APSI Summer Book Club 2026: To Save and to Destroy
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, and Libraries
Monday, August 17, 2026
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Online
Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (APSI; Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke)
On Afro-Asian Radicalism
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, September 03, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Screening: Her Fight, His Name: The Story of Gwen Carr and Eric Garner
Sponsor(s):
Archive of Documentary Arts, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI)
Thursday, September 10, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Brad Bailey, Gwen Carr
Community Screening: Her Fight, His Name: The Story of Gwen Carr and Eric Garner
Thursday, September 10, 2026
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Durham County Main Library, 300 Roxboro St.
Brad Bailey, Gwen Carr
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COSA | "Legacy: Apartheid's Shadow": Film Screening and Discussion with Tara Moore
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Franklin Humanities Institute (location tbd)
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"The Problem of Personhood:" Book talk & discussion with author Lisa Siraganian
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Lisa Siraganian
FHI | Simon Fisher, “Writing Pauli Murray History in the Twenty-First Century: The Impact of Transgender Studies"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Pauli Murray Project
Tuesday, October 06, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
COSA | Lecture: Rachel Sandwell, "Women, Youth, and Anti-Colonial Struggle in South Africa’s Exiled Liberation Movements"
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Jeongmin Kim (University of Manitoba)
Film Screening: "Zone of Interest"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Tuesday, November 03, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Film Screening: "A Real Pain"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
