
2021 Fortin Foundation Bass Connections Virtual Showcase: Session 2
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), Energy Initiative, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Fuqua School of Business, Graduate School, Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), Law School, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Nicholas School of the Environment, Pratt School of Engineering, School of Medicine (SOM), School of Nursing (SON), Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), and Trinity College
Friday, April 16, 2021
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Virtual

GLS Virtual Information Session--Live via Zoom
Sponsor(s):
Graduate Liberal Studies
Friday, April 16, 2021
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Dr. Anne Whisnant and Dr. Kent Wicker

Aaron McDuffie Moore, MD: The Story of Durham's First Black Physician and Founder of Lincoln Hospital
Sponsor(s):
Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine and School of Medicine (SOM)
Friday, April 16, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
C. Eileen Watts Welch, Blake Hill-Saya, Damon Tweedy, MD

Faculty Works-in-Progress with Ranji Khanna
Sponsor(s):
English
Friday, April 16, 2021
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Zoom
Ranji Khanna

2021 Fortin Foundation Bass Connections Virtual Showcase: Session 3
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), Energy Initiative, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Fuqua School of Business, Graduate School, Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), Law School, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Nicholas School of the Environment, Pratt School of Engineering, School of Medicine (SOM), School of Nursing (SON), Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), and Trinity College
Friday, April 16, 2021
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual

Understanding Urban Forests and Their Role in Community Vitality
Sponsor(s):
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Friday, April 16, 2021
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online via Zoom

Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Friday, April 16, 2021
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Zoom meeting
Helen Cushman (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Jonathan Sapp (Duke)

Beyond Supply and Demand: Duke Economics Students Present 100 Years of American Women's Suffrage
Friday, April 16, 2021
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Online

Empire's Ruins: Allegory and Metonymy in JM Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
Monday, April 19, 2021
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Zoom
Pratistha Bhattaral, Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University and Respondent: Tsitsi Jaji, Associate Professor, Duke University

Film Series and Discussion: In Whose Image? Envisioning an Inclusive and Vibrant AI Future
Sponsor(s):
Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Monday, April 19, 2021
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Online
Wesley Hogan, Natalie Bullock Brown, Marsha Gordon, Shalini Kantayya

Mapping NC Human Rights History
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, April 19, 2021
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Virtual

Visible Thinking
Sponsor(s):
Undergraduate Research Support Office
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Virtual
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From Collapse, Trauma, Crisis, and Ruin, We Rise: Where the Neurodiversity Movement Meets Disability Justice
Sponsor(s):
Health Humanities Lab (HHL), Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Neurohumanities Research Group
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lydia X. Z. Brown

Artist Interview Series: Pedro Lasch
Sponsor(s):
Nasher Museum of Art
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm


Protection and Amelioration in the British Empire: A Conversation on the Comparative Histories of Enslaved and Colonized People in the Caribbean & Australia
Sponsor(s):
International Comparative Studies (ICS), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and History
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Dave St. Aubyn Gosse, Lecturer, The Institute of Caribbean Studies, The University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica &

WORLD BOOK AND EARTH DAY SPECIAL. OUR COMMON GROUND. Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence in Asia.
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Libraries, and Romance Studies
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
10:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Lu, Camps, Rojas Sotelo

Off the Shelf Author Talk with Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
Sponsor(s):
Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Thursday, April 22, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online
Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
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Silent Fields: A Virtual Ecopoetry Reading in Celebration of Earth Day
Thursday, April 22, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online
Amber Flora Thomas, Matthew Wimberley, Gideon Young, Crystal Simone Smith
Protecting People and Planetary Health Webinar
Sponsor(s):
Sustainable Duke
Thursday, April 22, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
AnnMarie Walton, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor Duke SON, Shanda Demorest, DNP, PHN, Strategic Sustainability Specialist with Practice Greenhealth, Rebecca Hoeffler, Sustainability Coordinator with Sustainable Duke

Unpacking Amazon: Consumerism, Labor Rights, Monopoly
Thursday, April 22, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Online

From Victim to Artist: Maiko Stories in Movies and Manga
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, April 22, 2021
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Jan Bardsley (Professor Emerita, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill)

GLS Virtual Information Session--Live via Zoom
Sponsor(s):
Graduate Liberal Studies
Friday, April 23, 2021
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Dr. Anne Whisnant and Dr. Kent Wicker

Literary Form, Devotion, and Reform in Late Medieval and Early Modern England: CMRS Works-in-Progress
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Friday, April 23, 2021
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Shirley Li, Joanna Murdoch, and Patrick Timmis
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Sensoriality and Kinship in Prison Lifeworlds: A Conversation with Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Vijay Raghavan
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), and Religious Studies
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Online
Mahuya Bandyopadhyay, Vijay Raghavan, and Leela Prasad

Virtues & Vocations Presents Johann Neem: What's the Point of College?
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zoom
Johann Neem


Street Sounds - Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt
Thursday, April 29, 2021
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
webinar
Ziad Fahmy (Cornell U.)

GLS Virtual Information Session--Live via Zoom
Sponsor(s):
Graduate Liberal Studies
Friday, April 30, 2021
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Dr. Anne Whisnant and Dr. Kent Wicker

Queering Communities of Care
Friday, April 30, 2021
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Devynn Emory and Gabriel Garcia Roman

Religions and Public Life Graduate Student Working Group Conference
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Thursday, May 06, 2021
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom

Confucianism and Modern Political Thought
Sponsor(s):
Kenan Institute for Ethics
Friday, May 07, 2021
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Zoom

GLS Virtual Information Session--Live via Zoom
Sponsor(s):
Graduate Liberal Studies
Friday, May 07, 2021
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Dr. Anne Whisnant and Dr. Kent Wicker

SOM Academic New Faculty Orientation: The History of Duke in Durham and Health Disparities
Sponsor(s):
School of Medicine Faculty Development
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Virtual

Film Trip: How Documentaries Build Bridges to a Larger World
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Online

Injustice has a Cure: Paul Farmer & Duke Global Health Projects in Latin America & the Caribbean
Sponsor(s):
University Development Office, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Alumni Association (DAA), and Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI)
Thursday, May 27, 2021
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Paul Farmer, William Pan, Nimmi Ramanujam, Joao Vissoci
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Southeastern Renaissance Conference
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Friday, October 15, 2021
All Day
Location TBD
Conference speakers