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Said@Duke: 2019-2020

Thoughtful comments from guest speakers visiting the university during the 2019-20 academic year...

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“If a historian has to seek to practice their craft with integrity and depth, they must ... not fall into the trap of putting one's personal ideological preferences onto the past.

Said@Duke: Ramachandra Guha on What Makes a Good Historian

Ramachandra Guha spoke last week on three major arguments that Gandhi had in his lifetime-...
PUBLISHED March 3, 2020 IN Campus , Academics
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“His photographs speak as powerfully as any words James Baldwin put on paper.” — Photographer/historian John Edwin Mason

Said@Duke: John Edwin Mason on Work of Gordon Parks

Historian and photographer John Edwin Mason talked about his work-in-progress, a book about...
PUBLISHED February 20, 2020 IN Campus , Academics
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North Carolina has done more to get the business model right. North Carolina is the test bed to move to health care value faster than any other state.

Said@Duke: Aneesh Chopra on Technology Improving Health Care

Aneesh Chopra, president of CareJourney and the nation's first chief technology officer,...
PUBLISHED February 19, 2020 IN Campus , Academics , Medicine
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We are unaccustomed to thinking about youth voter suppression within a traditional voting rights framework. As a result, efforts that may perhaps seem disparate start to reveal a pattern nationally.” -- Attorney Yael Bromberg

Said@Duke: Yael Bromberg on Students' Voting Rights

Yael Bromberg, a constitutional rights attorney, spoke last week about barriers to young people...
PUBLISHED February 17, 2020 IN Campus , Academics
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“Lead through influence, rather than power. Be willing to adjust your position, and learn to listen.” — Sally Jewell, Interim CEO of The Nature Conservancy/former US Secretary of the Interior

Said@Duke: Conservationist Sally Jewell on Leadership

Sally Jewell, interim CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former U.S. secretary of the Interior,...
PUBLISHED February 11, 2020 IN Campus , Academics
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“Russia’s interests in Ukraine will always be greater than the United States, but that doesn’t mean the United States has to concede everything to Russia.” -- Retired Col. Liam Collins

Said@Duke: Liam Collins on Why Ukraine Matters to U.S.

Retired Col. Liam Collins, a career Special Forces officer, spoke Monday on the importance...
PUBLISHED February 10, 2020 IN Campus , Academics
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“One of the reasons that we wrote Stay Woke is because we believe that most people want to do well but need guidance toward that— and that’s not just white folk, but black folk too.” — Candis Watts Smith, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Said@Duke: Candis Watts Smith on Making Black Lives Matter

Candis Watts Smith, Ph.D. ’11, associate professor of political science and African...
PUBLISHED February 10, 2020 IN Campus , Academics
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“It’s an enormous change to see women in numbers on law reviews and heading law reviews. It’s one of the things that makes me optimistic about the future.” - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Said@Duke: Justice Ginsburg on Women Leading Law Reviews

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke this week at at a...
PUBLISHED February 5, 2020 IN Campus , Academics
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Said@Duke: Dr. Madhukar Pai on Fighting Malaria

Dr. Madhukar Pai was a speaker at last week's ...
PUBLISHED February 6, 2020 IN Campus , Academics , Medicine
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Said@Duke: Jamillah Karim on Black History

Author Jamillah Karim participated in last week’s...
PUBLISHED February 5, 2020 IN Campus , Academics
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“I would say that in every situation that I’ve been in, there is hope. Whether we’ve seized on it as much as we could have or invested in it or celebrated it as much as we could have – there’s always been opportunity.” -- Fmr. Amb. Frederick Barton

Said@Duke: Fmr. Ambassador Frederick Barton on American Power

Former Ambassador Rick Barton joined Duke political scientist Kyle Beardsley this week for a...
PUBLISHED January 29, 2020 IN Campus , Academics
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