
The Syrian Civil War: A Humanitarian Crisis
Sponsor(s):
The Alexander Hamilton Society
Thursday, January 28, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Virtual

2021 Bass Connections Virtual Fair: Morning Session
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bass Connections, Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Energy Initiative, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), Kenan Institute for Ethics, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Friday, January 29, 2021
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Online

Black Feminism Beyond the Human
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Provost's Office, and Sociology
Friday, January 29, 2021
11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Virtual - Zoom
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and Patrice Douglass

2021 Bass Connections Virtual Fair: Afternoon Session
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bass Connections, Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Energy Initiative, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), Kenan Institute for Ethics, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Friday, January 29, 2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Online

Slavery's Global Legacies and Local Contexts
Sponsor(s):
English, Bass Connections, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Trinity College
Friday, January 29, 2021
All Day
Zoom
Jessica Marie Johnson, Kirsten Mullen, William Darity, Jr., and Pierce Freelon,

Racism, Medicine, And Anthropology
Sponsor(s):
Cultural Anthropology, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Genomics, Race, Identity, Difference (GRID), Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), and Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Monday, February 01, 2021
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Virtual
Adia Benton, Chelsey Carter, and Michelle Munyikwa

Extra-acting and Extracting Whiteness: Why Asians called Euro-Americans ‘Enemies of Heaven’ in the 19th Century
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC)
Wednesday, February 03, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Mark Driscoll

Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, February 03, 2021
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Register in
Catherine Coleman Flowers
_20210125034619PM.png)
Movie & Panel Discussion | White Noise: Inside the Racist Right
Sponsor(s):
American Grand Strategy (AGS), Kenan Institute for Ethics, Sanford School of Public Policy, The Alexander Hamilton Society, and Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual
Film Director Daniel Lombroso

Screening and Conversation: The Romey Lynchings
Thursday, February 11, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Zoom
Akram Khater (NC State) and Sandy Ryland (family member)

Supporting the Faith, Building the Empire: Imperial Japan's Islamic Policies in WWII
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke Islamic Studies Center, and Religious Studies
Thursday, February 11, 2021
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Kelly Hammond (East Asian History, U. of Arkansas)

Human Rights in Practice Speaker Series
Sponsor(s):
Law School
Monday, February 15, 2021
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Virtual

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Sponsor(s):
Health Humanities Lab (HHL), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Liat Ben-Moshe

Ummah : The Effects of Community Responsibility on Muslim Political Behavior in the United States
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Muslim Life, and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Thursday, February 25, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Zoom
Dr. Nura Sediqe

Human Rights in Practice Speaker Series
Sponsor(s):
Law School
Monday, March 01, 2021
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Virtual

14th Feminist Theory Workshop 2021 Virtual Series
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Classical Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Dance Program, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), German Studies, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Latino/a Studies, Literature, Music, Office of the Provost - Finance and Administration, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Romance Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Theater Studies
Friday, March 12, 2021
2:00 am - 3:30 am
Webinar
Sharon P. Holland

Human Rights in Practice Speaker Series
Sponsor(s):
Law School
Monday, March 15, 2021
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Virtual

The Expansion of a “New Religious Movement”: Contemporary Dynamics of the Yiguandao
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Sébastien Billioud (Chinese Studies, Université de Paris)

Narrative Ethics of the Qur’an (tentative title)
Thursday, March 18, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Zoom
Dr. Hina Azam

14th Feminist Theory Workshop 2021 Virtual Series
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Classical Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Dance Program, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), German Studies, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Latino/a Studies, Literature, Music, Office of the Provost - Finance and Administration, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Romance Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Theater Studies
Friday, March 19, 2021
2:00 am - 3:30 am
Webinar
Shatema Threadcraft

Here We Go Again! Inequality, Racism and COVID-19
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Cynthia Garcia Coll

Womanist Bioethics
Sponsor(s):
Theology, Medicine, and Culture and Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
4:30 am - 5:30 am
Online
Wylin Wilson, PhD, MS, MDiv

Stand for Racial Justice
Sponsor(s):
Sanford School of Public Policy, Center for Child and Family Policy, Divinity School, and Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity (The Cook Center)
Thursday, March 25, 2021
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson

Surviving Genres: Rethinking the Islamic Discursive Tradition in Colonial India
Thursday, March 25, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Zoom
Dr. Ali Mian

14th Feminist Theory Workshop 2021 Virtual Series
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Classical Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Dance Program, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), German Studies, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Latino/a Studies, Literature, Music, Office of the Provost - Finance and Administration, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Romance Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Theater Studies
Friday, March 26, 2021
2:00 am - 3:30 am
Webinar
Gayatri Gopinath

Muslim Community Efforts against Domestic Violence: Sajida Jalalzai in conversation with Juliane Hammer, author of Peaceful Families (Princeton 2019)
Thursday, April 01, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dr. Juliane Hammer; Dr. Sajida Jalalzai

Human Rights in Practice Speaker Series
Sponsor(s):
Law School
Monday, April 05, 2021
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Virtual

Health Humanities and Disability Studies
Sponsor(s):
Health Humanities Lab (HHL), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, April 05, 2021
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Zoom
Jonathan Metzl and Aimi Hamraie (Vanderbilt), Margaret Price (Ohio State), Erin Gentry Lamb (Case Western)

Black Muslim Atlantic (tentative title)
Thursday, April 08, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Zoom
Dr. Alaina Morgan