On State Violence and the Arts of Attention in Contemporary Black Women's Writing
Sponsor(s):
Literature
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Erica Edwards
Panel discussion on "China and Postcoloniality”
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Global Asia Initiative
Friday, March 31, 2023
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Pheng Cheah, Rey Chow (Duke), Ranjana Khanna (Duke), moderated by Prasenjit Duara (Duke)
Grief and an Indigenous Feminist’s Rage: The Embodied Field of Knowledge Production
Sponsor(s):
Cultural Anthropology
Monday, September 18, 2023
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Shannon Speed
Activist Affordances: Disability, Shrinkage and Improvisation
Sponsor(s):
Cultural Anthropology
Monday, October 02, 2023
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Arseli Dokumaci
Jonathan Crary's Workshop
Sponsor(s):
Literature
Friday, November 03, 2023
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Jonathan Crary
Dangerous Constellations
Sponsor(s):
Literature, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and Romance Studies
Thursday, March 28, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
Desiring Otherwise: On the Provocations of Queer
Sponsor(s):
Cultural Anthropology
Friday, March 29, 2024
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Margot Weiss
Making Anthropology Matter
Sponsor(s):
Cultural Anthropology
Monday, September 30, 2024
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Jatin Dua and Serkan Yolacan
Uprising of the Earth: The New Ecological Face of the Commune Form
Sponsor(s):
Literature, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Critical Theory, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, October 01, 2024
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Kristin Ross
Archaism and Actuality: Japan in the Global Fascist Imaginary
Sponsor(s):
Literature, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Critical Theory, and Romance Studies
Wednesday, October 02, 2024
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Harry Harootunian
Digital Divides: Finance, the Biometric State and the Global South
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Cultural Anthropology
Monday, November 18, 2024
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Prof Janet Roitman & Prof Peter Geschiere
Good Enough Art: A Few Theses on Middling Mediations
Sponsor(s):
Literature
Thursday, January 23, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Anna Kornbluh
Territorial Imperatives, Revolutionary Leanings
Friday, February 14, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Samera Esmeir
Unsettled Maps: Cartography and Afro-Atlantic Religions in Brazil’s Long Eighteenth Century
Monday, February 24, 2025
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Matthew Rarey
Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion
Thursday, April 03, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Giorgio Biancorosso (Music, University of Hong Kong)
Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect that Capitalism is a Joke
Friday, April 04, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Leigh Claire La Berge
Anthropology on Trial: Immigration, Naturalization, and the Consolidation of Whiteness in the United States
Sponsor(s):
Cultural Anthropology
Monday, September 15, 2025
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Lee D Baker
Layered Ethics, Or: The Veil, the Hoodie, and the Mask
Friday, October 10, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Andrea Bachner
When the Liberation Dividend is Spent: Thirty Years Since South African Democratization
Sponsor(s):
Cultural Anthropology
Thursday, October 23, 2025
All Day
Anne-Maria Makhulu
Duke in New York Summer 2026 Info Session
Sponsor(s):
Global Education Office for Undergraduates
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Fury: What Feminists Do with Anger and Rage
Thursday, November 13, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Elizabeth Wilson
Negativities: Hate, Aggression, Anger
Friday, November 14, 2025
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Elizabeth Wilson





