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Intellectual

Exchange

Since 2013, the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke has hosted over 300 conversations, performances, and workshops and has welcomed more than 500 guest speakers from around the world.

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Practicing Public

Scholarship

Through faculty engagement, deep community partnerships, and international collaborations, we provide leading examples of new ways to connect scholars and publics locally and globally.

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In Support of

Knowledge

We are people weavers. We explore new ways of bringing scholars into dialogue with community experts, artists and performers, writers, educators, and others whose work and ideas change conversations.

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About the Forum @ FHI

Promoting public scholarship

The Forum for Scholars and Publics at the Franklin Humanities Institute advocates for the vitality of community expertise and scholarly knowledge, both within and outside of the walls of the university. We organize programs and public events on and off campus, curate dynamic digital spaces for sharing research and commentary, host working groups and residencies, and engage with faculty, fellows, and community partners interested in exploring new ways to connect scholars and publics locally and globally.

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Restorying the Native Southeast

Anne Firor Scott Fellow Nikki Locklear reflects on an evening filled with love, pride, and gratitude for community.…

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Frustrating Intimacies: A week with the Rosetta Reitz Collective

 

The Collective’s display at Bass Connections is a humanist island in a sea of science and tech projects. The students’ presentation of their research work is deliberately (one could say, even, politically) hand-made. In reflection of the collaborative nature …

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New Project – Meaningful Things: Narrating a Life Through Objects

The human process of making meaning in and of the world is intertwined with the material world; certain objects we engage with become bearers of life’s stories. In this project, we’ll create spaces for reflection on a life, starting with …

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