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Revisiting Garveyism: A Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Black Archival Imagination Lab, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Concilium on Southern Africa, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and History
Monday, February 02, 2026
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Natanya Duncan, Winston James, Adom Getachew, Henry Dee
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Iran at a Crossroads: Protests, Sanctions, and Political Futures
Monday, February 02, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Pink Parlor, East Duke Building
Narges Bajoghli, Vali R. Nasr, Didem Z. Havlioğlu, Mohsen Kadivar, Omid Safi
The Whites-Only Immigration Regime: 1896–1952
Sponsor(s):
Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), History, Provost's Office, Trinity College, and Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Kelly Lytle Hernández
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
Kelly Lytle Hernández
From Policy to Plate: How Government Decisions Shape Food Access
Sponsor(s):
World Food Policy Center
Thursday, February 12, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:35 pm
Amy Beros, Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina
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
Morgan Thompson, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Cognitive Rhetoric: Models, Metaphors, Representativeness
Friday, February 13, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Leif Weatherby
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
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
Jessie Wilkerson; Anne Whisnant
Documentary Film Screening: A Road Out
Sponsor(s):
African and African American Studies (AAAS), Africa Initiative, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Concilium on Southern Africa, Duke Africa, Duke Community Affairs, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity (The Cook Center), Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity (The Cook Center), and Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Thursday, February 19, 2026
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Bearing Witness: Genocide, Silence, and Responsibility in Sudan
Wednesday, March 04, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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
Nora Krug
Structural Racism: A Thomistic Approach
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Therese Cory, University of Notre Dame
Area Studies and the Middle East for the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
TBA
Seteney Shami
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
Yanshuo Zhang (Pomona College)
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
Thandi Cai, director
