Events

What Can The Humanities Contribute to the Global Energy Transition?

What Can The Humanities Contribute to the Global Energy Transition?

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Gross Hall, Ahmadieh Family Grand Hall, Room 330

****NOTE: The event has reached capacity, but the waitlist is still open! Register: https://bit.ly/oct18panelClimate catastrophe-already brutally present in the form of now-annual disastrous… read more »

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Poetry Reading and Conversation - Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation

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Join Editor Dr. Wamuwi Mbao and poet Mjele Msimang in conversation with Professor Tsitsi Jaji for a discussion and poetry reading.  In Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation,… read more »

Seminar on Glas, Session II: On Hegel's Fetishization of Africa

Seminar on Glas, Session II: On Hegel's Fetishization of Africa

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Online

Please register here: https://duke.is/rcn9yA new translation of Jacques Derrida's Glas has given us the opportunity to revisit this groundbreaking experimental text. In Glas, Derrida juxtaposes… read more »

Roundtable Event

Roundtable Event

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Allen 314

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Season 2 of Novel Dialogue: Kamila Shamsie and Ankhi Mukherjee

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Spotify, Apple Podcast, Stitcher, and noveldialogue.org

Pakistani and British writer and novelist Kamila Shamsie will join Ankhi Mukherjee, professor of English and World Literatures at University of Oxford as the guests for season two's fourth episode of… read more »

Antigone's Afterlives in Feminist Theory: Bonnie Honig in Conversation with Stefani Engelstein

Antigone's Afterlives in Feminist Theory: Bonnie Honig in Conversation with Stefani Engelstein

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Online

Register here: https://duke.is/9ch7dJoin us for a conversation between feminist political theorists, Bonnie Honig and Stefani Engelstein, as they reflect on their mutual explorations of Antigone… read more »

How and Why Some U.S. Billionaires Are Funding Anti-Feminism, Global Homophobia, and Other Attacks on Democracy

How and Why Some U.S. Billionaires Are Funding Anti-Feminism, Global Homophobia, and Other Attacks on Democracy

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Zoom

PRESENTERS:Lisa Graves (Executive Director of True North Research and President of the Board of the Center for Media and Democracy) Nancy MacLean(History Department, GSFS, Duke University) CHAIR:Anna… read more »

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Season 2 of Novel Dialogue: Caryl Phillips and Corina Stan

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Kittitian-British novelist, playwright, and essayist Caryl Phillips will join Corina Stan, associate professor of English at Duke University as the guests for season two's fifth episode of the Novel… read more »

Louise Toppin, soprano & John O’Brien, piano

Louise Toppin, soprano & John O’Brien, piano

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East Duke 201 - Nelson Music Room

Performance and collaboration with the members of the Composition Seminar "Double Consciousness: Perspectives on Black Music and Poetry," featuring premieres and conversation. This concert is… read more »

Aarthi Vadde, Novel Dialogue Podcast

Aarthi Vadde, Novel Dialogue Podcast

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Allen 314

Associate professor of English, Aarthi Vadde will be the November feature presenter. The department plans to host this series in-person, in Allen 314, on Tuesday afternoons and to offer each episode… read more »

Blackburn Writer in Residency Reading: Caryl Phillips

Blackburn Writer in Residency Reading: Caryl Phillips

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Allen 314

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Season 2 of Novel Dialogue: Cristina Rivera Garza, Kate Marshall, and Dominique Vargas

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Mexican author and professor Cristian Rivera Garza will be joined by Kate Marshall, associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, and Dominique Vargas, postdoctoral fellow at the… read more »

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Season 2 of Novel Dialogue: Viet Thanhn Nguyen and Colleen Lye

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Vietnamese-American novelist, Viet Thanh Nguyen will join Colleen Lye, associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley as the guests for season two's final episode of the Novel Dialogue podcast.  read more »

2022 MLA Annual Convention

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Washington, DC

The 2022 MLA Annual Convention will be held in Washington, DC, from 6 to 9 January. The presidential theme is Multilingual US. We look forward to providing some of the virtual elements we had in 2021… read more »