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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 9h
We extend congratulations to László Krasznahorkai on his receipt of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read his short work, "A Mountain from the North," published in Common Knowledge 20:3, made freely available: buff.ly/nt5tyEr
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Wazhmah Osman @wazhmah.bsky.social · 9h
Please join us for the launch of our edited volume Decolonizing Afghanistan! November 6, 5pm, at NYU. Link to register: tinyurl.com/mrafhcr6 , dukeupress.edu/decolonizing..., with @nyukevo.bsky.social , @sepoy.bsky.social , @dukepress.bsky.social
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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 13h
Arrived today from @dukepress.bsky.social!
A copy of the book, Modern Peru: A New History.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 14h
Save 30% on #NewBook "Crip Screens" by Olivia Banner, which provides a wide-ranging and ongoing history of Black, feminist-of-color, and crip resistance to psychiatry’s incorporation of hegemonic media technologies into treatment and research. #DisabilityStudies
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Cover of Crip Screens: Countering Psychiatric Media Technologies by Olivia Banner. The background features a black-and-white TV static pattern with large sweeping shadows that create a sense of depth and movement. The title is in clean white text at the top right. The subtitle title runs vertically along the left edge. The author's name appears vertically within a solid lavender circle at the lower right corner.
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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 19h
Tomorrow, I will be in Berlin to participate in the "Idea(l)s of Home" workshop at the Technische Universität. I will deliver a keynote on my book For a Liberatory Politics of Home @dukepress.bsky.social

I am very thankful to my comrade Judith Keller for inviting & to all for organising.
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Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law @jhppl.bsky.social · 1d
US public health is in crisis. In this special JHPPL issue edited by @oberlanderunc.bsky.social & @sarahgollust.bsky.social, you’ll find articles that help contextualize the erosion of public health infrastructure & adoption of policies harmful to public health. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/advanc...
Advance Publication | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d
Save 30% on #NewBook "Decolonizing Afghanistan," edited by @wazhmah.bsky.social and Robert D. Crews, which marks a decolonial turn in #Afghanistan and #AmericanStudies.
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Book cover of Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge & Power, edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews. The background is light blue with the title in large dark blue text at the top. Below the title, there is an illustration of armored soldiers in helmets and gear blended with soft, colorful flowers. The editors’ names are written in red text above the illustration.
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i augustus durham @imeanswhatisays.bsky.social · 1d
This event is all the more worth your presence because it will be my first public presentation of work from my forthcoming monograph, Be Real Black for Me: About the Matter of Roberta Flack (@dukepress.bsky.social)

See you then!
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Folkloring Jamaica @folkloringjamaica.blacksky.app · 1d
Happy to come across this reference, especially since it’s Caribbean Folklore Month. Bookmarked!
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d
In "Bêtes Noires," Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions among the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shape-shifting spirit demons called baka/bacá. Read the introduction now for free: buff.ly/FMxVGtA
Cover of Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands by Lauren Derby. A photograph of a crouching individual holding rope and wearing a covering with horns that hides their face in an empty room. Below the photograph the cover is black with a grey texture. The title appears on top of the photo and texture in a bold white sans-serif type. The subtitle is directly below aligned right in red. The author's name is above to the left of the title in a serif white type.
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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 1d
Second up in our shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize is Kency Cornejo’s VISUAL DISOBEDIENCE: ART AND DECOLONIALITY IN CENTRAL AMERICA from @dukepress.bsky.social. We will announce the winner at this year’s conference in Houston, TX. Please join us!
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Hispanic American Historical Review @hahr21.bsky.social · 1d
This @clahistorians.bsky.social award-winning piece has been made freely available for a limited time by @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
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Hispanic American Historical Review @hahr21.bsky.social · 1d
You can also read the honorable mention winner for @clahistorians.bsky.social's James Alexander Robertson Prize for free for a limited time via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d
Pleased to see Nnenna Freelon's "Beneath the Skin of Sorrow" and Robyn Maynard's @policingblack.bsky.social "Policing Black Lives" on @msmagazine.com's list of October books, by @karlajstrand.com: msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/b...
October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in October 2025.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d
In "Bêtes Noires," Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions among the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shape-shifting spirit demons called baka/bacá. Read the introduction now for free: buff.ly/FMxVGtA
Cover of Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands by Lauren Derby. A photograph of a crouching individual holding rope and wearing a covering with horns that hides their face in an empty room. Below the photograph the cover is black with a grey texture. The title appears on top of the photo and texture in a bold white sans-serif type. The subtitle is directly below aligned right in red. The author's name is above to the left of the title in a serif white type.
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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 3d
New issue of FHS is out now! Policing and State Power in France and the French Empire: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Volume 48 Issue 3 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 2d
Save 30% on #NewBook "Acoustic Colonialism" by Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, which examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production over the last two centuries. #SoundStudies #LatinAmericanStudies
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Cover of Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference by Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante. The cover art features a geometric textile design in an olive green and cobalt blue against a black background. The title appears in a cream sans-serif type centered at the top and bottom. Above the design and below the first word of the title sits the subtitle in a cream serif type. The author's name is directly below the design in a cream serif type.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 2d
Great to see Uri McMillan's "Mavericks of Style" on Art in America's fall books list!
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8 Books We’re Looking Forward to in October
October brings an exciting, eclectic set of new book releases that dive into art, fashion, philosophy, and fiction.
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Michelle Ho @michellehsho.bsky.social · 3d
✨ I’m on a YouTube interview for my new book #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️

Thanks to Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social for initiating this impromptu chat while we were at #JSAA #JSAA2025 last week 🦘

Get yours today ↘️ dukeupress.edu/emergent-gende…
🏷️ 30% off with code E25MHSHO
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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 3d
Beautiful Mystery in Stockholm! Excited to be in conversation with the wonderful writer Fanny Ambjörnsson on autoethnography and care. Thanks to the Department of Social Anthropology for hosting us! @dukepress.bsky.social

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Autoethnographies of Care: A Conversation with Fanny Ambjörnsson och Danilyn Rutherford - Department of Social Anthropology
Autoethnographies of Care: A Conversation with Fanny Ambjörnsson och Danilyn Rutherford
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danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks to Abby J. Perry for this interview in Common Good Magazine! @dukepress.bsky.social @commongoodmag.bsky.social

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What It Means to Live a Meaningful Life  | Common Good Magazine
Danilyn Rutherford discusses caring for her daughter with a disability, what a meaningful life really means, and why curiosity is a way forward for us all.
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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 3d
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Jen Rose Smith, "Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic" (Duke UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 3d
Here is the link to register to attend The Alchemy Lecture online. Sound—at the Interregnum.

Join us!

www.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/76982/...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 3d
Small Axe: a caribbean journal of criticism publishes work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 77 is now online, view the full TOC: buff.ly/ARwiPeV
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Cover of Small Axe journal, issue 77. The background is a heavily textured abstract painting in grayscale, with layered brushstrokes creating a rough, chaotic surface. In the top left corner, the journal’s logo reads “sx” in white within a box, with the number “77” in red on a square next to it. Below the logo is the text “small axe” in lowercase white letters.
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Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social · 3d
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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 3d
Join me this Saturday, 10/11 2pm EST to discuss my research into museum collections, the rise of US philanthropy, and the relationship between aesthetic form and property 📚

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The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim - Marxist Education Project
In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptu...
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