Spring 2012 Events

See our updated calendar

Interdisciplinary
Working Groups

GreaterThanGames

Game play + virtual reality + digital storytelling
for a social purpose

a new Humanities Lab

BorderWork(s)

What are the human consequences of
maps, walls, borders, partitions? 

a new Humanities Lab

Haiti Lab

Haiti: History Embedded in Amber 
& other Lab projects

learn more

Honoring the Legacy:
John Hope Franklin

Read more

FHI Blog

02/09/2012
Breaking Down Walls

Duke News feature on the BorderWork(s) Lab

Lecture + Seminar

Feb 13, 20, 22: Visiting Professor Karen E. Fields will lead a mini-seminar and give a lecture (please note date change!) based on her work on Émile Durkheim - more

Human Rights Center

Feb 16: 12pm talk with historian Mark Mazower on "NGOs, The Cold War and the Idea of Civil Society" + 7:30pm screening of "An Encounter with Simone Weil" (co-sponsored by the Audiovisualities working group) - more

Special Event

Feb 16: Please join us for a reading by National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney - followed by a conversation with Duke historian Thavolia Glymph, with anthropologist Michael Taussig as moderator - more