The public is invited to a dialogue between former Mayor of Houston, TX Annise Parker and Duke professor of history Adriane Lentz-Smith, as the Kenan Institute for Ethics presents its 2018/2019 discussion series "The Ethics of Now."
Annise Parker is an American politician and the sixty-...
Join us for a conversation with Clay Risen, editor of the New York Times series Vietnam '67, and Christian Lentz, a specialist on the history of Vietnam, about the ways in which we remember the Indochinese and Vietnam wars. Duke History professor Adriane Lentz-Smith will moderate the discussion...
Within a range of "normal" exposure and "typical" development, all children acquire the language in their environment on a similar timescale. At the same time, the specific input and cognitive faculty a child is endowed with dictates what she is, in principle, able to learn. Elika Bergelson will...
Discussion with Dr. William Ascher, founder of the Duke Center for International Development and now Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont-McKenna College.
Award-winning author Marcello Di Cintio will speak about his exploration of the Palestinian experience through first-hand reporting about what art and literature mean to modern Palestinians.
Copies of Di Cintio's book, "Pay No Heed to the Rockets" will be available.
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