
Yong Soon Min, Visual Artist
Sponsor(s):
Asian American Studies Program (AASP), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke Arts, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Thursday, October 10, 2019
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Yong Soon Min

The Sovereignty of an Audacious Raconteur in Colonial India
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Cultural Anthropology, English, History, India Initiative, Literature, and Religious Studies
Friday, October 11, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Leela Prasad

Two Flags: Documentary Screening & Q&A by Director Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Sponsor(s):
International Comparative Studies (ICS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), India Initiative, and Religious Studies
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Pankaj Rishi Kumar

Dangerous Work: A Study of Reprisals against Environmental Defenders in the former Soviet Union and the United States
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Getting Useful Feedback on Your Writing
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Faculty Write, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
With Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Director, Faculty Write Program, and Nicole Barnes, History Department

How to Write a Best Seller (or a Successful Trade Book): A Conversation with Tom Mayer from W.W. Norton
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Kenan Institute for Ethics
Thursday, October 17, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tom Mayer, Senior Editor & Vice President, W. W. Norton

Sculpture Against the State: Anarchism, Censorship and Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Romance Studies
Friday, October 18, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Mark Antliff


Concentration Camps: Then and Now
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), and Forum for Scholars and Publics
Thursday, October 24, 2019
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Andrea Pitzer, Jonathan Katz, and Roxana Bendezú, moderated by Brian Goldstone

Resisting the Universal: Black Dance, Aesthetics, and the Afterlives of Slavery
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Dance Program, From Slavery to Freedom Lab, and Theater Studies
Friday, October 25, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Thomas F. DeFrantz

Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean
Sponsor(s):
Publishing Humanities Initiative, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Religious Studies
Monday, October 28, 2019
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Simone Oppen, Dartmouth College; Daniel Picus, Carleton College; Travis Proctor, Wittenberg University; and Stephen Young, Appalachian State University

Listening to LatinX
Sponsor(s):
Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Cultural Anthropology, Dean of Humanities, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Kenan Institute for Ethics, Literature, Music, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
3:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Maria Hinojosa

Traces of Travelling Musicians
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Music
Thursday, October 31, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Corinne Schneider

The New Great Game: Anti-Japanism in the Era of China's Rise
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Games and Culture Lab
Friday, November 01, 2019
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Leo Ching


Faculty Bookwatch | The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles by Charles Piot
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Press, and Libraries
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Ranjana Khanna (moderator), Ian Baucom, Tsitsi Jaji, Hans Lucht, Achille Mbembe, Aïssatou Mbodj, Henrik Vigh and Charles Piot

Rights! Camera! Action! Screening of "The Unafraid"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm


Inequality, Intersectionality, and Embodied Brains
Friday, November 22, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Victoria Pitts-Taylor
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Arabic & Hebrew Night
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

"Black Images, Black Histories" Conference
Sponsor(s):
From Slavery to Freedom Lab, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship, Duke Arts, Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, January 17, 2020
10:00 am - 3:00 pm

[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra

Rights! Camera! Action! Presents "Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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AMES Presents: Race Media Empire Speaker Series- Constructing the Inner Frontier: Redeemable Difference and the Art of Intimate Self-Management in the 1930s Okinawa
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 23, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Wendy Matsumura

On the Question of Violence: Slavery, Sexual Subjection, and Legal Paradigms of Thought
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), From Slavery to Freedom Lab, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Friday, January 24, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Patrice Douglass

[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Friday, January 24, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra

Theater Studies Lecture. Whose Line is it Anyway: Jennifer Kidwell
Sponsor(s):
Theater Studies
Friday, January 24, 2020
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Tina Post

A Feminist Politics of Ambivalence - Reading Emma Goldman
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and History
Monday, January 27, 2020
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Clare Hemmings

[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra

Everybody Plays the Fool: On Style and Stupidity
Friday, January 31, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Taylor Black

[Cancelled] Rethinking class in an era of intersectionality
Friday, January 31, 2020
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra

"What is a resource curse: energy, infrastructure, and climate change in Native North America"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Dr. Andrew Curley

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AMES Presents: Race Media Empire Speaker Series- Spatial Politics of the Olympics Sites of Tokyo 3.0
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, February 13, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Sharon Hayashi (York University, Toronto)

Cultures of Capitalism: Early Modern Spain
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Economics, History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Romance Studies
Friday, February 14, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Elvira Vilches

An Afterlife with author Frances Bartkowski
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Center for Jewish Studies, English, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and German
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Frances Bartkowski

Rights and the Humanities Lecture with Dr. Joseph Slaughter, "Naming the Crisis: The Language of Human Rights and the Neoliberal Turn"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Literature
Thursday, February 20, 2020
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Joseph R. Slaughter

On Hubris and Imagination: Kafka, Nietzsche, and Contemporary Ecological Discourse
Friday, February 21, 2020
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Kata Gellen

Virtual and Augmented Reality in the Humanities Symposium
Friday, February 21, 2020
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Faculty Bookwatch: Terrestial Lessons: Conquest of the World as Globe
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), India Initiative, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Libraries, and Office of Global Affairs
Friday, February 21, 2020
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Gauri Viswanathan, Benjamin Schmidt, David Gilmartin, Walter Mignolo
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