Monday, September 29 - Sunday, October 5, 2025
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Mon, Sept 29 | 1:45am-1pm | Classroom Bldg 229
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Atlantic Worlds@Duke Workshop: Dr. Mary Hicks
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"Gifts or Peças: The Commodification of African Women in the 15th and early 16th century Portuguese-Atlantic World"
Mary Hicks is a historian of the Black Atlantic, with a focus on transnational histories of race, slavery, capitalism, migration and the making of the early modern world. She is Associate Professor of History and the College at The University of Chicago.
Register here to receive the pre-distributed paper. Dinner and refreshments will be provided. Please feel free to reach out with any questions to antlanticworkshop@duke.edu.
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Mon, Sept 29 | 2-4pm | Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Duke-UNC 2025 Keohane Lecture
"Emancipation and the Origins of U.S. Immigration Control, 1803-1875"
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Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA and one of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration and mass incarceration, is the 2025-26 Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor. This event will take place at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Wed, Oct 1 | 10:05-11:20am | Online
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Reproductive Justice and Economics
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The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Reproductive Justice and Economics, exploring how feminist economic frameworks can center reproductive justice as a core research paradigm.
Presenter: Deb Machado Nunes (Monmouth University); Respondent: Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).
To receive the Zoom link and pre-circulated paper, please email: revaluingcarelab@duke.edu
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| Thu, Oct 2 | 12-1:30pm | Bolton Family Tower Room
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Understanding Immigrant Incarceration: Past to Present
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The Duke History Union presents a conversation with Brianna Nofil, Duke alumna, historian of the modern United States, and author of The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration (2024, Princeton University Press). Nofil’s award-winning book traces how the entwined histories of immigration policy, local law enforcement, and incarceration shaped today’s immigration detention system. Nofil is Assistant Professor of History at William & Mary. She majored in History at Duke University, graduating in 2012, and received her PhD in History from Columbia University in 2020. Lunch catered by Ginger+Soy. This event is co-sponsored by the Hart Leadership Program at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy.
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Fri, Oct 3 | 7pm | Durham Arts Council
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The Ethics of Now,
Diane Wilson on Food Sovereignty, Storytelling, and Cultural Recovery
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Duke historian Adriane Lentz-Smith hosts Diane Wilson (Dakota), novelist and memoirist, educator, and environmental advocate. Her 2021 novel, “The Seed Keeper,” weaves together the voices of four women to craft a sweeping portrait of a Dakota family over several generations to explore a reawakening and remembering of our original relationship to the seeds and, through them, to our ancestors. Her most recent essays — which explore seed advocacy, food sovereignty, social justice, and cultural recovery — have been featured in acclaimed anthologies.
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Sat, Oct 4 | 10am-5pm | Rubenstein Arts Center, Ruby Lounge
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AADS Fall Symposium
"Six Decades Later: Legacies of the 1965 Immigration Act"
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Speakers: Dr. Madeline Hsu, Dr. Pawan Dhingra and Dr. Mae Ngai
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 profoundly changed the demographics of the United States and laid the basis for the immigration system we have today. How has this act shaped Asian America? What are its legacies for Latine and African American communities? How has it impacted the U.S. South, especially the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area? "Six Decades Later" is a symposium that explores the complicated legacies of this act and its implications for us all now. No registration required.
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Oct 8 | 11:45am-1:30pm | Classroom Bldg 229
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Dec 3 | 5:30-7pm | Gavins Commons (Classroom Bldg 224)
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