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Marie Cochran stands in silhouette against the Appalachian landscape

Those We Thought We Knew: Reimagined

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Thursday, September 11, 2025
All Day
Center for Documentary Studies
Marie Cochran
Cochran stands in silhouette against the Appalachian landscape

Opening Reception: “Those We Thought We Knew: Reimagined”

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Thursday, September 11, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Flyer says "Text + Pix Collective"

Text + Pix Collective

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Monday, September 15, 2025
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Omar plays a violin in a field.

CDS Fall Open House

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Thursday, September 25, 2025
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Crandall holds an audio recorder in a field

Artist Talk: Jennifer 張 Crandall on "Whitman, Alabama"

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Monday, September 29, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Jennifer 張 Crandall
A poster for the "Text + Pix Collective" Fall 2025 events. It features a beige background with a colorful border at the top and a vertical blue strip on the right side that reads "TEXT + PIX COLLECTIVE."

Text + Pix Collective

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), English, and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Monday, October 20, 2025
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
AI image of a bed and window in hotel room.

Computing the Lens: Research Driven Images for Machine Entangled Lives

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) and Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Augustus Wendell
A group of women walks down a street in Bombay with one woman holding a flag of independence. Text reads: Disobedient Subjects Bombay: 1930 - 31

Opening Reception: “Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930–31”

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Provost's Office, Trinity College, and Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies
Thursday, October 30, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Avrati Bhatnagar, Sumathi Ramaswamy and special guest Rahaab Allana
text+pix flyer

Text+Pix Collective

Sponsor(s): Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), and English
Monday, November 17, 2025
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
image with event details

Closing Reception: "Disobedient Subjects" Exhibit

Sponsor(s): History, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Friday, January 16, 2026
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Avrati Bhatnagar and Sumathi Ramaswamy
photo of Indian riders on horseback

Workshop: The Imaginary of Disobedience

Sponsor(s): History, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Monday, January 19, 2026
9:15 am - 5:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Event flyer

Feminism and the Culture Wars: A Symposium

Sponsor(s): Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Friday, January 23, 2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Colorful flyer has text "text+pix collective" with color squares on top.

Text + Pix Collective

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), English, and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Monday, February 02, 2026
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Person falls off a mechanical bull beneath large ‘Bound Unbound’ event text.

Bound/Unbound: From Page to Wall

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Thursday, February 05, 2026
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
A woman stands at a wooden podium speaking into a microphone in a large, bright room.

Free Talk: Embodying Social Justice Values in Documentary Filmmaking through Reflection

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Natalie Bullock Brown
Overhead view of people looking at photobooks on a table with text reading “What Is a Photobook?”

Photobook Dummies Meetup: What Is a Photobook?

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Thursday, February 26, 2026
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Event promotional image featuring headshots of Paul Hendrickson (left) and Tom Rankin (right) on either side of the book cover for "Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life" by Paul Hendrickson.

Free Author Talk: Paul Hendrickson in Conversation With Tom Rankin

**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Monday, March 02, 2026
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Paul Hendrickson and Tom Rankin
A collage of documentary posters on the left, including Q Ball and Crip Camp. On the right, a black-and-white photo shows a film crew working beside a barbed-wire fence.

Free Talk: Access to Audience: Case Studies in Documentary Producing

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Thursday, March 05, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Rebekah Fergusson
This is (Not) Home

This is (Not) Home

Sponsor(s): Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA) and Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Friday, March 20, 2026
All Day
Center for Documentary Studies
Xiaomeng Yan
Junkyard Tornado

Junkyard Tornado

Sponsor(s): Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA) and Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Thursday, March 26, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Claire Rosemary Lewis
This is (Not) Home

This is (Not) Home - Artist Talk

Sponsor(s): Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA) and Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Friday, March 27, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Xiaomeng Yan
A worker turns away from a furnace burning coal

Shifts: New Expressions 2026

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Thursday, April 23, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
cheers

MFA|EDA 2026 Commencement Celebration

Sponsor(s): Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA) and Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Saturday, May 09, 2026
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Tom Rankin
Person photographing a grassy Icelandic landscape with misty mountains, overlaid with text “Til Íslands” and “Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship Exhibition.”

“Til Íslands” Exhibition Run

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
All Day
Center for Documentary Studies
Emma Geiger
Til Íslands by Emma Geiger

Til Íslands – Opening Reception

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Friday, June 12, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Emma Geiger
Left image: Robinson speaking into a microphone on stage during a reading. Right image: Young children sitting on a fireplace.

German Soul: Building a Live Documentary

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Justin Robinson and D.L. Anderson
Graphic promoting ‘Arts+ and Doc+ Final Showcase.’ Includes image of a group of students dressed in white performing together on a dark stage, sitting under stage lighting and of two students standing in a grassy field, working together to film a video with a camera.

Arts+ & Doc+ Final Showcase

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) and Duke Arts
Thursday, June 25, 2026
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Close-up film still of a hand holding a piece of ice, overlaid with light streaks and film-strip artifacts.

Closing Screening of “Til Íslands”

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Thursday, September 10, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Black and White photograph of a man wearing a striped suit of the american flag with the stars on his arms and a girl visible in the background.

Ben Brody || Artist Talk

Sponsor(s): Archive of Documentary Arts, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Ben Brody
Tarot-style illustration of a mechanic raising a glowing wrench outside an auto repair garage, with decorative floral borders.

Fluid Master

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Thursday, October 01, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Kenya (Robinson)
AI-generated tarot card illustration depicting automotive engine pulleys and belts, titled “Nine of Pentacles.”

Turbo Tarot

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Saturday, October 03, 2026
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Kenya (Robinson)
Close up of the arms of Tracy Dice Johnson as they are crossed over her lap. We see her tattoo which says Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

Inbal Abergil | Artist Talk

Sponsor(s): Archive of Documentary Arts, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Inbal Abergil and Tracy Dice Johnson
Promotional graphic with photo of a person wearing a space exploration helmet

“Cosmic Origins” Exhibition Run

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Duke Space Initiative, Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA), and Office of Interdisciplinary Programs
Thursday, October 22, 2026
All Day
Center for Documentary Studies
Promotional graphic with photo of a person wearing a space exploration helmet

“Cosmic Origins” Opening Reception

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke Space Initiative, History, and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Thursday, October 22, 2026
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
Promotional graphic for the Cosmic Origins Family Event showing a nighttime space analog habitat beneath star trails

“Cosmic Origins” Family Event

Sponsor(s): Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke Space Initiative, and History
Saturday, October 24, 2026
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies
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