Congratulations to the curatorial team!
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Did you know that the BorderWork(s) Lab has its own playlist on the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) YouTube channel? Here are the two latest additions to our list. (Also in the department of “in case you didn’t know,” the video feature on the bottom right of our home page is set to display the latest video from the playlist.)
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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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