This workshop will focus on what approaches to gender and sexuality can tell us about Okinawa and what approaches to Okinawa can tell us about gender and sexuality. As a colonized and occupied space… read more about Workshop: Gender, Sexuality, Okinawa »
Activist and Poet Shlomi Hatuka comes to Duke for a poetry reading with fellow poet and author Merhav Yeshoron. A writer, poet, editor, teacher and activist Hatuka has published the poetry books "… read more about Poetry Reading with Shlomi Hatuka and Merhav Yeshoron »
Click on Additional Information below for tickets or go to Duke University Box Office https://tickets.duke.edu/ to get your free ticket.Adania Shibli (Palestine, 1974) has written novels, plays,… read more about Literature Through Silence: A Lecture by Adania Shibli »
A dialogue about translation and world literature, with a visiting scholar Stiliana Milkova, and Duke professors, Eileen Chow, Martin Eisner, Sarah Quesada, and Reut Ben-Yaakov. Lunch will be… read more about Translation and World Literature »
The North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar welcomes Henriette Dahan. Professor Dahan is an Israeli Senior Lecturer of political science and the founder of the Gender Studies Program at Ben Gurion… read more about NCJSS welcomes Henriette Dahan »
Middle East policy expert, Robert Satloff (T'83), returns to Duke in a moderated discussion entitled "Out of Crisis, Opportunity? War and Peace in Post-October 7 Middle East" with Professor Bruce… read more about Robert Satloff: “Out of Crisis, Opportunity? War and Peace in Post-Oct 7 Middle East” »
Shai Held, one of the foremost Jewish thinkers and educators at work today - will speak about his new book, JUDAISM IS ABOUT LOVE (Farrar Straus and Giroux 2024), in conversation with Ellen Davis and… read more about A Conversation with Rabbi Shai Held »
A conversation with Professor Frances Hasso. Livestream link https://duke.is/v/5v55 For detailed biographies, see "more event information" below.Razzan Quran is a Palestinian and co-founding member… read more about A Livestream Panel on Health in Palestine with Palestinian Health Professionals »
The Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Department invites faculty, students, staff, alumni, and guests to dinner celebrating Eid al-Fitr.Please join us for dinner and conversation.April 12th 6:… read more about AMES EID Dinner »
This conference is for Hebrew Literature post-doctoral candidates and new PhDs. It will include 9-10 speakers discussing their current theoretical challenges, and their attempts to find new… read more about 'Ah, Reality’: New Approaches to Hebrew Poetics and Literature »
What happens when different displaced people come into convergence with each other? This talk will present a novel grounded in history that tackles this and other questions around loss, looting, and… read more about Keohane Distinguished Lecture: Fiction as History, History as Fiction: a Novel about Nazi Looted Art »
Join Jewish Life at Duke, the Program in American Grand Strategy, the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Duke University Middle East Studies Center and the Jewish Business Association… read more about Dan Senor: October 7th, Six Months Later: What Have We Learned, Where Are We Heading? »
Palestine Seminar Livestreamed Panel on Literary Gaze with Professor Frances Hasso. Livestream link coming soon! read more about A Panel on Literary Gaza with Palestinian writers »
Filmmaker Yun HWANG began making a documentary about tidal flats in the Saemanggeum estuary, on the West coast of South Korea. Her work came to a halt in 2006 with the completion of the Saemangeum… read more about Film Screening: "Sura: A Love Song" (2023 »