Upcoming Events
April 2023 is Earth Month! It's been eight months since the Environmental Justice Movement - birthed an hour from Duke's campus - turned 40 years old. Eight months since our university, and the country, really reflected on the future of the movement and the interplay of justice, sustainability, and... read more »
Please join the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute for a lecture by Susheila Nasta. "The Bloomsbury Indians" The place where its famous bohemian artists 'lived in squares but loved in triangles', 'Bloomsbury' is frequently represented as a buzzing, dynamic space: crucible for the evolution... read more »
Please join the From Slavery to Freedom Lab at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute for the first Spring 2023 Masterclass series. The From Slavery to Freedom Lab supports a wide array of programs with the intent to examine the life and afterlives of slavery and emancipation, linking Duke... read more »
Please join the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute for a conversation between Prof. Ranjana Khanna and Susheila Nasta. Dr Susheila Nasta MBE FRSL is a writer, presenter, literary activist and Professor Emerita at Queen Mary College, University of London. In 1984 she founded Wasafiri, the... read more »
Books and websites on how to engage in anti-racism are widely popular, but critical race scholars often dismiss them as simplistic and missing the big picture. This presentation speaks to how to combat anti-Asian racism in a manner that recognizes the complexities involved. The goal in fighting... read more »
Translation, Media and Cosmopolitics a colloquium presented by the Amazon Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University - via Zoom - March 30, 2023Translating Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma with translator Katrina Dodson and Lúcia Sá 1:00pm - 2:30pm (EST) A Conversation with Artist,... read more »
Please join the Climate Change, Decolonization, and Global Blackness Lab (CCDGB) at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute for our 2022-23 speaker series. CCDGB is part of The Entanglement Project, a new FHI initiative focused on the intersections of race, health, and climate. Most talks are... read more »
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 2019 to address the links between ideas of rights and the humanities - and to more fully explore the intellectual... read more »
Solarities is a new contemporary poetry reading series bringing established and emerging visiting writers to Duke. The series seeks to emphasis experimental literary writing as a unique mode of thought that engages and expands scholarly fields of inquiry. For our first event, we welcome poets... read more »
Translation, Media and Cosmopoliticsa colloquium presented by the Amazon Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University - via Zoom - March 30, 2023Translating Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma with translator Katrina Dodson and Lúcia Sá 1:00pm - 2:30pm (EST) A Conversation with Artist,... read more »
