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As part of the Trent Grant sponsored series entitled "The Making of a Poet: Five Years in Six Egyptian Prisons," this panel event will explore the artistic production of youth in today's Egypt with… read more about Egypt’s Carceral Poetry and the Public Sphere »
Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW) has, since the first gathering in 2007, promoted diverse dialogue among scholars of feminist theory and fostered a vibrant intellectual community. To that end, we bring… read more about 16th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop »
Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW) has, since the first gathering in 2007, promoted diverse dialogue among scholars of feminist theory and fostered a vibrant intellectual community. To that end, we bring… read more about 16th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop »
Nana Osei Quarshie is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine, with secondary appointments in the Section of the History of Medicine… read more about Thorazine and Terror: Pharmacotherapy for the African Personality »
Every year, the TIHS ends with a discussion and celebration of the work of our Charles Capper Fellows in Intellectual History. Join us as we hear short presentations from this year’s magnificent crop… read more about Capper Presentation »
Lecture & Discussion. Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa’s goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world’s oldest indigenous gold mining… read more about A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa »
Open workshop/Panel discussion. Panel: Robyn d’Avignon, Department of History, NYU Fred K. Boadu, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke Dan Richter, Earth & Climate Sciences,… read more about Rocks, Soils, Society: Crossing Geo-Sciences & Social Sciences »
A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World (Yale University Press, 2022) In-Person/Zoom Chair: Helen Shears (Duke History Department) Discussants: Matthias… read more about A Book Conversation with John Martin »
The early modern sermon was both an aural and a visual experience, in which the preacher's message was communicated through a combination of words and gestures. But the fleeting and ephemeral nature… read more about Transitory Hieroglyphics: Gesture in the Early Modern Pulpit »