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Cardinals of the Catholic Church are gathering at the Vatican to elect the next pope, at a time when reports of sexual molestation by priests continue to plague the church. In a live "Office Hours" conversation Friday, March 8, the Rev. Michael Martin, director of the Duke Catholic Center, will discuss what the leadership transition could mean for the church and wider world. In a recent post on his @TheDukePriest Twitter account, Martin commented on the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI: "Ben16 resignation reminds me of St. Francis of Assisi-gave up leadership of his Order allowing others to run show #GoodExample #PopeTweets" Watch the interview live on this webpage or on Duke Today. Send in a question for Martin on Twitter using @DukeOfficeHours, on Facebook on the Duke Office Hours page or by email to live@duke.edu. Martin stands out on campus, wearing a brown habit as a member of the Conventual Franciscan Friars. He arrived at Duke in 2010 from Baltimore, where was president of Archbishop Curley High School. In 2007, he received the Pro Eccelsia et Pontifice medal for service to the church from Pope Benedict XVI. He recently led Duke Catholics in the celebration of Ash Wednesday at the Yoh Football Center for the convenience of students tenting out for basketball at Krzyzewskiville. "Office Hours" is Duke's live webcast series for the university community, and others, to engage with campus experts about their research and scholarship.

A researcher at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business says efforts to eliminate racial slurs should focus not only on people making the slurs but on those who observe them and remain silent.

Duke Law School welcomes Cary Sherman, Chairman & CEO of Recording Industry Assoc. of America as the 2013 Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property speaker

The Duke University Energy Initiative hosts a panel of energy experts from Canada, who explore current business, political and environmental issues that shape the energy relationship of Canada and the United States. These include oil sands and shale gas production; Canadian hydrocarbon transport to the U.S.; foreign national resource ownership; the water, air and cultural impacts of resource extraction; and more. Panelists • Marvin Romanow, former CEO, Nexen Inc. • Dale Eisler, Assistant Deputy Minister, Task Force on Energy Security, Prosperity, and Sustainability, Natural Resources Canada. • Simon Dyer, Policy Director, Pembina Institute Moderated by Duke visiting professor Stephen Kelly, former deputy chief of the U.S. Mission to Canada.

Gilad Noam, Senior Deputy to Israel's State Attorney and lecturer in international criminal law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, will discuss the legal issues and challenges posed by Hamas' shelling of Israeli towns, Israel's 2012 "Pillar of Defense" operation in the Gaza strip, and the UN General Assembly's resolution upgrading the status of the PLO's observer mission to the UN to that of "non-member Observer State."

Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Brittney Cooper and Treva Lindsey to talk about ABC's hit show, Scandal.

Another topic studied by social scientists is how people value things in relative terms rather than absolute terms. How much are you willing to pay for a cup of coffee? How do you decide how much an iPhone is worth? What factors change our valuations? In literature, we can also recognize these kinds of relative evaluations in which protagonists make their decisions dependent on others. A related topic we might also consider in this unit is the concept of "defaults": how marketers learn quickly that consumers tend to make choices based on the path of least resistance. For example, consider organ donations: if people are asked to opt-in ("sign if you want to participate") to be an organ donor, it results in low participation. However, if they are asked to opt out ("sign if you don't want to participate), it ensures a larger percentage of potential organ donors. This topic raises issues about how difficult it is for us and literary characters to deviate from the status quo.

Battlefields, Boardrooms, and Backyards: The New Face of National Security Law



Moderator: Prof. Margaret Hu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University Law School
Prof. Nita A. Farahany, Professor of Law, Professor of Genome Sciences & Policy, Professor of Philosophy, Duke University
Ms. Catherine Crump, Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project
Col. Dawn Zoldi, USAF, Chief, Operations Law, Air Combat Command

Duke-NUS Centre for Computational Biology. This video was produced by the Office of Communications & Development.

Please join Professor Curt Bradley as he lectures on his newly released book, "International Law in the U.S. Legal System." This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Law, Ethics and National Security and the Center for International and Comparative Law. "International Law in the U.S. Legal System" explores the dynamic intersection between international law and the domestic legal system within the United States and covers both settled principles as well as unresolved issues and areas of controversy.

Tune in this Monday, March 4th at 1:30pm to watched the live airing of Left of Black's Scandal episode with Brittney Cooper and Treva Lindsey.

Tune in here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxtPzmfPCXY

To understand the impact of Greg Tate, one need only consult the words of fellow critic Michael Gonzales, who on the occasion of Tate's 50th birthday wrote: "For better or worse, if it were not for Greg Tate, there would be no Bonz Malone, Harry Allen, Joan Morgan, Kris Ex, Scott Poulson Bryant, Toure, Danyel Smith, Michael Eric Dyson, Karen R. Goode, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Smokey Fontaine, Jon Caramanica, Jeff Chang, Amy Linden, Tom Terrell, Mark Anthony Neal, Tricia Rose, Sasha Jenkins, DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller), Dream Hampton, Miles Marshall Lewis, Aliya King, SekouWrites, Kenji Jasper, Oliver Wang, Cheo Hodari Coker, Keith Murphy or myself." Gonzales offers high praise for one of the singular critical voices of the last 30 years. The author of several books including the classic Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (1993) and the edited volume Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking From Black Culture (2003), Greg Tate joins Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal (via Skype) in a rousing discussion of Black Science Fiction, being a "gourmand" of Black Culture and the significance of the late musical conductor Butch Morris. Tate is the longtime conductor of Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, a former Village Voice Staff Writer and currently Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Duke University Press will publish Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader next year.

Even though the United States could possibly become the world's largest oil producer by 2020, America would still not be "energy independent." U.S. energy production would continue to be tied to global markets and climate concerns, according to professor Richard Newell, director of Duke's Energy Initiative. In a live "Office Hours" webcast interview at noon on Feb. 22, he will discuss advances and limits in American energy production.