Visual Arts, Cinematic Arts, and Documentary Studies would like to cordially invite you to the 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition! Please join us at the Rubenstein Arts Center this Monday, April …

In recognition of the work students have done throughout the year in the What is the Cosmos? Constellation, we will be hosting an exhibition on Friday, April 17, 2:00-4:00 in …

Film Screening and Q&A for Edhi Alice Keeping the camera close, the film follows two transitioning women, Edhi and Alice, as they seek to reconcile their bodies and identities. Through …

A special program of short films by Kevin Jerome Everson. Presented by the Experimental Film Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Center for Documentary Studies, and Screen/Society. Program Description …

Join Screen/Society for a special community screening at NorthStar Church of the Arts: TONSLER PARK (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2017, 80 min, USA, B&W, 16mm transferred to digital) “November 8, 2016. …

2026 Duke Independent Film Festival Founded in December of 2014, the Duke Independent Film Festival (DIFF) is Duke University’s first and only campus-wide film festival. An annual event, the film …

Screen/Society presents: TRANSIT (Christian Petzold, 2019, 101 min, Germany and France, German and French with English subtitles, DCP) In Christian Petzold’s brilliant and haunting adaptation of German novelist Anna Seghers’s …

Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Screen/Society, and Center for Documentary Studies present: “Black Box Diaries” (Shiori Itō, 2024, 103 min, Japan, Japanese and English with English subtitles, DCP) Join us for …

Screen/Society presents: “Peking Opera Blues” (Tsui Hark, 1986, 106 min, Hong Kong, Cantonese with English subtitles, DCP) In the aftermath of China’s first democratic revolution, three high-spirited young women (Brigitte …

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 …

Alina Nazmeeva is a Tatarstan-born media artist, and educator working across physical installation, digital simulation, textile, and XR. With these diverse media, her practice builds complex worlds that investigate how …

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 …

Screen/Society presents: “Fist of Legend” (Gordon Chan, 1994, 103 min, Hong Kong, Cantonese and Japanese with English subtitles, DCP) One of Jet Li’s best films, and one of the greatest …

Screen/Society presents: “The Razor’s Edge” (Jocelyne Saab, 1985, 102 min, France / Lebanon, Arabic and French with English subtitles, DCP) New 4K Restoration “I’ve invented places, as if by making …

The Black Archival Imagination Lab @FHI & Screen/Society present: “Milisuthando” (Milisuthando Bongela, 2023, 128 min, South Africa, in Xhosa & English, DCP) “In her poetic and galvanizing essay film, Johannesburg-based …

Bill Shannon presents Interdisciplinary Artist Video Talk in Two Parts Tuesday March 24, 4:30pm https://duke.zoom.us/j/9438871819 A Practical Guide To Skateboarding on Crutches (40 min talk 10 min Q&A) Bill Shannon …

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 …

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 …

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 …