Upcoming Events
Sunday, October 21, 2018 - 4:00pm
Duke Chapel
The Duke Evensong Singers present their fall concert The Psalm Project. Jews, Christians, and Muslims have found comfort in the Psalms for thousands of years. In this concert featuring Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, the choir will sing Psalms expressing universal themes of joy, compassion, anger,... Read More »
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 4:30pm
West Duke, Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, Room 101
Discussions about western women's involvement with the violent terrorist group Daesh (also known as 'Islamic State') tend to focus on their exceptionality. This paper after demonstrating the limitations of existing theories, then unpacks some themes that emerged from analysing the propaganda and... Read More »
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 7:00pm
White 107 (White Lecture Hall)
A founder of the hip hop movement in Egypt and one of its best freestylers performs.
Sunday, October 28, 2018 - 7:00pm
Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater
Film Screening:"A Tale of Two Sisters"(KIM Ji-Woon, 2003, 115 min, South Korea, in Korean w/ subtitles, 35mm)-Q&A to follow with director/screenwriter KIM Ji-WoonAfter being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Korean teen Su-mi (Yeom Jeong-ah) reunites with her beloved sister, Su-yeon (Su-... Read More »
Monday, October 29, 2018 - 7:00pm
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The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies hosts and the Duke Center for Jewish Studies co-sponsors Jonathan Weisman (NY Times)who will give the Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lectureship on the Jewish Experience in the American South: "Antisemitism and the Jewish experience in the South." Jonathan Weisman... Read More »
Monday, October 29, 2018 - 7:00pm
Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
Know and Defend Your Rights with Azadeh Shahshahani and Manzoor Cheema of Project SouthHolsti-Anderson Room 153Rubenstein LibraryLearn about your rights when approached by law enforcement agencies (police, FBI, ICE, etc), and your rights to freedom of religion and freedom of expression. The... Read More »
Monday, October 29, 2018 - 7:00pm
Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater
Film Screening:"The Good, the Bad, the Weird"(KIM Ji-Woon, 2008, 139 min, South Korea, in Korean w/ subtitles, 35mm)A rip-roaring update of classic widescreen Spaghetti Westerns, this action extravaganza of lawless 1930s Manchuria centers upon three strangers - played by Korea's reigning superstars... Read More »
Thursday, November 1, 2018 (All day)
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
The Kenan Institute and the Duke Library will hold a two-day symposium on 1-2 November 2018 entitled "Arabic Medicine Conquers Latin Europe, 1050-1300: Methods and Motives," showing how the accomplished Arabic medical writings of the medieval Middle East and Spain were discovered, translated, and... Read More »