LIVE FOR LIFE @ Duke Health Assessment - Smith Warehouse Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall; Bay4
Sponsor(s):
Live for Life (LFL)
Monday, August 05, 2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Accompanying Migrants and Searching for the Disappeared
Sponsor(s):
Social Movements Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), International Comparative Studies (ICS), Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Mi Gente
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Rubén Figueroa
A Conversation with Sir David Adjaye OBE and Zena Howard
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Why Does The Claim of Reason Matter? A Symposium in Memory of Stanley Cavell (1926-2018)
Sponsor(s):
Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature
Friday, September 13, 2019
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Avner Baz, Sarah Beckwtih, Robert Chodat, Juliet Floyd, Espen Hammer, Sandra Lautier, Toril Moi
Making Writing Groups Work for You
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Faculty Write, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, September 19, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
With Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Director, Faculty Write Program, and Nicole Barnes, History Department
Thinking and Modern Tyranny: Reflections on the 'Sonderkommando photographs.'
Thursday, September 19, 2019
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Amir Eshel
Amit Chaudhuri: "The Strangeness of the 'World' and How We Encounter It"'
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Amit Chaudhuri
Literary Activism, or Creativity at the Fringes
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Duke Arts, English, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Amit Chaudhuri
The Millennial Discord: Generational Tensions in Early Modern Italy
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Music, and Romance Studies
Friday, September 27, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Roseen Giles
Reading and Book Signing with Author Monique Truong
Sponsor(s):
Asian American Studies Program (AASP), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke Arts, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Monday, September 30, 2019
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Rights! Camera! Action! Screening of "Soul City" & "Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the North Carolina Fund"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, October 01, 2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
From Jamestown to Jamestown: Bridging the Knowledge Gap between Africans & African-Americans
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative
Wednesday, October 02, 2019
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Hon. Kojo Yankah
Psyche-Analysis: The Politics of Excess and the Souls of Black Film
Friday, October 04, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Franklin Cason
Yong Soon Min, Visual Artist
Sponsor(s):
Asian American Studies Program (AASP), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke Arts, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Thursday, October 10, 2019
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Yong Soon Min
The Sovereignty of an Audacious Raconteur in Colonial India
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Cultural Anthropology, English, History, India Initiative, Literature, and Religious Studies
Friday, October 11, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Leela Prasad
Two Flags: Documentary Screening & Q&A by Director Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Sponsor(s):
International Comparative Studies (ICS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), India Initiative, and Religious Studies
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Dangerous Work: A Study of Reprisals against Environmental Defenders in the former Soviet Union and the United States
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Getting Useful Feedback on Your Writing
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Faculty Write, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
With Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Director, Faculty Write Program, and Nicole Barnes, History Department
How to Write a Best Seller (or a Successful Trade Book): A Conversation with Tom Mayer from W.W. Norton
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Thursday, October 17, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tom Mayer, Senior Editor & Vice President, W. W. Norton
Sculpture Against the State: Anarchism, Censorship and Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Romance Studies
Friday, October 18, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Mark Antliff
Concentration Camps: Then and Now
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Forum for Scholars and Publics
Thursday, October 24, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Andrea Pitzer, Jonathan Katz, and Roxana Bendezú, moderated by Brian Goldstone
Resisting the Universal: Black Dance, Aesthetics, and the Afterlives of Slavery
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Dance Program, From Slavery to Freedom Lab, and Theater Studies
Friday, October 25, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Thomas F. DeFrantz
Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Religious Studies
Monday, October 28, 2019
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Simone Oppen, Dartmouth College; Daniel Picus, Carleton College; Travis Proctor, Wittenberg University; and Stephen Young, Appalachian State University
Listening to LatinX
Sponsor(s):
Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Cultural Anthropology, Dean of Humanities, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Kenan Institute for Ethics, Literature, Music, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
3:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Maria Hinojosa
Traces of Travelling Musicians
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Music
Thursday, October 31, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Corinne Schneider
The New Great Game: Anti-Japanism in the Era of China's Rise
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Games and Culture Lab
Friday, November 01, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Leo Ching
Faculty Bookwatch | The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles by Charles Piot
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Press, and Libraries
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Ranjana Khanna (moderator), Ian Baucom, Tsitsi Jaji, Hans Lucht, Achille Mbembe, Aïssatou Mbodj, Henrik Vigh and Charles Piot
Rights! Camera! Action! Screening of "The Unafraid"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Inequality, Intersectionality, and Embodied Brains
Friday, November 22, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Arabic & Hebrew Night
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Black Images, Black Histories" Conference
Sponsor(s):
From Slavery to Freedom Lab, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship, Duke Arts, Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, January 17, 2020
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra
Rights! Camera! Action! Presents "Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
AMES Presents: Race Media Empire Speaker Series- Constructing the Inner Frontier: Redeemable Difference and the Art of Intimate Self-Management in the 1930s Okinawa
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 23, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Wendy Matsumura
On the Question of Violence: Slavery, Sexual Subjection, and Legal Paradigms of Thought
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), From Slavery to Freedom Lab, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Friday, January 24, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Patrice Douglass
[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Friday, January 24, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra
Theater Studies Lecture. Whose Line is it Anyway: Jennifer Kidwell
Sponsor(s):
Theater Studies
Friday, January 24, 2020
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Tina Post
A Feminist Politics of Ambivalence - Reading Emma Goldman
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and History
Monday, January 27, 2020
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Clare Hemmings
[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra
Everybody Plays the Fool: On Style and Stupidity
Friday, January 31, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Taylor Black
[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Friday, January 31, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra
"What is a resource curse: energy, infrastructure, and climate change in Native North America"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Dr. Andrew Curley
AMES Presents: Race Media Empire Speaker Series- Spatial Politics of the Olympics Sites of Tokyo 3.0
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, February 13, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Sharon Hayashi (York University, Toronto)
Cultures of Capitalism: Early Modern Spain
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Economics, History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Romance Studies
Friday, February 14, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Elvira Vilches
An Afterlife with author Frances Bartkowski
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Center for Jewish Studies, English, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and German
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Frances Bartkowski
Rights and the Humanities Lecture with Dr. Joseph Slaughter, "Naming the Crisis: The Language of Human Rights and the Neoliberal Turn"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Literature
Thursday, February 20, 2020
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Joseph R. Slaughter
On Hubris and Imagination: Kafka, Nietzsche, and Contemporary Ecological Discourse
Friday, February 21, 2020
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Kata Gellen
Virtual and Augmented Reality in the Humanities Symposium
Friday, February 21, 2020
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Faculty Bookwatch: Terrestial Lessons: Conquest of the World as Globe
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), India Initiative, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Libraries, and Office of Global Affairs
Friday, February 21, 2020
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Gauri Viswanathan, Benjamin Schmidt, David Gilmartin, Walter Mignolo
What is a World? A Roundtable on World Literature
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, Literature, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
Joint Reading With Caryl Phillips and Akhil Sharma
Sponsor(s):
English
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Caryl Phill and Akhill Sharma
Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh
Sponsor(s):
African and African American Studies (AAAS) and Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE)
Thursday, February 27, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Candice Jenkins
Tom and Zula: Jews and Gentiles at Play on the Interwar Polish Stage
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Center for Jewish Studies, History, Music, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Theater Studies
Friday, February 28, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Beth Holmgren
Co-opting AI? Data Capitalism & Predictive Intelligence
Sponsor(s):
Duke Digital Humanities Initiative, Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Information Science + Studies (ISS), Literature, and PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge
Friday, February 28, 2020
11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Luciana Parisi (Duke) & Ezekiel Dixon-Román (UPenn)
Méndez Award winner: Carolyn Forché's What You Have Heard Is True, a reading and book signing
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, March 02, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Carolyn Forché
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