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Global Environmental History and the Industrial Revolution, ca. 1780-????

Sponsor(s): Global Asia Initiative and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 26, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
J.R. McNeill
Typing Hands

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Information Session: Careers with the U.S. Department of State featuring Andy Sisk, Diplomat in Residence for the Mid-Atlantic

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Andy Sisk
Petrarch, Boccaccio and others

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Timothy Kircher, Guilford College
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"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
Artwork of a woman in green holding a woman in blue over a town

"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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Coping with Natural Disasters: The Politics of Turkey’s Earthquakes

Coping with Natural Disasters: The Politics of Turkey’s Earthquakes

Sponsor(s): Office of Global Affairs and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Henry Gavin, Yakut Gazi and Timur Kuran
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Making a Successful Introduction: The Elevator Pitch

Sponsor(s): Office of Postdoctoral Services and Graduate School
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Joseph Sassoon with new book release called The Sassoons

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Joseph Sassoon (Georgetown)
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The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, February 23, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Taisu Zhang (Professor of Law, Yale Law School)
Polish-Ukrainian language flyer Feb 27 and 28

Ukrainian for Reading by Polish Speakers and Learners: An Interactive Approach

Sponsor(s): Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES)
Monday, February 27, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Ronald Feldstein, Professor Emeritus, Dept of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
Serfs laboring in a field

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Chandler Fry (English), Joanna Murdoch (English), Libbie Schrader (Religion), Nick Smolenski (Music), Erin Zoutendam (Religion)
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Gone with the Wind: Mediating Racial Hierarchies for Imperial Japan through Translation

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Monday, March 20, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
James Reichert (East Asian Languages & Cultures, Stanford University)
archive iraq workshop flyer that shows cartoon image of US tank

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
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A Global History of the Doctoral Dissertation as a Genre of Academic Writing, with an emphasis on its developments East Asia

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Global Asia Initiative
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Dr. Kevin Chang (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica)
Race x Love: Breaking Down the Asian Fetish with Novelist Elaine Hsieh Chou

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Elaine Hsieh Chou
FAS

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Event title and speaker name; picture of the professor

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Risa Toha (Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University)
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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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Julia Morris (International Studies, UNC Wilmington)
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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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Arnold Hunt (Vanderbilt)
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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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Zach Fredman (History, Duke Kunshan University)
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Radical Wuhan, 1927: Anti-Imperialism in a Cosmopolitan City

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Global Asia Initiative
Thursday, April 27, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Chris Courtney (Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Durham University)
Conversation with Nicolas Mathieu

On Literature and Peripheries

Sponsor(s): Romance Studies
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Nicolas Mathieu
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Revitalizing Connections: Duke India Initiative Relaunch

Sponsor(s): India Initiative and Office of Global Affairs
Thursday, September 14, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Dr. Manoj Mohanan and Dr. Krishna Udayakumar
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Library Fellowship Welcomes Daniel Fainstein: Marshall Meyer and the Archives

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Thursday, September 21, 2023
12:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Daniel Fainstein
Darren Byler event flyer - speaker headshot, talk title, location, time and date; speaker series logo

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Darren Byler (Assistant Professor of International Studies, Simon Fraser University)
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"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)

Sponsor(s): German Studies and Center for Jewish Studies
Friday, September 22, 2023
4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Vera Kallenberg (Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at Duke University)
flyer for Challenges of Bolivian Lithium Development

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Kathryn Ledebur, Scott Macdonald, Avner Vengosh, Erika Weinthal, Patrick Duddy
Workshop flyer

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
MOLLY BOROWITZ
close-up of Gossaert's Portrait of a Merchant

Medieval and Early Modern Works-in-Progress

Sponsor(s): Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Julianne Werlin (Dept. of English) and Clare Woods (Dept. of Classical Studies)
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Confucian Ritual and Social Harmony

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Wednesday, October 04, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Daniel A. Bell (Political Theory, University of Hong Kong); Pei Wang (University of Hong Kong)
Ashkar Gilson

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Mordechai Vaintrob
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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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Krista Van Fleit (University of South Carolina)
Photo of Christina Civantos in dark clothing

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Christina Civantos (U. Miami)
Christ's harrowing of hell in MS Arundel 157

"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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Sheryl Overmyer, DePaul University
Shuster flyer

Martin Shuster: “Genocide and the State: the Coldest of Cold Monsters.”

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies and German Studies
Thursday, October 26, 2023
6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Martin Shuster
flyer for public panel discussion with Mohsen Mohamed

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Mohsen Mohamed and Sherine Elbanhawy
Eliyahu Fatal, Upside Down Book, Inkjet print 2020

Conference: ‘Ah, Reality’: New Approaches to Hebrew Poetics and Literature

**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Sunday, October 29, 2023
All Day
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
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EMPOWERING HERITAGELANGUAGE LEARNERS- Modern Chinesefor Heritage Beginners

Sponsor(s): Romance Studies
Monday, November 06, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Yan Liu (Duke University), Jingjing Ji (Northwestern University),Grace Wu (The University of Pennsylvania), Min-Min Liang (MIT).
Headshot of Prof. Haruyo Inoue; photo of a blooming cherry tree by a waterfall and stream; descriptive text (title, date, time, location)

Ending Support in Times of Changing Demographics in Japan

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Cultural Anthropology
Tuesday, November 07, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Haruyo Inoue (Toyo University)
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