FHI 25| Duke English and the Transformation of the Humanities in the 80's: A Conversation with Stanley Fish and Jane Tompkins

2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. This year also coincides with the 100th anniversary of Duke. To mark these dovetailing anniversaries, FHI will host a series of conversations throughout the year engaging some of the most significant humanities scholars of our time - all formerly or currently affiliated with Duke - to historicize the University's significant investment in the humanities in the 1980s, reflect on what such investment made possible alongside national and international developments in the field, and propose future directions of humanities scholarship and teaching within and beyond Duke.

Join us for a conversation with Stanley Fish, Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and Jane Tompkins, Professor Emeritus of English at Duke University. In this conversation, Prof. Fish and Tompkins will reflect on the transformation of the humanities at Duke in the 1980s, from the vantage point of the English Department.

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