GLS eNews March 01, 2022
GLS Biweekly Update March 01, 2022
In light of Omicron, the GLS staff will continue to work a hybrid schedule (although someone will be at the GLS house each day). We will continue to hold meetings by Zoom. Email or phone remains the best way to each us.
GLS Evening Writing Seminars
Kent Wicker typically offers a series of evening seminars during the Spring semester designed around particular issues in academic writing.
Getting Personal: The Role of Personal Experience
Thursday, March 3, 5:30 - 6:30 pm
What is the effect of using that first-person “I” voice in an academic essay? What is an appropriate use of personal experience in academic analysis? Can it tell us things we can’t otherwise know? We’ll examine some examples to discuss their strategies and effectiveness.
The GLS Writing Seminars are highly informal, offering an opportunity to explore some aspects of writing in a bit more depth than can be done in the core course. Kent typically offers some reflections and some models or exercises, but there will also be plenty of time for questions and sharing of strategies in a workshop setting. To register please use the Zoom registration link above.
Summer Courses
Oxford Summer School 2022: GLS students may take one of four approved programs for three units of Duke credit: English Literature; History Politics & Society; Creative Writing (Intermediate or Advanced); or the International Politics Summer School.
Deadlines to apply vary according to program. Please note that all fees, including tuition, room and board, will be billed by the Duke Bursar and are due to Duke by May 12. Students are responsible for arranging and paying for airfare, ground transportation, and personal expenses. Please explore the link above and contact Lisa for details on submitting your application.
REGISTER NOW FOR GLS SUMMER COURSES
Reckoning with Inequality via Critical Family History
Susan Thorne
Summer Term 1, May 12 - June 23
T/Th 6:00 - 9:15 pm
Susan Thorne, Associate Professor of History, teaches courses on the social history of Britain and the British Empire, and on the history of European expansion more generally. She is currently working on Charles Dickens’ influence on Anglo-American “ways of seeing” the children of the urban poor.
*NEW* Chinese Art in Place
Stanley Abe
Summer Term 1 Extended, May 12 - August 7
Wed, 6:00 - 9:15 pm
Stanley Abe has published on Chinese Buddhist art, contemporary Chinese art, Asian American art, Abstract Expressionism, and the collecting of Chinese sculpture. He is now writing a narrative account of how Chinese sculpture came into existence as a category of Fine Art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Stay tuned for a featured video.
General information on Summer registration can be found here.
Opportunities
RCR Forum: Deconstructing Digital Scholarship
Wednesday, March 2, 1:00 pm
This workshop will help graduate students across the disciplines, but primarily in the humanities and social sciences, evaluate digital scholarly publications on the web. Students will acquire skills that will allow them to evaluate scholarly aspects of digital scholarly publications, appropriately cite those publications in their work, and understand how to credit the work of other contributors in their own digital works.
Students will explore digital scholarly publications through hands-on activities and discuss and reflect on best practices. This workshop will be led by Liz Milewicz, co-director of the ScholarWorks Center, and Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Head of the Humanities Section at Duke University Libraries.
RCR Workshop: Data Management for Humanists
Thursday, March 3, 10:00 am
Humanists work with various media, content, and materials (sources) as part of their research. These sources can be considered data. This workshop will introduce data management practices for humanities scholars to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle. Good data management practices pertaining to planning, organization, documentation, storage and backup, sharing, citation, and preservation will be presented through a humanities lens with discipline-based, concrete examples. While general good data management practices are relevant across disciplines, participants working specifically within the humanities are the intended audience for this workshop.
Symposium: Celebrating Computational Thinking at Duke
Thursday, March 3, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Join the Center for Computational Thinking in their first CCT symposium, live on YouTube. The Computational Humanities panel will be live from 3:00 - 3:55 pm. Find out more and register here.
Join any waitlists, if applicable, as space often becomes available.
CDVS Workshop: Python for Data Science: Pandas 101
Tuesday, March 15, 10:00 am- 12:00 pm
[Online] Part of the DataFest workshop series.
Python can be a great option for exploration, analysis, and visualization of tabular data, such as spreadsheets and CSV files, if you know which tools to use and how to get started. This workshop will take you through some practical examples of using Python and specifically the Pandas module to load data from files, access that data, and start visualizing it with the Pandas built-in plotting functions. You will also get some experience working in JupyterLab, the flexible programming environment which contain Jupyter Notebooks, a file browser, and more.
Humanities Degrees and Publishing Careers
Monday, March 21, 7:00 pm
The AGLSP will host a free virtual roundtable event moderated by Amy Danzer (Northwestern University) featuring Steven Burr (Confluence), William Nericcio (San Diego State University Press), and Donna Seaman (Booklist), in which they discuss ways they have used their humanities degrees to land careers in books and journals and have channeled their humanities backgrounds into creative projects and teaching. The panelists will also discuss ways that publishing dovetails with other pursuits in the humanities. Register for this free event here.
Don't forget the AGLSP Call for Presentations and Story Slam deadline is May 1, 2022. For more information about the CFP and AGLSP Annual Conference, click here.
Graduate Student Awards for Research in Latin America and the Caribbean: Duke graduate and professional school students pursuing a masters degree may apply for brief periods of research on Latin America or the Caribbean. Funding is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Application deadline for research in summer and fall is Friday, March 25, 2022. Click the link above for more info and to apply.
on display until April 10
GLS faculty Christopher
Sims documents the inhabitants and structures of imagined, fabricated Iraqi and Afghan villages on the training grounds of U.S. military bases. The Rubenstein Photographic Gallery will continue to show Sims' project until April 10, 2022. Learn more about this exhibit here.
April 21 - 22, 2022
This year's Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina Institute will be a hybrid two-day program, hosted by UNC-Charlotte. Mark your calendars and find out more here.
SAVE THE DATE!
GLS Graduation Ceremony
Washington Duke Inn
Saturday, May 7, 1:30 pm
Stay tuned for details
Monday, February 14 - Summer Registration begins
March 5-13 - Spring Break
Wednesday, March 16 - Deadline for initial submission of master's thesis for May 2022 graduation
Monday, March 21 - Fall Shopping Cart opens
Wednesday, March 30 - Registration begins for Fall 2022
Friday, April 1 - Final deadline to defend master's thesis for May 2022 graduation
Thursday, April 7 - Registration ends for Fall 2022
Wednesday, April 13 - Graduate classes end
Thursday, April 14 - Sunday, April 24 - Graduate reading period
Friday, April 15 - Deadline for final submission of master's thesis for May 2022 graduation
Saturday, April 30 - Last day of the semester
Saturday, May 7 - Commencement
Check out the links below for events happening across Duke.
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies (AAHVS)
Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Department of Gender, Sexuality & Feminists Studies
Department of International Comparative Studies (ICS)
- The Graduate Writing Lab offers regular accountability and catered feedback. Tuesday, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (Bostock 121) and Wednesday, 3:00 to 6:00 pm (Bivins 207)
- The GPSC Duke Community Pantry is open to graduate students Saturdays 12:00 - 2:00 pm at the GPSC House.
- The Duke Student Assistance Fund was established to better support master's students who may be experiencing difficulty providing for their basic needs during this extraordinary time.
- Blue Devils Care is a new mental telehealth service that can provide support wherever you may be located currently. You can access the service by using the key DUKE2020.
- The Duke Career Hub offers career support, content, and resources.
- The International House (iHouse) is a home away from home for international students.
- New resource for reporting Harassment, Discrimination, and other concerns: An Interactive Guide for Graduate School Students
- COVID-19 updates for students are available on Duke's Coronavirus Response website.
- Graduate School-specific COVID-19 updates are posted here.
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