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The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies is a unique consortium of programs committed to revitalizing notions of how knowledge is gained and exchanged.
Participants from a broad range of disciplines converge to explore intellectual issues, including some of the most pressing social and political themes of our time: race and race relations, the legacy of the African-American experience, equality and opportunity among diverse populations, the implications of accelerated globalization. At its core, the Center claims an intrepid and daring mission: to bring together humanists and those involved in the social sciences in a setting that inspires vigorous scholarship and imaginative alliances. In this way, historians, artists, literary scholars, and philosophers contribute to a rich understanding of moral and ethical issues.
Inspired by the example of John Hope Franklin--Duke professor emeritus, historian, intellectual leader, and lifelong civil rights activist--the Franklin Center embraces a creative cross-pollination of ideas, perspectives, and methodologies. Using such sophisticated resources as multimedia and high-speed videoconferencing, the Franklin Center employes advanced technologies not only as a means to an end, but as objects of critical inquiry themselves. These striking new directions in higher education require the marriage of philosophical imagination and pragmatic design.
The Franklin Center currently houses:
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Association of International Education Administrators
Canadian Studies Center
Center for European Studies
Center for Global Studies and the Humanities
Center for International Studies
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Concilium on Southern Africa
Duke Islamic Studies Center
Duke University Fulbright
Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Franklin Center Distinguished Faculty
International Comparative Studies
North Carolina Consortium for South Asian Studies
Policy and Organizational Management Program
University Scholars Program
Participants from a broad range of disciplines converge to explore intellectual issues, including some of the most pressing social and political themes of our time: race and race relations, the legacy of the African-American experience, equality and opportunity among diverse populations, the implications of accelerated globalization. At its core, the Center claims an intrepid and daring mission: to bring together humanists and those involved in the social sciences in a setting that inspires vigorous scholarship and imaginative alliances. In this way, historians, artists, literary scholars, and philosophers contribute to a rich understanding of moral and ethical issues.
Inspired by the example of John Hope Franklin--Duke professor emeritus, historian, intellectual leader, and lifelong civil rights activist--the Franklin Center embraces a creative cross-pollination of ideas, perspectives, and methodologies. Using such sophisticated resources as multimedia and high-speed videoconferencing, the Franklin Center employes advanced technologies not only as a means to an end, but as objects of critical inquiry themselves. These striking new directions in higher education require the marriage of philosophical imagination and pragmatic design.
The Franklin Center currently houses:
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Association of International Education Administrators
Canadian Studies Center
Center for European Studies
Center for Global Studies and the Humanities
Center for International Studies
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Concilium on Southern Africa
Duke Islamic Studies Center
Duke University Fulbright
Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Franklin Center Distinguished Faculty
International Comparative Studies
North Carolina Consortium for South Asian Studies
Policy and Organizational Management Program
University Scholars Program
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The ideological/propaganda challenge of the Islamic State is unique in terms of both message and propagation. Much hyperbole has gone into either exaggerating or minimizing this challenge for reasons sometimes only tangentially connected with the threat. Fernandez’s remarks place the potent ISIS narrative within the broader context of a deep crisis of authority in the Sunni Arab Muslim world, facilitated by regional events and amplified by historic, regional political-military shifts and an ongoing global revolution in the use of social media.
Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez is Vice-President of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and board member of the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University. He retired in 2015 after 32 years in the U.S. Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. Ambassador Fernandez served as Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassies in Khartoum, Sudan and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea and was Coordinator at the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC) from 2012 to 2015. He also served in senior public diplomacy positions in Afghanistan, Jordan, Guatemala, Syria, Kuwait, and in the State Department’s Near East Bureau (NEA) in Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS) and the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (TCTHS).
The Asian Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University hosted Leta Hong Fincher to speak about her new book, "Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequalities in China". Hong Fincher recently completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at Tsinghua University. Hong Fincher tweets from @letahong.
The Cosby Show at 30: Reflections on Race, Parenting, Inequality and Education
This September marks the 30th anniversary of the debut of The Cosby Show—the landmark television sitcom starring comedian and philanthropist Bill Cosby and Tony Award winning actress Phylicia Rashad. That fall the duo inaugurated their roles of Heathcliff and Clair Hanks Huxtable, two highly educated, professional and upper middle-class African-American parents of five children. The series, which ran from 1984-1992—shortly before the re-election of Ronald Reagan and ending months before the election of Bill Clinton—consistently ranked in the top-5 among American television viewers, including five straight seasons (1985-1990) where it was the most popular television show in America.
To commemorate the anniversary of The Cosby Show’s debut, The Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at the Duke Consortium on Social Equity, in conjunction with the John Hope Franklin Center, is hosting a roundtable discussion, The Cosby Show at 30: Reflections on Race, Parenting, Inequality and Education, September 18, 2014 at 7:00pm at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University (2204 Erwin Road).
Blair LM Kelley—Associate Professor of History and Assistant Dean for interdisciplinary studies and international programs at NC State University.
Wahneema Lubiano—Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and Literature at Duke University
Natalie Bullock Brown—Chair of the Department of Film and Interactive Media at Saint Augustine’s University
Joshua L. Lazard --C. Eric Lincoln Minister for Student Engagement at Duke University Chapel
Moderated by Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University and Director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship.
A Political Theory Workshop, "The Making of the Constitution." Gordon Wood (Brown University) will be discussing his work. This event is made possible by a grant from the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History.
The third session from the Islamic Media conference
On January 21st the John Hope Franklin Center hosted a celebration of the Haitian Declaration of Independence. Duke Professors Laurent Dubois and Deborah Jenson along with Assistant Professor Julia Gaffield, and Professor Richard Rabinowitz partook in a roundtable discussion on the declaration's history and creation.
David Degner is a photojournalist who has been based in Cairo, Egypt for the past 3 years. His work has been published in most major publications from The New York Times to The Guardian, TIME to Vice, The Wall Street Journal to AdBusters.
Degner will discuss the specifics of gathering information as a journalist on the ground in the quickly-evolving situations of the revolutions around the Middle East, drawing on his experience working in the middle of the ‘Arab Spring’ revolutions in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, and the latest conflict in Gaza.
Lauren Zalla and Quinn Holmquist titled "Kreyòl pale, Kreyòl konprann: Esperyans nou nan lanmè kreyòl la."
This interactive workshop explores the aesthetics of Middle Eastern Islam through digital production, music, architecture, art, satellite television, and social media. How does cultural production breathe new life into older religious forms? How is this new life lived, felt, and experienced? How does material production give expression to the spirit, making the invisible visible? How do representational practices give voice to the soul? In this workshop, Duke students perform an interactive public sphere by engaging scholars in fields critical to the disciplinary study of media and the senses.
This lecture and reception are the opening events for a closed workshop on Islamic Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa. It brings together twenty US-based scholars and Africa-based scholars and administrators from Islamic universities and colleges in Africa to discuss the history and future of Islamic universities and education in Africa and their contributions to educational reform and development in Africa.
Adriana Brodsky
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
“The Limits of Community: Sephardim and their Central Institutions, Argentina 1920- 1950.”
Steven Hyland
Wingate University
“A Solemn Expression of Faith: The Islamic Communities and the Failed Attempt to Erect a Mosque in Peronist Argentina.”
This workshop’s two panels will offer new approaches to the comparative study of the Jewish and Muslim communities in Argentina and Brazil, focusing on integration patterns. The workshop is part of the Center for European Studies’ initiative on “Jews & Muslims: Histories, Diasporas, and the Meaning of the European.” The initiative explores new comparative global approaches to the study of Jewish and Muslim communities. Supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Duke University Office of the Provost, the workshop is sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Duke Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Duke University and the Duke Islamic Studies Center.
Today, civilizations are more open to each other more than ever before. We now live in highly diverse, multi-civilizational societies. The Other is no longer there but here. Islamic civilization has become intertwined with other civilizations. Is this a new phenomenon? Where is it leading?
The Bioinformatics Group at the National Marrow Donor Program are conducting a series of studies that combine new data collection methods with genetic ancestry to improve donor patient matches.
Director Martin Maiers and Scientist Abeer Madbouly at the Bioinformatics Group commissioned Lynn Fellman to produce a video about this research. The 3-minute video was presented November, 2012, during Dr. Madbouly’s talk to medical professionals and scientists. It explains that people alive today have unique markers in their genes that reflect ancient migrations and contemporary mixing. In a land of many Multis, like the United States, people with mixed genetic ancestry who need a stem cell transplant have difficulty finding a matching donor.
Dr. Madbouly and her colleagues hope to find that more exact genetic data and measurable ethnic information may result in matching more donors with patients for more successful transplant outcomes.
Lynn Fellman is an independent multimedia artist focusing on human evolution and genomic science. She works with scientists to communicate their research through art and narrative. Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, she is currently an artist and journalist in residence at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent).
Professor Maghraoui's class, "The Arab Spring" presents a debate.
Muslim communities passed through early modernity without adopting the printing press that transformed religious and intellectual life in Europe. But between 1810 and 1830 Muslims began printing in a series of distant but connected cities from Calcutta, Cairo, Valetta and Lucknow to Tabriz, Kazan, Saint Petersburg and Singapore. Surveying the first presses, printers and books in each of these places, the lecture reconstructs the global interactions that gave birth to Muslim printing as European industrial products crossed cultural and political frontiers through closer contact with Indian, Iranian, Tatar, Malay and Arab middlemen. From its nursing by Christian missionaries and their trans-cultural journeymen, we follow the infancy of Muslim printing through responses to European industrialization on the distant frontiers of empire.
Muslim communities passed through early modernity without adopting the printing press that transformed religious and intellectual life in Europe. But between 1810 and 1830 Muslims began printing in a series of distant but connected cities from Calcutta, Cairo, Valetta and Lucknow to Tabriz, Kazan, Saint Petersburg and Singapore. Surveying the first presses, printers and books in each of these places, the lecture reconstructs the global interactions that gave birth to Muslim printing as European industrial products crossed cultural and political frontiers through closer contact with Indian, Iranian, Tatar, Malay and Arab middlemen. From its nursing by Christian missionaries and their trans-cultural journeymen, we follow the infancy of Muslim printing through responses to European industrialization on the distant frontiers of empire.
Herman Teule, professor of Eastern Christianity at the Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands), where he is the head of the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, and the Catholic University of Louvain. He studied theology, comparative religion and oriental languages at the Universities of Amsterdam and Louvain, will be speaking on Islamism & Iraqi Christians on April 4th. Teule holds a PhD (Louvain) in Oriental Studies. Teule also holds a Visiting professorships in Moscow (St Tychon's theological University) and Kottayam-India (Mahatma Ghandi University).
Yan Lianke is the author of Lennin's Kisses and currently a finalist for the Man Booker International literary prize.
Professor John Agresto will shed a new light on the unfolding debacles in Iraq, Iran, and the Middle East and how the chasm between America’s expectations and political reality was growing wider and ended up in the failure of noble intentions. From a neoconservative vintage point, Agresto will examine the problems the US faces in spreading democracy abroad: “If a nation is divided rather than a pluralistic nation, liberal democracy will fail.” John Agresto is currently Chair of the New Mexico State Advisory Committee for the US Commission on Civil Rights, Member of the Board of Trustees of AUIS and is chair of Academic Affairs Committee of the Board. He was Chancellor and Provost of American University in Sulamani (Iraq) 2009-2012 and a visiting fellow, James Madison Program: American Ideals & Institutions, Princeton University 2008-2009. He is the author of the book Mugged By Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions (2007).
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