The Imaginary of Disobedience is a one-day workshop to be held at Duke University on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 19, 2026. The workshop aims to conceptualize the lineaments …

** 6-6:30pm, Curators’ Walk-Through ** Registration for this event is kindly requested (but not required) at: duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1AEc1aSoAScnoge Join us for the closing reception of “Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930-31,” an exhibition …

The UNC-Duke Critical Games symposium will bring together scholars and artists from UNC and Duke and beyond who engage with the critical study and practice of games, both as a …

The FHI Black Feminist Working Group presents a screening of the creative documentary A Mother Apart (2024), followed by a hands-on workshop wherein participants will get the opportunity to respond …

Dan Hale tells stories through the mediums of animation, film, and photography, and is an Assistant Professor of Animation at UNC Greensboro. In 2019, he received an MFA in Digital …

Join us for the opening of “Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930 – 31,” a new exhibition presented by Duke Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) and The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, …

In light of current environmental crises, the emerging field of Biological Human-Computer Interaction (Bio-HCI) focuses on building deeper relationships between humans, computers, and biological systems. The resulting bio-digital technologies are …

Join us for a presentation of “Computing the Lens: Research Driven Images for Machine Entangled Lives.” Part of Click! Photography Festival, this event will showcase work from 28 artists and …

Visual artist and UC Berkeley Professor Stephanie Syjuco presents a lecture exploring her research-driven practice. Followed by discussion and reception.

Event is free, but tickets are required. RSVP here for free tickets. This is a small venue, so please register asap if you want to attend. Organized by FHI Social …

The Black Feminist Working Group, co-convened by Jazmin Maço (Duke University, PhD, Art History) and Rukimani PV (Duke University, PhD, Literature), will be hosting the 2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium, …

The Black Feminist Working Group, co-convened by Jazmin Maço (Duke University, PhD, Art History) and Rukimani PV (Duke University, PhD, Literature), will be hosting the 2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium, …

Join Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) for a celebration and showcase of emerging documentary work. Everyone is welcome – students, faculty, staff and community members. View exhibitions of CDS …

DAHOMEY (Mati Diop, 2024, 67 min, France/Senegal/Benin, French w/ English subtitles, DCP) — Discussion to follow with the film’s director, Mati Diop, in conversation with Prof. Felwine Sarr (Romance Studies) …

Come celebrate the launch of the museum retrospective catalogue Pedro Lasch: Between the Lines, distributed by D.A.P. in the USA and Temblores Publications in Latin America and Europe. Thoroughly illustrated, …

This talk emerges out of a chapter to be published in the multi-author volume titled Missing  Bodies’ Embodied Histories: Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Women in Postwar Japan. The chapter examines …

On April 11, the CFFS welcomes filmmaker Alice Diop for a day-long colloquium entirely dedicated to her work Friday, April 11 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The CFFS, in partnership …

FACES OF SEOUL (Gina Kim, 2009, 93 min, South Korea and USA, Korean and English w/English subtitles, Digital) — Virtual Q&A to follow with director Gina Kim FACES OF SEOUL …

This talk explores the crucial period of the 1980s and 1990s as a pivotal moment for studies in African American Cinema, tracing the intersections of filmmaking, institutional activism, and scholarship. …

How do words make the past appear? In what way does the historian summon bygone events? What is this kind of remembering, and for whom do we recall the dead? …

This virtual talk from Dr. Jane Blocker approaches the problem of disorientation for contemporary art through an analysis of an installation called “Beacon” (2007), by sound and new media artist …

Andrew Kozlowski is a cartoonist, printmaker, writer, small press publisher, and art educator who has been living and working in Jacksonville Florida since 2017. His work has been included in …

This presentation examines artworks implicated in eighteenth-century anticolonial insurgencies in colonial South America that survive only as textual description or in fragmentary form, due to their ephemerality or from having …

A Deferential Diagnosis of Fatigue: A Performative Lecture by Rouzbeh Shadpey Tuesday March 4 // 5:30pm // Pink Parlor, East Duke Building Response by Nima Bassiri, Program in Literature Description: …

This talk examines the visual cultures of mining in Central Europe and Potosí during the decades around 1600 to address an urgent conundrum for early modern art history and art …

Join us for the closing reception of “Jamaican Mascs,” an exhibition of documentary portraits and mixed-media collages that contest any singular representation of Jamaican masculinity. Curated by Jazmin Maço, this …

Come learn about Duke in L.A.! The Duke in L.A. experience includes two seminars taught by Duke faculty, a student-selected course at the University of Southern California and a practicum …

This talk examines how photographs of North Korea create meaning as they circulate across contemporary visual culture. While digital platforms promise increased access through endless reproduction, analysis of various photographic …

This talk explores the concept of “photo-theologies” and the role of technology in broader debates about the camera’s capacity to record and visualize the human body in Islamic lands. Through …

This presentation examines artworks implicated in eighteenth-century anticolonial insurgencies in colonial South America that survive only as textual description or in fragmentary form, due to their ephemerality or from having …

Early modern Europe and its colonial holdings ran on paper. It was indispensable as a support for letters, orders, trials, and receipts, in addition to drawings and prints. Yet, when …

Screening as part of the 2025 French Film Festival Jan 30 – Feb 13, 2025 THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, 2024, 75 min, USA, English and French w/English …

Screening as part of the 2025 French Film Festival Jan 30 – Feb 13, 2025 NO FEAR, NO DIE (Claire Denis, 1990, 97 min, France, French w/ English subtitles, DCP) …

Screening as part of the 2025 French Film Festival Jan 30 – Feb 13, 2025 BANEL & ADAMA (Ramata-Toulaye Sy, 2023, 87 min, France, Senegal, Mali, Pulaar w/English subtitles, DCP) …

Screening as part of the 2025 French Film Festival Jan 30 – Feb 13, 2025 THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH (Dominic Moll, 2022, 115 min, France, French w/ English subtitles, …

In the 1970s, photojournalism faced irrelevancy and potential extinction. Competition from television news, changes in magazine publishing, public fatigue with war pictures, and a growing interest in photographs as a …

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM (LE RÈGNE ANIMAL) (Thomas Cailley, 2023, 128 min, France, Belgium, French w/English subtitles, DCP) With his long-awaited follow-up to LOVE AT FIRST FIGHT (2014), Thomas Cailley, who …

Screening as part of the 2025 French Film Festival Jan 30 – Feb 13, 2025 ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (Paul B. Preciado, 2023, 103 min, France, French w/ English subtitles, …

Screening as part of the 2025 French Film Festival Jan 30 – Feb 13, 2025 ANATOMY OF A FALL (Justine Triet, 2023, 151 min, France, French w/ English subtitles, DCP) …

Durham-based international fiber artist Deborah Kruger will screen her documentary and then share a portfolio of her latest artwork that are currently on view at the Block Gallery in Raleigh, …

In April 1986, archaeologists discovered seven “maps” on four wooden boards from a tomb at the site of Fangmatan in the modern-day city of Tianshui, Gansu province. While it is …

Open house 4-6 in exhibition space, remarks by curators at 4:30 Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room.

We invite you to join a screening of The Palestine Exception, a documentary directed by JAN HAAKEN and JENNIFER RUTH, followed by a panel discussion including the directors. At Duke …

In this opening public event of the 2024-25 Keohane Professorship, interdisciplinary artist and scholar Ashon Crawley will present on the relation of dirt and soil to the making of Black life, and how degrading the earth is part of the attempt to unmake Black possibility.

Following an autobiographical trajectory, the talk examines a cumulative body of work which challenges the bounds of a medium deeply rooted in tradition through the visual study and application of …

Łukasz Stanek has authored Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory (Minnesota, 2011) and Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle …