Divestment Then and Now
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Yousuf Al-Bulushi
“Love's Braided Dance” — A Book Launch Event
Sponsor(s):
Kenan Institute for Ethics, Divinity School, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Nicholas School of the Environment, Office of Climate and Sustainability, and POLIS: Center for Politics
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Norman Wirzba, Abdullah Antepli, Polly Ha, Brian McAdoo
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement - A Conversation with Brandon Terry and Joseph R. Winters
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), History, and Law School
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Between the Cracks: A Photojournalism Retrospective with Paul Weinberg
Sponsor(s):
Black Archival Imagination Lab, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Concilium on Southern Africa, English, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, January 30, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Paul Weinberg
New Directions in China-Africa Studies
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and Cultural Anthropology
Friday, January 31, 2025
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Duke@100: A Critical Lens
Thursday, February 20, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin, Dr. Kris Manjapra, and Dr. Leigh-Ann Naidoo
FHI 25 | The Humanities and the Press: The Project of Reshaping Humanities Scholarship at Duke and Beyond, Part II
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, February 21, 2025
9:00 am - 11:00 am
RESISTING COMPLICITY: Human Rights as a Framework for Global Justice & Collective Action
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI)
Friday, February 21, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Brazil: Hip Hop, Faith, and Citizenship Conference
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Brazil Initiative, Global Brazil Humanities Lab, Office of Global Affairs, and Romance Studies
Monday, March 03, 2025
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Rap Show with Brazilian rappers in collab with rap artists from Athens, Ga.
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Brazil Initiative, Global Brazil Humanities Lab, Office of Global Affairs, and Romance Studies
Monday, March 03, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Thursday, March 20, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Ieva Jusionyte
Film Screening & Discussion - Can’t Stop Change: Queer Climate Stories from the Florida Front Lines
Sponsor(s):
History, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Duke Climate Coalition, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Nicholas School of the Environment, Office of Climate and Sustainability, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Monday, March 24, 2025
5:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Yarrow Koning
Performance in the Aftermath: Mourning and Memorialising District Six
Sponsor(s):
Black Archival Imagination Lab, Africa Initiative, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Concilium on Southern Africa, English, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Office of Global Affairs
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Nadia Davids
Colloquium on the Climate, Geologic, & Biologic Evolution of the Amazon
Sponsor(s):
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Duke Brazil Initiative, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Nicholas School-Environmental Science and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment, Office of Climate and Sustainability, and Office of Global Affairs
Thursday, March 27, 2025
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Being Michelle
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) and Duke Disability Alliance (DDA)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Pan-African Music: A Black Atlantic Dialogue
Sponsor(s):
Black Archival Imagination Lab, African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
David Sánchez and Brenda Sisane
LatinX and Iberian Crossings
Sponsor(s):
Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Romance Studies
Thursday, April 03, 2025
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
The Birth of African American Cinema Studies: 1980s-1990s
Sponsor(s):
Experimental Film Lab, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Cinematic Arts, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, April 04, 2025
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Franklin Cason
Playing the Changes - Tracking Darius Brubeck | Film Viewing and Discussion with Darius and Cathy Brubeck
Sponsor(s):
Concilium on Southern Africa, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), International Comparative Studies (ICS), and Music
Tuesday, April 08, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Darius and Cathy Brubeck
The Case for and against a Philosophical Life
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Agnes Callard and Susan Wolf
Interpersonal Harmony in Comparative Philosophy: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives
Thursday, April 10, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Haunted Landscapes
Thursday, April 17, 2025
10:30 am - 2:45 pm
Rebecca Ballard, Kathleen Burns, Hannah Conway, Glenn Hinson, Claudia Milian
Thinking Dignity
Friday, April 18, 2025
11:30 am - 4:00 pm
Nathalie Etoke, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Maxime Menuet, Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Muhammad Ba, Michaeline Crichlow
FHI | "Navigating the Archive: Stuart Hall and the Fateful Triangle"
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium & Exhibition
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Black Archival Imagination Lab, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Duke Arts, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Graduate School, and Revaluing Care Lab
Thursday, May 01, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium & Exhibition
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Black Archival Imagination Lab, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Duke Arts, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Graduate School, and Revaluing Care Lab
Friday, May 02, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Seeing Sinners: A Roundtable Discussion
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, African and African American Studies (AAAS), and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, May 22, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Mark Anthony Neal, Franklin Cason, Lois Deloatch, Joseph Winters
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
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