Starting in 2011, with the support of the Mellon Humanities Writ Large Grant, Duke University has hosted resident fellows from Liberal Arts Colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities to pursue their research and teaching projects. Over the course of these two days, we welcome these fellows back to Duke University to hear about their work, the ways their time at Duke shaped it, and their vision of what the Humanities are now and should become in the future. The panelists will not make formal presentations, but rather engage in dialog with one another and with some of their collaborators at Duke, in order to showcase not just the "what" but also the "how" of Humanistic work.

THURSDAY, MARCH 23
Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, 153 Rubenstein Library

Panel 1: 9:00-10:00
Collaboration and Influence
How do conversations across disciplines and areas shape research and analysis in the Humanities?

Moderator: Laurent Dubois, Professor of Romance Studies and History, Duke University

Panelists:

• Sharon Raynor, Director of the Graduate Education Program and Associate Professor of English, Elizabeth City State University
• Jason Cohen, Associate Professor of English, Theater and Communication, Berea College

Panel 2: 10:15-11:15
Mapping and the Humanities
How are new approaches to mapping and cartography re-shaping the Humanities?

Moderator: Philip J. Stern, Associate Professor of History, Duke University

Panelists:

• Jordana Dym, Professor of History, Director, John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative, Skidmore College
• Matthew A. Cook, Professor of Postcolonial and South Asian Studies, Departments of Language & Literature and History, North Carolina Central University

Panel 3: 11:30-12:30
Thinking Race and Knowledge
How have racial formations, and struggles against them, shaped the production of knowledge and institutions of higher education?

Moderator: Wesley C. Hogan, Director, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University

Panelists:

• Stephen G. Hall, Assistant Professor of History, Alcorn State University
• Jelani M. Favors, Assistant Professor of History, Clayton State University

Lunch: 12:30-2:00

Panel 4: 2-3:30
Philosophical Interventions
What is the role of Philosophy in the contemporary Humanities, and in contemporary society more broadly?

Moderator: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in Philosophy, Duke University

Panelists:

• Barry Lam, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Vassar College
• Bruce Matthews, Professor of Philosophy, Bard High School Early College
• Max Cherem, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kalamazoo College
• Suzanne Shanahan, Co-Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Associate Research Professor in Sociology, Duke University

Panel 5: 4-5:15
The Visual & Sonic in the Humanities
How can work in the production of film and the study of sound help us find new ways to communicate Humanities research and understanding?

Moderator: Louise Meintjes, Associate Professor of Music and Cultural Studies, Duke University

Panelists:

• Amadou Fofana, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Willamette University
• Patricia Van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy, Assistant Professor and Distinguished Chair of Africana Studies, Dickinson College
• Brian Norberg, Digital Humanities Technology Analyst, Trinity Technology Services, Duke University
• Joshua Gibson, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University

Film Premiere: 5:30 Cinéma Numérique Ambulant (CNA) Documentary

Dinner for Fellows and Panelists: 7:00
King's Daughters Inn

FRIDAY, MARCH 24
Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, 153 Rubenstein Library

Panel 6: 9:00-12:00 (with a break at 10:30)
The Digital Humanities
What does the digital bring to the Humanities? And what do the Humanities bring to the Digital?

Moderator: Laurent Dubois, Professor of Romance Studies and History, Duke University

Panelists:

• Norman Sandridge, Associate Professor of Classics, Howard University
• Caroline Stark, Assistant Professor of Classics, Howard University
• Meredith Goldsmith, Professor of English, Ursinus College
• Charles McGuire, Professor of Musicology, Oberlin College & Conservatory
• Liz Milewicz, Head of Digital Scholarship Services, Duke University Libraries
• William Shaw, Digital Humanities Academic Technology Consultant, Duke University Libraries

Lunch: 12:00-1:00

Panel 7: 1:00-2:30
Transforming Pedagogy
How can we best engage undergraduate students in the process of research and the production of knowledge in the Humanities?

Moderator: Laurent Dubois, Professor of Romance Studies and History, Duke University

Panelists:

• Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, Associate Professor, Department of History, Philosophy and the Ancient World, DEREE, The American College of Greece
• C. Pierce Salguero, Associate Professor of Asian History, The Abington College of the Pennsylvania State University
• Sheila Dillon, Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University
• Richard Jaffe, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University

Panel 8: 3:00-4:30
Embodied Knowledges
How can we re-think the Humanities from the perspective of the body, and embodiment, in dialog with the Sciences?

Moderator: Deborah Jenson, Professor of Romance Studies and Global Health, Duke University

Panelists:

• Ralph James Savarese, Professor of English, Grinnell College
• Thomas Parker, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Vassar College
• Frank Graziano, John D. McArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies, Connecticut College
• David Morgan, Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University
• Ryan Johnson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Elon University

4:30-5:00:  Concluding Comments, with President Richard Brodhead

Dinner at Champions Club, Cameron Indoor Stadium
with participants in Global Blackness Conference and Feminist Theory Workshop