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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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People Weavers

Duke doctoral candidate Hannah Jorgensen revisits a past event with fresh eyes and new insights in her creative exploration of our Fall 2014 conversation with Eula Biss, exploring vampires, vaccines, fear and fearmongering.…

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Project: Rosetta Reitz Archive Collective

a multidisciplinary, intergenerational research collective comprising archivists, a professional singer/songwriter, academic research staff with sociocultural anthropology and digital humanities expertise, and graduate and undergraduate students from across a variety of schools and disciplines at Duke University…

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Introducing Kelsey Desir, Our 2024-25 Public Scholarship Fellow

Doctoral student Kelsey Desir is the Anne Firor Scott Public Scholarship Fellow for 2024-25. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English. We asked her to introduce herself.…

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