Global Focus
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Dark Side of the Mining Industry in China: Conversations with Black Lung Patients
by Yanping Ni, first-year graduate student in the East Asian Studies program. In the past months, a documentary titled “Miners, the Horsekeeper, and Pneumoconiosis 矿民, 马夫, 尘肺病” has been very […]
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Reflections on “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz”
By Srishti Saha, Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science, ’21 The DHRC@FHI hosted a screening of “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz” (directed by Barry Avrich) on January 22. […]
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Updates from Camasca!
By Anisha Watwe, Duke University Class of ’21 Since I’ve been away, a conversation I’ve had way too frequently with some of my friends and family starts a little like […]
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Adjusting to a new place
By Esther Kwarteng Prior to arriving in Camasca, Honduras, I was anxious. I wasn’t sure how to feel about being the only Black woman in a town that does not […]
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Getting to Know Puerto Rico and Myself
By Ivan Robles, ’20 I had anticipated that spending part of my summer in San Juan, Puerto Rico doing qualitative research would be one of my biggest challenges yet. Although […]
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Interview with 2018 Mendez Book Award Winner: Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
Duke University named Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno’s book, There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia (Nation Books, 2018) as the winner of the 2018 Juan […]
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Author Interview with Marcello Di Cintio
Marcello Di Cintio is the award-winning Author of Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Life in Contemporary Palestine. Di Cintio will be at Duke on Wednesday, October 31 at 5PM to […]
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Hierarchies of Humanity: Refugees and Asylum in West Germany
Greetings from Berlin, Germany, where I’ve just wrapped up my first full week with a Duke Human Rights research grant. The work that I’m doing here is for a history […]
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