The workshop compares the historical interactions between rivers and human societies across the global south in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. One of the major goals is to observe how these river-based societies respond to the Anthropocene when...

China wants to build the world. From roads and bridges to ports, stadiums and 5G networks, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) sets a groundwork for massive infrastructure expansion across Eurasia, Africa, the poles, and Latin America. Often...

The Duke Center for International Development (DCID), the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS), and the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) hosted a one-day workshop on Central America’s...

Located in the University Classroom at the Nasher Museum of Art. Camila Maroja is an Assistant Professor at McGill University. She works with modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with an emphasis on Latin America and transnational...

Words and Other Materials: Fascist-Era Italian Architecture and its Historiography

Come downtown for a celebration of creative self-expression through multimedia arts. The evening's events at NorthStar Church of the Arts will include a fashion procession, a live performance by Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey, a...

Trillions of dollars in new infrastructure investments—catalyzed by China's Belt and Road Initiative—planned to address the developing world's infrastructure gap. But if not carefully planned, large-scale infrastructure projects can also threaten...

Trillions of dollars in new infrastructure investments – catalyzed by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – is planned to address the developing world’s infrastructure gap. But if not carefully planned, large-scale infrastructure projects can...

Shakespeare in the Arab World