Join us to kick off the 2nd annual Global Career Week! Learn how to live and work globally, and connect with Duke faculty, staff, and students with international expertise and experience. Whether you… read more about Global Career Week Kickoff and Following Events »
About the BookShifts the conversation from abstract "global warming" to the deeply human impacts of heat-and how our efforts to keep cool have made the problem worse. Despite the flames of record-… read more about Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet »
Stacy Fahrenthold is a historian of the modern Middle East specializing in labor migration; displacement/refugees; border studies; and diasporas within and from the region. Her first book, Between… read more about Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class »
Join us for a unique opportunity to hear from experts on human rights, humanitarian operations, civil society, and justice efforts in Syria about the political and historical developments that led to… read more about Hope For Peace and Justice in a Post-Assad Syria »
Guy Ziv comes to Duke for a conversation about his new book, Netanyahu vs The Generals: The Battle for Israel's Future (Cambridge UP, 2024) and the feasibility of a two-state solution. Dr. Guy Ziv… read more about Guy Ziv: "Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Possible?" »
The Rudnick lecture at the Duke Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to welcome Tamara Cofman Wittes.Wittes became the fourth president of NDI in 2024. Before joining the Institute, she served as… read more about Why we must Never, Never, Never Stop Hoping For Better in the Middle East »
In recent years, large coastal shrimp farms in Southeast Asia, once celebrated symbols for the Blue Revolution, have become a stand-in culprit for massive mangrove destruction and coastal pollution.… read more about Niche Tanks and Coastal Sprawl: Species, Technology, and Economics of Shrimp Aquaculture in Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand »
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE(Wong Kar-wai, 2000, 98 min, Hong Kong, Cantonese, Shanghainese, French, and Spanish w/English subtitles, DCP) -- The event features a pre-screening introduction and post-… read more about Screen/Society--"In the Mood for Love" (Wong Kar-wai, 2000) »
The North Carolina Jewish Studies Consortium begins its annual meeting with public lectures by Dr. Tova Benjamin and Dr. Yaakov Lipsker-both recently welcomed faculty at Davidson College. Dr.… read more about North Carolina Jewish Studies Consortium Annual Meeting »
with Mohsen Kadivar (research professor of Islamic Studies at the Department of Religious Studies) read more about DISC-DUMESC Faculty Seminar »
About the talk:From the author of the pathbreaking "Situated Listening" (2016), "Remixing Wong Kar-wai" is a poetic, wide-ranging evocation of Wong Kar-wai's modus operandi. Dubbed once the "best ear… read more about Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion »
Despite remarkable shifts in the demographics of Islamic studies in recent decades, the field continues to be dominated by men, who often relegate other scholars and their work-particularly research… read more about Book Presentation: The Woman Question in Islamic Studies »
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by Israel's occupation since childhood. He documents the slow-… read more about "No Other Land" documentary film screening »
Join the Duke Human Rights Center and the Provost's Initiative on the Middle East for a screening of the film "No Other Land," the third film in the 2024-2025 Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series.… read more about No Other Land »
RIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! film series presents:NO OTHER LAND(Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, 2024 95 min, Palestine, Arabic, English, and Hebrew w/English subtitles, DCP)==… read more about Screen/Society--"No Other Land" (Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, 2024 »
Belligerent Optimism and Future Work in Lebanese Alternative MusicIn this talk, I argue that alternative music in Lebanon is a privileged site for imagining and reconfiguring the country's future.… read more about Nour El Rayes: "Belligerent Optimism and Future Work in Lebanese Alternative Music" »
**Directed by MinCheol Wang, 2022, 120 min, South Korea, in Korean w/English subtitles**About the film:Kim Jeong-ho, head veterinarian in Cheongju Zoo, dreams of turning his zoo into the nation's… read more about Film Screening: “Sanctuary” (MinCheol Wang, 2022) »
About the talk:Japan is a nation saddled with centuries of accumulated stereotypes and loaded assumptions about suicide. Many pronouncements have been made about those who have died by their own hand… read more about Scripting Suicide in Japan (book talk) »
The North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar welcomes Tabea Linhard. Tabea Linhard is Director of Global Studies and Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St.… read more about NCJSS welcomes Tabea Linhard »
Israeli Documentary Series presents: "The Water Front"Location: The Rubenstein Arts Center (The Ruby) Film Theater The Israeli Documentary Series presents "The Water Front," directed by Alon Levi (… read more about Israeli Documentary Series presents: “The Water Front” »
March 6, 2025 Thursday 1 pm-5 pmCharity and Family in Muslim Societies Duke Islamic Studies CenterRubenstein Library, Carpenter Conference Room 249 1 pm: Timur Kuran and Mustafa Batman (Duke U), "The… read more about Workshop - Charity and Family in Muslim Societies »
more details to follow read more about A Nobility of the Spirit: Lineage, Household, and State in Ottoman Egypt »
Frances Hasso read more about DUMESC Faculty Seminar »
The rise of China and its great power competition with the U.S. will be one of the defining issues of our generation. But to understand modern China, one has to understand the people who live there-… read more about Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Book Talk with Emily Feng in conversation with Eileen Chow »
Keynote Speakers: Nicole Fleetwood, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Sophie Lewis, and Linda Zerilli. Roundtable Speakers: Victoria Hesford, Christina León, Priti Ramamurthy and Rebecca Wanzo. Registration… read more about 18th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop - First Day »