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February 2020
Graduate Arts Fellow Show: Existence on the Periphery
Existence on the Periphery, curated by 2019-2020 Kenan Graduate Arts Fellow Cassandra Klos, will be on display in the Keohane-Kenan Gallery until March 29. We have entered the era of the Anthropocene: a geological age denoted by human engagement with the environment becoming the dominant force behind geological, oceanic, and atmospheric change. As the ramifications of our treatment of the planet become ever more visible, many are reckoning with the spectre of drastic changes to life as we currently live…
Find out more »Ethics of Now: Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon does not dissemble. By turns raw, real, fantastical, and funny, his memoirs and fiction articulate the slow death of living amidst state violence and the poetic transcendence of managing to keep on keeping on nonetheless. Personal but public, his writing speaks to and for all of us. Kiese Laymon's books will be available for purchase at the event, provided by the Regulator Bookshop. The Ethics of Now is a series of conversations between Duke historian Adriane Lentz Smith…
Find out more »March 2020
OneTeam Sexual Violence Training Program
Our Bass Connections has developed a new sexual violence training program, and we need participants to help us workshop the program. As a participant, you will be trained through the program we’ve developed, and then will have an opportunity to provide feedback about the training session itself. Dinner will be provided! This is a really concrete way for you to affect the culture of sexual violence on campus and we need your help! Feel free to forward this email to…
Find out more »Open House – Warm Company, Hot Chocolate & Ethics
Come pretend it's a snow day with The Kenan Institute for Ethics! No RSVP necessary.
Find out more »OneTeam Sexual Violence Training Program
Our Bass Connections has developed a new sexual violence training program, and we need participants to help us workshop the program. As a participant, you will be trained through the program we’ve developed, and then will have an opportunity to provide feedback about the training session itself. Dinner will be provided! This is a really concrete way for you to affect the culture of sexual violence on campus and we need your help! Feel free to forward this email to…
Find out more »Providential Modernity Seminar with Elsa Costa
The next Providential Modernity seminar will meet at 1:00PM on Thursday, March 5, in the Ahmadieh Family Conference Room (West Duke Building, room 101). The seminar will feature Elsa Costa (Ph.D. candidate in History, Duke University), discussing some of her work on the Spanish Empire during the Counterreformation and Enlightenment: "The Bourbon Ideology? Civic Eudaemonism and Secular Regalism in Imperial Spain." Her research, recently conducted while on a Fulbright fellowship in Spain, documents the brief existence of a specifically post-Christian…
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