Film Screening: "Denial" with post-screening discussion led by Neil Siegel
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, October 23, 2016
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Neil Siegel, Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke Law School
Ruth Messinger: "If Not Now, When? Pursuing Global Justice to Mend Our Broken World"
Thursday, October 27, 2016
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Ruth Messinger
Robert Wilson-Black: "What do we owe one another? A new social covenant to make sense of the times"
Wednesday, November 02, 2016
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Robert Wilson-Black (Sojourners)
"The Parents Circle: Bereavement and Reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and J Street U
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Danielle Bailly: Hidden Children of France
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Coalition for Preserving Memory (CPM), German, Jewish Life at Duke, and Romance Studies
Monday, March 06, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
TBA
Danielle Bailly
Capturing the Moment: Centuries of the Passover Haggadah
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Divinity School, Jewish Life at Duke, Libraries, and Religious Studies
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Kalman Bland
Rick Hodes: Tzedakah in Ethiopia
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Thursday, September 14, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dr. Rick Hodes
"An Italian Jesuit in Canton and the War on the Chinese: 'Orientalism,' Conquest, and the Eastern Indian Ocean in the 16th Century"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Religious Studies
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Jewish Life at Duke Presents Yavilah McCoy
Sponsor(s):
Jewish Life at Duke, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Baldwin Scholars, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Multicultural Affairs, Center for Race Relations (CRR), Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, Coalition for Preserving Memory (CPM), Duke Chapel, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity (The Cook Center), Duke Friends of Israel (DFI), Duke Israel Public Affairs Committee (DIPAC), Duke Jewish Student Union (JSU), Fraternity & Sorority Life, Housing, Dining and Residence Life (HDRL), J Street U, Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity (The Cook Center), TAMID, Trinity College, Undergraduate Education, University Center Activities & Events (UCAE), and Women's Center
Monday, November 06, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Yavilah McCoy
Before 'Global Modernisms': Renaissance, Reform, and Rewriting in the 19th-20th c. Global South
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Forum for Scholars and Publics
Monday, January 29, 2018
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Lital Levy
NUREMBERG TRIALS: Its Impact on International Jurisprudence And Contemporary Human Atrocities
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Center for International and Comparative Law, Coalition for Preserving Memory (CPM), Jewish Life at Duke, Law School, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Ben Ferencz, Don Ferencz and Michael Scharf
Map, Territory, and Boundary - Duke-UNC Annual Graduate Student Conference
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Duke Islamic Studies Center, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Literature, Political Science, and Religious Studies
Friday, February 09, 2018
All Day
Keynote: Banu Gokariksel
New Jerusalem, Down Under: The Search for a Jewish Homeland in Australia
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
TBD
Adam Rovner (U of Denver)
Vita Activa: The Life of Hannah Arendt
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Center for Jewish Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
3rd Annual African Film Festival: Red Leaves
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke African Graduate and Professional Students Association, and Libraries
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Emergency Legal Cultures: British Imperial Legacies: An International Legal Conference
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Human Rights Center (DHRC), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), India Initiative, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Monday, February 26, 2018
10:30 am - 3:00 pm
Adam Rovner (U of Denver): New Jerusalem Down Under: The Search for a Jewish Homeland in Australia
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
How can the past move us forward?
Sponsor(s):
Coalition for Preserving Memory (CPM), Africa Conversations Club, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke Africa, Duke History Union, and Duke Human Rights Center (DHRC)
Monday, April 09, 2018
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Visualization and the Holocaust: Analyzing Space and Place with Digital Methods and Geographical, Textual, and Visual Sources
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Dean of Humanities, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Nasher Museum of Art, and Research Computing
Friday, January 18, 2019
All Day
Antisemitism: Here and Now
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Coalition for Preserving Memory (CPM), Duke Office of Civic Engagement (DOCE), Jewish Life at Duke, Office of Global Affairs, Office of the University President, POLIS: The Center for Political Leadership, Innovation, and Service, Provost's Office, and Religious Studies
Monday, March 25, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University
An Afterlife with author Frances Bartkowski
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Center for Jewish Studies, English, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and German
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Frances Bartkowski
How Art Survives: David Ohannessian and the Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke Islamic Studies Center, and Libraries
Friday, January 22, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Virtual Zoom Presentation
Sato Moughalian
Religions and Public Life Graduate Student Working Group Conference
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Thursday, May 06, 2021
12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Zoom
Being Black in Venice
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), German Studies, and Global Jewish Modernism
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Shaul Bassi, Igiaba Scego
“Bridges Between East and West” with poet Ronny Someck
Monday, October 24, 2022
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Ronny Someck
Book Launch: Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), German Studies, Global Jewish Modernism, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite: The Accountants of Nineveh: Jews, Exile, and Capitalism from Herodotus to Werner Sombart
Monday, February 06, 2023
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, and Jewish Life at Duke
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Joseph Sassoon (Georgetown)
INIRE 2023 Keynote: "Finding God in a Time of Crisis"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Divinity School, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Friday, June 30, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Abdullah Antepli
A Conversation with Amb. Thomas Nides
Tuesday, October 03, 2023
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Ambassador Thomas Nides
Jamón & Halal: al-Andalus, Andalucía, and Tolerance
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Christina Civantos (U. Miami)
Conference: ‘Ah, Reality’: New Approaches to Hebrew Poetics and Literature
**CANCELED**
Sunday, October 29, 2023
All Day
Mapping Jewish Modernism Exhibit Opening
Sponsor(s):
Global Jewish Modernism, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, German Studies, Humanities Unbounded, and Romance Studies
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Archives, Exhibits, and Literature Dialogue
Sponsor(s):
Global Jewish Modernism, Center for Jewish Studies, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), German Studies, Humanities Unbounded, Nasher Museum of Art, and Romance Studies
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Emma Bond, Max Czollek, Annette Josep-Gabriel, Felwine Sarr
Translation and World Literature
Sponsor(s):
Global Jewish Modernism, Center for Jewish Studies, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, German Studies, Humanities Unbounded, and Romance Studies
Thursday, April 04, 2024
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm