The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Kenneth Roman
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Filmmaker Series: A Conversation with Laura Poitras
Sponsor(s):
Archive of Documentary Arts, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Libraries, and Libraries-Special Collections
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Laura Poitras
The Library Presents Duke Moms and Dads
Sponsor(s):
Libraries
Saturday, October 27, 2012
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Judy Rothman Rofé
Strategic Scrapbooks: 19th Century Activists Remake the Newspaper for African American History and Women's Rights
Sponsor(s):
Libraries
Monday, October 29, 2012
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Ellen Gruber Garvey
Book reading and signing with Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni, co-authors of "Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato"
Friday, November 02, 2012
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni
Book Talk: The Selected Letters of William Styron
Sponsor(s):
Libraries
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Rose Styron and R. Blakeslee Gilpin
Book Talk: Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Thursday, October 03, 2013
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dr. Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
Writing Historical Fiction about Haitian Pirates and North Carolina Indians
Sponsor(s):
Libraries
Monday, March 03, 2014
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Josephine Humphreys
An Evening with Alix Kates Shulman: Fiction or Memoir--How to Choose
Sponsor(s):
Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Libraries, and Libraries-Special Collections
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Off-campus
Alix Kates Shulman
Engaging Faculty Series: Henry Petroski
Sponsor(s):
Libraries
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Henry Petroski, Aleksander S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering
"The Secret Game" Reading, Reception, and Book Signing
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Scott Ellsworth
Weaver Memorial Lecture: An Evening with Doris Kearns Goodwin and David M. Rubenstein
Sponsor(s):
Libraries, Arts & Sciences (A&S), History, Office of the University President, Provost's Office, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Thursday, November 05, 2015
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Doris Kearns Goodwin and David M. Rubenstein
WOLA-Duke 2015 Human Right Book Award: Paper Cadavers, by Kirsten Weld
Sponsor(s):
Libraries, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI)
Thursday, February 11, 2016
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Kirsten Weld
Faculty Bookwatch: "The Blood of Emmett Till"
Thursday, February 23, 2017
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Timothy B. Tyson
Faculty Bookwatch: "Speaking of Duke: Leading the 21st-Century University"
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
President Richard H. Brodhead
The Middle East and Islam in Global History: Three New Books
Sponsor(s):
History, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Libraries
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Cemil Aydin, Will Hanley, Adam Mestyan
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bass Connections, Center for Instructional Technology (CIT), Dean of Humanities, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Libraries, Provost's Office, and Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cathy N. Davidson
Weaver Memorial Lecture: An Evening with Colson Whitehead, author of "The Underground Railroad"
Wednesday, February 07, 2018
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Colson Whitehead
Provost Symposium: American Universities, Monuments, and the Legacies of Slavery
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Child and Family Policy, Economics, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Graduate School, History, Law School, Libraries, and Provost's Office
Friday, March 30, 2018
All Day
Provost Symposium: American Universities, Monuments, and the Legacies of Slavery
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Child and Family Policy, Economics, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Graduate School, History, Law School, Libraries, and Provost's Office
Saturday, March 31, 2018
All Day
Faculty Bookwatch: 'Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment'
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Libraries, and Religious Studies
Thursday, October 11, 2018
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Juan E. Méndez Human Rights Book Award Reading from "There Are No Dead Here"
Sponsor(s):
Libraries, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
María McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
ONLINE Book Talk: Rachel Lance, Author of "In the Waves," on Solving the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine
Sponsor(s):
Libraries
Thursday, April 09, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Online
Dr. Rachel Lance
POSTPONED: Book Talk: The American Story
Sponsor(s):
Sanford School of Public Policy, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Libraries
Monday, April 13, 2020
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
David M. Rubenstein
Book Release Event: The Pivot: One Pandemic, One University
Monday, November 07, 2022
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Robert J. Bliwise
SOLD OUT: The Weaver Memorial Lecture: An Evening with Nina Totenberg and Frank Bruni
Sponsor(s):
Libraries
Thursday, April 27, 2023
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Birthing Black Mothers by Jennifer Nash: Faculty Bookwatch
Thursday, September 21, 2023
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Moon Charania, Associate Professor of International Studies, Spelman College; Jasmine Cobb, Professor of African and African American Studies, Duke University; Deirdre Cooper Owens, Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut, Storrs; Wylin D. Wilson, Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School; Joseph Richard Winters II, Alexander F. Hehmeyer Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University. Moderated by Nikki Lane, Duke University
Book Talk: Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead
Friday, February 02, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Michael Kaler
Book Talk: Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness
Friday, April 05, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
John Brackett
