Upcoming Events
What makes a good physician? Someone who properly diagnoses and cures their patients? What if we told you there's a third vital characteristic - physicians who listen to - and attempt to understand - their patients' stories. Paolo Freire noted in 1963 that: "A careful analysis of the teacher-... read more »
"Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies" Teresa Fiore (Montclair State) In Transit: Arts and Migration around Europe is an interdisciplinary humanities project launched by Duke faculty and students from the Departments of Romance Studies, and Art, Art... read more »
inTransit: The Arts of Migration Catalan Atlas (1375) The Catalan Atlas (1375 is one of the few surviving examples of 14th century cartography. The sections included in this exhibit depict the regions of Asia. This is richly illustrated with figures depicting the famous monarchs of the world,... read more »
In our first monthly "Doctors Are In Event" of the semester, we bring in radiologist and dream researcher, Larry Burk, and historian, Thomas Robisheaux, to discuss symptoms and dreams of physical illness as sacred messages from the body. Robisheaux will discuss his study of the spirit-seeing... read more »
Film Screening Program: "Image Control"In this collection of works that address politics, social movements and personal histories, the image - photographs, symbols, archival materials, propaganda videos - is deconstructed and examined to understand its limits, controlling influences and symbolic... read more »
Join us to celebrate the launch of the "From Slavery to Freedom" Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute. We will inaugurate the opening of FS2F by honoring the work and legacy of Professor John Hope Franklin. Our event will feature remarks from John Whittington Franklin of the Smithsonian... read more »
Join the Franklin Humanities Institute for the first presentation in its new Friday morning series, tgiFHI! tgiFHI gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretative social sciences and arts the opportunity to present on their current research to interlocutors in their fields. A light breakfast... read more »
Lauren Flood is a postdoctoral fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania. Her lecture is titled "AI and the Ethnography of Musical Futures: Prototype, Update, Real-Time, and DeepDream." Abstract: Over the past decade, the practice of building do-it-yourself (DIY) projects has... read more »
A lecture by Richard Fleming, Author of Evil and Silence, First Word Philosophy. With reception at 4:30. Venue TBA. read more »
Film Screening: "Adam & Zack Khalil: Indigenous Futures"With a practice that includes experimental filmmaking, documentary, performance & curation, Adam & Zack Khalil have charted out a critical & unconventional space for situating & interrogating ideas of indigeneity today. In... read more »
