2026 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration
Sunday, January 18, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Candis Watts Smith and Abby Phillip
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Workshop: The Imaginary of Disobedience
Sponsor(s):
History, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Monday, January 19, 2026
9:15 am - 5:00 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
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Feminism and the Culture Wars: A Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Friday, January 23, 2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
The Tower and the Town: Celebrating Dr. Moore's Civic Imagination
Sponsor(s):
Libraries, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke Community Affairs, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Friday, January 23, 2026
5:00 pm - 7:30 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
Mini-Symposium: Faculty Practices
Sponsor(s):
Service-Learning Program
Monday, February 02, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Details will be shared with registrants
Profs an Liu, Katie Hyde, and Adam Rosenblatt
Breaking Barriers, Building Bonds: 60 Years of Interfaith Dialogue After Nostra Aetate
Monday, February 09, 2026
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
A Breakthrough in Early Japanese TV Commercials: 1967
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Yukie Takeuchi (Art and Advertising Design History, Doshisha University)
In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan
Thursday, February 12, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Alicia Volk (Japanese Art, University of Maryland)
Community Work Day- Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
Sponsor(s):
Duke Campus Farm
Friday, February 13, 2026
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Community Action Day: Emanuel Food Pantry
Sponsor(s):
Service-Learning Program
Thursday, February 19, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Documentary Film Screening: A Road Out
Sponsor(s):
African and African American Studies (AAAS), Africa Initiative, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Concilium on Southern Africa, Duke Africa, Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Thursday, February 19, 2026
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Film Screening: “Bluff City Chinese” (Thandi Cai, 2024)
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), and Cinematic Arts
Thursday, March 19, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Thandi Cai, director
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Effective State Policies to Strengthen the Early Years
Sponsor(s):
Center for Child and Family Policy
Thursday, March 26, 2026
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Cynthia Osborne
