GLS eNews November 25, 2019
GLS Weekly Update - November 25, 2019
TONIGHT 5:30-6:30 PM - Last porch (or lounge) sitting of the semester! Join GLS Director Anne Whisnant at GLS House for conversation and light refreshments!
In this edition:
- Emerging Leaders Institute Info Session
- New Job Opportunities with FHI
- RSVP for GLS Holiday Party
- GLS Closed for Thanksgiving Break
- Keep GLS in Mind for Your Holiday Giving
- Share Your News!
- Important Dates for GLS Students
- Events and Happenings
- Get Social with GLS
TGS to Host Emerging Leaders Institute Information Session December 3
GLS student Tiffany Farr (front row, third from left) will serve as a panelist at the Emerging Leaders Institute on December 3.
December 3, 12-1 PM
Carpenter Conference Room, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library (rm 249)
The Emerging Leaders Institute is an in-depth professional development program for Graduate School students and postdocs, designed to prepare you to hit the ground running as competent, confident, and effective leaders at Duke and beyond. In the course of five intensive workshops and a team project over approximately eight weeks, participants work with a team of experienced leadership facilitators and coaches to develop their communication, self-awareness, professional adaptability, interdisciplinary teamwork, and leadership skills. Our own Tiffany Farr will share her experience as part of a panel discussion. Click here for registration details.
New Job Opportunities Posted
The Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) has openings for a Graduate Assistant Events Coordinator (deadline to apply: December 2) and several work study position (rolling deadline). Visit the GLS Bullentin Board for details..
RSVP for GLS Holiday Party by Tomorrow, 11/26
The GLS Holiday Party is just over a week away and we need to finalize our numbers for catering. Please let Dink know by 5PM tomorrow, 11/26, if you'll be joining us. We will make merry at the Doris Duke Center in Duke Gardens, from 5:30-7 PM on Tuesday, December 3. We hope to see you there!
GLS Closed for Thanksgiving
Just a reminder that GLS will be closed from Thursday, November 28 through Sunday, December 1. We'll be up and at 'em again at 9 AM on Monday, December 2. We at GLS wish you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving and safe travels!
Support GLS This Holiday Season
Did you know that GLS is completely dependent on our tuition revenue to cover scholarships and operating expenses? Please keep GLS in mind when considering year-end donations. Secure online gifts may be made via the Give to GLS link at the top of our homepage.
Got News? Send It to Us!
If you've got news, we want to know about it! Please keep us up to date on your life outside of/after GLS--complete this short form if you have academic or job news you'd like to share.
Important Dates for GLS Students
- Thanksgiving recess begins at 10:30 PM on Tuesday, November 26. The Graduate reading period begins on Wednesday, November 27 and continues through Tuesday. December 10.
- GLS scholarship applications for Duke employees who are using the Employee Tuition Assistance reimbursement are due by December 1
- Don't forgot to make a little time in your schedule to celebrate the end of term with us at the GLS Holiday Party on Tuesday, December 3, 5:30-7 at the Doris Duke Center in Duke Gardens! Look for an e-vite soon.
Events and Happenings
Reading Group on Antigone (Spring 2020)
Juan Manuel Echavarria, Réquiem NN (2006-2013). Reproduced with permission from the artist.
The Franklin Humanities Institute seeks participants for a Reading Group on Antigone, organized by Andrés Fabián Henao Castro, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Castro currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the Academy of Global Humanities at Critical Theory and is in residence at the Franklin Humanities Institute.
The Reading Group on Antigone will focus on literary and theoretical criticism of the play. Readings may include G. W. F. Hegel, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Kamila Shamsie, and Anne Carson, and others.
Meetings will take place in the Spring of 2020 in preparation for a Fall 2020 colloquium, "Antigone's Wordlings." Find out more at FHI.