Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:18:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Transgender Studies: Course Listings & Sample Reading List https://humanitiesfutures.org/blog/transgender-studies-course-listings-and-sample-reading-list/ Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:24:45 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=blog&p=3832 In partnership with the Humanities Futures initiative, the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies (GSF) organized a multi-year series...

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]]> An Interview with David Novak, UC Santa Barbara https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/an-interview-with-david-novak-uc-santa-barbara/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:41:24 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=3829 Duke Cultural Anthropology graduate students Jay Hammond and Joella Bitter sat down with visiting scholar David Novak (UC Santa Barbara)...

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]]> “The Education of Bruno Latour: From the Critical Zone to the Anthropocene” Feature-Length Documentary https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/the-education-of-bruno-latour-from-the-critical-zone-to-the-anthropocene-unlisted/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:46:39 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=3760 Celebrated French philosopher Bruno Latour travels with Duke University Critical Zone scientist Daniel D. Richter, PhD to the John C....

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]]> From Body to Body: Duke Students Learn From a Dance Legend https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/from-body-to-body-duke-students-learn-from-a-dance-legend/ Sun, 14 Apr 2019 01:24:00 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=3753 Video produced by Duke Office of News and Communications. Duke dance students got a unique opportunity to learn from professional...

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]]> Archaeology, Memory, and Conflicts Workshop [Panopto stream] https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/archaeology-memory-and-conflicts-workshop-panopto-stream/ Sun, 14 Apr 2019 00:24:17 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=3751 “Archaeology, Memory, and Conflicts” is a 3-hour workshop focused on the study of material culture for the interpretation of the...

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]]> Craig Klugman: Future Trends in Health Humanities Publishing and Pedagogy https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/craig-klugman-future-trends-in-health-humanities-publishing-and-pedagogy/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 01:46:15 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=3749 How might scholarly writing, textbook publishing, and pedagogical innovation contribute to the growth of the health humanities, an emerging interdisciplinary...

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]]> Neurodiversities | Deborah Jenson: Flaubert’s Brain: Epilepsy, Mimesis, and Injured-Self Narrative https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/neurodiversities-deborah-jenson-flauberts-brain-epilepsy-mimesis-and-injured-self-narrative/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 01:38:37 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=3747 "Each seizure is like a sort of hemorrhage of innervation," wrote Flaubert to a friend. "The center of image formation...

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]]> Neurodiversities | Cate I. Reilly: Cruel Translation: Psychoanalysis and Worlding https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/neurodiversities-cate-i-reilly-cruel-translation-psychoanalysis-and-worlding/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 01:35:30 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=3745 CATE I. REILLY (Assistant Professor of Literature) asks: Is it possible to think the global dissemination of psychoanalysis in the...

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]]> Neurodiversities | Nima Bassiri: Disordered Conduct and the Moral Economy of Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/neurodiversities-nima-bassiri-disordered-conduct-and-the-moral-economy-of-mental-illness-in-the-nineteenth-century/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 01:29:53 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=3741 In this paper, NIMA BASSIRI (Assistant Professor of Literature) discusses some of the ways in which nineteenth-century psychiatrists and neurologists...

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]]> Academic Precarity in American Anthropology https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/academic-precarity-in-american-anthropology/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:46:56 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3729 In this article the authors seek to understand why a standard of professional success is being maintained in anthropology—indeed, normalized—despite the fact that it is presently unattainable by all but a few.

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