by Robin Kirk | Dec 28, 2010 | Robin Kirk
When I was a junior at the University of Chicago, I took Modern Drama with the late Frank Kinahan. Professor Kinahan was famous for his contention that the great literature of the 20th Century was written by Irishmen, often under the influence of drink. Kinahan...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 1, 2010 | Robin Kirk
Super-proud of my student, Archer Wang, for this opinion piece, which started as a midterm for my human rights class: December 1, 2010 Honoring a Chinese Nobel by Archer Wang I still remember a question on one of the numerous physics tests I took in a middle school in...
by Robin Kirk | Nov 10, 2010 | Robin Kirk
Duke is hosting writer/activist Dave Eggers today and tomorrow, meaning I have his latest book to read in the few hours before Eggers speaks to a full house at Page Auditorium. I’ve been a fan of Eggers since he started McSweeny’s, the San Francisco-based...
by Robin Kirk | Oct 15, 2010 | Robin Kirk
Yesterday, Professor Louis Henkin passed away after a long illness. He was 92. Henkin had many accomplishments, including as a scholar of international law. A colleague of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Henkin was a “cherished friend”
as well as a...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 15, 2010 | Robin Kirk
This morning, the Summer Institute began with a presentation by Jason Cross on health and human rights. Soon to be a PhD in cultural anthropology, Jason is also a lawyer (Duke Law) and a veteran activist with experience in Europe and Latin America. He described health...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 14, 2010 | Robin Kirk
Christina Cowger from North Carolina Stop Torture Now gave a wonderful presentation to Duke University’s Summer Institute on Human Rights about the state’s role in extraordinary rendition and torture. She used this Witness video, which has footage of...
