Duke University African and African American Studies

What If Du Bois had Twitter? Trailer for Black Thought 2.0 Conference

Black Thought 2.0: New Media and the Future of Black Studies April 6-7, 2012Duke UniversityThe John Hope Franklin Center Black Thought 2.0 will focus on the roles of digital technology and social media in furthering the mission of Black Studies. The conference will specifically explore how scholars are using technologies…
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The Young & the Digital at Black Thought 2.0

by Evelyn Howell|The Triangle Tribune DURHAM - Advancements in new technology have allowed today's young users to connect with their friends and the outside world fast. Twitter, texting, YouTube and Facebook are all popular new media networking tools. "Mobile is considered the gateway. It's more pronounced in their lives and…
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Resetting Black Thought in the Age of Social Media

by Camille Jackson | Duke Today Scholars will discuss how social media enhances their teaching and allows them to reach new audience Durham, NC - What would have happened if NAACP co-founder W.E.B. DuBois had Twitter? Or Harriet Tubman or any number of great black leaders of the past? Social…
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What If Du Bois had Twitter? Trailer for Black Thought 2.0 Conference

Black Thought 2.0: New Media and the Future of Black Studies April 6-7, 2012Duke UniversityThe John Hope Franklin Center Black Thought 2.0 will focus on the roles of digital technology and social media in furthering the mission of Black Studies. The conference will specifically explore how scholars are using technologies…
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A Workshop on Critical Pedagogy Practices

    • aaas pedagogy workshop
Tuesday, March 27, 115 Friedl building, 5:30-7:00pmRSVP: ashon.crawley@gmail.com
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March 23: Roundtable on Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation by Rebecca Scott and Jean Hébrard

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Join us on March 23rd for a Roundtable on Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation by Rebecca Scott and Jean Hébrard. This deeply researched and riveting new book tells the story of generations of a family in the Atlantic World, from West Africa to Haiti and…
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Lecture by Ruthie Gilmore: March 14, 4:15, 225 Friedl

    • Ruthie Gilmore
Ruthie Gilmore (Geography, CUNY) will be speaking this Wednesday, March 14, at 4:15 in 225 Friedl. The title of her talk is "Mass Incarceration and the Infrastructure of Feeling: or Why Caliban Can't Say the 'P' Word".
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Black Thought 2.0: New Media & the Future of Black Studies Conference, April 6-7

April 6-7, 2012, John Hope Franklin CenterBlack Studies 2.0 will focus on the roles of digital technology and social media in furthering the mission of Black Studies. The conference will specifically explore how scholars are using technologies to further their research, do collaborative forms of scholarship and activism, and to…
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"Performance and Social Justice" presented by: Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea

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1:15pm-2:30pm; Duke Dance Laboratory, 1516 Hull Avenue, rear, Durham; free and open to the public SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, in residence at Duke University, and the Duke Dance program announce a guest lecture by Dr. Ananya Chatterjea, a dancer, choreographer, scholar and educator who envisions her dance work as a "call…
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