Concentration Camps: Then and Now
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Forum for Scholars and Publics
Thursday, October 24, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Andrea Pitzer, Jonathan Katz, and Roxana Bendezú, moderated by Brian Goldstone
Resisting the Universal: Black Dance, Aesthetics, and the Afterlives of Slavery
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Dance Program, From Slavery to Freedom Lab, and Theater Studies
Friday, October 25, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Thomas F. DeFrantz
Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Religious Studies
Monday, October 28, 2019
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Simone Oppen, Dartmouth College; Daniel Picus, Carleton College; Travis Proctor, Wittenberg University; and Stephen Young, Appalachian State University
Listening to LatinX
Sponsor(s):
Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Cultural Anthropology, Dean of Humanities, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Kenan Institute for Ethics, Literature, Music, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
3:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Maria Hinojosa
Traces of Travelling Musicians
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Music
Thursday, October 31, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Corinne Schneider
The New Great Game: Anti-Japanism in the Era of China's Rise
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Games and Culture Lab
Friday, November 01, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Leo Ching
Faculty Bookwatch | The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles by Charles Piot
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Press, and Libraries
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Ranjana Khanna (moderator), Ian Baucom, Tsitsi Jaji, Hans Lucht, Achille Mbembe, Aïssatou Mbodj, Henrik Vigh and Charles Piot
Rights! Camera! Action! Screening of "The Unafraid"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Inequality, Intersectionality, and Embodied Brains
Friday, November 22, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Arabic & Hebrew Night
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Black Images, Black Histories" Conference
Sponsor(s):
From Slavery to Freedom Lab, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship, Duke Arts, Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, January 17, 2020
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra
Rights! Camera! Action! Presents "Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
AMES Presents: Race Media Empire Speaker Series- Constructing the Inner Frontier: Redeemable Difference and the Art of Intimate Self-Management in the 1930s Okinawa
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 23, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Wendy Matsumura
On the Question of Violence: Slavery, Sexual Subjection, and Legal Paradigms of Thought
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), From Slavery to Freedom Lab, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Friday, January 24, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Patrice Douglass
[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Friday, January 24, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra
Theater Studies Lecture. Whose Line is it Anyway: Jennifer Kidwell
Sponsor(s):
Theater Studies
Friday, January 24, 2020
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Tina Post
A Feminist Politics of Ambivalence - Reading Emma Goldman
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and History
Monday, January 27, 2020
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Clare Hemmings
[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra
Everybody Plays the Fool: On Style and Stupidity
Friday, January 31, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Taylor Black
[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Friday, January 31, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra
"What is a resource curse: energy, infrastructure, and climate change in Native North America"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Dr. Andrew Curley
AMES Presents: Race Media Empire Speaker Series- Spatial Politics of the Olympics Sites of Tokyo 3.0
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, February 13, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Sharon Hayashi (York University, Toronto)
Cultures of Capitalism: Early Modern Spain
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Economics, History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Romance Studies
Friday, February 14, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Elvira Vilches
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
Rights and the Humanities Lecture with Dr. Joseph Slaughter, "Naming the Crisis: The Language of Human Rights and the Neoliberal Turn"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Literature
Thursday, February 20, 2020
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Joseph R. Slaughter
On Hubris and Imagination: Kafka, Nietzsche, and Contemporary Ecological Discourse
Friday, February 21, 2020
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Kata Gellen
Virtual and Augmented Reality in the Humanities Symposium
Friday, February 21, 2020
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Faculty Bookwatch: Terrestial Lessons: Conquest of the World as Globe
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), India Initiative, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Libraries, and Office of Global Affairs
Friday, February 21, 2020
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Gauri Viswanathan, Benjamin Schmidt, David Gilmartin, Walter Mignolo
What is a World? A Roundtable on World Literature
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, Literature, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
Joint Reading With Caryl Phillips and Akhil Sharma
Sponsor(s):
English
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Caryl Phill and Akhill Sharma
Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh
Sponsor(s):
African and African American Studies (AAAS) and Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE)
Thursday, February 27, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Candice Jenkins
Tom and Zula: Jews and Gentiles at Play on the Interwar Polish Stage
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Center for Jewish Studies, History, Music, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Theater Studies
Friday, February 28, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Beth Holmgren
Co-opting AI? Data Capitalism & Predictive Intelligence
Sponsor(s):
Duke Digital Humanities Initiative, Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Information Science + Studies (ISS), Literature, and PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge
Friday, February 28, 2020
11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Luciana Parisi (Duke) & Ezekiel Dixon-Román (UPenn)
Méndez Award winner: Carolyn Forché's What You Have Heard Is True, a reading and book signing
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, March 02, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Carolyn Forché
The Coronavirus: Human, Social, and Political Implications - UPDATED
Tuesday, March 03, 2020
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Meridians - A 20th Anniversary Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke University Press, English, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Literature
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
All Day
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Myriam Chancy, Paula Giddings, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Tsitsi Jaji, Marina Magloire, Mecca Sullivan
CANCELLED Rights! Camera! Action! presents "The Apology"
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
CANCELED: Archival Dramaturgy: Suspicion and the Documents of Transnational Passage.
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Theater Studies
Thursday, March 19, 2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Ju Yon Kim, Harvard University
POSTPONED: Readers, Authors, and Autism
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Health Humanities Lab (HHL), Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, March 20, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Ralph Savarese, Melanie Yergeau
CANCELED- AMES Presents: Race Media Empire Speaker Series- backgroundingforegrounding (Manning) and Extreme Realism: In Sixteen Series (Massumi)
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, April 06, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Erin Manning and Brian Massumi
POSTPONED What is a World? A Panel on World Dance
**CANCELED**
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
Michael Klien, Purnima Shah, Sarah Wilbur
How Soldiers Think: Law and Dictatorship in Nigeria
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), History, and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Friday, October 22, 2021
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Listening for Latinx Understories: The Musical Roots/Routes of Migrant Farmworkers in 20th c. North Carolina
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Latino/a Studies, Music, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and Student Action with Farmworkers
Friday, November 05, 2021
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Sophia Enriquez
Emotional Dexterity: Afro-Puerto Rican Resistencia in Bomba's Batey and the Digital Space
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Sarah Bruno
On Knowing and Not Knowing Trauma in Ancient Greek
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Classical Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Theater Studies
Friday, November 12, 2021
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Erika Weiberg
Mission Sensoriums: Spanish Colonization, Church Bells, and the California Indians: Bernard Gordillo (Yale University)
Sponsor(s):
Thompson Writing Program, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Music
Friday, March 04, 2022
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Bernard Gordillo (Yale University)
Global Jewish Modernism: Translation Series Welcomes Michael Hofmann
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), German Studies, Global Jewish Modernism, Humanities Unbounded, and Romance Studies
Thursday, March 24, 2022
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Michael Hofmann
"Pure Comedy: The Racial Politics of Domestic Work in ¡Cómo está el servicio! (Ozores 1968)
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies
Tuesday, April 05, 2022
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Michelle Murray
Race in Spain Colloquium
Tuesday, April 05, 2022
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubén H. Bermúdez and Lucía-Asué Mbomío Rubio
Book Arts Student Teach-In
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, April 07, 2022
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Noelle Garrick, Athena Yao, and Sophie Zhu, with Dr. Mandy Wetsel
Manuscript Fragmentation Across Cultures
Friday, September 09, 2022
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Lisa Davis, Christopher Nugent, Akiko Walley
Ancestral Claims
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, September 15, 2022
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Shakespearean Futures: Casting the Bodies of Tomorrow on Shakespeare's Stages Today
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, September 22, 2022
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Amy Cook
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