Programs
The Franklin Humanities Institute sponsors an annual residential seminar consisting of Duke faculty, graduate research fellows, a post-doctoral fellow, and professional staff at the university (e.g. librarians, IT specialist). Conceived as a “laboratory” for humanists from diverse disciplines, each annual seminar focuses on a theme or problem with broad historical, philosophical, or geographical scope. To date, there have been seminars organized around two general areas: “Race” (1999–2003) and “Art, Ideas, and Information” (2004–08). The 2007-08 seminar, Recycle, will explore the appropriation of cultural products in different contexts. The seminar will be co-convened by Neil De Marchi (Professor of Economics), Mark Anthony Neal (Associate Professor or African and African American Studies), and Annabel J. Wharton (William B. Hamilton Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies).
In addition to the Annual Seminar, the Franklin Humanities Institute also runs a dissertation working group for graduate students.
The FHI’s public programs include Wednesdays at the Center, a popular lunchtime conversation series open to the general public. Since 2002, series speakers have included the Harvard historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the Ciompi Quartet violinist Hsiao-mei Ku, Radio France Internationale Correspondent Dominique Roch, the writer and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman, as well as John Hope Franklin himself.
The Mellon Annual Distinguished Lecture in Humanities has featured well-known scholars from many fields and from across the globe, including the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah (2007), the British filmmaker Isaac Julien (2006), the Dutch cultural theorist and video artist Mieke Bal (2005), the Indian historian Romila Thapar (2004), and the US literary critic Emory Elliott (2003).
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