SCHEDULE
Thursday, February 24
7:00 – 7:30 pm
Introduction to Film
Speaker: Bruce Orenstein, Artist in Residence, Center for Documentary Studies, writer, director and producer of the film
7:30 – 9:00 pm
Film: AMERICAN IDEALIST: THE STORY OF SARGENT SHRIVER
Description: Peace Corps, VISTA, Community Action, Head Start, Legal Services for the Poor, Youth Corps, Job Corps, and more.
Sargent Shriver invented a string of social initiatives that shaped an era and dared millions of young Americans to live out their ideals.
Those who knew him—Bill Moyers, Andrew Young, political commentator Mark Shields, and so many others—called him a
visionary of deep humanity who helped create a more just society. American Idealist brings Shriver's story to life in a powerful 90minute depiction of practical activism, and it offers a hopeful vision of what this nation could be and could do, based on the experience
of what it once did when pushed by the civil rights movement and guided by the War on Poverty.
Friday, February 25
9:00 – noon
Registration & Check-in
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch at the Washington Duke Inn
Musical Prelude
Speaker: L. Gregory Jones M.Div.’85, Ph.D.’88, P’09, P’12, Vice President and Vice Provost, Office of Global
Strategies and Programs
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Major Global Issues of the 21st Century
Description: Impactful and comprehensive session with leading experts on the biggest global development challenges of the 21st
Century. This session will open the weekend with an extensive and thought-provoking discussion by leading experts on the central
issues we and the world face, how they are linked, and how we begin to work toward resolution.
Speakers: Maya Ajmera MPP’93 (Founder and President, Global Fund for Children); Dr. Michael Merson (Director, Duke Global
Health Institute); Leela Prasad (associate professor, religion; Faculty Director, Duke Center for Civic Engagement); Greg Van Kirk
(Ashoka Lemelson Fellow and co founder, The New Development Solutions Group)
3:15 – 3:45 p.m.
Break
3:45 – 5:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (choose one of the following two sessions):
I.
Engineering Solutions to Global Challenges
Description: Expo of Duke/Alumni engineered and technological solutions – hands-on/poster event in rotation. Scientists uncover the
secrets underlying many aspects of nature, but it is up to the engineer to take these insights and devise practical solutions to a problem.
Engineering and technology solutions have an important role to play in curing disease, improving water supplies, expanding jobs, and
meeting other needs domestically and in developing countries. Explore programs and projects like Smart Home Fellows, Engineering
World Health, Engineers Without Borders are examples of how Duke and Duke students have embraced these challenges.
II.
Tell Your Own Story
Description: Share your experience, your story, of the most memorable, poignant, and funny stories about living and working in the
developing world. Or come just to listen. Or both. The format will resemble story slam sessions that happen across the country and the
stories will be filmed and made available online to share with a wider audience.
Moderators: David Jarmul, associate vice president, Office of News and Communications; Anton Zuiker, director of
communications, Duke Department of Medicine
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Reception and Dinner at Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art
A festive evening with great tastes, music from around the world, and student dance performances as well as access to
permanent exhibitions.
Saturday, February 26
8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast Bar
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions (choose one of the following three)
I.
Live! We talk with Dukies in developing countries
Description: Using Duke’s state of the art video conferencing, connect live with Duke students and alumni in developing regions, to
hear their global perspectives, experiences and challenges.
Moderator: Marco Werman ’83, BBC radio journalist and host of Public Radio International’s The World
Interviewees: Alex Fankuchen ’10, (English teacher in the Peace Corps at the Escola Secundaria Dr. Baltazar Lopes da Silva, village
of Ribeira Brava, Island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde); Carolyn E. Kent ’08, (municipal development advisor in the Peace Corps,
Guatemala); Heather Oh ’03 (East Africa New Business Manager, TechnoServe, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia); Eric Savage ‘92, (CoFounder and President, Unitus Capital, Bangalore, India)
II.
Advancing Development and Diplomacy through Science
Description: Discussion will focus on the ecology and evolution of diplomacy, development, and defense as well as address global
engagement with Muslim communities through science, technology, and innovation. The U.S. faces a new set of challenges requiring
new diplomatic skills and approaches to thinking about diplomacy and national security. Western engagement with Muslim majority
countries and Muslim communities around the globe is uneven at best. While efforts do need to be redoubled and improved across the
board to face common challenges, serious hurdles remain. These challenges are based in science, or find their solutions in science.
Science is building bridges and partnerships to seek common solutions to global problems by nurturing links between federal decisionmakers and science professionals to support policy that benefits the nation and the world. Entrepreneurship and innovation will have to
be at the heart of local and global efforts.
Speakers: Alex Dehgan ’91 (Science & Technology Adviser to the Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development);
William Lawrence ’85 (Senior Advisor for Global Engagement, U.S. Department of State)
III.
Role of Educating Women in the Developing World
Description: Issues, hurdles, and progress; impact of microfinance – with two Duke women international students
Speakers: Sherryl Broverman (associate professor of the practice of biology and co-founder of WISER, Women’s Institute for
Secondary Education and Research, Muhuru Bay, Kenya); Margaret Mills (professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio
State University);
10:15 – 11:00 a.m.
Break
Description: Bazaar and exhibit of Duke student and alumni programs and others offerings through which Duke has become more
active in global development over the past several years. Representatives will be available to describe new initiatives such as
DukeEngage, the Global Health Institute, Peace Corps Fellows and Fuqua’s global expansion, as well as the continuing vitality of
efforts such as the Hart Leadership Program, DCID and study abroad.
11:00 – 12:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (choose one of the following three sessions)
I.
International Water Resources: Adaptation, Health, Food and the Environment
Description: Discussion of emerging issues in water resources management in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, where each country
is faced with its own particular water-related challenges that are determined by the present conditions, and a broad set of drivers
beyond the water sector, including climate change and the growing demand for energy and food. Learn about the intersecting
challenges of water management and adaptation to changing circumstances, including climate change; securing water supply and
sanitation; and managing water for agriculture and food security. Hear also details of on-going activities, and our engagement in
understanding and facilitating the relevant policy, strategy and decision making environments at the national, regional and international
levels as well as opportunities for collaborative research and other activities in these regions.
Speakers: Peter McCornick (Director of Water, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions); with Disque Deane, Jr. ’82,
P’13, P’14, (CIO, Water Asset Management, LLC), Marc Jeuland, (assistant professor of Public Policy and, Faculty Affiliate, Duke
Global Health Institute); Curt Richardson, (professor, Resource Ecology, and Director, Duke University Wetland Center); Erika
Weinthal (associate professor, environmental policy and, Faculty Advisor, Duke Human Rights Center);
II.
Religion, Politics, and Global Development
Description: Answering questions on the role of religion on politics in Global Development.
Speakers: Ebrahim Moosa (associate professor, Islamic studies and Faculty Advisor, Duke Human Rights Center);
Father Emmanuel Katongole (associate professor, theology and world Christianity, and co-director, Center for Reconciliation, Duke
Divinity School);
III.
World Art: Creative Change
Description: Artwork for social change and human rights
Speakers: Kristine Stiles (professor, Art, Art History & Visual Studies); with Catherine Admay (visiting professor, Public Policy
and Political Science, and Faculty Advisor, Duke Human Rights Center).
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Boxed Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
The Ethics of Global Development
A conversation with President Richard H. Brodhead, Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of ASHOKA, and Blair Sheppard, dean,
Fuqua School of Business
Description: a discussion on the concept of development, its conflicts, motivations, and effectiveness; the impact and potential of
social entrepreneurship; the role of a research university and issues such as ‘brain drain’, honoring cultural values, and defining
‘service’.
Speakers: Bill Drayton (pioneering social entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Ashoka, an organization that supports social
entrepreneurs worldwide); Blair Sheppard (dean of the Fuqua School of Business since 2007 and founder of Duke Corporate
Education); Richard H. Brodhead (president of Duke University since 2004).
6:30 p.m. – open*** RPCV Reunion Celebration
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps
Our Duke in Depth weekend will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Peace Corps by Congress.
All RPCVs and friends are invited to share an evening of story-sharing and festivity with food, drinks, and dancing as well
as a program celebrating the 2011 NCPCA Peace Prize Recipient. Enjoy remarks by Jayne Booker ’73, representing the
NPCA and CA Coordinator at MorePeaceCorps, and Ken Goodson ’95, advisor to the Office of the Director, Peace Corps,
who will also present the prize. This event is being co-sponsored by the Duke Alumni Association, Sanford School’s Peace
Corps Fellows program, Duke’s Center for International Development and the North Carolina Peace Corps Association
(NCPCA).
***A list of alternative Saturday evening activities will be available for those not attending this event
Sunday, February 27
10:00 am – noon
Service Project – Serve for Sarge!
Stop Hunger Now
Description: In honoring the life of Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver, there is no better action one can take than serving
others. To honor Sarge’s endless commitment to service, the National Peace Corps Association has urged all members of
the Peace Corps community and other supporters to “Serve for Sarge!” individually or collectively in remembrance of this
beloved American hero between now and March 1st (Peace Corps Day). Duke in Depth participants and the Duke
community are invited to join in a meal packaging service project with Stop Hunger Now, a triangle based, international
hunger relief organization and in coordination with Duke’s Peace Corps Fellows program and held on Duke’s campus. A
minimal fee is required to cover the cost of the food packaged for donation.
Location: Sanford School of Public Policy, Fleishman Commons