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 ...

This symposium contends with the relationship between feminist theory, feminist activism, and the culture wars. Often taking the form of moral panic, culture wars are characterized by reactionary rhetoric that ...

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 ...

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 ...

In conversation with Emily Rogers, Jina B. Kim will discuss her new book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke University Press 2025), ...

In conversation with Cecilia Marquez, Emma Amador will discuss her recently released first book, The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice (Duke University Press, 2025), ...

In conversation with Sally Deutsch, Lina-María Murillo draws on her new book Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (UNC Press, 2024), to explore how ...

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 the Kenan Institute for Ethics and host Adriane Lentz-Smith for a conversation with sports anthropologist Tracie Canada and award-winning author and MacArthur Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib on race, exploitation, and ...

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) ...

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 ...

Jazz and Gender Justice A conversation with Terri Lyne Carrington, Camila Cortina, Anthony Kelley, and Brenda Sisane As we cross into the second century of the music’s history, jazz has ...

The History Hub is pleased to be hosting “AIDS Activism and Queer Care,” with Dr. Keiko Lane. Dr. Lane is an independent scholar, practicing psychotherapist, ACT UP and Queer Nation/Los ...

Can’t Stop Change follows the production team on a road trip across Florida (and the new Florida diaspora) to meet with 14 LGBTQ2S+ artists, organizers, and activists, uplifting their stories ...

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 ...

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: ...

Please join us for a symposium celebrating the opening of an exhibit exploring the work and legacy of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Full details and times for sessions are listed at ...

A film screening of the documentary, Israelism, followed by a Q&A with Simone Zimmerman, a protagonist of the film and co-founder of IfNotNow. Tuesday, Jan 21 7pm (doors at 6:30pm) ...

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 ...

The act of closely examining a photograph to extract factual insights, commonly referred to as “reading” in photography discourse, constitutes an epistemological practice. This lecture explores the practice of reading ...

What can the Netflix series Beef show us about racial guilt and racial rage? Do cute, Asianized objects spark joy or fetishize race? How can a self-described “favorite South Asian ...

In collaboration with the GSF student Union, please come to a screening of the 2024 documentary Black Barbie, directed by Lagueria Davis. Come hang out, watch the film, have dinner, ...