5:30 PM Cash bar 6:30 PM Lecture Hall opens 7 PM Lecture from artist John Akomfrah The Nasher Museum presents acclaimed British filmmaker John Akomfrah, 2017 winner of the UK’s Artes Mundi Prize, who will discuss his new t...
Amy Sherald, who painted the official portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama for the National Portrait Gallery, will deliver the Annual Rothschild Lecture about her exceptional portraits of African American subjects....
The Nasher Museum presents an evening of short films and discussion about how food helps us digest our complex world. Victoria Bouloubasis, food journalist and filmmaker, will moderate a discussion with filmmakers Saleem R...
6 PM Highlights Tour 6 PM Cash Bar and Southern Fare Join us in celebrating the fall Music & Protest issue of Southern Cultures, the academic quarterly published by UNC Press with the Center for the Study of t...
Join us for a talk and conversation by Hisham Matar, a writer born of Libyan parents in New York City whose memoir, The Return: Father, Soul, and the Land in Between, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography....
Exhibition curator and Duke Professor Esther Gabara talks with artist Rupert García, born in California in 1941, whose work is part of Pop América, 1...
Meet Japanese choreographer Eiko Otake and Durham artist Beverly McIver, who will talk about their work together on “Eiko Otake The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable.” Three performances are co-presented by the Nasher Mu...
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7 PM: Talk by Alex Harris in the lecture hall 8 PM: Dessert reception, a celebration of Harris and Margaret Sartor’s long connection to the Center for Documentary Studies and their years of teaching at Duke. Drawing ...