

The Slave Plantation: Environment, History and Cycles of Capital Accumulation
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, October 13, 2022
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Dale Tomich

tgiFHI: Sarah Balakrishnan, "Prison of the Womb: Gender, Incarceration & Capitalism in Colonial West Africa"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Cultural Anthropology, and History
Friday, October 14, 2022
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Sarah Balakrishnan
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Being Black in Venice
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), German Studies, and Global Jewish Modernism
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Shaul Bassi, Igiaba Scego

Lewis R. Gordon, "On Enslavement, Decolonization, and Freedom"
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Lewis R. Gordon

tgiFHI: Mark Anthony Neal, "The Love Languages of Black Fatherhood"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), English, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Friday, October 21, 2022
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Mark Anthony Neal

Ra’anan Alexandrowicz: “The Law in These Parts”
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz

The Climate of Theory: Hurricanes, Slave Skeletons, Tidalectics
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, October 27, 2022
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Anny-Dominique Curtius

Dr. Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr., "Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, October 27, 2022
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Dr. Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr.


International Creole Day: Feeding Community
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Romance Studies
Friday, October 28, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

tgiFHI: Kimberly K Lamm, "'She could work out some arrangement': Writing the Black Sartorial Imagination with Nella Larsen"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, English, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Friday, November 04, 2022
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Kimberly K Lamm

Excesses of Death
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, November 08, 2022
9:30 am - 5:00 pm

"Mossville" Film Screening
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 10, 2022
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Michelle Lanier

tgiFHI: Douglas Jones, "The New Negro, a Double Act: More Notes from the 'Black Below'"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), English, and Theater Studies
Friday, November 11, 2022
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Douglas Jones



tgiFHI: Stefani Engelstein, “Divisive Affect, Loyalty, and National Cohesion: Du Bois contra Wagner”
Friday, November 18, 2022
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Stefani Engelstein

Sahara Haze: Harmattan Wind and Tropospheric Histories
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 19, 2023
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
May Joseph, Pratt Institute / Harmattan Theater

Film Screening: "Reversing Roe"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 19, 2023
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Anna Muthalaly (Duke '23), Representative from the Carolina Abortion Fund
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tgiFHI: Cassandra Casias, "(Her) Breast is Best: Mothers and Wet-Nurses in Roman Africa"
Friday, January 20, 2023
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Cassandra Casias

What do we mean when we say language models are biased?
Friday, January 20, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Evan Donahue, University of Tokyo

In Conversation: Tony Phillips, Mark Anthony Neal, and John Gartrell
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, January 23, 2023
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Tony Phillips

John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute: Graduate Student Open House
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 26, 2023
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

tgiFHI: Yun Emily Wang, "Listening Incommensurably: The Impossibility of Sounding 'Out' from Queer Taiwanese Toronto"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Music
Friday, January 27, 2023
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Yun Emily Wang

John Hope Franklin Legacies Series Lecture - Tony Phillips, "John Hope Franklin: Hope at the BBC"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, February 02, 2023
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Tony Phillips

[CANCELED] tgiFHI: Negar Mottahedeh, "Electric Voice: Tactility and Tacticality in Revolutionary Iran"
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Literature
Friday, February 03, 2023
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Negar Mottahedeh

John Hope Franklin Legacies Series - In Conversation: Tony Phillips, Mark Anthony Neal, and John Gartrell
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, February 03, 2023
11:30 am - 1:30 pm

No Empires, No Wastelands: The Necessity of Forging a Real Ecological Solidarity for the 21st Century
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and Nicholas School of the Environment
Thursday, February 09, 2023
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Hannah Holleman

tgiFHI: Wenjin Liu, "Political Vice in Plato"
Friday, February 10, 2023
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Wenjin Liu

AAHVS 2023 Graduate Student Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Friday, February 10, 2023
2:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Robin Klaus, Brittany Forniotis, Elizabeth Anne Brown, Max Symuleski

Irving Goh, "The Problem of Failure"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, February 13, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Irving Goh

tgiFHI: Ryan Donovan, “'Must Be Heavyset': Casting, Size, and the Body Politics of Broadway Musicals”
Friday, February 17, 2023
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Ryan Donovan

Juan E. Méndez Book Award Ceremony
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)
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Francesca Lessa

ATLANTIC LATINIDADES or Models for Trans-Oceanic Engagement : A Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Africa Initiative, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Office of Global Affairs
Friday, February 24, 2023
All Day

[CANCELED] tgiFHI: Sarah Quesada, "A Latin-African Literature and its Memorials"
**CANCELED**
Friday, February 24, 2023
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Sarah Quesada

Book Launch "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" by Sarah M. Quesada
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Africa Initiative, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Office of Global Affairs
Friday, February 24, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Poulomi Saha | Algorithm to Krishna Consciousness
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, February 27, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Poulomi SahaPoulomi Saha, UC Berkeley

An Inter-American Conversation on Indigeneity, Art & Education
Sponsor(s):
Amazon Lab, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Cultural Anthropology, Duke Brazil Initiative, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Kenan Institute for Ethics, Program in Education, and Romance Studies
Monday, February 27, 2023
4:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Gustavo Caboco, Jessica Clark, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Wesley Nóog

Brian McAdoo | Brown is the New Green: “Natural” Disasters, Marginalization and Planetary Health
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and Nicholas School of the Environment
Thursday, March 02, 2023
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Brian McAdoo, Duke University

tgiFHI: Annette Joseph-Gabriel, "Childhood, Slavery, and Fugitivity in the Age of Revolution"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), History, and Romance Studies
Friday, March 03, 2023
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Annette Joseph-Gabriel

Film Screening: "Nasrin"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Religious Studies
Wednesday, March 08, 2023
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Smith Warehouse Bay 4, The Ahmadieh Family Le

Discrimination and Harassment: What do I do when I am confronted with a problem in my unit that might be discrimination, harassment or sexual misconduct?
Sponsor(s):
Office for Institutional Equity (OIE)
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Kimberly Hewitt & Cynthia Clinton

[CANCELLED] After the End of the World: Entangled Nuclear Colonialisms, Matters of Force, and the Material Force of Justice
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and Nicholas School of the Environment
Thursday, March 23, 2023
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Karen Barad, UC Santa Cruz

Susheila Nasta, "The Bloomsbury Indians"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Literature, and Romance Studies
Monday, March 27, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Susheila Nasta

Between Reparations and Freedom: A Masterclass with Rinaldo Walcott
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
Monday, March 27, 2023
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Rinaldo Walcott

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
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