Duke on Demand

The Duke University Libraries Verne and Tanya Roberts Conservation Lab cares for the physical collections in the circulating and special collections. The lab was built in 2008 as part of the second phase of the Perkins Project. To find out more, visit Preservation Underground.

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/

Duke University students will be able to take online courses for credit from Duke and nine other selective American institutions under a new agreement.

The 10 colleges and universities will each contribute a small number of online courses to the venture, called "Semester Online." Their students will be able to enroll and earn credit from the courses, regardless of which school developed them.
Along with Duke, the member institutions are: Brandeis University, Emory University, Northwestern University, UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, Wake Forest University and Washington University in St. Louis.

The venture is expected to start in fall 2013 and is supported by 2U, an online education company that will provide coordination and the technical infrastructure.

Read more here: https://today.duke.edu/2012/11/semesteronline.

Hungary's current "retro-Fascism" presents a puzzle for political theory. Is it simply a way to legitimize authoritarian politics after an economic failure? Or, it is an unorthodox effort to reinvigorate the nation-state after the collapse of the neoliberal consensus about European integration, market economy and liberal democracy? Should we be concerned about contagious effect in Southeastern Europe and elsewhere?

This fall, BorderWork(s) Lab faculty Claudia Koonz and Erika Weinthal are leading a Focus cluster on Humanitarian Challenges: Borders, Environments, and Rights. Designed for first-year students, the Focus program provides clusters of courses designed around an interdisciplinary theme. Students come together for dinner once a week to process what they learn in the classroom. In tandem with Humanitarian Challenge's weekly dinners, Profs. Koonz and Weinthal have organized an ambitious speaker series that features academics, activists, and artists. On October 22nd, the students and faculty spent an evening with Musical Stars of El Tejar, eight young musicians from Guatemala on their first US tour.

Please join us for an event on MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) and play in education with Pete Rorabaugh (English, Georgia State University; @allistelling) and Jesse Stommel (English & Digital Humanities, Marylhurst University; @jessifer), editors of the journal Hybrid Pedagogy. Adeline Koh (Literature, Richard Stockton College & 2012-13 Humanities Writ Large Visiting Faculty Fellow) will moderate. We'll be livestreaming the event on the FHI Youtube channel, and everyone is encouraged to watch and take part via the Twitterstream: hashtag #dukehp.

William "Sandy" Darity (Duke University): "Confronting Those Affirmative Action Grumbles"

Neoliberalism, Equity and Economic Development Panel Chair: Professor Charlie Piot (Duke University) Professor Terence Gomez (Malaysia): "Affirmative Action, Neoliberalism, the Developmental State in Malaysia" Professor Steven Ratuva (Fiji): "Neo-liberalism, Racial Preferences and Political Elite Maneuvering: The Crisis of Affirmative Action in Fiji Since 1987 coups"

Identity, Post-Raciality and Affirmative Action Chair: Professor Michaeline Crichlow (Duke University) Professor Zimitra Erasmus (South Africa): "Race and Post-Raciality: What Happened to Anti-Raciality?" Professor Catherine Walsh (Ecuador): "Affirmative, Affirming and Decolonial Actioning in Today's Andes" Professor Lewis Gordon (Temple University): "Investment, Myths and Realities"

Conference: Neoliberalism, Inequality and the Politics and Culture of Affirmative Action Session: Governance, Law and Social Justice: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM 11/09/12 Chair: Professor John French (Duke University) Professor Ralph Premdas (Trinidad): "Social Justice and Affirmative Action" Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal (India): "Marking Citizens, Unmaking Citizenship" Professor Colin Harvey (Ireland): "Contesting Affirmative Action: The Principle of Legality and the Politics of Legal Mobilization" Center for African & African American Research (CAAAR). More information can be found here: http://caaar.duke.edu/