

Accompanying Migrants and Searching for the Disappeared
Sponsor(s):
Social Movements Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), International Comparative Studies (ICS), Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Mi Gente
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Rubén Figueroa

A Conversation with Sir David Adjaye OBE and Zena Howard
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Why Does The Claim of Reason Matter? A Symposium in Memory of Stanley Cavell (1926-2018)
Sponsor(s):
Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature
Friday, September 13, 2019
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Avner Baz, Sarah Beckwtih, Robert Chodat, Juliet Floyd, Espen Hammer, Sandra Lautier, Toril Moi

Making Writing Groups Work for You
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Faculty Write, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, September 19, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
With Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Director, Faculty Write Program, and Nicole Barnes, History Department
Thinking and Modern Tyranny: Reflections on the 'Sonderkommando photographs.'
Thursday, September 19, 2019
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Amir Eshel
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Amit Chaudhuri: "The Strangeness of the 'World' and How We Encounter It"'
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Amit Chaudhuri
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Literary Activism, or Creativity at the Fringes
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Duke Arts, English, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Amit Chaudhuri

The Millennial Discord: Generational Tensions in Early Modern Italy
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Music, and Romance Studies
Friday, September 27, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Roseen Giles

Reading and Book Signing with Author Monique Truong
Sponsor(s):
Asian American Studies Program (AASP), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke Arts, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Monday, September 30, 2019
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Rights! Camera! Action! Screening of "Soul City" & "Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the North Carolina Fund"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, October 01, 2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

From Jamestown to Jamestown: Bridging the Knowledge Gap between Africans & African-Americans
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative
Wednesday, October 02, 2019
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Hon. Kojo Yankah

Psyche-Analysis: The Politics of Excess and the Souls of Black Film
Friday, October 04, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Franklin Cason

Yong Soon Min, Visual Artist
Sponsor(s):
Asian American Studies Program (AASP), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke Arts, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Thursday, October 10, 2019
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Yong Soon Min

The Sovereignty of an Audacious Raconteur in Colonial India
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Cultural Anthropology, English, History, India Initiative, Literature, and Religious Studies
Friday, October 11, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Leela Prasad

Two Flags: Documentary Screening & Q&A by Director Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Sponsor(s):
International Comparative Studies (ICS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), India Initiative, and Religious Studies
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Pankaj Rishi Kumar

Dangerous Work: A Study of Reprisals against Environmental Defenders in the former Soviet Union and the United States
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Getting Useful Feedback on Your Writing
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Faculty Write, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
With Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Director, Faculty Write Program, and Nicole Barnes, History Department

How to Write a Best Seller (or a Successful Trade Book): A Conversation with Tom Mayer from W.W. Norton
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Thursday, October 17, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tom Mayer, Senior Editor & Vice President, W. W. Norton

Sculpture Against the State: Anarchism, Censorship and Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Romance Studies
Friday, October 18, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Mark Antliff


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
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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
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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
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