UPCOMING CONVERSATIONS

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Fall 2022 Duke Conversations
October 24: Roseen Giles
October 25: Iyun Harrison
October 26: Stephen Smith
November 2: Megan Mullin
November 8: Sophia Santillan
November 9: Vincent Price
November 10:Abdullah Antepli
November 16: Luana Lima
November 17: Cynthia Rudin

*All conversations will be from 6-8:30 PM!

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Roseen Giles - Monday, October 24

Assistant Professor of Music at Duke

How do practices of listening to music change over time?

Roseen Giles is an Assistant Professor of Music at Duke. As a musicologist with a specialty in early modern musical culture, she is the curator of DUMIC (Duke University Musical Instrument Collections), and has published essays on music and philosophy in the Renaissance, and memory and orality in the notation of medieval music. She is currently preparing an edition of Alessandro Grandi's Madrigali Concertati (1615 and 1622) for the composer's Opera Omnia published by the American Institute of Musicology. An active baroque flautist, she also performs regularly in both orchestral and chamber settings.

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Iyun Harrison - Tuesday, October 25

Associate Professor of the Practice of Dance

It's Time for an Intervention: Breaking Gender Stereotypes in the Dance Profession

Iyun Ashani Harrison is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Dance and a Director of Undergraduate Studies for Dance at Duke. Born in Saint Andrew, Jamaica, Harrison first trained in acting, classical ballet, modern technique, and Jamaican folk dance. A precursor to Ballet Ashani, Harrison founded, served as the executive director and resident choreographer for Ashani Dances (2011 – 2018). Most recently in 2019, Harrison moved his company to Durham, NC and rebranded it as Ballet Ashani – A Contemporary Ballet.

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Stephen Smith - Wednesday, October 26

Professor of the Practice of African and African American Studies

Why Africa Matters, and Not Just in Sunday Sermons or Ethics Classes

Stephen W. Smith is a Professor of the Practice of African and African American Studies and has been teaching African Studies at Duke since 2007. He holds a PhD in semiotics from Berlin's Free University and graduated in anthropology at the Sorbonne (Panthéon) in Paris. The deputy editor of the foreign desk at Le Monde for five years and, previously, the Africa editor at Libération for twelve years, he had worked as a roving correspondent in West and Central Africa for the Reuters news agency and Radio France International (RFI). He has widely contributed to many publications and writes regularly for The London Review of Books.

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