
"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

What is a World? A Roundtable on World Literature
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, Literature, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Joint Reading With Caryl Phillips and Akhil Sharma
Sponsor(s):
English
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Caryl Phill and Akhill Sharma

Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh
Sponsor(s):
African and African American Studies (AAAS) and Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE)
Thursday, February 27, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Candice Jenkins

Tom and Zula: Jews and Gentiles at Play on the Interwar Polish Stage
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Center for Jewish Studies, History, Music, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Theater Studies
Friday, February 28, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Beth Holmgren

Co-opting AI? Data Capitalism & Predictive Intelligence
Sponsor(s):
Duke Digital Humanities Initiative, Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Information Science + Studies (ISS), Literature, and PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge
Friday, February 28, 2020
11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Luciana Parisi (Duke) & Ezekiel Dixon-Román (UPenn)

Méndez Award winner: Carolyn Forché's What You Have Heard Is True, a reading and book signing
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)
Monday, March 02, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Carolyn Forché

The Coronavirus: Human, Social, and Political Implications - UPDATED
Tuesday, March 03, 2020
10:00 am - 11:30 am

Meridians - A 20th Anniversary Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke University Press, English, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Literature
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
All Day
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Myriam Chancy, Paula Giddings, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Tsitsi Jaji, Marina Magloire, Mecca Sullivan

CANCELLED Rights! Camera! Action! presents "The Apology"
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

CANCELED: Archival Dramaturgy: Suspicion and the Documents of Transnational Passage.
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Theater Studies
Thursday, March 19, 2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Ju Yon Kim, Harvard University

POSTPONED: Readers, Authors, and Autism
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Health Humanities Lab (HHL), Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, March 20, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Ralph Savarese, Melanie Yergeau
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CANCELED- AMES Presents: Race Media Empire Speaker Series- backgroundingforegrounding (Manning) and Extreme Realism: In Sixteen Series (Massumi)
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, April 06, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Erin Manning and Brian Massumi

POSTPONED What is a World? A Panel on World Dance
**CANCELED**
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
Michael Klien, Purnima Shah, Sarah Wilbur

How Soldiers Think: Law and Dictatorship in Nigeria
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), History, and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Friday, October 22, 2021
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
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Listening for Latinx Understories: The Musical Roots/Routes of Migrant Farmworkers in 20th c. North Carolina
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Latino/a Studies, Music, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and Student Action with Farmworkers
Friday, November 05, 2021
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Sophia Enriquez

Emotional Dexterity: Afro-Puerto Rican Resistencia in Bomba's Batey and the Digital Space
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Sarah Bruno
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On Knowing and Not Knowing Trauma in Ancient Greek
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Classical Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Theater Studies
Friday, November 12, 2021
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Erika Weiberg

Mission Sensoriums: Spanish Colonization, Church Bells, and the California Indians: Bernard Gordillo (Yale University)
Sponsor(s):
Thompson Writing Program, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Music
Friday, March 04, 2022
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Bernard Gordillo (Yale University)

Global Jewish Modernism: Translation Series Welcomes Michael Hofmann
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), German Studies, Global Jewish Modernism, Humanities Unbounded, and Romance Studies
Thursday, March 24, 2022
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Michael Hofmann
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