Upcoming Events
Monday, February 18, 2019 - 1:30pm
0013 Westbrook
Lindsay Miller from the Duke Office of Community Engagement and Daniel Corpening from the Divinity School's Office of Field Education will lead us in a discussion of how to integrate student learning in the community into our teaching. Please RSVP here for us to reserve your lunch & include... Read More »
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 1:30pm
0013 Westbrook
We are thrilled that Drs. Jerusha Neal, Christopher Beeley, and Patrick Smith will be with us to share from their own experiences and to offer advice. Please RSVP here to reserve your lunch & include any dietary requests.
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Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 3:00pm
French Family Science Center 2231 Bonk Lecture Hall
Long text documents, like dissertations and theses, can be difficult to take control of and format correctly. In this hands-on workshop you will use your own laptop and work with the Duke Graduate School MS Word dissertation template to:
Use style definitions to define the parts of your ... Read More »
Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 5:30pm
Perkins Link 59 (Seminar Room 1)
The reading will touch upon key digital humanities texts as well as some mathematical concepts along the way. To start off, we will be discussing "The Slaughterhouse of Literature" by Franco Moretti (available at: https://msu.edu/course/eng/487/johnsen/61.1moretti.pdf). For more information, visit... Read More »
Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 6:00pm
White 107 (White Lecture Hall)
Cinematic Callings is part of a five-part lecture series titled 'The Cinematic Sacred.' The cinematic sacred is found wherever motion pictures depict something as worthy of reverent celebration, contemplation, remembrance, or protection, either by displaying its excellence positively or by evoking... Read More »
Monday, February 25, 2019 - 6:00pm
Freeman Center for Jewish Life
The Rudnick lecture at the Duke Center for Jewish Studies welcomes Susan Silverman who will give a lecture entitled: "Pharaoh was Scared Too." Rabbi Susan Silverman will turn common suppositions on their heads in her talk about asylum seekers in Israel and the US from the perspective of Jewish... Read More »
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 11:00am
Chaplin Family Study Room in the Brodhead Center
Scholars@Duke Photo Day — free profile photos for faculty, graduate students, and anyone with a Scholars profile.
Arrive, sign in, wait in line for a few minutes, sit for your photo. Photos will be shared with individuals in mid-March.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 6:00pm
200 Gray Building
Dinner and a lecture from Hugo Mendez (UNC-CH). The lecture is titled “The Community of the Invented Disciple: Rethinking Johannine Origins.”
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 6:00pm
Social Sciences 139 LaBarre
J Street U brings to campus Combatants for Peace, a grassroots organization of Israelis and Palestinians that takes direct action to pursue mutual non-violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each member has played a direct role in the cycle of violence
in this conflict. We will be joined by... Read More »
Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 4:00pm
Perkins Library, Korman Assembly Room, 217
February 19, 2019, marks the 77th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of all people of Japanese descent, including American citizens and lawful permanent residents.
Duncan Williams is an Associate Professor of Religion and... Read More »