Wednesdays at the Center – Spring 2018 Schedule
January 17, 2018
Wednesdays at the Center (W@TC) is a topical weekly series in which scholars, artists, journalists, and others speak informally about their work in conversation with the audience. This semester the John Hope Franklin Center is proud to collaborate with partners across Duke and throughout the larger academic community to present a discipline diverse series.
Join us on Wednesdays throughout the semester from 12:00pm – 1:00pm in the Franklin Center’s Ahmadiah Family Conference Hall, room 240. A light lunch is served at each event.
Born Again Black: Tracing Diaspora and Nation through the Diasporic A.M.E. Church
(CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER)
A lecture with Christina C. Davidson, Ph.D., History Department, Duke University
January 17, 2018, 12:00pm -1:00pm
Mental Health in Haiti: Exploring culture and language to improve care
A lecture with Bonnie Kaiser, Ph.D., Duke Global Health Institute
January 24, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Tainan, City Pluriferent
A lecture with David Liu, Ph.D., Religious Studies Department, Duke University
January 31, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Blackness Unmoored: Relational Ethics and Aesthetics in Stromae’s “Formidable”
A lecture with Daphne Lamothe, Ph.D., Humanities Writ Large, Duke University
February 7, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Duke Undergraduate Working Group on MENA
A panel of Duke students from the Duke Undergraduate Working Group in MENA
February 14, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
American Qur’an
A lecture with Sandow Birk, visual artist
February 21, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Food Insecurity on College Campuses and Beyond
A panel discussion with Rochelle Newton, Ed.D
February 28, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Africa’s ‘Scramble for Europe’
A lecture with Stephen W. Smith, Ph.D., African and African American Studies, Duke University
March 7, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work & South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
A lecture with Attiya Ahmad, Ph.D., Departments of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University
March 21, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao’s China
A lecture with Xi Lian, D.A., Duke Divinity School
March 28, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Virtual Reality in the Arabic Classroom at Duke
A panel discussion with Seth Anderson, Chip Bobbert, Mich Donovan, Elizabeth Evans, Maha Houssami, Thatcher Owen, and Leah Rothfeld
April 4, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Building an International Archive in the Jim Crow South: Arturo Schomburg at Fisk University
A lecture with Vanessa Valdés, Ph.D., The City College of New York and discussant, Mark Anthony Neal, Ph.D., Duke University
April 11, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Diverse Perspectives: Graduate Working Groups on Global Issues
A panel presentation from the 2017-2018 Graduate Working Groups on Global Issues
April 18, 2018, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
