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Sahara Haze: Harmattan Wind and Tropospheric Histories

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 19, 2023
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
May Joseph, Pratt Institute / Harmattan Theater
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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"

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Classical Studies, and History
Friday, January 20, 2023
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Cassandra Casias
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What do we mean when we say language models are biased?

Sponsor(s): Duke Digital Humanities Initiative and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, January 20, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Evan Donahue, University of Tokyo
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Tony Phillips
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Yun Emily Wang
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Tony Phillips
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[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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Negar Mottahedeh
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Hannah Holleman
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tgiFHI: Wenjin Liu, "Political Vice in Plato"

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Classical Studies, and Philosophy
Friday, February 10, 2023
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Wenjin Liu
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AAHVS 2023 Graduate Student Symposium

Sponsor(s): Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Friday, February 10, 2023
2:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Robin Klaus, Brittany Forniotis, Elizabeth Anne Brown, Max Symuleski
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Irving Goh, "The Problem of Failure"

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, February 13, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Irving Goh
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tgiFHI: Ryan Donovan, “'Must Be Heavyset': Casting, Size, and the Body Politics of Broadway Musicals”

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and Theater Studies
Friday, February 17, 2023
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Ryan Donovan
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Francesca Lessa
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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[CANCELED] tgiFHI: Sarah Quesada, "A Latin-African Literature and its Memorials"

**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and Romance Studies
Friday, February 24, 2023
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Sarah Quesada
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Poulomi Saha | Algorithm to Krishna Consciousness

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, February 27, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Poulomi SahaPoulomi Saha, UC Berkeley
An Inter-American Conversation on Indigeneity, Art,and Education Images: a brown, orange, and white wood-carved print; a red and white Indigenous Amazonian artwork, with Gustavo Coboco standing in front of it; a painting of Native American people protesting, with one holding a sign saying "My Culture is Not Your Costume" (a painting by Jessica Clark)

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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Gustavo Caboco, Jessica Clark, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Wesley Nóog
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Brian McAdoo, Duke University
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Annette Joseph-Gabriel
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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
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Kimberly Hewitt & Cynthia Clinton
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[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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Karen Barad, UC Santa Cruz
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Susheila Nasta
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Rinaldo Walcott
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Macarena Gómez-Barris, Brown University
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Professor Katherine Franke
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Premesh Lalu, "Undoing Apartheid"

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and Concilium on Southern Africa
Monday, April 03, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Premesh Lalu
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Dr. Michael Blakey
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Dave Hansen
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Against Terricide: Envisioning Paths towards Pluriversal Transitions

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, April 06, 2023
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Arturo Escobar, UNC Chapel Hill
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
E. Patrick Johnson
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Tiffany King
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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)
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Kimberly Hewitt & Sophia Brelvi
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tgiFHI: Kate Driscoll

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, August 31, 2023
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Kate Driscoll
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Steve Cohn, David Sorensen, Brent Kinser
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Against Home in the Settler Colony

Sponsor(s): Humanities Unbounded and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, September 28, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Julietta Singh
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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"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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Billy Cao, Jahkazia (Jae) Richardson
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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
Thursday, October 12, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
David Marriott
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Denaturing the Colonial Sensorium: A Poetry Reading

Sponsor(s): Humanities Unbounded and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, October 19, 2023
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Edgar Garcia, Joyelle McSweeney
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tgiFHI: Beverly McIver, “A Promise is a Promise: Loving and Caring for Renee”

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Friday, October 20, 2023
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Beverly McIver
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Re-Reading Senghor

Sponsor(s): Humanities Unbounded and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, October 20, 2023
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Nabil Ayers
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"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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Dr. Nina Balmaceda, Emily Taylor
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Ásta
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Bayo Akomolafe
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"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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Negar Mottahedeh
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Nurturing Imaginative Spaces

Sponsor(s): Forum for Scholars and Publics and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, November 06, 2023
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Sarah Rose Nordgren and Saskia Cornes
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Sowa Rigpa Treating Poetry: The Poetics of Traditional Tibetan Medicine

Sponsor(s): Humanities Unbounded and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Robert Kocik
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CCDGB: Ayasha Guerin, "Shoreline Lessons for Relational Repair"

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 09, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Ayasha Guerin, UCLA
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Kate Driscoll
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Mary Louise PrattMary Louise Pratt, New York University
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Mert Bahadir Reisoğlu
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Re-Visiting Suzanne Césaire's Intellectual Legacy

Sponsor(s): Humanities Unbounded and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, November 17, 2023
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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CCDGB | Christopher Cozier: Itinerant Acts, off-site

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, November 30, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Christopher Cozier, artist/writer/curator
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Patrick Jagoda, Heidi Coleman
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Gabriela Valdivia, UNC Chapel Hill
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Prof. Katherine Franke
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Intergenerational Storytelling & Art

Sponsor(s): Forum for Scholars and Publics and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, January 22, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Casey Parker, Amber Santibañez, Sophia Enriquez
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Tift Merritt and Anthony Kelley
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Afrobeats as Counter-archive in Postcolonial Nigeria

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Adeshina Afolayan
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson & Carl Wennerlind
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The Unburied: Material Histories of Film in the Owens Valley

Sponsor(s): Humanities Unbounded and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, February 26, 2024
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Genevieve Yue
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Making a Home for Black Southern Film

Sponsor(s): Forum for Scholars and Publics and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, February 26, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Tyra Dixon and Joseph Winters
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Esther Figueroa
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Dr. Alexa Hagerty
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North Carolina Ecofeminism: A Poetry Reading by Sumita Chakraborty and Destiny Hemphill

Sponsor(s): Humanities Unbounded and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, March 05, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Sumita Chakraborty, Destiny Hemphill
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Image Rights and Permissions for Authors

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and Libraries
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Kate Dickson
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Lynnée Denise
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