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 ...
Suman Seth is the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science at Cornell University. This talk will offer an overview of Seth’s ...
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 CDS for the opening reception of “Cosmic Origins,” a new exhibition by photographer and Duke MFA|EDA alumna Cassandra Klos. Bringing together photographs, artifacts, and ephemera, “Cosmic Origins” explores humanity’s ...
Spend an afternoon exploring space through art, science, photography, and hands-on activities at the Center for Documentary Studies. Join us for a free, family-friendly event celebrating Cassandra Klos’s exhibition Cosmic ...
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 ...
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: ...
Join the Kenan Institute for Ethics and host Adriane Lentz-Smith for a conversation with historian, author, and “The Gilded Age” historical consultant and co-executive producer Erica Armstrong Dunbar on telling ...
Join acclaimed historian and author Erica Armstrong Dunbar for a thought-provoking conversation about her award-winning book, “Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.” In dialogue ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Throughout the academic year 2026-2027 and in honor of Trinity Humanities & Arts “Belonging?” and Duke’s We the People: Project 250, the Department of Religious Studies will be addressing the ...
In recognition of the work students have done throughout the year in the What is the Cosmos? Constellation, we will be hosting an exhibition on Friday, April 17, 2:00-4:00 in ...
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, ...
What city will be the next center of advanced art? We’ve heard this question before. But circa 1941, with Paris occupied, the answer was undecided-and in Baghdad, artists, soldiers, and ...
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 ...
Employed as the “king’s painter” at the royal botanical garden in Paris for almost half a century, Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (1701-1780) produced drawings of plants for the exclusive collection known ...
Radical Unlearning is described as “a road map for rewiring our brains to unlearn harmful beliefs, heal broken bonds, and transform our communities. The beliefs that hold us back-inherited prejudices, ...
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 ...
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Joanne Paul, a leading historian of Tudor England, as she discusses what it means to bring history to life on screen. Dr. Paul ...
“Repatriate:00” is a debut of Kalen Wing Ki Lee’s artistic practice on notion and experience of emotional migration in the thick of movements of body, desire, human geography, sovereignty and ...
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 ...
Join us as we welcome a powerful new exhibit to the Franklin Gallery@History. “Pvt. Booker T. Spicely, 34, was a U.S. Army private on active duty who was killed in ...
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, ...
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 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 ...
Please join us for Film Screening and Discussion
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 multimedia presentation, to be followed by a Q&A session and book signing. For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo’s pioneering podcast, The Memory Palace, has turned to the past to make ...
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 ...