“The whole world, all of it, is a narrow bridge; the essential thing is not to be afraid.” This saying, attributed to the 18th century Polish Jewish mystic, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, was set to… read more about All the World is a Narrow Bridge »
This session offers an introduction to the work of poetry and the poetry of work. We’ll read some of Virgil’s Georgics, written in 29 BCE, and think together about how the poem's engagement with the… read more about The Way Should Not Be Easy »
Please join the Franklin Humanities Institute for its Friday morning series, tgiFHI!tgiFHI gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretative social sciences and arts the opportunity to present… read more about Henry Pickford »
Join a conversation about the myriad ways in which we talk about and around food and culture, especially as it pertains to Asian foodways – what are some frameworks for talking about food, and the… read more about I Eat, Therefore I Am: East Asian Food Cultures »
Igiaba Scego’s “Sausages” (“Salsicce,” 2003) is a prize-winning, 12-page story about a woman who considers how eating sausage would affect her identities, as Italian, Somali, Sunni, and Black. We… read more about Visions of Community & Racism (via Italy) »
This will be a professionalization workshop, geared for graduate students, on the subject of academic journal entries.
Title will be sent in early March and the paper will be pre-circulated one… read more about (DIS) UNITY Workshop Series »
DEPARTMENT of GERMAN STUDIES
