Events Archive - Franklin Humanities Institute

Event	Date/Time	Location	Groups
Heather Green – “Tristan Tzara, Surrational Theory, and the Spanish Civil War: Translating Noontimes Won”	December 10, 2018 12:00pm	Breedlove Conference Room, Rubenstein Library 349	Working Group: Translation Studies
Mabel O. Wilson – “Let Live, Make Die: Monuments to a Racial State”	December 4, 2018 5:30pm	Room A266, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse	Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Afro/Asian Connections in the Local/Global South	November 29, 2018 - November 30, 2018 5:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall \| C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Humanities Futures at Large: Conference & Symposia
Mind, Art, Artifact: A Workshop with Lambros Malfouris	November 9, 2018 3:00pm	East Duke Parlors	Working Group: Ancient Mind
Lauren Flood: “AI and the Ethnography of Musical Futures”	November 9, 2018 4:00pm	Biddle 104	Working Group: Remapping Sound Studies
A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh	November 6, 2018 5:30pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Humanities Futures at Large: Distinguished Speakers
Catriona MacLeod – “Material Cuts: Scherenschnitte, Collage, and the Romantic Fragment”	November 1, 2018 - November 2, 2018 7:30pm	Toy Lounge, Dey Hall (UNC); Perkins 218 (Duke)	Department of Germanic Languages & Literature
Neurodiversities Symposium	October 26, 2018 - October 27, 2018 9:00am	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Humanities Futures at Large: Conference & Symposia
Death Drives, or Thinking with the Corpse	October 18, 2018 - October 19, 2018 3:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Humanities Futures at Large: Conference & Symposia
Julian Gill, “Histories of the Transgender Child”	October 16, 2018 1:00pm	East Duke Parlors	Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
After the Rebellion: Religion, Rebels and Jihad in South Asia	September 7, 2018 5:00pm	Thomas Room, Lilly Library	Working Group: Critical Islamic Studies
Performances of Dignity: In Law, Medicine and Theatre	September 4, 2018 4:00pm	Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library 153	Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Interfaces: AfroFuturism + Performance + Technology	May 19, 2018 10:00am	21c Museum Hotel 4th Floor Gallery	Dance Program
Building Wakanda: Afro+Futures of Durham+Beyond	May 19, 2018 5:00pm	21c Museum Hotel 4th Floor Gallery	Dance Program
Asian Health Humanities	May 19, 2018 9:00am	Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Franklin Center Room 240	Working Group: Global Asian Health Humanities Working Group: Global Health Humanities
…these borders that keep me down…	May 18, 2018 - May 19, 2018 3:00pm	Rubenstein Arts Center, von der Heyden Studio Theater	Dance Program
2018 FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows Symposium	May 5, 2018 9:45am	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	North Carolina Central University Digital Humanities Fellowships
Brian Massumi – “Uncapitalizing Surplus Value: Alter-Economic Speculations”	April 24, 2018 3:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall / C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Humanities Futures at Large: Distinguished Speakers
Hacking out the Noise of Global Asia: Experimental Music as Regional Cultural Policy	April 13, 2018 4:00pm	Biddle 104	Working Group: Remapping Sound Studies
Conversation with the Authors: Claire Messud and James Wood	April 4, 2018 12:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall / C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of English
Write Now! On Fiction and Criticism with Claire Messud and James Wood	April 3, 2018 4:30pm	21c Hotel (Downtown Durham)	Department of English
POLITICAL THEORY WORKSHOP: Pierre Rosanvallon (Collège de France)	March 22, 2018 5:00pm	Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Auditorium, Room 107	Department of Political Science
Future Trends in Health Humanities Publishing and Pedagogy	March 22, 2018 - March 23, 2018 3:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall (Room 240), John Hope Franklin Center	Working Group: Global Health Humanities
Crafting a Competitive NEH Proposal	February 20, 2018 3:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall / C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Special Series: Academic Futurology
Dance Black Joy: Global Affirmations and Defiance	February 16, 2018 - February 18, 2018 1:00pm	Various	Working Group: Choreography and Corporeality
Active Latin	February 10, 2018 - February 11, 2018 9:00am	2/10 Murphy Hall 104 (UNC); 2/11 Bostock 127 (Duke)	Department of Classical Studies
Graduate Conference in Political Theory	February 8, 2018 - February 9, 2018 3:30pm	SSRI-Gross Hall 230E	Department of Political Science
Robyn Marasco – “Adorno, Fanon, and the Dialectics of Despair”	December 6, 2017 4:30pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall / C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: Adorno Department of Religious Studies
Lara Friedman – “Enabler or Peacemaker? U.S. Policy and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”	December 5, 2017 11:45am	Forum for Scholars and Publics / 011 Old Chem	Working Group: Israel/Palestine
Political Theory Workshop: Nancy Rosenblum	November 30, 2017 4:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall / Room 330, Gross Hall	Department of Political Science
The Futures of Literature, Science, and Media: A Symposium in Honor of Professor N. Katherine Hayles	November 17, 2017 9:00am	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall / C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Program in Literature
Political Theory Workshop: Charles Mills	November 16, 2017 4:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall / Room 330, Gross Hall	Department of Political Science
Daniel Seideman – “Jerusalem Fifty Years On: United or Occupied?”	November 16, 2017 11:45am	Forum for Scholars and Publics / 011 Old Chem	Working Group: Israel/Palestine
Political Theory Workshop: Chris Lebron	November 9, 2017 4:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall / Room 330, Gross Hall	Department of Political Science
When Words Fail: Images of Germany at the End of WWII	November 9, 2017 4:45pm	Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library 153	Department of Germanic Languages & Literature
Helen Yanovksy – “Human Rights on Camera in the Palestinian West Bank”	November 9, 2017 11:45am	Forum for Scholars and Publics / 011 Old Chem	Working Group: Israel/Palestine
Helen Yanovsky – “Screening: The Boy from H2 (2017) and Smile and the World Smiles Back (2014)”	November 8, 2017 7:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall / C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Working Group: Israel/Palestine
British Music & Europe in the Age of Brexit	November 3, 2017 - November 4, 2017 2:00pm	Various	Department of Music
Archaeology, Memories, and Conflicts	November 3, 2017 3:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Classical Studies
Evolution, Culture, and Morality	November 3, 2017 8:30am	West Duke 202	Department of Philosophy
Religion & Philosophy in Germany, 1918-1933	November 2, 2017 - November 3, 2017 9:30am	Carpenter Conference Room, Rubenstein Library 249	Department of Germanic Languages & Literature Department of Political Science
“Ghost Stories” with Bruce Lincoln and Martha Lincoln	November 2, 2017 - November 3, 2017 4:00pm	East Duke Parlors	Working Group: The Paranormal
Rita Chin – “Europe and the Crisis of Multiculturalism”	October 26, 2017 4:30pm	Rubenstein 349	Department of Germanic Languages & Literature
Amahl Bishara – “Posting While Palestinian: Shifting Bounds for Expression in the West Bank and Israel”	October 26, 2017 11:45am	Forum for Scholars and Publics / 011 Old Chem	Working Group: Israel/Palestine
Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival	October 26, 2017 3:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall / C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Cultural Anthropology Humanities Futures at Large: Distinguished Speakers
Donna Haraway – “Making Oddkin: Telling Stories for Earthly Survival”	October 26, 2017 6:00pm	Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building	Department of Cultural Anthropology Humanities Futures at Large: Distinguished Speakers
Lisa Hajjar – “International Law and Fifty Years of Occupation”	October 20, 2017 11:45am	Forum for Scholars and Publics / 011 Old Chem	Working Group: Israel/Palestine
Nick Clarkson – “Terrorizing Transness: Necropolitical Nationalism”	October 19, 2017 5:00pm	East Duke Parlors	Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
John Gruber-Miller – “Creating (Comm)unity: Teaching to All Students with the New Standards”	October 12, 2017 10:00am	Wellness Center Room 148	Department of Classical Studies
Diana Allan – “Still Life: Experiences of Palestinian Exile”	October 2, 2017 7:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall / C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Working Group: Israel/Palestine
Poems, Prose, and Panels: The Work of the Humanities in End of Life Care	September 30, 2017 9:30am	The Edge Workshop Room / Bostock 127	Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Joyce Dalsheim – “The Anthropologist and the Settler: Updates From the Field in Israel/Palestine”	September 28, 2017 11:45am	Forum for Scholars and Publics / 011 Old Chem	Working Group: Israel/Palestine
Translation Studies Symposium	September 22, 2017 9:00am	0014 Westbrook	Working Group: Translation Studies
Embodiment, Embeddedness, Kindness: Conditions of Reading and Living Together in Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello	September 21, 2017 5:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall / C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: The Other
Achille Mbembe – “Future Knowledges and the Dilemmas of Decolonization”	September 19, 2017 5:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Humanities Futures at Large: Distinguished Speakers
Vittorio Hösle – "The Ethics of Migration”	September 15, 2017 4:30pm	East Duke Parlors	Department of Germanic Languages & Literature
Health Humanities & Social Justice: Breath, Body, Voice	September 14, 2017 - September 16, 2017 6:00pm	Various	Department of Music Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Capstone Conference: Health Humanities & Social Justice
Political Theory Workshop: John Zumbrunnen	September 14, 2017 4:00pm	Gross Hall 230E	Department of Political Science
"How Can I Know Your Mind? Perspectives from Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Evolutionary Anthropology"	September 8, 2017 11:30am	Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library 153	Department of Philosophy
The Other: Interdisciplinary Explorations	September 8, 2017 10:00am	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall / C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: The Other
Material Desire in the Digital Age	September 7, 2017 - September 8, 2017 3:30pm	Carpentry Shop, 2nd Floor	Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Eric Plemons – “The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans-Medcine”	September 5, 2017 5:00pm	East Duke Parlors	Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
2017 FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows Symposium	May 6, 2017 10:30am	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	North Carolina Central University Digital Humanities Fellowships
Benjamin Morgan – “In Human Scale: Climate Change and the Immeasurable”	April 25, 2017 4:45pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Theater Studies
The Black Outdoors: “There is No End to Out” Readings by and Conversation with Poets M. NourbeSe Philip, Nathaniel Mackey, and Ed Roberson	April 24, 2017 3:00pm	Goodson Chapel, Westbrook Building	Working Group: The Black Outdoors
Shannon Jackson – “Public (Re)Assembly”	April 20, 2017 4:45pm	209 East Duke	Department of Theater Studies
Rachmi Diyah Larasati – “Dance, Body, and the Possibility of Critique”	April 20, 2017 10:05am	West Duke 106	Working Group: Choreography and Corporeality
Robert Morrison – “An Economy of Knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean”	April 20, 2017 12:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, 101 West Duke Building	Department of History
The Future of Reenactment: A Debate About the Significance and Potential of Reenactment as a Cultural Practice	April 20, 2017 - April 21, 2017 6:00pm	East Duke Parlors	Working Group: Choreography and Corporeality
Harry Potter, Magic, and Religion	April 19, 2017 5:00pm	0015 Westbrook, Divinity School	Working Group: The Paranormal
Marc Robinson – “Pieces: The Afterlives of American Experimental Theater”	April 18, 2017 4:45pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Theater Studies
Derek Walcott Memorial Poetry Reading	April 18, 2017 4:00pm	Goodson Chapel, Westbrook Building	Department of Romance Studies
Leslie Adelson – “Making Time for Other Lives: Perspectives on Hope and Futurity in Narrative Form”	April 17, 2017 5:00pm	Rubenstein 249	Department of Germanic Languages & Literature
Transgender Pedagogies	April 17, 2017 10:30am	Various locations	Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Donato Ndongo Biyogo – “Dictatorship & Diaspora: African Intellectuals and Global Stories”	April 14, 2017 2:45pm	E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Conference Room, Rubenstein Library, 2nd floor	Department of Romance Studies
Worlding Chinese Literature	April 14, 2017 10:00am	East Duke 209	Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Shannon Steen – “Choking on Apple: Creative Labor in the TransPacific Tech World”	April 13, 2017 4:45pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Theater Studies
Political Theory Workshop: Russell Muirhead	April 13, 2017 4:00pm	Gross Hall 270	Department of Political Science
Till Dembeck – “Multilingualism as Migration”	April 11, 2017 5:00pm	Rubenstein 249	Department of Germanic Languages & Literature
Luis Paredes – “Dancing Many Memories: Choreographing a New National Family”	April 11, 2017 10:05am	West Duke 106	Working Group: Choreography and Corporeality
Richard Schoch: “Thinking Forward Through the Past: Lessons from Theatre Historiography”	April 11, 2017 4:45pm	209 East Duke	Department of Theater Studies
Micro meets Macro: The Challenge of Scale in History with Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon	April 11, 2017 1:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of History
Julie Livingston – “Cattle/Beef: Developmentalism as Self-Consuming Growth”	April 10, 2017 1:30pm	Friedl 225	Department of Cultural Anthropology
"Theoretical Contributions of the Global South: A Conversation between Julie Livingston and Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi"	April 10, 2017 6:30pm	Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building	Department of Cultural Anthropology
[CANCELLED] Political Theory Workshop: Nancy Rosenblum	April 6, 2017 4:00pm	Gross Hall 270	Department of Political Science
Dissident Subjects: A conference in honor of miriam cooke	April 6, 2017 - April 8, 2017 4:30pm	Various locations	Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Lucrezia Ungaro – “Trajan the Great Builder: Welfare State, Power of Images and Propaganda”	April 5, 2017 12:00pm	Smith Warehouse A266, Bay 10	Department of Classical Studies
Ram Neta – “Teaching Writing as a Second Language”	April 5, 2017 4:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	North Carolina Central University Digital Humanities Fellowships
Humanities Grants Workshop	April 4, 2017 12:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Special Series: Academic Futurology
Sara Warner – “‘The Future is Female’ and Other Chronic Desires”	April 4, 2017 4:45pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Theater Studies
Tanya Luhrmann – “When Angels Speak: An Anthropological Perspective on Unusual Experience”	April 3, 2017 5:30pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Working Group: The Paranormal
Traces and Echoes: Scribal Culture, Texts & Orality in Late Antiquity	March 31, 2017 10:00am	Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library Room 153	Department of Classical Studies
Duke Classics Graduate Colloquium	March 31, 2017 - April 1, 2017 5:00pm	Various locations	Department of Classical Studies
Entangled Lands	March 30, 2017 5:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Religious Studies
Micro Meets Macro: The Challenge of Scale in Writing History with Lara Putnam	March 29, 2017 1:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of History
Entertaining in Extremis: Popular Music and Performance in European Ghettos and Camps during World War II	March 27, 2017 2:00pm	Perkins 217	Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Symposium on Muslim African Intellectual History	March 27, 2017 2:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, 101 West Duke Building	Department of History
The Dostoevsky Games	March 26, 2017 1:00pm	Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library Room 153	Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
What is the Future of Digital Humanities?	March 24, 2017 2:30pm	Perkins 217	Department of Romance Studies
Immanence and Transcendence: Association for Adorno Studies Conference	March 24, 2017 - March 25, 2017 10:00am	Friedl 115	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: Adorno
Global Blackness: A Multidisciplinary Exploration	March 23, 2017 - March 25, 2017 5:30pm	SSRI @ Erwin Mill A103	Department of African & African American Studies
Political Theory Workshop: Charles Hill	March 23, 2017 4:00pm	Gross Hall 270
Environmental Futures in the Middle East	March 20, 2017 4:30pm	Field Auditorium, Environment Hall	Working Group: Israel/Palestine
The Black Outdoors: Ashon Crawley and Mercy Romero	March 3, 2017 2:00pm	East Duke Parlors, East Duke Building	Working Group: The Black Outdoors
The Economic History of the University	March 3, 2017 2:30pm	Social Sciences 136	Department of Romance Studies
Regalia: Plantation Lullabies of Royalty	March 3, 2017 12:00pm	SLIPPAGE Lab, Hull Ave Studio	Working Group: Choreography and Corporeality
The Pressure of Waste: Sanitation Protests, Material Density and Technopolitics of Inclusion in Urban South Africa	March 2, 2017 1:30pm	225 Friedl
The Face of Death: An Evening with Caitlin Doughty	February 25, 2017 6:00pm	Full Frame Theater - American Tobacco Campus	Department of Theater Studies
Global Asian Health Humanities: Colonialisms and Imperialisms	February 24, 2017 10:00am	East Duke Parlors	Working Group: Global Asian Health Humanities
Film in Theory #3 (in conjunction with Queer Cinema): “Bijou”	February 24, 2017 7:00pm	Richard White Auditorium	Program in Literature
Graduate Conference in Political Theory	February 23, 2017 - February 24, 2017 4:00pm	Gross Hall 270	Department of Political Science
Martin Jay: “Blumenberg and Adorno: Nonconceptuality and the Bildverbot”	February 22, 2017 5:30pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: Adorno
On Carrying Out Historical Research in North Africa	February 22, 2017 12:00pm	101 West Duke	Department of History
James McDougall – “The Sacred Space of France: Race, Religion, Citizenship and Empire”	February 21, 2017 12:00pm	Carr 229	Department of History
Gunlog Für – “Concurrences and Colonial Encounters: Methodologies for Multiple Histories"	February 20, 2017 3:00pm	Carr 229	Department of History
Preserving Culture at the Fringes in Authoritarian States	February 15, 2017 2:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Yutian Wong – “Purity & Proficiency: Staging Asian American Respectability”	February 14, 2017 10:05am	West Duke 106 + Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building	Working Group: Choreography and Corporeality
Symposium on Race & Transgender Studies	February 10, 2017 3:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Entangled Bodies	February 9, 2017 3:15pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Religious Studies
Precarious Publics	February 4, 2017 1:00pm	Friedl 115	Department of Cultural Anthropology
Film in Theory #2: “Tony Manero”	February 3, 2017 7:00pm	Richard White Auditorium	Program in Literature
LaMont Hamilton – “This Da Good Part”	January 31, 2017 10:05am	West Duke 106	Working Group: Choreography and Corporeality
University Finances and Public Education Colloquium	January 27, 2017 2:30pm	Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library 153	Department of Romance Studies
Political Theory Workshop: Jedidiah Purdy	January 26, 2017 4:00pm	230E Gross Hall	Department of Political Science
Lisa Stevenson – “What There is to Fear”	January 23, 2017 1:30pm	Friedl 225	Department of Cultural Anthropology
Micro meets Macro: The Challenge of Scale in Writing History with Joyce Chaplin	January 20, 2017 1:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of History
Jeremy Stolow – “Photographing Phantom Bodies”	December 2, 2016 4:30pm	Westbrook 0012	Working Group: The Paranormal
Entangled Materiality & Music	December 1, 2016 12:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Religious Studies
Political Theory Workshop: Ian MacMullen	December 1, 2016 4:00pm	230E Gross Hall	Department of Political Science
Gayle Salamon – “Transgender Gesture & Racialized Performance”	December 1, 2016 5:30pm	East Duke Parlors	Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
November Dances	November 18, 2016 - November 19, 2016 7:30pm	Reynolds Industries Theater - Bryan Center	Dance Program
Global Asian Health Humanities: Epistemologies and Practices	November 18, 2016 10:00am	John Hope Franklin Center Room 240, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall	Working Group: Global Asian Health Humanities
Film in Theory #1: David Lynch’s “Rabbits”	November 18, 2016 7:00pm	Richard White Auditorium	Program in Literature
Jill Frank – “The Power of Persuasion in Plato’s Republic”	November 17, 2016 4:00pm	230E Gross Hall	Department of Political Science
Colin Renfrew – “The Sapient Paradox: Social Interaction as a Foundation of Mind”	November 14, 2016 5:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Working Group: Ancient Mind
Activist Performance on Opera House Stages: Bill T. Jones & “Power/Full”	November 14, 2016 - November 14, 2016 12:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Dance Program
Alt-Ac(tivism) Activist in Residence: Let’s Get Free! Leadership for Transformative Organizing (Part 3)	November 12, 2016 - November 13, 2016 11:00am	Friedl 107	Program in Literature
Italian and Russian Operas with Natalia Mironova	November 11, 2016 6:00pm	Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building	Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Rethinking Slavery in the 21st Century: Images and Archives	November 10, 2016 - November 11, 2016 5:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of African & African American Studies
Stuart McLean – “Gyro Nights: Inhuman Culture/Inhuman Nature”	November 7, 2016 - November 7, 2016 1:30pm	Friedl 225	Department of Cultural Anthropology
The Entangled Word: Textuality and Technology	October 28, 2016 9:30am	Westbrook Building, Room 0014, Duke Divinity School	Department of Religious Studies
The Black Outdoors: Sora Han and Tiffany King	October 28, 2016 2:00pm	East Duke Parlors, East Duke Building	Working Group: The Black Outdoors
Moritz Schuller: Germany and the Refugees	October 26, 2016 6:00pm	103 Carr Building	Department of Germanic Languages & Literature
Middle East in Latin America	October 21, 2016 9:30am	John Hope Franklin Center Room 240, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall	Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
fracture/suture: 2016 Art, Art History & Visual Studies Graduate Student-Organized Symposium	October 21, 2016 2:00pm	Graduate Project Room A255, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse	Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
The Rise of the Paranormal: Jeffrey J. Kripal	October 20, 2016 - October 21, 2016 3:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Working Group: The Paranormal
Franklin Gallery@History Exhibits Opening	October 19, 2016 4:30pm	Franklin Gallery@History, Carr Building	Department of History
Hugh Gusterson – “Drone Necropolitics”	October 17, 2016 1:30pm	Friedl 225, East Campus, Duke University	Department of Cultural Anthropology
Alt-Ac(tivism) Activist in Residence: Let’s Get Free! Leadership for Transformative Organizing (Part 2)	October 1, 2016 - October 2, 2016 11:00am	Friedl 107	Program in Literature
Transgender Studies + the Humanities: Incarcerating Transgender People	September 29, 2016 4:30pm	101 West Duke Building - Ahmadieh Family Conference Room	Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Matter as Method: Conversation with Kathleen Stewart on Ethnographic Writing	September 26, 2016 1:30pm	Friedl 225, East Campus, Duke University	Department of Cultural Anthropology
Project Orfeo	September 25, 2016 4:00pm	Baldwin Auditorium	Department of Music
The Black Outdoors: Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman in Conversation with J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak	September 23, 2016 3:00pm	Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity School	Working Group: The Black Outdoors
Words and Music: A Conversation about Project Orfeo	September 23, 2016 12:00pm	Forum for Scholars and Publics (Old Chem 011)	Department of Music
Geoffrey Harpham \| Disciplining Opinion: The American Revolution in Education	September 20, 2016 5:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Special Series: Academic Futurology
Concepts, Figures, Art Forms Seminar: The Other – Exploratory Meeting	September 13, 2016 5:00pm	FHI Conference Room - C107, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: The Other
Alt-Ac(tivism) Activist in Residence: Let’s Get Free! Leadership for Transformative Organizing (Part 1)	September 10, 2016 - September 11, 2016 9:00am	Friedl 107, East Campus, Duke University	Program in Literature
Global Humanities in Theory and Practice: The Bologna Summer School	September 7, 2016 2:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Special Series: Academic Futurology
Postdocs in the Humanities	May 2, 2016 4:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Special Series: Academic Futurology
Remapping Sound Studies: A Turn to the Global South	April 15, 2016 - April 16, 2016 1:30pm	225 Friedl Building	Working Group: Remapping Sound Studies
Sa’diyya Shaikh \| Islamic Feminist Imaginaries	April 14, 2016 5:00pm	East Duke Parlors (Pink Parlor)	Working Group: Critical Islamic Studies
New Narratives in Philosophy: Rediscovering Neglected Works by Early Modern Women	April 14, 2016 - April 17, 2016 9:00am	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall	Department of Philosophy
Fatemeh Keshavarz \| Educating the Whole Person: the Humanities in the 21st Century	April 11, 2016 4:00pm	Thomas Room, Lilly Library	Working Group: Critical Islamic Studies
The Melodramatic Hybrid	April 9, 2016 10:00am	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall – C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: Melodrama
Alt-Ac(tivism) Presents: Tactics and Toolkit for Organizing	April 7, 2016 6:30pm	Duke Coffeehouse	Program in Literature
David Trippett \| Spoken Melody in the Age of Wagner	April 1, 2016 12:00pm	Library Seminar Room, Biddle Music Building, East Campus	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: Melodrama
Joseph Heath \| On the Scalability of Cooperative Structures	April 1, 2016 11:30am	Pink Parlor, East Duke Building	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: Cooperation
Environmental \| Art \| Humanities: Narrating Nature (DAY TWO)	April 1, 2016 9:00am	Holsti-Anderson Room, Rubenstein Library	Working Group: Narrating the Environment
Environmental \| Art \| Humanities: Narrating Nature (DAY ONE)	March 31, 2016 5:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Working Group: Narrating the Environment
Ato Quayson \| ‘Still it Makes Me Laugh, No Time to Die’: Methodological Reflections on Oxford Street	March 30, 2016 4:00pm	Forum For Scholars and Publics (Old Chem 011)	Working Group: African Cities
Alt-Ac(tivism) Presents: Loan Tran \| When Youth Fight Back	March 23, 2016 6:30pm	Duke Coffeehouse - RSVP @ https://www.facebook.com/events/1011945072219111/	Program in Literature
A Dialogue Between Cognitive Neuroscience and the Humanities is Possible: An Experimental Aesthetics Manifesto	March 8, 2016 1:30pm	A266 Collision Space, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse	Working Group: Ancient Mind
Bruno Bosteels \| State, Commune, Community	March 3, 2016 2:30pm	Pink Parlor East Duke Building	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: Cooperation
Gregg Mitman \| Forgotten Paths of Empire	February 26, 2016 3:00pm	PhD Lab - C104, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Working Group: Global Health Humanities
Pleasure and Suspicion: An Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by Polygraph and the Literature Program	February 26, 2016 - February 27, 2016 9:00pm	Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building	Program in Literature
Melodrama in the Age of Realism	February 20, 2016 9:45am	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse)	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: Melodrama
Sarah Mathew \| How Turkana Pastoralists Cooperate	February 18, 2016 5:30pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: Cooperation
Alt-Ac(tivism) Presents: Sendolo Diaminah \| Abolition, Strategy, and the Practice of Freedom	February 18, 2016 7:00pm	Duke Coffeehouse	Program in Literature
Filip de Boeck \| “Illuminating the Hole”: Kinshasa’s Makeover Between Dream and Reality	February 17, 2016 12:00pm	Forum For Scholars and Publics (Old Chem 011)	Working Group: African Cities
Catarina Gomes \| Freeing Utopia: Why a Humanities Lab in Angola?	February 17, 2016 12:00pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Special Series: Academic Futurology
Edward Curtis & Jamillah Karim \| Islam as Black History	February 16, 2016 7:00pm	Perkins Library 217	Working Group: Critical Islamic Studies
Amy Poteete \| Exclusion, Redistribution, Cooperation	February 4, 2016 5:30pm	Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (FHI Garage) - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: Cooperation
Alex Ezeh \| Health and the African City: Nairobi and Its Settlements	February 4, 2016 12:00pm	Forum For Scholars and Publics (Old Chem 011)	Working Group: African Cities
Cathy Davidson \| How to Transform a Traditional Course with Student-Centered Learning	December 7, 2015 5:30pm	FHI Garage - Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse)	Special Series: Academic Futurology
Postmodern Melodrama and Its Discourses	December 5, 2015 10:00am	FHI Garage - Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse)	Seminar in Concepts, Figures, Art Forms: Melodrama
Inter-departmental Seminar: Voice, Performance, & Expression	December 4, 2015 9:00am	FHI Garage - Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse)	Department of English Department of Germanic Languages & Literature Department of Music
Samuel Shearer \| Kigali’s Liquid Futures: Corporeal Infrastructures and Hydraulic Politics	November 4, 2015 12:00pm	Forum For Scholars and Publics (Old Chem 011)	Working Group: African Cities
Global Health Humanities: A View from Africa	November 3, 2015 3:00pm	The Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly - Room 153, Rubenstein Library Hall (Perkins Library Main Entrance)	Working Group: Global Health Humanities
Alt-Ac(tivism) Presents: Melissa Norton \| Gentrification & the New Geography of Race, Class, and Privilege in the City	October 21, 2015 6:30pm	Duke Coffeehouse	Program in Literature
Inter-departmental Seminar: Translations	October 20, 2015 10:15am	FHI Garage - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of African & African American Studies Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Department of Romance Studies
Michael Merson \| The Art of the Faculty Meeting	October 16, 2015 12:00pm	FHI Garage - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Special Series: Academic Futurology
Martin Murray \| Re-Urbanism in Africa	October 7, 2015 12:00pm	Forum for Scholars and Publics, Old Chem 011	Working Group: African Cities
Film Screening: Corazon del Cielo, Corazon de la Tierra	October 2, 2015 7:00pm	Mandela Auditorium / FedEx GEC / UNC-Chapel Hill	Working Group: Narrating the Environment
Film Screening: H2O MX	September 26, 2015 4:00pm	Richard White Auditorium	Working Group: Narrating the Environment
The Education of Bruno Latour	September 23, 2015 12:30pm	FHI Garage - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Humanities Futures at Large: Distinguished Speakers
Humanities Grants Workshop	September 17, 2015 12:00pm	FHI Garage - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Special Series: Academic Futurology
Inter-departmental Seminar: Global Humanities	April 24, 2015 10:00am	FHI Garage - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Department of History Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Inter-departmental Seminar: Classical Studies, Theater Studies, Women’s Studies	April 10, 2015 10:00am	FHI Garage - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Classical Studies Department of Theater Studies Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Theorizing the Emergence of Global Health Humanities	April 9, 2015 9:00am	FHI Garage - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Working Group: Global Health Humanities
Inter-departmental Seminar: Politics of Performance	March 25, 2015 10:00am	FHI Garage - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Dance Program Department of Cultural Anthropology Program in Literature
Humorlessness/Politics: A Talk by Lauren Berlant	January 30, 2015 5:00pm	East Duke 204B	Working Group: Choreography and Corporeality
Inter-departmental Seminar: Politics and Religion	December 3, 2014 1:00pm	FHI Garage - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse	Department of Political Science Department of Religious Studies

Heather Green – “Tristan Tzara, Surrational Theory, and the Spanish Civil War: Translating Noontimes Won”

Date: December 10, 2018
Time: 12:00pm Location: Breedlove Conference Room, Rubenstein Library 349
Working Group: Translation Studies

Mabel O. Wilson – “Let Live, Make Die: Monuments to a Racial State”

Date: December 4, 2018
Time: 5:30pm Location: Room A266, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse
Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Afro/Asian Connections in the Local/Global South

Date: November 29, 2018
Time: 5:00pm Location: Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall | C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
Humanities Futures at Large: Conference & Symposia

Mind, Art, Artifact: A Workshop with Lambros Malfouris

Date: November 9, 2018
Time: 3:00pm Location: East Duke Parlors
Working Group: Ancient Mind

Lauren Flood: “AI and the Ethnography of Musical Futures”

Date: November 9, 2018
Time: 4:00pm Location: Biddle 104
Working Group: Remapping Sound Studies

A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh

Date: November 6, 2018
Time: 5:30pm Location: Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
Humanities Futures at Large: Distinguished Speakers

Catriona MacLeod – “Material Cuts: Scherenschnitte, Collage, and the Romantic Fragment”

Date: November 1, 2018
Time: 7:30pm Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall (UNC); Perkins 218 (Duke)
Department of Germanic Languages & Literature

Neurodiversities Symposium

Date: October 26, 2018
Time: 9:00am Location: Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
Humanities Futures at Large: Conference & Symposia

Death Drives, or Thinking with the Corpse

Date: October 18, 2018
Time: 3:00pm Location: Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall - C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
Humanities Futures at Large: Conference & Symposia

Julian Gill, “Histories of the Transgender Child”

Date: October 16, 2018
Time: 1:00pm Location: East Duke Parlors
Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies