GLS eNews October 12, 2020

GLS Express - October 12, 2020

GLS House remains closed until further notice. GLS staff are working remotely and may be reached via email.

New Seminars on Tap for Spring

Bookbagging for Spring 2021 begins next Monday, October 19, and we're pleased to offer two new seminars! In the video below, Charlie Thompson, Professor of the Practice of Cultural Anthropology and Documentary Studies at Duke, discusses his course "Migrations: Pilgrims, Immigrants, Refugees, and Tourists - A Study of Humanity through Movement." Stay tuned for a sneak peek at Amanda Starling Gould's course, "ReDesigning the Future: Radical Innovation After COVID."

Grad School Hosts Race and Bias Conversations Series

On Oct. 13, The Graduate School's Race & Bias Conversations series will kick off with Dean McClain leading a discussion about desegregation of private higher ed in the South, using a book that examines desegregation at 5 institutions, including Duke. Click here for details and to register.

Master's Project Colloquium Sessions Scheduled

For students currently enrolled in LS 850 this semester. Open to all who are still working on projects.

• Oct 13, 12 noon – 2 PM Eastern (Zoom: https://duke.zoom.us/j/92402682211)
• Nov 9, 12:00 noon – 2 pPM Eastern (Zoom: https://duke.zoom.us/j/9287rr 9089153)

Questions? Email Anne

GLS Hosts Weekly Virtual Info Sessions

Spread the word! Each Friday at 10 AM, through November 20, GLS will hold weekly virtual information sessions via Zoom. Word of mouth continues to be one our best recruitment tools, so if you know of someone you think might be interested in the program, please send them our way.

Info sessions are a great way for prospective students to learn more about GLS and to see whether it's a good fit for them. We'll talk about the application process, curriculum, faculty, students, cost, and how Duke employees can use their tuition benefit to help finance their degree. We will make time for your questions as well. Advanced registration is required. See our website for dates and registration details. 

The Graduate School Offers Prescription for Persistence Series

The Graduate School has launched Prescription for Persistence, a new video series that outlines 10 strategies for staying the course in graduate school. Watch the fifth video of the series, Use Your Resources, below.

Career Center Offerings

Shift Happens: How to Build Flexible Career Plans in Uncertain Times - Friday, October 23, 10-10:45 AM

Drop-in Advising for Graduate Students - Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays (see Career Center website for times)

In Case You Missed It

Coronavirus Conversations:

Emergency Use Authorization, Public Trust, and Vaccines

October 7, 2020

Presented by Duke Science & Society

Upcoming Events

Throughout October 2020 - More than a century after she began her journalistic work, Ida B. Wells was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. To celebrate the life and work of of this pioneering Black journalist, advocate and educator, the Center for the Study of the American South is partnering with the Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition (OCCRC) to host a series of six virtual events throughout October 2020. The symposia of panel discussions, lectures, educator workshops, and performances aims to encourage the continued work of investigative journalism and increasing and retaining reporters and editors of color. No single person has used the power of words to fight racial violence more than Wells-Barnett, who shone “the light of truth” across the nation on lynching at its height between the 1890s and 1930s.

See the Center for the Study of the American South for event and registration details.

Working with Sound for the Moving Image and Beyond -

Sindhu Thirumalaisamy 

Monday, October 12, 2020, 5:15-6:45 PM

Online event. Open to the public. Zoom link (registration required): https://duke.zoom.us/j/2640225252?pwd=ZlVpT1JNWnpkTmRvd3oxQjZCeC9Jdz09 

Sindhu Thirumalaisamy’s work across moving images, sound, and text, has explored hospitals, parks, streets, temples, mosques, and lakes, as multivalent sites that hold possibilities for collective resistance and care. Thirumalaisamy is a Core artist-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She holds a Diploma in Digital Video Production from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, and an MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego. She has participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, the SOMA Summer program, and the Whitney Independent Study program.

Thirumalaisamy’s most recent film, ‘The Lake and The Lake,’ won the Best Documentary Award at the 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Other recent exhibitions include programs at EFA Project Space, Open City Documentary Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, DokuFest, Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, Union Docs, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Center, Artists’ Television Access, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Current: LA Triennial, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the San Diego Museum of Art.

VMS261 Moving Image Practice 

Sponsored by the Visiting Artist Series of the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Stud

Join us this Wednesday, October 14, at 10:15 AM for a public Zoom discussion about the significance of Black photographers, the power of the camera’s gaze, and photography’s role in movements for human rights and social justice. The panel will feature Jamaica Gilmer, photographer and founder of “The Beautiful Project,” (www.thebeautifulproject.org), documentary photographer and visual storyteller Dare Kumolu-Johnson (www.kumolustudios.com), and Jay Simple (www.jaysimple.com), visual artist and founder of Photographer’s Green Book. The discussion will be moderated by independent curator and art historian Anita Bateman, Ph.D.

Free and open to the public. Zoom registration required: REGISTER HERE. This event is co-sponsored by the Forum for Scholars and Publics and The Focus Program in collaboration with Duke’s first-year FOCUS course, “Human Rights on Camera,” taught by Professor Rebecca Stein.

More Info: fsp.duke.edu/events/practices-black-photographers

Quicker Than Coal Ash - Will Warasila

Thursday, October 15, 2020, 1-2 PM

Online Event. Open to the public. RSVP to Tom Rankin for Zoom link: tom.rankin@duke.edu

Artist Q&A - History of Documentary Film: Carceral Geographies - Brett Story, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University

Thursday, October 15, 2020, 2:30-3:30 PM

Note: The film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes can be viewed in advance by anyone with a Duke login via Kanopy

Online Event. Open to the public. Zoom link: https://duke.zoom.us/j/91317123845

Humanities Unbounded Ethnography Workshop: Graduate Colloquium "Affordances of Schizophonia

Friday, October 16, 2020, 1-2:30 PM Eastern

Hosted By: Humanities Unbounded Ethnography Workshop

Moderators:

Cade Bourne (Graduate Fellow, Music Department)

Yanping Ni (Graduate Fellow, Asian-Pacific Studies Institute)

Panelists:

Professor John Supko (Associate Professor, Music Department, Duke University)

Members of the OS Collective (A collective of artists and scholars that work with multimodal ethnographic installations and experimental ethnography)

The field recording is a time-honored technique across the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. This panel, comprised of anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, composers, and sound artists, asks:

•  Is the separation of sound from its source necessarily a destructive or violent process?
•  What are the possibilities for the use of field recordings both as part of the ethnographic process and as an ethnographic product?
• What are the ethics of the recording and reproduction of sound in ethnography and music composition?
• Can ethnography be distinguished from art?

 Click Here to Register

Click Here to Access Recording and Reading

The North Carolina Latin American Film Festival celebrates its 35^th year with a number of activities and a new website.

The 35th season of NCLAFF will be an homage to some of the best Latin American films produced in the past 35 years, all available virtually and free to the public. 

Participants can also take part in a three-part webinar, NC Conversations: Latin American and Caribbean Film in the Era of Neoliberalism (1985-2020). Register for NCLAFF Conversations. 

See the list of films and events here.

Visit the Laboratory for Social Choreography.

Important Dates for GLS Students

Registration Deadlines:

October 19 - Bookbagging begins for Spring semester

October 28-Monday, November 9 - Spring Registration

November 17-19 - Graduate reading period

November 20-November 24 - Final examinations

Master's Project Deadlines:

October 23 - Proposal submission deadline (for Spring projects)

October 23 - "Apply for Graduation" deadline (for December graduation)

December 4 - Last Day to Hold Master's Exams

Online Resources for Graduate Students

• COVID-19 updates for students are available on Duke's Coronavirus Response website.
• Graduate School-specific COVID-19 updates are posted here. TGS has also created a FAQ for continuing and incoming international students.
• The Duke Student Assistance Fund was established 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 Career Center now offers online drop-in advising for graduate students on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. View the schedule here.