PANELS, SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES, 2008-09

The FHI presents periodic group programs focused on critical issues in the humanities and social sciences. Programs include: Faculty Bookwatch, which celebrates and promotes scholarly conversations on notable publications by Duke humanities faculty; the Scholarly Publishing Series presented by the FHI and the Duke University Press; and one-time events organized around specific themes, such as the 2007 symposium 200 Years after the Abolition of the British Slave Trade and this Fall’s Empire without End.

Upcoming Programs, 2008-09

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Franklin Center, Room 240 - 2:00-5:30 PM

The Sea is History: Moun Kanntè, Yoleros, Balseros, Boteros
A symposium on Human Dispersion & the Caribbean Sea

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Friday, April 17, 4:00-6:00pm
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center

African Ubuntu and South African Constitutionalism:
Constructing a New Legal Culture
A Public Conversation with Yvonne Mokgoro, Jean Comaroff, & John Comaroff

Presented by the Concilium on Southern Africa

More information coming soon!

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Friday, May 1, 2009, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Room 240, Franklin Center

HBCU Fellowship Program Symposium
With keynote lecture by Darlene Clark Hine and sessions organized by the FHI’s 2008-09 HBCU Faculty Fellows Jelani Favors, Fatimah Tuggar, Dana Williams

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Past Programs, 2008-09

Sunday, October 5, 2008, 6:00 PM
Griffith Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus

Screening + Panel Discussion
KING LEOPOLD’S GHOST
With Director Pippa Scott and Author Adam Hochschild

Presented with the Duke Human Rights Center, Archive for Human Rights, Duke Center for International Studies, Screen/Society

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Friday, October 31 - Saturday, November 1, 2008
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center

EMPIRE WITHOUT END
A Conference

Presented with the Department of Classical Studies, Program in Women’s Studies, and Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms

To download a PDF of the complete conference program schedule, click here.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 4:00 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, West Campus

Faculty Bookwatch: Intensely Human by Margaret Humphreys
An interdisciplinary panel discussion with Robert Cook-Deegan, Thavolia Glymph, Todd Savitt, Priscilla Wald AND Margaret Humphreys

Presented with the Duke University Libraries (series co-sponsor), Department of History, & Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 4:30 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, West Campus

Faculty Bookwatch: Race: A Theological Account by J. Kameron Carter
An interdisciplinary panel discussion with Elizabeth Clark, Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Ken Surin, Maurice Wallace & J. Kameron Carter

Presented with the Duke University Libraries

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 3:00-6:00pm
240 Franklin Center (with overflow spaces)

Sovereignty and Security
A Symposium with Etienne Balibar, Wendy Brown, Homi Bhabha (Respondent)

Prof. Bhabha will deliver the 2009 A. W. Mellon/Franklin Humanities Institute Distinguished Lecture - more information here. Wendy Brown and Etienne Balibar are FHI Distinguished Scholars in Residence in Spring 2009, learn more about their respective visits here and here.

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Thursday-Friday, April 9-10, 2009
Nasher Museum of Art (Apr 9) + East Duke Parlor (Apr 10)

The Common and Forms of the Commune: Alternative Social Imaginaries
A Symposium

Featuring a Conversation with Etienne Balibar and Antonio Negri

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