Series: Said@Duke 2023

Also see the 2022 Said@Duke Series

Duke University attracts innovative thinkers who present a variety of perspectives on the major challenges facing both the local community and the global world. The Said@Duke series presents brief comments from some of the notable figures speaking at campus events.

November 10, 2023

Said@Duke: New Yorker Staff Writer Peter Hessler on Finding Stories from the Nile to the Yangtze

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Said@Duke: Joseph DeCarolis on Making Energy Systems More Accessible

November 7, 2023

Said@Duke: Joseph DeCarolis on How to Improve Energy Systems

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Said@Duke: Lisa Cook, Federal Reserve board member

November 6, 2023

Said@Duke: Federal Reserve Board Member Lisa Cook on Financial Stability and Stressors

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Said@Duke: Former Sergeant at Arms of U.S. House

November 8, 2023

Said@Duke: Former Sergeant at Arms of US House of Representatives on Response to Jan. 6 Insurrection

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Said@Duke: Stanford's Clayton Hurd on Community-Engaged Research

October 31, 2023

Said@Duke: Stanford's Clayton Hurd on Community-Engaged Research

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Said@Duke: University of Delhi Professor Rekha Sethi on Women Poets in Hindi

October 27, 2023

Said@Duke: University of Delhi Professor Rekha Sethi on Women Poets Writing in Hindi

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October 12, 2023

Said@Duke: Manoj Kumar on 'Innovation for People and Planet -- Reimagining Capitalism'

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October 12, 2023

Said@Duke: MIT's Sanjay Sarma on the Future of Education

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Thomas Nides: "potentially this could be a big-time game change for the security of Israel, security of the United States, and stability of the region.”

October 4, 2023

Said@Duke: Thomas Nides on a Potential Saudi-Israeli Normalization Agreement

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Nelson Baker: I think this is a moment for higher education to really think differently because our society and the world’s society needs what you do."

October 4, 2023

Said@Duke: Nelson Baker on Creating the Lifetime University

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Said@Duke: Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable

September 27, 2023

Said@Duke: Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable on Minority Health and Health Disparities

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Said@Duke: Tiera Tanksley

September 28, 2023

Said@Duke: Tiera Tanksley on Race and Internet Technology

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Said@Duke: Shannon Speed on Grief and an Indigenous Feminist’s Rage: The Embodied Field of Knowledge Production

September 22, 2023

Said@Duke: Shannon Speed on the Role of Trauma and Emotion in Anthropological Research

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Said@Duke: Robert Musil o0n Eve Carson's environmental legacy

September 20, 2023

Said@Duke: Robert Musil on Environmental Justice in North Carolina and Eve Carson's Legacy

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Said@Duke: David Pierce on the future of space exploration

September 20, 2023

Said@Duke: NASA's David Pierce on the Future of Commercial, Government Space Activities

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May 3, 2023

Said@Duke: Writer/Filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga on Writing From Zimbabwe

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April 27, 2023

Said@Duke: India Ambassador to United States Meets with President Price, Students

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Brock Long, former FEMA administrator: “I don’t think bigger government solves our problems going into the future… I know everybody’s like, ‘This disaster was terrible. We need a bigger FEMA. We need to reform FEMA.’ Well, back up a second. Why are we not building the capability at the local level, within our citizenry, first?”

April 5, 2023

Said@Duke: Brock Long on Building Local Capacity to Address Emergencies & Disasters

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March 31, 2023

Said@Duke: Pawan Dhingra on Addressing Anti-Asian Racism Through Education Reform

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March 30, 2023

Said@Duke: Lawyer Dov Weissglas on Judicial Reform Efforts in Israel

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March 29, 2023

Said@Duke: Yodit Balcha on Inclusive Water Diplomacy

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March 2, 2023

Said@Duke: William Kirby on How Chinese and American Universities Compete for Global Leadership

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February 16, 2023

Said@Duke: Angela Garbes On Undervalued and Underpaid Caregiving

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January 30, 2023

Said@Duke: History Professor J.R. McNeill on the Environmental Impacts of the Industrial Revolution

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Jonathan McDowell in "Said@Duke" block with text: here's no equivalent of air traffic control, which says satellite A move up satellite B move down. And we need to get to that, and I think the first way to get to that is just to have a space situational awareness agency.

December 22, 2022

Said@Duke: Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell on Regulating Outer Space

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