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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Eric Mlyn
Shyovitz

NCJSS Welcomes David Shyovitz

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, October 22, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Mohsen Mohamed & Sherine Elbanhawy
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Words and Silences A Discussion on Contemporary Women Poets in Hindi

Sponsor(s): India Initiative and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Thursday, October 26, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Prof. Rekha Sethi, University of Delhi
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W@TC: "Pathways to a Brighter Future" The story of the indigenous Bunong

Sponsor(s): John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC) and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Wednesday, November 01, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Inn Chret
Workshop on Taiwan indigenous Literature

Workshop on Taiwan Indigenous Literature

Sponsor(s): Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, November 03, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Kyle Shernuk and Nicolai Volland
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Solayman Idris
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Mario Valdes Navia
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Peace on the Land: Campesinx Women's Struggle for Reclamation and Healing in Colombia

Sponsor(s): Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Briceida Lemos Rivera
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Marc Sommers
Challenges and Opportunities in China

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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
James Miller, Carlos Rojas
Bashkin

NC JSS Welcomes Orit Bashkin

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, December 03, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Orit Bashkin
Goldberg

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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Sylvie Anne Goldberg
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W@TC: Daily Life in Nineteenth Century Japan: Reflections from a Pandemic Year

Sponsor(s): John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and History
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Simon Partner
kaplan

NCJSS Welcomes Brett Ashley Kaplan

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, February 04, 2024
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Headshot of white professor, Hein de Haas, nside the John Hope Franklin Center logo comprised of colorful books in a circle and a QR code for the event is also present.

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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Hein de Haas
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The Lights That Raised a Storm: Neon, Color Aesthetics, and the Image of Postwar Tokyo

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Will Carroll
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Adrienne Jones
Headshot of Thomas Ryan; black-and-white photo of Korean couples in wedding attire (men are mostly in wheelchairs); descriptive text (event title, date, time, location)

Workshops on the Frontier: Culture and Counterinsurgency in Korea’s Vietnam War

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Thursday, February 15, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Thomas Ryan (postdoctoral fellow, Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan)
Headshot of Sung Eun Kim; archival photo of two Korean soldiers; background image of soldiers on a field; descriptive text (title, date, time, location)

Conscripted at “Freedom’s Frontier”: Korean Augmentees, Racialized Masculinity, and U.S. Military Empire

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Sung Eun Kim (Postdoctoral Fellow, George Washington University’s Institute for Korean Studies)
A headshot of the white male author, Geoffrey Harpham, inside of the John Hope Franklin Center logo made of colorful books forming a circle. A QR code if present that will take you to the registering site for the Zoom session.

W@TC - Race: The Theory

Sponsor(s): John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC) and History
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Geoffrey Harpham
Headshot of Hayun Cho; image of a book with a green cover; background photo of a kingfisher; descriptive text (event title, date, time, location)

Testimonial Emotions: Witnessing and Feeling the 1990s in Eun Hee-kyung’s "The Bird’s Gift"

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Thursday, February 22, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Hayun Cho (PhD candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California)
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Jieun Cho
Headshot of Jahyon Park; a composite image of Korean webtoons on a laptop; descriptive text (talk title, date, time, location)

Korean Men Moved to Tears in Webtoon Daetgeul

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Thursday, February 29, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Jahyon Park (East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University)
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Wombs of Empire: The Gendered and Racial Politics of Motherhood

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, March 01, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Sujin Lee (Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria)
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Are the Kids Alright? Digital Sociality, Youth Culture, and Identity in Contemporary Japan

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Tuesday, March 05, 2024
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Kimberly Hassel (East Asian Studies, University of Arizona)
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Robin Fail
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Miguel Martinez
W@TC

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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Reut

NCJSS presents Reut Israela Ben-Yaakov

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, March 24, 2024
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Reut Israela Ben-Yaakov
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Javier Campos López
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Sudipa Topdar
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Gunza Villefaña
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
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)
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Wednesdays at the Center: Love, Loss, and Memory in the tales of Eurydice (and Orpheus)

Sponsor(s): John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Classical Studies, and Theater Studies
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Jules Odendahl-James, Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, Erika Weiberg, Hannah Havercamp, & Emma Glen
Dahan

NCJSS welcomes Henriette Dahan

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, April 07, 2024
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Henriette Dahan
A headshot of Elizabeth Brown with brown hair and a black shirt, another headshot of Kristine Stiles in a black shirt with a brown horse, and a QR code is present to take you to the Zoom link

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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Elizabeth Brown, Kristine Stiles
Headshot of Mae Ngai; descriptive text (date, time, location, title); background image of protestors marching with placards and a banner

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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Mae Ngai (Asian American Studies and History, Columbia University)
EID DINNER

AMES EID Dinner

Sponsor(s): Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, April 12, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Paniz Musawi Natanzi
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Jieun Cho (Postdoctoral Associate, APSI)
Portrait photo of Taomo Zhou; descriptive text (talk title, date, time, location, speaker); background image of cows gathered under trees

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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Taomo Zhou (Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore)
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W@TC - The Kerner Report at 56: Why It’s Still Relevant

Sponsor(s): John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC) and Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Rick Loessberg
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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
John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240
Gabriella Badillo
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