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Kent Wicker

Kent Wicker

Assist Dir, MALS Program
Graduate School
kent.wicker@duke.edu
Box 90095, Durham, NC 27708-0095
2114 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances

The Decentered Metropole: Location and Transaction in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland - AGLSP Annual Conference · October 2013 International Meeting or Conference Association of Graduate Liberal Studies , Chicago

This story of location and dislocation presents New York City as the metropole of a globalized world in which the safe, comfortable colonial center and risky post-colonial periphery are no longer separate and distinguishable. This is a cosmopolitan space of cultural mixing, personal encounter and economic transaction, with connections to every continent of the post-colonial diaspora. This is a space of great opportunity but also great uncertainty about boundaries and risks – a dangerous world in which the Western middle-class family, bereft of the patriarchal certainties that once informed it, appears fragile and vulnerable.

Romancing the Capstone: Models for Thesis Success - AGLSP Director's Workshop · October 2013 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Association of Graduate Liberal Studies, Chicago
Well Begun: Introductory Courses and Other Foundational Strategies (panel) - AGLSP Director's Workshop · October 2012 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Association of Graduate Liberal Studies, Portland, Oregon
The Intellectual Ferment of the Puritan Revolution,1610-1660 - Quaker Education in the 21st Century · March 2012 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Carolina Friends School, Durham
Helping the Less-Prepared Graduate Liberal Studies Student (panel) - AGLSP Director's Workshop · October 2011 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Association of Graduate Liberal Studies, Saratoga Springs, NY
Articulating the Role of the Humanities in the 21st Century (panel) - Warwick-Duke Humanities Project · March 2009 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke, Durham
Assessing the Final Project Process - AGLSP Annual Conference · October 2004 International Meeting or Conference Association of Graduate Liberal Studies, Charlotte, NC
Finding Yourself Between Disciplines - AGLSP Annual Conference · October 2002 International Meeting or Conference Association of Graduate Liberal Studies, Chicago
Nine Points of the Law: The Social Significance of Property Relations in the Western - PCA Annual Meeting · April 1991 International Meeting or Conference Popular Culture Association, San Antonio
“Local Meanings and the Landscape of Experience in Sarah Orne Jewett’s Dunnet Landing Stories - The National Graduate Student Conference on English Studies · November 1990 International Meeting or Conference University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Service to the Profession

Workshop Facilitator - National conference workshops · 2011 - 2014 Event/Organization Administration Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, Skidmore (Saratoga Springs), Reed (Portland), Loyola (Chicago)

Planned, facilitated and taught day-long workshops at three national conferences.
Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Board · 2011 - 2014 Event/Organization Administration

Served on board of national professional organization.