Visualizing Cities and Historic Spaces: 15 Years of Research in Art History and Digital Visual Studies
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Dean of Humanities, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Information Science + Studies (ISS), and Trinity College
Friday, September 04, 2026
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Songs We Carry: An Interactive Workshop
Tuesday, September 08, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Sophia Enríquez
Making Care Work — Book Conversation with Nancy Folbre
Sponsor(s):
Revaluing Care Lab, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Trinity College, and Vice President for Research
Thursday, September 10, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Online
Nancy Folbre, Jocelyn Olcott
Worlds of 1776 | Sarah Pearsall, “How the World Made the American Revolution”
Thursday, September 17, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Screen/Society--"I Love Boosters" (2026) + panel discussion w/ dir. Boots Riley, in person!
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Experimental Film Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Humanities Labs@FHI
Thursday, September 17, 2026
1:30 pm
Panel Discussion to follow with writer/director Boots Riley, in conversation with Prof. Franklin Cason (Cinematic Arts/AAHVS), Prof. Michael Hardt (Literature), and Prof. Kathi Weeks (Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies)
Faculty Bookwatch | From Gas Masks to Graphic Design: Reading the Recent Work of Gennifer Weisenfeld
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Libraries
Thursday, September 17, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Screen/Society--"I Love Boosters" (2026) + Q&A w/ dir. Boots Riley, in person!
Sponsor(s):
Cinematic Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Experimental Film Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Humanities Labs@FHI
Thursday, September 17, 2026
7:00 pm
Q&A to follow with writer/director Boots Riley
FHI | Caribbean Poetics: Nature and the Visual Arts
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, September 18, 2026
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
FHI | Caribbean Poetics: Nature and the Visual Arts
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Saturday, September 19, 2026
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
AADS Fall Symposium: Asian American Art and Performance
Sponsor(s):
Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Cinematic Arts, Dance Program, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Theater Studies
Saturday, September 19, 2026
10:00 am - 7:00 pm
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"Legacy: Apartheid's Shadow": Film Screening and Discussion with Tara Moore
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Concilium on Southern Africa, History, and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Franklin Humanities Institute (location tbd)
How a “Civil Rights" Organization Turns Against Social Justice Movements: The ADL in Context
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Thursday, September 24, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Emmaia Gelman
Humanistic AI: Generative Models and the Future of Cultural and Historical Interpretation
Sponsor(s):
Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), +DataScience (+DS), Bass Connections, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Center for Computational Humanities, Center for Computational Thinking, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), Computer Science, Duke Digital Humanities Initiative, Duke Quantum Center, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Humanities Writ Large, Information Science + Studies (ISS), Mathematics, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Pratt School of Engineering, Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), and Statistical Science
Friday, September 25, 2026
All Day
M. Gessen: Hope, Hopelessness & Human Rights in a Time of Autocracy
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), International Comparative Studies (ICS), Provost's Office, and Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Monday, September 28, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
M. Gessen
Save a Seat for Me: Notes on American Fatherhood
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity (The Cook Center)
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Mark Anthony Neal and Karla Holloway
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Worlds of 1776: The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution
Sponsor(s):
History, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Libraries
Thursday, October 01, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Mark Peterson
FHI | Simon Fisher, “Writing Pauli Murray History in the Twenty-First Century: The Impact of Transgender Studies"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Pauli Murray Project
Tuesday, October 06, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Worlds of 1776: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America
Sponsor(s):
History, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Libraries
Thursday, October 15, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Karin Wulf
Women, Youth, and Anti-Colonial Struggle in South Africa’s Exiled Liberation Movements
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Concilium on Southern Africa, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Rachel Sandwell
Book Talk with Dr. Felicia Arriaga, '12, '15, '18
Sponsor(s):
Libraries, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and Sociology
Thursday, October 22, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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Worlds of 1776: Liberty is Sweet
Sponsor(s):
History, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Libraries
Thursday, October 29, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:55 pm
Woody Holton
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AWW: America at the Margins
Sponsor(s):
History, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Libraries
Friday, October 30, 2026
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Woody Holton
