The Rights and Humanities Annual Series is jointly sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and the Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI. The series was launched in …
What city will be the next center of advanced art? We’ve heard this question before. But circa 1941, with Paris occupied, the answer was undecided-and in Baghdad, artists, soldiers, and …
Creation and Cosmos According to Hildegard of Bingen Produced by Margot E. Fassler. Designed by Christian Jara and Brian Wolff March 31 and April 2, 6:00 pm (doors open at …
Join Shay Mirk (@mirkdrop), visiting artist, author, and publisher, for a free workshop on Making Nonfiction Comics and Zines. Shay Mirk (they/she) is a graphic journalist, editor, and teacher who …
Employed as the “king’s painter” at the royal botanical garden in Paris for almost half a century, Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (1701-1780) produced drawings of plants for the exclusive collection known …
Computational Media, Arts & Cultures PhD Student Annual Exhibition. Public Reception. Featuring the work of Hugo F. Idarraga, Nubia Nurain Khan, Rose Ansari, Sang Chi Liu, and Tracy Chunxi Liu. …
Renowned sculptor Stephen Hayes, MFA and cultural storyteller Javier Wallace, PhD have joined forces to create a series of underwater sculptures intentionally dedicated to enslaved Africans and their descendants. This …
Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival (Jan 29 – Feb 13, 2025) ANNETTE (Leos Carax, 2021, 139 min, France, English, DCP) A years-spanning musical melodrama drenched in …
**RESCHEDULED SCREENING** (This event was originally planned to take place on January 31st, but had to be rescheduled due to weather.) == Screening as part of the 2026 French Film …
Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival (Jan 29 – Feb 13, 2025) THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG [Les Parapluies de Cherbourg] (Jacques Demy, 1964, 92 min, France, French …
Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival (Jan 29 – Feb 13, 2025) MEETING WITH POL POT [Rendez-vouz avec Pol Pot] (Rithy Panh, 2024, 112 min, France/Cambodia, French …
Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival (Jan 29 – Feb 13, 2025) HOLY COW [Vingt Dieux] (Louise Courvoisier, 2024, 90 min, France, French with English subtitles, DCP) …
Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival (Jan 29 – Feb 13, 2025) GHOST TRAIL [Les Fantômes] (Jonathan Millet, 2024, 106 min, France/Belgium/Germany, French, Arabic, Turkish, and English …
Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival (Jan 29 – Feb 13, 2025) “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (Johan Grimonprez, 2024, 150 min, Belgium/France/Netherlands, French, Dutch, and Russian …
Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival (Jan 29 – Feb 13, 2025) MISERCORDIA [Miséricorde] (Alain Guiraudie, 2024, 103 min, France, French w/ English subtitles, DCP) — Ranked …
A Practical Guide To Skateboarding on Crutches (40 min talk 10 min Q&A) Bill Shannon discusses engaging contradictions and finding balance while in the process of developing and formalizing movement …
The Cinematic Arts Practice Lab is launching a new series of low-key, hands-on sessions for people working on creative film and film-adjacent projects across Duke. This kickoff salon will focus …
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) …
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