GLS eNews February 17, 2020
GLS Weekly Update - February 17, 2020
GLS Coffee Hour is back on! Director Anne Whisnant will host a coffee hour at GLS House from 10-11 AM on Wednesday mornings. Please stop in and see us if you can!
In this edition:
- Summer Registration Opens Today!
- GLS Peer Writing & Support Groups Forming
- GLS Alumna to Give Public Talk at NC Museum of Natural Sciences
- Job Opportunity: Duke Reunions
- Call for Presentations: 2020 AGLSP Conference
- Student Commencement Speaker Applications Open
- Digital Brown Bag: "Maps and Views, Spaces and Places"
- GLS Bulletin Board: Upcoming Application and Proposal Deadlines
- Share Your News!
- Events and Happenings
- Get Social with GLS
Registration for Summer 2020 Starts Today!
Be sure to check out our Summer 2020 on-campus courses! Click on the links below for course descriptions.
Instructor: Dr. Deborah T. Gold
Mondays, 6-9 PM
Location TBA
Runs May 11-July 20
The purpose of this course is to better understand the processes and outcomes of death and dying. The course includes an overview of the biological process of dying and biomedical definitions of death, the social and psychological aspects of death and dying in modern American culture, death and dying as multicultural phenomena, the clinical issues around death and dying, and the management of those issues in an aging society. See more.
Instructor: Dr. Susan Thorne
Wednesdays, 6-9 PM
GLS Conference Room
Runs May 20-July 22
Course examines the colonial past and postcolonial present from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives: in addition to imperial, economic, military and social history, these include journalism, economics, international relations, law, medicine, anthropology, literary criticism, cultural studies, sexuality and gender studies, and public policy. See more.
GLS Peer Writing & Support Groups Forming
Peer Writing and Support Groups can help you develop your writing or stay on track as you work on your master's project. See the attached flyer for details. If you are interested in participating, please email Kent Wicker by Tuesday, February 18.
If you are already in a writing group that formed in a previous semester: please let Kent know if you intend to continue, and whether you would be interested in additional members.
GLS Alumna to Give Public Talk at NC Museum of Natural Sciences
Masters of Our Own Destiny - NC's African American Farmers
Wednesday, February 26
12-1 PM
NC Museum of Natural Sciences SECU Daily Planet Theater (Raleigh)
Melody Hunter-Pillion, a 2012 MALS graduate and a PhD canditate in NC State's Public History program, uses the oral histories of NC’s African American farmers and fishermen to tell the story of how these families have shaped North Carolina and how they are dealing with heritage depletion, land loss and climate change. The talk will also be available via livestream. Visit the NC Museum of Natural Sciences for details.
Job Opportunity: Duke Reunions Weekend
The Duke Alumni Association is currently hiring PAID student interns for Reunions Weekend (April 17-19)! This is our largest on-campus alumni gathering, allowing you to network with tons of alumni while getting free food and apparel from the DAA! These positions are open to ALL students (undergraduate, graduate, and professional). Applications are due February 27. Please email Madeline Drewry for details.
Call for Presentations: 2020 AGLSP Conference: "History, Heritage & Identity"
Paper proposals are due by March 15, 2020 for the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies (AGLSP) Annual Conference, "History, Heritage & Identity," San Antonio, TX, October 8-10, 2020. The AGLSP is the professional association of GLS programs, faculty and student; Duke GLS is a longtime member. Student papers are welcome: many Duke GLS students and alums have presented at the AGLSP conference.
Student Commencement Speaker Applications Accepted Through March 18
If you are a December 2019 or May 2020 graduate, consider applying to be the student speaker for the university-wide 2020 Commencement Ceremony. The deadline to apply is March 18. Alternatively, you may apply by March 2 to be part of the committee that chooses that speaker.
“Maps and Views, Spaces and Places": Mapping Pre-Modern Images
Wednesday, February 19, 12-1 PM
Murthy Digital Studio (Bostock 121)
What if we could climb into historical views of cities and experience the places they represent? How could we design digital methods and tools that reconstruct pre-modern views of cities in 3D even if the images don’t correspond to modern ideas about mathematical perspective or gridded Cartesian space? In this Digital Brown Bag talk, Phil Stern (History) and Ed Triplett (Art History) will discuss their NEH-funded project "The Sandcastle Workflow" - a methodology that attempts to deconstruct and reconstruct pre-modern maps within a software environment that suits their malleable conceptions of space. Stern and Triplett will show several examples which demonstrate why it is difficult to analyze these pre-modern views spatially, challenges that their upcoming Bass Connections and Data+ projects will also engage with. Stern and Triplett will also compare the affordances of modern world analysis systems such as GIS with creative "world-building" systems like game engines. Register here.
Digital Brown Bags @ The Murthy Digital Studio - Digital Brown Bags (hosted by Duke Libraries' Digital Scholarship & Publishing Services department) are informal presentations and talks with Duke faculty or students about their digital project work, with the goal of making this work more familiar and possible. All are welcome! Registration is encouraged but not required.
Opportunities Around Campus and Beyond
Visit the GLS Bulletin Board for a list of funding, volunteer, and other opportunities beyond GLS.
Upcoming deadlines:
February 17 • Waging Peace in Vietnam short documentary and essay contest • submission deadline
February 29 • Pat Tillman Scholars Program for military service members, veterans, and spouses • application deadline
March 2 • Deadline to apply to serve on the Student Speaker Selection Committee for 2020 Commencement
March 15 • 2020 AGLSP Conference • call for presentations
March 15 • 2020 Summer School in Global Studies and Critical Theory • Bologna, Italy • June 22 – July 3, 2020 •application deadline
March 18 • Deadline to apply to be the student speaker for 2020 Commencement
March 23 • Graduate Student Training Enhancement Grants • application deadline
Important Dates for GLS Students
- Registration for Summer 2020 begins February 17
- Deadline to email Kent re: GLS Peer Writing & Support Groups - February 18
- Spring Break - March 7-15
- Fall Bookbagging begins - Monday, March 30
- Fall Registration begins - Wednesday, April 1
- Fall Registration ends; Drop/Add begins - Friday, April 10
- Graduate classes end - Wednesday, April 15
- Graduate reading period - Thursday-Sunday, April 16-April 26
- Last day of semester - Saturday, May 2
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