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2021-2022 tgiFHI: now with videos & interviews
Wednesday, October 6, 20219/22/22 UPDATE: Now with links to interviews and videos! Please join the Franklin Humanities Institute for its Friday morning series, tgiFHI! tgiFHI gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretative social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current research to their... read more about 2021-2022 tgiFHI: now with videos & interviews »
Emotion and Affect in the Digital Space Working Group seeks participants
Wednesday, September 22, 2021How might an ethnography of the digital, as an external space of embodiment, complicate our understandings of how people come to interact with various nexuses of spaces? How is embodiment within an analog setting different from that of a digital one? How does COVID-19 energize digital... read more about Emotion and Affect in the Digital Space Working Group seeks participants »
Announcing Antigone's Worldings
Wednesday, September 15, 2021The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University invites you to a virtual colloquium on "Antigone’s Worldings," with events taking place between Thursday, October 14 and Friday, November 5, 2021. We are bringing together writers and scholars who can help us to rethink questions of... read more about Announcing Antigone's Worldings »
Fall 2021 FHI-Affilated Courses
Monday, August 16, 2021Whether you're a student bookbagging for the Fall 2021 semester, or simply interested in the range of courses taught by our faculty affiliates, enjoy exploring the list below! FHI Faculty Saskia Cornes Environment in Lit, Law, & Sci DOCST 290 / ENGLISH 490 / ENVIRON 390 / PUBPOL 290... read more about Fall 2021 FHI-Affilated Courses »
Story+ Tobacco Project Grows into Publication
Monday, June 7, 2021After leading a team of undergraduate student researchers who examined Duke University’s entanglement with the tobacco industry during the summer program Story+, Eli Meyerhoff and Ph.D candidate Jaime Acosta Gonzalez have published a related article in the latest issue of the Duke University Press... read more about Story+ Tobacco Project Grows into Publication »
Left of Black Season 11 Now Available
Monday, June 7, 2021The past season of the web series Left of Black featured host Mark Anthony Neal in conversation with a number of Black Studies scholars, artists, and writers, including: famed photographer and artist Carrie Mae Weems, Woke cartoonist Keith Knight, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies author Deesha... read more about Left of Black Season 11 Now Available »
Getting ready for Full Frame? Here’s two ways to view our 2020 prize winner Riafn
Thursday, May 20, 2021In the days leading up to the 24th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (June 2–6, 2021), the Franklin Humanities Institute will present a virtual screening of Riafn, the winner of its 2020 prize, at 7 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 27. Additionally, an outdoor screening of the film will be open... read more about Getting ready for Full Frame? Here’s two ways to view our 2020 prize winner Riafn »
Statement of Solidarity Against Anti-Asian Violence
Monday, March 22, 2021The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute stands with this collective statement from Duke and UNC colleagues, initiated by Duke Asian American and Diaspora Studies, on the 3/16 mass killing in Atlanta and the rise of anti-Asian violence in the US more generally. To sign this statement in... read more about Statement of Solidarity Against Anti-Asian Violence »
Latin America Working Group to host reading group and workshop series
Friday, February 12, 2021The Latin America: Theory and Narrative in Present Tense Working Group will convene a reading group and workshop series in Spring 2021. Reading group discussions will precede a workshop with the book's author the following week. All books are available electronically through Duke University... read more about Latin America Working Group to host reading group and workshop series »
New Documentary Draws Attention to Pauli Murray’s Legacy
Wednesday, February 3, 2021A new documentary on the life of groundbreaking legal scholar and civil rights activist Pauli Murray, My Name is Pauli Murray, premiered at Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2020. The documentary incorporated footage of Pauli Murray’s childhood home in Durham, North Carolina, which was... read more about New Documentary Draws Attention to Pauli Murray’s Legacy »
