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Upcoming Events

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Labor as Dance

Wednesday, November 19 at 5:30pm

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 ...

Past Events

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Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound

September 17, 2025

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: ...

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Seeing Sinners: A Roundtable Discussion

May 22, 2025

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 ...

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Jailhouse Blues: The Music of Parchman Farm

April 17, 2025

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 ...