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GLS eNews October 14, 2019

GLS Weekly Update - October 14, 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:

  • GLS Goes to Washington
  • Homecoming Photos Posted
  • Intro to Public History Open to GLS Students
  • Important Dates for GLS Students
  • Campus Opportunities
  • Events and Happenings

GLS alumna Lela Ali (MALS 2019)

GLS student Kayla Bloodgood

AGLSP Pre-Conference Workshop

GLS Goes to Washington

Duke GLS is a member of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, which just held its 2019 conference in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The theme of this year's conference was "The Commons: Exploring Common Ground in Uncommon Times." On Thursday, GLS assistant director Kent Wicker attended the pre-conference workshop to learn and share ideas with other Liberal Studies programs. On Friday, Duke GLS alumna Lela Ali gave a presentation based on her master's project research, "Social Network Analysis of Muslim-led Networks in the Triangle Region of North Carolina." On Saturday, current Duke GLS student Kayla Bloodgood gave a presentation on a short story by Harlem Renaissance writer Rudolph Fisher, "Mapping Harlem: Destabilizing Racial Identity and Solidarity in 'The City of Refuge'." Duke GLS regularly sends students to this conference, and funds are available for any student delivering a paper at a conference.

GLS Homecoming

Photos Posted

Thanks to all who came out to our open house on Friday! We had a wonderful time seeing everyone and look forward to seeing you at our holiday party on December 3. In the meantime, here are a few photos from our event.

UNC-CH Public History Course Open to Duke GLS Students

GLS Director Anne Whisnant will be teaching History/American Studies 671, Introduction to Public History, this spring (2020) at UNC-Chapel Hill. This graduate-level course will be offered on Monday evenings, 6:00 to 8:30 pm, on the UNC campus. Public history is an interdisciplinary, applied field that puts history to work in museums, historic sites, national parks, digital projects, archives, and communities. Through inter-institutional registration, this course is available to Duke GLS students who are taking an equivalent number of units at Duke the same semester. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Dr. Whisnant.

Important Dates for GLS Students

Opportunities Around Campus

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

Events and Happenings

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.

Fellow Presents Research on "the real Mrs. Maisel"

The Duke Center for Jewish Studies invites you to our very first “works in progress” here at the Duke Center for Jewish Studies on October 16 at 11:30AM in Gray 230 (location subject to change)! Our first presenter will be our Perilman Post-doctoral Fellow, Grace Overbeke, presenting her research on the life and work of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish female stand-up comedian—“the real Mrs. Maisel.” This project developed out of Dr. Overbeke’s interests in female Jewish comedians and autobiographical performance among marginalized populations. 

Please RSVP to serena.elliott@duke.edu; a vegetarian lunch will be served. 

Screen/Society sets the mood with two spooky films this week: The Old Dark House (1932) and 90s cult classic, The Craft.

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.

Mark Burford, Associate Professor of Music at Reed College

Lecture: Mahalia Jackson, Bessie Smith, Marian Anderson, and the Legibility of Black Women's Voices

Mark Burford of Reed College will give a lecture on gospel singer Mahalia Jackson on Friday, October 18, at 4 PM, in room 101 of the Biddle Music Building. This talk focuses on Jackson's positioning in relation to two African American vocalists that she cited as influences but who are not often thought of in conjunction with each other: blues singer Bessie Smith and contralto Marian Anderson. The triangulation of discourse on the voices of these three women, and in particular the representation of their voices through the reception of Mahalia Jackson, invites to consider how we imagine and racialize "encultured" and "natural" voices, while raising questions about ways black women's voices are heard, understood, and generate meaning.

Mark Burford is Associate Professor of Music at Reed College, where he is also chair of the American Studies program. His research and teaching focuses on late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Austro-German concert music and twentieth-century popular music in the United States, with particular focus on African American music after World War II. He is the author of Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field (2019, OUP).Mark P

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