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The BorderWork(s) Lab is very pleased to co-sponsor a 2-day workshop on Water and Climate Change in Africa on March 22-23, 2013. Registration is now open for those interested in attending – please click here. A limited number of abstracts from faculty and students will be accepted – see below or visit here for more information on how to submit an abstract. The full list of co-sponsors are listed below as well.
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The Duke Chronicle has a nice story up on Mapping the City: A Stranger’s Guide, the Lab’s student-curated exhibit currently on view at the Perkins Library Gallery.
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There are still spaces available in At Home/On the Wall, which is being taught this semester by Robin Kirk (Lab Co-director) and Erin Parish (PhD candidate, Cultural Anthropology).
The course flyer has been slightly revised to reflect travel funding opportunity for students. Please share!
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Duke undergraduate (T ’14) and SELFSudan founder Nyuol Tong speaks to BW about the paradox of borders in Western views of Africa – and an alternative perspective grounded in negotiation and introspection. Tong was a guest in the Humanitarian Challenges FOCUS’s weekly speaker series.
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Sasha Pack (History, University of Buffalo) discusses the dialectics of borders and borderlessness in the history of Spain, Europe, and beyond. Prof. Pack gave a talk entitled “Europe’s Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar in Modern Times” on October 19, 2012 – see flyer here.
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Kenyan environmentalist and Goldman Environmental Prize winner Ikal Angelei talks about her activism against the mega dam at Lake Turkana and the challenge that water/pasture access rights pose to administrative borders. Angelei was a guest in the Humanitarian Challenges FOCUS speaker series in Fall 2012 – see more information here.
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