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Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372721-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7272-1
... Giving a commencement address to Fisk University, a historically black institution, Richard Brodhead reflects on the legacy of Fisk alumnus and Duke historian John Hope Franklin and how graduates can contribute to the common good. John Hope Franklin Fisk University Charles Waddell...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372721-032
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7272-1
... At the 2014 commencement address at Miami Dade College, Richard Brodhead praises the college for its history of providing opportunities and salutes its graduates. Miami Dade College Commencement address 2014 ...
Published: 02 July 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380368-020
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8036-8
Published: 01 January 1994
DOI: 10.1215/9780822396581-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9658-1
Published: 01 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027188-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2718-8
... as they venture out into the world. In her 2011 commencement address at Trinity Washington University, she recalls key experiences with inspiring women teachers from her childhood, who taught her vital lessons that she has relied on throughout her life. She also praises the crucial work of women's colleges...
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By Richard H. Brodhead
Published: 17 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7272-1
... Miami Dade College Commencement address 2014 ...
Book Chapter

By Richard H. Brodhead
Published: 17 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7272-1
... John Hope Franklin Fisk University Charles Waddell Chesnutt Commencement address 2007 ...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372721-014
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7272-1
... In his 2009 Baccalaureate address, Richard Brodhead discusses career trajectories, traditional and nontraditional, with students about to graduate during a recession. Baccalaureate commencement career trajectories 2009 ...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372721-038
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7272-1
... In his 2015 Baccalaureate address, Brodhead notes that Duke students represent Homo occupans , the ever-busy, ever-occupied human. He reflects on the value of a liberal arts education and urges the graduating students to go on the journey to learn what they could give to the world and how...
Published: 01 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2718-8
... commencement speeches, which capture a synthesis of the sage wisdom and inspiring advice that she offers to new graduates. In her 1996 speech at Emory University, she offers lessons learned from anthropology to help graduates as they venture out into the world. In her 2011 commencement address at Trinity...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372721-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7272-1
... At his Baccalaureate address to the Class of 2008, the class with which he began his time at Duke, Richard Brodhead encourages the students to take advantage of unpredictable twists and turns in their lives after Duke, telling the story of a new reading room that Duke alumni volunteers created...
Published: 01 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027188-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2718-8
... The speeches in this chapter reflect on Johnnetta Betsch Cole's contributions to the world of art and museums after becoming director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in 2009. In her 2012 commencement speech at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, she highlights the importance...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-091
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
...Dictatorship and Democracy The national revolutionary cycle that commenced in 1952 came to a close with the U.S.-backed military coup of General René Barrientos Ortuño in November 1964. Barrientos combined personal charisma and patronage tactics to establish the so-called Military-Peasant...