Upcoming Events
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 12:00pm
314 Allen Building
A Reading with Batsirai Chigama and Togara Muzanenhamo sponsored by Duke University Concillium on Southern Africa.
Batsirai Chigama has been a teacher of performance and creative writing workshops for over two decades. Her rst poetry collection, Gather the Children, won the 2019 Outstanding First... Read More »
Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 7:00pm
Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium
Photography and the Uncertainty of the Present
This series brings together practicing artists, scholars and curators to discuss the radical potential of photography to illuminate the condition of the present, focusing on the camera's ability to represent built environments and their relationship to... Read More »
Friday, November 15, 2019 - 4:30pm
Allen 314
This talk is taken from a larger project on how late medieval popular drama became a central battleground for staging contemporary debates about the nature of knowledge and the politics of knowledge production. The lecture shows how the history for the development of the "Christ and the Doctors"... Read More »
Monday, November 18, 2019 - 6:00pm
314 Allen Building
we'll have Stephanie Elizondo Griest from UNC joining us for a talk, "Art Against the Wall," and discussion of her book, All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands. You can access the book online with your NetID here: https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE008187435?... Read More »
Friday, January 24, 2020 - 11:30am
East Duke Parlors
This panel debates the concept of care - the vast amount of laboring and affective labor - gendered and racialized - that exists (often simultaneously) in varying states of commodification and non-commodification and whose consistent performance is indispensable for survival. This care labor... Read More »