Egypt’s Carceral Poetry and the Public Sphere
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Duke Islamic Studies Center, History, and Libraries
Friday, March 24, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Mohsen Mohamed, Sherine Elbanhawy, Adam Mestyan, Mesha Maren-Hogan
NCJSS Welcomes Cordelia Hess
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, March 26, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Cordelia Hess
Guojun Wang: The Gender of Knowledge: Virtues and Crimes in the Forensic Drama of Early Modern China
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Monday, April 10, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Guojun Wang
The Voice of a River: Environmental Struggles in Honduras
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Paola Reyes, Domingo Marín, Allison Lira
NCJSS Welcomes the 2022-23 Shatzmiller Fellows
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, April 23, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Shatzmiller Fellows
NCJSS Welcomes Vera Kallenberg
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, September 10, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Vera Kallenberg
Sculpting Empathy: The Transmedial Journey of the "Comfort Women" Image, Girl Statue of Peace (2011) in South Korean Pop Culture
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
SaeHim Park
W@TC: From Genes to You: Understanding Epigenetics
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Reshma Nargund
W@TC: Democracy and American Higher Education: Higher Education in the Crosshairs
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Eric Mlyn
NCJSS Welcomes David Shyovitz
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, October 22, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
W@TC: The Making of a Poet: Five Years in Six Egyptian Prisons
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, English, and Libraries
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Mohsen Mohamed & Sherine Elbanhawy
Words and Silences A Discussion on Contemporary Women Poets in Hindi
Thursday, October 26, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Prof. Rekha Sethi, University of Delhi
W@TC: "Pathways to a Brighter Future" The story of the indigenous Bunong
Wednesday, November 01, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Inn Chret
Workshop on Taiwan Indigenous Literature
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, November 03, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Kyle Shernuk and Nicolai Volland
W@TC: On Amer-African Statecraft: A Conversation with Solayman Idris
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Solayman Idris
An Independent Report on Contemporary Cuba
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Romance Studies
Monday, November 13, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Mario Valdes Navia
Peace on the Land: Campesinx Women's Struggle for Reclamation and Healing in Colombia
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Briceida Lemos Rivera
W@TC: We the Young Fighters: How Tupac, Rambo, and Bob Marley wove their way into the conflict fabric of Sierra Leone
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Duke Center for International Development (DCID), and Sanford School of Public Policy
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Marc Sommers
Challenges and Opportunities for Humanities Research in China
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, December 01, 2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
James Miller, Carlos Rojas
NC JSS Welcomes Orit Bashkin
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, December 03, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Orit Bashkin
NCJSS Welcomes Sylvie Anne Goldberg: Saadia Gaon and The 'Present Time’
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, January 28, 2024
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sylvie Anne Goldberg
W@TC: Daily Life in Nineteenth Century Japan: Reflections from a Pandemic Year
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Simon Partner
NCJSS Welcomes Brett Ashley Kaplan
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, February 04, 2024
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
W@TC: Rethinking Human Mobility: The Need for a new Migration Paradigm
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Duke Center for International Development (DCID), and Office of Global Affairs
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Hein de Haas
The Lights That Raised a Storm: Neon, Color Aesthetics, and the Image of Postwar Tokyo
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Will Carroll
W@TC: Fee to Drive: How Poverty, Punishment, and Policy Shape the Lives of Suspended Motorists
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC)
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Adrienne Jones
Workshops on the Frontier: Culture and Counterinsurgency in Korea’s Vietnam War
Thursday, February 15, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Thomas Ryan (postdoctoral fellow, Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan)
Conscripted at “Freedom’s Frontier”: Korean Augmentees, Racialized Masculinity, and U.S. Military Empire
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Sung Eun Kim (Postdoctoral Fellow, George Washington University’s Institute for Korean Studies)
Testimonial Emotions: Witnessing and Feeling the 1990s in Eun Hee-kyung’s "The Bird’s Gift"
Thursday, February 22, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Hayun Cho (PhD candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California)
W@TC: Balancing Life: The Moral Struggle of Family Care in Post-Disaster Fukushima
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Global Asia Initiative
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Jieun Cho
Korean Men Moved to Tears in Webtoon Daetgeul
Thursday, February 29, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Jahyon Park (East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University)
Wombs of Empire: The Gendered and Racial Politics of Motherhood
Friday, March 01, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Sujin Lee (Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria)
Are the Kids Alright? Digital Sociality, Youth Culture, and Identity in Contemporary Japan
Tuesday, March 05, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Kimberly Hassel (East Asian Studies, University of Arizona)
W@TC - Diverse values, social conflict, and policy preferences in Maine aquaculture
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC)
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Robin Fail
W@TC: Theorizing Mexican Immigrant Racial Attitudes through an Ideological Lens
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC)
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Miguel Martinez
Wednesdays at the John Hope Franklin Center Lecture Series: Miguel Martinez (Duke)
Sponsor(s):
Political Science
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
NCJSS presents Reut Israela Ben-Yaakov
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, March 24, 2024
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Reut Israela Ben-Yaakov
Film: Mukí Sopalírili Algué Gawichí Nirúgame (The Woman of Stars and Mountains)
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Arts, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Forum for Scholars and Publics, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Javier Campos López
W@TC - Schoolgirl Pens: Girlhoods, Microhistories, and the Transnational Circulation of Knowledge in Late Colonial India
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and India Initiative
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Sudipa Topdar
Amerindian Language Justice Short Films
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Arts, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Forum for Scholars and Publics, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and Romance Studies
Thursday, March 28, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Gunza Villefaña
Workshop: Gender, Sexuality, Okinawa
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Saturday, March 30, 2024
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
H Yumi Kim (Johns Hopkins University); Daryl Maude (Duke University); Chris T Nelson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Annmaria Shimabuku (New York University)
Wednesdays at the Center: Love, Loss, and Memory in the tales of Eurydice (and Orpheus)
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Jules Odendahl-James, Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, Erika Weiberg, Hannah Havercamp, & Emma Glen
NCJSS welcomes Henriette Dahan
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, April 07, 2024
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Henriette Dahan
W@TC: Theaster Gates and The Glass Lantern Slide Collection: Sixty Thousand Ways to Unsettle an Art Historical Canon
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC)
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Elizabeth Brown, Kristine Stiles
Corky Lee's Asian America: 50 Years of Photographic Justice, 1970-2020
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, and History
Thursday, April 11, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Mae Ngai (Asian American Studies and History, Columbia University)
AMES EID Dinner
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, April 12, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
W@TC - The Coloniality of Counter-Aesthetics: Afghan Women Artists and German Cultural and Feminist Foreign Policy
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Office of Global Affairs
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Paniz Musawi Natanzi
Film Screening: "Legend Of The Waterflowers” | 물꽃의 전설, haenyeo (Hee Young KO, 2023)
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, April 25, 2024
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Jieun Cho (Postdoctoral Associate, APSI)
Migrants, Milk and Medicine: Market Reform on an Overseas Chinese Farm in Shenzhen
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Monday, October 07, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Taomo Zhou (Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore)
W@TC - The Kerner Report at 56: Why It’s Still Relevant
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Rick Loessberg
W@TC - Key Linkages Between Migration and Development
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Duke Center for International Development (DCID), Office of Global Affairs, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Melissa Siegel
W@TC - Sacred Arts of Life and Death: Ritual, Respect, and Reverence
**CANCELED**
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
J. Lorand Matory, Jose Manuel Cruz, Marie Maude Evans and Michaëlle Vilmont
W@TC - 68 Voices
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC) and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Gabriella Badillo
Book Talk-Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan
Friday, November 08, 2024
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Robin visser
Material Culture Workshop
Friday, November 15, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Sophie Vlopp and Guangchen Chen