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FHI HBCU Fellow leads art tour for Winston-Salem State students

Monday, May 4th, 2009
On April 24, a group of students and faculty from the fine arts department at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) enjoyed a day-long art tour at Duke University. Multimedia artist Fatimah Tuggar (pictured), one of three faculty members from a historically black college and university (HBCU) in residence at Duke’s John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute this year, organized the trip. Tuggar recently taught art at WSSU where she worked with a number of the visiting students. Read the rest of the story here.

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FHI Distinguished Resident interviewed in the Durham News

Monday, May 4th, 2009
As part of her residency here at the FHI, South African Constitutional Court Justice Yvonne Mokgoro met with lawyers and judges from the Durham area to discuss law and social justice. The event was organized by the Duke Human Rights Center. Here is a story about the meeting and a related interview in The Durham News.

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Duke Institute Honors Scholarship and Academic Tradition of John Hope Franklin

Monday, April 6th, 2009
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) is hosting several upcoming events paying tribute to the scholarship and academic tradition of John Hope Franklin, who died last month.  Click here for the full story from Duke's Office of News and Communications.

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Ian Baucom named next FHI Director

Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Ian Baucom, professor and chair of Duke’s English department, has been named director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), effective July 1. Baucom will succeed Professor Srinivas Aravamudan, who will become dean of the humanities in Arts & Sciences. Read press release from Duke News and Communications here.

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Pauli Murray Project

Monday, March 30th, 2009
New Project Promotes Local Community Conversation and Reconciliation http://news.duke.edu/2009/03/pauli_murray.html

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Homi Bhabha Lecture on Duke Research Blog

Thursday, March 26th, 2009
The 2009 FHI Annual Distinguished Lecture by Homi Bhabha was recently featured in the Duke Research Blog.  As noted in the post, Prof. Bhabha argued that a "major factor in [the Rwandan] genocide is the apparatus of 'neighborly power,'whereby neighbors become enemies, and ordinary things become instruments of evil."  The very ordinariness of the neighbor made the violence of the mass killings all the more grotesque and excessive - yet, paradoxically, neighborly relations also hold the promise of redress and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda, through the community-based gacaca trials.

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President Obama appoints Carole M. Watson as Acting Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Friday, February 27th, 2009
http://neh.gov/news/archive/20090210.html

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In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth

Friday, February 27th, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/books/25human.html?_r=1&em

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Office hours for FHI Distinguished Scholars in Residence Wendy Brown

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
As part of her residency at the FHI, Prof. Wendy Brown will be available to meet with interested faculty and students at the following times in Room 204, Franklin Center:
* Friday, February 27, 4:00-5:30pm
* Tuesday, March 3, 4:00-5:30pm
* Tuesday, March 17, 4:00-5:30pm
* Friday, March 20, 4:00-5:30pm
For more information, contact FHI Assistant Director Chris Chia.

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FHI director named humanities dean

Monday, January 26th, 2009
Srinivas Aravamudan will be moving on from his position at the helm of the FHI to a new level of responsibility as Duke's next Dean of Humanities, effective July 1, 2009. The complete story, which has just been released to the public, can be found here.

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FHI in the news: Duke Chronicle article on Fred Jameson lecture

Friday, November 14th, 2008
On November 10, more than 150 faculty and students from Duke and beyond attended "World Literature," a lecture by Prof. Fred Jameson, 2008 winner of the prestigious Holberg International Memorial Prize.  The event was co-hosted by the FHI with the Program in Literature, the Department of Romance Studies, and the College of Arts and Sciences.  The Duke Chronicle covered the event: read the whole thing here.

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FHI to co-host Fredric Jameson lecture & reception in honor of Holberg Prize achievement

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Fredric Jameson is honored by Norway's Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund

DURHAM, NC -- Duke University’s Fredric R. Jameson will receive the fifth annual Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund announced Tuesday in Norway. The professor of literature was cited for his many contributions, grounded in literary studies, to cultural theory and cultural studies, hermeneutics, architectural and postcolonial theory, aesthetics, film and television studies, and history. Click here to read the complete story at the Duke News and Communications site.


On Monday, November 10, 4:30pm, the FHI and the Program in Literature will host a talk by Prof. Jameson entitled "World Literature." Duke President Richard Brodhead will introduce Prof. Jameson, and a distinguished panel will respond to the lecture. The event will be followed by a public reception in honor of the award of the Holberg Prize to Prof. Jameson.

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Meet the New Faculty: Jennifer Brody

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Exploring the intersection of race, gender and art

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Adam Hochschild Interviewed in Duke Today

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Adam Hochschild, author of the acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains, will speak at Duke on October 6, 2008, as part of the FHI and Duke Human Rights Center's In the Name of Humanity event series. Read his interview with Duke Today's Geoffrey Mock here.

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FHI Director to speak on “Use and Abuse of Ethics” (9/26/08)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
FHI Director Srinivas Aravamudan will appear in a panel on "The Use and Abuse of Ethics," along with National Humanities Center Director Geoffrey Harpham and Duke Dean of Chapel Sam Wells, on Friday, September 26, 2008 (2:30pm, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library). For more information on the program, click here.

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Welcome to the New FHI Website

Monday, August 25th, 2008
Welcome! We've created a new site using a "dashboard" approach, new content, and new ways of finding information. Please click around and let us know what you think! FHI Director Srinivas Aravamudan introduces the new site and our 2008-09 program year here. We hope to see you often in the coming year.

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New Duke Islamic Studies Center Website

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Our colleagues at DISC (the Duke Islamic Studies Center) have launched an information-rich website, which can be viewed here. Congratulations to faculty director Bruce Lawrence and Senior Program Coordinator Kelly Jarrett for this great addition to Duke's digital realm.

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Duke Launches New Online Events Calendar

Monday, August 11th, 2008

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Duke in the News, the Foreign Edition

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Faculty member, DukeEngage program get cited in foreign press A Duke faculty member and a Duke program are getting attention in the foreign press this month. Both art historian Richard Powell (co-convener of the 2003-04 FHI Annual Seminar, Monument, Document) and the DukeEngage program in Colombia are subjects of major articles. Read more...

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Nasher Museum of Art Appoints New Director of Development

Monday, June 30th, 2008

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Mark Anthony Neal on Venus & Serena

Monday, July 9th, 2007
Mark Anthony Neal, who co-convened the FHI seminar Recycle last year, has a great post up on his blog on Venus and Serena Williams.  Read the whole thing here. On a related note, Orin Starn, also an FHI seminar alum, will be teaching his popular anthropology of sports course again in Fall 08.

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