Monday, May 04, 2009
LECTURES, 2008-09
The FHI presents numerous lectures from scholars, writers, and artists from a wide range of disciplines. In addition to lectures associated with our Annual Seminar and Distinguished Scholars in Residence Program, we host an Annual Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities and Current Residents, a series of occasional talks by visiting scholars at Duke. We also sponsor and co-sponsor many other lectures outside these series constructs.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS, 2008-09
Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 12:00-1:00pm
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Let Me LIve in the Heights of My Time: Black Colleges and the Legacy of Idealism and Activism in Education
A Wednesdays at the Center Program
Jelani Favors
Assistant Professor of History, Morgan State University
Andrew W. Mellon HBCU Faculty Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 5:30pm
Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium
A Reading by Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander
2009 Inaugural Poet
Professor, Department of African American Studies, Yale University
PAST PROGRAMS, 2008-09
Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 4:30pm
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Culture as Performance: Developing a Concept of Performance
ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE
Professor & Director of Theater Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
FHI Distinguished Scholar in Residence
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Thursday, September 18, 2008, 4:30pm
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Blurring the Boundaries between Reality and Fiction in Contemporary Theatre
ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE
Professor & Director of Theater Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
FHI Distinguished Scholar in Residence
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Monday, October 6, 2008, 5:00pm
Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center (LSRC)
ADAM HOCHSCHILD
Author of King Leopold’s Ghost & Bury the Chains
Public Reception to Follow
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
George Washington Williams: The Case of a Neglected American Hero
A Wednesdays at the Center Program
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University
LEA WERNICK FRIDMAN
Professor of English, City University of New York
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
The House that Toni Built at Random: Contemporary African American Fiction and the Shadows of the Black Arts Movement
A Wednesdays at the Center Program
DANA WILLIAMS
Associate Professor of English, Howard University
Andrew W. Mellon HBCU Faculty Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute
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Friday, October 31, 2008, 9:15am
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Whose Empire Anyway?
Empire Without End Conference Plenary Address
WOLE SOYINKA
Nobel Laureate in Literature
FHI/Karl von der Heyden Distinguished Scholar in Residence
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Friday, October 31, 2008, 4:15pm
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Women/Slaves/Empires
Empire Without End Conference Plenary Address
PAGE duBOIS
Distinguished Professor of Classics & Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego
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Monday, November 10, 2008, 4:30 pm
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Cente
Fredric Jameson
William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature & Romance Studies, Duke University
Winner, Holberg International Memorial Prize 2008
Public reception in honor of Prof. Jameson’s Holberg Prize to follow
Presented with the Program in Literature, Department of Romance Studies, & College of Arts and Sciences
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 5:30 pm
Nasher Museum of Art
“Also, I Know That a Man Can Become of an Incredible Wickedness Very Suddenly”: Time, Agency, and the Banality of Evil
The 2009 A. W. Mellon/Franklin Humanities Institute Distinguished Lecture
Homi K. Bhabha
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
Director, the Humanities Center at Harvard
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