In an era of diminishing public life and an ever-expanding private sphere, longstanding feminist conversations about the relationship between public and private, between personal and political, and between structural and intimate violence are...

In 2015, students marched in Durham in solidarity with #FeesMustFallactivists in Johannesburg. They show us that South African movements like #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall are not restricted to national politics, but speak to the concerns of...

Urban Topography and Political Economy in the Middle East: A Digital Humanities Workshop Comparing Istanbul and Cairo

A tourney of historians coming to the Triangle to mark the centenary of the American involvement in World War One. Our partners at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Washington have organized with the Center for French and Francophone...

"Oyster Factory" ("Kaki Kouba") is a feature length documentary that observes and depicts the rich and complex world of small oyster factories including its fishermen and workers. The film closely follows their daily lives, which seem uneventful...

Miguel Fraga, First Secretary at the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in Washington, D.C. since the re-establishment of diplomatic relations on July 2015. He has worked for the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2006 in Cuba, the United...

Join Duke East Asia Nexus and Duke History Union for a screening and discussion of Myo Win’s documentary, Sittwe, on conflict surrounding the segregation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Sittwe tells the story of two teenagers separated by conflict...

It is argued that the technology of alignment is central to the work of modern politics. In the Cold War era, the art of non-alignment also became part of the turbulent political world. The era's politics of non-alignment in the international...

Lying deep in the belly of Southern Africa, Great Zimbabwe is an ancient city and UNESCO World Heritage site. Known locally for as long as it existed, the first westerners to discover Great Zimbabwe argued that the local Shona people could not...

Faced with diminishing returns on his harvest, a poor young farmer in Myanmar pawns his cow for a moped and seeks alternative income as a taxi driver. Among his first fares is a woman who has returned home for her grandfather's funeral and is...