News from Duke

Faith Leaders Address Religious Life in Coronavirus World

Four Duke leaders share insights with media

Apr 02, 2020

Feminism in black and white

Mar 04, 2020

Center for Documentary Studies

Said@Duke: Ramachandra Guha on What Makes a Good Historian

Ramachandra Guha spoke last week on three major arguments that Gandhi had in his lifetime-on non-violence vs violence, on the abolition of untouchability and on inter-faith harmony.

Mar 03, 2020

Race & Culture

Said@Duke: John Edwin Mason on Work of Gordon Parks

Historian and photographer John Edwin Mason talked about his work-in-progress, a book about 20th century African-American photographer, writer and filmmaker Gordon Parks, which will analyze Parks' LIFE Magazine photo essays on race and poverty.

Feb 20, 2020

Race & Culture

Said@Duke: Candis Watts Smith on Making Black Lives Matter

Candis Watts Smith, Ph.D. ’11, associate professor of political science and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University, recently gave a speech titled, “Do All Black Lives Matter to All Black People?” Her talk kicked off the Department of African & African American Studies spring commemoration of the 50th anniversary of black studies at Duke.

Feb 10, 2020

Race & Culture

Said@Duke: Jamillah Karim on Black History

Author Jamillah Karim participated in last week’s Black Muslim Atlantic Symposium honoring the legacy of C. Eric Lincoln.

Feb 05, 2020

Said@Duke: Dikgang Moseneke on Freedom

Dikgang Moseneke, former deputy chief justice of South Africa and a 2020 Rubenstein Fellow, spoke this week at the Robert R. Wilson Lecture sponsored by Duke's Center for International Development and the Sanford School of Public Policy.

Jan 23, 2020

Said@Duke: Dikgang Moseneke on Freedom and the Internet

Jan 23, 2020

(UPDATED 1/8/20) Killing of Iranian Commander Raises Legal, Strategic Questions

Duke professors offer differing views of last week's incident

Jan 06, 2020

Race & Culture

Said@Duke: Kinohi Nishikawa on Novel Design and Black Pulp Fiction

Kinohi Nishikawa, assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University, spoke this week at Duke as part of the Department of African & African American Studies’ 50th anniversary speaker series.

Dec 06, 2019