Jerry Philogene, HWL Visiting Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of American Studies at Dickinson College, is presenting on the institutional use and evidentiary value of the 1919 photograph of the bullet-ridden dead body of François Charlemagne Péralte, one of the leaders of the resistance fighters known as cacos, murdered by the U.S. Marines during the 1915-1934 occupation of Haiti. She will employ this historic infamous image to illustrate the discursive nature of photography and the "...Read More about Dead Citizen and the Strategic Power of the Image

Explore the visual references and global resonances in Ryan Coogler's blockbuster film Black Panther (2018) in a conversation with Daphne Lamothe (Africana Studies at Smith College), Samuel Fury Childs Daly (Duke African and African American Studies), and Jerry Philogene (American Studies at Dickinson College). Mark Anthony Neal (Duke African and African American Studies) will moderate the discussion. Sponsored by Duke African and African American Studies and the Forum for Scholars and Publics....Read More about seeing BLACK PANTHER: art and design in global context

In this presentation, Dr. Lamothe will advance a theory of “blackness unmoored” through an analysis of the lyrics and music video for the song, “Formidable” by Stromae. Lamothe will invoke the metaphor of unmooring to convey the disorientation, and reorientation, of the subject who navigates contending social spaces, racial formations, and orientations to history. The musical and visual registers of Stromae’s text captures both the melancholy and potentiality of the subject who is racially...Read More about Blackness Unmoored: Relational Ethics and Aesthetics in Stromae’s “Formidable”

Story Lab's inaugural Certification Workshop will be an opportunity for practitioners from a wide array of professions, fields and disciplines to talk about, reflect upon, and critically engage with the phenomenon of storytelling. The morning session will feature a keynote from Jon Jarvis, former Director of the National Park Services, followed by a general discussion of Story Lab’s and the workshop’s aims; the afternoon will feature three break-out working group sessions, each focusing on a...Read More about Story Lab Certification Workshop