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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

  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 Devceloment and the Sanfoird School of Public Policy.

  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

• 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

• Said@Duke: Professor Mel Watkins on Black Comedy

  Mel Watkins, a professor of humanities at Colgate University, spoke this week as part of the fall course,  AAAS 331: Dick Gregory and the History of Black Comedy.

  Nov 22, 2019