In this talk, McNeill will discuss a work in (slow) progress concerning the environmental consequences of industrialization for landscapes and seascapes around the world. Factory-scale production required mounting quantities of ores, fibers,...

Madagascar Art, Culture and Nature Conservation

Orbital Police? How Open Source Intelligence Can Aid Diplomacy and Space Norms in Low Earth Orbit and Beyond

Geopolitical Competition in Orbit: How Transatlantic Space Diplomacy Can Mitigate Emerging Space Security Contingencies

Join Duke History, DUMESC and DISC for a public talk and conversation from 4:30 - 5:30 PM with Dr. Basileus Zeno titled "Sectarianization of the Syrian Uprising: Why, Who, and How?"

Dr. Basileus Zeno is Sessional Assistant Professor in...

A plague arrives to Mingheria, a half-Muslim and half-Christian island in the Ottoman Mediterranean. The Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamit II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island-an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims...

The Information War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Dattalion

This talk will explore the production of ‘black intimacy’ in South Africa in the twentieth century.

Film screening:

"Carmen From Kawachi" (SUZUKI Seijun, 1966, 89 min, Japan, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 35mm)

A 1960s riff on the opera "Carmen" (including a rock version of its famous aria "Habanera"), this picaresque tale...