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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 The Crossing is a solo performance piece, based on a true story, of one man’s journey from Zimbabwe to South Africa, and the challenges he faces and overcomes on the way. It provokes debate around issues of xenophobia, life choices, personal motivation and the struggle for human dignity, while increasing awareness and understanding of necessary life skills. Wednesday, Oct. 20 Sponsored by COSA and the Duke University Center for International Studies
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Parking is available on the south side of Smith Warehouse (soon to be metered) or on the gravel area across Buchanan Boulevard. Directions: http://maps.oit.duke.edu/building/150
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Kathryn Mathers, Visiting Prof. of Cultural Anthropology Safaris and township tours; cameras and guns; adventure and observation – this presentation examines how American travelers experience Africa and how their expectations shape those experiences. It will explore how gazing on and penetrating Africa appropriates it as the ideal place for Americans to discover themselves. Based on 3 years of fieldwork with a wide range of American travelers to Africa at the beginning of the millennium Mathers shows how Americans had to work hard to control their experiences of township tours and safaris so that they matched their expectations. Americans’ expectations were contradictory, requiring both seeing in real life the images they already knew of Africa and Africans and at the same time wanting to learn something new and unexpected about their destinations. In engaging with both the unexpected and the expected experiences that complicated their images and understanding of Africa and Africans, Americans found that they could not entirely control the lessons they learned. In trying to make sense of the encounters in southern Africa, their journeys became less about Africa than about America. Such accommodations led to stories about Africa that remained rooted in familiar tropes of dependency and desire made possible in part by the gestures of erasure, or assimilation of people into the landscape that are woven through the stories told by travelers about their encounters with Africans and through their penetrating action/ adventures on the continent.Wed., February 23
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Bridget Kenny, Assoc. Prof. in Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Prof. Kenny has published widely on the South African retail industry, precarious labour and gender. It will explore how gazing on and penetrating Africa appropriates it as the ideal place for Americans to discover themselves. Working class white women served as shop workers in South African department stores from the 1940s to the 1970s. This paper will examine how a particular construct of racialised femininity and domesticity within service work on the Rand became core to experiences of consumption and urban modernity there. Tues., March 1
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Thursday, March 24, 2011 Tshepo Moloi, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa A talk by Tshepo Moloi, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Local Histories and Present Realities Program, University of the Witwatersrand. Moloi has published widely on South African student politics. Thurs., March 24 |
Thursday, April 7, 2011 Ryan Brown, Duke undergraduate history major These students will talk about their papers which explore the life and times of public intellectual Nat Nakasa and religious activist Peter Storey during the first decades of apartheid. Thurs., April 7
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