National Humanities Center Fellowship Session
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, September 04, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Fall 2025 Public Screening Series: Early Jameson | "Herbert’s Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise" (1997)
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Crystal Simone Smith and Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Fall 2025 Public Screening Series: Early Jameson | "Big Words... Small Worlds" (1987)
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Always Looking: Titus Brooks Heagins
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Titus Brooks Heagins and Olympia Stone
Book Conversation with Lina‑María Murillo: "Reproductive Justice, Health, and Activism in the Borderlands"
Sponsor(s):
History, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and Revaluing Care Lab
Friday, September 26, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Sarah Deutsch
tgiFHI | Jennifer Knust, "The New Testament Apparatus as a War Machine"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, October 03, 2025
9:00 am - 11:00 am
"When I Say Africa" Film Screening & Discussion
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Cultural Anthropology, and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Monday, October 06, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Kathryn Mathers, Christopher Ouma
Book Conversation with Emma Amador: "The Politics of Care Work"
Sponsor(s):
History, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and Revaluing Care Lab
Wednesday, October 08, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Cecilia Marquez
What Is a Migrant? What Is a National Border?
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, October 17, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
E. Tendayi Achiume
Fall 2025 Public Screening Series: Early Jameson | "How to Adapt to Cultural Change" (2014)
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Critical Interventions: Talking Back to the Archive
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Archive of Documentary Arts, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts (MFAEDA)
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Professor Stephanie Syjuco
tgiFHI | John Supko, "Maybe Modernism Can Save Us: Reflections on Complexity, Ambiguity, and Serendipity in the Age of AI"
Friday, October 24, 2025
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Book Conversation with Jina B. Kim: "Care at the End of the World"
Sponsor(s):
History, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Revaluing Care Lab
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Emily Rogers
Lunch Discussion with Carlo Rotella
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Dean of Humanities, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, October 30, 2025
11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Carlo Rotella and Leo Ching
Afterlives of the Plantation by Jarvis McInnis: Faculty Bookwatch
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), English, and Libraries
Thursday, October 30, 2025
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
tgiFHI | Jennifer Flaherty, "'Conditions of the Working Class in Russia’: Towards a Poetics of Praxis"
Friday, October 31, 2025
9:00 am - 11:00 am
On Teaching James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, African and African American Studies (AAAS), English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Religious Studies
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Joseph Winters
The Crisis in Sudan: Diplomacy, Security, and Humanitarian Priorities
Thursday, November 06, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Cameron Hudson
tgiFHI | Julianne Werlin, "Death of the Writer, Life of the Author: From Mortality Statistics to Literary Immortality in the English Renaissance"
Friday, November 07, 2025
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke University Press, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Program in Education
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Dr. Javier Wallace
A Mother Apart Film Screening and Workshop
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thursday, November 13, 2025
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FHI, Black Archival Imagination Lab | Translating Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Legacy into the Future: A Conversation with James Ogude and Wangui wa Goro Moderated by Tsitsi Jaji
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Africa Initiative, and Concilium on Southern Africa
Monday, November 17, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rudnick Lecture presents Arie Dubnov: “Writing the History of Israel: Past, Present and Future.”
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, American Grand Strategy (AGS), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, History, and Religious Studies
Monday, November 17, 2025
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Arie Dubnov
Fall 2025 Public Screening Series: Early Jameson | "An American Utopia: Fredric Jameson in Conversation with Stanley Aronowitz" (2014)
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Labor as Dance
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Cultural Anthropology, Duke Service-Learning, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Allison Orr
FHI, Short Residency | Public Lecture: Jodi Dean, "Neo Feudalism and the New Class Struggle"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Literature, and Romance Studies
Thursday, November 20, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
FHI, Short Residency | Work-in-Progress: Jodi Dean, "Communist Freedoms"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Literature, and Romance Studies
Friday, November 21, 2025
9:30 am - 11:30 am
dDuke-UNC Critical Games Symposium 2025
Sponsor(s):
Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke Digital Humanities Initiative, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Information Science + Studies (ISS)
Friday, November 21, 2025
12:30 pm - 5:00 pm
FHI | "Pandemic Genres": A Conversation with Neville Hoad
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Monday, December 01, 2025
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
The False and its Falsifiers: Artistic Practices in Times of Lies
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jorge Luis Marzo
FHI, Short Residency | Christopher Newfield, "The University System in the Knowledge Crisis"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 15, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
tgiFHI | Christina León, "Catachresis: Notes on Troping Difference"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Literature
Friday, January 16, 2026
9:00 am - 11:00 am
FHI, Short Residency | "Building the Parallel University: Towards a New Cultural Order": A Conversation with Christopher Newfield and Donald H. Taylor
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Reclaiming Durham's Narrative: Scholarship, Service, and the Spirit of Dr. Moore
Sponsor(s):
Libraries, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke Community Affairs, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 22, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
FHI, Short Residency | Christopher Newfield, "The Liberation of Criticism"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 22, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Freeing Joan Little: Gender, Incarceration, and Struggles for Justice
Sponsor(s):
History, Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Forum for Scholars and Publics, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thursday, January 29, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Christina Greene; Shelagh Kenney; Adriane Lentz-Smith
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