Said@Duke 2024

Also see the 20 23 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.

David Turk, deputy Secretary, US Department of Energy, "There's no way we can solve climate change unless everyone n all the countriesof the world, all the countries of the world, all the companies of the world, are stepping up"

November 5, 2024

Said@Duke: Department of Energy's David Turk on 'Climate Change for Future Leaders'

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October 24, 2024

Said@Duke: Melissa Siegel on Key Linkages Between Migration and Development

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November 13, 2024

Said@Duke: Gabriela Badillo on Pride and Respect for Native Communities in Mexico

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Rachel Kushner: Part of consciousness is that you make observations daily that are secrets. There are things that each person knows about the world that only they know, and the wonderful part of writing is to take those things and put them into a form.

October 22, 2024

Said@Duke: Rachel Kushner on the Magic of Writing

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October 22, 2024

Said@Duke: Claire Messud on the Goals and Challenges of Writing

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October 16, 2024

Said@Duke: Urban Policy Historian Rick Loessberg on the Kerner Report and Pervasive Discrimination

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October 22, 2024

Said@Duke: Paul Yoon on the Love of Reading

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"We have to correct papers forthrightly when they're wrong, and we have to stand up for them strongly when they're right. And the institutions are more and more withdrawing from doing both of those bhings because they're hazardous things to do." Holden Thorp, editor, Science Family of Journals.

September 27, 2024

Said@Duke: Holden Thorp on The Responsibility of Journals

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October 14, 2024

Said@Duke: U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee on Responsible Oversight of AI

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I believe that the criticisms of the Supreme Court's legitimacy are unfounded. But more than that, I believe that attacks on the court's legitimacy are dangerous, undermining public confidence in the court and imperiling the rule of law." Kannon Shanmugam, attorney.

September 27, 2024

Said@Duke: Attorney Kannon K. Shanmugam on the Legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court

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"We're lucky here in Durham. We have Duke right down the street. And the Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers at Duke Cancer Institute is a National leader in this work." Leonardo Williams, mayor of Durham

September 27, 2024

Said@Duke: Durham Mayor Leonardo Williams on The Importance of Screening for Prostate Cancer

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September 18, 2024

Said@Duke: Oceanographer, Duke Alumna Sylvia Earle on the Ocean's Importance in Climate Change

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Said@Duke: José Antonio Bowen on Teaching With Artificial Intelligence

September 24, 2024

Said@Duke: José Antonio Bowen on Teaching With Artificial Intelligence

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"In the field of medicine, effective communication of thoughts and themes is a cherished and somewhat rareified skill among a peer group of left-brained scientists." Dr. Daniel Saurborn, physician and entrepreneur.

May 6, 2024

Said@Duke: Dr. Daniel Saurborn on Combining Studies In Biomedical Engineering, English and Medicine

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September 11, 2024

Said@Duke: Liz Cheney On the Critical Challenges and Stakes of the 2024 Election

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Said@Duke Donna Jo Napoli, professor/linguist at Swarthmore College. "Studying sign languages benefits anyone interested in the architecture of the brain, in other cultures, and in serving the needs of society through careers in medicine, teaching and, increasingly, AI"

March 22, 2024

Said@Duke: Donna Jo Napoli on the Merits of Learning Sign Language

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Beeta Baghoolizadeh, historian, associate research scholar of Princeton University, "After abolition in 1929, Iranians restructured their society to accommodate a life without enslaved labor and in the process rewrote their histories and redesigned society to erase slavery completely

May 9, 2024

Said@Duke: Princeton Historian Beeta Baghoolizadeh on 'The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran'

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March 29, 2024

Said@Duke: History Professor Sudipa Topdar on Late Colonial India

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Said@Duke: Dr. Ebony Carter, director of the division of maternal-fetal medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill. "Equity is both a process and an outcome... we really need to be focusing on the process of how we get there."

March 22, 2024

Said@Duke: Dr. Ebony Carter on Reproductive Health Equity

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Said@Duke: Achille Mbembe Said@Duke: Achille Mbembe, professor of history and politics University of the Witwatersrand. "The democratic ideal is a minority proposition in Africa from an ideological point of view. The key driving ideology in the continent... has to do with the decolonial, meaning the reassertion of African sovereignty."

April 22, 2024

Said@Duke: Professor Achille Mbembe -- A Critique of Democracy in West Africa

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April 8, 2024

Said@Duke: Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Lorie Logan on Price Stability, Inflation

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February 8, 2024

Said@Duke: Hein de Haas on 'Rethinking Human Mobility'

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February 15, 2024

Said@Duke: Akiko Iwasaki on the Root Causes and Immunology of Long COVID

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Said@Duke: Abraham George on Serving the Poor in India

January 19, 2024

Said@Duke: Abraham George on Serving the Poor in India

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Said@Duke: Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick on the Supreme Court

February 8, 2024

Said@Duke: Slate Legal Analyst Dahlia Lithwick on the Impact of Supreme Court Decisions

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