Duke on Demand

4:00 pm Panel 3: New Subjects of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship

"A New Generation of Rights in Morocco: From Gender Equality to Esthetic Citizenship," Zakia Salime, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies, Rutgers University

"The (Re)Constitution of Gender/Sexuality and the Militarization of Society in the Egyptian Transitional Government," Paul Amar, Associate Professor of Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Discussants: Sahar Amer, Professor Of Asian Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Banu Gokariksel, Associate Professor of Geography, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

9:00 am Welcome

Professor Srinivas Aravamudan, Dean of the Humanities

9:15am Opening Remarks

Professor Miriam Cooke and Professor Frances Hasso

2:00 pm Panel 2: Languages, Technologies and Spectacles of Revolution

"Words as Weapons: A linguistic revolution Tunisia," Nabiha Jerad, Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Tunis I

"Transformation in the Politics of Spectacle," Negar Mottahedeh, Associate Professor of Literature and Women's Studies, Duke University

Discussant: Kimberly K. Lamm, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, Duke University

9:30 am Panel 1: Revolutions and Repression

"Civic Revolutions in Egypt and Yemen," Sheila Carapico, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Richmond

"Beyond Cairo and Tahrir: Empire and Subaltern Revolts in Egypt," Zeinab Abul-Magd, Assistant Professor of History, Oberlin College and Visiting Assistant Professor of History, American University in Cairo

"The Syrian Uprising: The Long Road to Democracy," Radwan Ziadeh, Visiting Scholar at the Carr Center for Human Rights, Harvard University, and Founder, Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies

Discussant: Michael Hardt, Professor of Literature and Italian Studies, Duke University

5:00 pm Spoken Word Performance: Poetic Portraits of a Revolution

Featuring Triangle Area poets Will McInerney and Kane Smego, project translator and interpreter Mohammad Moussa, and professional photographer and videographer Sameer Abdel-khalek.

Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center

First Lt Elyse Gustafson, Ch. Col. Herman Keizer, and Dr. Warren Kinghorn lead a panel discussion on "Exploring the Moral Landscape: Military, Theological, and Academic Intersections" during the "After the Yellow Ribbon" conference Nov. 11-12, 2011.

Gen. Stephen N. Xenakis, David Miller, and Peter Bowen join a panel discussion on "Mapping the Moral Landscape: Discovering Resources for Recovery" during the "After the Yellow Ribbon" conference.

Philip K. Howard, author of "Life without Lawyers" and "The Death of Common Sense," spoke at Duke Divinity School Nov. 3 about his vision for fixing the broken U.S. legal and regulatory system and for promoting civil justice. The topic wass "Reclaiming Human Judgment in Public Choices." Howard joined a panel including Duke professors Sam Wells, dean of Duke University Chapel and research professor of Christian ethics at the Divinity School; Lawrence Baxter, professor of the practice of law; and Joel Fleishman, professor of law and public policy sciences.