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.

"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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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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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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