Join the Kenan Institute for Ethics and host Adriane Lentz-Smith for a conversation with Tommie Shelby on the case for prison abolition and the hard questions it raises. Philosopher and African American Studies Scholar Tommie Shelby pushes us to engage hard questions of crime, punishment, justice, and culpability. The author of The Idea of Prison […]
11th Organ I Tuesday, December 5, 2023 | 4 PM Rubenstein Arts Center | von der Heyden Studio Theater A Symposium “Without prophecy and without vision, politics is nothing. This has to begin in a rebellion that is at once intellectual and spiritual.” - Roberto Unger You are invited to drop in and out during […]
Join the Kenan Institute for Ethics and host Adriane Lentz-Smith for a conversation with Deesha Philyaw, author of “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” on Black women’s loves, lives, and labors. Award-winning writer Deesha Philyaw dares to explore the intimacies of Black women’s lives that are otherwise left at the church door. Her writing cares for Black […]
“More of Everything” Exhibit Opening and Artist's Talk with Natasha Lehner 2024 Kenan Graduate Arts Fellow and MFA Candidate in Experimental and Documentary Arts in conversation with Alexa Dilworth Documentary Arts Writer and Editor Monday, February 12, 2024 Reception: 5:00 p.m. Artist's Talk: 5:30 p.m. Join the Kenan Institute for Ethics for the opening of […]
Is it possible to defy the narrow constraints of our personal identities, discover and develop new fields of human relationships, and achieve co-existence on equal, soul-democratic terms? Throughout 2023, Professor Michael Kliën worked with a research group in the Laboratory for Social Choreography at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. They created a […]
Join the Kenan Institute for Ethics and host Adriane Lentz-Smith for a conversation with Jonathan Metzl on why so many Americans support policies that harm them. An acclaimed physician and professor of psychiatry and sociology, Jonathan Metzl is one of the United States’s most important critics on health and violence. His work illuminates the social […]