The FHI presents periodic group programs focused on critical issues in the humanities and social sciences. Programs include: Faculty Bookwatch, which celebrates and promotes scholarly conversations on notable publications by Duke humanities faculty; the Scholarly Publishing Series presented by the FHI and the Duke University Press; and one-time events organized around specific themes. For more information, please e-mail christina.chia@duke.edu.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Nasher Museum of Art (2001 Campus Drive)
* To pre-order lunch, e-mail fhi@duke.edu
by Friday, May 2
Your Brain on Art: Probing Neuroaesthetics
A Symposium
8:50 AM
Introduction
Hans Van Miegroet, Professor & Chair of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University
9:00
The Body in Movement: Art, Anthropology and Neuroscience
David Freedberg, Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art, Columbia University
10:00
An Embodied Expansion of Neural Aesthetics — The Aesthetics of
Neosentience
Bill Seaman, Chair of the Graduate Digital+Media Department, Rhode Island School of Design
11:00
Awestruck: The Emotional Basis of Art Appreciation
Jesse Prinz, John J. Rogers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Lunch Break -
To pre-order lunch, e-mail fhi@duke.edu by Friday, May 2
1:30 PM
Operational Hermeneutics: Hard Science or Mysticism?
Hans Diebner, Director of Research, INM - Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt am Main
2:30
Concepts Prior to Words: The Emotional Intuition of Form
Barbara Maria Stafford, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Emerita, University of Chicago
3:30
Concluding Discussion
This program is a continuation of the 2006-07 Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Human Being, Human Diversity, and Human Welfare and the 2006-07 Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar Interface, both co-convened by Tim Lenoir (Jenkins Chair of New Technologies and Society) and Priscilla Wald (Professor of English and Women's Studies)
Presented with the Visual Studies Initiative and the Jenkins Chair of New Technologies and Society, with major support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Parking: The Nasher Museum of Art is located at 2001 Campus Drive, near the corner of Campus and Anderson. Parking is available at the museum's metered lot for $2/hr. For map and directions, visit http://map.duke.edu/
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Thursday-Friday, September 20-21, 2007
200 Years after the Abolition of the British Slave Trade: New Scholarly Directions
A Symposium
Plenary:
Robin Blackburn, University of Essex
Panelists:
Christopher Brown, Columbia University
Vincent Brown, Harvard University
Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland
Yvette Christiansë, Fordham University (FHI Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence)
Laurent Dubois, Duke University
Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
Related Event:
Thursday & Friday, Sept 13 - 14, 2007
7 PM & 9:30 PM
Griffith Theater, Bryan Center
Film Screenings: Amazing Grace (Dir. Michael Apted, 2006)
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
4:30 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Faculty Bookwatch:
Toril Moi, Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy
Panelists:
Sarah Beckwith, Marcello Lotti Professor of English and Professor of Religion and Theater Studies, Duke University
Fredric Jameson, William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University
Martin Puchner , H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University
For more information, click here.
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
4:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Academic Publishing Global and Local
A Roundtable on the translation and global circulation of scholarly works - with perspectives on/from the Middle East, East Asia, Latin America, the US, and Europe
Steve Cohn (moderator), Director, Duke University Press
miriam cooke, Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature, Duke University
Hsiung Ping-Chen, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, National Central University & Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Elaine Maisner, Senior Editor (Latin American Studies), University of North Carolina Press
Wiljan van den Akker, Dean of the Humanities, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Part of the Scholarly Publishing Series presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute in partnership with the Duke University Press. Made possible by a multi-year grant from the A. W. Mellon Foundation.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
6:30 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Faculty Bookwatch:
Margaret Greer, Maureen Quilligan, Walter Mignolo, eds.
Rereading the Black Legend: Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires
Panelists:
Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Judaic Studies + Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies, Temple University
Margaret Greer, Professor of Spanish and Former Chair of Romance Studies, Duke University
Leslie Peirce, Silver Professor of History & Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University (and Rereading the Black Legend contributor)
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Walter Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies, Literature, and Cultural Anthropology + Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University
Maureen Quilligan, Florence R. Brinkley Professor and former Chair of English, Duke University
To learn more about the book, please visit the University of Chicago Press website here.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
1:00 - 6:00 PM
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library
Books Without a Future?
A Symposium
* Presented with Information Science + Information Studies *
1:00 - 1:15 PM
Welcome
Srinivas Aravamudan, Director, Franklin Humanities Institute
1:15 - 2:45 PM
Panel I - Recycling Books
Knowing by *.pdf
Lisa Gitelman, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Catholic University
Page, Paper, Waste: Book Recycling in Victorian London
Leah Price, Harvard College Professor of English, Harvard University
2:45 - 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 - 4:45 PM
Panel II - (Re)Constructing Books
Revising Thomasin von Zerclaere's "Welsche Gast": Image, Emotion, and the Creation of a Book
Kathryn Starkey, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures & Director of the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Human Knowledge Project (Part 2): How to Build the Best Possible Global Digital Library
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Law, University of Virginia
4:45 - 5:00 PM
Break
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Roger Chartier, Respondent - Roundtable with Panelists to Follow
Chair of Writings and Cultures in Modern Europe, Collège de France; Professor of History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Annenberg Visiting Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Roger Chartier will deliver the 2008 A. W. Mellon / John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, February 21, 5:30 PM, at the Nasher Museum auditorium.
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
12:00 PM
Room 225, Friedl Building, East Campus
Publishing in Academic Journals: A Workshop
Michael Cornett, Managing Editor, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies + Program Coordinator, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Duke University
Frances Kerr, Managing Editor, American Literature
Richard Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University + Editor-in-Chief, Art Bulletin
Joshua Sosin, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Duke University + Associate Editor, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute Mellon Dissertation Working Group, Office of Graduate Student Affairs, and Duke University Press
This event is part of the Scholarly Publishing Series presented by the Franklin Humanities Institute in partnership with the Duke University Press. Made possible by a multi-year grant from the A. W. Mellon Foundation.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
2:00 - 6:30 PM
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center (2204 Erwin Road)
RECYCLE: 3 Artists in Conversation with Franklin Humanities Institute Fellows
* Click here for more information on the Recycle, the 2007-08 FHI Seminar
2:00 PM
Introduction
Annabel Wharton, William B. Hamilton Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
2:10 PM
Novelty, Memory, Time
Elsewhere Artist Collaborative
George Scheer + Stephanie Sherman
Response by Recycle Fellows
3:00 PM
Bodies, Built Environment, Ecology
Constantin Boym, Boym Design Studio
Response by Recycle Fellows
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4:30 PM
Violence, Theft, Property
Alex Rivera, Digital Media Artist/Filmmaker
Response by Recycle Fellows
5:30 PM
Conversation with Guest Artists and Recycle Seminar Fellows
Moderator: Pedro Lasch, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Visual Arts
RECYCLE SEMINAR FELLOWS
Co-conveners: Neil De Marchi, Mark Anthony Neal, Annabel Wharton
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Jane Anderson, Catherine Fisk, Alisha Gaines, Ellen Garvey, Richard Langston, Pedro Lasch, Sarah Lincoln, Peter McIsaac, Britt Rusert, Andrew Russell, Rebecca Stein, Susan Sterrett, Ken Surin, Ernest Zitser
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