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Birth of Venus

Southeastern Renaissance Conference

Sponsor(s): Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Saturday, October 16, 2021
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9:00 am - 3:30 pm
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Virtual event via Zoom
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Disputatio

Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar

Sponsor(s): Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Saturday, October 16, 2021
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9:30 am - 1:30 pm
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Virtual event via Zoom
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Vicky McCalister (Southeast Missouri State Univ.), Meghan Woolley (Duke), and Jennifer Mackkenzie (UNC)
Raphael Xavier

Dance Performance: The Xcope by Raphael Xavier

Sponsor(s): Nasher Museum of Art
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Saturday, October 16, 2021
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Nasher Museum of Art
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NCLAFF Film: Rosa Chumbe

Sponsor(s): Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Romance Studies
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Saturday, October 16, 2021
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7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
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still film from Choco - woman and her daughter walk together, street scene

NCLAFF Film: Choco

Sponsor(s): Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Romance Studies
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Sunday, October 17, 2021
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7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
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Text: "What can the humanities contrubute to the global energy transition? Mon., Oct. 18 12-2 p.m. EDT. A conversation with: Dr. Matthew Huber (Syracuse University), Dr. Imre Szeman (PhD'98) (University of Waterloo), and Dr. Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia University). Duke students, faculty, and staff, RSVP: bit.ly/oct18 panel" Image: The earth seen from space with headshots of each speaker above. John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Energy Initiative, and Nicholas Institute logo sit in the bottom right.

What Can The Humanities Contribute to the Global Energy Transition?

Sponsor(s): Energy Initiative, Cultural Anthropology, Divinity School, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Fuqua School of Business, Graduate School, History, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Law School, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Nicholas School of the Environment, and Sanford School of Public Policy
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Monday, October 18, 2021
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12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330
Convivencia

The Afterlife of the Great Mosque of Cordoba

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Romance Studies
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Monday, October 18, 2021
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Virtual
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MICHELE LAMPRAKOS
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NCLAFF Film: Ruben Blades is Not My Name

Sponsor(s): Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Romance Studies
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Monday, October 18, 2021
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Carolina Theater
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Ethnography for Human Rights: Research, Advocacy, and Justice in International Spaces

Sponsor(s): Ethnography Workshop, Cultural Anthropology, and Humanities Unbounded
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Penn Pavilion
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Kyle Knight
science engagement with and within faith communities Wednesday October 20 noon - one pm

Science Engagement With (and Within) Faith Communities: The AAAS DoSER Program

Sponsor(s): Duke Initiative for Science & Society
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Rob O’Malley, Ph.D.
Tsitsi Jaji event

Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonization

Sponsor(s): Concilium on Southern Africa
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Tsitsi Jaji, Wamuwi Mbao, and Mjele Msimang
Ethiopic (Ge‘ez) Manuscripts: An Informational Event with Examples drawn from Duke’s Collection Thursday, October 21, 2021 from 3:30 – 5:00 PM In person at the Perkins Library, Room 217, or virtually by Zoom. Register here: https://cutt.ly/RegisterEthiopic

Ethiopic (Ge‘ez) Manuscripts: An Informational Event with Examples drawn from Duke’s Collection

Sponsor(s): Manuscript Migration Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Humanities Unbounded
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Thursday, October 21, 2021
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Perkins Library, Korman Assembly Room, 217
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Dr. Gay L. Byron
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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)
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Friday, October 22, 2021
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9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Samuel Fury Childs Daly
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Delving for Memories: an exploration of Wu Wenguang’s the Memory Project

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Libraries
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Friday, October 22, 2021
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10:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Online
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Prof. Guo-Juin Hong, Zhang Mengqi, Yu Shuang, Gao Ang, Luo Zhou
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Symposium: Arabic Literature in Translation

Sponsor(s): Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Duke Islamic Studies Center, and Libraries
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Friday, October 22, 2021
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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Dima Ayoub (Middlebury), Alexandra Shraytekh (Tufts), Michelle Hartman (McGill)
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Seminar on Glas, Session II: On Hegel's Fetishization of Africa

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Classical Studies, Duke Islamic Studies Center, English, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, German Studies, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Literature, Romance Studies, and Theater Studies
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Friday, October 22, 2021
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12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Online
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Tina Chanter; Caroline Rooney
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Misinformation in Asian Diaspora Communities: Conversations with Rachel Kuo, Part 1

Sponsor(s): Asian American and Diaspora Studies
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Friday, October 22, 2021
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Rachel Kuo
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Archives, Multimodality, and Decolonizing Anthropology

Sponsor(s): Cultural Anthropology
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Monday, October 25, 2021
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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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Friedl 225
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Deborah Thomas
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Roundtable Event

Sponsor(s): English
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021
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3:15 am - 4:30 am
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Allen 314
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Caryl Phillips
Duke in Geneva - study abroad in Switzerland

Duke in Geneva - Information Session

Sponsor(s): Global Education Office for Undergraduates
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Social Sciences 124
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Global Education Office
Coping Together

Coping Together: A family strengthening program fostering resilience and hope during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sponsor(s): Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Bass Connections, Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), and John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC)
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Convivencia

Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Romance Studies
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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TBA
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SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN
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Research Workshop: Transnational and Intergenerational Histories of Information, Conversations with Rachel Kuo, Part 2

Sponsor(s): Asian American and Diaspora Studies
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Rachel Kuo
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Antigone's Afterlives in Feminist Theory: Bonnie Honig in Conversation with Stefani Engelstein

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Classical Studies, Duke Islamic Studies Center, English, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, German Studies, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Literature, Romance Studies, and Theater Studies
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Thursday, October 28, 2021
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10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Online
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Bonnie Honig; Stefani Engelstein
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International Creole Day Celebration

Sponsor(s): Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and Romance Studies
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Thursday, October 28, 2021
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12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Dr. Jo-Anne Ferreira
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Schopenhauer's Politics

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and German Studies
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Friday, October 29, 2021
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9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Jakob Norberg
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Duke Asia-Pacific (AP) Forum

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
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Friday, October 29, 2021
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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Online
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SaeHim Park, Harunobu Saijo
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NCLAFF Film: Stealing Rodin (Robar a Rodin)

Sponsor(s): Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Romance Studies
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Sunday, October 31, 2021
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2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
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Mary Lou and the Black Cosmology in Music

Sponsor(s): Black Music Lab, Humanities Unbounded, Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, and Music
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Tuesday, November 02, 2021
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Mary Lou Williams Center
Innovative Careers for PhDs Wednesday November 3 10am to 2pm ET

Innovative Careers for PhDs

Sponsor(s): Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, BioCoRE, Career Center, Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Graduate School, Office of Postdoctoral Services, and School of Medicine - Office of Biomedical Graduate Education
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Wednesday, November 03, 2021
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10:00 am - 2:00 pm
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Virtual
Convivencia

The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Romance Studies
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Wednesday, November 03, 2021
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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Virtual
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MARINA RUSTOW
In this virtual talk on November 3rd at 7 PM EST, we will hear from Dr. Jaskiran Dhillon, an anti-colonial scholar and organizer who grew up on Treaty Six Cree Territory in Saskatchewan, Canada. Her work spans the fields of settler colonialism, anthropology of the state, environmental justice, anti-racist feminism, colonial violence, political ecology, and youth studies. She is an associate professor of global studies and anthropology at The New School and served as the founding president of The New School's AAUP Chapter.

Global Environmental Justice: Decolonization, Settler Colonialism, and the Environment

Sponsor(s): Duke Student Government (DSG)
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Wednesday, November 03, 2021
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7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Dr. Jaskiran Dhillon
Tariq Touré

Tariq Touré, The Poet

Sponsor(s): Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke Performances
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Wednesday, November 03, 2021
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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Rubenstein Arts Center, Ruby Lounge
Hart Fellowship Program Info Session on 11/4 in Sanford 223

Hart Fellowship Program Info Session

Sponsor(s): Hart Leadership Program and Sanford School of Public Policy
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Thursday, November 04, 2021
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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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Sanford 223, Rhodes Conference Room
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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
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Friday, November 05, 2021
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9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Sophia Enriquez
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AADS Brown Bag: Christianity and Pan-Asian American Identity

Sponsor(s): Asian American and Diaspora Studies
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Friday, November 05, 2021
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Gray 229, York Reading Room
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Dr. Rae Cho, Dr. Jung Choi, Derek Uejo
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AADS Speaker Series: Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools

Sponsor(s): Asian American and Diaspora Studies
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Thursday, November 11, 2021
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12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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Natasha Warikoo
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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
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Friday, November 12, 2021
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9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Erika Weiberg
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Aarthi Vadde, Novel Dialogue Podcast

Sponsor(s): English
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
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Allen 314
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Aarthi Vadde
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