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 ...
The Infiltrators (2019, 95 min.) is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center ...
In 1974, a twenty-year-old Black woman named Joan Little found herself facing the death penalty for killing a white guard who had tried to rape her in an eastern North ...
A conversation with social choreographer, Allison Orr. Orr will discuss her ethnographic and artistic process and show clips from her large-scale, public shows. Her talk will be followed by a ...
A celebration of the publication of Professor Javier Wallace’s new book with Duke University Press, Basketball Trafficking: Stolen Black Panamanian Dreams. Professor Wallace will read from his book and discuss ...
Join us for this discussion guided by Duke Professor Joseph Winters about why he loves to teach James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. Free copies of the book are available ...
Book talk with author/professor Carlo Rotella (Boston College) and UNC-CH professor Florence Dore
Visual artist and UC Berkeley Professor Stephanie Syjuco presents a lecture exploring her research-driven practice. Followed by discussion and reception.
Book Talk with Liz Pelly, author of “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.” Books will be available for purchase following the talk. “Mood ...
A maverick photographer provokes the art world and activists with confrontational images. Film screening, discussion, Q & A
Join us to welcome Crystal Simone Smith back to the Franklin Humanities Institute for a conversation with fellow poet-scholar Tsitsi Ella Jaji in celebration of Smith’s latest poetry collection, Runagate: ...
Join us for a roundtable discussion of Sinners (2025), Ryan Coogler’s latest film. Duke professor Mark Anthony Neal will moderate this discussion with fellow professors Franklin Cason and Joseph Winters ...
Join us and Letters Community Bookshop for a roundtable discussion of Bettina Judd’s book of poetry, Patient., facilitated by this year’s Anne Firor Scott Public Scholarship Fellow, Kelsey Desir. It ...
A listening session and presentation on 1930s women’s prison music led by Duke undergraduate Trisha Santanam (Trinity ’26), a member of the Rosetta Reitz Archive Bass Connections team and recipient ...
Presentation of 2 projects in the Documentary Studies Work-in-Progress series: Prof. Ernest Grant presents on his project, “Equity in Action: Breaking Barriers in Nursing Leadership for The Future of Healthcare,” ...
Presentation of 3 projects in the Documentary Studies Work-in-Progress Series: Professor Jenny Lion’s experimental documentary video is one of a series of video installation and cinematic works that explore landscape ...
Prof. Raquel Salvatella de Prada’s project explores the impacts of climate change, human activity and invasive species on global ecosystems. Featuring mixed media prints and augmented reality, the exhibit will ...
Professors Ouma and Mkhize are working to retrieve, document and examine an archive of photographs documenting social life in Polokwane, South Africa, between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. Their ...
Professors Wallace and Smith present their work-in-progress, a documentary film about the role of sports at Duke through the story of Claudius (C.B.) Claiborne, the university’s first Black student-athlete. The ...
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