GLS eNews October 5, 2020
GLS Express - October 5, 2020
Virtual Porch Sitting has come to a close for this semester. Stay tuned for other opportunities to gather virtually with GLS staff, students, and alumni.
GLS House remains closed until further notice. GLS staff are working remotely and may be reached via email.
GLS Student to Speak at John Hope Franklin Center Event
GLS student Douglass Coleman will offer introductory remarks at "Race + Gender and Invisibility in the STEM Fields. Stories of Action," this Wednesday, October 7 at 12 noon. Doug, who entered the MALS program this fall, is Program Director of BOOST: Building Opportunities & Overtures in Science & Technology at Duke.
The John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC) and the Duke Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS) are continuing the 2020-2021 Wednesdays at the Center (W@TC) programming online.
The W@TC series, the John Hope Franklin Center, and the international area study centers in DUCIGS have worked in the past to address issues of racism, inequality, and marginalization, both globally and locally.
This year, we will intensify our focus on anti-racism in a special series, JHF |Global Anti-Racism (histories of action).
The sixth event in this series features a rebroadcast of a May 2017 talk by Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African American Studies and the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) and Rochelle Newton, Senior Manager of IT at Duke Law.
Click here to register for the event.
Deconstructing Digital Scholarship (RCR Forum)
Thursday, October 8, 10 AM - 12 PM
This workshop will help graduate students across the disciplines, but primarily in the humanities and social sciences, evaluate digital scholarly publications on the web. Students will acquire skills that will allow them to evaluate scholarly aspects of digital scholarly publications, appropriately cite those publications in their work, and understand how to credit the work of other contributors in their own digital works. Students will explore digital scholarly publications through hands-on activities and discuss and reflect on best practices. This workshop will be led by Liz Milewicz, co-director of the ScholarWorks Center, and Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Head of the Humanities Section at Duke University Libraries.
This workshop provides 2 credit hours towards the Duke Graduate School's Responsible Conduct of Research credit requirements (GS717). All are welcome to register; priority seating will be given to graduate students, particularly students in the humanities and social sciences. All master’s students are required to complete four hours of RCR training during their orientation, and beginning with master's students matriculating in Fall 2019, an additional two-hour RCR forum. See The Graduate School's website for more information.
This event will be offered virtually due to Duke's Coronavirus (COVID-19) guidelines. Information about how to participate via Zoom will be sent to all confirmed registrants via email before the event. A Duke NetID is required.
Register for Master's Project Proposal Workshop
Monday, October 12, 12:30-1:30 PM
Are you submitting a proposal for a Spring 2021 master’s project? Would you like to get some feedback from your peers? Then register for the Master’s Project Proposal Workshop. Here’s how it works: everyone shares their draft proposals with each other and critiques them. You’ll also get the benefit of GLS Writing Consultant Kent Wicker’s advice.
To register for this optional workshop, email Kent.
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 fourth video of the series, Stay Safe, 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)
Upcoming Events
THERE IS STILL TIME TO REGISTER for this year’s AGLSP virtual conference. Pre-recorded presentations will be shown during the conference and live question and answer sessions with presenters will be held via Zoom.
See conference and registration details
Register for Session 2 (October 5)
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.
Click here to join the Zoom meeting.
RSVP to Caoimhe Harlock to receive the reading and Zoom link.
Register for Creativity & Mental Health
Registration is required. Click here to register.
Fri, Oct. 9, 9:30 - 11 AM EDT
Please join the FHI for its Friday morning faculty speaker series, tgiFHI! tgiFHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current research to departmental and interdepartmental colleagues, students, and other interlocutors in their fields.
All tgiFHI events take place at 9:30 a.m. on Friday mornings. The series will be virtual for the 2020-2021 academic year, and there will be an opportunity to join a facilitated discussion with the speaker after the lecture.
Talk description: In this talk, I examine one of modern theater's most iconic representations of catharsis - Suddenly, Last Summer - and excavate the cultural assumptions that made it possible. Tennessee Williams's play, I show, gained its force at a time when playwrights were priming their creativity by submitting to psychoanalysis and when stars were plumbing their own emotional memories under the guise of "Method acting" and the guidance of gurus such as Lee Strasberg. The work is drawn from my current book project, a history of catharsis. It turns away from questions about what Aristotle meant when he introduced the concept in Poetics and toward questions about its cultural endurance and ever-mutating significations.
Speaker bio: R. Darren Gobert, William and Sue Gross Professor of Theater Studies and Professor of English, specializes in comparative Western drama, dramatic and performance theory, and the philosophy of theatre. His publications include The Theatre of Caryl Churchill and The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater (Stanford UP), which won best book prizes from both the Canadian Association for Theatre Research and the American Society for Theatre Research. From 2015 to 2020, he was editor of the quarterly Modern Drama.
This event is organized by the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University and co-sponsored by Theater Studies and English.
The North Carolina Latin American Film Festival celebrates its 35th 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 9 - Proposal meeting deadline (for Spring projects; contact GLS early in semester with supervisor availability)
October 12, 12:30-1:30 PM - Optional MP proposal workshop (for Spring projects)
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.