Duke to Reopen the Science Building Monday
Facility will house several humanities departments
Friday, February 15, 2008
Durham, NC -- Duke University will celebrate the reopening of the old Science Building – the East Campus facility that formerly housed the art museum – with a lecture by George Lipsitz, a leading scholar of black studies and sociology at the University of California at San Diego.
The Duke community is invited to the event, which will be held 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, in the Nelson Music Room of the East Duke Building on East Campus.
The new facility will house the Departments of African & African American Studies and Cultural Anthropology, the Programs in Literature and Latino/a Studies, the Institute for Critical US Studies and the Duke Human Rights Center.
Lipsitz will speak on “Alternative Knowledges, Social Spaces, and Historical Times: Mind Work as Exercise of Citizenship.” The talk, which will be followed by a response by Duke professors Michael Hardt and Wahneema Lubiano, will explore how universities can promote the power of educational ideas and civic activism, and the obstacles to that work.
The lecture will be followed by a brief program and reception in the Science Building and tours of the building.
For more information, call 668-2596.
