Money: Media, Culture, Metamorphosis

LOCATION: Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Educ Center, UNC-CH. >>> Dir. Pavel Giroud (Cuba), 2016. 104min. Spanish with English subtitles >> Cuba's official entry to the Academy Awards, The Companion is set in 1988 Cuba as the...

Dir. Mike Plunket (Bolivia) 2016. 116min. Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles >> The world's largest salt flat (and proven Lithium reserve) in the planet. Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, is a pristine, otherworldly expanse of white. For...

In the northeast corner of Dali Prefecture in modern-day Yunnan one finds "Stone Gate Pass (shimen guan)" in a steep mountain valley along the ancient Southwestern Silk Road. Located in the southern region of modern-day Yanjin county on the...

Join the Duke Africa Initiative and Duke African Graduate and Professional Students Association for their inaugural conference, Africa Forecast: A focus on current ventures and their future impact on Africa. The conference will feature...

As part of Duke University's German Humanities and Migration Series, Dr. Rita Chin (Professor of History at the University of Michigan) will discuss Europe and the crisis of Multiculturalism.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Duke...

The photographer Fati Abubakar has embarked on a personal project to showcase her hometown of Borno State, Nigeria at the time of Boko Haram. A project entitled 'Bits of Borno' on social media has gained critical acclaim, and it has been...

Biquini Wax EPS is an interdependent contemporary art space in Mexico City run by artists Paloma Contreras Lomas, Ramón Izaguirre, Israel Urmeer, Cristóbal Gracia, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, and Eric Valencia, writers Gustavo Cruz, and Sandra Sánchez...

Join us for a brunch and learn open presentation of SOCIOL 345, Nations and Regions in the Global Economy. The event will feature Ambassador Duddy, Director of the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and former US Ambassador to...

This talk revisits the story of David Ha-Reuveni, an impostor that showed in early 16th century Rome with grandiose plans to defeat Islam, and the Ottoman Empire for the small fee of a large navy and Palestine for the Jews. Against a line of...