Shakespeare in Baghdad
Abdul Sattar Jawad, Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature, AMES It has been nearly thirty years since I drove to Oxford to visit its celebrated university and pay tribute to Shakespeare’s mausoleum in Stratford-upon-Avon in the heart of England. I was greeted in what seemed unthinkable: “Hey Sheikh Zbair, how’d…
Unbroken: Ali Farzat after Security Police Torture
presented by Miriam Cooke, professor of Arab culture, AMES ARAB SPRINGS: REVOLUTION AND REPRESSION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 16-18 February 2012 This second annual Duke-UNC Middle East Consortium brought together panelists from Egypt and Tunisia as well as scholars based in the U.S. who are working on the various Arab protest…
Event-based versus entity-based discourse processing: A comparative analysis of Korean and Japanese topic marking.
EunHee Lee, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University at Buffalo Time: February 21st, Tuesday, 4:30-6:00 pm Place: 240 Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Rd., Durham It is commonly assumed that topic marking with wa and (n)un in Japanese and Korean respectively exhibits equivalent structural and pragmatic properties (Lee 1989, 2001; Kim 1990).…
A critical look at South Korean immigration laws and regulations and the legal status and rights of foreign spouses
October 19th, Wednesday, 4:30-6:00 pm Professor Young Seon Kim Dong-A University, Pusan, Korea 130/132 Franklin Center, Room South Korea is in the transnational circuit of labor and marriage migration as a destination of unskilled or low-skilled workers and 'mail-order brides' from near-by and far-away countries. Asian women settling in Korea…
Iraq's Ambassador Visits Duke
Ambassador has hope for Iraq's future Despite nearly a decade of American military presence, a functioning democracy has still not manifested itself in Iraq, at least in the opinion of the Iraqi ambassador to the United States. Samir Sumaida’ie, who was appointed as Iraq’s ambassador to the U.S. in 2006,…
Decolonial Taiwan
Professor Guo-Juin Hong's video installation comments on ongoing aspects of colonialism in Taiwan
