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TXEXplainer: Confederate Statues on Campus

TXEXplainer: Confederate Statues on Campus

On Wednesday, UT president Greg Fenves announced the formation of a task force charged with determining the future of the Jefferson Davis statue that overlooks the South Mall from its northwest corner, as well as statues of other Confederate leaders. The statue of Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, has been controversial since it was first proposed, and recent events highlighting the lingering scars of slavery and racial inequality have amplified the chorus of voices calling for its removal.

Here’s what we know about the Confederate statues on campus and the commission that may decide their fate.

Who’s on the task force?

The group, formally called the Task Force on Historical Representation of Statuary at UT-Austin, is composed of current student leaders, faculty members, administrators, and alumni. Here are the members, as announced last week:

Gregory J. Vincent, Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement (chair)

Laura Beckworth, JD ’83, Life Member, Chair of UT-Austin Development Board

Daina Berry, Associate Professor, Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies

Hector de Leon, BS ’70, JD ’73, Life Member, Distinguished Alumnus, past president of both the UT Law Alumni Association and the Texas Exes

Edmund “Ted” Gordon, Chair, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies

Rohit Mandalapu, Vice President, Student Government; Senior, College of Liberal Arts

Carlos Martinez, Associate Vice President for Governmental Relations

Lorraine Pangle, Co-director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas; Professor, Department of Government

Xavier Rotnofsky, President, Student Government; Senior, College of Liberal Arts

Frederick “Fritz” Steiner, Dean, School of Architecture

Marisa Swanson, President, Social Work Council; Member, Senate of College Councils; Senior, School of Social Work and College of Liberal Arts

Brian Wilkey, President, Graduate Student Assembly; Graduate Student, College of Natural Sciences

What are they supposed to be determining?

Fenves is essentially asking for a list of possible options for the historic statuary on the Main (or South) Mall, along with pros and cons for each option regarding how different campus constituencies might react. The task force’s guidelines also stress the artistic and historical meaning of the statues, and their own history on the Forty Acres “with particular focus on the statue of Jefferson Davis.”

Here’s the official to-do list:

Analyze the artistic, social, and political intent of the statuary on the Main Mall, with particular focus on the statue of Jefferson Davis, as well as the historical context that they represent.

Review the previous controversies over the Main Mall statues and factors that are similar and different today.

Develop an array of alternatives for the Main Mall statues, particularly the statue of Jefferson Davis, with special attention to artistic and historical factors considering the university’s role as an educational and research institution. In providing alternatives, a discussion of the pros and cons for each alternative from the perspective of students, faculty, alumni, and other important campus constituencies will be particularly useful.

Is this a new debate?

Far from it. The statue has drawn criticism since before it was even constructed (more on that in a moment). And this isn’t the first time a task force has looked into it, either: In 2003, then-UT president Larry Faulkner commissioned a Task Force on Racial Respect and Fairness, which issued a report on the statue as well as other race-related campus controversies.

Faulkner noted that the Davis statue was originally designed to be part of a group of several Confederate and Union figures, but that the plans were changed so that the statues ended up scattered across the mall, which took them out of context. “Each statue became, by default, an isolated representation of the depicted individual, with no clear theme underlying the selection of individuals,” Faulkner said. He proposed uniting them as sculptor Pompeo Coppini originally intended, but that never happened.

There’s more than one controversial statue?

While the statue of Davis, the most important Confederate enshrined in bronze, is certainly at the center of the debate, other statues of Confederates line the mall.

A statue of John H. Reagan, leaning on a cane, hat in hand, stands near Mezes Hall. Reagan, the namesake of Austin’s Reagan High School and the Reagan State Office Building on the Capitol grounds, was the postmaster general of the Confederacy. After the war, he urged his fellow Texans to cooperate with the federal government, renounce secession, and allow freed slaves to vote.

Albert Sidney Johnston stands by Calhoun and Parlin Halls. Johnston, the former namesake of what is now Eastside Memorial High in Austin, fought in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican-American War before serving in the Confederate Army. He was killed in the Battle of Shiloh, likely by friendly fire. He was the highest-ranking officer killed in action on either side of the war.

Johnston was succeeded as the darling of the Confederacy by Virginian Robert E. Lee, who is also represented in bronze.

Why is there a statue of Jefferson Davis on campus anyway?

The short answer is that George Washington Littlefield—prominent rancher, banker, donor, Confederate soldier, and UT regent—wanted one, and he donated the money to make it happen.

But the short answer isn’t as interesting as the longer version. It involves Littlefield and a rival regent, also named George Washington. In 1910, George Washington Brackenridge donated 500 acres along the Colorado River, now called the Brackenridge Tract. Many supported moving the university from its current location to the roomier tract, but Littlefield, whose Victorian home sat across the street from campus (now firmly in the middle of campus), opposed it.

Littlefield was committed to Texas and the South. Brackenridge, a northerner, was more committed to education. Robert Vinson was UT’s president from 1916-22, and summed up the animosity between the two succinctly: “When Mr. Brackenridge spoke of the University of Texas, he emphasized the word University. Major Littlefield emphasized the word Texas.”

With the end of World War I, enrollment was climbing, and Littlefield sought to keep the campus from moving by donating a massive gateway to campus. His idea eventually became the Littlefield Fountain and South Mall we know today. But Pompeo Coppini, the Italian-American sculptor hired for the project, warned against Littlefield’s initial plan to create a memorial to the Confederacy.

“As time goes by, they will look to the Civil War as a blot on the pages of American history,” Coppini argued, “and the Littlefield Memorial will be resented as keeping up the hatred between the Northern and Southern states.”

Coppini’s vision was of a memorial to those who fought in the World War, and two obelisks bracketing the main plaza would represent the North and the South, one with Davis in front, one with the more recent wartime president, Woodrow Wilson, showing the unity of North and South.

In 1920, just after regents agreed to Coppini’s plan, Littlefield died—but not without ensuring that Brackenridge wouldn’t push to move the university after Littlefield was gone. He included $250,000 for the memorial, plus another $800,000 for other projects, in his will, contingent on the university staying put for eight years.

Still, many supported moving the campus to the riverfront. But when the bill moved in the legislature, lawmakers added a provision that any locality with the space and the money to do so could vie for the campus, and that a statewide vote would determine the winner. The move’s original supporters turned against the new plan, and the bill was defeated. Littlefield got his wish.

It took 10 years for the bronze work to be completed, and by then, Paul Cret had been brought on to create the master plan that now defines the heart of campus, including the Main Building and the “six pack” along the South Mall. Coppini’s obelisks were cut from the plan to save money, and Cret moved the statues meant to surround the memorial up onto the Mall to give them more space. Coppini was very unhappy with the result, and the rest, as they say, is history.

UT employees remove graffiti from the Jefferson Davis statue last week. Photo by Matthew Watkins via Twitter.

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I can tell you that this meets my definition of big! It used 5 projectors overlapping to keep the quality as high as possible. As for origination quality we eventually decided to shoot in spherical on my RED Dragon in 6K and the results were spectacular.

The aspect ratio also creates challenges as you lose many of the frame sizes that you normally associate with drama. For instance to see a figure from head to toe requires the camera to be about 20 meters away from the action unless you use super wide lenses. I was very much against going on the super wides as the narrative of the film required an emotional connection with the lead character and I felt the inherent distortion associated with these wide lenses would hinder that connection. We ended up using predominantly the range of 16-35mm focal lengths with the occasional straying onto 50mm or 10.5mm. Even with these lenses the bulk of our film features a greatly reduced variety of frame sizes to ‘normal’. If you think about it you probably don’t want to feature anybody closer than medium c/u where to chop the top of the head as when projected on this scale they will look monstrously big!  But as we were shooting entirely on real locations we often couldn’t get wider than a wide m/s as we just couldn’t physically get far enough back. I was genuinely very concerned about how the film would cut with this reduced selection of frame sizes and the director, Spencer Carpenter (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/spencer-carpenter-13a75615), and myself carefully planned out the shot sizes of each transition between scenes to make sure they wouldn’t jar. We took frames of every single shot during the recce to try to mitigate against repetition of shot size and I think all this planning really came into its own on the very tightly packed 3 shoot day schedule.

The start and end frame of every scene was carefully planned to help the cut in this aspect ratio
The start and end frame of every scene was carefully planned to help the cut in this aspect ratio

The final steep learning curve was how to use the extraordinarily wide scope of the format, there is just so much space either side of the action and you don’t just want to use the centre of the frame as this feels like a real lost opportunity – a lost opportunity in the sense that we would be failing to use the available storytelling frame to give the audience information but also a lost opportunity by not asking the audience to engage with the far left and right sides of the frame. Both myself and Spencer wanted the audience to be forced to look left and right and we felt that this physical response of the audience would further enhance their emotional engagement. This meant less camera movement and more blocking from the actors so the camera became more a static point of view. There were 2 tracking shots at particular points of emotional energy but far less tilting and panning than I would normally have done. We also tried to use reflections in frame when characters were at introspective points of their arc. This worked visually very well and helped make full use of the breadth of the frame.

This was a truly collaborative affair. The client Gary Blair From Vision Express, the agency creative Paul Basson from The Events Company and of course the producer/director Spencer Carpenter from Shapshifter all worked as one creative mass to solve all the unusual predicaments that were thrown at us to make this the fantastic success that the film ended up being. I am very grateful for being invited into this team and sharing both the stresses and jubilations that came with making the film.


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Project Pakati seeks to harness the collective influence of Africa’s young leaders to drive change on the continent by collaborating on two projects. The first project is the Youth Representation and Inclusion Project and the second is a Directory of African Youth-Led and Youth-Serving Organizations.

Youth Representation & Inclusion Project

In the first project, some history, first.  The African Youth Charter, signed in 2006, sought to ensure the constructive involvement of youth in the development agenda of Africa and their effective participation in deliberations and decision-making processes. Nonetheless, young people remain marginalized in decision-making structures despite being the largest demographic on the continent. The Youth Representation Project seeks to understand the current status of the implementation of the Charter amongst African Union member states. In particular, it is trying to ascertain what the youth quotas are as a basis for supporting greater uptake. The project also seeks to advocate for structures in the public sector that would absorb young leaders to play more meaningful roles and contribute to shaping policies at national, regional and pan-African levels.

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In the second project in which AFLI's Pakati is active, it is seeking to improve the impact that youth-led organisations can have.

Youth-led organizations are run and staffed by young people, and their members are all young people. Whilst youth-led/serving organizations are important as they ignite active citizenry, civic duty, and volunteerism at the community levels, several challenges exist. Firstly, they are poorly funded, and funding organisations often struggle to identify youth-led and serving organizations at a grassroots level to fund. Secondly, youth-led/serving organizations do not leverage lessons learned from other, similar organizations. Finally, governments do not acknowledge these organizations and young people for the role they play towards economic and nation-building.

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  • Recognizing youth-led/serving organizations for their work and efforts. The role of young people in building African economies is generally not acknowledged.
  • Providing data to the African Union & other institutions which have placed African youth at the center of their strategies.
  • Encouraging more young people to be engaged and exercise their agency. There are many young people who want to volunteer but do not know where to start.
  • Facilitating connections between youth-led/serving organizations - in the same country or across different African countries - so they can share experiences and learn.

Much of the work being done to accomplish these goals is being done on the Pakati Workplace platform, which has served as the workspace to set up the directory, beta test it and see it go live.  Youth organisations can register and submit a directory entry for free here on the AFLI site.

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The Alresford Pigs Association has given financial help to those in need in Alresford and the surrounding villages for more than 40 years.

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Please welcome our new arrival!

Friday afternoon, MrBunny calls and says hey a coworker of mine got shafted by his ride to the airport, would you be alright with taking him up there?

Not a problem.  I took a nap and then about 1 am we headed towards Atlanta.  Took a nap in the back of the Jeep, did  a little grocery shopping (I adore Trader Joe’s) and headed home.

Fast forward to Sunday afternoon and MrBunny get’s a text from this coworker, who flew up to Ohio to drive a car back down here, saying that he has found a puppy on the side of the interstate, would we be interested in taking her?

We hemmed and hawed for a bit but ultimately said yes.

And that’s how we came to this picture:

Going home!

We named her Ninja, or more appropriately, MrBunny named her Ninja. And we keep saying it like that infomercial for the Ninja blender thing does- in that whisper stealth dream sequence type voice.

The vet said she’s about 6 months old, and other than a shit ton of ticks and scars/scabs from some run-ins during her time on the streets, she looks really good. We’ve got her scheduled to be spayed and other than that we are just letting the other two dogs hang out with her.

Ginger was less than thrilled. Actually if dogs could talk I think her exact reaction would have been “are you serious? Surely you aren’t doing this to me again. You people suck. Whatever, I’m going to my room.”

Bronco however, could not be more excited. He keeps trying to get the poor thing to play with him- not realizing that he is a rather imposing creature when you first meet him.

Trying to figure out what on earth this thing with the light is-

Ummm, that’s really bright lady.

It is alarming how much she looks like Bronco did as a puppy

Not a very good picture of him, but this was Bronco at around 3 months old.

It will be interesting to see if she ends up being the tall skinny type of lab like Bronco.

You best believe it won’t be long before she learns how to sit and pose for the camera!

Right now she just does a lot of this-

Which I’m okay with. When she’s sleeping it means she’s not trying to get in the trashcan or pee on the floor!

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5 Responses to Please welcome our new arrival!

  1. Aunt Em says:

    She is too cute!! I love black labs. Our black Lab, Doodles, passed away in May. I remember ours at that age….all legs and energy. She was either going zero mph or 50 mph, no in between.

  2. thewife08 says:

    How does it feel to be a new puppy mommy???

    • ironbunny says:

      I am tired! She doesn’t realize that at night time we sleep. We don’t decide to play grab ass with Bronco and make a racket loud enough to wake the neighbors- we sleep.
      And of course she is laying on the living room floor dead to the world right now.
      Damn dog.

  3. Janine says:

    she is beautiful. I am sure, worth the lack of sleep 🙂

  4. Doc says:

    That’s not just the best anersw. It’s the bestest answer!

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I loathe dental procedures. The last time I had fillings, I came out in a full blown anxiety attack. This is a rare thing for me and truly a frightening experience. I went in to have three fillings done. The first Novocain shot didn’t work properly and I jumped about a foot when the drill started in on the tooth. The dentist yelled at me for jumping, which was dangerous, and gave me another shot. Although I was physically numb for the fillings after that, I holding in the emotional trauma from the first experience. Tears were literally spilling out the whole time.

When I got out to the car, I completely LOST it. I had a total breakdown, sobbing for at least a half an hour before I could even think about driving away. Meanwhile, Cute Man had also just experienced worse procedures, including a tooth extraction, but he was comparatively OK. I was a mess. I did not return to a dentist for something like 4 years (I’m just guessing based on how long I’ve been with Cute Man).

Thanks to some great advice from Megan at Counting My Pennies I managed to make an appointment at the Bethesda Dental Spa. They were supposed to be sensitive to anxiety issues, etc. and offer sedation for services, if you want. Although the cost of all-out sedation was out of my realm, I opted to try nitrous oxide during my two fillings yesterday. It cost an additional $140.00 since it’s not covered by insurance but that is money well spent, I tell you. If nothing else, it made me concentrate on my breathing and I took deep breathes continuously, which is calming in itself. Regardless if it was just that, the placebo effect, or whatever, it was so much better. I was calm the whole time and got through with little anxiety. The only anxiety I had was the stress in anticipation of this dreaded experience in the weeks since my cleaning. Now, if I ever again need fillings, I won’t have that issue either, since I know what to expect now.

It may seem like a waste of money to spend $140.00 for something that’s not strictly medically necessary, but for me, the peace of mind it gave me was priceless. Thanks again, Megan, for letting me know about this!

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The American Gem Society Blog enjoys sharing the latest news, styles, and trends that are happening within the jewelry industry.

We also have the pleasure of introducing you to our members, in which many of them have great blogs of their own. We’ve come across eight jewelry blogs that we’d like to share. They all feature terrific info on jewelry trends, heartwarming (and some funny) stories about proposals, and of course, photos of beautiful jewelry!

If you love jewelry as much as we do, be sure to check these out!

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“Summer, summer, summertime / Time to sit back and unwind.” – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Summertime

As thoughts of summer vacation drift through our heads, so does the ultimate question: “What am I going to pack?!” Whether you’re traveling overseas, across states—or even planning a staycation—it’s good to have a plan.

Although we’d love to help you pick out your various outfits and toiletries—they aren’t our area of expertise. But we CAN give you some great ideas on what jewelry to bring with you.

It’s often a challenge deciding which items of jewelry to take, depending on the outfits you pick. But it’s important to note that it’s best to leave the most valuable and delicate pieces at home. Before you pack, we have this recommended read from Jewelers Mutual Insurance Group: The Pocket Guide to Traveling with Jewelry.

Yet, no outfit is complete without the punctuation of fine jewelry. Here are five pieces from a few of our AGS members that would make great travel companions! Click on the images below to get a closer look.

“Caprice” multiway diamond eclipse earrings, by Mastoloni.
When you can bring one pair of earrings and wear them three different ways, you’re covered! Wear as a dangle, as a diamond and pearl stud, or wear the pearl by itself.

Wide diamond band from Gabriel & Co. “Lusso” collection.
A diamond band with alternating 14k yellow and white gold gives the illusion of wearing multiple rings. Easy peasy!

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Rainbow sapphire butterfly brooch, by Dilamani.
A brooch you say? You bet! Dress up any top, scarf, hat—or even a hairstyle—with a brooch. A brooch can also be turned into a pendant with the addition of a chain. So many style options!

Custom reversible classic chain bracelet, by John Hardy.
Here’s another “gem” we found: one bracelet with two looks! John Hardy gives you the opportunity to customize your own chain bracelet with any gemstone look. Below is the combo we designed. The 18k bonded gold side sparkles with diamond pavé. The sterling silver side has a pop of color with amethyst. Which look would you create for yourself?

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During a literary pilgrimage to Concord, Massachusetts a few years ago, I visited Orchard House, the home of Louisa May Alcott. Louisa lived there with her parents and sisters in the only permanent residence the Alcotts ever knew. Upon entering the two-story farmhouse, I immediately left the twenty-first century and stepped back in time.

Nearly all the furnishings in the home belonged to the Alcott family. The kitchen offered a glimpse into the life of the Alcott women, who not only used the room to prepare meals, but did laundry as well. Since Bronson Alcott insisted on a strict vegetarian diet, the family often dined on fruits and vegetables, which came directly from the gardens around the surrounding property. Bronson remained adamant that all living things mattered – including animals. Whether the rest of the family shared his sentiments remains unclear. But it would not seem likely that the Alcott sisters would protest their father’s wish to preserve all lifeforms.
Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, located in Concord, Massachusetts, is an Author Home Affiliate of the American Writers Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
The dining area not only served as a place for the family to engage in serious conversation, but it also became a stage where Louisa and her sisters performed plays for guests. The study still houses many of Mr. Alcott’s books along with his desk and chair. But perhaps the most fascinating part of the tour takes place upstairs in Louisa May’s bedroom – the room in which she did much of her writing.

Mr. Alcott built the half-moon desk where Louisa would pen her beloved novel Little Women. Like so many other books, Little Women has always held a special place in my heart. I delighted to the adventures of the March sisters, while identifying with the autonomous spirit of Jo. Seeing the desk where the story came to life gave me pause. I tried to imagine Louisa drafting her manuscript as she gazed through the window during her morning writing ritual. What must it have been like to write a story that would transcend literary history? Although Little Women went on to become a success that gave Alcott financial freedom, she had no way of knowing that her words would still resonate with readers a century after her death.

The grave of Louisa May Alcott, who lived from 1832-1888, is located in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. My tour ended with a trip to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the final resting place of not only the Alcotts, but also their literary neighbors Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne. I stood at the foot of Louisa’s grave in awe of a woman who did not allow the confines of society to deter her from being a writer. She refused to adhere to a publisher’s advice that she should stick to teaching – a remark that undoubtedly had more to do with her being a woman than anything else. She held tight to her pen and wrote incessantly for the rest of her life, paving the road for women writers along the way.

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  1. PDF Books says:

    What a great writer she was. I am feeling a concoction of happiness and sadness while reading your article about the writer whom I am a fan since I read her novel Little Women. May God bless her soul with peace.

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Kung Fu 'Sifu' Lau Kar-leung

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October 1 - October 4, 2018
Rubenstein Arts Center, Duke University
Curated by Hank Okazaki

Used in Chinese martial arts communities, the Cantonese word, “Sifu,” refers to a skillful person or a master, with additional connotations of “teacher,” “tutor,” and “father-figure”.  Celebrated Hong Kong fight choreographer and film director Lau Kar-leung (1937–2013), aka Liu Chia-liang in Mandarin, was himself a kung fu master in a line of southern Hung Fist practitioners tracing back directly to Wong Fei-hung (1847–1924), the legendary martial artist and folk hero whose life has been fictionalized in over 100 films, including Lau’s own Instructors of Death AKA Martial Club (1981). As a choreographer, director, and actor/performer, Lau Kar-leung himself took on the role of kung fu “educator” for his audience, embedding kung fu demonstrations in his opening-credit sequences and exploring the master-disciple relationship through breath-taking and grueling training sequences, most famously in The 36th Chamber of Shaolin AKA Master Killer (1978). And as film scholar David Bordwell writes, "instead of using kung-fu to keep local cinema going, [Lau] used cinema to document and preserve traditions he venerated" – adding the role of cultural archivist to those of entertainer and educator.

Courtesy of Celestial Pictures Limited.  35mm film prints provided by University of North Carolina School of the Arts Moving image Archives.
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin AKA Master Killer

(Lau Kar-leung, 1978, 116 min, Hong Kong, 35mm)

Lau Kar-leung and Gordon Liu Chia-hui’s most celebrated work is a quintessential, all-exhaustive course in Shaolin kung fu. Liu plays San Te, originally a commoner on the run from oppressive Manchu officers. Taking refuge in the Shaolin temple, he devotes himself to the most rigorous kung fu training ever seen on screen.

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Martial Club AKA Instructors of Death
(Lau Kar-leung, 1981, 102 min, Hong Kong, 35mm)

Gordon Liu Chia-hui plays a young Wong Fei-hung, the legendary kung fu master. Liu displays his remarkable combat skills in an ingeniously choreographed duel in a narrow alleyway that remains one of the best action sequences ever filmed.

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Middle East Film Series

Screen/Society Film Series:

September 24-November 29, 2018
Richard White Lecture Hall (unless otherwise noted)

Four contemporary films explore a range of approaches and stories, including teenage detention centers in Tehran, Syrian construction workers in Lebanon, female-led uprisings in Palestine, and unemployed youth in Turkey.
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Sponsored by the Duke University Middle Eastern Studies Center (DUMESC), the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).

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Monday, Sep 24 @ 7pm
Starless Dreams

(Mehrdad Oskouei, 2016, 76 min, Iran, in Persian w/ subtitles)

Starless Dreams plunges us into the lives of young teenage girls sharing temporary quarters at a juvenile detention center on the outskirts of Tehran. Director Mehrdad Oskouei, one of Iran's most prominent filmmakers, spent seven years securing access to this all-female facility.

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Taste of Cement

(Ziad Kalthoum, 2017, 85 min, Germany, in Arabic w/ subtitles)

A portrait of workers in exile, Taste of Cement is an empathetic encounter with the Syrian construction workers who sleep beneath the skyscrapers they’re raising.

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Monday, Nov 5 @ 7pm
Naila and the Uprising

(Julia Bacha, 2017, 76 min, USA, in Arabic, Hebrew, and English)

A personal portrait of the Palestinian resistance leader Naila Ayesh, who joins an underground women’s network that led a civil resistance movement during the First Intifada in 1987.
-- Q&A to follow with producer Emma Alpert

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Thursday, Nov 29 @ 7pm (Rubenstein Arts Center)
Special Presentation: The Wild Pear Tree

(Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2018, 188 min, Turkey, in Turkish w/ subtitles, DCP)

Sinan is a Turkish boy from the provinces who has just graduated from college and is trying to get his first novel published. Brash and provocative to the point of insolence, he is also one of cinema’s best-drawn embodiments of the European economic crisis that keeps youth unemployed and their future an out-of-focus question mark.

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Christiane Geisler has been a Research Coordinator for the past 15 years, managing HIV treatment and prevention trials in Washington DC, Philadelphia and more recently New Orleans.

Having also lived around the world for many years, and particularly in Africa, Christiane has dedicated the end of her nursing career to HIV research with the goal of improving the lives of all HIV affected people. She enjoys being that special nurse for each research participant.

She is happy to connect to her French roots here in New Orleans, where she arrived a year ago. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking for friends, music and gardening.

  • Nursing School at Ecole d’Infirmieres des Diaconnesses in Paris, France, 1972
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Ancient Monuments

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Three bowl barrows 750m south west of Pin Farm

A Scheduled Monument in Kentford, Suffolk

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Latitude: 52.2707 / 52°16'14"N

Longitude: 0.5171 / 0°31'1"E

OS Eastings: 571843.470799

OS Northings: 266601.86413

OS Grid: TL718666

Mapcode National: GBR PC0.RJM

Mapcode Global: VHJGK.X673

Entry Name: Three bowl barrows 750m south west of Pin Farm

Scheduled Date: 24 July 1998

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1018103

English Heritage Legacy ID: 31110

County: Suffolk

Civil Parish: Kentford

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Gazeley All Saints

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

The monument includes three bowl barrows which are located on a north facing
slope immediately to the east of an Icknield Way path. The most northern
barrow is visible as a low earthen mound, which stands to a height of
approximately 0.3m and covers a roughly circular area measuring approximately
36m in diameter.

A second bowl barrow is situated approximately 40m to the east of the first.
It is visible as a roughly circular earthen mound, with a height of about 0.5m
and a maximum diameter of 43m.

A third bowl barrow is situated 50m south of the first barrow and 60m to the
south west of the second. This is also visible as a low circular mound with a
maximum diameter of 41m and a height of about 0.4m.

The mounds of all three barrows have been spread by ploughing and are thought
to overlie the ditches which originally encircled them and provided material
for the construction of the mounds. These will now survive as buried features.

The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments
dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations, they are
a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable
variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of

Although the three bowl barrows 750m south west of Pin Farm have been reduced
in height and spread by ploughing the bases of the mounds, the soils buried
beneath the mounds; and the fills of the buried ditches which are believed to
surround them will retain archaeological information concerning the
construction of the barrows and the manner and duration of their use, together
with evidence for the local environment at that time. The proximity of the
barrows to a number of other barrows in this part of Suffolk give them
additional interest. Together these barrows give some evidence of the
character, development and density of the prehistoric population in this area.

Source: Historic England

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

In my last visit to Paris last November i was lucky enough to visit Louis Vuitton Foundation and see the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The exhibition covered his entire career from 1980-1988 focusing on 120 works.

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat’s paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists into the realm of the New York gallery scene., his spray-painted crowns and scribbled words, referenced everything from his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage, to political issues, pop-culture icons, and Biblical verse. The gestural marks and expressive nature of his work not only aligned him with the street art of Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, but also the Neo-Expressionists Julian Schnabel and David Salle. “If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you’ve got to realize that influence is not influence,” he said of his process. “It’s simply someone’s idea going through my new mind.” Born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, NY, Basquiat never finished high school but developed an appreciation for art as a youth, from his many visits to the Brooklyn Museum of Art with his mother. His early work consisted of spray painting buildings and trains in downtown New York alongside his friend Al Diaz. The artist’s tag was the now infamous pseudonym SAMO. After quickly rising to fame in the early 1980s, Basquiat was befriended by many celebrities and artists, including Andy Warhol, with whom he made several collaborative works. At only 27, his troubles with fame and drug addiction led to his tragic death from an overdose on August 12, 1988 in New York, NY.

My Take on Basquiat

After the visit I really got inspired and wanted to experiment new ways of incorporating some of my family old images into a new medium of digital work that is full of colors, text and abstract shapes.

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Figure 1
Figure 2

Figure 1 is a picture of our archive where you can see my mom and me having a priceless moment of joy back in 1982 in London streets. I took this picture and started drawing over it with bold colors and abstracted lines and shapes inspired by Basquiat work, and added a final touch of some of my journaling texts between the shapes where I was experiencing very personal and emotional feelings as I always do in my normal morning journals pages but this time I decided to include it in my art work.

In figure 3, 4 and 5 below I followed the same technique.

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Figure 4
Figure 5

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