The Franklin Research Center hosts a number of events throughout the academic year focused on African and African-American history and culture. Events are free and open to the public unless noted otherwise.
News and Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
2021-2022 Academic Year - Celebrating "Black Lives in Archives"
January 25, 2022, 1:00PM - Black Lives in Archives Roundtable
Join this virtual roundtable discussion between Chaitra Powell (Curator, Southern Historical Collection, UNC Chapel Hill), Andre D. Vann (Coordinator of University Archives and Instructor of Public History, North Carolina Central University), and John B. Gartrell (Director, John Hope Franklin Research Center, Duke University).
PAST EVENTS
Fall 2021-
September 14, 2021 - "Visualizing a Shared Ethos: Van Der Zee and Blake as Peers"
A lecture by Dr. Emilie Boone, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. A scholar of art and visual culture of the African Diaspora with a focus on photograph, Boone's lecture responds to the exhibition, "James Van Der Zee and Michael Francis Blake: Picturing Blackness in the 1920s" displayed in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Black Lives in Archives Speaker Series
Black Lives in Archives virtual speaker series featuring four scholars who were previously awarded research travel grants to come to the Rubenstein Library and utilize the center’s collections. This “return to the archive” by each scholar will highlight the critical importance of Black collections as a foundation for new directions in the field of African and African American Studies.
September 22, 2021 - "Our Good Fortune: Black Banking and Business in Archives."
Brandon K. Winford, Professor of History, Univesity of Tennessee Knoxville. Winford is a past recipient of a John Hope Franklin Research Center travel grant in 2015-2016.
October 27, 2021 - "Finding Gold About Green: Discoveries About Green Bratton of Historic Brattonsville at the Franklin Research Center"
Dr. Lisa Bratton, Tuskegee University. Bratton was a 2017-2018 Franklin Research Center Travel Grant recipient.
November 9, 2021 - "Your Petition is an Instrument Which Pisporves The Claim That The Negro Does Not Wish a Nation of His Own..."
Erik S. McDuffie, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. McDuffie was a 2016-2017 Franklin Research Center Travel Grant award recipient.
Wednesday, December 8, 1:00PM EST
Emilye Crosby, SUNY Geneseo
"Finding SNCC Women in the Archive"
Developing a Historical Biography and the Vital Importance of Black History Archives
February 23, 2021
NEWS
March 21, 2018 - Putting SNCC Veterans into the Civil Rights Era Spotlight from Duke Today
April 14, 2015 - Duke Partners with SNCC Activists on Civil Rights Website from Duke Today
