Artist's Talk with Kris Graves
2024-09-12 17:00 (America/New_York) | Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
Join Kris Graves for a discussion on his project "American Monuments" on view in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Refreshments and exhibit viewing will begin at 5pm, with artist's talk starting at 5:30pm.

This group of 16 photographs by Kris Graves captures a series of projections superimposed on the 60-foot-tall statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, now removed from downtown Richmond, Virginia. Interspersed are photographs of other Southern monuments, covered and removed, demonstrating the shifting public opinion about Confederate Civil War monuments after the death of George Floyd.

In the opening statement to the monograph, writer Diana McClure begins, "In the summer of 2020 a collective uprising rooted in local civic engagements, ricocheted around the world in response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. It relied on one of the central pillars of Democracy - peaceful protest. Although grounded in the particular, the embodied actions of the multitudes illuminated larger universal questions of basic human rights and dignity in the 21st century. The echo of empathy, anger and pain born from the eight minutes and 46 seconds of viral video that captured Floyd's passing, resonated not only in the United States, but in ongoing struggles across the globe, from Hong Kong to Belarus and beyond. While the breadth of these issues touches every corner of the earth, it is the murder of individual Black lives intertwined in the brutal history of the United States that is the center of Kris Graves' photographic project American Monuments."

Artist Bio
Kris Graves (b. 1982, New York, NY) is an artist and publisher based in New York and California. Using a mix of conceptual and documentary practices, Graves photographs the subtleties of societal power and its impact on the built environment. He explores how capitalism and power have shaped countries-and how that can be seen and experienced in everyday life. Graves also works to elevate the representation of people of color in the fine art canon, and to create opportunities for conversation about race, representation, and urban life. He photographs to preserve memory.

[Photograph by Kris Graves, projection on monument by Videometry]

Climate, Resilience and Mobility: A Duke Climate Collaboration Symposium
2024-09-19 17:00
Floods, droughts, storms, sea-level rise, changing rainfall and rising temperatures intensify the fragility and vulnerability of communities, particularly in the developing world. Some will adapt by migrating. Others may become trapped, lacking the resources to move.

Communities can adapt to climate threats while remaining in place if they have opportunities to build resilience. However, the United Nations (UN) estimates that more than $200 billion is needed annually to support developing countries' adaptation to climate change. Current global aid covers less than one-tenth of that sum.

Join us in exploring this challenge-and potential solutions-on September 19-20, 2024, at a Duke Climate Collaboration Symposium hosted by the Duke Program on Climate, Resilience, and Mobility; the Duke Office of Global Affairs; and the Duke Climate Commitment.

The symposium opens on Thursday, September 19, with a keynote address by Indermit Gill (Chief Economist, World Bank Group) and a panel focused on building resilience to climate change and the likely effects of these efforts on human mobility. The expert panelists will also discuss the potential for collaboration between NGOs, IGOs, government agencies, think tanks and academic researchers to enhance the knowledge frontier and improve policy response on these issues.

Panelists include Laurie Ashley (Climate Adaptation and Resilience Advisor, Center for Resilience, USAID Bureau for Resilience, Environment and Food Security), Nicole Franz (Equitable Livelihoods Team Leader, Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN), Christian Lara (Strategic Planning Officer and Head of Resident Coordinator Office, UN), Marie McAuliffe (Head, Migration Research and Publications Division, International Organization for Migration) and Marie-Soleil Turmel (Science Advisor, Latin America and Caribbean Region, Catholic Relief Services).

The symposium continues with an invitation-only workshop on Friday, September 20, to further explore partnerships between researchers at Duke and non-academic organizations on topics at the intersection of climate change, migration and resilience.

The symposium is the third of the Duke Climate Collaboration Symposia, a series of convenings designed to accelerate climate solutions by developing new collaborations among Duke scholars and external partners.

Human Rights, Climate Justice, and COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan
2024-09-23 16:30
The CSEEES & SEELRC are pleased to present:

Human Rights, Climate Justice, and COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan
Kate Watters, Co-founder & Executive Director, Crude Accountability
with special guest: Emin Bayramli, son of Gubad Ibadoghlu

In November of this year, COP 29, the United Nations Climate Conference, will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan. This marks the third year in a row that the event will be hosted by a government with significant fossil fuel reserves and a poor human rights record.

As Azerbaijan's authoritarian regime cracks down on civil society, imprisoning independent journalists and civil society activists, how will this impact the upcoming climate conference, climate justice, and the rule of law?

September 23, 2024
4:30 pm
153 Rubenstein Library (Holsti Anderson Room)

Refreshments served.

Please contact Cathy Lewis (c.lewis@duke.edu) for assistance with parking or any other questions.

Election 2024 Roundtable w/ Fmr Congressman David Price
2024-09-25 09:00
The Political Science department is hosting a roundtable to discuss the 2024 election. Participants include Former Congressman David Price and Professors John Aldrich, Sunshine Hillygus, Peter Feaver, and Pablo Beramendi

OPT/CPT Academic Training
2024-09-25 15:00 - 16:30
Duke Visa Services will be holding an information session on Optional Practical Training (OPT), Curricular Practical Training (CPT) and J-1 Academic Training (AT) on September 25th from 3:00 to 4:30 pm.

If you are graduating in December and want to apply for post-completion OPT or Academic Training, then this is the presentation for you!

OPT/CPT Information Session
When: Wednesday, September 25th at 3:00pm
Where: Rubenstein Library, Room 153 Holsti-Anderson Assembly Room

Sonification of Physiological Metrics in the Clinical Context
2024-09-30 17:00
The Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) and the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC) are pleased to present:

Sonification of Physiological Metrics in the Clinical Context

Dr. Eric Miller, Ph.D. MT-BC
Professor Emeritus, Immaculata University

5:00 pm
Monday, September 30, 2024
153 Rubenstein Library (Holsti Anderson Room).

Refreshments served. Please contact Cathy Lewis for assistance with parking or any other questions (c.lewis@duke.edu)

Election 2024 Roundtable
2024-10-02 12:00
The Political Science department is hosting a roundtable on the 2024 election with Former Congressman David Price and Professors John Aldrich, Sunshine Hillygus, Peter Feaver, and Pablo Beramendi.

Microsoft Copilot: Prompting Skills for Students
2024-10-02 14:00
A Microsoft expert will present tips and tricks to help students use Microsoft Copilot effectively. Copilot is available at no cost to all Duke students. Bring any device to participate, but a laptop will work best.

Microsoft Copilot: Prompting Skills for Students (CANCELLED)
2024-10-03 10:00
A Microsoft expert will present tips and tricks to help students use Microsoft Copilot effectively. Copilot is available at no cost to all Duke students. Bring any device to participate, but a laptop will work best. (This is a repeat of Wednesday's session.)

Fall Engineering Faculty Meeting
2024-10-08 11:30
All members of the Pratt School of Engineering's faculty are invited to the Fall Meeting.

Presenters will include Dean Jerry Lynch. Hosted by the Engineering Faculty Council.

11:30 am to 2:00 pm, Tuesday, October 8, in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room in Rubenstein Library.

Find more at https://inside.pratt.duke.edu/EFC

Book Talk: Crip Spacetime by Margaret Price
2024-10-10 09:30
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Margaret Price, Associate Professor and Director of the Disability Studies Program at Ohio State University and author of "Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life" (Duke University Press, 2024), and Dr. Hannah Taylor, Lecturer in the Thompson Writing Program.

In her new book, Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred interviews and survey responses, Price demonstrates that individual accommodations-the primary way universities address accessibility-actually impede access rather than enhance it.

Light refreshments will be served. Books will be available fo purchase and signing.

In-person but participants can also join on Zoom.

Co-sponsored by the Duke Disability Inclusion & Community Empowerment Affinity Group (DICE), the Department of English, and Duke University Press.

Please register to attend by clicking "More Event Information" below.

“Triple -Header” Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
2024-10-20 14:00
Guests Speakers: Rachel Kushner, Claire Messud, and Paul Yoon

The 2024 Blackburn Literary Festival will conclude with a triple-header reading, Q&A, and book signing featuring Rachel Kusner, Claire Messud, and Paul Yoon on Sunday, October 20th, at 2 PM in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room in Rubinstein Library.

Please join us as novelists Rachel Kushner (Creation Lake), Claire Messud (This Strange, Eventful History), and Paul Yoon (The Hive and the Honey) share their work and insight into their craft.

Light refreshments will be served.

Memento Mori: The Art and Craft of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life
2024-10-22 17:30
Please join us for our next Trent History of Medicine Lecture Series. Joanna Ebenstein will present Memento Mori: The Art and Craft of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life. Joanna Ebenstein is a Mexico-based author, photographer, curator and designer. She is the founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy, an organization that has been exploring the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture, since 2007. We are also excited to host Mary Trent Jones and Rebecca Trent Kirkland. They will share their experiences and recollections of growing up with the Josiah Charles Trent Collection, a remarkable collection of history of medicine materials collected by their father, Dr. Josiah Charles Trent, and their mother, Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans.

AI and the Future of Personhood: Book Talk with James Boyle, Duke Professor of Law
2024-10-23 16:30
Join Duke Law professor James Boyle to explore questions of how artificial intelligence may challenge our notions of personhood as it advances and claims of consciousness become more credible, which comprise his new book "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood."

Chatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. Chatbots are not conscious. But what happens in the future if the claims to consciousness are more credible? In "The Line," James Boyle explores what these changes might do to our concept of personhood, to "the line" we believe separates our species from the rest of the world, but also separates "persons" with legal rights from objects.

"The Line" is published by the MIT Press and will be released as a physical volume for purchase, but also as a free open access ebook download, made possible by the Duke University Libraries' Open Monograph Award. Join the Libraries in celebrating the release of "The Line" and open access to groundbreaking Duke research!

What Now? Making Sense of the 2024 Presidential Election: A Post Election Panel with Frank Bruni, D. Sunshine Hillygus, and Peter Feaver
2024-11-06 12:00
The Duke Program in American Grand Strategy presents, What Now? Making Sense of the 2024 Presidential Election: A Post Election Panel with Frank Bruni, D. Sunshine Hillygus, and Peter Feaver hosted by Abdullah Antepli.

The is event is co-sponsored with Duke POLIS, DeWitt Wallace, the Office of Government Relations, and Political Science.

Semiotic Interludes: Revealing the space between the notes in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts
2024-11-08 09:00, 2024-11-09 09:00, 2024-11-09 11:00, 2024-11-10 11:00
We are pleased to present a conference:

Semiotic Interludes: Revealing the space between the notes in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the arts

November 8 - 10, 2024

Please register here by Friday, November 1: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8AKHv3F7q3CXjRI

All sessions will be held in the Holsti-Anderson Room, 153 Rubenstein Library, Duke University West Campus.

Presenters include faculty from: (full program available online soon)

Aalborg University, Denmark
Charles University, Czech Republic
Middlesex University, UK
Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US
University of Tartu, Estonia
University of Turin, Italy
Duke University, US

Hosted and funded by the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC) and Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES)

Please contact Cathy Lewis (c.lewis@duke.edu) with any questions. We hope you will join us!

Bookbinding in Works of Art: A survey of historical evidence in medieval and early modern art
2024-11-12 16:00
Calling all bibliophiles: this talk offers a brief archaeology of books in European Medieval and Renaissance art, presenting beautiful bindings, clever clasps, and other fabulous "furniture" (such as hinges and medallions). Amply illustrated with art and diagrams, this talk offers a fascinating overview of the variety of forms of the codex as depicted in the jewellike altarpieces and other paintings of the period, revealing otherwise elusive evidence of craft techniques and reading practices.

Speaker

Barbara Ellertson, Founder, Books as Symbols in Medieval and Renaissance Art (BASIRA), an online database hosted by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Sponsored by the Publishing Humanities Initiative of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke Libraries.

Co-sponsored by Triangle Book Arts, English, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and the History Department.

RSVP at duke.is/PHI-bookbinding

Educational Approaches to Wellness - A Holistic Perspective
2024-11-20 17:00
Educational Approaches to Wellness - A Holistic Perspective

This session will emphasize how the five CASEL competencies (Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Responsible Decision-Making, Relationships and Social Awareness) impact overall well-being. Panelists will share strategies that support holistic development (academic, physical, social, and emotional).

Megan Lyons, Assistant Professor, NCCU
Freda Hicks - University Partnerships and Clinical Experiences, NCCU
Chester Crowder - Elementary Teacher, Wake County Public Schools
Sabion Kelly - Elementary Teacher, Durham Nativity School
Dominique Sloan - Elementary Teacher, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

Wednesday, November 20th
5:00 pm
153 Rubenstein Library

Dinner will be served and parking provided. Please click here to indicate meal choice: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6Loh9XZmgyNRhNI

Duke in Silicon Valley Info Session
2024-12-04 12:00
Interested in tech, business, entrepreneurship, or innovation? Want to spend a month this summer living and learning in the Bay Area? Join this info session to hear about the Ronald and Carrie Ludwig Duke in Silicon Valley summer study away program. Program directors will provide details on the program, which provides an in-depth overview of new enterprise formation, along with alumni talks and industry visits. Students who participated on the program last year will also share their experiences. Hosted by Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship and the Global Education Office; food will be provided. 12-1pm in Rubinstein Library 153

Young Trustee Information Session
2024-12-05 16:00
If you are interested in applying for the Young Trustee position, the Office of the Secretary encourages you to attend an information session, which will be held on Thursday, December 5, from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room (Rm. 153, 1st Floor) in the Rubenstein Library. At the session, the role and expectations of Young Trustees and the specific skills, knowledge and experience that make a good trustee will be discussed. In addition, the selection process and timeline will be reviewed, and current Young Trustees will speak about their service on the Board of Trustees. Pizza will be provided.

Exhibit opening for “A Worthy Place”: Durham, Duke, and the World of the 1920s-1930s
2025-01-15 16:00
Open house 4-6 in exhibition space, remarks by curators at 4:30 Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room.

Right Hemisphere Stroke Documentary Film, “Hidden Diagnosis,” Screening and Discussion
2025-02-10 12:00
Bring your lunch to a screening of the award winning documentary about right hemisphere disorder (RHD) entitled, "RHD Hidden Diagnosis". This 29-minute film explores the impact of right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) on stroke survivors and their loved ones. It chronicles the struggles and triumphs of survivors and follows a group of NCCU speech-language pathology graduate students as they navigate the Covid-19 pandemic and learn to lead an online RHD stroke survivor communication treatment group. This compelling documentary has been aired on PBS.
Following the documentary will be an in-person Q&A discussion with the co-producers of the film, researcher and clinician Dr. Jamila Minga (Duke), and director Michael Pearce (NCCU).

Join us for your lunch hour at this must-watch event.

Remarkable Stories of American Black Surgeons in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
2025-02-13 17:00
Join us for a symposium celebrating Remarkable Stories of American Black Surgeons in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.

Speakers include:

- Jill Newmark, "Without Concealment, Without Compromise: Black Civil War
Surgeons"
- Margaret Humphreys, "Searching for Dr. Harris"
- Todd L. Savitt, "Entering a 'White' Profession: African American Physicians in
the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries"

No registration is required. The event will be recorded.

Triangle Undergraduate Literary Conference
2025-02-22 10:00
Please join us for the Triangle Undergraduate Literary Conference (TULC). This one-day conference is a space for undergraduates attending Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University (NC State), and North Carolina Central University (NCCU) to share their literature-related research. The event will be held on Saturday, February 22, 2025 at Duke University.

Two sessions of student presentations will occur in Rubenstein 153 (Holsti-Family Assembly Room) before lunch; after lunch, students and attendees will return to Holsti-Anderson and participate in a writing workshop led by Frances Leviston (Blackburn Artist-in-Residence, 2024-25), followed by one more session of student presentations. The conference will conclude around 5:30, and attendees will have the opportunity to mingle during a dinner in the Bolton Family Tower Room in the Broadhead Center. The events of the day should conclude around 7:00PM. A light breakfast, as well as catered lunch and dinner will be provided.

While presentation slots are only available for undergraduates, Graduate students, faculty, and community members are welcome to attend our panels and lectures. Our goal is to expand student interest in literary studies and build a sense of community between undergraduate humanities scholars at Duke and other NC universities across the Triangle.

Please check sites.duke.edu/tulc for more details, including the link to submit a proposal and the registration link. We hope you will join us for what is bound to be an exciting day!

“An Open Mesh of Possibilities”: Thinking Queerness with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Archive
2025-02-26 11:00 - 17:00
Please join us for a symposium celebrating the opening of an exhibit exploring the work and legacy of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Full details and times for sessions are listed at the linked address.

Remarks will be given by Jennifer Nash, Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University; Adam Frank, Professor of English Languages and Literatures, University of British Columbia; Katherine Carithers, exhibit curator, and Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, Duke University; Jane Hu, Assistant Professor of English at University of Southern California; and Cindy Patton, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University. An exhibit roundtable moderated by Robyn Wiegman, Professor of the Programs in Literature and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University, will include Cole Adams, Ph.D. candidate, Program in Literature, Duke University; Julien Fischer, Candidate Psychoanalyst, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center and Lecturer, Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University; Christina Olivares, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English Education, Teachers College at Columbia University; and Annie Sansonetti, Ph.D. candidate, Performance Studies, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Note: This program is in-person with lunch and refreshments provided. The talks will be recorded and videos will be shared online after the event, but will not be streamed live. The exhibit will be on display February - August 2025.

Sponsored by the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Foundation; Duke Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; Duke Program in Literature; Duke Department of English; Franklin Humanities Institute; and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.

Meeting with Undergraduate Young Trustee Finalists
2025-03-25 18:00
We invite all undergraduate students to attend a meeting with the Undergraduate Young Trustee finalists. Participants in the Tuesday, March 25 meeting will first hear from Secretary to the Board of Trustees Maggie Epps about the position. Each finalist will then have time to speak about their interest in becoming Young Trustee. The majority of the meeting will be dedicated to a question and answer period with the finalists.

To register for the meeting and to submit questions for the finalists, visit https://trustees.duke.edu/young-trustee. (Please register by end of day Monday, March 24. For questions to be considered, they must be submitted by end of day Wednesday, March 19.) For those who are not able to attend live, the meeting will be recorded and available on the Board of Trustees website until 10:30 p.m. ET on Monday, March 31.

Participants in the meeting will have an opportunity to provide feedback on the finalists via a survey. Only those individuals who attended the meeting or watched the recording will have their survey feedback considered. In order for a survey to be considered, the submitter must have attended or watched at least 90% of the meeting. The survey is not a vote, but rather feedback from students on the finalists for the nominating committee to consider in making their recommendation to the president. Surveys must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, March 31.

Finally, those who attend the meeting on Tuesday, March 25 in Rubenstein Library, Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room (Room 153) will be provided with pizza following the event. In addition, there will be a raffle for prizes. Only those individuals who attended the meeting or watched the recording (at least 90%) and submitted a survey will be eligible for the raffle.

We encourage all undergraduate students to participate in this important process.

For more information about the Young Trustee finalists, position, selection process, timeline, and the list of nominating committee members, please visit the Board of Trustees website. If you have any questions, please email Secretary Epps at secretary@duke.edu.

Valuing Disability and Crip Ways of Knowing in the College Classroom
2025-03-27 11:00
In higher education, there is a tendency to try to diagnose disabled students and default to accommodations rather than designing more accessible teaching and learning environments. This presentation will address how principles of universal design can be implemented by faculty, administrators, and staff to design learning environments that are accessible, rather than simply accommodating of difference.

Based on ideas from Rhetorics of Overcoming: Rewriting Narratives of Disability and Accessibility in Writing Studies, I offer universal design as a framework both for foregrounding accessibility and for intentionally making space for crip ways of knowing, learning, and being in college classrooms. Disability is often positioned as something that must be overcome, but I focus on ways that we can actively value disability and disabled meaning-making practices. I will identify examples of inaccessible teaching practices and learning environments, as well as practical strategies for resisting rhetorics of overcoming.

LUNCH:11:00-11:30
Talk:11:30-12:15
Q+A:12:15-12:30

Open to all members of the Duke community. Space is limited. Register under "More Information" by March 24th.

Vagantes Graduate Conference on Medieval Studies
2025-04-03 09:00, 2025-04-04 09:00, 2025-04-05 09:00
The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is organized entirely by graduate students to promote graduate student work. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members are more than welcome to attend panel sessions, which consist of traditional conference paper presentations given by graduate students from our local community, across the country, and as far flung as Italy and Germany.

In-person registration (registration is free) starts at 8am on Thursday, April 3 at the Rubenstein Library room 153 on Duke's campus. Panel sessions will start at 9am each day. Additionally, the conference will include several professionalization opportunities, including a tour of the Nasher Art Gallery's medieval collection and a panel discussion with editors from the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Studies in Philology, and Speculum. The conference's opening keynote will be given by Dr. Martin Eisner (Italian Studies, Duke University) on Thursday April 3 at 5pm with a reception to follow. The closing keynote will be given by Dr. Laura Ackerman Smoller (History, University of Rochester) on Saturday April 5 at 5pm.

A link to register for the conference can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZNqKU-6tiGUuHPQeJolHWhRrhnSwA2KIam1Jmcnir5XfGyA/viewform.

The Future of Human-AI Interaction: Teaching, Talking and Teaming Up
2025-04-07 14:00
The NSF AI Institute for Edge Computing (Athena) and The Society-Centered AI Initiative are pleased to present "The Future of Human-AI Interaction: Teaching, Talking and Teaming Up" by Diyi Yang, on Monday, April 7, 2025, from 2-3pm EST at the Duke University Holsti-Anderson Room, Rubenstein Library.

Playful Pedagogy Fellowship Open Workshop
2025-04-08 16:00
Open workshops adapt and apply purposeful play activities that include improv, creative writing, oral storytelling, movement, and other arts-based activities to a variety of pedagogical challenges and opportunities.
This spring we will focus on "Serious Play" - using the arts to navigate sensitive topics and classroom challenges; "Improv for Writers - engaging playfully with AI" and "Embodied Pedagogy - exploring the relationship between learning and movement." Dr. Mullenneaux also designs open workshops to fit the needs of participants.

Participants do not need any arts background or talent, just curiosity and an open mind.

This workshop will be co-designed and led by the 2024-2025 Playful Pedagogy Fellows. Refreshments to follow. All are welcome!

Movement and Memory: Through the Lens of Danny Lyon Curatorial Panel
2025-04-15 12:00
Exploring the intersections of art, documentary, and social justice, panelists Mattison Bond, Movement History Initiative Coordinator, and Brandee Newkirk, Art, Art History & Visual Studies PhD candidate, are in conversation with Ama Kyereme, the exhibit curator and intern for the Archive of Documentary Arts, to discuss the nature of representation of student activism and the social reverberations and political implications of the photographs. Expanding the conversation into present day, the discussion examines the role of the camera in not only documenting the moment, but also in promoting movement and social action.

History in the Making: The Politics of Our Moment
2025-04-18 12:30
This past year, from campus protests to presidential primaries, has been pivotal in American politics. With rising political polarization, debates over democracy and free speech, and growing public distrust in institutions, many are asking: how did we get here-and what comes next?

Join faculty from Duke's History Department for a panel conversation that looks at today's political landscape through the lens of history. Faculty panelists will explore how key themes in American history-conflict and compromise, protest and participation, identity and power-can help us make sense of the present moment. Open to all students, this event invites discussion, questions, and reflection in a space grounded in historical thinking rather than partisan talking points.

Surveying the World's Biodiversity with DNA, Audio, Image, Machine Learning and Statistics
2025-04-29 10:00
Traditional expert-based biodiversity surveys are increasingly replaced by semi-automated sensors that produce completely new types and volumes of data. As one example, our ongoing ERC-synergy project LIFEPLAN (PIs: Otso Ovaskainen, David Dunson, Tomas Roslin & Brian Fisher) maps global biodiversity with DNA-, image-, and audio-based sampling technologies. The project has generated >100 years of audio, >10M camera-trap images, and >10 billion DNA metabarcoding sequences. These new types of data provide completely new challenges for data processing and interpretation, the solving of which has motivated the close collaboration between statisticians and ecologists in LIFEPLAN. To convert the information in raw DNA-, audio- and image samples to data on species-level occurrences and/or abundances, we have improved automated methods for probabilistic species classification. One particular challenge concerning the species rich groups of fungi and arthropods is that most species are still unknown to science and thus lacking from any reference databases. To address this challenge, we have developed classifiers that robustly assign DNA sequencies to earlier known species, to novel species, or highlight them as uncertain cases that may represent either earlier known or novel species. To generate ecological insights and to make predictions on how species communities respond to the ongoing global change, we have developed joint species distribution models that integrate the classified biodiversity data with spatiotemporal predictors. One particular challenge in this line of research is the high dimensionality of the multivariate response (the LIFEPLAN data contains detection of ca. 1 million species), combined with the extreme sparseness of the data (most species have been observed only in one sample). To address this challenge, we have solved earlier computational bottlenecks of by combining high-performance computing with common to rare species transfer learning, enabling models to be fitted to full biodiversity data. The methodological advances generated by the LIFEPLAN project have already contributed to more broadly to the society, including e.g. a new smartphone-based approach to citizen science.

2025 SEELRC Summer Institute
2025-07-11 09:00, 2025-07-12 09:00
The Duke Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC) will host a summer
workshop from July 11 - 13, 2025 on Teaching, Pedagogy, Research & Learning of Languages
and Cultures: Multilingualism & Emerging AI.

Register here: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b3l1nHjoruxBEkC

Program available here: https://slaviccenters.duke.edu/sites/slaviccenters.duke.edu/files/documents/2025%20Summer%20Institute%20Program%20final%20cml1.pdf

Event: July 11 - 13, 2025
Location: Rubenstein Library
