Global Environmental History and the Industrial Revolution, ca. 1780-????
Thursday, January 26, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
J.R. McNeill
How I Write: A Conversation with Abbas Benmamoun
Sponsor(s):
Faculty Write, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Publishing Humanities Initiative, and Thompson Writing Program
Friday, January 27, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Information Session: Careers with the U.S. Department of State
Sponsor(s):
Office of Global Affairs
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Andy Sisk
The Community of Letters in Renaissance Italy: A Conversation with Timothy Kircher
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Classical Studies, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Romance Studies
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Timothy Kircher, Guilford College
"What is multilingualism?"
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, German Studies, Global Jewish Modernism, and Humanities Unbounded
Thursday, February 09, 2023
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
TBA
"Jewish Literature, World Literature"
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, German Studies, Global Jewish Modernism, and Humanities Unbounded
Friday, February 10, 2023
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Coping with Natural Disasters: The Politics of Turkey’s Earthquakes
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Henry Gavin, Yakut Gazi and Timur Kuran
The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, and Jewish Life at Duke
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Joseph Sassoon (Georgetown)
The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, February 23, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Taisu Zhang (Professor of Law, Yale Law School)
Ukrainian for Reading by Polish Speakers and Learners: An Interactive Approach
Monday, February 27, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Ronald Feldstein, Professor Emeritus, Dept of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Roundtable: Job Search Tales from the Trenches
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Friday, March 03, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Chandler Fry (English), Joanna Murdoch (English), Libbie Schrader (Religion), Nick Smolenski (Music), Erin Zoutendam (Religion)
Gone with the Wind: Mediating Racial Hierarchies for Imperial Japan through Translation
Monday, March 20, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
James Reichert (East Asian Languages & Cultures, Stanford University)
Archive Iraq: Repairing Collective Memory of the Anglo-American Invasion and Occupation
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
A Global History of the Doctoral Dissertation as a Genre of Academic Writing, with an emphasis on its developments East Asia
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Dr. Kevin Chang (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica)
Race x Love: Breaking Down the Asian Fetish with Novelist Elaine Hsieh Chou
Sponsor(s):
Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, March 24, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Elaine Hsieh Chou
What is Coaching, and How Can it Help Faculty?
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Thursday, April 06, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Can National Identity Trump Ethnic Favoritism? Experimental Evidence from Singapore
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Duke Center for International Development (DCID)
Thursday, April 06, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Risa Toha (Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University)
Outsourcing Asylum and Border Enforcement in the Asia-Pacific: The Experiences of the Republic of Nauru
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, April 13, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Julia Morris (International Studies, UNC Wilmington)
Transitory Hieroglyphics: Gesture in the Early Modern Pulpit
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Divinity School, English, History, and Religious Studies
Monday, April 17, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Arnold Hunt (Vanderbilt)
The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China?
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, April 20, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Zach Fredman (History, Duke Kunshan University)
Radical Wuhan, 1927: Anti-Imperialism in a Cosmopolitan City
Thursday, April 27, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Chris Courtney (Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Durham University)
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.
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