The Ethics of Now with Damon Tweedy and Jeffrey Baker
Hayti Heritage Center 804 Old Fayetteville St, Durham, NC, United StatesJoin the Kenan Institute for Ethics and host Adriane Lentz-Smith for a conversation with Jeffrey Baker and Damon Tweedy on race, memory, and what local history can teach us — as embodied in a story from Duke Hospital that still reverberates today. In a new podcast, “UNHEALED: A Story of Race, Memory, and a Teaching […]
Community Forum on the Trump Administration and Higher Education: What Does This Mean for Duke?
0014 WestbrookIn the short time since President Trump has taken office, higher education has been confronted with significant changes and challenges. From diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and the status of immigrant and international students to funding cuts and grant cancellations, little about higher education’s future seems certain. Students, faculty, staff, and administrators must all navigate […]
Conservatism, Higher Education, and Trumpism
ONLINEDo the left and right share a common interest when it comes to defending American higher education? As the Trump administration initiates unprecedented attacks on colleges and universities, some conservatives are standing firm in upholding the value of liberal education. This webinar features two of them — political scientists Jon Shields of Claremont McKenna College […]
MAKE AMERICA: A Workshop with Bz Zhang
Ahmadieh Family Conference Room (101 West Duke Building) 1364 Campus Dr, Durham, NC, United StatesJoin us for a workshop with artist Bz Zhang focusing on their art installation, MAKE AMERICA. Participants will interact with and contribute to the installation. MAKE AMERICA wonders aloud about the ethics of memory through the (dis)assembly of our nation's physical and cultural constructions. Visitors are invited to participate in the assembling and reassembling of […]
The Ethics of Memory with David Treuer, Ryan Falcioni, and Bz Zhang
Nasher Museum of Art 2001 Campus Dr., Durham, United StatesJoin the Kenan Institute for Ethics for a talk and conversation on the ways we remember the past, whether visibly or invisibly, and how memory is a moral enterprise that shapes how we understand ourselves and how we imagine the future. This multidisciplinary exploration of the ethics of memory begins with a lecture by New […]
The Ethics of Now with Tracie Canada and Hanif Abdurraqib
Durham Arts Council 120 Morris St, Durham, NCJoin the Kenan Institute for Ethics and host Adriane Lentz-Smith for a conversation with sports anthropologist Tracie Canada and award-winning author and MacArthur Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib on race, exploitation, and hope in sports. Sports are about way more than just play. In her new book, “Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football,” […]