GLS eNews November 4, 2019

GLS Weekly Update - November 4, 2019
EVERY MONDAY 5:30-6:30 PM - Join GLS Director Anne Whisnant at GLS House for conversation and light refreshments on our screened porch!
In this edition:
- Sit + Chat with GLS Student Laura Ritchie
- GLS Spring Course Video Previews Posted
- GLS Cosponsors AAVS Conference
- Coming Soon: Admissions Period for Oxford Summer School
- Mondays on the Porch with Anne
- Share Your News!
- GLS Weekly Updates Archived
- Important Dates for GLS Students
- Events and Happenings
- Campus Opportunities
- Get Social with GLS
Laurie Ritchie Featured Guest at Power Plant Gallery Event

GLS student Laura Ritchie
Sit + Chat with Laura Ritchie
November 9, 1-2 PM
GLS student Laura Ritchie will join the Power Plant Gallery for a conversation as part the programming for Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South on view at the Power Plant Gallery, September 6-December 21, 2019.
Laura Ritchie is co-founder and former director of The Carrack, a zero-commission community art space in Durham, NC. A native of Salisbury, North Carolina, Ritchie has studied at UNC-Chapel Hill (BFA), the Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy and the Institute for Curatorial Practice at Hampshire College. She is a National Arts Strategies 2015 Creative Community Fellow and a 2014 Indie Arts Award winner. Ritchie serves on Duke Performance’s Advisory Board, on the Board of Directors for Elsewhere and The Carrack, and on the Public Art Committee for the City of Durham. Through community-engaged projects, Ritchie strives to be a catalyst for collaborative, interdisciplinary work across the arts in North Carolina.
This Fall, Ritchie is taking a break from graduate work at Duke University to complete a curatorial residency at the McColl Center for Art and Innovation in Charlotte. She lives in Durham with her partner Shirlette and their cat, Fiddle.
Spring 2020 Course Preview Videos Posted
Registration for Spring 2020 is underway! Check out the GLS course preview videos below to find out more about our spring lineup. See all Spring 2020 course descriptions here. Be sure to select "Spring 2020" from the term drop-down menu.



GLS Cosponsors AAVS Conference
GLS is once again pleased to co-sponsor the annual graduate student-organized conference Arpeggio, hosted by the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies (AAVS), Friday, November 22, at 2 PM in the Collision Space at Smith Warehouse (Bay 10). This year, with the overarching theme of "Spaces of Translation," Arpeggio invites scholars and students to explore the relationship between the original and reinterpreted, the authors and translators, and the artists and art historians from diverse regions such as China, France, Mexico, and the United States. Three speakers - Amara Solari (Penn State University Professor, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art), Kristel Smentek (MIT Professor, Eighteenth-century European art and Asian-European Cultural Interaction), Dario Robleto (Contemporary artist based in Houston, TX interested in the intersection between art and science) - will speak and a panel discussion will follow. GLS students are encourgaged to attend this free event.


GLS student Latoya Fladger visiting Oxford's African Studies Centre during the 2018 International Politics Summer School.
Coming Soon: 2020 Oxford International Summer Schools
Dreaming of Oxford's dreaming spires? GLS will begin taking applications for summer 2020 as soon as we receive the details from across the pond. Oxford has not yet confirmed the dates for 2020, but tentatively they are as follows:
- English & History – 5-25 July
- Creative Writing – 26 July-15 August
- International Politics – 2-15 August
We will send an announcement when we receive the 2020 course information, but the application deadlines and costs will be similar to the 2019 information currently posted on the GLS website. All application materials and billing are handled by GLS and Anne will provide letters of recommendation for all GLS applicants. Stay turned for more details.

Porch Sitting with Anne
Mondays, 5:30-6:30 PM - Director Anne Whisnant invites GLS students, faculty, and alumni to join her on the porch on Mondays from 5:30-6:30. Come share a chat, a drink and some snacks! No registration or RSVP needed, just drop by.

Got News? Send It to Us!
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GLS Weekly Update Now Archived
Email overload getting you down? You can now view issues of the GLS Weekly Update on our website at your leisure. Please note any non-GLS events and opportunities we feature are time-sensitive and may pertain only to the week covered by that particular issue. A new monthly alumni digest will be launched at the end of this month for those who would prefer less frequent program updates. Contact Lisa if you would like to be subscribed to the monthly digest only.
Important Dates for GLS Students
- GLS scholarship applications for Duke employees who are using the Employee Tuition Assistance reimbursement are due by December 1
Events and Happenings




Professor Naomi Seidman is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, and a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow. She has written books on the sexual politics of Hebrew and Yiddish, translation as the space dividing and connecting Judaism and Christianity, literature and the modernization of Jewish marriage, and the Orthodox girls’ school system Bais Yaakov.
Naomi Seidman and “The Navel of the Dream: Freud and/in Yiddish”
Monday, November 4, 7 PM, Friday Center at UNC-CH - This lecture explores the role of Yiddish in Freud’s writings and in the reception and translation of psychoanalysis. Was Yiddish, as the French psychoanalyst Max Kohn suggests, the “unconscious” of Freud’s German works? Were Yiddish translations a minor episode in the dispersion of psychoanalysis, or do they have a special place in this history, as the “lost originals” of Freud’s German writings?
This lecture is part of an on-going collaboration and lecture series with the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies.

Romance Studies doctoral candidate Joseph Mulligan disscuses tools for organgizing archival research at this Wednesday's Digital Brown Bag.
Weekly Digital Brown Bag @ The Murthy Digital Studio
Managing Images in the Archive and the Classroom12:00-1:00 PM, November 6
Murthy Digital Studio (Bostock Library 121) https://duke.libcal.com/event/5734987
How does our organization of archival visual materials shape the way we use them? With this question as our guiding thread, we will consider an art exhibit of copies of masterpieces that traveled across rural Spain in the early 1930s, asking how this exhibit might be reconstructed with digital resources at the Museo del Prado, and using two free, web-based tools: Google Photos, and Google Slides. In this Digital Brown Bag, Romance Studies doctoral candidate Joseph Mulligan critically assesses the advantages and limitations of these tools for organizing archival research and subsequently using those materials in the classroom.
Digital Brown Bags (hosted by Duke Libraries' Digital Scholarship & Publishing Services) are informal presentations and talks with Duke faculty or grad students about their digital project work, with the goal of making digital project work more familiar and possible. All are welcome! Registration is encouraged but not required.

This week: Screen/Society features a curated festival of notable student films produced in Spring 2019 AMI Courses at Duke University.
Screen/Society Fall Film Series
Screen/Society provides ambitious and entertaining film programming for the Triangle community, specializing in regional theatrical premieres of global and independent art films, and repertory programs including international classics, Hollywood genre works, and director retrospectives. The free screenings take place in the Rubenstein Arts Center's Film Theater. All screenings are free and open to the public. See the full fall schedule here.

Save the Date: GLS Holiday Party
It's almost that time again--mark your calendars for the annual GLS Holiday Party, December 3, 5:30-7:30 PM, at the Doris Duke Center in Duke Gardens.

Opportunities Around Campus
Visit the GLS Bulletin Board for a list of funding, volunteer, and other opportunities outside of GLS.