Join us on Monday, September 28th at 5:00 PM in East Duke 209 for a public lecture by Dr. Hortense Spillers, a black feminist thinker of unparalleled influence and a foundational figure in African American literary and cultural theory. Reception to follow. RSVP required (please click the "More event information" button to access the RSVP form).
Talk title: Oedipal Deferral: Implications of the Middle Passage
When Kimberly Coston arrived at Duke University School of Nursing, she had a specific career goal in mind.
After studying psychology as an undergraduate and working in a psychiatric hospital, she planned to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner. What she did not anticipate was how many different directions a nursing career could take.
In life's first two decades, children who know little about the world grow into young adults who harness rich knowledge of environmental structure to guide their behavior and accomplish their goals. In my talk, I will argue that the development of goal-directed behavior depends on learning to learn.
Chris Appleton of Social Rx and Dr. Anne Basting of TimeSlips join Prof. Sarah Wilbur to look at the past and future of arts-based referral practices and their nationwide expansion.
The brain is an organ of communication. There is no single pathway for any neurobehavioral function or dysfunction. Drug abuse and addiction may at first appear to be due to the particular action of a drug at a neurotransmitter receptor or other physiological target process, but because of the intricate communication among neural systems, actions at a particular receptor quickly involves a much broader array of interacting systems.
Join the Hart Leadership Program for the second annual Public Purpose Symposium as we celebrate and explore community-engaged research and leadership in conversation with Hart Leadership Program students.
Join the Hart Leadership Program for the second annual Public Purpose Symposium as we celebrate and explore community-engaged research and leadership in conversation with Hart Leadership Program students.
Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff are welcome to sign up to attend one of three lunchtime roundtable discussions facilitated by past Hart Fellows, Sarine Krovitz, Carina Lei, and Sadie Sheridan.
In the real world, objects are discrete physical entities - your coffee mug either is or is not in your hand. As a result, both in everyday life and in perception and memory research, there is a tendency to use a physical metaphor to understand our mental representations: people tend to think of an object they are trying to perceive or remember as either in mind or not in their mind, and to say that we hold items in memory, as we hold real objects in our hand.
September 18, 2026 (10:00 am-12:00 pm)
Erin Hartman
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Erin Hartman's research bridges statistics and the social sciences, developing methods that help researchers answer complex causal questions while strengthening collaboration across disciplines. Her work focuses on causal inference, survey design and analysis, external validity of experiments, falsification testing, and survey weighting.
Decomposing Changes Across Surveys
The Hart Leadership Program challenges students to practice the art of leadership in public life. Applications are now open for several experiential learning programs that aim to shape Duke undergraduates for reflective, ethical leadership. Our core programs involve training both inside and outside the classroom through experiential education, pedagogical preparation, reflective practice, a strong community of peers, and an aspiration to public purpose.