FHI Short Residencies bring distinguished scholars to campus for intensive engagement with the Duke humanities community. In addition to public talks and other events, our Scholars in Residence lead reading groups, visit classes, hold office hours, and interact in other formal and informal ways with our faculty and students. A legacy FHI program, the Residencies have been relaunched in 2023-24 thanks to the generous support of the Schiff Family Dean of Humanities and the Arts.
Jodi Dean | November 2025
November 18, 2025
Mahdi Ahmel, Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Reading group with Jodi Dean
November 20, 2025
Public Lecture: Jodi Dean, "Neo Feudalism and the New Class Struggle"
November 21, 2025
Work-in-Progress: Jodi Dean, "Communist Freedoms"
Christopher Newfield | January 2026
January 15, 2026
Public Lecture: “The University System in the Knowledge Crisis”
January 16, 2026
Reading Group: "PMC at the Crossroads: the Management Crisis in Academia"
January 20, 2026
Reading Group: "AI and the Governance of Academic Learning: 3 Reviews"
January 22, 2026
Public Lecture: “The Liberation of Criticism”
January 23, 2026
Reading Group:"The Political Economy of the Academic Humanities"