University to celebrate 300th
anniversary of St. Petersburg
The Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies will host a conference Sept. 19 and 20 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, Russia. Jack Matlock, Trinity '50 and former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 and 1991, will deliver a keynote address at 1 p.m. Sept. 19 on "Russia's Window to Europe: How Successful has Peter's Dream Been?" At 8 p.m. Sept. 19 in Baldwin Auditorium, there will be a concert featuring Russian and American musicians.
There will also be round-table panels Sept. 19 in the Fox Student Center at the Fuqua School of Business. The conference will continue Sept. 20 at Fuqua with sessions focusing on the educational system and research in St. Petersburg.
'The celebration will conclude at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with readings by UNC and Duke faculty and students and a presentation of photographs and paintings.
Concert tickets are $15 for the general public and $8 for Duke students. All other events at the conference are free and open to the public, but organizers have asked that people wishing to attend contact the center first at csees@duke.edu.
Law School to launch "Information
Ecology" lecture series
The School of Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain will launch a lecture series on "The Information Ecology," featuring presentations by scholars from Duke and around the nation. Lectures typically will be at the law school Friday afternoons at 4 p.m. and will be followed by discussion and a reception.
Law professor James Boyle will deliver the first lecture, '"'We Don't Provide That Service': The Economic Irrationality of Copyright Rules on the Internet" Sept. 19 at 4p.m. in Room 3043 of the Law School. The lecture is open to all, but those planning to attend must inform staff assistant Eileen Wojciechowski at wojciech@law.duke.edu.
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