International Education Week at Duke

International Education Week (IEW) is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. It hopes to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn and exchange experiences.

This year, IEW is November 13-17, 2023.

Below are some global-centric events happening at Duke in and around that week.

Thursday, November 9

Reporting in China and Egypt: Finding Stories from the Nile to the Yangtze featuring Peter Hessler Keynote Lecture with Moderated Q&A
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Rubenstein Library, Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
Sponsors: Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund

Friday, November 10

Modern Revolutions in Ancient Civilizations: China and Egypt in the Work of Peter Hessler (Live podcast taping and interview with Q&A)
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Nasher Museum Auditorium
Sponsors: Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund

Monday, November 13

Southern Skies/Cielos del Sur Field Trip
The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC and Duke University and the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center will offer a field trip for the bilingual (English and Spanish) show Southern Skies/Cielos del Sur. The show is one hour and features Latin American skies with stories from indigenous Inca and Maya communities. The target age group audience is grades 7-10.

An event on Chile’s Constitutional Change
(Time and location TBD)

Human Rights in Practice: The Past and Future of Human Rights in Theory and Practice: 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Law School, Room 3037

GSF Graduate Scholars Colloquium presents Entre Las Chicas: Care, Abandonment, and Insistence in Colombian Prison Worlds
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
East Duke Parlors

Tuesday, November 14

Settler Colonialism as the Automation of Attritional Warfare: Death-disability-debility and the Making of Worlds
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Rubenstein Library, Breedlove Conference Room 349
Organized by the Concilium on Southern Africa

Study Away Mixer
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Rubenstein Library, Carpenter Board Room 249
Join the Global Education Office to speak with former study away participants and connect with other students looking to study away! There will be food, activities, and GEO staff present to answer questions.

Wednesday, November 15

Living Sectarianism: Lived Religion and Intersectionality in Urban Egypt featuring Hyun Jeong Ha
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Virtual Zoom 
Sponsors: Duke University Middle East Studies Center

Ecological Aesthetics: Visual Archives of Transformation in the Artwork of Marjan and Maryam Baniasadi
11:00 a.m – 12: 40 p.m.
Format: Virtual Zoom 
Sponsors: Duke University Middle East Studies Center

A Constellation of Care: Kaʻākaukukui Reef and the Native Hawaiian Anti-Eviction Movement in Early Twentieth Century Urbanizing Honolulu
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Classroom Building 229
Zoom: bit.ly/BourgetteJT

How Tupac, Rambo and Bob Marley Wove Their Way Into the Conflict Fabric of Sierra Leone
12:45 – 2:00 p.m.
John Hope Franklin Center
Room 240

Duke India Initiative Student Grantees’ Presentation
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Rubenstein Library, Carpenter Board Room 249
Organized by Duke India Initiative

Energy Transition in Latin American, Session 2
(Time and location TBD)
Sponsored by the Nicholas School, DBI, CLACS, Duke Institute for Energy and Climate

Thursday, November 16

The Sahel Region: Coups, Jihadism, Wagner & Anti-French Sentiments
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Old Chemistry 116
Organized by Duke Africa Initiative

Climate Catastrophe and the Crisis in Knowledgemaking: Decolonizing the Intellectual Commons
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Smith Warehouse
Bay 4, C105
Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall

Duke India Initiative – Graduate Student Travel Grantees’ Presentation
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Rubenstein Library, Carpenter Board Room 249
Organized by Duke India Initiative

“Rebuilding Ukraine” Featuring Guest Speaker Anders Aslund
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Perkins Room 217
Sponsored by the Economics Department and CSEEES

Sharing Our Stories, Part II
5:15 – 6:30 p.m.
Law School, Room 3043

Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Sanford 223
Rhodes Conference Room

Celebrating Peru/Celebrando Perú: An Evening of Music and History
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Nasher Museum of Art

Friday, November 17

More events coming soon!