Special public screening w/ filmmaker Boots Riley in person: “I Love Boosters” (Boots Riley, 2026, 105 min, USA, DCP) == Free parking for this event will be available in the ...
Join us for conversation with Professor Sarah Pearsall (Johns Hopkins University) about her new book Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution In this powerful new ...
We invite you to join us for a Faculty Bookwatch event to highlight Gennifer Weisenfeld’s recent publication, The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern ...
Special public screening w/ filmmaker Boots Riley in person: “I Love Boosters” (Boots Riley, 2026, 105 min, USA, DCP) == Free parking for this event will be available in the ...
A central feature of Caribbean poetics has been a pictorial mode of representing the natural landscape and the complex multicultural societies that have taken root in the archipelago. Verbal and ...
A central feature of Caribbean poetics has been a pictorial mode of representing the natural landscape and the complex multicultural societies that have taken root in the archipelago. Verbal and ...
How are artists and performers of Asian descent disrupting the art world, including the world of classical ballet? What are current trends in Asian American art and theater? How can ...
You are invited to a film screening and discussion with Tara Moore, the director of the 2025 Oscar® Long-Listed documentary Legacy: Apartheid’s Shadow. The film offers a history of apartheid ...
Join us at the Durham County Main Library for a discussion with Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Professor of African American Studies at Duke, about his new book, Save ...
Duke Professor of History Phil Stern in conversation with Mark Peterson, Yale University’s Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History and author of The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: ...
Duke Professor of History Phil Stern in discussion with Karin Wulf, the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library (JCB), and Professor ...
You are invited to a book talk with Duke alum Dr. Felicia Arriaga, AB’12, AM ’15, PhD’18. Currently a professor at Baruch College, CUNY, Dr. Arriaga will discuss her 2023 ...
Join us for conversation with Professor Woody Holton (South Carolina) about his recent book Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution Using more than a thousand eyewitness ...
Duke Assistant Professor of History Justin Leroy welcomes Woody Holton, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, to kickoff the 26/27 Atlantic Worlds Workshop Series. Holton’s book, Liberty ...
In conjunction with The Declaration of Independence Display we invite you to join us for a special event! Famously, in December 1773, over a hundred colonists snuck onto ships in ...
Duke English and the Franklin Humanities Institute will host a talk by Hadji Bakara, Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. Bakara will explain how writing has shaped ...
What songs carry memories of the people and places that have shaped us? In this interactive workshop, participants will reflect on songs connected to family, home, heritage, or tradition and ...
Join author and scholar Najha Zigbi-Johnson for a gallery talk exploring Mapping Malcolm in conversation with the exhibition, Turn the volume up! Moderated by Durham-based artist Marcella Zigbuo Camara, the ...
Join us at the Durham County Main Library to hear Duke Professor of Political Science Candis Watts Smith discuss her recent book, Black Evidence: A History and a Warning (2026, ...
Please join us for the opening demonstration of Concepts in Motion, a data visualization interface developed by Hugo F. Idárraga (PhD Candidate, Computational Media, Arts, & Cultures) in conversation with ...
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 ...
Carina Ray is a scholar of race and sexuality; comparative colonialisms and nationalisms; migration and maritime history; print cultures; bodily aesthetics, and the relationship between race, ethnicity, and political power, ...
Please mark your calendar! You are invited to “The Life of the Novel in a Post-Text World: A Symposium on the State of the Literary Ecosystem”, Thursday, March 19th, 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, ...
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 ...
Impermanent is multimedia ritual environment combining video, sound, field recordings, interaction, zines, and sensors. Please bring clean trash (soft wrappers, plastic bags, compostables, etc) if you wish to contribute to ...
Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri present a concert of music from their acclaimed album Transylvanian Dance. The performance blends viola and piano improvisation with field recordings of Transylvanian folk music ...
Film Screening: “Taste of Cherry” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997, 99 min, Iran, Persian with English subtitles, DCP) This austere, emotionally complex drama by the great Abbas Kiarostami follows the enigmatic Mr. ...
Archive as Ceremony: A Symposium The archive of novelist, essayist, philosopher, and scholar Sylvia Wynter was acquired by the John Hope Franklin Research Center in 2018 and will be opened ...
Directed by Aranya Sahay, Humans in the Loop (2025) follows Nehma, a single mother from the Oraon tribe in Jharkhand, who begins working at a data-labelling centre training AI systems ...
“Perfumed Nightmare” (Kidlat Tahimik, 1977, 91 min, Philippines, in English, Tagalog, French, German with English subtitles, 16mm) — Winner of the Berlin Film Festival International Critics Award Produced and directed ...
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 ...
“Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, 161 min, Soviet Union, Russian w/ English subtitles, DCP) One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s STALKER embarks ...
Documentary Film Screening: A Road Out This documentary tells the remarkable story of six South African health pioneers who transformed community medicine in North Carolina, the United States and beyond. ...
The Experimental Film Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute and Screen/Society present: “Dry Ground Burning” (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, 2022, 153 min, Brazil, Portuguese with English subtitles, DCP) Just ...
“The Parallax View” (Alan J. Pakula, 1974, 102 min, USA, English, DCP) Perhaps no director tapped into the pervasive sense of dread and mistrust that defined the 1970s more effectively ...
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 ...
A talk by Patricia de Andrade, light refreshments provided.
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 ...
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 ...
Fall 2025 Public Screening Series: Early Jameson Early Jameson: Film & Theory at the Limits of Culture Screenings begin at 11:30 AM | Free and open to the public | ...
The Black Archival Imagination Lab invites you to “The Archives of African Literature Colloquium” symposium. The symposium will feature Keynote Speaker Jean-Marie Jackson and several presenting and responding scholars. Join ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cosmic Rays Touring Program 2025: “You Don’t Know Me” A selection of films from the 7th Cosmic Rays Film Festival Presented by the Experimental Film Lab at the Franklin Humanities ...
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 ...
“Diva” (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981, 117 min, France, French with English subtitles, New 4K DCP) “A single misstep, and reedy postman Frédéric Andréi is on the run all across Paris- including ...
“Dog Day Afternoon” (Sidney Lumet, 1975, 125 min, USA, English, DCP) “[Al] Pacino gives one of his greatest performances as desperate crook Sonny Wortzik in Lumet’s epochal New York crime ...
Book talk with author/professor Carlo Rotella (Boston College) and UNC-CH professor Florence Dore
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, ...
Five interdisciplinary scholars will respond to Jarvis C. McInnis’s groundbreaking new book, Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South, wherein he establishes Booker T. Washington’s ...
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), ...
“The Conformist” (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970, 111 min, Italy, Italian w/ English Subtitles, DCP) Newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Minerva ...
Please join us for the next speaker in the tgiFHI series, John Supko. This talk proposes a rediscovery of certain aspects of modernism–its elevation of complexity, ambiguity, contradiction, formal experimentation, ...
The Outside Poetics x Poetics outside graduate working group facilitates poetic study as collaborative practice-through music and art-foregrounding improvisation and gathering. ‘Poetics Outside’ means we curate community-facing programming through events ...
Visual artist and UC Berkeley Professor Stephanie Syjuco presents a lecture exploring her research-driven practice. Followed by discussion and reception.
Early Jameson: Film & Theory at the Limits of Culture Screenings begin at 11:30 AM | Free and open to the public | RSVP @ tania.rispoli@duke.edu | Lunch starts at ...
Shadows on the Globe: Three short films at the intersection of geopolitics and geology Presented by the Experimental Film Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute and Screen/Society Program: “An Aviation ...
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 ...
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 ...
A maverick photographer provokes the art world and activists with confrontational images. Film screening, discussion, Q & A
Fall 2025 Public Screening Series: Early Jameson Early Jameson: Film & Theory at the Limits of Culture Screenings begin at 11:30 AM | Free and open to the public | ...
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 ...
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: ...
Fall 2025 Public Screening Series: Early Jameson Early Jameson: Film & Theory at the Limits of Culture Screenings begin at 11:30 AM | Free and open to the public | ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Emily Jacir: Artist Talk and Screening As poetic as it is political and biographical, Emily Jacir’s work investigates silenced histories, exchange, translation, transformation, and resistance. Jacir has built a complex ...
This talk explores the crucial period of the 1980s and 1990s as a pivotal moment for studies in African American Cinema, tracing the intersections of filmmaking, institutional activism, and scholarship. ...
Music has for centuries been at the heart of the expression of African descendent people globally. In this panel, the eminent Puerto Rican composer and saxophonist David Sánchez – a ...
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 ...
Join the Kenan Institute for Ethics for a talk and conversation on the ways we remember the past, whether visibly or invisibly, and how memory is a moral enterprise that ...
The fifth and final reading in the Solarities series features Nathaniel Mackey and Joseph Donahue, both Duke poets, along with visiting poet fahima ife. Nathaniel Mackey is the author of ...
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,” ...
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! ...
Lenora Lee, Artistic Director of Lenora Lee Dance, will share her approaches to creating large-scale multimedia, immersive, and interactive dance experiences, heavily focused on her research in communities, created specifically ...
WITHIN THESE WALLS (Lenora Lee & Tatsu Aoki, 2024, 76 min, USA, English, Digital) In association with Lenora Lee Dance, Lenora Lee Productions, Innocent Eyes and Lenses Films, and Asian ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
An event featuring South African photojournalist, Paul Weinberg, on his upcoming retrospective called “Between the Cracks.” He will tell the story of his journey and journeys that took him to ...
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) ...
Join artist Sherrill Roland and curator Pedro Lasch for the last public event of their Nasher exhibition before it closes. The exhibition is the culmination of a two-year Mellon Foundation ...
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 ...
Under Plessy v. Ferguson, in the days before desegregation, southern states were able to fund the graduate education of Black students by forming separate-but-equal programs at tax-supported HBCU’s or having ...
Hosted by Tessa Bolsover and Michael Cavuto. Solarities is a poetry reading series bringing established and emerging visiting writers to Duke. For our fourth event, we welcome poets Will Alexander ...
On November 14, the CFFS welcomes artists Gabriel Richard and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger. Thursday, November 14 at 7 p.m. GOODSON CHAPEL 403 CHAPEL DR DURHAM, NC 27708 The CFFS, in partnership ...
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 ...
Please join Saskia Cornes, Jennifer Nash, Jocelyn Olcott, Tania Rispoli and the Revaluing Care Lab in a faculty reading/practice group of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s Hospicing Modernity. Our hope is ...
“Vivid…[An] indelible portrait of an era when this untreatable bane killed one American every 11 minutes… [A] book that deserves reading and remembering in the pandemic age.” -The New York ...
Join the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute for the second film in our 2024-2025 Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series. “Bad Faith” is a feature-length documentary that ...
Join the Duke Human Rights Center at FHI for our first film in our annual Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series. Through contemporary interviews with the original protesters who inspired the ...
Please join us for the Amazon Lab Film Series showing of “The Invention of the Other” (Dir. Bruno Jorge, Brazil). This Friday, April 19, 12:30pm – in the Amazon Lab, ...