Cancelled // Get on the Bus – National Farmworker Awareness Week.
See AboveCancelled Get on the Bus, a week-long program highlighting NC farmworkers' stories, will be hosted from March 23 – March 29 during National Farmworker Awareness Week (NFAW) at Duke University, the NC Farmworker Institute, and Durham community nonprofit, El Futuro, to bridge communities through conversations about those who harvest our food in North Carolina. The program features an interactive Bus Sculpture created from […]
Postponed // Hope for a Planet in Peril
Divinity School Goodson Chapel 403 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesPostponed Hope for a Planet in Peril The realities of anthropogenic climate change, species extinction, and sea level rise compel a rethinking of humanity’s place in the world, and a reimagining of the dominant cultural and political forms that threaten life on our planet. Our situation is one in which many of the built […]
“Spanish Narratives of Migration”: Abolitionist Organizing on the US-Mexico Border
ZoomNina Ebner, an advocate with the Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee (DMSC)/Fronterizx Fianza Fund, will unpack recent developments in Juarez/El Paso during an hour-long workshop. In it, she will discuss her work with DMSC, an abolitionist collective of femmes and queer individuals, fighting for more equitable immigration policy, the demilitarization of border communities and an end […]
RESCHEDULED: Purpose Coaching weekly session: Summer
Join Institute Director Suzanne Shanahan for our first weekly Purpose Coaching group session. With COVID-19 forcing the cancelation of the vast majority of planned summer opportunities for students, what does one do now? There's no one-size-fits-all answer to this question. But there are answers. Group sessions are capped at 12 students on a first come, […]
RESCHEDULED to Apr. 16: Providential Modernity Seminar with Matthew Rowley
ONLINE** Rescheduled to virtual format, now on April 16, 1:00-2:30PM, EDT -- email Amber Díaz Pearson for the paper and Zoom meeting details. ** The next Providential Modernity seminar will meet at 1:00PM on Thursday, April 16, on Zoom. The seminar will feature historian Matthew Rowley (Leicester and Cambridge): "Make (Colonial) America Great Again: The […]
Postponed // The Fight Over Intellectual Diversity in Higher Ed: A Report from the Trenches
Teer 203 110 Science Drive, Durham, NC, United StatesPostponed Mark your calendars. On Monday, April 20th at 5pm in Teer 203 (Pratt School), Professor Molly Worthen of UNC-Chapel Hill will deliver the talk “The Fight Over Intellectual Diversity in Higher Ed: A Report from the Trenches”at the invitation of the Arete Initiative. Professor Worthen has written about this subject in The New York […]