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Lexia Chadwick performs a song in response to her experience on her alternative fall break trip to Apopka, Florida.

Issues around immigration are all over the news these days. But what about women- how do they experience immigration? What are the narratives of struggle and strength of women in immigrant communities? How do those experiences connect to women students at Duke? Through family home-stays, participation in a local women's conference, and volunteering at a community-based organization, a group of Duke undergrads learned first hand from the experience of young women in low-income, immigrant, and farm work communities in Apopka, Florida.

During her 2012-13 Visiting Faculty Fellowship with the Humanities Writ Large initiative at Duke University, Adeline Koh is developing a historical role-playing game called Trading Races. The game is set at the University of Michigan in 2003. Players contest the fate of affirmative action there, taking on the roles of specific historical figures and a student assembly. In this video, Koh talks about her game, about the "Reacting to the Past" pedagogy that it's based on, and about the RTTP conference she has organized for Jan. 19 & 20, 2013 at Duke's Franklin Humanities Institute. More about Koh's Fellowship: http://humanitieswritlarge.duke.edu/visiting-faculty-fellows-2012-13/adeline-koh Trading Races: http://tradingraces.adelinekoh.org/ Reacting to the Past: http://reacting.barnard.edu/ Photo credits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/momentsnotice/3494085120/ (Supreme Court building); http://bamn.com (pro-affirmative action protest); http://www.flickr.com/photos/mogello/56624483/ (anti-affirmative action protest); http://reacting.barnard.edu/streaming-video (game playing)

"Humanities in Humanitarianism: the Haiti Project" is a new year-long course taught by Joshua Nadel, a 2012-13 Visiting Faculty Fellow with the Humanities Writ Large initiative at Duke University. Here he talks with Haiti Lab co-director Laurent Dubois about the class, in which students first study the history and theory of humanitarian aid in Haiti and then, during the second semester, organize an international symposium on the subject. It is offered jointly by Duke and North Carolina Central University, Nadel's home institution. More about Nadel and his course: http://humanitieswritlarge.duke.edu/visiting-faculty-fellows/joshua-nadel More about the Haiti Lab: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/labs/haiti-lab

Duke University Fuqua School of Business Professor Peter Ubel explains how difficult it is to debunk myths in the media, specifically examining the case of the "death panel."

Read more:
http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/news_events/releases/peter-ubel-death-panel-research/#.UPf8MKX0D0c

For more on Peter Ubel, visit www.peterubel.com.

On October 19th, 2012, Sasha Pack, Assoc. Prof. of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), visited the FHI and the BorderWork(s) Lab to share his lecture, "Europe's Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar in Modern Times." In this interview, he gave us an overview of his work on the strait.
http://fhi.duke.edu/events/sasha-pack-talk

On November 5th, 2012, Erin Lentz visited the FHI to present her paper, "Hungry for Change: the Opportunities and Challenges of New Food Assistance Tools when Responding to Food Insecurity."

In this interview, we asked Erin 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.

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".

A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. The Reverend Doctor Luke Powery delivers a sermon entitled "Star Stalkers."