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
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
Natanya Duncan, Winston James, Adom Getachew, Henry Dee
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
Kelly Lytle Hernández
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
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
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
Najha Zigbi-Johnson
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
Professors Stephen L. Hayes and Javier Wallace
Centering the Humanities: A Conversation
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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
Gunther Peck and Tamika Nunley
Epistemic Drawing: Madeleine Basseporte at the Jardin du roi
Monday, March 02, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University)
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
Nora Krug
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
Dan Sinykin, Will Evans, Meg Reid, Kathy Pories, Becca Rothfeld, Ross Barkan, Joanna Bigges, Laura McGrath, Richard So, Tom Comité, Camille Bordas, Anne Garreta
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
Ellen McLarney, Samiha Rahman, Alaina Morgan, Atiya Husain, Youssef Carter, Solayman Idris
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
Haley Cohen Gilliland
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
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
Publishing Fundamentals: In Celebration of Duke University Press’s Centennial
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Classical Studies, Duke University Press, English, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, History, Office for Research and Innovation, Romance Studies, Theater Studies, and Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Thursday, April 30, 2026
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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