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Tony Galanos and Dan Sipp

Yes And!...Can Improv Help Us Navigate Uncertain Times?

Sponsor(s): Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine and School of Medicine (SOM)
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Tony Galanos & Dan Sipp
Fragile Care

Fragile Care

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, and Revaluing Care Lab
Friday, February 06, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C106 "Story Lab"
Eliza Williamson; Shaun Respess; Emily Rogers
Literature Salon & Snacks Feb 6 at 1230pm Duke Coffeehouse

Literature Salon & Snacks

Sponsor(s): Literature
Friday, February 06, 2026
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
East Campus Coffeehouse
Beyond Borders: Access and Affordability of Study Away - Student Panel

Beyond Borders: Access and Affordability of Study Away - Student Panel

Sponsor(s): Global Education Office for Undergraduates, Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, and Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culutre
Friday, February 06, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mary Lou Williams Center
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, February 08, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
Brettler

Celebrating Marc Brettler's Scholarship: The Bible in the Public Square Revisited

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Sunday, February 08, 2026
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Westbrook 0012
Heschel and Bea

Breaking Barriers, Building Bonds: 60 Years of Interfaith Dialogue After Nostra Aetate

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies, Divinity School, Duke Catholic Center, History, and Religious Studies
Monday, February 09, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Westbrook 0012
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A Breakthrough in Early Japanese TV Commercials: 1967

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor
Yukie Takeuchi (Art and Advertising Design History, Doshisha University)
Young immigrants dressed in orange jumpsuits, who have been arrested by Border Patrols.

Film Screening: The Infiltrators

Sponsor(s): Forum for Scholars and Publics, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Mi Gente, and Provost's Office
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Conference on Society-Centered AI Feb 12-15 superimposed on a stylized image

#SCAI2026 - Conference on Society-Centered AI

Sponsor(s): Duke Society-Centered AI Initiative, Fuqua School of Business, and Pratt School of Engineering
Thursday, February 12, 2026
All Day
TBA soon!
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In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, February 12, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Smith Warehouse - Bay 10, 2nd Floor
Alicia Volk (Japanese Art, University of Maryland)
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tgiFHI | Melanie Lamotte, History

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and History
Friday, February 13, 2026
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Morgan Thompson

Normalization of Gynecological Pain and Inductive Risk Evaluation in the CDC's Contraceptive Guidance

Sponsor(s): Philosophy
Friday, February 13, 2026
3:20 pm - 5:20 pm
Friedl 107
Morgan Thompson, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
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Cognitive Rhetoric: Models, Metaphors, Representativeness

Sponsor(s): Literature and Institute for Critical Theory
Friday, February 13, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Friedl 225
Leif Weatherby
jarvis mcinnis

The Tuskegee Agricultural Extension Program and Black Land MAnagement as Community Resilience

Sponsor(s): Duke Campus Farm
Friday, February 13, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, February 15, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
Wilkerson

Care, Radically

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Graduate Liberal Studies, History, and Revaluing Care Lab
Monday, February 16, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C106 "Story Lab"
Jessie Wilkerson; Anne Whisnant
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Faculty panel for non-federal funding: Social Sciences & Humanities

Sponsor(s): Office for Research and Innovation
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Virtual
Therese Cory

Two Medieval Methods of Thought and Its Objects

Sponsor(s): Philosophy and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Thursday, February 19, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Classroom Building, Room 103
Therese Cory, University of Notre Dame
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tgiFHI | Preeti Singh, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, February 20, 2026
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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2026 Triangle Undergraduates Literary Conference

Sponsor(s): English, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Libraries, Theater Studies, and Undergraduate Research Support Office
Saturday, February 21, 2026
9:00 am
Allen 314
Dr. Jason Miller (NC State); Prof. Mesha Maren (Duke); Dr. Jacqueline Kellish (National Humanities Center)
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, February 22, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
Schwartz

NCJSS Welcomes Daniel Schwartz

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, February 22, 2026
3:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Daniel Schwartz
Duttlinger

The Individual and the Community: Paradoxes of Responsibility in Kafka's Prose Fiction

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies and German Studies
Monday, February 23, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Carolin Duttlinger
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A Public Talk by Alex Hanna

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Dean of Humanities, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
West Campus (location, tbd)
Alex Hanna
Sommer

Prayer, Ritual, and Silence: The Psalms as Worship in Biblical Scholarship and the Study of Religion

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Benjamin Sommer
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tgiFHI | Sarah Pourciau, German Studies

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and German Studies
Friday, February 27, 2026
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Reading and Conversation with Moshtari Hilal and Dr. Paniz Musawi Natanzi

Sponsor(s): German Studies, Duke International Student Center, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Friday, February 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Richard White Lecture Hall, Room 107
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, March 01, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
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Archives, Interdisciplinarity, and Mimesis in Romance Studies

Sponsor(s): Romance Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Libraries
Monday, March 02, 2026
3:00 am - 5:00 am
Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
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2026 Pluralism Lecture: Poetry and Spirituality

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel, Native American Student Alliance (NASA), Provost's Office, and Research for Indigenous Studies & Engagement in the US (RISE-US)
Tuesday, March 03, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Duke Chapel
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CDVS Workshop: Data Management for Humanists

Sponsor(s): Libraries, Duke Office of Scientific Integrity (DOSI), Research Computing, and Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Wednesday, March 04, 2026
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online
Sophia Lafferty-Hess, Hannah Jacobs
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Bearing Witness: Genocide, Silence, and Responsibility in Sudan

Sponsor(s): Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Wednesday, March 04, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
French Family Science Center 2231
Naomi Rosenberg

The Abnormal Becomes Normal: Facing Human Suffering in Clinical Medicine

Sponsor(s): Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine and School of Medicine (SOM)
Thursday, March 05, 2026
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Trent Semans Center for Health Education - Great Hall
Naomi Rosenberg
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, March 08, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
Gondos

NCJSS Welcomes Andrea Gondos

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, March 08, 2026
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Andrea Gondos
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, March 15, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
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Belonging: Artist as Witness with Nora Krug

Sponsor(s): Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), German Studies, International Comparative Studies (ICS), and Political Science
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Nora Krug
Therese Cory

Structural Racism: A Thomistic Approach

Sponsor(s): Philosophy and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Classroom Building, Room 103
Therese Cory, University of Notre Dame
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Area Studies and the Middle East for the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges

Sponsor(s): Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
TBA
Seteney Shami
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Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, March 19, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Yanshuo Zhang (Pomona College)
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Film Screening: “Bluff City Chinese” (Thandi Cai, 2024)

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), and Cinematic Arts
Thursday, March 19, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater
Thandi Cai, director
Event date, location

The 19th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop

Sponsor(s): Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, Cultural Anthropology, Dance Program, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Literature, Philosophy, Romance Studies, and Women's Center
Friday, March 20, 2026
All Day
Penn Pavilion
Therese Cory

Knowing is Growing: Aquinas on the Being and Life of Intellects

Sponsor(s): Philosophy and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Friedl 107
Therese Cory, University of Notre Dame
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240 Years of U.S.–Moroccan Friendship

Sponsor(s): Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Friday, March 27, 2026
4:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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240 Years of U.S.–Moroccan Friendship

Sponsor(s): Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Saturday, March 28, 2026
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, March 29, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
Flyer

Muslims in the African Diaspora: New Books in the Field

Sponsor(s): Duke Islamic Studies Center, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Forum for Scholars and Publics, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, April 02, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Ellen McLarney, Samiha Rahman, Alaina Morgan, Atiya Husain, Youssef Carter, Solayman Idris
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, April 05, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
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NCJSS Welcomes the 2026 Shatzmiller Fellows

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, April 05, 2026
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
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Lecture on Pirandello

Sponsor(s): Romance Studies and Theater Studies
Thursday, April 09, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Professor Michael Subialka
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Lunch with the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Admissions Director: Full Scholarships for Graduate School at Stanford

Sponsor(s): OUSF - Nationally Competitive Scholarship Events
Friday, April 10, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Wellness Center, Room 148
Duke NCS Advisors
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, April 12, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
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Fortin Foundation Bass Connections Showcase

Sponsor(s): Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Penn Pavilion
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, April 19, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, April 26, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
Workshop flyer

NEH Humanities Research Center on AI Informational Session

Sponsor(s): Office of Campus Research Development (OCRD)
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Virtual
Sohini Sengupta, Ph.D.
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, May 03, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, May 10, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
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Public Tour of Duke Chapel

Sponsor(s): Duke Chapel
Sunday, May 17, 2026
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Docents
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