Monday, May 04, 2009
DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE, 2008-09
Each year, the Franklin Humanities Institute brings between four to eight distinguished visiting scholars to Duke campus, for residencies of two to four weeks. Each scholar in residence participates in a range of events, including public lectures, weekly seminars, workshops and conversations designed for graduate and undergraduate students, and other programs. In addition, each resident maintains an office at the FHI and will be available for meetings with Duke faculty members and students.
Upcoming Residencies
March 16 - April 10, 2009
ÉTIENNE BALIBAR
Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy, Université Paris X - Nanterre
Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, University of California, Irvine
Wednesday, March 18, 3:00-6:00pm, Franklin Center 240
Sovereignty and Security: Wendy Brown, Etienne Balibar, Homi Bhabha
Thursday, April 9, 1:00-3:00pm, Nasher Museum of Art
Conversation with Antonio Negri
Part of The Common and Forms of the Commune: A Symposium
For more information about Étienne Balibar and additional programs during his residency, including his seminars for faculty and graduate students, click here.
April 13 - 22, 2009HON. YVONNE MOKGORO
Justice of the South African Constitutional Court
Tuesday, April 14, 12:15-1:15pm, 3037 Duke Law School
My Life in the Law
Friday, April 17, 4:30-6:00pm, 240 Franklin Center
African Ubuntu and South African Constitutionalism: Constructing a New Legal Culture
A Public Conversation with Jean Comaroff, & John Comaroff
Monday, April 20, 4:30-6:00pm, 4042 Duke Law School
Discussion of the Khosa Judgment (2004)
For more information about Yvonne Mokgoro and additional programs during her residency, click here.
Other 2008-09 Residencies
September 8 - 19, 2008
ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE
Professor & Director of Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Tuesday, September 9, 4:30pm, 240 Franklin Center
Lecture: Culture as Performance: Developing a Concept of Performance
Thursday, September 18, 4:30pm, 240 Franklin Center
Lecture: Blurring the Boundaries between Reality and Fiction in Contemporary Theatre
To register for Prof. Fischer-Lichte’s faculty and graduate seminar, The Transformative Power of Performance, e-mail FHI@duke.edu.
For more information about Erika Fischer-Lichte and other programs during her residency, click here.
October 31 - November 21, 2008WOLE SOYINKA
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Friday, October 31, 2008, 9:15am
Lecture: Whose Empire Anyway?
Plenary Address, Empire Without End Conference
To register for Wole Soyinka’s faculty seminar on the trans-Saharan slave trade, e-mail FHI@duke.edu.
For more information about Wole Soyinka and other programs during his residency, click here.
February 23 - March 6, March 16 - 23, 2009WENDY BROWN
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, March 18, 3:00-6:00pm, Franklin Center 240
Sovereignty and Security: Wendy Brown, Etienne Balibar, Homi Bhabha
Friday-Saturday, March 20-21, Sanford Institute
Feminist Theory Workshop
For more information about Wendy Brown and additional programs
during her residency, including her mini-seminar on Marx’s critique of
religion, click here.
