Left of Black | Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. on Black Patience and the Struggle for Civil Rights John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U. 2026-09-23 | Left of Black | Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. on Black Patience and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Left of Black | Black Womens Buying Power with Dr. Aria Halliday Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-30 | Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackWhat is the influence of Black women over how markets pivots and reacts to consumer demand? And what is the cultural history behind how our American pop culture is influenced by Black women? Dr. Aria S. Halliday, Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky joins host Mark Anthony Neal to discuss her new book, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture," published by University of Illinois Press. Learn more about Dr. Halliday here: ariashalliday.comYou can find her book here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=83zmd7ed9780252044274Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.Directed and edited by Eric Barstow.@Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute @Duke University's Department of African & African American Studies @John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University #blackstudies #blackscholars
The Scary Thing About Hip Hop Now? | Left of Black #SHORTS w/ 9th Wonder Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-25 | If new artists are not looking to have longevity in hip-hop, getting in and getting out, what will that mean for the culture? Legendary producer Patrick "Ninth Wonder" Douthit gives his take on the where the genre is today and what he hopes to see. Watch FULL CONVO: youtu.be/JWLhL_oN4Wg#ninthwonder #blackstudies
The Vanishing Producer in Hip-Hop | Left of Black #SHORTS w/ 9th Wonder Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-25 | What is the changing landscape of hip-hop and how did that compare to old school? Hear legendary producer Ninth Wonder spits some facts about what he has seen in the industry and what he has to say to young producers. Watch FULL CONVO: youtu.be/JWLhL_oN4Wg#ninthwonder #blackstudies
Left of Black with Hip-Hop Producer Ninth Wonder Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-24 | Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackIn this special episode of Left of Black, Dr. Mark Anthony Neal sits down with legendary hip-hop producer and long-time friend, Patrick "Ninth Wonder" Douthit to discuss his legacy in the music industry and his professorship at Duke University and beyond. From rap icon Pete Rock and old school hip-hop to the state of women's basketball to Douthit's new sneaker line from Nike, the two men touch on multiple topics during a visit to Douthit's recording studio near Downtown Raleigh, NC. Visit Ninth Wonder's very own NC recording label, Jamla Records, here: jamlarecords.com/mainLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.Directed and edited by Eric Barstow.@Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute @Duke University's Department of African & African American Studies #blackstudies #blackscholars Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)Additional footage & photography used in this episode were produced by the following:9th Wonder addresses Harvard students in a scene from the documentary "The Hip-Hop Fellow," produced by Price Filmsmedia.npr.org/assets/img/2014/04/03/9th1_custom-c31ecab5fea66ac005d0b431b89c09d1e60bfb15-s1600-c85.webp9th Wonder at Paid Dues, posted by Flowizm and Ninth Wonder on Wickipediacommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:9thWonderAtPaidDues-2008.jpg9th Wonder X Nike KD 15 “Charles Douthit” - Style Code: DO9827-901, produced by Window Shopping With Cacs on YouTubeyoutu.be/9eSaQPGzWp0Chucky Thompson, photo by Russell Websteri8.amplience.net/i/naras/chucky-thompson-2.jpeg.jpg?w=821&sm=cDRAKE SPEAKS ON 9TH WONDER, directed by Kenneth Price. Posted by Jamla Records on YouTubeyoutu.be/8vy06Ucwu1ULittle Brother - Lovin' It (feat. Joe Scudda) [Official Video], produced by Atlantic Recordsyoutu.be/vLReIhRgVS8Pete Rock and CL Smooth press kithiphopnostalgia.com/2020/06/pete-rock-cl-smooth-mecca-and-soul.htmlPete Rock & CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) (Official Video), posted by UPROXX Video on YouTubeProducer: Pete Rock & CL Smooth; Nevelle Hodge; Large ProfessorLabel: Untouchables/Elektra Recordsyoutu.be/k6mdRv0ZdR8Q-Tip image by © Chi Modu/Diverse Images/ Corbissf.ezoiccdn.com/ezoimgfmt/hiphopgoldenage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/42-28143650.jpg?ezimgfmt=ngcb1/notWebPTHE HIP-HOP FELLOW TRAILER, produced by Price Films. Posted by Jamla Records on YouTubeyoutu.be/612EqXJfOhEYoung Guru speaks on 9th Wonder, directed by Kenneth Price. Posted by Jamla Records on YouTubeyoutu.be/4DhgQ_woGec
Maïko Le Lay | How Black and Japanese Hafus Be, Know, and Move Polyculturally On and Offline Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-21 | Dr. Maïko Le Lay presents early-stage findings of her most recent research project focusing on the identities and the digital and embodied practices of people who identify as Black and Japanese Hafus (ethnically 'half Japanese'). More particularly, this talk examines the ways Hafus navigate their complex biracial identities in different cultural spaces; build community; embody Polyculturalism; and develop new possibilities on and offline. Polyculturalism refers to the idea that individuals' relationships to cultures shift and are partial and plural. It celebrates the interconnectedness between different cultural groups as opposed to multiculturalism which tends to emphasize the separateness between various cultural identities (Kelley, R., Prashad, V.). Le Lay shares emerging themes from recent interviews conducted with Hafus, parents of young Hafus, community organizers, and influencers. The presentation starts with some background context around the loaded term Hafu using examples inspired by public figures such as Naomi Osaka, before identifying how others' perception impact Hafus' feeling of belonging and how they move in the world.Speaker bio:Dr. Maïko Le Lay is a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, dancer, and mentor from France and Japan whose research bridges the fields of performance, education, digital humanities, and African and Asian diasporic studies. Her current research examines the identities and embodied and digital practices of Black and Japanese people globally.@Duke Franklin Humanities Institute @Duke University #hafu #mixedrace #humanities #dukeuniversity
Left of Black | Abolishing the Child Welfare System with Dorothy E. Roberts Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-17 | Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackWhen we think of foster care in the U.S., we hope to see it as a system that is in place to protect the safety of at-risk children who are in abusive homes, providing a way out. However, according to the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at UPENN, Dr. Dorothy E. Roberts, this is sadly, disturbingly not the case when it comes to Black households. Statistics show that 1 in 10 Black children will be removed from their homes at least once before they reach 18 years of age. Is this the families' fault or is this indicative of a larger imprint of white supremacy inherent in our social services? In this episode of Left of Black, Dr. Roberts discusses her new book, "Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World," published by Basic Books. You can find out more about Dr. Roberts here: dorothyeroberts.comFind her book here: basicbooks.com/titles/dorothy-roberts/torn-apart/9781541675445Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.Directed and edited by Eric Barstow.@Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute @Duke University's Department of African & African American Studies @John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University #blackstudies #blackscholars
The Child Welfare System Needs To Be Abolished | Left of Black #SHORTS with Dr. Dorothy E. Roberts Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-16 | 1 in 10 Black children will be removed from their homes before they are 18 y.o. Does the child welfare system need to be abolished? How much disproportionate harm does this system do to Black families? Dr. Roberts discusses her new book, "Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World," published by Basic Books. Watch the FULL CONVO: youtu.be/jmKqQTK3ZkwYou can find out more about Dr. Roberts here: dorothyeroberts.comFind her book here: basicbooks.com/titles/dorothy-roberts/torn-apart/9781541675445Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.Directed and edited by Eric Barstow@Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute @John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University @Duke University's Department of African & African American Studies #blackstudies #blackscholars
The Climate of Theory: Hurricanes, Slave Skeletons, Tidalectics with Anny-Dominique Curtius Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-15 | Learn more at https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/entanglement-projectAbout the Talk: In 1995, hurricanes Iris, Luis and Marylin blasted the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe with devastating long-term effects. A similar phenomenon happened in 2007 in Réunion in the Indian Ocean, after hurricane Gamède severely impacted the island with record rainfall and flooding. While these hurricanes remain in collective memory among the most damaging ones, and while the trauma that they generated is cyclically reactivated every time island populations grapple with the durable effects of these hurricanes, massive soil erosion has excavated slave burial grounds on popular touristy beaches of Guadeloupe and Réunion. As intangible witnesses of a camouflaged archive, the land and the ocean unsettled an archeology of absence, triggered a resurgence of traumas, and channeled symbolic commemoration practices by grassroots communities. Professor Curtius examines how enslaved bodies molded into the soil of the violent space of the plantation rematerialize no longer as the ghosts of history or the furniture of the Code Noir, but as a memorial grammar that needs to be deciphered. Cross-pollinating embodied community engagement, mortuary archeology, creative spiritual art and post/decolonial critical theory, Curtius posits that a tidalectical and anarchival imagination matters to excavate entangled layers of meaning and reconfigure the skeletons of history in a time of climate change.About the Speaker: Anny-Dominique Curtius is Professor of Francophone Studies at the University of Iowa where she also serves as Co-Director of the Museum Futures Working Group at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. Her interdisciplinary books include Suzanne Césaire. Archéologie littéraire et artistique d'une mémoire empêchée [Suzanne Césaire. Literary and Artistic Archeology of a Hindered Memory] (2020), Symbioses d'une mémoire: Manifestations religieuses et littératures de la Caraïbe [Symbiosis of a Memory: Caribbean Religions and Literatures] (2006). She is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters in leading edited volumes and journals. She has two books in progress. One explores entangled subtitles and global audiences in Francophone cinemas. The second examines the entangled narrativization of slavery in politically charged memorials, performativities, visual arts and in the post-museum.On the Entanglement Project at Duke-FHI: Climate catastrophe cannot be thought outside of the context of empire and the forms of racialization central to global capitalism, including the degradation of peoples, ecosystems and lands facilitated by states in the global North. Threats to the very existence of the planet and all its inhabitants result from this genocidal global development project, yet the effects are being borne more grotesquely by those who live in the global South. Environmental justice efforts that overlook the longue durée trajectory of the historical operations of capitalism, and the raciality that affixes a disproportionate burden onto ex-colonized areas of the planet and its inhabitants, fall short of pointing us in a direction of systemic and just change.The Climate Change, Decolonization and Global Blackness Lab seeks to explore the linkages among three pivotal and simultaneously occurring catastrophes—criminality, displacement, pandemics—toward developing a set of principles regarding decolonization as an ethical approach to climate change. #environmentaljustice #environmentalracism #blackecology #globalblackness #decolonization @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute
Climate Change, Decolonization, & Global Blackness | The Slave Plantation with Dale Tomich Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-14 | Learn more at https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/entanglement-projectAbout the Talk: Dr. Dale Tomich, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, at Binghamton University, State University of New York, examines the history of the slave plantation as an integral part of the capitalist world-economy from the 15th through the 19th centuries. It explores the changing relation between the production of specific crops, environment, and the demand for slave labor over long historical time.About the Speaker: Prof. Tomich received his PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and former Deputy Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. He is author of Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique in the World-Economy, 1830-1848; Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital and World Economy; Espacios de esclavitud: tiempo / tiempos del capital; and Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (with Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, and Carlos Venegas Fornias), as well as numerous articles and chapters on the history of the capitalist world-system, Atlantic slavery and methods of historical inquiry.On the Entanglement Project at Duke-FHI: Climate catastrophe cannot be thought outside of the context of empire and the forms of racialization central to global capitalism, including the degradation of peoples, ecosystems and lands facilitated by states in the global North. Threats to the very existence of the planet and all its inhabitants result from this genocidal global development project, yet the effects are being borne more grotesquely by those who live in the global South. Environmental justice efforts that overlook the longue durée trajectory of the historical operations of capitalism, and the raciality that affixes a disproportionate burden onto ex-colonized areas of the planet and its inhabitants, fall short of pointing us in a direction of systemic and just change.The Climate Change, Decolonization and Global Blackness Lab seeks to explore the linkages among three pivotal and simultaneously occurring catastrophes—criminality, displacement, pandemics—toward developing a set of principles regarding decolonization as an ethical approach to climate change. #environmentaljustice #environmentalracism #blackecology #globalblackness #decolonization @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute
Left of Black | Celebrating Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination with Robin D.G. Kelley Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-10 | Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackIs the South as conservative as we think? Or has it always been ground zero for radical Black thinking and organizing of civil rights and labor rights movements? In this special episode of Left of Black, host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal sits with long-time friend and colleague, celebrated historian Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley to discuss the nature of the South in these tumultuous times and the 20th anniversary of one of Kelley's most memorable publications, "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination," published by Beacon Press.Dr. Kelley is the Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. Learn more about him here: https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/robin-d-g-kelleyYou can get a copy of "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination" here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206173/freedom-dreams-by-robin-dg-kelleyLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.Directed, shot and edited by Eric Barstow@Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute @dukehistory @John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University @Duke University's Department of African & African American Studies #blackstudies #blackscholars
The Radical South, Political Organizing | Left of Black #SHORTS with Historian Robin D.G. Kelley Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-09 | "Jim Crow does not define Black people or Black struggle. Race relations do not define us. What defines us is the struggle to democratize the South."Hear Robin D.G. Kelley on Left of Black. Watch the FULL CONVO here: youtu.be/D23W_fRDm98#blackscholars #blackstudies
tgiFHI | Dr. Mark Anthony Neal | The Love Languages of Black Fatherhood Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-08 | See our 2022-2023 Schedule: https://fhi.duke.edu/news/2022-2023-tgifhi-schedule"The Love Languages of Black Fatherhood"From Dr. Mark Anthony Neal: Thirty years ago, Gary Chapman posited the idea of the “Five Love Languages” – “Words of affirmation, quality time, acts of service, gifts, and physical touch.” When we think of Black men – Black fathers – we rarely think in terms of “love languages”, but rather that of established stereotypes, absence, and shame. I was eight years old when my dad handed me my first spatula. The assignment on that Sunday morning in 1973 was a hard fried egg, then pancakes and soon I was a veteran of the fried baloney sandwich. For this undereducated, working-class Black man, who toiled six-days a week as a short-order-cook, food, or rather the cooking of food, was one of his love languages – it was how he made himself present. In this talk I document how the shifting presentation of men in a patriarchal society has forced Black men to play catch up each time the goal post of cultural expectations moves. I use historical context, personal reflection and data to argue that American culture does not have enough language to adequately understand or describe Black fatherhood. This project aims to both highlight the language that already exists and to add language to the cultural conversation that helps people recognize and acknowledge the presence of the Black father.Read an exclusive interview that Dr. Neal gave related to this presentation: https://fhi.duke.edu/highlights/meet-your-humanities-faculty-mark-anthony-nealSpeaker's Bio:Mark Anthony Neal is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies, Professor of English, and Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, where he teaches courses on Black Popular Culture including signature courses on the history of Black Humor, Black Masculinity, and the Motown & American Culture. Neal is the author of six books including the just published Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Public Culture (1999), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture, the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002) and Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (2013), and co-editor, with Murray Forman, of That’s The Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (now in its 2nd edition). Neal has been featured in several documentaries including PBS’s Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Netflix’s The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, and A&E’s Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution, and even portrayed himself in an episode of the BET scripted drama, Being Mary jane, which starred Gabrielle Union. At Duke, Neal directs the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) which produces original digital content, including the weekly video podcast "Left of Black," (now in its 13th season), produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke. A native of the Bronx, NY, he received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his M.A. and B.A. from the State University of New York at Fredonia. He resides in Durham with his wife and two daughter.Please join the Franklin Humanities Institute for its Friday morning series, tgiFHI! tgiFHI gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretative social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current research to their departmental (and interdepartmental) colleagues, students, and other interlocutors in their fields.
Left of Black | Afro-Optimism and Black Chicago with Ayana Contreras Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-03 | Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackBlack Chicago has been an incubator for some of the most talented and successful artists and entrepreneurs who have really made the city what it is today. Author and podcast host Ayana Contreras joins Dr. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss her latest book, "Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago," published by University of Illinois Press, which delves into the legacies of some of the powerhouses of cultural production in The Windy City. Learn more about Ayana Contreras and her podcast, "Reclaimed Soul," on WBEZ Chicago and Vocalo, here: vocalo.org/members/ayanacontrerasFind her book here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=84kcq6nx9780252044069Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.Directed and edited by Eric Barstow.@Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute @John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University @Duke University's Department of African & African American Studies #BlackStudies #blackscholars
My Beef with Afro-Pessimism | Left of Black #SHORTS with Ayana Contreras Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-11-02 | Watch the full convo: youtu.be/UwRwOFUQAaoAuthor & podcast host Ayana Contreras talks about why afro-pessimism just doesn't work as a way to view the world and how the vibrancy and innovation of Black Chicago made The Windy City what it is today. Learn more about Ayana Contreras and her podcast, "Reclaimed Soul," on WBEZ Chicago and Vocalo, here: vocalo.org/members/ayanacontrerasFind her book here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=84kcq6nx9780252044069Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.Directed and edited by Eric Barstow. @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute @John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University @Duke University's Department of African & African American Studies #BlackStudies #blackscholars
On Visual Satirist Ollie Harrington | Faculty Bookwatch, Session 2 Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-10-31 | This conversation was held between Dr. Richard J. Powell and the art collector Walter O. Evans about Ollie Harrington, the brilliant visual satirist who receives extensive attention in Powell's "Going There: Black Visual Satire" (Yale University Press, 2020). Amplifying Powell's extensive analysis of Harrington's long career and powerful work, Evans brings not only his deep understanding of Harrington's art but also his personal experience. As Harrington's supporter and advocate, Evans spent significant time with him in the US and in Berlin, where Harrington lived and worked for decades.The Faculty Bookwatch program promotes interdisciplinary conversations on major recent books by Duke humanities, interpretive social sciences, and arts faculty members.This conversation was moderated by Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University.Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke University Libraries. Cosponsors are the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.
Lewis R. Gordon, On Enslavement, Decolonization, and Freedom Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-10-27 | Duke FHI's From Slavery to Freedom Lab held their Distinguished Lecture Series with Lewis R. Gordon, "On Enslavement, Decolonization, and Freedom."Drawing upon ideas in his two recent books, "Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization" (2021) and "Fear of Black Consciousness" (2022), Dr. Gordon discusses how the project of dehumanization entailed misrepresentation in the study of racialized enslaved people, particularly through conceptions of them in antilock societies as "brute" labor. In effect offering a decolonization of the study of enslavement, he examines, through Africana existential philosophical critical analysis, what it means to be human, liberated, and free.The From Slavery to Freedom Lab is based at the Franklin Humanities Institute with support from the Mellon Foundation’s Global Engagement Fund in the Duke Office of Global Affairs.
Left of Black | Small Talk at Rofhiwa with Maurice O. Wallace on Dr. Kings Cadence Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-10-27 | Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackWhat is the sound of history in the cadence of Dr. King's speeches? Rutgers University Professor Maurice O. Wallace (Duke Ph.D, 1995) returned to Durham, NC at Rofhiwa Book Café to discuss his new book "King′s Vibrato; Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr.," published by Duke University Press. Of "King's Vibrato," Pulitzer Prize winning essayist Salimishah Tillet writes, "Off these pages leaps a version of King that kept on honing his craft to become both a trumpet of America's conscience and a sonic tributary for black America."This discussion between host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal and Professor Wallace is the launch of a new series called "Small Talk at Rofhiwa," a collaboration between Rofhiwa Books Café and Left of Black, the longest running video webcast produced at Duke by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. The "Small Talk at Rofhiwa" series takes its inspiration from Gil Scott-Heron's debut recording "Small Talk at 125th and Lenox."Learn more about Dr. Wallace here: https://english.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-profiles/details/1370-chair-s-office/6571-wallace-maurice.htmlFind his book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/kings-vibratoLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.Directed and edited by Eric Barstow. @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute @Duke University @John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University #BlackStudies #blackscholars
#Shorts Small Talk at Rofhiwa with Maurice O. Wallace on Dr. Kings Cadence Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-10-26 | What is the sound of history in the cadence of Dr. King's speeches? Rutgers University Professor Maurice O. Wallace talks about his new book, "King′s Vibrato; Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr.," published by Duke University Press. In this clip, Dr. Wallace shares why King's way of speaking resonated so much when he was a boy listening to his father's vinyl record of the "I Have A Dream" speech made during the historic 1963 March on Washington. Watch the full conversation here: youtu.be/oG46Px0ebPc
Richard J. Powell: Going There: Black Visual Satire | Faculty Bookwatch, Session 1 Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-10-24 | In this expansive study, Dr. Richard Powell presents the rich and varied history of African American visual satire in the 20th and 21st centuries, giving the work its due in all its intelligence, daring, and critical power and raising important questions about the social power of art.Panelists:• Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History, Duke University• Huey Copeland, BFC Presidential Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania• Meta DuEwa Jones, Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature, UNC Chapel Hill• Beverly McIver, Professor of the Practice in Visual Arts, Duke University• Marcus Wood, Professor of English and Diaspora Studies, University of SussexThe Faculty Bookwatch program promotes interdisciplinary conversations on major recent books by Duke humanities, interpretive social sciences, and arts faculty members. Presented by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Duke University Libraries. Cosponsors are the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.
Left of Black | Filmmaker Byron Hurt on HAZING Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-10-20 | Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackThe senseless violence that happens on America's college campuses all in the name of joining a fraternity or sorority has left an indelible, traumatic mark on the victims of hazing. Hazing rituals, more often than is discussed, has also lead to deadly outcomes for initiants, snuffing out the bright future these young people may have had. In this episode of Left of Black, host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal is joined by long-time friend and colleague, filmmaker and anti-sexist activist, Byron Hurt. His new film, "HAZING," tackles the culture behind the oft-mysterious practice and goes beyond college campuses to look at hazing in other formations, such as the military and even marching bands. "HAZING" is currently streaming on PBS Online. Watch it here: pbs.org/video/hazing-uiisvkByron Hurt combines his award-winning documentary films with a dynamic speaking style that challenges audiences to question gender, race, and class in American culture. His highly acclaimed documentary "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and broadcast nationally on PBS’ Emmy award-winning series Independent Lens. His film "Soul Food Junkies" won best documentary at several film festivals, and also premiered on Independent Lens. "HAZING" also premiered on Independent Lens nationwide on PBS on September 12, 2022. You can learn more about the incredible body of work by documentary film director Byron Hurt and the speaking engagements he does across the country here: http://www.bhurt.comLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.Directed and edited by Eric Barstow.@Duke Franklin Humanities Institute @Duke University @John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University @Duke University's Department of African & African American Studies #BlackStudies #StopHazing #hazing #HazingFilmPBS #blackscholars
Left of Black | Season 13 Premiere | Read Until You Understand with Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-10-13 | Find more Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-black"Read until you understand," started as a simple instruction for learning that Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin first heard from her father, Emerson, who tragically passed away when she was only nine years old. Those words stuck with her and became the title of her latest publication celebrating the magnificence of Black genius in all walks of life. "Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature," is a PBS NewsHour Best Book of the Year and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year in Nonfiction recipient, published by W. W. Norton & Company.Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University and was the inaugural chair of its African American and African Diaspora Studies Department.Find out more about Dr. Griffin here: farahjasminegriffin.comSupport the Durham-based Black woman-owned Rofhiwa Book Café by purchasing Dr. Griffin's book here: bit.ly/3rOpzaLDr. Griffin was joined by Left of Black founder and host, Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, who serves as the chair of African & African American Studies at Duke University and by 2022 Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist, Nnenna Freelon. The trio discussed grief, forgiveness, and a little bit on a long-forgotten piece of music history––the jukebox. This event took place at NorthStar Church of the Arts in Durham, founded by Freelon, as part of the 2022 Way Out of No Way Humanities Series. The series was co-curated by noted local African American scholars and was made possible in part by the generous support of the NC Humanities Council. NorthStar received an American Rescue Plan Humanities Grant from North Carolina Humanities, www.nchumanities.org. Funding for this grant was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act economic stabilization plan.Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.Directed and edited by Eric Barstow.@Duke Franklin Humanities Institute @Duke University @Duke University's Department of African & African American Studies #BlackStudies #BlackScholars
Reconsidering ‘The Historian in the World’ | John Hope Franklin Legacies Series Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-10-06 | Learn more about the John Hope Franklin Legacies Series at: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/john-hope-franklin-legacies-seriesOn October 27, 2007, two pre-eminent historians had a wide-ranging and remarkable conversation at Duke University. Among other topics, they discussed the commonalities shared by historians in such different fields as ancient Indian and modern American history; the role of interpretation and method in the writing of history; the constraints presented by periodization, nationalism, and Eurocentrism; and how they found themselves embroiled in controversies over school curricula and history textbooks that emerged as cultural flash points.These historians were the late John Hope Franklin, pathbreaking scholar of African American history, and Romila Thapar, world-renowned expert on ancient India, who was in residence at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) for the 2007-2008 academic year. The event was “The Historian in the World.”Earlier this year, FHI revisited the “The Historian in the World” through the lens of the present, with remarks from distinguished historians Laurent Dubois (UVA), Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA), and, joining us once more, Romila Thapar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Emerita), whose work continues to complicate nationalist narratives. FHI Director Ranjana Khanna moderated.This event was part of the John Hope Franklin Legacies Series and part of an ongoing effort to reactivate and reexamine archival materials from FHI’s past. Since 2015, the Franklin Humanities Institute has sponsored an event series in honor of our namesake, Dr. John Hope Franklin. We take seriously Dr. Franklin's demand to attend to both the untold stories and the familiar ones - “intellectualizing them,” as he put it - and to place those stories in the context of the world.In Spring 2018, we launched a new annual lecture – the John Hope Franklin Lecture – as the signature event of the broader John Hope Franklin Legacies Series. Featuring prominent writers, thinkers, and artists with bodies of work that resonate within and beyond the university, the John Hope Franklin Lecture pays tribute to Dr. Franklin’s remarkable career as a scholar and in public service, as well as his wide-ranging influence in the study of history, law, African-American life and culture, and global intellectual exchange.Panelists:• Laurent Dubois is John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History & Principles of Democracy and Director for Academic Affairs of the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia. He is a specialist on the history and culture of the Atlantic world who studies the Caribbean (particularly Haiti), North America, and France. • Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor of History and African American Studies and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research explores the history of social movements in the U.S., the African diaspora, and Africa - extending into research on Black intellectuals, music and visual culture, and surrealism and Marxism. • Romila Thapar is Professor Emerita in History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has served as a visiting professor at a number of academic institutions around the world including London University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the College de France in Paris. A leading scholar on ancient India, her work has been part of the shift from treating ancient history as Indology to establishing it as a Social Science.
Recalling Warren County | Discussing the Birth of a Movement Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-10-04 | The 1982 Warren County protests saw people, independent of race, come together to combat systemic injustices and environmental racism. Those who joined the weeks of protest did not know a larger movement would launch from their fight for basic human rights. And yet, these now famous efforts are hailed as the launching of the Environmental Justice Movement.Panelists:La'Meshia Whittington (Moderator)Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr.Dollie BurwellWayne MoseleyRev. William KearneyJenny LabalmeFormer Rep. Eva ClaytonEvent partners include the Duke Human Rights Center at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, The North Carolina Black Alliance, The Duke Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, The Warren County Environmental Action Team, and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke.Thumbnail Photo Credit: Ricky Stilleybit.ly/3frTjaw
Climate Change, Decolonization, & Global Blackness | Ancestral Claims with Denise Ferreira da Silva Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-09-19 | Learn more at https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/entanglement-projectAbout the Talk: If we are to attend to demands for decolonization (land dis-occupation and labor reparation), if we are to appreciate its ethical force, Prof. Ferreira da Silva argues, a radical philosophical re-orientation is needed. Towards contributing to such a move, in this presentation, she will comment on a speculative experiment on heat, which has been inspired by The Return of a Lake, an installation by the Brazilian artist Maria Tereza Alves. Ferreira da Silva will speculate on a shift of the undergrounds of thinking, which includes an account of existence that would correspond to a disruption of the basics of western philosophy, such as the collapsing of the metaphysical and the ontological into the existential without the presumption of transparency and the philosophical figure that hosts it, namely the subject.About the Speaker: An academic and artist, Denise Ferreira da Silva is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (U of Minnesota Press, 2007), A Dívida Impagavel (Oficina da Imaginaçāo Política and Living Commons, 2019), Unpayable Debt (Stenberg/MIT Press, 2022 ) and co-editor (with Paula Chakravartty) of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013). Her several articles have been published in leading interdisciplinary journals, such as Social Text, Theory, Culture & Society, Social Identities, PhiloSOPHIA, Griffith Law Review, Theory & Event, The Black Scholar, to name a few. Her artistic works includes the films Serpent Rain (2016) and 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational art practices Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon, in collaboration with Valentina Desideri.On the Entanglement Project at Duke-FHI: Climate catastrophe cannot be thought outside of the context of empire and the forms of racialization central to global capitalism, including the degradation of peoples, ecosystems and lands facilitated by states in the global North. Threats to the very existence of the planet and all its inhabitants result from this genocidal global development project, yet the effects are being borne more grotesquely by those who live in the global South. Environmental justice efforts that overlook the longue durée trajectory of the historical operations of capitalism, and the raciality that affixes a disproportionate burden onto ex-colonized areas of the planet and its inhabitants, fall short of pointing us in a direction of systemic and just change.The Climate Change, Decolonization and Global Blackness Lab seeks to explore the linkages among three pivotal and simultaneously occurring catastrophes—criminality, displacement, pandemics—toward developing a set of principles regarding decolonization as an ethical approach to climate change. #environmentaljustice #environmentalracism #blackecology #globalblackness #decolonization @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute
Story+ 2022 | Art as Relation and Repair Across Disabled Ecologies and Histories Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-08-05 | Learn more about Story+: https://fhi.duke.edu/storyIf we understand that “carbon” is only a symptom of the ecological crisis whose root cause is the broken relations between people, the earth, and each other, what stories and histories do we need to tell and illuminate, so that we can imagine ourselves into the future, living otherwise? This student Story+ team, Art as Relation and Repair Across Disabled Ecologies and Histories, searched for how to tell stories of deforestation across the United States as interwoven with the ongoing violence of settler colonialism, while centering environmental and disability justice. The team created a digital story-map that begins to tell these stories to a broader public. They also spent time in local forests (including Duke Forest) with a leading historic-tree arborist in order to have learned from, and with, the land. The research accomplished in Story+ supports the development of a multi-year project of large-scale artistic installations that will tour to endangered forests across the country, and internationally. Learn more about the long-term project through this article, “Animate Earth,” from the Winter 2021 issue of Orion Magazine, a publication focused on environmental and social justice:orionmagazine.org/article/the-animate-earthProject Sponsor(s): Marina Tsaplina, Artist; Kienle Scholar in Medical HumanitiesKevin Caves, Clinical Associate in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences; Clinical Associate in the Department of Medicine, Instructor in the Department of Biomedical EngineeringJules Odendahl-James, Dramaturg; Director of Academic Engagement, Arts & Humanities; Co-Director of Story+Graduate Mentor(s): Jessica Orzulak, Ph.D. candidate in Art HistoryUndergraduates: Jaiyin (Joy) Liu, Kaley Sperling, Huiyin ZhouStory+ is a 6-week summer research experience for Duke undergraduates interested in exploring humanities research approaches (archival research, oral histories, narrative analysis, visual analysis, and more). The program combines research with an emphasis on storytelling for different public audiences. In Story+, students are organized into small project teams and have the opportunity to participate in a flexible mini “curriculum” on research methods and storytelling strategies. Team projects may be led by Duke faculty, Duke librarians, or non-profit organizations, and will be supervised on a day-to-day basis by graduate student mentors.
Story+ 2022 | Curating and Integrating New Visual and Sonic Experiences Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-08-05 | Learn more about Story+: https://fhi.duke.edu/storyThe Curating and Integrating New Visual and Sonic Experiences Story+ Team spent 6 weeks curating, researching, and digitizing many of the musical instruments in the Duke University Musical Instrument Collections (DUMIC). Our goal was to tell the stories of the musical instruments in our collections and to show how physical objects can reveal complex webs of stories involving different kinds of people, places, and activities. The undergraduate students evaluated the instruments in the collection to determine which instruments they should feature in the museum space and on the website. The instruments on display before this project were mostly of Western origins, which led to the decision to majorly renovate the museum to better fit the goals of DUMIC and the work being done in the music department. By choosing to do this renovation, we faced questions such as: How do we display and position Western instruments with non-Western instruments ethically? What kinds of stories can we tell about the non-Western instruments when details of their specific histories are largely unknown? How do we approach aspects of those stories that have problematic details, such as its acquisition by anthropologists and the materials of which it was made? Once the instruments were chosen, we sought to find as much information on them as we could to educate the website viewer of its maker, social/historical context, and musical context. A large part of this work consisted of finding photos and videos of the instruments being played and making our own photos and recordings. When possible, we interviewed those who have interacted with the collections through donation, performance, or conservation for further understanding of a specific instrument or collection. These interviews with Professor Lex Silbiger, Professor R. Larry Todd, and Mr. John Watson are featured on the website as podcasts. Our website showcases the instruments of the collections to give the Duke and Durham community a way to interact with and access the interesting instruments in our collections. We are hopeful that this insightful website will bring more awareness to DUMIC!Check out the site here: https://sites.duke.edu/dumic/Project Sponsor(s): Roseen Giles, Assistant Professor of Music, Curator, Duke University Musical Instrument CollectionsGraduate Mentor(s): Hannah Krall, PhD Candidate, MusicologyUndergraduates: Peter Petroff, Elaine Guo, Abby Johnson, David TierneyStory+ is a 6-week summer research experience for Duke undergraduates interested in exploring humanities research approaches (archival research, oral histories, narrative analysis, visual analysis, and more). The program combines research with an emphasis on storytelling for different public audiences. In Story+, students are organized into small project teams and have the opportunity to participate in a flexible mini “curriculum” on research methods and storytelling strategies. Team projects may be led by Duke faculty, Duke librarians, or non-profit organizations, and will be supervised on a day-to-day basis by graduate student mentors.Thumbnail photo credit: Elaine Guo and the Duke University Musical Instrument Collections (DUMIC)
Story+ 2022 | From Stephen to C.B.: Tobacco, Race & Duke Mens Basketball Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-08-05 | Learn more about Story+: https://fhi.duke.edu/storyThis project sought to examine and re-narrate the historical relationship of tobacco, race, and the Duke University Men’s Basketball program. This project began by looking specifically at the subjectivities of Stephen Slade, the enslaved Black man who discovered the “Brightleaf” curing method of tobacco, and Claudius Claiborne, Duke University’s first Black Men’s Basketball player. Looking through the throughline of tobacco, the team produced a website detailing their connections. Among the most significant relationships unearthed through interviews with Dr. Claiborne, and site visits to the Duke Homestead were the communities formed during the segregation era. The team learned about their integral connections to the growth of “Black basketball” and the intentional effort Black coaches and players used to eradicate Jim Crow policies from their lives. This team also worked to expose the silences in the narratives and the absence of public recognition of these important figures. What was noticed is the lack of any monument or general marker of C.B. Claiborne in Cameroon Indoor Stadium, the Duke Basketball Museum, or any other public campus area. Through the website, Dr. Claiborne’s life was explored with write-ups and the use of archival materials to highlight his activism on campus, and in larger communities, including his missing practice and games to participate in the Allen Building Takeover. We are hopeful this project will lead Duke University to recognize and memorialize Dr. Claiborne, which will serve current and future Duke students and supporters. Visit the website here: sh6133.wixsite.com/duketobaccoProject Sponsor(s): Javier Wallace, PhD, Race and Sport Postdoctoral Associate, Duke African & African American StudiesGraduate Mentor(s): Damilare Bello, PhD Candidate, Duke EnglishUndergraduates: Sophia Hanani and Hanrui HuangStory+ is a 6-week summer research experience for Duke undergraduates interested in exploring humanities research approaches (archival research, oral histories, narrative analysis, visual analysis, and more). The program combines research with an emphasis on storytelling for different public audiences. In Story+, students are organized into small project teams and have the opportunity to participate in a flexible mini “curriculum” on research methods and storytelling strategies. Team projects may be led by Duke faculty, Duke librarians, or non-profit organizations, and will be supervised on a day-to-day basis by graduate student mentors.
Story+ 2022 | The Sound of Monuments and Protest Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-08-04 | Learn more about Story+: https://fhi.duke.edu/storyMonuments commemorating politicians and soldiers who fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War never stood silent. In this Story+ project, students considered why people celebrate, protest, or decide to keep silent about aspects of our collective past by turning to sound. This team also investigated how the participatory nature of public history opens us to the potential for resistance. How do sonic interventions challenge the supremacist and universalizing perspective of commemorative aesthetics? What were the sounds that uplifted freedom movements protesting public memorials? What kinds of silences have persisted over the years that a public sculpture has stood?Project Sponsor(s): Vance Byrd, Duke 2021 Humanities Unbounded Fellow, Presidential Associate Professor Germanic Languages and Literatures University of PennsylvaniaGraduate Mentor(s): Ellie Vilakazi, Ph.D. Candidate in EnglishUndergraduates: Princess Jackson (NCCU), De’Ja Bunyan (NCCU), Morgan Chumney, Malynda WollertStory+ is a 6-week summer research experience for Duke undergraduates interested in exploring humanities research approaches (archival research, oral histories, narrative analysis, visual analysis, and more). The program combines research with an emphasis on storytelling for different public audiences. In Story+, students are organized into small project teams and have the opportunity to participate in a flexible mini “curriculum” on research methods and storytelling strategies. Team projects may be led by Duke faculty, Duke librarians, or non-profit organizations, and will be supervised on a day-to-day basis by graduate student mentors.Thumbnail photo credit: Rumors of War by Kehinde Wiley, photographed by Erik Pendzich/Rex/Shutterstock via The Guardian (bit.ly/3BKlnis)
Story+ 2022 | Nuestra Historia, Nuestra Voz: Latinx at Duke Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-08-04 | Learn more about Story+: https://fhi.duke.edu/storyOver the past two years students in classes taught by Prof. Cecilia Márquez and Prof. Joan Munné have worked to create the first-of-its-kind exhibit in the Chappel Family Gallery in Perkins Library entitled “Nuestra Historia, Nuestra Voz: Latinx at Duke.” This exhibit documents the long history of Latinx students at Duke University. This Story+ team continued the important work started by this exhibit by producing a pilot website that documents the physical exhibit and using those materials to create new digital content. This website will be used in future courses and for future researchers. This project weaved together public humanities and digital humanities skills to produce a dynamic hub for the continued exploration of the rich history of Latinx's at Duke University and the region more broadly. Project Sponsor(s): Cecilia Márquez, Hunt Family Assistant Professor of HistoryJoan Munné, Senior Lecturer of Romance LanguageGraduate Mentor(s): Lucas da Silva Lopes, Ph.D. candidate in Romance StudiesUndergraduates: Megan Corey, Jamie Gonzalez, David SardáStory+ is a 6-week summer research experience for Duke undergraduates interested in exploring humanities research approaches (archival research, oral histories, narrative analysis, visual analysis, and more). The program combines research with an emphasis on storytelling for different public audiences. In Story+, students are organized into small project teams and have the opportunity to participate in a flexible mini “curriculum” on research methods and storytelling strategies. Team projects may be led by Duke faculty, Duke librarians, or non-profit organizations, and will be supervised on a day-to-day basis by graduate student mentors.
Story+ 2022 | Our Day Out: A Story of Queer Resistance and Leadership in Durham Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-07-26 | Learn more about Story+: https://fhi.duke.edu/storyOn April 12, 1981, four men sunbathing along the Little River in north Durham were assaulted by a group of men and women in what was quickly understood to be an anti-LGTBQ+ hate crime. One of the men—Ronald “Sonny” Antonevich—later died from the injuries he sustained that afternoon, leading to the arrest, prosecution, and conviction of the two men who killed him. In the weeks and months that followed, the Little River assault and subsequent trial inspired LGBTQ+ organizers in Durham to launch the Our Day Out protest, which was the most visible public demonstration for queer liberation in Durham to that point.Through archival research at the North Carolina Collection at the Durham County Library, the LGBTQ+ Collection at Duke's Rubenstein Library, and the Southern Oral History Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, as well as new oral histories, this Story+ project team interrogated how the story was told at the time; what was erased then and remains silenced now; what aspects of the story have been concealed over time and are ready to be reclaimed, including the discourse of reconciliation and restorative justice that some of the organizers advocated; and what modes of leadership were at work in the Our Day Out protest.Project Sponsor(s): Andrew Nurkin, Hart Associate Professor of the Practice, Hart Leadership Program, Sanford School of Public PolicyGraduate Mentor(s): Hooper Schultz, Ph.D. Candidate, in History at UNC-Chapel HillUndergraduates: Sophia Chimbanda, Adiv (Babu) Chatterjee, Staci GrimesStory+ is a 6-week summer research experience for Duke undergraduates interested in exploring humanities research approaches (archival research, oral histories, narrative analysis, visual analysis, and more). The program combines research with an emphasis on storytelling for different public audiences. In Story+, students are organized into small project teams and have the opportunity to participate in a flexible mini “curriculum” on research methods and storytelling strategies. Team projects may be led by Duke faculty, Duke librarians, or non-profit organizations, and will be supervised on a day-to-day basis by graduate student mentors.Thumbnail photo credit: Vigil protesting violence against homosexuals. Allan Troxler Papers, LGBTQ Collection, North Carolina Collection, Durham County Library durhamlgbtqhistory.org/exhibit/topic/politics-and-activism.html
Story+ 2022 | Race, Racism, and the History of Duke Sports Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-07-26 | Learn more about Story+: https://fhi.duke.edu/storyThroughout this summer three students focused on individual research projects that contribute to a larger effort to engage the history of Race, Racism, and the History of Duke Sports. The students focused on the intersections of the early years of integration in Duke Basketball, Football, and its overlaps with Title IX. In addition to doing digital archival work to document the gaps in the archives, students began conducting interviews with willing, able and alive members of Duke’s sporting history. Thematically, the students began to realize that there were gaps in the archives, and we used these gaps to explore broader historical and theoretical concerns about how archives are constructed and what they leave out. They found that when it came to sports coverage, there was a lot more information about white athletes available. Furthermore, when it came to Black women athletes in Duke’s history, there is a great deal of work to be done. The students hoped to lay a foundation for the future of research on the topic so that the next iteration of researches can start from where they left off.Project Sponsor(s): H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr., Professor of Law, John Hope Franklin Research ScholarGraduate Mentor(s): Hannah Borenstein, Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural AnthropologyUndergraduates: Erin Blanding, Amira Axelle Miel, Daniel BereketStory+ is a 6-week summer research experience for Duke undergraduates interested in exploring humanities research approaches (archival research, oral histories, narrative analysis, visual analysis, and more). The program combines research with an emphasis on storytelling for different public audiences. In Story+, students are organized into small project teams and have the opportunity to participate in a flexible mini “curriculum” on research methods and storytelling strategies. Team projects may be led by Duke faculty, Duke librarians, or non-profit organizations, and will be supervised on a day-to-day basis by graduate student mentors.
Story+ 2022 | Environmental Justice and Oral Histories Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-07-21 | Learn more about Story+: https://fhi.duke.edu/storyOur team, “Collecting Oral Histories of Environmental Racism and Injustice in the American South,” set out this summer to tackle a methodological quandary: how can we prepare fall 2022 Bass Connections students to conduct ethical oral histories? To answer this deceptively simple inquiry, the project’s undergraduate researchers addressed three related questions, which they would take apart, expand, simplify, and make their own over the course of the six weeks of the program. Their research consisted of literature and website reviews along with expert interviews with people invested in environmental justice and oral history work, both around and beyond Duke. Once they became acquainted with the history of environmental justice as a social movement, they talked to these experts about their experiences, lessons learned, and recommendations for future researchers. Our Story+ team accomplished a feat that can bedevil even experienced researchers: they devoted six weeks to listening, learning, and thinking about research methods, all while centering humanistic values of community power and justice. Their intellectual labor ultimately produced accessible materials that will facilitate the Bass Connections team’s training in oral history, but we believe they can benefit anyone interested in approaches to ethical community engagement and environmental justice.Check out the links below to see the collective work done by this talented and driven team of students:Ethical Guidelines for Environmental Justice Researchers by Tri Truongstorymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1649f3631248407ba30e3176e3c66cabCommunity Ownership in Oral Histories by Ariel Chukwumastorymaps.arcgis.com/stories/74725acdaff640f88941cfaa1acb4d26Environmental Justice in Resources in North Carolinadocs.google.com/document/d/1H0RVpw_epkemWD-xeP-5nEoSr42gPF4LsZbspITV_z4/edit#heading=h.h0c0kwv2t1t1EJOHP Resource Repository Briefdocs.google.com/document/d/1AC58RXBjYjaDHyA7n9hJ2J67i22ZnoID9AshllvEUxs/edit#heading=h.4ebs68psss56Project Sponsor(s): • Cameron Oglesby, MPP Candidate• Elizabeth Albright, Nicholas School of the Environment-Environmental Sciences and Policy• Margaret Brown, Franklin Humanities Institute• Wesley Hogan, Franklin Humanities Institute• Miguel Rojas Sotelo, Center for International and Global Studies-Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies• Erika Weinthal, Nicholas School of the Environment-Environmental Sciences and PolicyGraduate Mentor(s): Nikki Locklear, PhD student, EnglishUndergraduates: Audrey Alexander, Ariel Chukwuma, Tri TruongStory+ is a 6-week summer research experience for Duke undergraduates interested in exploring humanities research approaches (archival research, oral histories, narrative analysis, visual analysis, and more). The program combines research with an emphasis on storytelling for different public audiences. In Story+, students are organized into small project teams and have the opportunity to participate in a flexible mini “curriculum” on research methods and storytelling strategies. Team projects may be led by Duke faculty, Duke librarians, or non-profit organizations, and will be supervised on a day-to-day basis by graduate student mentors.
Story+ 2022 | Biocultural Sustainability in Madagascar Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-07-20 | Learn more about Story+: https://fhi.duke.edu/storyOur Biocultural Sustainability team had 6 weeks to create a new narrative of conservation that values people for the land in Madagascar. We researched Madagascar more broadly and then narrowed our scope to the Northeast region of SAVA. Themes included land rights, environmental justice, food security, subsistence agriculture, gender disparities in land ownership, vanilla trade and risks, environmental education, conservation policy and community forest management. We asked in our research: who is responsible for conservation? Each stakeholder has a part to play in conservation, but to echo our Duke Lemur Center Malagasy collaborator Evrard Benasoavina, “we are all responsible for conservation.” Our outcomes were the following: • Five interviews and collaborative design meetings with Duke Lemur Center and CURSA (SAVA university) students and staff • Two feedback meetings with CURSA collaborators • ArcGIS Story Map: People for the Land in Malagasy and English • Dissemination campaign for Story Map to networks, conservation workers, Madagascar based organizations: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f8b7864292344797956e4595574286af• Final symposium video trailerProject Sponsor(s): James Herrera, Research Scientist, Duke Lemur Center SAVA ConservationGraduate Mentor(s): Bethany Old, Duke Lemur CenterUndergraduates: Lucinda Law, Susan Lin, Meghna ParameswaranStory+ is a 6-week summer research experience for Duke undergraduates interested in exploring humanities research approaches (archival research, oral histories, narrative analysis, visual analysis, and more). The program combines research with an emphasis on storytelling for different public audiences. In Story+, students are organized into small project teams and have the opportunity to participate in a flexible mini “curriculum” on research methods and storytelling strategies. Team projects may be led by Duke faculty, Duke librarians, or non-profit organizations, and will be supervised on a day-to-day basis by graduate student mentors.Thumbnail photo credit: 2Photo Pots on Unsplash.com
CHCI 2022 Annual Meeting | “Where the Humanities Can Stay In Question,” Lecture from Dr. Sara Guyer Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-07-18 | Learn more about the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) here: chcinetwork.orgOver the last couple of years, our institutes and universities have pivoted all over the world to online technologies for our events, collaborations, meetings and communications. The newly dominant technologies have done much to change our current understanding of a face, just as the invention and use of photography, of the close up in cinema, of the smartphone and facial recognition, of the television newscaster, and of the shifting nature of portraiture, icons and masks have done so in the past. These various technologies of the face, that are indicative of the idea of the front and the back, of an idea of the eyes as the mark of the front, have often been seen as indexed to the human, to identity, or to anthropomorphism. Fields in the humanities have addressed this by considering the emergence of face as prosopopoeia, as the instantiation of aesthetic symmetry par excellence, and as figuration. This conference, which took place between May 19-22, 2022, asked: what is a face? And what is the form of a face? How does the face index the human? Do non-human animals have faces? What scale of relationality is implied in the phrase, face to face?The final keynote was delivered by outgoing CHCI president, Dr. Sara Guyer. Dr. Guyer has devoted her entire career to teaching, advancing, and serving the humanities. Until August 2021, she was Dorothy Puestow Draheim Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directed the Center for the Humanities for over a decade. She is the author of Romanticism after Auschwitz (2007) and Reading with John Clare: Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism (2015) and the editor of the book series Lit Z.The CHCI is a global forum that strengthens the work of humanities centers and institutes through advocacy, grant-making, and inclusive collaboration. The CHCI advances cross-institutional partnerships, recognizes regional humanities cultures, and mobilizes the collective capacity of the humanities to engage the most pressing issues in society today. The FHI was institutional host of the CHCI from 2007 to 2016.Image credit: ian dooley on Unsplash.com
CHCI 2022 Annual Meeting | Innovations in Public Engagement and Humanities Advocacy Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-07-06 | Learn more about the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) here: chcinetwork.orgThe Innovations in Public Engagement and Humanities Advocacy Panel was hosted by the National Humanities Center (NHC), an independent entity devoted to promoting and fostering humanistic research, and chaired by NHC's president and director, Robert P. Newman. He was in conversation with: Jennifer Ho, director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado-Boulder; Nicholas Allen, director of the Willson Center for the Humanities & Arts at the University of Georgia; and Jo Fox, director of the Institute of Historical Research located at the University of London's School of Advanced Study. The panel discussed ways that humanities centers can broaden the reach of the humanities beyond the walls of academia. The CHCI is a global forum that strengthens the work of humanities centers and institutes through advocacy, grant-making, and inclusive collaboration. The CHCI advances cross-institutional partnerships, recognizes regional humanities cultures, and mobilizes the collective capacity of the humanities to engage the most pressing issues in society today. The FHI was institutional host of the CHCI from 2007 to 2016.
Left of Black | Dr. Oni Blackstock, M.D. on Her Work with HIV/AIDS in the Black Community Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-06-16 | Learn more about Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackDr. Oni Blackstock, M.D. has built her career on the care of patients, particularly from marginalized groups disproportionately impacted by society-wide health crises, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic and the HIV/AIDS epidemic that damaged the Black community more than any other. In this special episode of Left of Black, Dr. Blackstock joins Prof. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss her career path that ultimately led to the founding of Health Justice, a consultancy that supports health-related organizations to prioritize anti-racism and equity in the workplace and to reduce health inequities in the communities they serve. Their discussion was a part of a Zoom event hosted by the National Clinicians Scholars Program (NCSP) in November, 2021. Learn more about Dr. Blackstock here: healthjustice.co/aboutFind out more about Health Justice here: healthjustice.coLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars created and hosted by James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal and produced by the @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute. New SEASON 12 episode every Thursday! #LEFTofBLACK #JohnHopeFranklin #BlackStudies #season11 #BlackScholar @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute Image Credit: Jessica Felicio on Unsplash.com
CHCI 2022 Annual Meeting | South-South Interfaces of Intellectual Traditions and Everyday Activism Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-06-11 | Learn more about the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) here: chcinetwork.orgThe South-South Interfaces of Intellectual Traditions and Everyday Activism Panel was hosted by the Institute of Arts and Humanities (IAH) at UNC-Chapel Hill and chaired by the institute's new director, Dr. Patricia Parker, chair of the Department of Communication. She was in conversation with Thozama April of the University of Fort Hare in South Africa and Chérie Ndaliko of UNC-Chapel Hill.The CHCI is a global forum that strengthens the work of humanities centers and institutes through advocacy, grant-making, and inclusive collaboration. The CHCI advances cross-institutional partnerships, recognizes regional humanities cultures, and mobilizes the collective capacity of the humanities to engage the most pressing issues in society today. The FHI was institutional host of the CHCI from 2007 to 2016.
CHCI 2022 Annual Meeting | “The Nose of Pinocchio,” Keynote Lecture from Dr. Massimo Leone Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-06-09 | Learn more about the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) here: chcinetwork.orgMassimo Leone is Full Tenured Professor (“Professore Ordinario”) of Philosophy of Communication and Cultural Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin, Italy and Permanent Part-Time Visiting Full Professor of Semiotics in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Shanghai, China. He is a 2018 ERC Consolidator Grant recipient, the most important and competitive research grant in Europe. He graduated in Communication Studies from the University of Siena, and holds a DEA in History and Semiotics of Texts and Documents from Paris VII, an MPhil in Word and Image Studies from Trinity College Dublin, a PhD in Religious Studies from the Sorbonne, and a PhD in Art History from the University of Fribourg (CH).Learn more about FACETS here: http://www.facets-erc.eu/team/massimo-leone/The CHCI is a global forum that strengthens the work of humanities centers and institutes through advocacy, grant-making, and inclusive collaboration. The CHCI advances cross-institutional partnerships, recognizes regional humanities cultures, and mobilizes the collective capacity of the humanities to engage the most pressing issues in society today. The FHI was institutional host of the CHCI from 2007 to 2016.
CHCI 2022 Annual Meeting | Srinivas Aravamudan Memorial Lecture: “Persona non grata,” Akira Lippit Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-06-09 | Learn more about the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) here: chcinetwork.orgThe 2022 Srinivas Aravamudan Memorial Lecture was delivered by Akira Mizuta Lippit, Vice Dean of Faculty and Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California and Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures at USC Dornsife College. His lecture, "Persona non grata," resumes a series of inquiries that had begun long before the interruptions of the past several years and asks whether the pandemic has changed in some fundamental ways the nature or premises of questions regarding personhood. The phrase “persona non grata,” deployed primarily as a diplomatic idiom, refers to those individuals, typically foreign, that are no longer welcome by the State. By refusing to acknowledge the legal status of the unwelcome, the State also implies that they are, perhaps, no longer considered persons at all. What transgressions must one commit—ethical or legal, actual or imaginary—to be rendered non grata? And are such transgressions always assumed also to be violations of personhood as such? Are refugees, for example, the exiled and stateless, also persona non grata? This paper seeks to raise preliminary questions about the forms of violence against personhood that have made some unwelcome, no longer personable. Orbiting the various ideas implanted within the term person—from the private (personal) to the public (personae) to matters of character (personality)—are questions of the very conditions of the human and its face, the persona. Presented as a series of observations, “Persona non grata” also explores the other side of personhood, the impersonal, asking what has happened to the state of hospitality in the wake of the pandemic?Remarks on the context of the Memorial Lecture and the legacy of Srinivas Aravamudan by Kathleen Woodward, Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities and Lockwood Professor in the Humanities, University of Washington. Introduction of Prof. Lippit by Richard Neer, Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema & Media Studies and the College at the University of Chicago, where he is also Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities.Akira Lippit’s interests are in world cinemas, critical theory, Japanese film and culture, experimental film and video, and visual studies. His published work reflects these areas and includes four books, Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video (California, 2012); Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (Minnesota, 2005); Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (Minnesota, 2000); and his most recent book, Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift (Minnesota, 2016). At present, Lippit is completing a book on contemporary Japanese cinema, which explores the physical and metaphysical dimensions of the “world,” and another on David Lynch’s baroque alphabetics. Widely translated, his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He is past recipient of the Fulbright-Hays and Japan Foundation awards. Lippit is active in the film community as a programmer, interviewer, and jury member, and has been deeply involved in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Visual History Project. Lippit is Senior Editor of the journal Discourse and serves on the editorial board of Film Quarterly. He regularly teaches, lectures, and publishes in Japan, where he is a founding editor of the visual culture journal Ecce.The CHCI is a global forum that strengthens the work of humanities centers and institutes through advocacy, grant-making, and inclusive collaboration. The CHCI advances cross-institutional partnerships, recognizes regional humanities cultures, and mobilizes the collective capacity of the humanities to engage the most pressing issues in society today. The FHI was institutional host of the CHCI from 2007 to 2016.
Left of Black | A Conversation with the Legendary Spoken Word Poet Abiodun Oyewole Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-06-02 | Learn more about Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackIn this special episode of Left of Black, host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal speaks with author, poet, teacher, and musician Abiodun Oyewole. Mr. Oyewole first came on the scene in 1968 as a member of The Last Poets who released numerous protest spoken word albums. Having laid down the groundwork for what would evolve into rap in the years to come, Abiodun Oyewole is considered to be one of the fathers of hip hop who still creates new work today. Prof. Neal and Mr. Oyewole discussed his newest album release, "Gratitude," produced by AFAR, 2022.Learn more about Abiodun Oyewole here: abiodunoyewole.netYou can find "Gratitude" here: firerecords.com/product/abiodun-oyewole-gratitudeLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars created and hosted by James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal and produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. New SEASON 12 episode every Thursday! #LEFTofBLACK #JohnHopeFranklin #BlackStudies #season12 #BlackScholar @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute
Left of Black | Discussing The University Plantation System with Bianca C. Williams & Armond Towns Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-05-26 | Learn more about Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackIs it going too far to liken the modern-day university to the plantation system of old regarding academia's exploitation of Black labor and the squelching of student activism by school administrators? Bianca C. Williams, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Critical Psychology, and Women & Gender Studies at CUNY Graduate Center, and Armond R. Towns, Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, join Dr. Neal for a robust discussion on the latest publication, "Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education," released by Suny Press. Learn more about Dr. Williams here: biancaphd.comFind out more about Dr. Towns here: armondrtowns.comYou can find the book here: https://sunypress.edu/Books/P/Plantation-Politics-and-Campus-RebellionsAnd check out Dr. Towns new book, "On Black Media Philosophy," published by the University of California Press, here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520355804/on-black-media-philosophyLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars created and hosted by James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal and produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. New SEASON 12 episode every Thursday! #LEFTofBLACK #JohnHopeFranklin #BlackStudies #season12 #BlackScholar @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities InstituteThumbnail photo credit: Chris Henry on Unsplash.com
Left of Black | David A. Varel on the Legacy of Black Scholar Lawrence Reddick Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-05-19 | Learn more about Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackThere are many Black scholars whose work in the academy is not well known yet provided the intellectual support and underpinning necessary for deep archival research. Lawrence Reddick was one such man, having been the second curator of the Schomburg Collection at the New York Public Library, among other accomplishments. Host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Dr. David A. Varel, author of “The Scholar and the Struggle: Lawrence Reddick’s Crusade for Black History and Black Power,” published by @UNCPress. Learn more about Dr. Varel here: https://history.olemiss.edu/david-varel/You can purchase his book here: uncpress.org/book/9781469660967/the-scholar-and-the-struggleLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars created and hosted by James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal and produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. New SEASON 12 episode every Thursday! #LEFTofBLACK #JohnHopeFranklin #BlackStudies #season12 #BlackScholar @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute
Left of Black | Kristen Henning on the Criminalization of Black Adolescence Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-05-12 | Learn more about Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackWhat happens to our youth if the normal and typical responses of teenage angst are heavily policed with high punitive consequences, even leading to death as we saw with the murder of Tamir Rice and other Black & brown adolescents? What does it mean to have a dominant police presence in our schools that are predominantly African American and Hispanic in a nation with a pervasive history of excessive police violence? Host Prof. Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Kristin Henning, Professor of Law at Georgetown University and author of "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth," published by Pantheon Books.Learn more about Prof. Henning here: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/kristin-nicole-henning/Find her book here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623467/the-rage-of-innocence-by-kristin-henningLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars created and hosted by James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal and produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. New SEASON 12 episode every Thursday! #LEFTofBLACK #JohnHopeFranklin #BlackStudies #season12 #BlackScholar @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute Image Credit: Justin Essah on Unsplash.com
Rights & The Humanities: Critique, Scholarly Authority, and Academic Freedom with Prof. Joan Scott Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-05-06 | Learn more about the Duke Human Rights Center here: https://humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/The enormous changes that have overtaken universities in the last fifty years have undermined the ability of academic freedom to protect free expression. Prof. Scott raises questions about whether notions of consensus are still possible or if academic freedom has become a synonym for the individual right of free speech.Joan Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The author of the now classic Gender and the Politics of History, her most recent books are Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom and On the Judgment of History.The Duke Human Rights Center @ the Franklin Humanities Institute brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, staff and students to promote new understandings of and action on human rights. We engage with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, income inequality, the environment, the philosophy and history of human rights, the literature that emerges alongside it, linguistic rights, and artistic responses in our research, teaching, programming and outreach. Our goal is to foster strategies and collaborative, cross-disciplinary and critical thinking about human rights in both local and global contexts.
Left of Black | Anthony Reed on the Soundworks of Poetry & Music in the Black Arts Era Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-05-05 | Learn more about Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackWhen you think of Langston Hughes, does Charles Mingus come immediately to mind? What music do you hear when you think of the words of Amiri Baraka? Poetry and music have long commingled to produced provocative and innovative pairings in the Black Arts era. Vanderbilt University Associate Professor of English Anthony Reed joins Left of Black host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss his latest book, “Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production,” published by @Duke University Press.Find out more about Dr. Reed here: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/anthony-reed/Get his book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/soundworksLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars created and hosted by James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal and produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. New SEASON 12 episode every Thursday! #LEFTofBLACK #JohnHopeFranklin #BlackStudies #season12 #BlackScholar @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute
Une Conversation Avec Mohamed Mbougar Sarr Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-04-29 | Famed writer, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, is the recipient of France's most prestigious literary award, the 2021 Prix Goncourt. He is the first sub-Saharan African author to do so while also being the youngest author to win in decades, being only 31. Mr. Sarr discussed his award-winning work, "La plus secrète mémoire des hommes," or "The Most Secret Memory of Men," co-published by Philippe Rey and Jimsaan. The story follows the quest of a young Senegalese author who discovers an acclaimed literary work called "The Labyrinth of the Inhuman," published in 1938 by a now-vanished author, TC Elimane who disappeared shortly after its release. The young author is so overtaken by the novel that he throws himself on a path to uncover what lies behind the mystery. The fictitious author, TC Elimane is actually based off of real-life author, Yambo Ouologuem, who left the public eye after accusations of plagiarism for a publication he released in 1968.Mbougar Sarr was joined by Duke faculty for this conversation: Dr. Sarah Quesada, Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Studies, Dr. Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Core Faculty in Cinematic Arts, and Dr. Felwine Sarr, the Anne-Marie Bryan Chair in French and Francophone Studies at Duke University.This recording was co-sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and the Center for French and Francophone Studies both at Duke University. Translation provided by Amanda Gann with captioning performed by Lukas Sanchez. Additional captioning and editing by FHI Multimedia Director Eric Barstow.
Left of Black | David Palumbo-Liu on Speaking Out Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-04-28 | Learn more about Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackIt is the tireless voice of protest, activism, and outrage that enacts real change to make society better for all and especially those who are marginalized and oppressed. In this episode of Left of Black, Dr. David Palumbo-Liu, Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, joins host Prof. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss his latest book, "Speaking Out of Place: Getting Our Political Voices Back," published by Haymarket Books.Learn more about Dr. Palumbo-Liu here: https://dlcl.stanford.edu/people/david-palumbo-liuFind his book here: haymarketbooks.org/books/1797-speaking-out-of-placeLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars created and hosted by James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal and produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. New SEASON 12 episode every Thursday! #LEFTofBLACK #JohnHopeFranklin #BlackStudies #season12 #BlackScholar @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh: The Water Defenders | 2021 Juan E. Méndez Human Rights Book Award Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-04-22 | Learn more about the Duke Human Rights Center here: https://humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/The winner of the 2021 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America is "The Water Defenders," co-authored by Robin Broad and John Cavanagh."The Water Defenders" tells the story of courageous El Salvadorans who fought together to combat the exploitation of their country’s natural resources. As the writers note, while this story is about El Salvador, as importantly, it is “also about how global corporations—be they Big Gold or Big Pharma or Big Tobacco or Big Oil or Big Banks–move into poorer communities in countries all over the world.”This is the thirteenth year of this prestigious award. The award is supported by the Duke Human Rights Center at the @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Human Rights Archive at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscripts Library.@Duke University
Left of Black | Christopher Freeburg on Black Social Life in the Time of Slavery Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-04-21 | Learn more about Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackDecades of research and scholarship around New World slavery limit the scope of the actions of the enslaved to political resistance while seeking only one goal: freedom. But what if Black life went beyond just the pursuit of liberty in order to encompass broader meaning through creative expression, spirituality, and self-awareness? Dr. Christopher Freeburg joins host Prof. Mark Anthony Neal to discuss these ideas through his latest book, "Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death," published by @Duke University Press. Dr. Freeburg is the John A. and Grace W. Nicholson Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Learn more about him here: https://english.illinois.edu/directory/profile/ccfYou can find his book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/counterlifeLeft of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars created and hosted by James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal and produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. New SEASON 12 episode every Thursday! #LEFTofBLACK #JohnHopeFranklin #BlackStudies #season12 #BlackScholar @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute
Left of Black | Brandon J. Manning on Black Satire Duke Franklin Humanities Institute 2022-04-14 | Learn more about Left of Black here: https://fhi.duke.edu/programs/left-blackWhat have Black satirists been able to show and say about the political, cultural, and social landscape through the use of humor? Dr. Brandon J. Manning, Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality / Race & Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University, joins Prof. Neal to discuss his new book, "Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire," published by Rutgers University Press. Find out more about Dr. Manning here: https://addran.tcu.edu/view/brandon-manningGet his book here: rutgersuniversitypress.org/played-out/9781978824249Left of Black is a web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars created and hosted by James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal and produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. New SEASON 12 episode every Thursday! #LEFTofBLACK #JohnHopeFranklin #BlackStudies #season12 #BlackScholar @Duke University @Duke Franklin Humanities Institute
