On Literature and Peripheries
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Nicolas Mathieu
Revitalizing Connections: Duke India Initiative Relaunch
Thursday, September 14, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dr. Manoj Mohanan and Dr. Krishna Udayakumar
Library Fellowship Welcomes Daniel Fainstein: Marshall Meyer and the Archives
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Thursday, September 21, 2023
12:00 pm
Daniel Fainstein
Capitalist Frontier-Making in Northwest China: Technologies of Muslim Enclosure, Dispossession and Subtraction
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Cultural Anthropology, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke Islamic Studies Center, and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Thursday, September 21, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Darren Byler (Assistant Professor of International Studies, Simon Fraser University)
"All They and Everyone Else Remember is the End”: Confronting the Holocaust and the Pitfalls of Memory Culture. Gerda Lerner’s Report from Germany (1993/1994)
Friday, September 22, 2023
4:30 pm
Vera Kallenberg (Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at Duke University)
Challenges of Bolivian Lithium Development
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), EDGE: Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Kathryn Ledebur, Scott Macdonald, Avner Vengosh, Erika Weinthal, Patrick Duddy
BAROQUE UTOPIAS: COLONIALITY AND GLOBALIZATION IN THE EARLY SPANISH EMPIRE
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
MOLLY BOROWITZ
Medieval and Early Modern Works-in-Progress
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Julianne Werlin (Dept. of English) and Clare Woods (Dept. of Classical Studies)
Confucian Ritual and Social Harmony
Wednesday, October 04, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Daniel A. Bell (Political Theory, University of Hong Kong); Pei Wang (University of Hong Kong)
All Your Torah Scrolls Are Wrong! The Evolution of Scribal Practices and the Cairo Genizah
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Manuscript Migration Lab
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Mordechai Vaintrob
Suspect Narratives: Adaptation and Inter-Asian Remakes
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and India Initiative
Friday, October 20, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Krista Van Fleit (University of South Carolina)
Jamón & Halal: al-Andalus, Andalucía, and Tolerance
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Christina Civantos (U. Miami)
"I'd be an unkind king unless I help my kin": Christ's Peace and Versions of Peace in William Langland's Piers Plowman
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Thursday, October 26, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Sheryl Overmyer, DePaul University
Martin Shuster: “Genocide and the State: the Coldest of Cold Monsters.”
Thursday, October 26, 2023
6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Martin Shuster
Egypt’s carceral poetry and the public sphere
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Duke Islamic Studies Center, English, and Libraries
Friday, October 27, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Mohsen Mohamed and Sherine Elbanhawy
Conference: ‘Ah, Reality’: New Approaches to Hebrew Poetics and Literature
**CANCELED**
Sunday, October 29, 2023
All Day
EMPOWERING HERITAGELANGUAGE LEARNERS- Modern Chinesefor Heritage Beginners
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies
Monday, November 06, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Yan Liu (Duke University), Jingjing Ji (Northwestern University),Grace Wu (The University of Pennsylvania), Min-Min Liang (MIT).
Ending Support in Times of Changing Demographics in Japan
Tuesday, November 07, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Haruyo Inoue (Toyo University)
A Bountiful Community
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke Service-Learning, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Romance Studies
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Medieval and Early Modern Works-in-Progress
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Martin Eisner and Helen Solterer (Dept. of Romance Studies)
Duke India Initiative | Graduate Student Travel Grantees’ Presentation
Sponsor(s):
India Initiative
Thursday, November 16, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Triangular Collaborations: Diasporic Encounter and Space of Temporal Reunification
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian American and Diaspora Studies
Wednesday, December 06, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Kyung Hee Ha (Department of World Languages and Cultures, NCSU)
Israel/Palestine on Campus: A Conversation with Peter Beinart
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Provost's Office
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Peter Beinart
Integrating Coaching into Your Mentoring
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Thursday, January 25, 2024
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Toward a Free Economy: Swantantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India - A Book Talk with Aditya Balasubramanian
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, January 29, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Aditya Balasubramanian
Pisarev and Chernyshevsky Revisted: The Reception of German Idealism by Russia’s Radical Materialists
Thursday, February 08, 2024
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, and Cultural Anthropology
Thursday, February 08, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Ivan Small (Anthropology, Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston)
Navigating Your Way Forward as Midcareer Faculty: A two-part workshop sequence for tenured associate professors
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Friday, February 09, 2024
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Navigating Your Way Forward as Midcareer Faculty: A two-part workshop sequence for tenured associate professors
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Friday, February 23, 2024
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Guest Lecturer: Christian Karner, Professor of Sociology - University of Lincoln (UK)
Sponsor(s):
German Studies
Friday, March 01, 2024
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Christian Karner
Medieval and Early Modern Works-in-Progress
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Roseen Giles (Dept. of Music)
Language and Gender: Lessons from Linguistics Service Learning
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Dr. Gaillynn Clements
Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
June Hee Kwon (Cultural Anthropology, Sacramento State University)
Heaven Has Eyes: Judicial Populism in the Chinese Legal Imagination
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, March 21, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Haiyan Lee (Walter A. Haas Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Stanford University)
Entanglements in World Politics: The Power of Uncertainty
Sponsor(s):
Duke Center for International Development (DCID) and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Friday, March 22, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University
Book Talk with Professor Elena Shih
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thursday, March 28, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Elena Shih (Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University)
The Use of SEL to Address Students' Holistic and Diverse Learning Needs
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
multiple presenters, see below.
Reading the Bible in Early Modern England: Hermeneutics, Politics, and Literature
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Thursday, April 04, 2024
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Thomas Fulton, Rutgers University
Music across Borders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Spanish, Italian, and French Exchanges in the Early Modern Era
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Lacie Eades and Guillermo Luppi (Duke Musicology)
The BACCA Fellowship Showcase for Innovation Teaching
Sponsor(s):
Language, Arts and Media Program, Teaching Support Network (TSN), and Thompson Writing Program
Monday, April 22, 2024
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Nan Mullenneaux
The Duke Open Monograph Award: Celebrating Open Access to Scholarship in the Humanities
Tuesday, May 07, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Frances Hasso, Robert Mitchell, Sarah Wilbur
Care Citizenship? The development of migrant care worker policies in East Asia
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, September 12, 2024
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Yi-Chun Chien (National Chengchi University)
Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, September 19, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Dali L. Yang (University of Chicago)
Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Friday, October 04, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University)
Open House: Joseph Conrad’s Polish-Ukrainian “Graveyard”: Memory, Mourning, and Anti-Colonial Resistance in his 19th-Century Family Photo Album
Thursday, October 24, 2024
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
George Z. Gasyna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, November 14, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Viren Murthy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
One Sea, One Temple: Digital humanities approaches to Chinese local historical materials in Southeast Asia
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Global Asia Initiative, and Religious Studies
Thursday, November 21, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Kenneth Dean (National University of Singapore)