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 ...

The Duke Turkish Program & Screen/Society present: “Şerafettin Can Atalay” (Nebil Özgentürk, 2025, Turkish with English subtitles, Digital) This documentary film portrays the life and public struggle of Can Atalay, ...

Radwan Mezghanni is a distinguished ʿūd performer and vocalist whose work bridges Oriental maqām traditions and Western musical studies. Trained in both Eastern and Western musical systems, he specializes in ...

Film Screening: “Dìdi” (Sean Wang, 2024, 91 min, USA, English and Mandarin with English subtitles, DCP) In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable ...

“Hesitation Wound” (Selman Nacar, 2023, 84 min, Turkey, Turkish with English subtitles, DCP) One tense day in the life of a Turkish criminal defense attorney (Tülin Özen) as she wrestles ...

**Jiang Nengjie, 2015, China, Chinese with English subtitles** Introduction by Professor Kang Liu (AMES). Following the screening, stay for a conversation with director Jiang Nengjie, moderated by Professor Liu. Synopsis: ...

AMES Presents: Living the Pandemic film series Featuring New Works from The Folk Memory Project, Caochangdi, China “Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020” (Mengqi Zhang, 2023, 190 min, China, Chinese w/ English ...

AMES Presents: Living the Pandemic film series Featuring New Works from The Folk Memory Project, Caochangdi, China “Luo Luo’s Future” (Luo Luo, 2024, 69 min, China, Chinese w/ English subtitles, ...

Join us for part or all of the Korean Film Screening series – open to the entire Duke community! Monday, October 20 showing: “A Bee and a Silkworm” A retired ...

AMES Presents: Living the Pandemic film series Featuring New Works from The Folk Memory Project, Caochangdi, China “The Death of Baijiashan” (Liu Xiaoqian, 2024, 110 min, China, Chinese w/ English ...

Join us for part or all of the Korean Film Screening series – open to the entire Duke community! Monday, September 29 showing: “Wolsong: A Vanishing Town” Wolsong Nuclear Power ...

AMES Presents: Living the Pandemic film series Featuring New Works from The Folk Memory Project, Caochangdi, China New Moon Chapter One (Li Xinyue/New Moon, 2024, 157 min, China, in Chinese ...

Join us for a thought-provoking panel featuring five Israeli Jewish, Palestinian, and Druze artists. In this conversation, they will reflect on the challenges and possibilities of creating art together during ...

Join us for part or all of the Korean Film Screening series – open to the entire Duke community! Monday, September 15 Showing:”Voices” In the spring of 1948, young women ...

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 ...

Featuring a wide variety of Chinese musical genres, including classical, folk, and pop pieces, played on a mix of Eastern and Western instruments. Admission is free – No need to ...

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 ...

The Israeli Documentary Series presents “Abortion in the Holy Land,” directed by Efran Shalom Danon (Israel, 2024, 70 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles). Abortions in Israel of 2024 are still ...

The rise of China and its great power competition with the U.S. will be one of the defining issues of our generation. But to understand modern China, one has to ...

Israeli Documentary Series presents: “The Water Front” Location: The Rubenstein Arts Center (The Ruby) Film Theater The Israeli Documentary Series presents “The Water Front,” directed by Alon Levi (Israel, 2024, ...

Directed by Hu Sanshou, 2024, 115 min, China, in Chinese dialects w/ Chinese & English subtitles Following the screening, stay for Q&A with director Hu Sanshou, moderated by Professor Guo-Juin ...

Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion by Israel’s occupation since childhood. He documents the slow-motion eradication of the ...

**RESCHEDULED SCREENING** (This event was originally planned to take place on February 20th, but had to be rescheduled due to weather. Note the earlier 4pm start time.) == RIGHTS! CAMERA! ...

**Directed by MinCheol Wang, 2022, 120 min, South Korea, in Korean w/English subtitles** About the film: Kim Jeong-ho, head veterinarian in Cheongju Zoo, dreams of turning his zoo into the ...

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by Israel’s occupation since childhood. He documents the ...

Film Screening: NO OTHER LAND (Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, 2024 95 min, Palestine, Arabic, English, and Hebrew w/English subtitles, DCP) == Registration required for this event: ...

Arabic-Hebrew Night Please RSVP: https://forms.gle/3caJqmwXQ3669hDt9 Recorded presentation by Almog Behar and readings by Ellen McLarney (AMES) and Reut Israela Ben-yaakov (AMES postdoctoral associate). Contribution by Hanan Jasim Khammas (DISC postdoctoral ...

Duke History invites you to the grand opening of “Slavery and Freedom: Journeys Across Time and Space” featuring a talk with Indrani Chatterjee, the John L. Nau III Distinguished Professor ...

In April 1986, archaeologists discovered seven “maps” on four wooden boards from a tomb at the site of Fangmatan in the modern-day city of Tianshui, Gansu province. While it is ...

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 ...

Israeli Doc Series Presents: It Happened On Our Ground Directed by: Avner Faingulernt (Israel / Germany / Canada 2024, 125 min, Hebrew, English and German, Hebrew & English subtitles) A ...

​Together with the department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, APSI is hosting a screening of “Invisible Nation” (看不見的國家), a 2024 documentary from award-winning filmmaker Vanessa Hope that shines an ...

Israeli Doc Series Presents: 1957 Transcripts Directed by Ayelet Heller (Israel 2024, 72 min, Hebrew and Arabic, Hebrew & English subtitles) The film delves into events that took place in ...

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 ...

The event begins at 7PM (EDT) with opening remarks by Professor Ralph Litzinger (Cultural Anthropology). Following the documentary screening, stay for a conversation with producers Jewher Ilham and Janice Englehart, ...

Film Screening: “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World” (Radu Jude, 2023, 164 min, Romania, Romanian with English subtitles, DCP) As he proved with his scandalous, ...

Filmmaker Yun HWANG began making a documentary about tidal flats in the Saemanggeum estuary, on the West coast of South Korea. Her work came to a halt in 2006 with ...