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Radicalization: How it Happens, and How to Prevent It
This panel will discuss the latest facts and figures on the scope and size of homegrown terrorism incidents across the US, as well as studies on Muslim cooperation with security forces, issues of acculturation and accommodation, and how the climate of anti-Muslim hostility in the wake of the Park 51 controversy, the Peter King hearing and the anti-shari'a movement are affecting US Muslims.
Published 1 year ago
Islam in a Post-9/11 U.S. - Andrea Elliott
Andrea Elliott is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her series "An Imam in America," which chronicled the life of an immigrant Muslim leader in Brooklyn. Since joining The Times in 2003, Elliott's stories have included an examination of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and a series on the lives of Muslims in the military. (March 30, 2011)Published 2 years ago
'Human Rights in Islam' - Sherman Jackson
Sherman Jackson of the University of Michigan was one of the speakers in a colloquium, "Human Rights in Islam: The Politics of Cultural Transformation," held in February 2011 at the John Hope Franklin Center. His talk was "Western Muslims and Human Rights."Published 2 years ago
'Human Rights in Islam' - Closing Panel
Discussions by prominent scholars in human rights and Islam, from a February 2011 colloquium sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center.Published 2 years ago
'Human Rights in Islam' - Opening Remarks
Discussions by prominent scholars in human rights and Islam, from a February 2011 colloquium sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center.Published 2 years ago
Daughters of the American Revolution
Dorothy Q. Thomas will speak about recovering a legacy of progressive Americanism for contemporary women’s rights activists, drawing on her on-going research for a book that chronicles the lives of some of her female ancestors, including descendants of former presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and mother of the American Revolution Dorothy Quincy Hancock. Thomas is currently a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She was previously a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and was founding director for the Human Rights Watch Women’s Division.The lecture is cosponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center, the Archive for Human Rights, Women’s Studies, the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, the Program in the Study of Sexualities, and the Franklin Humanities Institute. Generous support was also provided by the Trent Foundation.
Published 2 years ago
Weaving a Net of Accountability- The Moral Dimension of Extraordinary Rendition
John Hope Franklin CenterPublished 3 years ago
Just Art?
The Hon. Justice Albie Sachs, Constitutional Court of South Africa.Moderated by Prof. Catherine Adcock Admay, Public Policy Studies and the Duke Center for International Development.”To appreciate the alliance between justice and art and its relation to the fine art of persuasion,Justice Albie Sachs is the very best guide.” Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court.Reception to follow event.Co-sponsors: Concilium on Southern Africa, Provost’s Office, Vice Provost for International Affairs, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Duke Center for International Development, Duke Human Rights Center, Law School, Franklin Humanities Institute, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Nasher Museum of Art and Duke University Center for International Studies
Published 3 years ago
Published 3 years ago
'Africa's Place in the World' (Concilium on South Africa)
The Concilium on Southern Africa is extremely pleased to announce a public conversation between distinguished scholars James Ferguson (Stanford University) and Achille Mbembe (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa).Published 4 years ago
LIving History Interview: Mohamed Alayyan
The Jay Rutherfurd Living History Program produces interviews with prominent American and world leaders who have been major participants in significant international or domestic events, or movements of social change. http://dewitt.sanford.duke.edu/rutherfurd-living-history/Published 4 years ago
Ideas Versus Interests
Dr. Gilbert Gagné, an Associate Professor at Bishop’s University has been named Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies at Duke University. From January through April 2008 Dr. Gagné will be researching Canada-U.S. trade agreements for his project “Ideas Versus Interests: A Study of the U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Dispute.” May 1, 2008Published 5 years ago
Theorizing the Post-Postcolonial Real
This talk challenges what has been termed as the "real" about the Indo-Pak Subcontinent from the oversimplified East-West binary perspective. In doing so, it rearticulates some of the literary, critical and theoretical implications about the specific Pakistani post-postcolonial scenario. April 23, 2008
Published 5 years ago
Alterity and Alternatives: A Conversation with Judith Halberstam and Elizabeth Povinelli on Queer Theory, 2007-12-04
Course - Group - Alterity and Alternatives: A Conversation with Judith Halberstam and Elizabeth Povinelli on Queer Theory, 2007-12-04 - Duke > FHI Panels, Symposia, Conferences > Alterity and Alternatives: A Conversation with Judith Halberstam and Elizabeth Povinelli on Queer Theory, 2007-12-04
Published 5 years ago
'Representations of Muslim Women: The Power of Choice' - Debra Mubashir Majeed, 2007
'Representations of Muslim Women,' a talk by Debra Mubashir Majeed of Beloit College, 2007-03-22Published 5 years ago
