Upcoming Events
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED because Dr. Mantri has bronchitis.Join us for a narrative medicine workshop led by Dr. Sneha Mantri, a neurologist trained in movement disorders and narrative medicine. Narrative medicine is an approach to medical humanities that centers the importance of storytelling in the... read more »
Please join the Franklin Humanities Institute for the second event in the series Aquatic Meditations: Conversations with Duke Faculty on Water, in response to the question, "What does Water Mean to You?" Lunch will be served. Christine Folch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, works on... read more »
5 PM Cash Bar6 PM Curator Talk by Esther GabaraJoin us to celebrate the opening of "Pop América, 1965 - 1975" with guest curator and Duke Professor Esther Gabara, who will give a talk about the exhibition that was four years in the making. Followed by a reception. read more »
Join us to celebrate the opening of "Pop América, 1965 - 1975" with guest curator and Duke Professor Esther Gabara, who will give a talk about the exhibition that was four years in the making. Cash bar, 5 PM. read more »
Join the Franklin Humanities Institute for 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 will be served at 9am.... read more »
Join us on Monday, February 25 for the Duke Human Rights Center and Franklin Humanities Institute Annual Lecture: Access to Safe Water: A Human Rights and Civil Rights Perspective, presented by Sharmila K. Murthy.Most Americans expect that clean and affordable water will be available from their... read more »
Duke University named María McFarland Sánchez-Moreno's book, There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia (Nation Books, 2018) as the winner of the 2018 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. McFarland will visit Duke University on February 26, 2019, to... read more »
The network of arch-right billionaire and multi-millionaire donors built by Charles and David Koch is funding a vast apparatus of organizations to radically change public policy and the law on matters from health care and environmental protection to labor and tax policies and reproductive rights... read more »
Join us for a reading by Romeo Oriogun, winner of the 2017 Brunel University Prize for African Poetry. Oriogun's work claims space for innovative queer writing in contemporary Nigeria. Oriogun has been described as " a hugely talented, outstanding, and urgent new voice in African poetry. His poetry... read more »
Join the Franklin Humanities Institute for 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 will be served at 9am.... read more »
