Micro meets Macro: The Challenge of Scale in Writing History
Friday, January 20, 2017
1:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
UNSUITABLE #14, Marketing Fiction in the Digital Age
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, History, John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Trinity College
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Shawn Nicholls
UNSUITABLE #15, Shakespeare, Romance & the Popular Imagination
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, History, John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Trinity College
Wednesday, February 08, 2017
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Eloisa James and John Forlines III
Colloquium on May '68 Keynote: Sex, Gender, Generation: Simone de Beauvoir in 1968
Sponsor(s):
Council for European Studies, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Dean of Humanities, and History
Friday, February 10, 2017
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Judith Coffin
UNSUITABLE #16, Colin Firth in Clingy Pants: The Romance Appeal of Pride & Prejudice
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, History, John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Trinity College
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Sabrina Jeffries
Regulating Intimacy and Constituting Community in Taiwan and China
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and Sociology
Friday, February 17, 2017
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Sara L. Friedman (Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University), Carlos Rojas (AMES, GSF, and AMI, Duke University), Chair: Juliette Duara (Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University)
Concurrences and Colonial Encounters - Methodology for Multiple Histories
Monday, February 20, 2017
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Gunlög Fur, Linnaeus University
The sacred space of France: Race, religion, citizenship and empire
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Africa Initiative, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Dr. James McDougall
A roundtable featuring James McDougall on Carrying Out Historical Research in North Africa
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Africa Initiative, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Dr. James McDougall
Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the US
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Center for Jewish Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and History
Thursday, February 23, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Zachary Lockman (NYU)
Contending Visions of the Middle East
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Center for Jewish Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and History
Friday, February 24, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Zachary Lockman, Charles Kurzman, Adam Mestyan
International Law for the Weak State: The Case of the Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth Century
Monday, February 27, 2017
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Mostafa Minawi (Cornell)
Lunchtime Book Roundtable on "Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism"
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Daanish Faruqi
Refuse Bodies, Disposable Lives
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, March 20, 2017
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Marisa J Fuentes, Professor of History and Women & Gender Studies Rutgers University
Trade and Family in the Middle East: A Private Archive from Upper Egypt
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Terence Walz
Symposium on Muslim African Intellectual History
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Monday, March 27, 2017
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Symposium on Muslim African Intellectual History
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Africa Initiative, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Monday, March 27, 2017
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sowa Rigpa: The Science of Healing as Local Practice, National Heritage, and Global Brand
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Health Humanities Lab (HHL), History, and Story Lab @ Franklin Humanities Institute
Tuesday, April 04, 2017
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Sienna Craig
Micro meets Macro: The Challenge of Scale in History with Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
1:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
Doing Justice to the Past: What the World Owes to the Comfort Women
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and History
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Thomas Room, Lilly Library
Carol Gluck
European Reunion: Making a Lasting Peace at the Congress of Vienna
Sponsor(s):
Council for European Studies, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Brian Vick, Emory University
UNSUITABLE #17, "OMG, it's me!": The Importance of Representation in Romance Fiction, and the Difficulties of Getting it Right
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, History, John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Trinity College
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Sarah Lyons
Europe's Orders and Peacemaking: A Historical Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Council for European Studies, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Thursday, April 13, 2017
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Pink Parlor, East Campus
Feminist Visions and Activist Dilemmas of the US Black Lives Matter and SA Fees Must Fall Movements: A Transnational Conversation
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and Sociology
Friday, April 14, 2017
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Sara L. Friedman (Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University), Carlos Rojas (AMES, GSF, and AMI, Duke University), Chair: Juliette Duara (Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University)
In Freedom's Name: Rethinking Caribbean Emancipations
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Center for French and Francophone Studies, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Literature, and Romance Studies
Friday, April 21, 2017
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
The Fall of the House of Calhoun: The First Jackson Administration
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, April 24, 2017
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Reeve Huston
War Guilt: W.E.B. Du Bois, African Americans & the Meaning of World War 1
Sponsor(s):
History
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Chad Williams, Brandeis University
Historical Identities and Sovereignty Claims: Focus on South China Sea
Thursday, May 04, 2017
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
"Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff"
Sponsor(s):
History
Friday, May 05, 2017
7:00 pm
Edward Balleisen
Environmental Justice and Sustainable Citizenship
Monday, May 22, 2017
All Day
DKU Academic Building
Celebration of Royal India & The British: The Photography of Samuel Bourne & Raja Lala Deen Dayal Exhibit
Tuesday, June 06, 2017
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Sumathi Ramaswamy
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
Jocelyn Olcott's "International Women's Year" at The Regulator
Sponsor(s):
History
Thursday, August 31, 2017
7:00 pm
Jocelyn Olcott
"The Black Radical Tradition and the Fragility of White Supremacy"
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, September 18, 2017
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Gaye Theresa Johnson
Militant Anti-Fascism in North America and Europe
Sponsor(s):
Social Movements Lab, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Cultural Anthropology, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), and Literature
Monday, September 18, 2017
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Mark Bray
DHU Power Hour: Why do we have confederate statues?
Sponsor(s):
History
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Laura Edwards
Worlds of Labor in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Literature
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Brazil Initiative, Global Brazil Humanities Lab, and History
Thursday, September 21, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Sydney Chaloub
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