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GLS eNews October 21, 2019

GLS Weekly Update - October 21, 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:

Alumna Debuts Film at FHI
Share Your News!
Intro to Public History Open to GLS Students
GLS Weekly Updates Archived
Important Dates for GLS Students
Events and Happenings - SAVE THE DATE: GLS Holiday Party
Campus Opportunities
Get Social with GLS

GLS alumna Rhonda Klevansky (MALS 2014)

Duke housekeepers interviewed as part of the documentary Keepers of the House.

Alumni Spotlight: Rhonda Klevansky

GLS alumna Rhonda Klevansky, an accomplished photographer, writer, and filmmaker, has produced a new film as part of the Franklin Humanities Institute's Health Humanities Lab. Keepers of the House profiles eight housekeepers at Duke Hospital and Duke Regional Hospital as they talk about their special relationships with patients and the ways in which they believe their work contributes to healing. Watch the film now on FHI's website.

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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.

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

Bookbagging begins for Spring semester - Monday, October 21 *SEE SPRING SEMINAR LINEUP*
Master's Project Proseminar Session II -- Tuesday, October 22, 6:00-8:30pm, GLS House
Proposal submission deadline (for Spring projects) -- Friday, October 25
"Apply for Graduation" deadline (for December graduation) -- Friday, October 25
Spring Registration begins - Wednesday, October 30
GLS scholarship applications for Duke employees who are using the Employee Tuition Assistance reimbursement are due by December 1

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.

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.

This week: The Memory Project - Wu Wenguang, a foundational figure for Chinese independent documentary film, launched The Memory Project in 2010 to document the gathering of oral histories from the rural survivors of China’s Great Famine (1958-1961). Wu and two of his collaborators will be on campus for three nights of film screenings and one night of performance.

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.