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• The New Humanities? - Franklin Humanities Institute

  In this essay, I examine the future state of the humanities, as has been done by others many times in the past, but in the context of the current positioning of the university and the future world to ...

• About - Franklin Humanities Institute

    — Humanities Futures: A Retrospective April 18, 2019 In Fall 2014, the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University embarked...

• Papers Archive - Franklin Humanities Institute

  Though first published almost one century ago, and though its premise has been disputed, Clive Bell’s essay on aesthetics in his book Art still provides fertile ground for discussing problems in aesthe...

• Re-imagining World Spaces: The New Relevance of Eurasia - Franklin Humanities Institute

  Although we often think about geographical continents as fixed natural entities, they are in fact also the product of imaginative construction. The most recent example of this process is the emergence...

• Multilingualism as Migration: Remarks on Literature, Philology, and Culture - Franklin Humanities

  This essay asks to what extent, and how, literary scholarship can contribute to questions raised by migration.

• Black History, Islam, and the Future of the Humanities Beyond White Supremacy - Franklin Humanities

  Interpreting Islam as a form of Black history offers a scholarly framework for reimagining the humanities beyond white supremacy.