Fall 2010 Issue of Document
The Fall 2010 issue of Document has now been launched! Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported and produced by the Center for Documentary Studies. Each issue of Document includes a range of stories; for example, engaging interviews with photographers and other documentarians working locally, in their own [...]
Listen to Student Audio Documentary Projects
Short audio documentaries from undergraduate students in the Fall 2010 Introduction to Audio Documentary course and Spring 2010 The Short Audio Documentary course with John Biewen have been posted on CDS iTunesU. Listen to student audio projects here* *The piece “Friends With Benefits” contains explicit material that may be offensive to some listeners and may [...]
The Art of Farming
The Art of Farming Photographs and Audio by Undergraduates at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Farming is among the oldest expressions of human culture. For a documentary artist or student, the farmer and his/her land present potent ground on which to create original artwork that explores and reflects central issues of our day. [...]
“Coming Home: Stories of Homelessness and Finding Home Again,” Presentation of Student Documentary Projects December 6
Ten Duke undergraduates spent the fall semester documenting the people and programs of Housing for New Hope (HNH), an organization that has been working for almost twenty years to prevent and end homelessness in Durham County and Orange County, North Carolina. As part of the course Documentary Engagement, the students were required to spend more than [...]
“The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the ’61 Freedom Riders” at Kenan Theatre December 2-6
THE PARCHMAN HOUR The Songs and Stories of the ’61 Freedom Riders December 2-6, 2010 / Kenan Theatre, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A Mike Wiley Production Presented by the UNC Department of Dramatic Arts and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University In 1961, a group of mostly young people came [...]
New Documentary Studies Course Offered in the Spring: Video for Social Change
A new Documentary Studies course for both Duke and UNC undergraduates will be offered for the Spring 2011 semester. Documentary Studies: Video for Social Change Taught by Bruce Orenstein, founder of the Chicago Video Project and award-winning producer of three PBS documentaries and numerous campaign videos for social change organizations This course taught at Duke [...]
Spring 2011 Undergraduate Courses Announced
The undergraduate program in Documentary Studies allows undergraduate students to connect their educational experiences to broader community life through documentary fieldwork projects. Program courses challenge students to combine intellectual ideas with grassroots engagement as they use tools of documentary inquiry to learn and render in various mediums. Documentary Studies students combine their coursework with a [...]
Fall Course with Lehman Brady Professor Mike Wiley
Playwright and actor Mike Wiley, who has more than twelve years of credits in theater for young audiences and in film, television, and regional theater, is the Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke and UNC–Chapel Hill in spring and fall 2010. The Center for Documentary Studies coordinates the Lehman [...]
CDS Summer Course Intro to Photography
This summer CDS offered two sections of the undergraduate course “Intro to Photography,” taught by Ava Johnson. The courses serves as a foundation class in the black-and-white photographic process and for using photography as a visual language. Assignments include portraits, alternative techniques, landscapes, and a final portfolio that embodies a single visual idea. More information [...]
Kelly Alexander Receives Teaching Accolades
CDS undergraduate instructor Kelly Alexander was recently recognized for her teaching excellence. During the spring semester 2010, her course evaluations were among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors at Duke. You can read more about her course, Our Culinary Cultures, here. Kelly Alexander is a writer based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is [...]
“In My Mind” Film
In My Mind Director: Gary Hawkins, Producer: Emily LaDue, Executive Producer: Tom Rankin In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, traces the creation and performance of jazz pianist Jason Moran’s original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s legendary performance at New York City’s Town Hall in 1959. Deeply inspired [...]
Continuing Education Presentations and Graduation
Continuing Education Presentations and Graduation May 15, 2009 Lisa Marie Albert, Jennifer Carpenter, Jamara Knight, Margaret Morales, Jean Parker, Marcia Sutherland, Anne Weber Continuing Education students Jennifer Carpenter and Lisa Albert interviewed on WUNC’s “The State of Things” on May 15
