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Watch and Listen to Programs from Past Symposia

Selected programs from the 2003 symposium "Abortion: Research, Ethics, & Activism" and the 2005 symposium "Sisterhood, Riot Grrrl, and the Next Wave: Feminist Generations, Generating Feminisms" are now available through our website and as downloads from iTunesU. Video from the Bingham Center's 15th anniversary celebration, and audio from Merle Hoffman's talk "Aborting Dialogue: Reclaiming Reality from Rhetoric" and Johanna Schoen's talk "Writing the History of Abortion" are available through the Electronic Resources page of the 2003 symposium website. Audio from the closing plenary session of the symposium on generational feminism featuring Paula Kamen, Alison Piepmeier, and Alexis Gumbs is available through the Schedule page of the 2005 symposium website.

My Life in Zines on the State of Things

The Bingham Center recently hosted a program called "My Life in Zines" featuring local zine writers and collectors discussing how writing and reading zines influenced their lives. Jaime Danehey, originally from a small town outside of Omaha, Nebraska, spoke about how she and her sister turned their family newsletter into a zine called "The Daily The," which they have been publishing since the early 1990s. Alexis Gumbs, a graduate student in the English dept at Duke, shared how she uses zines by women of color in her coursework with undergraduates. Amy Mariaskin, a graduate student in psychology at Duke, discussed how being involved in zine culture shaped her adolescence, and as a child therapist, how she encourages artsy/crafty teens to find DIY communities. Mariaskin has also donated her zine collection to the Bingham Center and authored the zine "Southern Fried Darling." Jaime Danehey and Alexis Gumbs were interviewed on the WUNC radio program The State of Things. Listen to the clip online [18 min.].

Bingham Center Collections Featured in ARL's "Celebrating Research"

To celebrate its 75th anniversary, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) recently published a commemorative volume featuring notable collections from 118 of its member institutions. Significant anniversaries present occasions to celebrate past accomplishments and to anticipate the future; ARL’s 75th anniversary volume does both. The essays salute the stewardship of past decades and celebrate the research enabled by these collections. Taken together, the essays also represent a window into the future of research libraries. The Bingham Center was honored to be selected as the representative of Duke University Libraries. Summing up the Bingham Center in only 500 words was a challenge, but identifying only thirty images to represent our rich and varied collections was perhaps an even greater task, especially considering that only a few would ultimately be chosen for our section. The Pink Corset Book, an artists’ book by Tamar Stone; The Girl Wanted, a prescriptive literature volume; and a love letter from Fannie Perry, an enslaved woman, to her husband, were selected to accompany the text in the published volume. The companion website includes the Overview of Duke's Special Collections as well as the Collection Profile of the Bingham Center. 

Neither Model Nor Muse: Women and Artistic Expression

The exhibit Stretching the Canvas: Women Explore the Arts is currently on display in the Old Perk Gallery in Perkins Library through May 2008. Highlights from this exhibit are featured in an online gallery.

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