Survey, the flagship journal of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), and served as ASTR's Vice President for Publications from 2017 to 2019. Her latest published book is The Theatre of David Henry Hwang (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015), and her new book, Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era will be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2022.The talk was moderated by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Associate Professor of the Practice in Chinese and Japanese Cultural Studies at Duke University, and one of the founding directors of Story Lab at Duke.Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies. Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
Anticipatory Diplomacy: A Modern Framework To Address Global Challenges_Duke University John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-01-27 | This webinar kicked off the third year of the Rethinking Diplomacy Program (RDP) at Duke University Center for International and Global Studies. The talk about "Anticipatory Diplomacy" featured Ambassador Bob Pearson, Ambassador Marcie Ries, and Dr. Lyndsey Gray.When we launched the Rethinking Diplomacy Program in January 2020, we had three objectives in mind: (1) to redefine the role of diplomacy in an increasingly globalized and interdependent world which requires the constant use of specialized knowledge, (2) to create a genuine diplomacy-science partnership to tackle global challenges, and (3) to employ a model of collaborative stakeholder diplomacy multilaterally and at multiple levels to reach durable responses to crises. Now it is time to introduce the next step, drawing on all that has gone before. We call this step “Anticipatory Diplomacy,” the need now to reach out to address issues before positions have hardened, where time may permit us the opportunity to find ways to move forward that are consensual and mutually beneficial. The world we see coming will bring us more not fewer challenges and opportunities. Diplomats, scientists, governments, representatives of the private sector and civil society in the United States and other regions of the world have a unique opportunity through anticipatory diplomacy in partnership with science to determine how and when to address these issues now. The deliberate projection of diplomacy to shape this future is not only growing in urgency, but it will be far less costly than to wait for the crises to come at us in emergency mode. About the Speakers:Dr. Lyndsey Gray, PhD MSPH, is a global health researcher, microbiologist, and infectious disease epidemiologist with a life-long commitment to addressing complex public health problems with creative problem solving, innovation, and collaborative partnerships. She has trained at the CDC, Emory University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Colorado State University while leading disease prevention studies in Latin America and West Africa. Previously, she was also a Community Health Peace Corps Volunteer and served in Peru. She is currently a Science Diplomacy Exchange and Learning Fellow through the National Science Policy Network (NSPN) and acts as the organization’s Science Diplomacy Committee Chair.Ambassador W. Robert Pearson is a retired professional foreign service officer who served as U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 2000 to 2003. He was director general of the U.S. Foreign Service from 2003 to 2006, repositioning the American Foreign Service to meet the new challenges of the 21st century and winning two national awards for his efforts. He served from 2008 to 2014 as president of IREX, an international development NGO based in Washington, spearheading its expansion to reach more than 125 countries worldwide. He has published numerous articles, blogs and opinion pieces on diplomacy, foreign policy, Turkey, NGOs, and development. He has appeared on BBC, CNBC, NPR, Al-Jazeera, I24 TV, TNT Global and other networks. He is a frequent speaker on issues concerning Turkey, international development and the role of diplomacy in American engagement abroad. He is currently the President of American Diplomacy Publishers and DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy Program Fellow. Ambassador Marcie B. Ries is a retired Ambassador with more than thirty-five years of diplomatic experience in Europe, the Caribbean and the Middle East. She is a three-time Chief of Mission, serving as Head of the U.S. Mission in Kosovo (2003-2004), United States Ambassador to Albania (2004-2007) and as United States Ambassador to Bulgaria (2012-2015). She was the Senior State Department Representative on the negotiating team for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between the United States and Russia, which was signed by Presidents Obama and Medvedyev in Prague in April, 2010. From 2008-2009, she was the State Department’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs. She has also served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Arms Control and Verification (2014). From 2007-2008, during the period known as “the surge,” Ambassador Ries was Minister-Counselor for Political-Military Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq. She also served at the Mission to the European Union and, as Political Counselor, in London.Ambassador Ries currently serves on the Boards of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the American College of Sofia, Bulgaria. From 2020-2021 she was a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where she co-authored the report entitled “A U.S. Diplomatic Service for the 21st Century.” She is currently Co-chair of the American Diplomacy Project Phase II.Learn more about the Rethinking Diplomacy Program: https://igs.duke.edu/series/rethinking-diplomacy
Writing Climate into the History of Steppe Empires: Nicola Di Cosmo John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-01-24 | Professor Nicola Di Cosmo, the Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies at Princeton, USA, presented this talk at Duke University on January 20, 2022. For over two thousand years powerful political formations have emerged from the Eurasian steppes. From bringing down dynasties and empires to continent-wide migrations, and to the spread of religions, trade and technology, the deep traces left by nomadic empires in world history are yet to be fully appreciated. By investigating historical cases ranging from the early medieval to the early modern period, this talk examined the interaction between climate variability, environmental change and pastoral economy to reveal political and economic mechanisms behind the extraordinary success of nomad empires, as well as their fragility and vulnerability. These studies also illustrate possible uses of climatic and environmental data in historical research, and related methodological questions.The event was moderated by Prasenjit Duara, Oscar L. Tang Family Distinguished Professor of East Asian Studies at Duke University, and Dr. Yuan Chen, a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University's Franklin Humanities Institute & Global Asia Initiative. Learn more about Duke Global Asia Initiative: https://igs.duke.edu/initiatives/global-asia-initiative
Solidarity! Third Worldism and The Activist Origins of Asian American Studies John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2022-01-04 | In this Wednesdays at the Center, Duke professor Calvin Cheung-Miaw addressed the activist origins of Asian American identity, with a focus on how Asian Americans thought about multiethnic and multiracial solidarity.Among the topics discussed: Why did people of Asian descent in the United States begin calling themselves Asian American in the late 1960s, and why did so many young Asian Americans join the movement to demand Asian American Studies on college campuses? Calvin Cheung-Miaw is an Assistant Research Professor of History at Duke. He is a historian of race who works at the intersection of intellectual history and social movement history. His current book project, Asian Americans and the Color-Line, uses the history of Asian American Studies to explore the rise and fall of Third Worldism within the United States.The event was presented by the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, and the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies. Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
Blacks Weather, Whites Climate_Mark Driscoll John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-12-22 | In this lecture, Mark Driscoll explored the racialization of fossil capitalism to give a long historical perspective on "Black weathering" i.e., the increased vulnerability and disproportionate impact on people of color of environmental degradation and pandemic illnesses. Beginning with the scientific revolution of Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle, Driscoll argues that techno-scientific interventions inadvertently altered global climate patterns with a focus on the reliance on African enslavement to perpetuate its "advances." He links the use of plantation-enslaved people to dig coal in the Southeast US, to convict leasing after the Civil War to establish the infrastructure of mines, roads, and railroads, leading to the current prison-industrial-climate complex where BIPOC prisoners are forced to work for fossil fuel companies in Louisiana and elsewhere, contributing to their own weathering.Mark Driscoll is a Professor of East Asian Studies and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies. Learn more: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
COVID-19 in Africa: A panel from the Duke Global Health Institute. John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-12-22 | A panel of experts from the Duke Global Health Institute discussed the current issues of COVID-19 in the African continent at a recent Wednesdays at the Center event at Duke University. This event was moderated by John Bartlett, Professor of Medicine, Global Health, and Nursing at the Duke University Medical Center and Co-Director of the Duke Africa Initiative.Topics included the current epidemiology of COVID in Africa, the strengths and limitations of clinical care on the continent, the current status of vaccinations, and vaccine hesitancy.Panelists: Carl Mhina, MD, MPH, Alex Gabagambi, MD, Patricia Odero, Regional Director, Africa at the Duke Global Health Institute, Lavanya Vasudevan, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and the Global Health Institute at Duke University. Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies. Learn more: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
Afro-reconstructions in the Caribbean: Aida Esther Bueno-Sarduy. Wednesdays at the Center John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-12-03 | On October 13, 2021, Wednesdays at the Center hosted Aida Esther Bueno-Sarduy, an independent filmmaker and an anthropologist at NYU Madrid.At the event, Bueno-Sarduy presented her short "Guillermina", a film based on a true story that reconstructs the memories of the traces left in a 9-year-old child, the son of a well-to-do family in Havana in the 1940s, by his wet-nurse, a black woman named Guillermina.Introduced by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Director North Carolina Latin American Film Festival, the event was sponsored by Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center, the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, the Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the North Carolina Latin American Film Festival.Learn more about the Wednesdays at the Center series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
Coping Together: A Family Strengthening Program. With Eve Puffer, Wanda Boone, and Amber Rieder. John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-12-03 | In this Wednesdays at the Center event, we hosted Eve Puffer, Wanda Boone and Amber Rieder to present a program they developed in North Carolina to provide mental care support to local communities.During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health care and psychosocial support for families has been scarce worldwide, including in North Carolina. To help fill this gap, two Durham-based community organizations partnered with a team of faculty and trainees from Duke to develop "Coping Together"—a program to support and strengthen families that was adapted from a similar program implemented in Kenya. Coping Together is a virtual intervention that brings families together to learn family communication, problem solving, and psychological coping skills. It is provided by non-specialists, including community health workers.Dr. Eve Puffer is a global mental health researcher and a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Amber Rieder is a Global Mental Health Postdoctoral Associate at the Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.Dr. Wanda Boone is the Executive Director of the non-profit Together for Resilient Youth (“TRY”)--the major partner for the Coping Together project. This event was presented by Duke's John Hope Franklin Center, the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, the Duke Global Health Institute, and Bass Connections at Duke. Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies. Learn more about the series: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
Arabic Hebrew Night Celebration Highlight John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-11-20 | Arabic Hebrew Night Celebration Highlight
Yuan Chen | Kaifeng: What it Took to Feed, Furnish, and Fortify the Worlds Largest City, 960-1127 John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-11-19 | In a transformative age that scholars regard as the dawn of modern China, Kaifeng, capital of the Song dynasty (960-1127), witnessed significant growth in population, consumption, and technological breakthroughs. Relying on China’s expansive transportation network, this million-population metropolis massively sourced foodstuffs, lumber, coal, and many other natural resources from distant hinterlands in China and beyond. Kaifeng’s tremendous material demands profoundly deepened its ecological connections with its many supplying hinterlands –– paddy fields in Jiangnan, rivers, lakes, and seas in South China that yielded aquatic species for food, mountain forests in South and Northwest China that provided construction timber, and oases and grasslands in Inner Asia where sheep, goats, and cattle grazed. Mapping the expansive geography with which Kaifeng developed deep ecological teleconnections, this project demonstrates that the Song period marked China’s aggressive ecological expansion into the world and the onset of China’s environmental modernity. As they traveled across the empire, Song-dynasty scholars noticed changes of landscapes in the empire’s hinterlands and made connections between these changes and the insatiable consumption of natural resources by humans living far away in Kaifeng. Witnessing the dwindling of some of the most heavily exploited natural resources, these scholars saw the unsustainable future behind the empire’s rising economy and industry. They, therefore, actively looked for solutions, such as reducing consumption and using alternative energy, that could continue fueling the empire’s growth while mitigating the human impact on the natural world. Writing the rise and fall of Kaifeng from the perspectives of non-human agents, this project sheds light on the crucial roles of environment and human-nature interaction in narrating and shaping the history of medieval China. Speaker: Dr. Yuan Chen, Postdoctoral Associate, Franklin Humanities Institute & Global Asia Initiative.Yuan Julian Chen received her PhD from the Department of History at Yale University. Before joining Duke, she was a Visiting Professor at Boston College teaching classes on early China and food history. Her current research focuses on the history of environment in premodern and early modern East Asia. She is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled "Kaifeng: What it Took to Feed, Furnish, and Fortify the World's Largest City, 900-1200." It explores the environmental changes of Middle Period of China from the view of Kaifeng, China's imperial capital, and its ecological and economical connections with its diverse supplying regions in China and beyond. Her work has been published in the Journal of Early Modern History, the Journal of Chinese History,the Journal of Song-YuanStudies, and Chinese Culture. Her research has been supported by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. She speaks Chinese and Japanese and reads Classical Chinese and Tangut. Her teaching interests include Chinese history, Tokugawa Japan, early modern global history, environmental history, and the Silk Road. Co-sponsors: Global Asia Initiative (GAI), Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Jounen entènasyonal lang kreyòl la nan Duke University, 2021 John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-11-19 | This celebration marks the 9th annual International Creole Celebration at Duke University. This initiative was started by Jacques Pierre two years after his arrival at Duke University (Haiti Lab). According to Pierre, this activity enables students who have been studying Kreyòl at Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Virginia, to share their linguistic journey in Kreyòl with others. Since 2012 fifteen students have already presented papers in Kreyòl, nine scholars around the world (Ayiti, Jamaica, Saint-Lucia, the United States, South Africa, Mauritius, Trinidad & Tobago) have been invited to Duke University to share their work on an aspect of Kreyòl with scholars, students at Duke University and the Haitian community in the triangle area. May the teaching of Kreyòl continue to grow at Duke University and other universities that embrace the language.Thanks to:Dr. Jo-Anne Ferreira (The University of the West Indies)Laura Vargas (Duke University)Meaghan Coogan (UNC at Chapel Hill)Jake Salloum (The University of the West Indies)Jacques Pierre (Duke University, Haiti Lab)Edited by Suzie Choi and Jacques Pierre
Global Value Chains for Least Developed Countries_A Proposal to the WTO John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-11-18 | This November 15 webinar discussed “Global Value Chains for Least Developed Countries” (GVCs for LDCs), a recent initiative aimed at supporting Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in their efforts to achieve sustainable development. The initiative was recently proposed in an Open Letter to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.The initiative was discussed by the authors of the letter—Gary Gereffi (Professor Emeritus and Director Global Value Chains Center, Duke University), Ari Van Assche (HEC Montréal, Canada), and Stephanie Barrientos (University of Manchester, UK)—and a distinguished panel featuring WTO Deputy Director-General Anabel Gonzáles, Chad Ambassador H.E. Ahmad Makaila (LDCs coordinator), and Dr. Mustafizur Rahman (Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh.)The webinar comes right before WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) on Nov 30-Dec 3, 2021 and just a few months before the United Nations’ 5th Conference on LDCs (LDC5) in January 2022, decisive for shaping the Programme of Action for LDCs in the Decade 2022-2031. Ensuring the inclusion of concrete new initiatives in the Programme of Action is crucial to provide LDCs with real support to overcome structural challenges, eradicate poverty, achieve internationally agreed development goals and enable graduation from the LDC category.The event was organized by the Duke Center for International and Global Studies, Rethinking Diplomacy Program. Read the Open Letter: https://igs.duke.edu/news/global-value-chains-least-developed-countries-letter-wto-ngozi-okonjo-iweala
Thats No Moon: Technical and Diplomatic Solutions to the Space Debris Challenge John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-11-17 | On November 12. 2021, the Duke Center for International Studies (DUCIGS) and its Rethinking Diplomacy program invited Dr. Hugh Lewis of University of Southampton, UK, to talk about strategies to reduce the proliferation of space debris, often referred to as "space junk," from growing at an exponential rate with potentially irreversible effects. Professor Lewis was joined by a panel of experts in astronomy and diplomacy: Professor Britt Lundgren (Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UNC Asheville), Professor Laura Newburgh (Assistant Professor of Physics, Yale University), Ambassador W. Robert Pearson (Duke Rethinking Diplomacy Fellow, former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Director of U.S. Foreign Service) and Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt (Duke Rethinking Diplomacy Fellow and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).The event was part of the Space Diplomacy series and was co-sponsored by Duke in DC.Read an event recap: https://researchblog.duke.edu/2021/11/16/experts-unpack-the-space-debris-challenge-just-before-an-irresponsible-russian-missile-launch/Learn more about previous Space Diplomacy events: https://igs.duke.edu/series-rethinking-diplomacy/space-diplomacyLearn more about the Rethinking Diplomacy program: https://igs.duke.edu/series/rethinking-diplomacy
Groundswell II: World Bank’s most recent study of the effects of climate change on human migration. John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-11-09 | On November 2, 2021, Duke University Research Scholar Piotr Plewa invited two lead authors of the World Bank's report, Groundswell II, about the effects of climate change on human migration. The online events discussed what magnitude of internal migration we may expect in the best and worst scenarios in the next thirty years and what actions may governments take to mitigate migration as a result of climate change.Ms. Kanta Kumari Rigaud, is World Bank’s Lead Environmental Specialist and Regional Climate Change Coordinator in the Africa Region and Viviane Clement, is a Senior Climate Change Specialist in the Climate Change Group of the World Bank.The webinar was organized by the Duke Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS) and co-sponsored by the Africa Initiative (AI), the Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES), the Duke University Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC), the Duke Center for International Development (DCID), the Duke University Energy Initiative (EI), the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions (NIEPS) at Duke.
Symposium: Arabic Literature in Translation John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-11-05 | This mini symposium proposes to investigate modern Arabic literature in translation. The translation of Arabic texts has a complicated history, incorporating publishers' reticence to publish translations, politics, gender, as well as difficulties of situating Arabic literature within the all-encompassing world literature. What gets translated and why? How are we the audience to read what is translated? Do these translations give us insight to Arab society and culture? What is the reception of these works? Why is the novel privileged over other literatures, e.g. poetry? Is there a cultural reason or a publishers preference and influence? Indeed, is there a preference for secular novels over religious texts? What is the power dynamic and relationship between these different strands? Our panelists will explore these questions as well as discuss the relationship between publisher and translator; text and translator; the relationship between author and translator.Dima Ayoub (Middlebury), Alexandra Shraytekh (Tufts), Michelle Hartman (McGill). Sponsored by Duke Libraries, Duke Middle East Studies Center, and Duke Islamic Studies CenterFilmed on Oct. 22, 2021
The Current State and Potential Future of the US-China Scientific Partnership John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-11-03 | Since China opened to the world, the US and China have developed an extraordinary scientific partnership, which helped China rise to the forefront of global science, expanded America's contribution to science, and has advanced knowledge in key areas of human well-being. Current political concerns endanger the collaboration. The US fears that China is "stealing" intellectual property to dominate science and technology critical to national security while China complains of US bullying against its rise to world superpower.This second event of the China Innovation Series featured Richard Freeman (Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics Harvard; Research Associate, NBER) & Ms. Qingnan Xie (PhD candidate, Nanjing University of Science and Technology). Moderated by Duke's Denis Simon (Senior Adviser to the President for China Affairs and professor of the practice), the speakers discussed the facts about the US-China scientific partnership, how the partnership impacted the world, and each of the partners, and what are the possible consequences of a breakdown in the partnershipThis talk was the second event in the Fall 2021 China Innovation series of webinars co-sponsored by Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI,) the Duke University Center for International & Global Studies (DUCIGS,) and the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law School.The series was created by Denis Simon.Upcoming events in the series:- November 9, Tuesday, 7:00-8:30pm“The Ebb and Flow of Returned Scientists and Engineers to China: What Does It Tell Us.”Speaker: Dr. David Zweig (HKUST)- December 7, Tuesday, 7:00-8:30pm“Principled Interdependence: How to Maintain America’s High-Tech Advantages Over China”Speaker: Dr. Scott Kennedy (CSIS)
Innovation Inside Haier: Driving Innovation From Within John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-10-20 | Chinese firms like Haier are reinventing and innovating their business models, their corporate cultures, and themselves, becoming global competitors who increasingly offer knowledge rather than cheap labour in their quest to join the ranks of the "world's best" companies. This presentation by Dr. William Fischer (Senior Lecturer of Operations Management, MIT Sloan School of Management) offers a profile of one of China's most ambitious competitors-the world's largest manufacturer of home appliances.Moderator: Dr. Denis Simon, Senior Adviser to the President for China Affairs, Duke University. Dr. Fischer will share his insights about how the Haier organization has repeatedly reinvented its business model and corporate culture in an effort to achieve and sustain its success. His presentation also will include an examination of Haier's transformation, highlighting how these lessons can be applied to other business organizations, especially regarding the harnessing and utilization of talent.The event is part of the China Innovation Series created by Dr. Denis Simon.This event was co-sponsored by the Duke Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), the Duke Center for International & Global Studies (DUCIGS,) and the Center for Innovation Policy at the Duke Law School.
Brandon Williams: Resisting Displacement Through Multi-Racial, Intergenerational Organizing John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-10-08 | The 4th Wednesdays at the Center of Fall 2021 welcomed Brandon J. Williams, a Duke Alum and a community builder who believes in the power of everyday people to transform society. For eight years and counting, he has been a resident of a historically Black working-class neighborhood in Durham, NC, called Walltown. Brandon used to lead a youth organization in the community and is now organizing with neighbors to resist gentrification and displacement.Walltown was founded in 1906 by George Wall, a formerly enslaved man who moved from Randolph County to Durham, NC, to work for Trinity College(eventually Duke University). Since then, the neighborhood has been home to generations of Black working-class families who, in the face of structural racism, have embodied a spirit of self-determination and resilience. When Northgate Mall, under the ownership of the Rand family, sought to encroach upon residential space, residents organized to keep their land. Now that the mall is in a state of redevelopment, Walltown has organized again. The presentation highlights the organizing efforts of the Walltown Community Association (WCA), who since 2018, has been hard at work translating the needs, concerns, and desires of residents into a strategic vision. In the talk, Brandon Williams discussed how local history and storytelling activated new and old residents for political engagement, the power of data and maps to advance community organizing efforts, and discussed policy implications for affordable housing and city planning.Professionally, he works as a consultant for Frontline Solutions, helping clients in the philanthropic and non-profit sectors achieve their wildest dreams by building tools, models, and ventures that create far-reaching impact. Brandon is twice a graduate of Duke University holding a B.A. in African & African-American Studies and English (2006) and an M.Div with a Prison Studies certificate (2013).Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies. Learn more: https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
The Great Infrastructure Game: Jackson Ewing at Wednesdays at the Center John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-10-06 | In this talk, Duke climate and energy expert Jackson Ewing illustrates the international competition to build infrastructure in developing countries. At the center of this competition is how different investment sources, standards and approaches will affect the global climate. Under the umbrella of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China has become a global leader in debt and equity investments that traditionally have been comparatively emissions intensive, but this calculation is changing partly in response to growing international pressure for China to rollback such investments - particularly on coal - in the name of reaching global climate change targets. The United States Development Finance Corporation, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and international institutions from the World Bank to the Asian Development Bank - in part in response to the BRI - are accelerating efforts to offer low-emissions investment packages that have the corollary of steeper conditionality. This competition to build developing country infrastructure is paramount to broader international goals for addressing climate change, and its future is uncertain. The talk was moderated by Giovanni Zanalda, director of the Duke Center for International and Global Studies.Jackson Ewing holds a joint appointment as a senior fellow at Duke University's Nicholas Institute of Environmental Policy Solutions and an adjunct associate professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy. He works closely with the Duke Kunshan University Environmental Research Center and International Masters of Environmental Policy programs to build policy research collaboration across Duke platforms in the United States and China.This event was sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.Wednesdays at the Center is a topical weekly series by Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Center for International and Global Studies. in which scholars, students, artists, journalists, and others speak informally about their work in conversation with Duke students, staff, faculty, and community members. The series, which began in March 2006, typically welcomes audience members every week throughout the academic semesters over the lunch hour. All events in the series are free and open to the public. Please check upcoming events here: https://igs.duke.edu/events?dws_event_unit_tid=214
Jean Casimir: Haiti and the Haitians. Wednesdays at the Center John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-09-30 | At the second event of the Fall 2021 Wednesdays at the Center series, Jean Casimir discussed the current situation in Haiti and presented his new book, 'The Haitians: A Decolonial History'.Jean Casimir is Professor of Humanities at the University of Haiti. He also served as Haitian ambassador to the United States and as a United Nations official. His book The Haitians: A Decolonial History was recently published in the Latin America in Translation Series sponsored by the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies in partnership with UNC Press and Duke University Press.The Haitians critically retheorizes the very nature of slavery, colonialism, and sovereignty. Professor Casimir's talk opens with an introduction by Deborah Jenson, Professor of Romance Studies at Duke, and a commentary from Walter Mignolo, William Hane Wannamaker Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke.This event was sponsored by Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center, by the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.Wednesdays at the Center is a topical weekly series by Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center and the Duke Center for International and Global Studies. in which scholars, students, artists, journalists, and others speak informally about their work in conversation with Duke students, staff, faculty, and community members. The series, which began in March 2006, typically welcomes audience members every week throughout the academic semesters over the lunch hour. All events in the series are free and open to the public. Please check upcoming events here: https://igs.duke.edu/events?dws_event_unit_tid=214
Boren Awards Information Session with Kyle Cox John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University 2021-09-24 | Kyle Cox, Outreach and Recruitment Analyst of the Boren Awards at the Institute of International Education (IIE), provided an hour-long information session to Duke students on the Boren Awards.The Boren Awards offer up to $25,000 for undergraduates and up to $30,000 for graduates to conduct long-term study and/or research abroad in a critical region and to learn a less commonly taught language. Visit www.borenawards.org for more information.This event was organized by the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS) and co-sponsored by the Duke Office of University Scholars and Fellows (OUSF) and the Institute of International Education (IIE).
