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Feb 05
Read Between the Lines: Getting to Know a Playwright Through His Work
February 5, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
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Feb 05
APOLLO 11 - Full Frame Road Show Winter Series
February 5, 2020 - 7:30pm to 9:15pm Carolina Theater
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Feb 05
A Conversation with Sally Jewell | Ferguson Family Lecture Series
February 5, 2020 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm LSRC B101 Love Auditorium
Recent Speakers More
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Lisa Borders
“Discouragement doesn’t have to be debilitating. If anything, discouragement should drive you to open your own doors and design your own future.”
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President Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera
“We should not take democracies for granted. It’s becoming more and more common to see how they can fail.”
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Robert Satloff
“Is America better off trying to invest its resources to address problems in the Middle East before they become crises, or to protect ourselves from the export of those crises to the United States?”
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Karen M. Davis
“It is important to have women in technology fields. If everyone is the same on your team you do not leave room for innovation.”
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Kathy Tran
“There is not a finite amount of freedom in this country. This is not a pie where there are only so many pieces to give away.”
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General Joseph F. Dunford Jr.
“We work for the American people and we’re conscious of that.”
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Issac Bailey
“As a black journalist I’m walking a tight line between not making things worse by downplaying problems within the black community, and not validating racial stereotypes.”
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Tara Westover
“What my education gave me was perspective—that the life I was leading was just one of many possible lives—and the will to choose.”
Duke in Action
Extra Credit with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal | What is the relationship between black comedy & activism?
At the height of his fame, Dick Gregory may have been the most influential comedian in America: But he wasn’t only concerned with making people laugh. Mark Anthony Neal of Duke’s African American Studies Department discusses how Gregory used comedy in the quest for civil and human rights.
Duke in the World
With a medical school in Singapore, a campus in China and programs from Russia to Peru, Duke has become a global university, one whose home campus is filled with the perspectives of people from around the world.
Duke in Durham
Durham’s distinctive neighborhoods and thriving businesses combine the friendliness of a small city with tasty dining, lively arts and an entrepreneurial spirit. Durham is diverse, dynamic and a great place to live.
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Kristin Schroeder & her @DukeGHI have found that improving outcomes for children with cancer in Tanzania is not alw… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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