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The Greek kingdom was one of the first new states to be established in Europe in the nineteenth century. However, its very foundation was fraught with difficulties: it followed one of the first international interventions in history (destruction of the...
Edwin Seroussi, faculty member of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will discuss the pizmonim (musical religious poems) of 16th-century rabbi Israel Najara. Register here Edwin Seroussi  is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology and Director of the Jewish Music Research...
Join us as GWSS Ph.D. students, Saad Khan and Marielle Marcaida , report back on the knowledge and insight they gained as participants in this year's Duke Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW). An annual event, now in its 17th year, the FTW...
Where Can We Be? Black Girls (Re)Creating Space through Digital Practice  Ashleigh Greene Wade, University of Virginia How do Black girls carve out spaces for themselves within sociocultural contexts that encourage their silence and erasure? This talk highlights the role...
Edwin Seroussi, faculty member of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will discuss Judeo-Spanish folk songs in modern times, drawing on his forthcoming book, “ Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today .” Register here Edwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor...
“Ruins” are the remnants of past civilizations that modern people objectify, manipulate, reproduce, reconstruct, and sell as artifacts. As sites of remembrance, “ruins” are also visual constructions of the past that can be visited and experienced in the present. In...
When One Day Equaled Twenty Years: China's Capitalists in the Great Leap Forward Puck Engman Assistant Professor Department of History University of California, Berkeley In 1956, the industrialist Li Kangnian gained fame for arguing that the state should pay fixed-rate...
Busra Demirkol "(Re)producing the Modern Ottoman Woman: Ottoman State Reform, New Medical Science, and the Policing of Women's Bodies in the Long Nineteenth Century" Nineteenth-century understanding of the protection of women’s health as a compulsory requirement for the state (Mahmud...
Busra Demirkol, Ph.C March 29th, Friday, 12:30-1:30 p.m. , Denny 211