After the Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad in South Asia
This essay addresses how the events of 1857–58 minoritized and racialized Indian Muslims, with particular attention to the use of jihad as a rhetorical concept in the colonial period.
Climate Change, Cultures, Territories, Nonhumans, and Relational Knowledges in Colombia
Introduction Climate change (CC) has led not only to environmental transformations, but also to economic, and political responses of various…
Claire Kim: Are Asians the New Blacks? Affirmative Action, Antiblackness, and the Sociometry of Race
Claire Kim (UC Irvine), the keynote speaker for the Duke Asian American Studies Program Inaugural Conference, “Afro/Asian Connections in the…
Clive Bell’s "Significant Form" and the Neurobiology of Aesthetics
Though first published almost one century ago, and though its premise has been disputed, Clive Bell’s essay on aesthetics in his book Art still provides fertile ground for discussing problems in aesthetics, especially as they relate to neuroesthetics. In this essay, I begin with a brief account of Bell’s ideas on aesthetics, and describe how they focus on problems of importance to neuroesthetics.
The New Humanities?
In this essay, I examine the future state of the humanities, as has been done by others many times in the past, but in the context of the current positioning of the university and the future world to come as they pivot toward a quantifiable and technological future that conforms to STEM models.
Health, Illness, and Memory
As a cancer patient in remission, the author considers the meaning of health and illness as they relate to language and to his own experience growing up in Argentina during its brutal military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.
Frames of Thought
This think piece employs a graphical format to argue against a traditional hierarchy in which words are more respected and valued in the world of knowledge than images.
What Water Teaches: Wissenschaft in the Age of Sea Level Rise
Does the sense of urgency occasioned by global warming and sea level rise have the power to reshape the humanities? Insofar as sea level rise will affect thousands of institutions of education and culture in coastal cities, the answer is yes.
Achille Mbembe, Future Knowledges & the Dilemmas of Decolonization
In this “at large” Humanities Futures talk, philosopher Achille Mbembe considers the possibilities of a new planetary configuration of the…
Donna Haraway | Making OddKin: Telling Stories for Earthly Survival
Multispecies environmental and reproductive justice must be practiced against human exceptionalism and in resistance to colonial capitalist divisions of species,…
Health, Loss, and the Biopolitical Distribution of Affect
This panel from the Health Humanities & Social Justice Breath, Body, Voice Conference at Duke University dealt with health, the…
Nikky Finney: Sipping Kerosene at the Refectory
Famed poet Nikky Finney kicked off our Health Humanities & Social Justice Breath, Body, Voice Conference with a reading from…
Symposium on Race & Transgender Studies
Transgender Studies + Humanities Series Symposium on Race and Transgender Studies, at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke…
Human Impact on Geospheric Processes in the Critical Zone Exemplified by the Regional Water Exchange Between the Mexico City Metropolitan Area and the Mezquital Valley
The aim of this contribution is to show how humans have altered the water balance in the basin of Mexico and created an agroecosystem that has profoundly changed Critical Zone processes in a 90,000-hectare area in the Mezquital valley.
Common Currencies: British Music and Europe in the Age of Brexit
The notion of "British music" represents some kind of unavoidable supreme fiction among a crowd of invented traditions, canons, and genres. But if national markers of the British are (in every sense of the word) insular, their flow of signs, like the flow of peoples migrating across our planet daily, will never be done.
2018 FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows Symposium | Carolyn (Collie) Fulford on DH and Technical Communications
The Franklin Humanities Institute – North Carolina Central University Digital Humanities Fellows program is a key track of the Humanities…
2018 FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows Symposium | Lenora Helm Hammonds on a Digital Library for Teaching Artists
The Franklin Humanities Institute – North Carolina Central University Digital Humanities Fellows program is a key track of the Humanities…
Global Blackness: A Multidisciplinary Exploration | Duke Faculty Panel with Makhulu, Winters, Glymph, DeFrantz
"The Black Body in the Time-Space of the Negative" – Anne-Maria Makhulu, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African &…
Global Blackness: A Multidisciplinary Exploration | Duke Faculty Panel with Jaji, Smith, Shapiro, Royal
"Sounding Blackness: Some Notes on Race, Poetry and Classical Music" – Tsitsi Jaji, Associate Professor of English “What’s black in…
Global Blackness: A Multidisciplinary Exploration | Duke Faculty Panel with Lentz-Smith, Chapman, Piot, French
"Global Histories of Local Violence" – Adriane D. Lentz-Smith, Associate Professor of History “Global Blackness: Haiti, Dance, Freedom" Dasha Chapman,…
Global Blackness: A Multidisciplinary Exploration | Duke Faculty Panel with Darity, Lubiano, Powell, Neal
"Slumberland" – William Darity, Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, Professor of African & African American Studies and…
Global Blackness: A Multidisciplinary Exploration | Keynote by Patricia Northover
“Global Blackness: Politics of Cultures, Primitive Dispossession and the haunting of the modern political” Patricia Northover, a Senior Fellow at…
Global Blackness: A Multidisciplinary Exploration | Keynote by Uri McMillan
“Being Otherwise, Being Grace Jones: Performing on the Outer Limits” Uri McMillan, Associate Professor of African-American Studies, English, Gender Studies,…
Global Blackness: A Multidisciplinary Exploration | Keynote by Fatimah Jackson
Fatimah Jackson, Professor of Biology and Director of the W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory at Howard University, is a biologist…
There is No End to Out | M. NourbeSe Philip reads from Zong!
Poet M. NourbeSe Philip reads from her poem Zong! as part of the Black Outdoors Working Group’s closing event, “There…
From Local Knowledge: Ecological Relationships in the World of Water
This essay focuses on the supportive efforts of Tropenbos International Colombia to bring to light the vast knowledge and close relationship indigenous peoples in the Colombian Amazon have with their surroundings.
