Learn more and register: https://ssri.duke.edu/fall-2026-workshops/
New to conducting surveys? This workshop provides a practical introduction to the fundamentals of survey design. Participants will learn how to determine when a survey is an appropriate research tool, develop effective survey questions, assess trade-offs in data quality, and identify potential sources of error in sampling and surveying respondents.
Special screening:
"About Face: Disrupting Ballet"
(Jennifer Lin, 2025, 60 min, USA, English, DCP)
ABOUT FACE: DISRUPTING BALLET is a feature-length documentary that spotlights Georgina Pazcoguin and Phil Chan, two friends and NYC dancers of Asian descent, who are challenging ballet companies to rid The Nutcracker and other ballets of offensive racial stereotypes. What started as a pledge on a website has grown into a global movement, disrupting the elite world of ballet.
Throughout the 20th century, communities in many parts of the United States used racial covenants to codify neighborhood segregation, a structural legacy that continues to drive inequities in health and economic success today. In this Think Global panel, experts with backgrounds in history, education and social justice will explore how communities are confronting the ongoing impacts of this often-hidden history, a process that can be a powerful tool in building stronger communities that are better able to flourish and respond to adversity.
Nephrology Grand Rounds are the primary teaching conference of the Division of
Nephrology. Both clinical and basic science topics pertinent to nephrology are
presented at this conference. Each fellow, guided by a faculty-mentor, will
present once a year. Speakers from outside the Division of Nephrology and Duke
University will also be incorporated into the conference schedule.
Many descriptions of human nature imagine that human variation is variation around a central tendency or "normal" human form. This makes a lot of sense. Many human traits do seem nearly universal in humans (e.g. a bilateral bodily organization). Similarly, many descriptions of human moral psychology hypothesize that humans have a central or normal core of morality. For example, some moral philosophers view nearly every human as recognizing certain "moral fixed points" that can constrain moral theorizing.
Join Jewish Life at Duke to experience a Duke Shabbat! We start at 6:00pm with a pluralistic Kabbalat Shabbat Service led by Rabbi Elana Friedman and students, followed by a kosher, family-style Shabbat dinner at ~7:15pm. Come for all or part of the evening! Kabbalat Shabbat Service is free for all. Dinner is FREE for students and $20 for non-students. The event is hosted by Jewish Life at Duke at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life.
Join the Sanford School of Public Policy to hear Dean JR DeShazo speak in conversation with Mitt Romney, former U.S. senator from Utah, governor of Massachusetts, and 2012 Republican presidential nominee. As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Romney will reflect on the health of American democracy, the values that have sustained the nation, and the responsibilities citizens and leaders share in shaping its future.
Registration for the talk is required. Please see the link to register.
Sudan is the site of the world's largest humanitarian crisis, yet the war that produced it is widely treated as the sudden eruption of a personal feud between two generals. This talk argues, instead, that the fighting that began in April 2023 is the culmination of a longer political history. The talk will trace the war's seeds within the Islamist regime of Omer al-Bashir (1989-2019), the 2018-19 revolution that over-threw him, the 2021 counter-revolutionary coup, and eventually the rupture between the coup plotters.