You are invited to a Do Lunch with Tayari Jones, author of New York Times bestseller An American Marriage (a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection and winner of the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction). Reading Tayari Jones feels like hearing someone who knows you well giving voice to thoughts you did not even know you had. Unflinching […]

The Do Lunches are open to Duke undergraduates only, and are an opportunity for face-to-face conversations with public intellectuals, authors, and practitioners. Ask Feinberg any question you want – how did he develop systems for determining compensation from complex losses, how did he end up in this role in the first place, what is his […]

Do Lunches create a space for undergrads (and undergrads only!) to interact directly with authors, practitioners, and scholars. On December 6th, we will host Jennifer Lynn Eberhardt, an American Social Psychologist and Professor in the Psychology Department at Stanford University as well as co-director of SPARQ. In 2014 she won the MacArthur fellowship. She studies the […]

*Event Cancelled* A rescheduled date/time is not set at present. For the first Do Lunch of the term, the Kenan Institute for Ethics will be hosting David Hardoon. David Hardoon is the Special Advisor (Artificial Intelligence) at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He leads the development of the AI strategy for Singapore's financial sector […]

Where: West Duke, Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, Room 101 When: Friday, February 28, 3pm Who: Undergrads only The Kenan Institute for Ethics invites you to a Do Snack with Kiese Laymon, author of best-selling Heavy: An American Memoir. By turns raw, real, fantastical, and funny, his memoirs and fiction articulate the slow death of living […]

Postponed The southern border has loomed large in the contemporary American imagination as landscape, lifeline, weapon, and metaphor. Drawn from his own experiences, Francisco Cantú’s account of policing that border starkly depicts how fully the current system dehumanizes migrants, agents, and those of us who do not demand a better way. Do Events are open […]