Global History in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Monday, March 23, 2015
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Professor Sir C.A. Bayly (Cambridge/Queen Mary/Chicago)
Is the International Community Abandoning the Fight Against Impunity?
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Cultural Anthropology, History, Libraries-Special Collections, and Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
David Tolbert
"Is the International Community Abandoning the Fight Against Impunity?"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center (DHRC), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Cultural Anthropology, History, and Libraries-Special Collections
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
David Tolbert
Barbarism, autochthony, and the problem of race in African thought
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, March 30, 2015
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jonathon Glassman, Northwestern University
The Contemporary Black Atlantic: Interchanges between Brazil and Africa
Sponsor(s):
Humanities Labs@FHI, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Dean of Humanities, Duke Brazil Initiative, Global Brazil Humanities Lab, History, Nasher Museum of Art, Provost's Office, Trinity College, and Women's Center
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Louise Meintjes
The Veiled Woman in Antebellum America: Nuns and Quadroons
Thursday, April 09, 2015
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Emily Clark
Requiem for a Barrio: Race, Space, and Redevelopment in Inland Southern California
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, April 13, 2015
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Matthew Garcia, Arizona State University
Security Feminism and the Soft Power of Empire
Sponsor(s):
International Comparative Studies (ICS), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, History, Provost's Office, and Women's Studies Program
Monday, April 13, 2015
4:45 pm - 6:00 pm
Inderpal Grewal, Professor of WGSS, Anthropology, and American Studies at Yale University
The Form and Content of Suffering: Humanitarian Knowledge and Genocide in the Early 20th Century Middle East
Sponsor(s):
History
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Keith Watenpaugh, UC Davis
The Revolutionary Black Woman" and the Black Panther Party, 1966-1975
Sponsor(s):
History
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Ashley Farmer
Humanities Futures: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, History, Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), History, and Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Friday, April 24, 2015
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Illiteracy of "Mass Incarceration": Racial Terror and the Insurgent Poetics of Evisceration
Sponsor(s):
International Comparative Studies (ICS), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Humanities Writ Large, and Women's Studies Program
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dylan RodrÃguez
Lara Putnam - The Travels and the Terrain: Transnational Histories of Race in the Postemancipation Atlantic
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, September 21, 2015
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lara Putnam
Theorizing Gender: Thinking and Using Theory Differently
Sponsor(s):
Women's Studies Program, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and Sociology
Friday, October 02, 2015
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Elizabeth Grosz (Duke Women s Studies and Literature), Anna Krylova (Duke History Department and Women s Studies)
Andrew Satori-From Statecraft to Social Theory in Early-Modern Political Economy
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, October 05, 2015
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Andrew Satori
The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment
Sponsor(s):
International Comparative Studies (ICS), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Humanities Writ Large, and Women's Studies Program
Thursday, October 08, 2015
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Daniel LaChance, Jennifer Vitry, and Seth Kotch
Learning to Speak "Mandarin" in China: 1913-1935
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and History
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Janet Chen, History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Lock Away the Trauma, but the Ghosts Still Rattle Their Chains - Lifting Silence on Angola's 27 May 1977
Sponsor(s):
International Comparative Studies (ICS), Concilium on Southern Africa, Cultural Anthropology, and History
Friday, October 16, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lara Pawson, Freelance Writer and Journalist
Duke on Gender Colloquium - Masculinities in the Making: Iranian and Egyptian Film
Sponsor(s):
Women's Studies Program, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and Sociology
Friday, October 23, 2015
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Minoo Moallem UN Berkeley and Frances S. Hasso Duke Women's Studies
Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women's Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, October 26, 2015
1:25 pm - 2:40 pm
Jeffrey Rubin
Ariel and Prosper: West Indians Listen to Britain
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, October 26, 2015
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Bill Schwarz
Enduring Reform: Progressive Activism and Private-Sector Responses in Latin America's Democracies
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, October 26, 2015
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Jeffrey Rubin
Challenging Business: Progressive Reform and Private Sector Responses in India and Latin America
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Global Brazil Humanities Lab, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Jeffrey Rubin and Suzanne Katzenstein
Marcus Garvey and the Fallen Angel
Sponsor(s):
Libraries, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and History
Wednesday, November 04, 2015
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Prof. Robert Hill, Emeritus Professor of History, UCLA
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
Global Slaveries, Impossible Freedoms; The Intellectual Legacies of John Hope Franklin
Sponsor(s):
Office of the University President, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC)
Friday, November 06, 2015
10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Yesenia Barragan, Kendra Field, Michelle M. Wright, Sven Beckert, Martha Jones, Stephen Craig Wilder, Jelani Cobb, Stephen Marshall, Adam Green
Inventing Vivian Maier, a lecture by Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), History, and Literature
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Abigail Solomon-Godeau (Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Barbara)
A Critical Phenomenology of Solidarity and Resistance in the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strikes
Sponsor(s):
International Comparative Studies (ICS), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and Women's Studies Program
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Lisa Guenther
Missing the Boat
Wednesday, December 02, 2015
6:00 pm
Peter H. Wood, Duke Emeritus Professor of History
The Politics of Intelligence in Milton Obote's Uganda
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, February 01, 2016
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Derek Peterson, University of Michigan
Kiyochika's "Hurrah for Japan! One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs:" Clear Ends, but with What Means?
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and History
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Smith Whse, Bay 10, Room A266,114 S. Buchanan
Miriam Wattles, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture University of California - Santa Barbara,
The Transnational and the Local in 1970s-1980s Feminism
Sponsor(s):
Women's Studies Program, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Friday, February 19, 2016
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Judith Walkowitz Johns Hopkins University and Jocelyn Olcott Duke University
Sex Panic and the Expansion of the Carceral State
Sponsor(s):
International Comparative Studies (ICS), Duke Human Rights Center (DHRC), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and Women's Studies Program
Thursday, February 25, 2016
5:30 pm
Regina Kunzel
"Witness With a Notepad: Chronicling War, Revolution, Dictatorship, and Life in Peru"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Cultural Anthropology, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Forum for Scholars and Publics, History, and Literature
Friday, February 26, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Gustavo Gorriti
Individuals and Legal Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Department of Religion, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, History, Law School, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Monday, March 07, 2016
All Day
The Backbone of History: Anthropometric History as a Method to Study Living Standards and Inequality
Sponsor(s):
History
Monday, March 07, 2016
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Moramay Lopez- Alonso, Rice University
Scholars and Storytelling: Tom Robisheaux, "Microhistory and Story"
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Tom Robisheaux, Fred W. Shaffer Professor of History
Corruptions of Memory: The Vichy Past in France Today
Thursday, March 24, 2016
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Richard Golsan
Duke On Gender: The Politics of Clothing: Rethinking Narratives of Women, Identity, and the State
Sponsor(s):
Women's Studies Program, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Friday, March 25, 2016
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Laura Edwards Peabody Family Professor of History and Kim Lamm Duke Women's Studies
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