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A Visit to the Library’s Special Collections

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This semester, the Project Vox Team enjoyed a visit to the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke. The team engaged with materials from and (related to) the Bingham Center’s Lisa Unger Baskin Collection. This collection is dedicated to women scholars, printers, publishers, laborers, scientists, authors, artists, and political activists, with a […]

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Teacher Development Workshop: Talking Philosophy, Planning Lessons, and Making Connections

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This year, Project Vox is expanding its educational outreach, working to bring marginalized figures from the history of philosophy beyond college campuses and into high school classrooms. As part of that effort, Project Vox invited eight teachers from local middle and high schools to Bostock Library on Duke’s West Campus for its first-ever Teacher Development […]

Portrait of Anton Wilhelm Amo

Reimagining Anton Wilhelm Amo Through Portraiture

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Above: Who Is Anton Wilhelm Amo? Created by Salina Momade and photographed by Pablo Hassmann in collaboration with Isaiah Lopaz, hn.lyonga, Eduardo Duco, Ronnie Vitalia Adam, Pedro Osório Mondlane, Meing Santo Deanc, Gowinda Ama Armoo, Diaga Müller, Sadia Marie Ouro-Gbele, Emmanuél Okafor, Inocêncio Virgilio Uamusse, Amaralina Schmidt, Robin von Elsner, Marinara Taveira, Jennifer Tâmara Akouvi Lotsi, […]

Project Vox team at the Public Philosophy Network Conference

Project Vox in the High School Classroom — and at a Public Philosophy Conference

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This post is part of our Behind the Scenes and Project Vox Classroom blog series. For many years, Project Vox has offered teaching resources focused on undergraduate classrooms. Beginning this year, we’re expanding that work, with the aim of reaching high school classrooms, too. Project Vox’s Education & Outreach team has begun developing lesson plans […]

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Increasing Visibility and Accuracy: Project Vox & Wikipedia Editing

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This post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series.  Two years ago, the Project Vox team began holding regular edit-a-thons to improve the Wikipedia entries for our philosophers. One purpose of the edit-a-thons was to remove sexist language that misrepresents the lives and contributions of these historical figures. For example, the lead paragraph […]

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Creating Project Vox

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This post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series.  Ten years ago, a group of scholars met at the University of Pennsylvania to plan future collaborations. The group comprised colleagues from several universities around the world, including Lisa Shapiro and Marguerite Deslauriers from Canada, Karen Detlefsen and Marcy Lascano from the US, and […]

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A Summer of Philosophical Exploration: From London to Paris and the Mountains of Southern France

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The following “Behind the Scenes” post was written by Duke undergraduate and Project Vox team member Frank Mercer IV. This summer I traveled to England and France to explore the lived experiences of the philosophical figures I have researched on the Project Vox team, to place philosophical ideas in the context from which they emerged. […]

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Revealing Voices: Addison Moss

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This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. This month we are pleased to share a post from a dancer incorporating philosophy into her ballet career.  A year ago, at sixteen, I made the most significant decision of my relatively young life. Perhaps “decision” is a misnomer, or at least bears a different meaning […]

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Artificial Intelligence and Hallucinated History

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What happens when artificial intelligence hallucinates history for which there is very little representation? And might we imagine it differently? As Project Vox was gearing up to publish the entry on Nísia Floresta this spring, we struggled to find high-resolution images of the nineteenth-century Brazilian philosopher and advocate for indigenous and women’s rights, abolition, and […]