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Annual Semans Lecture: Fred Wilson
Tuesday October 27, 2009
7:30 PM
Nasher Musuem Auditorium

The New York artist Fred Wilson creates contexts for the display of art and artifacts found in museum collections, along with wall labels, sound, lighting and non-traditional pairings of objects. Reception to follow. Reservations suggested: www.nasher.duke.edu. The Annual Semans Lecture is funded by the Semans Lecture Series Endowment Fund.

Racism and Sports: A Global View Conference
Wednesday October 28, 2009 - Friday October 30, 2009
 

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E. Patrick Johnson

Sweet Tea - Gay Black Men in the South
Thursday October 29, 2009
7:30 PM - 9:00PM
LSRC B101 Love Auditorium

Professor E. Patrick Johnson is chair, director of graduate studies, and professor in the Department of Performance studies and professor of African American studies at Northwestern University. He is also the author of the book Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South: An Oral History (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), which collects stories from the lives of 63 black, gay men who were born, raised and presently live in the South that Johnson interviewed from over 15 different states below the Mason-Dixon Line. Johnson will be performing a selection from his one-man show called "Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales," which explores how these narrators use the performance of "southerness" as a cultural identity to simultaneously conform to southern cultural ideals, but also to mediate, transgress, and sometimes subvert them. The show will be in Love Auditorium of the Levine Research Science Center on October 29th at 7:30pm.

Co-sponsors: Center for LGBT Life, Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Multicultural Center, African and African American Studies and The Program in the Study of SexualitiesContact Information: Chris Purcell Categories: Lecture/Talk, Theater

STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Duke University, Bryan Center Griffith Film Theater
http://maps.duke.edu/building/44

http://stillblackfilm.org/

STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen is a documentary that explores the lives of six black transgender men living in the United States. The film tells stories of their lives as artists, students, husbands, fathers, lawyers and teachers, and offers viewers a complex and multi-faceted image of race, sexuality and trans identity.

The director, Kortney Ryan Ziegler is a genderqueer filmmaker and doctoral student at Northwestern. Kortney’s work has screened in several festivals including the Queer Women of Color Film Festival and Queer Black Cinema in New York. The producer, Awilda Rodriguez Lora, is committed to creating and promoting art that spurs a progressive dialogue regarding race, gender and sexuality. Kortney and Awilda will be present during the screening and for a post-film discussion. You can view trailers, stills and more information about the film at stillblackfilm.org.

Sponsored by: The Women’s Studies Program, African and African American Studies, The Center for LGBT Life & The program in the study of sexualities at Duke

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Important Parking Info:
Due to the Men’s basketball game at 6pm, parking on the Duke West campus will be extremely limited at 7pm on Tuesday 11/17/09.  Special Events Parking attendants will try to save a few spaces in the Bryan Center garage and a few spaces on the main quad.  Identify yourself to the attendant as an attending "Still Black."  Special Event charges will apply and parking that night will cost $5. Please allow yourself significant time to park and walk to this event. For those who are able to do so, we urge you to consider alternate means of transportation: 

From UNC:
http://www.robertsonscholars.org/index.php?type=static&source=68

From other Triangle Locations:
http://triangletransit.org/bus/maps-and-schedules/#night
http://data.durhamnc.gov/schedules.cfm
http://parking.duke.edu/buses_vans/city_regional.php

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Christopher Purcell | Program Coordinator
Duke Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Life
02 West Union Bldg. | Box 90958 | Durham, NC 27708
P: 919-668-6242 | http://lgbt.studentaffairs.duke.edu




 

THE INVENTION OF AFRICA
legacies and impacts

a roundtable

Thursday, November 19, 2009
4:00 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Duke University


In 1989, Valentin Mudimbe's The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge (Indiana, 1988) was awarded the Herskovits Prize, given annually by the African Studies Association for the best book on Africa published in English.  To mark the 20th anniversary of that important occasion, please join us for a roundtable discussion with:

Moderator: Charles Piot
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology & African and African American Studies, Duke University

Gaurav Desai
Associate Professor of English & African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University

Achille Mbembe
Visiting Professor of English, Duke University; Research Professor in History & Politics, University of the Witwatersrand; Senior Researcher, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research

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Valentin Mudimbe
Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature, Duke University


Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), FHI Working Group on Atlantic Studies, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Duke University Libraries, and Program in Literature


Parking for this event is available at the Bryan Center garage and metered lot for $2/hour.  For directions to the Bryan Center and to the Perkins Library, please visit http://map.duke.edu/


Questions?  e-mail fhi@duke.edu