Enemies of Your Vote: Understanding Voter Suppression, the College Campus and You.
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and History
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Kyle Spencer
"Our Movement Starts Here" Film Screening
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Law School
Thursday, September 12, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
John Rash and Melanie Ho
Faculty Bookwatch: New Books in the Mind Sciences
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Libraries, Literature, and Publishing Humanities Initiative
Thursday, September 19, 2024
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Unruly Landscape(s) of Death - Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Concilium on Southern Africa, Cultural Anthropology, and English
Friday, September 27, 2024
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Ancestral Cadence: Building a Vibe in Music
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, October 01, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
FHI 25| Duke English and the Transformation of the Humanities in the 80's: A Conversation with Stanley Fish and Jane Tompkins
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, October 04, 2024
9:00 am - 11:00 am
You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone: Why You Should Care About What This Term’s Supreme Court Decisions Have Done to the Administrative State
Friday, October 04, 2024
12:00 pm
"Bad Faith" Film Screening
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and Religious Studies
Wednesday, October 09, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Anne Nelson
Ancestral Cadence: Building a Vibe in Music
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Africa Initiative, and Forum for Scholars and Publics
Thursday, October 10, 2024
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Alexandria Eregbu
PHI | Copyright & Digital Projects
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Graduate School, History, Libraries, Publishing Humanities Initiative, and ScholarWorks
Thursday, October 17, 2024
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Kate Dickson
FHI 25| Queering Duke: A Conversation with Mandy Berry, Kathryn Kent, and Jonathan Flatley
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, October 18, 2024
9:00 am - 11:00 am
African Studies and Black Studies: Intersections, Genealogies and New Directions
Sponsor(s):
Black Archival Imagination Lab, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Concilium on Southern Africa, English, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Saturday, October 19, 2024
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Kamari Clarke and more
Book Launch for Daniel Magaziner's Available Light
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Black Archival Imagination Lab, Concilium on Southern Africa, and English
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Daniel Magaziner
Left of Black Presents: Small Talk at FHI with Author Maria Smilios
Thursday, October 24, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Maria Smilios
CCDGB Lab | Ryan Emanuel, "On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, October 31, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ryan Emanuel
FHI 25 | Enabling the Humanities: A Conversation with Beth Eastlick and Rob Sikorski
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, November 01, 2024
9:00 am - 11:00 am
African Studies and Black Studies: Intersections, Genealogies and New Directions
Sponsor(s):
Black Archival Imagination Lab, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Concilium on Southern Africa, English, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Saturday, November 02, 2024
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
A Performance and Workshop by Othnell ‘Mangoma’ Moyo
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Othnell ‘Mangoma’ Moyo
CCDGB Lab | Toward a Caribbean Genealogy of Energy: Cosmologies of Energy in Modernity’s First World
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 07, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
J. Brent Crosson
FHI 25 | The Humanities and the Press: The Project of Reshaping Humanities Scholarship at Duke and Beyond
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, November 08, 2024
9:00 am - 11:00 am
How Gladys Bentley Bridges a Century
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Bass Connections, Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke Arts, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Monday, November 11, 2024
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Shirlette Ammons and Tift Merritt
Grounded Storytelling and Newspaper Reporting
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Program in Education
Monday, November 11, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Andrew Carter and Javier Wallace
FHI 25| Experimentation, Incubation, and the Making of Humanities Labs: A Conversation with Deborah Jenson, Jenny Knust, and Victoria Szabo
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, November 15, 2024
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Latin American Ecological Thought Reading Group
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, November 18, 2024
1:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Jamile Pinheiro Dias, Olinda Tupinambá, Ziel Karapotó
Hotel Splendid: Movie and Q&A Session with Director Mauro Bucci
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Mauro Bucci
Left of Black Presents: "Small Talk at FHI" with Dr. Crystal Sanders
Thursday, November 21, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Dr. Crystal Sanders
Remaking the Archive with Country Soul Songbook
Monday, December 02, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Kym Register and Kamara Thomas
Tracing Archival Presences
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Bass Connections, Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, December 03, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Rosetta Reitz Archive Collective
Divestment Then and Now
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Yousuf Al-Bulushi
“Love's Braided Dance” — A Book Launch Event
Sponsor(s):
Kenan Institute for Ethics, Divinity School, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Nicholas School of the Environment, Office of Climate and Sustainability, and POLIS: Center for Politics
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Norman Wirzba, Abdullah Antepli, Polly Ha, Brian McAdoo
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement - A Conversation with Brandon Terry and Joseph R. Winters
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), History, and Law School
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Between the Cracks: A Photojournalism Retrospective with Paul Weinberg
Sponsor(s):
Black Archival Imagination Lab, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Concilium on Southern Africa, English, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 30, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Paul Weinberg
New Directions in China-Africa Studies
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Cultural Anthropology
Friday, January 31, 2025
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Duke@100: A Critical Lens
Thursday, February 20, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin, Dr. Kris Manjapra, and Dr. Leigh-Ann Naidoo
FHI 25 | The Humanities and the Press: The Project of Reshaping Humanities Scholarship at Duke and Beyond, Part II
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, February 21, 2025
9:00 am - 11:00 am
RESISTING COMPLICITY: Human Rights as a Framework for Global Justice & Collective Action
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI)
Friday, February 21, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Brazil: Hip Hop, Faith, and Citizenship Conference
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Brazil Initiative, Global Brazil Humanities Lab, Office of Global Affairs, and Romance Studies
Monday, March 03, 2025
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Rap Show with Brazilian rappers in collab with rap artists from Athens, Ga.
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Brazil Initiative, Global Brazil Humanities Lab, Office of Global Affairs, and Romance Studies
Monday, March 03, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Thursday, March 20, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Ieva Jusionyte
Film Screening & Discussion - Can’t Stop Change: Queer Climate Stories from the Florida Front Lines
Sponsor(s):
History, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Duke Climate Coalition, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Nicholas School of the Environment, Office of Climate and Sustainability, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Monday, March 24, 2025
5:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Yarrow Koning
Performance in the Aftermath: Mourning and Memorialising District Six
Sponsor(s):
Black Archival Imagination Lab, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Concilium on Southern Africa, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Office of Global Affairs
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Nadia Davids
Colloquium on the Climate, Geologic, & Biologic Evolution of the Amazon
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Brazil Initiative, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Nicholas School-Environmental Science and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment, Office of Climate and Sustainability, and Office of Global Affairs
Thursday, March 27, 2025
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Being Michelle
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Duke Disability Alliance (DDA)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Pan-African Music: A Black Atlantic Dialogue
Sponsor(s):
Black Archival Imagination Lab, African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
David Sánchez and Brenda Sisane
LatinX and Iberian Crossings
Sponsor(s):
Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Romance Studies
Thursday, April 03, 2025
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
The Birth of African American Cinema Studies: 1980s-1990s
Sponsor(s):
Experimental Film Lab, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Cinematic Arts, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, April 04, 2025
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Franklin Cason
Playing the Changes - Tracking Darius Brubeck | Film Viewing and Discussion with Darius and Cathy Brubeck
Sponsor(s):
Concilium on Southern Africa, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), International Comparative Studies (ICS), and Music
Tuesday, April 08, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Darius and Cathy Brubeck
The Case for and against a Philosophical Life
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Agnes Callard and Susan Wolf
Interpersonal Harmony in Comparative Philosophy: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives
Thursday, April 10, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Haunted Landscapes
Thursday, April 17, 2025
10:30 am - 2:45 pm
Rebecca Ballard, Kathleen Burns, Hannah Conway, Glenn Hinson, Claudia Milian
Thinking Dignity
Friday, April 18, 2025
11:30 am - 4:00 pm
Nathalie Etoke, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Maxime Menuet, Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Muhammad Ba, Michaeline Crichlow
FHI | "Navigating the Archive: Stuart Hall and the Fateful Triangle"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium & Exhibition
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Black Archival Imagination Lab, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Duke Arts, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Graduate School, and Revaluing Care Lab
Thursday, May 01, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium & Exhibition
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Black Archival Imagination Lab, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Duke Arts, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Graduate School, and Revaluing Care Lab
Friday, May 02, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Seeing Sinners: A Roundtable Discussion
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, May 22, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Mark Anthony Neal, Franklin Cason, Lois Deloatch, Joseph Winters
National Humanities Center Fellowship Session
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, September 04, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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