As part of Duke’s Global Brazil Lab, a team of eight students and two faculty went to Brazil during the summer of 2016. They lived and worked in Baixada, a lower-income region in the city’s lowlands, and collaborated with scholars and students at the Multidisciplinary Institute of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro to assess how changes to higher education will impact social mobility in the country.  

Wired! is a group of faculty, staff, post-docs, graduate, and undergraduate students at Duke University who apply cultural and historical visualization technologies and methods to the study of material culture, art, architectural, and urban history.  

Students in the Duke in Tuscany program (Duke University) were at an archaeological site this month in Italy's Vulci Naturalistic Park when local archaeologists discovered a rare ancient and intact Etruscan tomb. The find allowed the students to use the digital documentation skills they were learning from Duke Professor Maurizio Forte. The result was a 3D model of the burial site, which Forte believes is the first such model of an Etruscan tomb. Read more at http://today.duke.edu/2014/06/etruscan.

The mission of the SNCC Legacy Project (SLP) is to preserve and extend the legacy of the freedom struggle, assuring that it is passed from generation to generation. To that end, SLP is partnering with Duke University Libraries and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke to create a pilot program focused on the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The project will bring SNCC veterans to campus for extended periods in 2014–15 to work alongside students, faculty, and archivists in establishing a new archive on the SNCC organizing efforts that led to the Voting Rights Act. We hope in this way to create a living freedom archive that will be publicly accessible through the web and include K–12 outreach. One Person, One Vote is a collaboration between the SNCC Legacy Project and, at Duke University, the Duke University Libraries, John Hope Franklin Research Center, and Center for Documentary Studies, with support from the Forum for Scholars and Publics, Women’s Studies, Department of History, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Office for Institutional Equity, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, and the Office of the Provost.

Joshua Nadel is a 2012-13 Visiting Faculty Fellow with the Humanities Writ Large initiative at Duke University. His home institution is North Carolina Central University. Here he talks with Laurent Dubois, a co-director of Duke's Haiti Lab, about his research.

Laura Lieber, a professor in Duke University's Religious Studies department, likes to design courses that are deeply engaged with the past but cognizant of the present. For example, Food and Judaism...  

During her 2012-13 Visiting Faculty Fellowship with the Humanities Writ Large initiative at Duke University, Adeline Koh is developing a historical role-playing game called Trading Races. The game is set at the University of Michigan in 2003. Players contest the fate of affirmative action there, taking on the roles of specific historical figures and a student assembly. In this video, Koh talks about her game, about the "Reacting to the Past" pedagogy that it's based on, and about the RTTP conference she has organized for Jan. 19 & 20, 2013 at Duke's Franklin Humanities Institute.

In part 2, Andrew Janiak (Duke) further introduces Émilie du Châtelet, a French philosopher, and her contribution to the debate about the principle of sufficient reason. This video is a part of a series of videos coming from Project Vox (Duke), a project recovering the lost voices of women philosophers.

Duke University assistant professor John Supko composes music, but not in the way you might think. He uses software and technology to create pieces that are never played exactly the same way twice. Read more in this profile, part of the “Taking Note” series highlighting humanities professors at Duke University.

Can you fit an entire city in a theater? How about inside a paper hat? Torry Bend tells the story of notorious Chicago prankster, The Paper Hat Guy through the language of Toy Theater and projection. With dreamlike video, a gritty soundscape and live puppetry, Bend offers a voyage into the psychological and physical workings of a large city. The Paper Hat Game is a kaleidoscope of visual delights with video design by Raquel Salvatella de Prada, Sound by Colberts S. Davis and lighting design by Jeanette Yew.

A group of veterans participating in Sharon Raynor's oral history project, "Breaking the Silence: The Unspoken Brotherhood of Vietnam Veterans," visited Duke classes in History and Documentary Studies on February 21, 2012. Here she talks about the visit with Tom Rankin of the Center for Documentary Studies.

Don Tucker's Theatre Studies Distinction project. The performance occurred in East Duke 209, March 21-24, 2013.