The Satmar Rebbe’s Va-Yoel Moshe: The Most Influential Anti-Zionist Text in Modern Jewish History
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, October 10, 2021
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Menachem Keren-Katz
2021 Arabic Hebrew Night
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Thursday, November 11, 2021
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Kaifeng: What it Took to Feed, Furnish, and Fortify the World's Largest City, 960-1127
Sponsor(s):
Global Asia Initiative, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Dr. Yuan Chen, Postdoctoral Associate, Franklin Humanities Institute & Global Asia Initiative
From Bancha to Sencha--The International Contexts of Tea Consumption in Modern Japan
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, November 18, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Robert Hellyer (History, Wake Forest University)
Appetite for Udders: The Return of the Repressed Mother in Babylonian Talmud Hullin 109a-110b
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, November 21, 2021
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Beth Berkowitz
Transcultural Freud: Psychoanalysis, Mental Health, and the Birth of a Thought Collective in the Sinophone Pacific
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Global Asia Initiative
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Howard Chiang
NCJSS Welcomes the 2021-22 Shatzmiller Fellows
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, December 05, 2021
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
What We Talk About When We Talk About Jews and Economies
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, March 13, 2022
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Samuel Brody
Good Days: R&B Music and Critical Fabulation in the Now
Thursday, March 17, 2022
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Alexander Weheliye
Islam, Slavery, and the American South Conference
Sponsor(s):
Duke Islamic Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Saturday, March 26, 2022
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
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Conceptions of Nature in Perso-Islamic Early Modernity: Theories of Causality and Graeco-Arabic Philosophy in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Context
Monday, March 28, 2022
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu (Wellesley College)
A Higher Education: The Hasidic Revival in Interwar and Nazi-Occupied Poland
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, April 10, 2022
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Glenn Dynner (Sarah Lawrence College)
A Long Environmental History of the Loess Plateau: Conflict, Extraction and Intensification Between Biomes
Friday, April 15, 2022
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Ruth Mostern (Associate Professor, History; Director of the World History Center, University of Pittsburgh)
APSI Summer Book Club: Hard Like Water
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, August 11, 2022
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Yan Lianke & Carlos Rojas
Wednesdays @ the Center: Things are Never So Bad that They Can't Get Worse
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC)
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
William Neuman
NCJSS welcomes Karen Stern
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Late Ancient Studies, History, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Religious Studies
Sunday, October 23, 2022
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Karen Stern
The Resistance Continues: An Indigenous Colombian Perspective
Wednesday, November 09, 2022
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
María Violet Medina Quiscué
Citizens of "The Process": The Last Military Dictatorship from a Microhistorical Perspective
Monday, November 14, 2022
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dr. Sebastián Carassai
The Information War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Dattalion
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
NCJSS Welcomes Joshua Teplitsky (Stony Brook University)
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Thursday, November 17, 2022
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Joshua Teplitsky
NCJSS Welcomes Teresa Walch
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), German Studies, History, and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Sunday, December 04, 2022
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Teresa Walch (UNCG)
Haiti on the Brink: Chaos, Cholera & Corruption
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), American Grand Strategy (AGS), and Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI)
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Pamela White
NCJSS Welcomes Laura Jockusch (Brandeis)
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, January 29, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Laura Jockusch
China, Postcoloniality, and the Global South
Friday, February 24, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Lisa Rofel (UC Santa Cruz), Carlos Rojas (Duke), Prasenjit Duara (Duke)
NCJSS Welcomes Joshua Teplitsky
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, February 26, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Joshua Teplitsky
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
![Flyer with event information and he term "comfort women" is a disturbing euphemism that conceals the grave reality of the military's sexual violence perpetrated by the Japanese Empire within its occupied and colonized regions from 1931 to 1945. Today, the Girl Statue of Peace (2011), known as "pyeonghwaui sonyeosang" in Korean, has risen as a prominent and profoundly revered symbol of the activism seeking redress for "comfort women" in South Korea. This conversation delves into the transformation of the Girl Statue from a public monument into a cherished personal memento, taking various forms such as gifts, miniatures, and even tattoos. Headshot and image for the flyer are attached. The image of the statue can be captioned as: 작은 소녀상/Peace Statue/平和少女像, War and Women's Human Rights Museum, Seoul, South Korea](/images/2023/20230920/116466acda5575dbe601224d365c153c-CT-9_20_South Korean Girl of Peace Pop Culture_20230912071140PM.png "Flyer with event information and he term "comfort women" is a disturbing euphemism that conceals the grave reality of the military's sexual violence perpetrated by the Japanese Empire within its occupied and colonized regions from 1931 to 1945. Today, the Girl Statue of Peace (2011), known as "pyeonghwaui sonyeosang" in Korean, has risen as a prominent and profoundly revered symbol of the activism seeking redress for "comfort women" in South Korea. This conversation delves into the transformation of the Girl Statue from a public monument into a cherished personal memento, taking various forms such as gifts, miniatures, and even tattoos. Headshot and image for the flyer are attached. The image of the statue can be captioned as: 작은 소녀상/Peace Statue/平和少女像, War and Women's Human Rights Museum, Seoul, South Korea")
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
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