Duke on Demand

The lectures, to be delivered Feb. 13 and 14, March 28, and April 8 and 9, will address the major legislative and legal achievements of the civil rights revolution, including the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and cases that contributed to symbolic and substantive changes in U.S. law and culture. All lectures will be held at 12:15 p.m. in Room 3041 and are open to the public. Lectures will be webcast on Duke Law's Ustream channel. Kennedy's lecture is supported by the Robert R. Wilson Fund at Duke University and is part of Duke University's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the undergraduate program's desegregation.

The Pain of Paying: The Psychology of Money (Live Session)

Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics

A class on on human behavior challenges students to develop online course materials. In anticipation of Valentine's Day, the class wears red clothing and discusses literature and social science research related to romance. Learn more here: https://today.duke.edu/2013/02/davidsonariely.

Forty years ago the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade legally protected a woman's right to have an abortion, yet for women of color—poor women of color in particular—Roe v. Wade has offered little protection in their desires to fully pursue reproductive justice. For nearly thirty years, the Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF) has sought to "overturn economic barriers to reproductive choice," by engaging and mobilizing "low-income and poor women to become advocates for expanded reproductive access." Gaylon Alcaraz, Executive Director of the Chicago Abortion Fund and Cynthia Greenlee of the Carolina Abortion Fund, join Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal in a discussion of the legacy of Roe v. Wade and the continual political and structural impediments to Reproductive Justice for poor women and women of color.

Marco Williams' 2007 documentary "Banished" takes on one of the overlooked stories of American history: racial cleansing during the early 20th century where African-American inhabitants were expelled from dozens of communities and their property confiscated. Screened at the Smith Warehouse on Thursday evening, the documentary was followed by a panel discussion featuring Williams and historian William Chafe and moderated by Pauli Murray Project director Barbara Lau. "To what degree do we own the history of our foremothers and forefathers?" Chafe said. "I can't tell you how many times I've argued with somebody who says, 'Why blame me? I didn't do any of that, why are you making me feel responsible?'" "Banished" was the first film in the "Rights! Camera! Action!" series, presented by the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute. VISIT US AT: http://humanrights.fhi.duke.edu

The fabled city of Timbuktu has recently been a center of conflict between the French military and Islamic militants. Complicating the clash are tensions within Mali among the country's ethnic groups. In a live "Office Hours" webcast interview Feb. 8, Duke professor Bruce Hall explains some of the historical and cultural context of the conflict. Watch the interview live on this webpage or on Duke Today. Post a question for Hall on Twitter using @DukeOfficeHours or the Duke Office Hours Facebook page. "There is nothing 'less racial' about the situation in Northern Mali because of a history of 'mixing' than anywhere else," Hall told the International Business Times in an article published last week. "Race is not about the biology; it is about the ideas and practices that link biological traits to value which are claimed to be transmissible inter-generationally. Joining Hall is Duke senior Jennifer Denike, who completed a study abroad program in Mali in the fall of 2011. "In fact, in the absence of a strong international security presence, it seems very likely to me that racialized violence will occur on a much greater scale than it has so far," he said. Hall is the author of "A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960.″ At Duke, he is an assistant professor of history and African and African American Studies. This year he is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and is scheduled to participate in Friday's interview via Skype. "Office Hours" is Duke's live webcast series for the university community, and others, to engage with professors about their research and scholarship.

Co-sponsored with the Department of Theater Studies

Joseph Roach is the Sterling Professor of Theater and English at Yale University. A theater historian, stage director, and performance studies scholar, Roach is the author of The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting (1985), Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (1996) and It (2007). He is the editor (with Janelle Reinelt) of Critical Theory and Performance (2nd edition, revised 2007) and Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson and Theatre Studies, 1959-2009 (2009). His publications have been recognized by the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association, the Barnard Hewitt Award in Theatre History, and the Joe E. Calloway Prize for Drama. Before joining Yale, he chaired the Department of Performing Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre at Northwestern University, and the Department of Performance Studies in the Tisch School of Arts at NYU.

He is the recipient of a Lifetime Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Theatre Research and a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which funds the World Performance Project at Yale. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Warwick (UK) and the Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellowship from the Huntington Library.

At the CASE 10 year anniversary celebration, Executive Director Matt Nash counts down - David Letterman style! - his "Top 10" CASE highlights from the past 10 years.