Atelier@Duke: Media & Politics; Culture & Identity

Atelier@Duke: Media & Politics; Culture & Identity
February 25, 2011

Panelists at the Atelier@Duke symposium discuss "Media and Politics, Culture and Identity," the final panel at the Atelier@Duke, an event marking the 15th anniversary of the John Hope Franklin Research Center at Duke University Libraries.

Panelists include Nia-Malika Henderson (The Washington Post), Susannah Meadows (Newsweek), Linda Williams (Raleigh News & Observer), Orin Starn (Duke), and moderator Mark Anthony Neal (Duke).

Duke Anthropologist Orin Starn: 'The Passion of Tiger Woods: Sex, Scandal, and Racial Politics in 21st Century America'

Wednesday at the Center guest Orin Starn speaks about the press coverage of Tiger Woods' scandal and about Victor Turner's 'social drama' in relation to the scandal. Orin Starn is Chair and Professor of Cultural Anthropology and History at Duke University.

His most recent book is the award-winning "Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last 'Wild' Indian," a chronicle of the life and legend of this last survivor of California's Yahi tribe. In 2005, he won Duke's highest undergraduate teaching award and was awarded the Sally Dalton Robinson Professorship in Cultural Anthropology. Starn has served as the Director of Duke's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Duke Human Rights Centers, and chaired the Editorial Advisory Board of Duke University Press.

'The Passion of Tiger Woods: Sex, Scandal, and Racial Politics in 21st Century America' was presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute in conjunction with the Department of Cultural Anthropology, the FHI Working Group on Sport, the Department of African & African American Studies, and the Center for African and African American Research. Wednesdays at the Center is a Duke University event.