Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival(Jan 29 - Feb 13, 2025)THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG [Les Parapluies de Cherbourg](Jacques Demy, 1964, 92 min, France, French with English subtitles,… read more about Screen/Society--"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (Jacques Demy, 1964) | 2026 French Film Festival »
Why focus on the history of Japanese television commercials? Advertising rapidly incorporates new artistic trends. This seems to be a particularly prominent feature in Japan. However, research on… read more about A Breakthrough in Early Japanese TV Commercials: 1967 »
Join us for a public lecture by historian Kelly Lytle Hernández, the 2025-26 Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. In "The Whites-Only Immigration Regime: 1896… read more about The Whites-Only Immigration Regime: 1896–1952 »
**RESCHEDULED SCREENING** (This event was originally planned to take place on January 31st, but had to be rescheduled due to weather.)==Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival(Jan 29 - Feb… read more about Screen/Society--"Ghost Trail" (Jonathan Millet, 2024) | 2026 French Film Festival [*RESCHEDULED*] »
The Infiltrators (2019, 95 min.) is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center - on purpose.… read more about Film Screening: The Infiltrators »
Join us for a special screening of CB: Power to the Player in Durham, a film honoring Duke's first African-American athlete.Come join us for an exclusive screening of CB: Power to the Player!The… read more about Documentary Screening, "CB: Power to the Player" »
**the talk will take place in Room A266**Drawn from Volk's recently published In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan, this talk unearths an immensely creative yet almost entirely overlooked… read more about In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan »
Thursday, February 12 at 7:00 p.m.SEEDS/ U.S. (Director: Brittany Shyne; Producers: Danielle Varga, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Brittany Shyne)Seeds is a portrait of Centennial farmers in the… read more about Full Frame Winter Road Show: SEEDS »
Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival(Jan 29 - Feb 13, 2025)ANNETTE(Leos Carax, 2021, 139 min, France, English, DCP)A years-spanning musical melodrama drenched in greens and yellows,… read more about Screen/Society--"Annette" (Leos Carax, 2021) | 2026 French Film Festival »
Join us for a free talk and reception with Natalie Bullock Brown, director of the Documentary Accountability Working Group (DAWG) and a leading advocate for ethics‑driven, justice‑centered nonfiction… read more about Free Talk: Embodying Social Justice Values in Documentary Filmmaking through Reflection »
*This event has reached full capacity, and registration is now closed*Documentary Film Screening: A Road Out This documentary tells the remarkable story of six South African health pioneers who… read more about Documentary Film Screening: A Road Out »
MISTRESS DISPELLER2024 / China, United States / 94 minutesDirector: Elizabeth LoProducers: Emma D. Miller, Elizabeth Lo, Maggie LiDesperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional… read more about Full Frame Presents: MISTRESS DISPELLER »
You're invited to CDS for the February meetup of Photobook Dummies, a monthly, in‑person gathering of local photobook collectors, creators, and enthusiasts.What is a photobook? This month will be a… read more about Photobook Dummies Meetup: What Is a Photobook? »
What happens behind the scenes - with access, funding and distribution - to bring a creative documentary vision to life? In this free talk, acclaimed independent producer Rebekah Fergusson shares… read more about Free Talk: Access to Audience: Case Studies in Documentary Producing »
The Rights and Humanities Annual Series is jointly sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and the Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI. The series was launched in 2019 to address… read more about Belonging: Artist as Witness with Nora Krug »
--Thandi Cai, 2024, 47 min, USA, in English--Introduction and post-screening discussion moderated by Professor Eileen Chow.***Two storytellers, one community, and 150 years of untold history.***"… read more about Film Screening: “Bluff City Chinese” (Thandi Cai, 2024) »
The Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW), which is in its nineteenth year, offers a unique opportunity for internationally recognized faculty and young scholars to engage in sustained dialogue about… read more about The 19th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop »
Performance: 6:30 PM (Great Hall)Artist Talk: 7:00 PM (Lecture Hall)Reception to Follow The Nasher is hosting an evening with artist Raheleh Filsoofi, who returns to the museum following her fall… read more about BITE: A Performance by Raheleh Filsoofi »