A monthly series on Friday afternoons at 4:30pm featuring the AMES faculty read more about CAMEH Friday Fora »
The Imaginary of Disobedience is a one-day workshop to be held at Duke University on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 19, 2026. The workshop aims to conceptualize the lineaments of dissent over… read more about Workshop: The Imaginary of Disobedience »
"Repatriate:00" is a debut of Kalen Wing Ki Lee's artistic practice on notion and experience of emotional migration in the thick of movements of body, desire, human geography, sovereignty and… read more about Repatriate:00 »
The North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar welcomes Tamar Hess, senior lecturer and chair of the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her scholarship focuses on… read more about NCJSS Welcomes Tamar Hess »
The New Civilizationisms in Asia roundtable is part of a larger international collaboration organized by Stanford University and the University of Gottingen. In the past two decades, there has been a… read more about New Civilizationisms in Asia »
This half-day symposium brings together scholars to celebrate the achievements of Marc Brettler in the field of Hebrew Bible, Jewish Studies, public education, and interreligious engagement. Two… read more about Celebrating Marc Brettler's Scholarship: The Bible in the Public Square Revisited »
This event marks the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the landmark declaration of the Second Vatican Council that transformed Catholic relations with Judaism and other world religions. The event… read more about Breaking Barriers, Building Bonds: 60 Years of Interfaith Dialogue After Nostra Aetate »
Why focus on the history of Japanese television commercials? Advertising rapidly incorporates new artistic trends. This seems to be a particularly prominent feature in Japan. However, research on… read more about A Breakthrough in Early Japanese TV Commercials: 1967 »
**the talk will take place in Room A266**Drawn from Volk's recently published In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan, this talk unearths an immensely creative yet almost entirely overlooked… read more about In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan »
tgiFHI is a weekly series that gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretive social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current research to their departmental and… read more about tgiFHI | Preeti Singh, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies »
The North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar welcomes Daniel Schwartz, Professor of Modern Jewish History at George Washington University. Daniel B. Schwartz specializes in modern European and… read more about NCJSS Welcomes Daniel Schwartz »
The Duke Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to welcome Carolin Duttlinger, Professor of German Literature and Culture at University of Oxford, for a lecture entitled "The Individual and the… read more about The Individual and the Community: Paradoxes of Responsibility in Kafka's Prose Fiction »
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE UNC CHAPEL-HILL:The Duke Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to cosponsor the annual McLester Lecture at the Department of Religious Studies at UNC - Chapel Hill.… read more about Prayer, Ritual, and Silence: The Psalms as Worship in Biblical Scholarship and the Study of Religion »
The North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar welcomes Andrea Gondos, Stuart B. and Barbara Padnos Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought at University of Michigan. Gondos' scholarship explores early… read more about NCJSS Welcomes Andrea Gondos »
This talk is based on Professor Yanshuo Zhang's new book, "Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China" (University of Michigan Press, January 2026). The Qiang, one of… read more about Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China »
--Thandi Cai, 2024, 47 min, USA, in English--Introduction and post-screening discussion moderated by Professor Eileen Chow.***Two storytellers, one community, and 150 years of untold history.***"… read more about Film Screening: “Bluff City Chinese” (Thandi Cai, 2024) »
NCJSS welcomes presentations from the 2025-26 Shatzmiller Fellowship cohort. The Shatzmiller Graduate Fellows honor Emeritus Smart Professor Joseph Shatzmiller, who taught at Duke University from… read more about NCJSS Welcomes the 2026 Shatzmiller Fellows »
The Duke Center for Jewish Studies, in connection with Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, is proud to host the 2026 National Association of Professors of Hebrew Annual Conference. The… read more about 2026 National Association of the Professors of Hebrew Annual Conference »