Recent work in political and cultural theory has questioned how corruption has come to be conceptualized as a lingering state of unlawfulness and opaqueness that operates as a foil for the modern and the liberal (Sengupta, Chatterjee, Chua). I...

Milbry Polk discusses her book Women of Discovery. Light refreshments served. Across the centuries and from many lands, women have set forth on journeys of exploration. Visionaries, adventurers, artists, and scientists, these women challenged the...

Drawing on more than half a century of experience as a historian, policy planner, diplomat, peace negotiator, and businessman, Dr. Polk's new book, Crusade and Jihad, explains centuries of hostilities between the Muslim world and Global North and...

In the past few years, from Standing Rock to Rojava, we have seen the emergence of transnational and interfaith forms of religious activism. How should we conceptualize these alternative forms of religious mobilization? The theme of "sanctuary"...

Join us for a conversation with: Thomas Jackson (UNC Greensboro, Department of History), "The Gandhi in King: Hidden Dimensions of Nonviolence" Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University, Department of History), "Race, Caste, and Inequality: Martin...

Please join us for the first night of the African Film Festival! The first ever Tuareg language fictional film, based on the legendary rock-u-drama "Purple Rain," Akounak or "Rain the Color Blue with a Little Red in it" explores the world of a...

Please join Dr. Saheed Aderinto, Associate Professor of History, Western Carolina University, and Dr. Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Duke University, for Guns and Society in Nigeria: A...

Thomas A. Shannon Jr., undersecretary of state for political affairs, will speak at Duke University on Thursday, Feb. 1.

His talk, “Buckle Up: Global Foreign Policy Trends and American Diplomacy,” begins at 5 p.m. in the Holsti-Anderson...

inTransit: Arts & Migration around Europe Workshop

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