GLS eNews October 28, 2021
GLS Biweekly Update - October 28, 2021
The GLS staff currently are working a hybrid schedule. Email and phone (GLS main number - 919-684-3222) remain the best way to reach us.
Please note that Independent Study proposals for Spring 2022 must be submitted online by October 31. Proposals must spell out required work (e.g., readings, assignments) for completion of the course, and that work must be equivalent to that of a 3-credit graduate-level course. Click here for the proposal form.
Parking at GLS House: Please note that the two permit-only parking spaces closest to the house are reserved for faculty and visitors to GLS House during business hours, Monday-Friday, 9 AM-5 PM. The other spaces in our lot require a Campus Drive permit (issued to Duke employees only). Please do not park in the unpaved areas. Students may obtain free after-hours permits for gated campus lots, including the Campus Drive lot behind GLS House. Paid options for graduate and professional students include annual permits for designated lots (see Proximate and University/H Remote Lots for rates) and single- and multi-day parking passes.
Register Now for Spring 2022
Spring registration is now open. We're excited to announce three new courses for Spring 2022. Check out the video previews below. Please be sure to enroll in CTN along with your selected courses.
LS 770-45 The Art of Storytelling
Instructor: Michelle Dove
Wednesdays 6-9 PM
GLS House, 2114 Campus Drive
Click here for course description.
LS 780-93 Critical Digital Knowledge: Seeing Data Bodies and Practicing the Future
Instructor: Amanda Starling Gould
Mondays, 2-5 PM
GLS House, 2114 Campus Drive, and online
Click here for course description.
LS 760-39 Protecting Nature in a World of People: Protected Areas, Economic Development and Tourism
Instructor: Robert Healy
Tuesdays, 6-9 PM
GLS House, 2114 Campus Drive
Click here for course description.
TGS Race and Bias Conversations Series Kicks Off Today
The Graduate School will hold its first Race and Bias Conversation of the academic year today, October 28, at 3 PM,, featuring inaugural Presidential Fellow and sociology faculty member Tyson H. Brown. Brown directs the Center on Health & Society and was recently named Duke’s inaugural Presidential Fellow. His research examines the who, when, and how of ethnoracial inequalities in health and wealth. He has authored numerous articles in leading sociology and population health journals, and his research contributions have been recognized with awards from the American Sociological Association. Brown was also the recipient of Duke University's Thomas Langford Award and was a resident fellow at Oxford University (2019-2020). In addition, he has been awarded funding for his training and research from the Robert Wood Johnson and Ford Foundations as well as the National Institutes of Health.
Click here to register for the event.
Professional Development for Master's Students
The Graduate School offers several professional development workshops throughout the semester. See the schedule below and visit the TGS website for details and registration.
Optional RCR workshops will be offered on November 2 and November 4. Remember that all master's students must complete one additional RCR training beyond the one completed at orientation.
Upcoming Faculty Events
Professor Chris Sims, currently teaching the GLS seminar Documentary Explorations, will present an artist talk and gallery viewing based on his new book The Pretend Villages (Kehrer Verlag and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies, 2021). The event will take place at 6 PM, November 4, in Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery and Perkins Library Room 217. The exhibit runs from October 23, 2021-February 27, 2022.
In this exhibit, The Pretend Villages documents the inhabitants and structures of imagined, fabricated Iraqi and Afghan villages on the training grounds of U.S. military bases. Situated in the deep forests of North Carolina and Louisiana and in a great expanse of desert near Death Valley in California, these villages serve as
strange and poignant way stations for soldiers headed off to war, and for those who have fled from it: American troops encounter actors, often recent immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan, who are paid to be “cultural role players.” Christopher Sims photographed in these surprising and fantastical realms from 2005 to 2018 as U.S. wars abroad fluctuated in intensity. With this book, he presents an archival record of “enemy” village life that is as convincingly accurate and comically misdirected as it is mundane and nightmarish.
Christopher Sims is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Undergraduate Education Director at the Center for Documentary Studies.
GLS is pleased to co-sponsor the Durham premiere of Rock Castle Home, an award-winning documentary by Charles D. Thompson, Professor of the Practice of Cultural Anthropology and Documentary Studies at Duke. The films makes its Durham debut at the Nasher Museum of Art on Thursday, November 11, 2021, 7:00 to 9:00 PM, and features live music by the renowned New Macedon Rangers. You'll recall that this past spring Professor Thompson taught the GLS seminar Migrations: Pilgrims, Immigrants, Refugees, and Tourists - A Study of Humanity through Movement.
Rock Castle Home presents the story of farming families displaced by the development of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the 1930s. Along with GLS, other sponsors are the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke Service-Learning, the Ormond Center at Duke Divinity, MFA in the Experimental and Documentary Arts, and the Center for Documentary Studies.
Masks are required and Duke Covid protocols observed for this event.
SPREAD THE WORD! Graduate Liberal Studies holds online information sessions for prospective students every Friday morning at 10 AM EST. These sessions, which last about an hour, are the best way to learn more about the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree at Duke University. GLS staff members are available to discuss degree requirements, the application and admissions process, and more. Click here for registration details.
Important Dates for GLS Students
Sunday, October 31 - Independent Study proposals for Spring 2022 deadline. Click here for the proposal form.
Monday, November 8 -Registration ends for Spring 2022
Tuesday, November 9 - Drop/Add begins for Spring 2022
Tuesday, November 23, 10:30 PM - Thanksgiving recess begins; Graduate classes end
Wednesday, November 24-Tuesday, December 7 - Graduate reading period
Wednesday, December 8-Monday, December 13 - Final examinations
Campus Calendars
Check out the links below for events happening across Duke.
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies (AAHVS)
Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Department of Gender, Sexuality & Feminists Studies
Department of International Comparative Studies (ICS)
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.
- 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 Duke Career Hub offers career support, content, and resources.