Department of African & African American Studies
What does the writing of world history look like when African and African American histories of global and local presence and engagement are placed at the center of the conversation? This workshop… read more about Intersections: Asian, African, and African American Histories »
Activist Affordances: Disability, Shrinkage and Improvisation For people living with disability, everyday tasks like lifting a glass or taking off clothes can be daunting. As such, their… read more about Activist Affordances: Disability, Shrinkage and Improvisation »
Please join the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute for a public lecture by David Marriott as part of a 2-week residency at the FHI. This lecture is part I and will be followed by a reception.… read more about David Marriott, "The Crisis of Truth I and II" »
A leader in clinical psychology, Dr. Thema Bryant speaks on "Faith, Mental Health, and Community" for Duke University Chapel's 2023 William Preston Few Lecture.The event, presented as a public… read more about Faith, Mental Health, and Community »
Kadji Amin is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University and a 2023-4 fellow at the Cornell Society of Fellows. Amin is a materialist theorist of gender and… read more about The Respectability Politics of Gender Identity, A History »
Come Talk about Issues Related to Gender, Sexuality & Feminist StudiesJoin us for a casual dinner and conversation with GSF faculty to learn more about our classes as well as our major and… read more about Feminist Connections - Undergraduate dinner with Faculty »
Please join the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute for a public lecture by David Marriott. This presentation is part II. Lunch will be served.Abstract: "In these two linked presentations I… read more about David Marriott, "The Crisis of Truth I and II" »
RSVP to kmc156@duke.edu by Oct. 16for advance reading materialsRespondent: Joelle Troiano (PhD English)In what is a working draft of the theoretical frameworkto my dissertation, in this paper I'll… read more about Reading Women's Literature as a Feminist Speech Act »
Duke Music invites students and members of the local EDM community to submit tracks of any Electronic Dance Music genre and at any level of completion to be reviewed by Dr. Garcia-Mispireta and Duke… read more about Electronic Dance Music Production Masterclass with Luis-Manuel Garcia Mispireta and Cade Bourne »
tgiFHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current research to their departmental and… read more about tgiFHI: Ásta, "Critical Social Metaphysics: Metaphysics for Liberation and Social Science" »
Duke Music lectures are free and open to the public. ABSTRACT: How is it that "the one rush of hearts"-that swirl of feelings and music and sweaty bodies on a crowded dancefloor-can thicken into… read more about Luis-Manuel Garcia Mispireta: "Thickening Something: Convergent Music, Affect, and Sociability on the Dancefloor" »
The family grave, tended by patrilineal kin, was once the conventional ending point for the dead in Japan. But demographic shifts--narrowing of nuclear family consciousness, a high aging population,… read more about Ending Support in Times of Changing Demographics in Japan »
tgiFHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current research to their departmental and… read more about tgiFHI: Kate Driscoll, "Heiress to Fiction: Marfisa and the Macabre Legacy of Chivalric Ferrara" »
RSVP to kmc156@duke.edu by Oct. 16th for advance reading materials.Colombia's prison system has been in a state of unconstitutional crisis for more than 25 years. Violence, overcrowding,… read more about GSF Graduate Scholars Colloquium presents Entre Las Chicas: Care, Abandonment, and Insistence in Colombian Prison Worlds »
Join Andean music stars Fredy Guzmán and Jorge Choquehuillca along with Emmy-award winning filmmaker and anthropologist Kim MacQuarrie, author of the best-selling Last Days of the Incas, for an… read more about Celebrating Peru/Celebrando Perú: An Evening of Music and History »