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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Dr. Javier Wallace
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Dubnov

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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Arie Dubnov
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Allison Orr
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
critical games symposium

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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Jorge Luis Marzo
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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tgiFHI | Alicia Jiménez, Classical Studies

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and Classical Studies
Friday, January 23, 2026
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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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
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Christina Greene; Shelagh Kenney; Adriane Lentz-Smith
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tgiFHI | Angelica Serna Jeri, Romance Studies

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and Romance Studies
Friday, January 30, 2026
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Revisiting Garveyism: A Symposium

Sponsor(s): Black Archival Imagination Lab, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Concilium on Southern Africa, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and History
Monday, February 02, 2026
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Natanya Duncan, Winston James, Adom Getachew, Henry Dee
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Film Screening: The Infiltrators

Sponsor(s): Forum for Scholars and Publics, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), History, Mi Gente, and Provost's Office
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Kelly Lytle Hernández
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Indigenomicon: Book Launch and Conversation

Sponsor(s): Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University Press, English, and Research for Indigenous Studies & Engagement in the US (RISE-US)
Thursday, February 12, 2026
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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tgiFHI | Melanie Lamotte, History

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and History
Friday, February 13, 2026
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
jarvis mcinnis

The Tuskegee Agricultural Extension Program and Black Land MAnagement as Community Resilience

Sponsor(s): Duke Campus Farm
Friday, February 13, 2026
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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tgiFHI | Preeti Singh, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Friday, February 20, 2026
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Mapping Malcolm: The Legacy of Malcolm X

Sponsor(s): Black Archival Imagination Lab, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Concilium on Southern Africa, English, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, February 23, 2026
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Najha Zigbi-Johnson
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Reclaiming the Current

Sponsor(s): Forum for Scholars and Publics, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Program in Education
Monday, February 23, 2026
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Professors Stephen L. Hayes and Javier Wallace
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Centering the Humanities: A Conversation

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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White Victimhood: The Deep History

Sponsor(s): Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke History Union, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and History
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Gunther Peck and Tamika Nunley
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tgiFHI | Sarah Pourciau, German Studies

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and German Studies
Friday, February 27, 2026
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Epistemic Drawing: Madeleine Basseporte at the Jardin du roi

Sponsor(s): Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and History
Monday, March 02, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University)
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Belonging: Artist as Witness with Nora Krug

Sponsor(s): Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), German Studies, History, International Comparative Studies (ICS), and Political Science
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Nora Krug
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A Symposium on the State of the Literary Ecosystem

Sponsor(s): English, Center for Computational Thinking, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES), Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Libraries
Thursday, March 19, 2026
All Day
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Dan Sinykin, Will Evans, Meg Reid, Kathy Pories, Becca Rothfeld, Ross Barkan, Joanna Bigges, Laura McGrath, Richard So, Tom Comité, Camille Bordas, Anne Garreta
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Muslims in the African Diaspora: New Books in the Field

Sponsor(s): Duke Islamic Studies Center, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Forum for Scholars and Publics, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, April 02, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Ellen McLarney, Samiha Rahman, Alaina Morgan, Atiya Husain, Youssef Carter, Solayman Idris
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Méndez Award Ceremony: Haley Cohen Gilliland, "A Flower Traveled in My Blood"

Sponsor(s): Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Tuesday, April 07, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Haley Cohen Gilliland
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Tribute to Valentin Mudimbe: Unmaking the Archive

Sponsor(s): Black Archival Imagination Lab, Africa Initiative, Concilium on Southern Africa, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Literature, and Romance Studies
Thursday, April 09, 2026
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Duke Human Rights Center @FHI Summer Read. The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots. Lisa Siraganian.

Summer Read: Kickoff Lunch

Sponsor(s): Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI)
Monday, April 13, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Varieties of Harmony in Greek and Chinese Philosophy

Varieties of Harmony in Greek and Chinese Philosophy

Sponsor(s): Harmony Humanities Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Philosophy
Thursday, April 16, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Varieties of Harmony in Greek and Chinese Philosophy

Varieties of Harmony in Greek and Chinese Philosophy

Sponsor(s): Harmony Humanities Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Philosophy
Friday, April 17, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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Opening Demonstration | Global Concepts in Motion: Experimenting with Data in the Humanities

Sponsor(s): Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
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