
Writing Against the Colonial Anthropocene
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and Nicholas School of the Environment
Thursday, March 30, 2023
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Macarena Gómez-Barris, Brown University

CANCELLED: The Rise of Religious Liberty: Made Possible by the Decline of A Public Morality
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, March 30, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Professor Katherine Franke


The Blinding Light of Race: Disguising Immorality from Aristotle to Trump
Sponsor(s):
Classical Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Monday, April 03, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Dr. Michael Blakey

Legal Issues in Computational Research Using Images and Audio-Visual Works
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, CTSI CREDO, Duke Office of Research Initiatives, Information Science + Studies (ISS), Libraries, and Office for Research and Innovation
Tuesday, April 04, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Dave Hansen

Against Terricide: Envisioning Paths towards Pluriversal Transitions
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, April 06, 2023
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Arturo Escobar, UNC Chapel Hill

Black Queer Studies: A Genealogy – A Masterclass with E. Patrick Johnson
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), English, From Slavery to Freedom Lab, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Literature
Friday, April 14, 2023
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
E. Patrick Johnson

Earthly Appetites: An Ecological and Erotic Turn in a Black Feminist Study
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Tiffany King

A Celebration of the Scholarship of Diane Nelson
Sponsor(s):
Cultural Anthropology, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Office of Global Affairs, and Romance Studies
Thursday, April 20, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Greg Grandin (Yale), Carlota McAllister (York), Elizabeth Oglesby (Arizona), Jolie Olcott (Duke), Harris Solomon (Duke), Alejandro Flores Aguilar (Universidad Rafael Landívar), Cori Hayden (the Oxidate Collective), and Arturo Escobar (UNC). Closing remarks by Mark Driscoll (UNC)

Equitable Hiring Practices: Strategies for increasing the diversity in your unit and beginning to create a positive climate in which to bring new staff
Sponsor(s):
Office for Institutional Equity (OIE)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Kimberly Hewitt & Sophia Brelvi

tgiFHI: Kate Driscoll
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, August 31, 2023
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Kate Driscoll

Letters, Archives, & Publishing: A Carlyle Celebration
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Press, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and History
Thursday, September 07, 2023
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Steve Cohn, David Sorensen, Brent Kinser
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David Marriott, "The Crisis of Truth I and II"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Literature
Tuesday, October 03, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

"Bedlam" Film Screening
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Billy Cao, Jahkazia (Jae) Richardson

David Marriott, "The Crisis of Truth I and II"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Literature
Thursday, October 12, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
David Marriott

Denaturing the Colonial Sensorium: A Poetry Reading
Thursday, October 19, 2023
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Edgar Garcia, Joyelle McSweeney
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tgiFHI: Beverly McIver, “A Promise is a Promise: Loving and Caring for Renee”
Friday, October 20, 2023
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Beverly McIver


Left of Black Presents: Small Talk at FHI with Author Nabil Ayers
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Nabil Ayers

"The Art of Political Murder" Film Screening
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Divinity School Duke Center for Reconciliation, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, October 26, 2023
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Dr. Nina Balmaceda, Emily Taylor

tgiFHI: Ásta, "Critical Social Metaphysics: Metaphysics for Liberation and Social Science"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Philosophy
Friday, October 27, 2023
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Ásta

CCDGB: Bayo Akomolafe, "Becoming-black: On white syncopation at the end of the world"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 02, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Bayo Akomolafe

"Love Lived on Death Row" Film Screening
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 02, 2023
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Meg Eggleston, Henderson Hill, Andy Van Pachtenbeke
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tgiFHI: Negar Mottahedeh, "Electric Voice: Tactility and Tacticality in Revolutionary Iran"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Literature
Friday, November 03, 2023
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Negar Mottahedeh

UNC-Duke Critical Games Symposium II
Sponsor(s):
Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Information Science + Studies (ISS)
Friday, November 03, 2023
12:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Nurturing Imaginative Spaces
Monday, November 06, 2023
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Sarah Rose Nordgren and Saskia Cornes

Fictionalized Women, Yiddish Whales, and Looted Art: A Conversation with Brett Ashley Kaplan and Katharine B. DuBois
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Kenan Institute for Ethics, Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Literature, and Publishing Humanities Initiative
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Sowa Rigpa Treating Poetry: The Poetics of Traditional Tibetan Medicine
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Robert Kocik

CCDGB: Ayasha Guerin, "Shoreline Lessons for Relational Repair"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 09, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Ayasha Guerin, UCLA

tgiFHI: Kate Driscoll, "Epic Errancy: The Renaissance Virago and her Macabre Genealogies"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, and Romance Studies
Friday, November 10, 2023
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Kate Driscoll

CCDGB: Mary Louise Pratt, "Climate Catastrophe and the Crisis in Knowledgemaking: Decolonizing the Intellectual Commons"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 16, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Mary Louise PrattMary Louise Pratt, New York University

Left of Black Presents: Small Talk at FHI with Bakari Kitwana
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 16, 2023
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Bakari Kitwana
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tgiFHI: Mert Bahadir Reisoğlu, “The Turkish German Travel Gothic: Perilous Mobilities in the Age of European Labor Migration”
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, November 17, 2023
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Mert Bahadir Reisoğlu


CCDGB | Christopher Cozier: Itinerant Acts, off-site
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 30, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Christopher Cozier, artist/writer/curator

On the Art of Making Better Problems: Improvisation, Experiment, and Transmedia Performance Research
Sponsor(s):
Humanities Unbounded, Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Theater Studies
Friday, December 08, 2023
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Patrick Jagoda, Heidi Coleman

CCDGB | Gabriela Valdivia, "Amazonian self-determination and radical solidarity in times of 'extractive research'"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 18, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Gabriela Valdivia, UNC Chapel Hill

The Rise of Religious Liberty: Made Possible by the Decline of A Public Morality
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 18, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Katherine Franke

Intergenerational Storytelling & Art
Monday, January 22, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Casey Parker, Amber Santibañez, Sophia Enriquez

Counter-Cartographies of the Amazon
Sponsor(s):
Amazon Lab, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Brazil Initiative, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, January 29, 2024
All Day

Creative Process, Archives, and Care: Tift Merritt & Anthony Kelley in Conversation
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), Music, and Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Tuesday, February 06, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Tift Merritt and Anthony Kelley

Afrobeats as Counter-archive in Postcolonial Nigeria
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Adeshina Afolayan

FHI at 25: Origins and Reflections | A Conversation with Cathy N. Davidson and Karla F.C. Holloway
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, February 16, 2024
9:00 am - 11:00 am

Scarcity: A History From the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis
Sponsor(s):
History, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson & Carl Wennerlind

The Unburied: Material Histories of Film in the Owens Valley
Monday, February 26, 2024
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Genevieve Yue

Making a Home for Black Southern Film
Monday, February 26, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Tyra Dixon and Joseph Winters

CCDGB | Fly Me to the Moon: Film screening with Director Esther Figueroa
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, February 29, 2024
12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Esther Figueroa

Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America
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)
Thursday, February 29, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dr. Alexa Hagerty

North Carolina Ecofeminism: A Poetry Reading by Sumita Chakraborty and Destiny Hemphill
Tuesday, March 05, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Sumita Chakraborty, Destiny Hemphill
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Small Talk at FHI with DJ Scholar Lynnée Denise
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Sunday, March 10, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Lynnée Denise

Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series presents: I Didn't See You There
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Duke Disability Alliance (DDA)
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Bryan Rusch, Tatum Tricarico

Dissertation to Book: A Conversation with Two Editors
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Faculty Write, Graduate School, Office of Postdoctoral Services, Publishing Humanities Initiative, and Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Thursday, March 28, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Gita Manaktala, Ken Wissoker, and Christine Folch

Poetry Reading with Shlomi Hatuka and Merhav Yeshoron
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Jewish Life at Duke
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Recollections Workshop: Practice, Critique, and Coalition through the Memorial Museum
Friday, April 05, 2024
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
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“The Fires We’ve Never Lost:” Finding Art, Poetry, and Performance in 50 Years of Prison Letters
Sponsor(s):
Humanities Unbounded
Tuesday, April 09, 2024
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Erin Parish

Sex, Race, & "Sweet Petunias": Unveiling Herstory in the Music Industry
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)
Tuesday, April 09, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Rissi Palmer

Small Talk at FHI with DJ Scholar Lynnée Denise
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Lynnée Denise

Book Launch for On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Nicholas School of the Environment
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Ryan Emanuel


Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series presents: The Legend of the Underground
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, April 15, 2024
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Micheal Ighodaro and Chris Beyrer
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Copyright and AI
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Graduate School, and Publishing Humanities Initiative
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Kate Dickson

Book Launch: "Graveyard Empire: Four Decades of Wars and Intervention in Afghanistan"
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Emran Feroz

Towards a Critique of Democracy in West Africa
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Achille Mbembe, WITS
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FHI - Sarah Nuttall, "Pluviality and Pluvial Time: Hydrocolonialism, Untethered Temporalities and African Elemental Forms"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, April 18, 2024
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

FHI at 25 - Gregson Davis, "Towards the flourishing of 'Transcultural Humanities'"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, April 26, 2024
9:30 am - 11:30 am
Gregson Davis

Stuart Hall Archives Project
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, May 06, 2024
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Rebecca Roach

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
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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
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"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
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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
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