Events

  Durham, NC, January 25, 2017 – On Friday, February 17, the Global Brazil Lab of the Franklin Humanities Institute will host its annual Global Brazil Conference co-sponsored by Duke Brazil Initiative (DBI). In its third year, the conference brings together leading scholars to generate new conversations between the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. […]

Workshop  Challenges for Marginalized Students in Higher Education in South Africa, the United States, and Beyond with Amelia Herbert This workshop with Amelia Herbert, Duke alumna, was an engaging and informational session on global social mobility through higher education, especially for historically marginalized populations. A combination of lecture and breakout sessions, the group of attendees discussed […]

Encontro Internacional de História e Sociologia na UFRRJ   Professors Annick Lempérière (University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne) and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (University of South Florida) will deliver public talks at the Universidade Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) in Seropédica on June 13, 2016. The program is organized by the Bass Connections research project, […]

Add three easy steps to your checklist:     [1] Mark your calendars for our Information Session on Undergraduate Funding on January 15 @ 4:30pm at the Lab. We’ll talk about independent research, Duke in Brazil, summer opportunities with faculty, and more. We are located in Bay 5 of Smith Warehouse, Room B189.     [2] […]

Mark your calendars! The 2016 UNC-Duke Consortium Conference in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference will take place 12-13 February.   Latin America and the Caribbean: Approximations of the Past, Anticipation of the Future   Each spring, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University Consortium in Latin American Studies sponsors an […]

Batala is an international samba reggae music project based in Salvador de Bahia in northeastern Brazil. The name Batala is a combination of the phrase “bateu lá” meaning “hit there” in Portuguese and Obatalá (Oxalá), the Candomblé deity who is the father of the Orixas and of all humanity. Batala was founded in Paris in […]

Dr. Brodwyn Fischer (University of Chicago) will be giving her talk, “Rights to the City in Cities without Rights: History and Political Imagination in Urban Brazil” this Thursday, 19 November, at noon in the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Conference Room, Rubenstein Library.   Fischer is a professor of history at the University of […]

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