Duke on Demand

Chuck Campbell of Duke's Divinity School discusses "dislocated learning" in courses he has taught on the streets of Atlanta and in Butner Federal Prison. Campbell presented his lecture, "Learning Across Borders," as part of the Monday Evenings @ BorderWork(s) series on November 26, 2012. http://www.fhi.duke.edu/labs/borderworks

Duke professor, Steve Kelly outlines America's oil consumption in a clip from his Wednesdays at the Center lecture, "The Keystone XL pipeline after the U.S. Presidential Election".

As tuition costs continue to rise, it seems counterintuitive that professors at top universities would give away their courses for free. But that's exactly what they're doing, on web-based platforms known as "Massive Open Online Courses." Spencer Michels reports on how a boom in online learning could change higher education.

Former South Sudanese refugee and Duke University student Nyuol Tong presented his lecture, "Building a School in South Sudan" at the FHI on October 29th, 2012. As a boy in Sudan, Nyuol Tong wanted nothing more than to go to school. Finally, his village has one because he built it. During Tong's childhood, Sudan was in the midst of the longest civil war in Africa's history. "As any South Sudanese, the last several decades of civil war have defined who I am and, in fact, have shaped my trajectory," says Tong as he speaks about his family's exodus from their native land. At age 21, this remarkable young man is founder & director of SELFSudan, a non-profit organization that partners with South Sudanese villages to build schools and empower their communities. In this interview, we asked Nyuol to speak how borders affect his work, and how his work might address some of the ways in which borders are conceived. This event was presented by the BorderWork(s) Lab at Duke.

Duke professors Jen'nan Read and David Schanzer are featured in a WRAL TV documentary "Faith, Fear and Freedom" on Muslims in North Carolina. Find comments by Read at 7:09 and 17:32; Schanzer comments at 18:00 and 21:02. The documentary was produced by Clay Johnson, a lecturer at the Sanford School.

Jason Cons presented his lecture, "Spatial Corruptions: Hazy Demarcation, Symbolic Developments, and Overlapping Sovereignty at the India-Bangladesh Border," at the FHI on November 5th, 2012. In this interview, we asked Jason to speak about his work, how borders affect his work, and how his work might address some of the ways in which borders are conceived. This event was co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies at Duke.

On September 10th, 2012, Ikal Angelei, winner of a 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize, spoke to a rapt group of students. Her lecture, "Holding Back the Waters: the Battle against a Mega-Dam in East Africa," explained her struggle to save both an ecosystem and a village from destruction. In this interview, we asked Ikal to speak about her work, how borders affect her work, and how her work might address some of the ways in which borders are conceived. Her lecture was part of the Monday Evenings @ Borderworks(s) series. During the Fall 2012 semester, BorderWork(s) Lab faculty Claudia Koonz and Erika Weinthal led 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 organized an ambitious speaker series that features academics, activists, and artists.

A Roundtable Conversation with Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, and Ralph James Savarese A Neurohumanities Research Group event & part of Erin Manning and Brian Massumi's Short-Term Residency at the FHI, presented with the Program in Literature. This event is co-sponsored by DIBS. Using the Erin Manning project "Folds to Infinity" as described in the SubStance article "Fiery, Luminous, Scary," this roundtable will explore the interdisciplinary setting of knowledge production. The Massumi/Manning Sense Lab will serve as a consideration of the laboratorium or work of the senses in neurotypical and neurodiverse rhetoric and performance.