#Covid, Social Crisis and the Search for Story in the Digital Age
Sponsor(s):
English
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Richard Jean So
Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference
Thursday, March 30, 2023
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Richard Prum
What good is distant reading for our reading?
Sponsor(s):
English
Friday, March 31, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Erik Fredner
The Social Media Lives of Texts: Reception in the Age of Internet
Sponsor(s):
English
Tuesday, April 04, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Melanie Walsh
"Reenactment and Remembrance at Promontory Summit: The Chinese and the Transcontinental Railroad"
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Julia H. Lee
Duke English Distinction Day
Sponsor(s):
English
Friday, April 21, 2023
11:30 am - 3:30 pm
2023 English Graduates of Distinction
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“Read & Greet” with Visiting Professor Toby Martinez de las Rivas
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English
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Toby Martinez de las Rivas
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Lukács and Baldwin: A Conversation Between Novel Theory and Black Studies
Sponsor(s):
English
Thursday, October 12, 2023
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Tim Bewes, Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities, Brown University
Creative Writing Open House
Sponsor(s):
English
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Amin Ahmad, Faulkner Fox, JP Gritton, Mesha Maren, Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Akhil Sharma, and Cathy Shuman
Mahesh Elkunchwar: "Negotiations with Space and Time. In Theater and In Life"
Sponsor(s):
Theater Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, English, and India Initiative
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse
Thursday, February 29, 2024
4:30 pm
Howard Fishman
"Zulu Love Letter" after 20 Years
Sponsor(s):
English, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Concilium on Southern Africa
Tuesday, March 05, 2024
12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Ramadan Suleman
SEX, MONEY, DEATH (AND PIZZA): Why You Should Be a Creative Writing Minor
Sponsor(s):
English
Monday, March 25, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Amin Ahmad, Joe Donahue, Faulkner Fox, JP Gritton, Mesha Maren, Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Akhil Sharma, Cathy Shuman
Poetry and Emerging Technologies
Friday, April 05, 2024
2:00 pm
Poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Duke Computer Science Professor Cynthia Rudin
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“Empire After Civil Rights: Race, Outer Space, and the New Geographies of Colonialism”
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
3:30 pm
Julius Fleming
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New Direction in Literature and Migration Conference
Sponsor(s):
English, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Humanities Unbounded, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Romance Studies
Monday, December 09, 2024
All Day
Boris Dralyuk, Derek Duncan, David Herd, Josephine McDonagh, Freya Powell, Anne-Gaelle Saliot, Rita Sakr, Debarati Sanyal, Corina Stan, Charlotte Sussman, Saskia Ziolkowski
Duke in New York Summer Information Session
Sponsor(s):
Global Education Office for Undergraduates
Friday, January 17, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Autos - Duke English Graduate Student Conference
Sponsor(s):
English
Thursday, February 13, 2025
All Day
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"The Women on the Stairs: Gesture, Improvisation, Solidarity"
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English
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Nathan Hensley, Georgetown University
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“The Women on the Stairs: Gesture, Improvisation, Solidarity”
Sponsor(s):
English
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
3:30 pm
Nathan K. Hensley
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![Photos Graphic of Britt Edelen and Tim Heimlich for "New Faculty Work Series"](/images/2025/20251121/30449ae016e4d1f4428f90dc6abcc51f-CT-NFWS - DEC_20251104025359PM.png "Photos Graphic of Britt Edelen and Tim Heimlich for "New Faculty Work Series"")
A Conversation with Tim Heimlich and Britt Edelen
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English
Friday, November 21, 2025
11:45 am
Tim Heimlich and Britt Edelen
A Conversation with Marguerite Nguyen, Jane Harwell, and Joelle Troiano
Sponsor(s):
English
Friday, January 23, 2026
11:45 am
Marguerite Nguyen, Jane Harwell, and Joelle Troiano
2026 Triangle Undergraduates Literary Conference
Sponsor(s):
English
Saturday, February 21, 2026
9:00 am
TBA
