Mon, November 30 at 5:00am
November 30. 2026. Fredric Jameson Gallery. GUEST TALK. BLACK COTTON U.S. Featuring Julius Tillery. For five generations, the Tillery family has worked the land of Northeastern NC. Black Cotton U.S. asks us to look at the familiar crop – to see beyond the commodity and consider the history, labor, beauty, and lives connected to it. […]
Thu, December 3 at 10:00am
December 3, 2026. Fredric Jameson Gallery. 10:00 am. Screening of GROUNDING AMERICA: CORN | COTTON | COAL | TOBACCO. Short films for NARRATING NATURE. DOCUMENTARIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. Join the final presentation of students exploring these commodities from academic and artistic perspectives. ENVIRON 315S, fall 2026.
Thu, October 29 at 12:00pm
OCTOBER 29, 2026. Bostock Library 127. Duke University. West Campus. 12:00 pm. ARTIST TALK. CORN MANDALA. The connection between humans and corn began about 10,000 years ago, when early people in Mexico began domesticating a wild grass called teosinte, creating the edible grain we now know as maize, or corn (maíz in Spanish). Beyond just […]
Thu, November 12 at 6:00pm
November 12, 2026. Ahmadieh Family Lecture. Smith Warehouse, Bay 4. 6:00 pm SCREENING. SEEDS. (2025) 123″. Britanny Shyne. Interweaving the stories of three Black generational farmers to create a collective and intimate portrait of farming today, Seeds is a moving and powerful exploration of their lives, joys, and struggles as well as the fragility of […]
Tue, October 20 at 5:00pm
OCTOBER 20, 2026. FREDRIC JAMESON GALLERY. Friedl Building East Campus. 5-7 pm. Let’s help write BELONGING? | WE THE PEOPLE. white cotton on black cotton. Black and White. Come on October 20, 5:00 to 7:00 pm for a special gathering to finish the writing of healing and enjoy a communal dinner.
Mon, Oct 26 - Sat, Oct 31
OCTOBER 25-30, 2026. The Edge. Duke Library. West Campus CORN MANDALA. Guest Artist Jorge Taylor Rojas (U.S/Mexico – based in Salt Lake City, Utah) will lead the collaborative installation of his latest edition of CORN MANDALA. A design commissioned for GROUNDING AMERICA will take place at Duke University Libraries, THE EDGE HALL. Contact us at: […]
Thu, October 1 at 1:30pm
Join us for conversation with Professor Mark Peterson (Yale) about his new book The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand Year History. This book charts the history and aims of the American constitution from its origins in an agrarian past to the grave crisis we face today. Peterson traces the American constitutional […]
Thu, September 17 at 1:30pm
Join us for conversation with Professor Sarah Pearsall (Johns Hopkins University) about her new book Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution In this powerful new history of the American Revolution, Sarah M. S. Pearsall argues that the American Founding Fathers did not have a unique claim on the revolutionary spirit. […]
Thu, October 29 at 1:30pm
Join us for conversation with Professor Woody Holton (South Carolina) about his recent book Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with […]
Thu, October 15 at 1:30pm
Duke Professor of History Phil Stern in discussion with Karin Wulf, the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library (JCB), and Professor of History at Brown University. A historian of gender, family and politics in eighteenth-century British America, Karin Wulf earned her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University. […]
Tue, September 15 at 6:00pm
In conjunction with The Declaration of Independence Display we invite you to join us for a special event! Famously, in December 1773, over a hundred colonists snuck onto ships in Boston Harbor after nightfall, destroying chests of tea worth nearly $2 million today. Often portrayed as a local tax protest that helped spark a Revolution, […]
