tgiFHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities\, i nterpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their cur rent research to their departmental and interdepartmental colleagues\, st udents\, and other interlocutors in their fields.
\n\ntgiFHI events take place from 9:30-11:00 a.m. on Friday mornings in the Ahmadieh Famil y Lecture Hall (C105\, Bay 4\, Smith Warehouse) with breakfast at 9 am.\n\n
More info coming soon! Subscribe to the FHI News & Events Mailing List to get weekly event previews from the Franklin Humanities Institute and our affiliated Labs\, Initiatives\, and Centers.
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\n\nOn Friday\, S eptember 26\, 2025 we will be hosting Khwezi Mkhize\, Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies.
\n\nPan-African(ist) Cap e Town
\n\nAt the turn of the twentieth century the South Afric an city of Cape\nTown was\, in turn\, a node in the vast network of the B ritish empire and an urban center fostering the desires and politics of P an-Africanism. Aside from the older historical diasporas gathered by the Dutch imperialism and slavery fin de siè·cle Pan-Africanism gathered the African diaspora - in London in 1900 - and then dispersed it to various s ites of origin and new. This presentation traces how the Pan-African Conf erence directed some of its attendees to Cape Town and the various articu lations of Pan-Africanism that arose from "the practice of diaspora"\nin an entrepôt of the British empire.
\n\nKhwezi Mkhize is Assistant P rofessor in the Department of African and African\nAmerican Studies at Du ke University and co-Director of the Franklin Humanities Institute's Blac k Archival Imagination Lab. Prior to joining Duke he taught at the Univer sity of Cape Town and the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. He is co-editor of Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams\, Noni J abavu\, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es'kia Mphahlele\, published in 2022\, and Black Archival Imagination\, to be published by Duke Universit y Press.
\n\ntgiFHI events take place from 9:30-11:00 a.m. on Frida y mornings in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105\, Bay 4\, Smith Ware house) with breakfast at 9 am. RSVP for the date here!
DURATION:PT2H DTSTAMP:20250912T162156Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T090000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T162156Z LOCATION;X-BEDEWORK-UID=18832e99-2be309ed-012b-e5b90ab4-000001a0:Smith War ehouse\, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall\, Bay 4\, C105 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:tgiFHI | Khwezi Mkhize\, "Pan-African(ist) Cape Town" UID:CAL-8a00ec8b-979413b9-0198-0edf53d7-00007ebfdemobedework@mysite.edu URL:https://fhi.duke.edu/engagement/tgifhi/ X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Main:/user/public-user/Utili ties/Main X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Lecture_Talk:/user/public-us er/Lectures_Conferences/Lecture_Talk X-BEDEWORK-STUDENT-CONTACT;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-EMAIL=fhi@duke.edu:FHI X-BEDEWORK-CS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DESCRIPTION="/principals/users/agrp_Artsand Sciences_AfricanandAfricanAmericanStudies,":African and African American Studies (AAAS) X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Humanities:/user/public-user /Topics/Humanities X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Research:/user/public-user/T opics/Research X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Africa focus:/user/public-us er/Topic of Event Focused on a Country or Continent (if applicable)/Afric a focus X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-X1:0 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-Y1:0 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-X2:1059 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-Y2:706 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-CROP-WIDTH:1059 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-CROP-HEIGHT:706 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-ALT-TEXT:flyer with photo of Khwezi Mkhize X-BEDEWORK-SUBMITTEDBY:map157 for Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) (agr p_JHFC_FranklinHumanitiesInstitute) X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE:/public/Images/tgiFHI-dukecal-KM_20250912041527PM.png X-BEDEWORK-THUMB-IMAGE:/public/Images/tgiFHI-dukecal-KM_20250912041527PM-t humb.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T090000 CATEGORIES:Humanities CATEGORIES:Lectures/Conferences CATEGORIES:Utilities CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk CATEGORIES:Religious/Spiritual CATEGORIES:Research CATEGORIES:Main CONTACT;X-BEDEWORK-UID=00f1fcdb-0f068baf-010f-068baf83-00000004:None CREATED:20250715T161613Z DESCRIPTION:tgi FHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities\, in terpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their curr ent research to their departmental and interdepartmental colleagues\, stu dents\, and other interlocutors in their fields.
\n\nOn Friday\, Oc tober 3\, 2025 we will be hosting Jennifer Knust\, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies.
\n\nThe New Testament Apparatus as a War Mac hine
\n\nThe apparatus to a critical edition of the Greek New T estament orders a vast material history within an array placed below a te xt that either prints a desired referent in the upper register or gesture s toward that referent\, conceptually. Relegating manuscripts to the role of data and extracting their variants\, textual criticism masters past c orruption while promising an ever-advancing present that never quite arri ves. The apparatus therefore testifies not only to textual difference but also to resource hoarding and the progress-at-any-cost epistemologies of modernity. Focusing on the International Greek New Testament Project's " new Tischendorf" - a project in which Duke University played a central ro le - this talk tracks the direct involvement of government\, corporate\, and intelligence entrepreneurs in "saving the New Testament" or\, more ac curately\, advancing the Cold War interests of\, among others\, the Libra ry of Congress\, the United States' State Department\, Gulf Oil\, and ins titutions like the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.
\n\nJennifer Knust is a scholar of religion who specializes in early Christi an history and the religions of the ancient Mediterranean. Author of T o Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story (with Tomm y Wasserman\, Princeton 2018)\, Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surpris ing Contradictions about Sex and Desire (HarperONE 2011)\, and Aba ndoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity (Columbia 200 5)\, her numerous articles\, book chapters\, and edited books address the materiality of texts\, the intersections of late ancient religious pract ice\, and the ethics of interpretation.
\n\ntgiFHI events take plac e from 9:30-11:00 a.m. on Friday mornings in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105\, Bay 4\, Smith Warehouse) with breakfast at 9 am. RSVP for th e date here!
DURATION:PT2H DTSTAMP:20250912T162236Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T090000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T162236Z LOCATION;X-BEDEWORK-UID=18832e99-2be309ed-012b-e5b90ab4-000001a0:Smith War ehouse\, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall\, Bay 4\, C105 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:tgiFHI | Jennifer Knust\, "The New Testament Apparatus as a War Ma chine" UID:CAL-8a00ec8b-979413b9-0198-0edf53d7-00007ebfdemobedework@mysite.edu URL:https://fhi.duke.edu/engagement/tgifhi/ X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Main:/user/public-user/Utili ties/Main X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Lecture_Talk:/user/public-us er/Lectures_Conferences/Lecture_Talk X-BEDEWORK-STUDENT-CONTACT;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-EMAIL=fhi@duke.edu:FHI X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Humanities:/user/public-user /Topics/Humanities X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Research:/user/public-user/T opics/Research X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Religious_Spiritual:/user/pu blic-user/Topics/Religious_Spiritual X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-X1:0 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-Y1:0 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-X2:1059 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-Y2:706 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-CROP-WIDTH:1059 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-CROP-HEIGHT:706 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-ALT-TEXT:event flyer with photo of Jennifer Knust X-BEDEWORK-SUBMITTEDBY:map157 for Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) (agr p_JHFC_FranklinHumanitiesInstitute) X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE:/public/Images/tgiFHI-dukecal-JK_20250911054042PM.png X-BEDEWORK-THUMB-IMAGE:/public/Images/tgiFHI-dukecal-JK_20250911054042PM-t humb.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T090000 CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence CATEGORIES:Humanities CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Lectures/Conferences CATEGORIES:Utilities CATEGORIES:Concert/Music CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk CATEGORIES:Theater CATEGORIES:Research CATEGORIES:Main CONTACT;X-BEDEWORK-UID=00f1fcdb-0f068baf-010f-068baf83-00000004:None CREATED:20250715T161613Z DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next speaker in the tgiFHI series\, John Supko.
\nThis talk proposes a rediscovery of certain aspects o f modernism--its elevation of complexity\, ambiguity\, contradiction\, fo rmal experimentation\, and the art-science nexus--as an antidote for a cu lture increasingly intoxicated by speed\, convenience\, and quantificatio n. While not caused by AI\, this condition is epitomized and exacerbated by AI's widespread\, uncritical adoption. The irony is painful: we have n ever had more powerful\, accessible computational tools\, yet we use them to litter the internet with forgettable mediocrity. If we want a world i n which matter for reading\, looking\, and listening holds and repays our attention\, we will have to consider AI as a tool that only works with e xtensive--and iterative--human intervention. But this intervention cannot be done at speed\; in fact\, working with AI's vast capacities for seren dipitous connection and discovery should only slow us down further. Drawi ng on works and ideas from modernist literature\, art\, and music\, I wil l share my own approach to composing music with AI\, including software s ystems I have designed\, and how I believe revisiting modernism can guide our use of technology to discover pleasurable difficulty\, generative am biguity\, and a way for artmaking and delectation to exist meaningfully i n the future.
\nThe work of composer John Supko explores intersecti ons: chance and intention\; conventional music notation and real-time sco re generation\; sound and spoken text\; installation and performance\; hu man and computer creativity. He is a recipient of the Fulbright and Georg es Lurcy Fellowships\, both for Paris\, France\, where he studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique. His music has won numerous prizes and grants\, been performed across North America\, Europe\, and Australia\, published in collaborative editions with the poet Philippe Denis by Collection Mémo ires and by Harpo &\, and released on the New Amsterdam and Cotton Goods labels. His 2014 album s_traits (with Bill Seaman) was named in "B est of 2014" recording lists in The NY Times and The Boston Globe. Supko and Seaman's THE_OPER&\, an evening-length multimedia opera\, was premiered by the Lorelei Ensemble at the Duke University Rubenstein Arts Center in 2018. He is currently Associate Professor of Music with a secon dary appointment in Theater Studies.
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DURATION:PT2H DTSTAMP:20251015T172147Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T090000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T172147Z LOCATION;X-BEDEWORK-UID=18832e99-2be309ed-012b-e5b90ab4-000001a0:Smith War ehouse\, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall\, Bay 4\, C105 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:tgiFHI | John Supko\, "Maybe Modernism Can Save Us: Reflections on Complexity\, Ambiguity\, and Serendipity in the Age of AI" UID:CAL-8a00ec8b-979413b9-0198-0edf53d7-00007ebfdemobedework@mysite.edu URL:https://fhi.duke.edu/engagement/tgifhi/ X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Main:/user/public-user/Utili ties/Main X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Lecture_Talk:/user/public-us er/Lectures_Conferences/Lecture_Talk X-BEDEWORK-STUDENT-CONTACT;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-EMAIL=fhi@duke.edu:FHI X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Humanities:/user/public-user /Topics/Humanities X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Research:/user/public-user/T opics/Research X-BEDEWORK-CS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DESCRIPTION="/principals/users/agrp__Artsan dSciences_Music,/principals/users/agrp__ArtsandSciences_TheaterStudies,": Music\,Theater Studies X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Theater:/user/public-user/Ar ts/Theater X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Concert_Music:/user/public-u ser/Arts/Concert_Music X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Artificial Intelligence:/use r/public-user/Topics/Artificial Intelligence X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-X1:0 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-Y1:0 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-X2:600 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-Y2:400 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-CROP-WIDTH:600 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-CROP-HEIGHT:400 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-ALT-TEXT:tgiFHI logo. Black text on beige with silhouette of people. X-BEDEWORK-SUBMITTEDBY:map157 for Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) (agr p_JHFC_FranklinHumanitiesInstitute) X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE:/public/Images/tgiFHI-F25-dukecal-3_20251013050908PM.png X-BEDEWORK-THUMB-IMAGE:/public/Images/tgiFHI-F25-dukecal-3_20251013050908P M-thumb.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T090000 CATEGORIES:Humanities CATEGORIES:Lectures/Conferences CATEGORIES:Other CATEGORIES:Utilities CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk CATEGORIES:Research CATEGORIES:Main CATEGORIES:Free Food and Beverages CONTACT;X-BEDEWORK-UID=00f1fcdb-0f068baf-010f-068baf83-00000004:None CREATED:20250715T161613Z DESCRIPTION:tgi FHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities\, in terpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their curr ent research to their departmental and interdepartmental colleagues\, stu dents\, and other interlocutors in their fields.
\nOn Friday\, Oct ober 31\, 2025 we will be hosting Jennifer Flaherty\, Assistant Prof. of Slavic Studies & Eurasian Studies.
\nThis paper offers a rare liter ary reading of one of the most important but still understudied works of the democratic populists in Russia\, a socialist movement that preceded R ussian Marxism in the 1870s. Focusing on the motif of vision as related t o the empirical study of poverty\, the paper situates Vasily Bervi-Flerov sky's "Conditions of the Working Class in Russia" in a trend of Enlighten ment-Sentimentalist poetics that reaches from the eighteenth century to t he early twentieth century. It uses Bervi-Flerovsky's alternations of lit erary vignettes and sociological data in his 500-page opus\, the first of Russian sociology\, as a case study in which literature helps embody rat her than distract from economic realities.
\nJennifer Flaherty is a n Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University. She earned her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley and has held academic appointments at the College of Willi am & Mary\, New York University\, and the University of Bologna. Her work focuses on the social and economic forms of Russian literature in the ni neteenth century\, including representations of peasants.
\ntgiFHI events take place from 9:30-11:00 a.m. on Friday mornings in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105\, Bay 4\, Smith Warehouse) with breakfast at 9 am. RSVP for the date here!
DURATION:PT2H DTSTAMP:20251029T190227Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T090000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T190227Z LOCATION;X-BEDEWORK-UID=18832e99-2be309ed-012b-e5b90ab4-000001a0:Smith War ehouse\, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall\, Bay 4\, C105 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:tgiFHI | Jennifer Flaherty\, "'Conditions of the Working Class in Russia’: Towards a Poetics of Praxis" UID:CAL-8a00ec8b-979413b9-0198-0edf53d7-00007ebfdemobedework@mysite.edu URL:https://fhi.duke.edu/engagement/tgifhi/ X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Main:/user/public-user/Utili ties/Main X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Lecture_Talk:/user/public-us er/Lectures_Conferences/Lecture_Talk X-BEDEWORK-STUDENT-CONTACT;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-EMAIL=fhi@duke.edu:FHI X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Humanities:/user/public-user /Topics/Humanities X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Research:/user/public-user/T opics/Research X-BEDEWORK-CS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DESCRIPTION="/principals/users/agrp__Artsan dSciences_SlavicEurasianStudies,":Slavic and Eurasian Studies X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Free Food and Beverages:/use r/public-user/Other/Free Food and Beverages X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-X1:0 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-Y1:0 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-X2:600 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-Y2:400 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-CROP-WIDTH:600 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-CROP-HEIGHT:400 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-ALT-TEXT:tgiFHI logo. Black text on beige with silhouette of people. X-BEDEWORK-SUBMITTEDBY:map157 for Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) (agr p_JHFC_FranklinHumanitiesInstitute) X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE:/public/Images/tgiFHI-F25-dukecal-4 (1)_20251029070227PM. png X-BEDEWORK-THUMB-IMAGE:/public/Images/tgiFHI-F25-dukecal-4 (1)_20251029070 227PM-thumb.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T090000 CATEGORIES:Humanities CATEGORIES:Lectures/Conferences CATEGORIES:Other CATEGORIES:Utilities CATEGORIES:Lecture/Talk CATEGORIES:Research CATEGORIES:Main CATEGORIES:Free Food and Beverages CONTACT;X-BEDEWORK-UID=00f1fcdb-0f068baf-010f-068baf83-00000004:None CREATED:20250715T161613Z DESCRIPTION:tgi FHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities\, in terpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their curr ent research to their departmental and interdepartmental colleagues\, stu dents\, and other interlocutors in their fields.
\nOn Friday\, Nove mber 7\, 2025 we will be hosting Julianne Werlin\, Associate Professor of English\, as the next speaker in the series.
\nFor Renaissance wri ters\, the best reason to compose poetry or to publish books was to cheat the grave. Life was brief and uncertain\; death was omnipresent and inev itable. Authorship offered the best chance of immortality on earth: if th ey wrote well enough\, poets could hope to build themselves a literary mo nument "more lasting than bronze\, higher than the pyramids\," in the fam ous lines of Horace. It was an aspiration shared by Shakespeare and Spens er\, Herrick and Milton. But the Renaissance proved to be the high point for authorial ambitions of literary immortality. Slowly\, authorship ceas ed to be the pursuit of immortality.
\nWhy?
\nThis talk\, dra wn from my current project\, English Renaissance Authors: A Demographic H istory\, argues that one answer can be found in changing patterns of mort ality. Beginning in the seventeenth century\, it is possible to see the b eginnings of the mortality transition\, which would slowly and unevenly c hange how men and women live and die across the globe. Drawing on researc h on the life courses of over 600 English literary authors\, I suggest th at we can see how the timing of their deaths shaped literary culture and notions of authorship in a transitional moment in English literary histor y.
\nJulianne Werlin is an associate professor in Duke's department of English. Her first book\, Writing at the Origin of Capitalism\ , appeared in 2021\; she is currently at work on a study of 600 English l iterary writers\, entitled English Renaissance Authors: A Demographic History.
\nRSVP for the date here!
DURATION:PT2H DTSTAMP:20251103T154727Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T090000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T154727Z LOCATION;X-BEDEWORK-UID=18832e99-2be309ed-012b-e5b90ab4-000001a0:Smith War ehouse\, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall\, Bay 4\, C105 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:tgiFHI | Julianne Werlin\, "Death of the Writer\, Life of the Auth or: From Mortality Statistics to Literary Immortality in the English Ren aissance" UID:CAL-8a00ec8b-979413b9-0198-0edf53d7-00007ebfdemobedework@mysite.edu URL:https://fhi.duke.edu/engagement/tgifhi/ X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Main:/user/public-user/Utili ties/Main X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Lecture_Talk:/user/public-us er/Lectures_Conferences/Lecture_Talk X-BEDEWORK-STUDENT-CONTACT;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-EMAIL=fhi@duke.edu:FHI X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Research:/user/public-user/T opics/Research X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Humanities:/user/public-user /Topics/Humanities X-BEDEWORK-ALIAS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DISPLAYNAME=Free Food and Beverages:/use r/public-user/Other/Free Food and Beverages X-BEDEWORK-CS;X-BEDEWORK-PARAM-DESCRIPTION="/principals/users/agrp_Artsand Sciences_English,":English X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-X1:0 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-Y1:0 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-X2:600 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-Y2:400 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-CROP-WIDTH:600 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-CROP-HEIGHT:400 X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE-ALT-TEXT:event flyer with photo of Julianne Werlin X-BEDEWORK-SUBMITTEDBY:map157 for Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) (agr p_JHFC_FranklinHumanitiesInstitute) X-BEDEWORK-IMAGE:/public/Images/tgiFHI-F25-dukecal-5_20251029043845PM.png X-BEDEWORK-THUMB-IMAGE:/public/Images/tgiFHI-F25-dukecal-5_20251029043845P M-thumb.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR