Podcasts about Franklin Humanities Institute

Tift Merritt is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and practitioner-in-residence at the Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke University, she has released records via Lost Highway, Fantasy Records, and Yep Roc Records, performed with Joan Baez and Kris Kristofferson, and had a (pre-podcast type) show on Marfa Public Radio about the artistic process and integrity, called The Spark. We talk with Tift about intentionally stepping back from touring and the full-time music industry, seeking the growing edge, surviving without social media, the fallacy of constant flowering, and a whole lot more.Get more access and support this show by subscribing to our Patreon, right here.Links:Tift MerrittThe SparkRosanne CashDorris BettsClick here to watch this conversation on YouTube.Social Media:The Other 22 Hours InstagramThe Other 22 Hours TikTokMichaela Anne InstagramAaron Shafer-Haiss InstagramAll music written, performed, and produced by Aaron Shafer-Haiss. Become a subscribing member on our Patreon to gain more inside access including exclusive content, workshops, the chance to have your questions answered by our upcoming guests, and more.

Today we talk with Françoise Vergès and Jamille Pinheiro Dias about the difficulty of "decolonizing" the museum, and engaging passionately with another project--creating a "post-museum" dedicated to a poetics of a common world. Leaving behind the pretensions of a "universal museum," filled with dead objects, Vergès and Dias work toward a living, mobile, and heterogenous space of art production in unlikely places.Françoise Vergès is a writer and decolonial antiracist feminist activist. A Reunionnese, she received an education that ran counter to the French hegemonic school  from her anticolonial communist and feminist parents and the members of their organisations. She left Reunion for Algeria to obtain her high school diploma and then stayed. She moved to Paris, France, and was an activist in antiracist, anti imperialist and feminist movements. She became a professional journalist for a feminist magazine and traveled for the publishing house des femmes to collect testimonies of women fighting in the Global South.  She received her Ph.D in Political Theory from Berkeley University in 1995. She has never held a teaching position in France but created the Chair Global South(s) at Collège d'études mondiales where she held workshops on different topics (2014-2018). She is the convener and curator of L'Atelier a collective and collaborative seminar/public performance with activist and artists of color. Recent publications include: Programme de désordre absolu. Décoloniser le musée (2023), A Feminist Theory of Violence (2021), De la violence coloniale dans l'espace public (2021), The Wombs of Women. Capital, Race, Feminism (2021), A Decolonial Feminism (2020).Jamille Pinheiro Dias is currently the director of the Centre of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at University of London's School of Advanced Study, where she also works as a Lecturer. In addition, she is a von der Heyden Fellow at the Franklin Humanities Institute's Amazon Lab at Duke University. Prior to joining the University of London, she worked as a Research Associate at the University of Manchester as part of the project Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America, funded by the United Kingdom's Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her studies involve environmental issues, Amazonian cultural production, Indigenous arts, and translation studies in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil. Prior to working in the UK, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of São Paulo, where she also received a Ph.D. in Modern Languages. In addition, she was a visiting researcher in Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University, and a teaching assistant at the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the University of São Paulo.

This episode features a conversation with my distinguished guest, Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, PhD.Dr. Neal is no stranger to the Welcome To Fatherhood podcast and audience, making his first appearance in season 3 episode 25 They Never Saw Black Men As Fathers. Dr. Neal is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies and Chair of the Department of African & African American Studies at Duke University where he offers courses on Black Masculinity, Popular Culture, and Digital Humanities, including signature courses on Michael Jackson & the Black Performance Tradition, and The History of Hip-Hop, which he co-teaches with Grammy Award Winning producer 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit).He is the author of several books including What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1999), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic(2002) and Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (2013).  The 10th Anniversary edition of Neal's New Black Manwas published in February of 2015 by Routledge. Dr. Neal is co-editor of That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Routledge), now in its second edition. Additionally Dr. Neal host of the video webcast Left of Black, which is produced in collaboration with the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke.As always, thank you for spending your Wednesday with us!You can visit the Welcome To Fatherhood website for more information. Theme MusicDreamweaver by Sound ForceFrom Premium BeatShow MusicSatin by JMPSCRDem Apples by GRIDKIDSUntouchable by JeesGuyFrom Soundstripe

This episode discusses the work of Ella Baker and the different traditions and influences that shaped her organizing and her understanding of democracy. Baker didn't write much and what she did write is not widely available. Instead, her approach is taught through accounts of it by historians of the civil rights movement and her biographers. So it is her life and practice that I focus on in this two part episode. In part 1 of the episode I discuss Baker's biography, her vision of democracy, and her legacy with my colleague, Wesley Hogan. Wesley is Research Professor at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke. She has researched and written extensively on the civil rights movement, particularly the work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC) which Baker helped organize and within which Baker was a key figure. And in her most recent book, Wesley examines contemporary movements influenced by Baker such as the Movement for Black Lives and the International Indigenous Youth Council, which is involved in the struggle to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect sovereign control of Indigenous lands. GuestWesley Hogan is Research Professor at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. She writes and teaches the history of youth social movements, human rights, documentary studies, and oral history. Her book books include, On the Freedom Side, which draws a portrait of young people organizing in the spirit of Ella Baker since 1960; Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America (2009) and a volume co-edited with Paul Ortiz entitled, People Power: History, Organizing, and Larry Goodwyn's Democratic Vision in the Twenty-First Century. Between 2003-2013, she taught at Virginia State University, where she worked with the Algebra Project and the Young People's Project. From 2013-2021, she served as Director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. She co-facilitates a partnership between the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke,The SNCC Digital Gateway, the purpose of which is to bring the grassroots stories of the civil rights movement to a much wider public through a web portal, K12 initiative, and set of critical oral histories.Resources for Going DeeperCharles Payne, “Slow and Respectful Work” & “Mrs Hamer is No Longer Relevant,” I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), Ch.'s 8 & 13.Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).J. Todd Moye, Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013).Mie Inouye, “Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker's Theory of Political Organizing,” American Political Science Review 116:2 (2022), 533–546.Interview with Ella Baker (1968) https://abolitionnotes.org/ella-baker/interview1968Speech to the SNCC Conference (1963) https://abolitionnotes.org/ella-baker/sncc1963Address at the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally (1964) 

This episode features a conversation with my distinguished guest, Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, PhD.Dr. Mark Anthony Neal is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies and Chair of the Department of African & African American Studies at Duke University where he offers courses on Black Masculinity, Popular Culture, and Digital Humanities, including signature courses on Michael Jackson & the Black Performance Tradition, and The History of Hip-Hop, which he co-teaches with Grammy Award Winning producer 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit).He is the author of several books including What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1999), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic(2002) and Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (2013).  The 10th Anniversary edition of Neal's New Black Man was published in February of 2015 by Routledge. Dr. Neal is co-editor of That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Routledge), now in its second edition. Additionally Dr. Neal host of the video webcast Left of Black, which is produced in collaboration with the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke.As always, thank you for spending your Wednesday with us!You can visit the Welcome To Fatherhood website for more information. Theme MusicDreamweaver by Sound ForceFrom Premium BeatShow MusicLast Minute & Alpha by OHSNAPITBWAYColdest Soul by Ghost BeatzFrom Soundstripe

Long before Puerto Rico became known for reggaeton, the island had bomba. A music and dance tradition created by enslaved and self-emancipated Africans to forge community and even incite rebellion, bomba has continued to grow as a space of Black identity, community, and ancestral connection. In this episode, Dr. Sarah Bruno shares with us this history.  Sarah Bruno is the 2022-2023 postdoctoral fellow in Latinx Art, Cultures, and Religions in the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. Her research and art lie at the intersections of performance, diaspora, and digitality. She is currently creating a digital exhibition of the Fernando Pico papers, and as a member of LifeXCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure and Taller Electric Marronage. The Pico Papers informs her first manuscript, Re-Sounding Resistencia where she uses the Afro-Puerto Rican genre of bomba as a site and method in constructing a cartography of Black Puerto Rican femme feeling throughout history.  Dr. Bruno was a Mellon ACLS Dissertation Fellow in 2020-2021 and the 2020 awardee of the Association of Black Anthropologists Vera Green Prize for Public Anthropology. Bruno was the 2021-2022 ACLS Emerging Voices Race and Digital Technologies postdoctoral fellow at the Franklin Humanities Institute and in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.  She charges herself to continue to write with care about the never-ending process of enduring, imagining, thriving, and healing in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Connect with Strictly Facts -  Instagram | Facebook | TwitterLooking to read more about the topics covered in this episode? Subscribe to the newsletter at www.strictlyfactspod.com to get the Strictly Facts Syllabus to your email!Produced by Breadfruit Media

As part of Duke Law's International Week, Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law and Supervising Attorney at the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke Law, moderated this discussion with Nanjala Nyabola, independent consultant and author,Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya, and Maya Wang, China Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch. This event is part of the Duke Law Human Rights in Practice series organized by the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic. Co-sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association; the Black Law Students Association; the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute; the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics; the Human Rights Law Society; the International Law Society; the Latin American Law Students Association; the Middle East North African Law Students Association; the South Asian Law Student Association; and the Womxn of Color Collective. View transcript: https://law.duke.edu/transcripts/TRANSCIPT-Nanjala%20Nyabola%20%26%20Maya%20Wang%20_%20Digital%20Rights%20%26%20Discrimination.pdf

Pauli Murray, courtesy Wikimedia We look at the life and legacy of Black feminist, legal scholar, civil rights activist, lesbian and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray. Murray cofounded the National Organization for Women and the Congress on Racial Equality and her research was credited by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a groundbreaking sex discrimination case.  She was gender nonconforming and had long-term same-sex relationships, and was the first African American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.  Why is so little known about her?  We talk with Barbara Lau, director of the Pauli Murray Project at the Duke Human Rights Center of the Franklin Humanities Institute. We'll also listen to part of a talk by internationally renowned feminist activist Selma James entitled “Caregiving: An Anti-Capitalist Perspective.” James is the author of Sex, Race and Class: The Perspective of Winning and founder of the international Wages for Housework campaign. The post Womens Magazine – March 28, 2016: Two Views of Sex Discrimination appeared first on KPFA.

Duke faculty and graduate students were welcomed at Capitalist Operations: Extraction, Finance, Logistics, & Infrastructure, a mini-seminar jointly offered by Michael Hardt (Literature, Duke University) and Sandro Mezzadra (Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna). This seminar and Prof. Mezzadra's visit were jointly sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Program in Literature, and the Bologna-Duke Summer School on Global Studies and Critical Theory. The seminar served, in part, to explore neoliberalism from a series of different angles in the attempt to make the concept and its associated practices more concrete. Each of the four meetings was dedicated to a single concept that offers a new perspective on the functioning of capital: extraction, finance, logistics, and infrastructure. In some respects, these concepts name longstanding processes of the capitalist relations of production that can today be recognized in a new light; in other respects, they name new processes that have only emerged or become dominant in recent years.

The Duke Human Rights Center@FHI is examining what it means to study human rights at the university level in a new project titled RightsConnect. RightsConnect hosts a series of lectures and workshops on rights teaching and practice, with noted outside faculty and practitioners who face real world challenges to rights campaigns. Rachel Morello-Frosch is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley working in the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management. Her research focuses on environmental health and justice, centering on air pollution’s increased effects upon races and classes already vulnerable to other health issues due to disparities. Her work focuses on these community-based health issues and the policy-making around these issues. This talk was given at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University on Feb. 20, 2014.

BorderWork(s) Lab (http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/borderworks/) students Elizabeth Blackwood, Mary Kate Cash, Katie Contess, Rachel Fleder, Lauren Jackson, Jordan Noyes, and Jeremy Tripp led a gallery tour of Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire (http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/defininglines/). Defining Lines is on view at Duke's Nasher Museum from September 9 - December 15, 2013. This student-curated installation draws exclusively from the holdings of Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library and explores the mutual relationships between maps and empires. As imperial colonial structures rose, consolidated, and ultimately collapsed, the legacy of how their maps delineated colonial holdings, visualized spaces, and reinforced control remains with us. As varied and conflicted as their purposes and perspectives may be, maps continue to function as a powerful and popular medium through which we understand the world and the man-made lines that define and ultimately control it. The BorderWork(s) Lab is housed at the Franklin Humanities Institute (http://fhi.duke.edu/) and supported by the Mellon Foundation Humanities Writ Large grant (http://humanitieswritlarge.duke.edu/).

9:30 am Welcome - Ian Baucom, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke

Co-directed by Laurent Dubois and Deborah Jenson, the "Haiti Lab" is the first humanities laboratory at the Franklin Humanities Institute. The lab merges research, education, and practical applications of innovative thinking for Haiti's disaster recovery and for the expansion of Haitian studies in the U.S. and Haiti. Located at the FHI's new headquarters at the Smith Warehouse, the Haiti Lab takes its inspiration from the collaborative and discovery-driven model of research laboratories. Undergraduate and graduate students work with specialists in Haitian culture, history, and language on projects featuring vertical integration of Duke University expertise across disciplines and schools. The Haiti Lab is also a resource for media outlets seeking to gain knowledge of Haiti.

Haiti: History Embedded in Amber was a collaborative project produced in the Haiti Laboratory of the Franklin Humanities Institute during the 2010-2011 year. Led by renowned artist Edouard Duval-Carrié, it brought together faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and visitors in the process. It is now on permanent view in the "Garage" at the Franklin Humanities Institute, at Bay 4 of the Smith Warehouse.

Welcome - Ian Baucom, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Introduction - Fredric Jameson, Duke

A specialist in western and northern Canadian history, Professor Waiser joined the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan in 1984 and is at present a Professor of History. Prof. Waiser is the author, co-author and/or editor of thirteen books. He served as Director of the Graduate Program from 1988-1991 and then Department Head, 1995-98. Prior to his Saskatchewan appointment, he was Yukon Historian for the Canadian Parks Service. In 2006, Prof. Waiser was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, the province's highest honor, and the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007. His current research project, “A World We Have Lost,” will bring together environmental and Aboriginal history to produce a dynamic, provocative, new history of the region now comprising the province of Saskatchewan from contact to the late nineteenth century. It is the logical extension of his recent award-winning history of the province for the 2005 provincial centennial (Saskatchewan: A New History) and will complement that monograph by completing the history of the region from the beginning of native-newcomer interactions to the late nineteenth century and the creation of the province. Prof. Waiser will spend six weeks at Duke in February and March 2011. Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and INternational Studies with support from the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Dr. Fitzpatrick is author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press, and of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, forthcoming from NYU Press and previously made available for open peer review online (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence). She is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org), and has published articles and notes in journals including the Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, and Cinema Journal. Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and INternational Studies with support from the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Dorothy Q. Thomas will speak about recovering a legacy of progressive Americanism for contemporary women’s rights activists, drawing on her on-going research for a book that chronicles the lives of some of her female ancestors, including descendants of former presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and mother of the American Revolution Dorothy Quincy Hancock. Thomas is currently a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She was previously a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and was founding director for the Human Rights Watch Women’s Division. The lecture is cosponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center, the Archive for Human Rights, Women’s Studies, the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, the Program in the Study of Sexualities, and the Franklin Humanities Institute. Generous support was also provided by the Trent Foundation.

This panel is presented by the Pauli Murray Project, an organization that seeks to build stronger community ties in Durham, North Carolina, through dialogue, education, storytelling centered on one of our city’s unsung heroes, the lawyer, activist, poet and priest, Pauli Murray. Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and INternational Studies with support from the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Presented by the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies with support from the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Join us for a conversation with musicians Brad Cook and Joe Westerlund of the band Megafaun, moderated by Duke faculty Laurent Dubois. Presented by Duke Performances and the Franklin Humanities Institute. On September 17, 18, and 19, Megafaun & Fight the Big Bull will perform in a series of three live-recorded concerts at the Hayti Heritage Center. The two groups will team up for the three nights of concerts with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Sharon Van Etten to perform tunes from Alan Lomax's seminal collection of folk songs, Sounds of the South. John Hope Franklin Center

John Hope Franklin Center Co-sponsored by the Duke Human Right Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute

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The Hon. Justice Albie Sachs, Constitutional Court of South Africa.Moderated by Prof. Catherine Adcock Admay, Public Policy Studies and the Duke Center for International Development.”To appreciate the alliance between justice and art and its relation to the fine art of persuasion,Justice Albie Sachs is the very best guide.” Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court.Reception to follow event. Co-sponsors: Concilium on Southern Africa, Provost’s Office, Vice Provost for International Affairs, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Duke Center for International Development, Duke Human Rights Center, Law School, Franklin Humanities Institute, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Nasher Museum of Art and Duke University Center for International Studies

African Ubuntu and South African Constitutionalism, a public conversation between Justice Yvonne Mokgoro (Constitutional Court of South Africa) and Jean and John Comaroff (University of Chicago) will explore what the term Ubuntu, a concept encapsulating values of African humanism, means in the context of the contemporary jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court. Reception to follow in Room 130 John Hope Franklin Center and Gallery space Co-sponsors: Concilium on Southern Africa, Duke University Center for International Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute, Provost’s Office, Vice Provost for International Affairs and DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy

Co-sponsored by the Duke Human Right Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute

Co-sponsored by the Duke Human Right Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute

Co-sponsored by the Duke Human Right Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute

Co-sponsored by the Duke Human Right Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute

Co-sponsored by the Duke Human Right Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute