Faculty Bookwatch: "The Blood of Emmett Till"
Thursday, February 23, 2017
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Timothy B. Tyson
Reception, Reading, and Book Signing with Lisa Yarger, Author of "Lovie: The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence, a Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture
Sponsor(s):
Sanford School of Public Policy, Center for Jewish Studies, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Student Affairs
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Planting in a Post-Wild World: Taimi Anderson Lecture
Sponsor(s):
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Thursday, March 30, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Taimi Anderson
The Archive Literary Festival: Talk and Book Signing with Garth Risk Hallberg
Sponsor(s):
The Archive
Monday, April 10, 2017
7:30 pm
Faculty Bookwatch: "Speaking of Duke: Leading the 21st-Century University"
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
President Richard H. Brodhead
Modern Medicine - The Quest for a Good Death. A Conversation with Haider Warraich
Thursday, April 20, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Larry Wolff (NYU): The Singing Turk, book talk
Wednesday, June 07, 2017
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Larry Wolff
"Democracy In Chains" at The Regulator
Sponsor(s):
History
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
7:00 pm
Nancy MacLean
Book Reading: "The Hidden Rules of Race" and "Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust"
Monday, August 07, 2017
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jocelyn Olcott's "International Women's Year" at The Regulator
Sponsor(s):
History
Thursday, August 31, 2017
7:00 pm
Jocelyn Olcott
Can America and China Escape Thucydides' Trap?
Sponsor(s):
American Grand Strategy (AGS), Political Science, and Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS)
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Graham Allison
Blackburn Poetry Series: Reading and Book Signing with Ann Lauterbach
Thursday, September 14, 2017
7:30 pm
Branson Hall Theater
Ann Lauterbach
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
Mariette Pathy Allen: Transcendents
Sponsor(s):
American Tobacco Campus - Power Plant, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Mariette Pathy Allen
Former U.S. Representative Barney Frank: 'The Fight for a Fair Society: Is Pragmatism a Betrayal?'
Sponsor(s):
POLIS: The Center for Political Leadership, Innovation, and Service, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Barney Frank
Savage Inequalities in the Public Schools of a Divided Nation
Sponsor(s):
Program in Education
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Jonathan Kozol
Book Reading: "The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy"
Thursday, October 26, 2017
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Talk, Book Signing, and Reception with Lauren Pond for "Test of Faith"
Thursday, November 16, 2017
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm
Jeff Engel
CANCELED - OIT Training Learn IT @ Lunch: Digital Flyers: Design tips on creating engaging flyers (and an overview of DukeFlyer 2.0)
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Office of Information Technology (OIT)
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Teresa Jennings & Richard Mitchell (OIT Media Technologies)
The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil
Sponsor(s):
Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE), African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity (The Cook Center)
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour
Book Discussion and Signing: Beethoven's Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World
Sponsor(s):
Music
Sunday, December 03, 2017
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Book Talk - Mihrî Hatun: Perfomance, Gender-Bending and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History
Friday, January 26, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Didem Havlioglu with Samer Ali and Michele Longino
Book Discussion: New books by David Garcia (UNC), Louise Meintjes (Duke), & Chérie Rivers Ndaliko (UNC)
Sponsor(s):
Music
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
See description
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
Realist & Principled: An Argument for America's Support of Democracy & Human Rights in the Middle East
Sponsor(s):
American Grand Strategy (AGS), Duke Israel Public Affairs Committee (DIPAC), Political Science, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Wednesday, February 07, 2018
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Elliott Abrams
Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
Thursday, February 08, 2018
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
William R. Polk
Book Event for "Putting Wealth to Work" by Joel Fleishman
Sponsor(s):
Sanford School of Public Policy
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Joel Fleishman and Judith Rodin
Public Reading: Marks of History, Memory, and Race in the Anthropocene with Dr. Lauret Savoy
Sponsor(s):
Kenan Institute for Ethics
Monday, February 19, 2018
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The Hip Hop South: A Conversation with Regina N. Bradley
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE)
Monday, February 19, 2018
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Regina Bradley with Mark Anthony Neal
Blackburn Poetry Series: Alberto Mobilio and Elizabeth Willis
Sponsor(s):
English
Thursday, March 01, 2018
7:30 pm
Celebrating 10 Years of Latino/a Studies at Duke University
Sponsor(s):
Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Cultural Anthropology, Dean of Humanities, English, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Literature, Nasher Museum of Art, Provost's Office, and Romance Studies
Thursday, March 22, 2018
All Day
Richard Rodriguez
Sponsor(s):
Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Cultural Anthropology, Dean of Humanities, English, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Literature, Provost's Office, and Romance Studies
Thursday, March 22, 2018
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Richard Rodriguez
Gorbachev: His Life & Times | Book Discussion with Bill Taubman
Thursday, March 22, 2018
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Bill Taubman
Valeria Luiselli
Sponsor(s):
Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Cultural Anthropology, Dean of Humanities, English, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Literature, Provost's Office, and Romance Studies
Friday, March 23, 2018
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
Daniel Borzutzky
Sponsor(s):
Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Cultural Anthropology, Dean of Humanities, English, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Literature, Provost's Office, and Romance Studies
Friday, March 23, 2018
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Daniel Borzutzky
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