Prosthetic Eyes and Clinique Bronzer: The Material and Technological History of Yellowface in Theater
Sponsor(s):
Theater Studies
Monday, January 08, 2018
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Professor Esther Kim Lee
Brave New Worlds: Shakespeare in Performance
Sponsor(s):
Theater Studies
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Richard Schoch
Humanities Labs Info Session
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, January 19, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Psychic Standards: Psychiatry, Classification, Literature
Friday, January 19, 2018
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Cate Reilly
Translation and Publishing in the Global South
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Graduate School, and Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies
Thursday, January 25, 2018
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Juan Obarrio, Johns Hopkins University; Sandie Blaise, Ph.D. Candidate, Duke; David Hansen, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Duke Libraries; and professionals from Duke University Press, University of North Carolina Press, and Oxford University Press
A Conversation on the State of Voting Rights in North Carolina and the U.S.
Sponsor(s):
Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE) and African and African American Studies (AAAS)
Thursday, February 01, 2018
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
"The Logic of Sanctuary Conference: Religious Movements in Non-Sovereign Spaces"
Sponsor(s):
History, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Center for Jewish Studies, Divinity School, Duke Chapel, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Kenan Institute for Ethics, Nicholas School of the Environment, and Religious Studies
Friday, February 09, 2018
All Day
From Dissertation to Book
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Kenneth Wissoker, Editorial Director, Duke University Press
Vita Activa: The Life of Hannah Arendt
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Center for Jewish Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
With Monuments, Does Language Matter? The Case of Germany
Thursday, February 22, 2018
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Yuliya Komska, Dartmouth College
Symposium on the Sciences and the Humanities: Intersections, Methods, Examples
Sponsor(s):
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory (CISSCT), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and German
Friday, March 02, 2018
9:30 am
Personal is Political: Personal Lived Experiences of a Fallist
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Lindiwe Dhlamini
Forms of Dissent in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Friday, March 09, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Keynote speakers Sara Poor (Princeton) and Roseen Giles (Duke)
Forms of Dissent in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Saturday, March 10, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Keynote speakers Sara Poor (Princeton) and Roseen Giles (Duke)
Character: Identification, Ethics, Ontology
Thursday, March 22, 2018
4:00 pm
Amanda Anderson and Rita Felski
Politics of Language and Identity: Korean speakers in the peripheries of the national and transnational
Monday, March 26, 2018
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
William O'Grady (University of Hawaii)
African Economic Futures
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and Economics
Monday, April 02, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Dr. Celestin Monga
Out of Time: Africa, India, and Possible Histories
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and India Initiative
Monday, April 02, 2018
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dilip Menon
Africa-India: Encounters, Episodes, Entanglements
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and India Initiative
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
We Have Seen the Future, and It Is Us: Emerging Formats and Redefining Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities: Part I
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Roger Malina, University of Texas at Dallas
Conversation with the Authors Claire Messud and James Wood, On Fiction and Criticism
Sponsor(s):
English, Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Claire Messud and James Wood
Decolonizing the Monument
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, April 05, 2018
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall
Digital Matters in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Information Science + Studies (ISS), Libraries, and PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge
Friday, April 06, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Cheryl Ball (Wayne State Univ.), Vaughn Stewart (UNC Greensboro), and conference participants
Digital Matters in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Information Science + Studies (ISS), Libraries, and PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge
Saturday, April 07, 2018
9:30 am - 10:38 am
Cheryl Ball (Wayne State Univ.), Vaughn Stewart (UNC Greensboro), and conference participants
Crime Scenes & Aftermaths: Writing about Contested Memories in Rwanda and Beyond
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Monday, April 09, 2018
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Philip Gourevitch
Data Determinacy: Race, Algorithms, and Critical Intervention
Sponsor(s):
Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Duke Digital Humanities Initiative, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Graduate School, Information Science + Studies (ISS), and Literature
Thursday, April 12, 2018
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Stephanie Dinkins, Ezekiel Dixon-Roman, Michael Eng, Tara McPherson, Jennifer Rhee
Emerging Turning Points in the Global Open Project - Interrogating the Dakar Declaration to Knowledge in the Global South
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative, Duke Digital Humanities Initiative, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Information Science + Studies (ISS), and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Friday, April 13, 2018
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Williams Nwagwu
Macchia versus Memory? Outlining Inner Images
Monday, April 16, 2018
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Nicola Suthor
Converging Landscapes: Monument Lab, Historical Memory, and Prototypes for Public Engagement
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and Office of the Provost - Finance and Administration
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Paul M. Farber, Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab / Managing Director of the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania
The Monument Debate: Where We've Been, Where We Can Go
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Office of the Provost - Finance and Administration
Thursday, April 19, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Blair L. M. Kelley & Robin Kirk
Utopian Visions and Gender Imaginaries in Travel Writings: Toward Global Literature?
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, April 19, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Rita Monticelli (University of Bologna)
Brian Massumi: "Uncapitalizing Surplus Value: Alter-Economic Speculations"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Brian Massumi
Story+ Research Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Bass Connections, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke Chapel, Energy Initiative, and Student Action with Farmworkers
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
12:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Open House for Undergraduates!
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Bass Connections, Duke Human Rights Center (DHRC), From Slavery to Freedom Lab, Health Humanities Lab (HHL), and Social Movements Lab
Tuesday, September 04, 2018
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Sacred Gone Astray: Eliade, Fanon, Wynter, and the Terror of Colonial Settlement
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), English, and Religious Studies
Friday, September 28, 2018
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Joseph Winters
Before 13th: The Origin of Convict Leasing
Sponsor(s):
Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE) and African and African American Studies (AAAS)
Monday, October 01, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Michael Ralph, New York University
Disability Activism and Allyship
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Kathy McMahon-Klosterman, Marion Quirici
Faculty Bookwatch: 'Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment'
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Libraries, and Religious Studies
Thursday, October 11, 2018
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Diversity and Scholarly Publishing: Talk & Roundtable
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Graduate School
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Niko Pfund, President and Academic Publisher, Oxford University Press USA, with Kamela Hayward-Rotimi, Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for African and African-American Research, Adriane Lentz-Smith, Professor of History, and Gisela Fosado, Editor, Duke University Press
![Isaac Julien, "Small Boats"](/images/2018/20181018/bc0fa2e06e0815da308ea98ba0a23cee-CT-Isaac-Julien-827x492_20181003101216AM.jpg "Isaac Julien, "Small Boats"")
Death Drives, or Thinking with the Corpse
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Cultural Anthropology, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Literature, and Philosophy
Thursday, October 18, 2018
All Day
Anne Allison, Sinan Antoon, Elizabeth Davis, Robert Desjarlais, Harry Harootunian, Ranjana Khanna, Reza Negarestani (by Skype), Adam Rosenblatt, and Annabel Wharton
Digging Up the Past: A Black Feminist Reflects on Conducting Research on Race and Class in Brazil
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Warring with Democracy: Black Activism and the Challenge of History
Sponsor(s):
Pauli Murray Project, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship, and John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC)
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dr. Christopher Tinson
From the Drexicya to Mars: An Interplanetary Water Mission
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, October 25, 2018
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Ingrid LaFleur
Neurodiversities
Sponsor(s):
Health Humanities Lab (HHL), Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, October 26, 2018
All Day
Ralph Savarese, Richard C. Keller, DJ Savarese, Deborah Jenson and others
Brainhood, Self-Concepts, and the Perils of Neuroconformity
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), Health Humanities Lab (HHL), Literature, and Romance Studies
Friday, October 26, 2018
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Nima Bassiri, Catherine Reilly, and Deborah Jenson
'Pay No Heed to the Rockets' Life in Contemporary Palestine
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Focus Program, Forum for Scholars and Publics, International Comparative Studies (ICS), and Literature
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
5:00 pm
Marcello Di Cintio
The DKU Humanities Research Center and the Planetary Humanities
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Office of DKU Programs
Friday, November 02, 2018
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Carlos Rojas and James Miller
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