Center for Documentary Studies

Triangle friends: See 3⃣ standout docs from the 2024 @FullFrame Festival for FREE at the @CaryTheater!!! See below🎞️📽️🎞️

Emma Geiger named 2025 Cassilhaus Travel Fellow. Made possible by @Cassilhaus founders Ellen Cassilly&Frank Konhaus, CTF supports @mfaeda grads for 18 months of artistic research. Geiger’s fellowship will culminate in work to be presented in spring 2026. @CDSDuke @dukealumni

Thanks @WorkingatDuke! Stop in & see "Visible Spectrum: Portraits of the World of #Autism" @CDSDuke in the new year! (We'll be closed to the public Dec 23 - Jan 7.) Learn more about this student-led exhibition here: documentarystudies.duke.edu/news/student-c… #documentary #photo

Please join us Oct. 22 at 5pm for an exclusive screening of “Inheritance,” a compelling new documentary that traces the roots of addiction through the lens of one boy’s journey and his family’s struggle over four generations. More details and RSVP: childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/event/inherita…

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Reminder: Apply for our DocX Residency by Oct. 14! This opportunity is for documentary artists, independent scholars and knowledge-keepers. Fellows will be awarded $20,000 each to support projects in a pivotal stage of late development or production. duke.is/docx-residency…

Our DocX Residency is an opportunity for documentary artists, independent scholars and knowledge-keepers. Fellows will be awarded $20k each to support projects in a pivotal stage of late development or production. Apply now: duke.is/docx-residency…

Please join us Fri Aug 30 for a screening and artist talk by Cassilhaus Travel Fellow + MFA|EDA alumna Felicity Palma. 6:30pm at the Rubenstein Arts Center More info at shorturl.at/ZaLew @cassilhaus @mfaeda @cdsduke @rubensteinlib @dukearts @dukealumni #eurydice

In its past seasons, the podcast @SceneOnRadio has examined race, patriarchy, democracy, and more. But host John Biewen says there was an unescapable knot at the heart of all these topics. The new season, "Capitalism," launches June 26. duke.is/scene

Meet the inaugural Bill & Lorna Chafe Postdoctoral Fellow in Oral History and Social Justice! Jacey Anderson is an environmental historian who specializes in community-based participatory research methodologies. ➡️duke.is/n/s8bs

This Thursday, DocX at @CDSDuke will host an in-person conversation in #Durham between Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho), author of “The Long Emancipation” & contributor to “Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relations, and Joseph M. Pierce. ow.ly/gJyC50RaM8L

Event 4/25: Join CDS for a celebration and showcase of recent work by students. Everyone is welcome — students, faculty and staff as well as community members and visitors. No registration needed, just show up and bring your friends! Find us at documentarystudies.duke.edu/directions

NEXT WEEK: Join us on Thursday, April 11 for a public event featuring renowned scholars Rinaldo Walcott and Joseph M. Pierce. They'll explore the history and possibility of living, thinking, being and sensing otherwise. duke.is/otherwise-talk

Monday, April 1 at 4:00: Jessica Doyle presents a work-in-progress talk, "Framing Disasters: Ecocritical Perceptions of Media Events and the Amazon." All are welcome. Details at duke.is/first-mondays

Join the Kenan Institute for Ethics for "Ukraine at War: Life in a Time of Fear and Hope." This 3-day event includes the Academy Award-winning film @20DaysMariupol; a Katz Women, Ethics, and Leadership event with poet and medic Yaryna Chornohuz @BlackStork22 (cont.)

On 4/11, renowned scholars Rinaldo Walcott and Joseph M. Pierce will explore the history and possibility of living, thinking, being and sensing otherwise, and discuss their bold visions for making and remaking worlds, past and present. All are welcome: duke.is/walcott-pierce

We are proud to announce the 2024 DocX Development Lab Fellows! duke.is/docx-fellows This lab aims to support artists, scholars and independent researchers. The fellowship is a space of ideation, reflection and community committed to imagining otherwise for self and world.

On Monday 3/4, we're hosting an online talk by CDS Ph.D. Fellow Sam Hunnicut on the photography of Maruch Sántiz. Learn about the work of this Indigenous Tsotsil Maya artist from Chiapas, Mexico. duke.is/first-mondays

Join us on April 1 at 4:00 for "Framing Disasters: Ecocritical Perceptions of Media Events & the Amazon." CDS Ph.D. Fellow Jessica Doyle will give a talk about her work on media events, eco-art and activism in & about the Amazon. Learn more & register duke.is/first-mondays

On March 6, join the Kenan Institute for Ethics and @CDSDuke for "Pieces of Me," an autobiographical play by South African actor Bo Petersen, about the costs of living secretly as a mixed-race family during apartheid. More info: duke.is/pieces