
Confucian Ritual and Social Harmony
Wednesday, October 04, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Daniel A. Bell (Political Theory, University of Hong Kong); Pei Wang (University of Hong Kong)

All Your Torah Scrolls Are Wrong! The Evolution of Scribal Practices and the Cairo Genizah
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Manuscript Migration Lab
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Mordechai Vaintrob

Suspect Narratives: Adaptation and Inter-Asian Remakes
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and India Initiative
Friday, October 20, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Krista Van Fleit (University of South Carolina)

Jamón & Halal: al-Andalus, Andalucía, and Tolerance
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, and Romance Studies
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Christina Civantos (U. Miami)

"I'd be an unkind king unless I help my kin": Christ's Peace and Versions of Peace in William Langland's Piers Plowman
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Thursday, October 26, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Sheryl Overmyer, DePaul University

Martin Shuster: “Genocide and the State: the Coldest of Cold Monsters.”
Thursday, October 26, 2023
6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Martin Shuster

Egypt’s carceral poetry and the public sphere
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Duke Islamic Studies Center, English, and Libraries
Friday, October 27, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Mohsen Mohamed and Sherine Elbanhawy

Conference: ‘Ah, Reality’: New Approaches to Hebrew Poetics and Literature
**CANCELED**
Sunday, October 29, 2023
All Day

EMPOWERING HERITAGELANGUAGE LEARNERS- Modern Chinesefor Heritage Beginners
Sponsor(s):
Romance Studies
Monday, November 06, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Yan Liu (Duke University), Jingjing Ji (Northwestern University),Grace Wu (The University of Pennsylvania), Min-Min Liang (MIT).

Ending Support in Times of Changing Demographics in Japan
Tuesday, November 07, 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Haruyo Inoue (Toyo University)

A Bountiful Community
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Duke Service-Learning, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Romance Studies
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Medieval and Early Modern Works-in-Progress
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Martin Eisner and Helen Solterer (Dept. of Romance Studies)


Duke India Initiative | Graduate Student Travel Grantees’ Presentation
Sponsor(s):
India Initiative
Thursday, November 16, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Triangular Collaborations: Diasporic Encounter and Space of Temporal Reunification
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian American and Diaspora Studies
Wednesday, December 06, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Kyung Hee Ha (Department of World Languages and Cultures, NCSU)

Israel/Palestine on Campus: A Conversation with Peter Beinart
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Provost's Office
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Peter Beinart

Integrating Coaching into Your Mentoring
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Thursday, January 25, 2024
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Toward a Free Economy: Swantantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India - A Book Talk with Aditya Balasubramanian
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Monday, January 29, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Aditya Balasubramanian

Pisarev and Chernyshevsky Revisted: The Reception of German Idealism by Russia’s Radical Materialists
Thursday, February 08, 2024
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, and Cultural Anthropology
Thursday, February 08, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Ivan Small (Anthropology, Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston)

Navigating Your Way Forward as Midcareer Faculty: A two-part workshop sequence for tenured associate professors
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Friday, February 09, 2024
10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Navigating Your Way Forward as Midcareer Faculty: A two-part workshop sequence for tenured associate professors
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Friday, February 23, 2024
10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Guest Lecturer: Christian Karner, Professor of Sociology - University of Lincoln (UK)
Sponsor(s):
German Studies
Friday, March 01, 2024
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Christian Karner

Medieval and Early Modern Works-in-Progress
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Roseen Giles (Dept. of Music)

Language and Gender: Lessons from Linguistics Service Learning
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Dr. Gaillynn Clements

Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
June Hee Kwon (Cultural Anthropology, Sacramento State University)

Heaven Has Eyes: Judicial Populism in the Chinese Legal Imagination
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, March 21, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Haiyan Lee (Walter A. Haas Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Stanford University)
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Entanglements in World Politics: The Power of Uncertainty
Sponsor(s):
Duke Center for International Development (DCID) and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Friday, March 22, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University

Book Talk with Professor Elena Shih
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Thursday, March 28, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Elena Shih (Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University)

The Use of SEL to Address Students' Holistic and Diverse Learning Needs
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
multiple presenters, see below.

Reading the Bible in Early Modern England: Hermeneutics, Politics, and Literature
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Thursday, April 04, 2024
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Thomas Fulton, Rutgers University


Music across Borders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Spanish, Italian, and French Exchanges in the Early Modern Era
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Lacie Eades and Guillermo Luppi (Duke Musicology)

The BACCA Fellowship Showcase for Innovation Teaching
Sponsor(s):
Language, Arts and Media Program, Teaching Support Network (TSN), and Thompson Writing Program
Monday, April 22, 2024
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Nan Mullenneaux

The Duke Open Monograph Award: Celebrating Open Access to Scholarship in the Humanities
Tuesday, May 07, 2024
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Frances Hasso, Robert Mitchell, Sarah Wilbur

Care Citizenship? The development of migrant care worker policies in East Asia
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, September 12, 2024
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Yi-Chun Chien (National Chengchi University)

Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, September 19, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Dali L. Yang (University of Chicago)

Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Friday, October 04, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University)

Open House: Joseph Conrad’s Polish-Ukrainian “Graveyard”: Memory, Mourning, and Anti-Colonial Resistance in his 19th-Century Family Photo Album
Thursday, October 24, 2024
12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
George Z. Gasyna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Perilman Graduate Research Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Cultural Anthropology, Divinity School, German Studies, History, Music, Political Science, and Religious Studies
Sunday, October 27, 2024
9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, November 14, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Viren Murthy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

From the Slave Trade to the Opium rush: China-America Trade in the Making of the Global World
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Sucheta Mazumdar, Associate Professor Emerita of History, Duke

One Sea, One Temple: Digital humanities approaches to Chinese local historical materials in Southeast Asia
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian American and Diaspora Studies, Global Asia Initiative, and Religious Studies
Thursday, November 21, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Kenneth Dean (National University of Singapore)

Decomposing the Twentieth Century with Mushrooms: The Emergence and the Challenges of “New Commons” in Japan
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Cultural Anthropology, and International Comparative Studies (ICS)
Wednesday, December 04, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Shiho Satsuka (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto)

Getting Real with the Time you Have: Aligning Your Writing and Teaching
Sponsor(s):
Faculty Write, Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education, and Thompson Writing Program
Friday, January 10, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Jennifer Ahern-Dodson

U.S. Speakers of Spanish as a Heritage Language: Pedogogical Practices for Language Rights
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Megan Marshall

Getting Real with the Time You Have: Aligning Your Writing & Teaching
Sponsor(s):
Thompson Writing Program, Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education, and Faculty Write
Friday, January 17, 2025
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Jennifer Ahern-Dodson

Totalitarianism: Myth and Reality
Sponsor(s):
Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES) and Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Dr. Ellendea Proffer Teasley


Rethinking the Circuits of Cold War Dance: Mestizo Modernisms in 1957 China
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and Dance Program
Friday, January 31, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Emily Wilcox (Chinese Studies, William & Mary)

SES Presents: Zachary Hicks
Sponsor(s):
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Thursday, February 06, 2025
All Day
Zachary Hicks

Best Practices in Multilingualism and Proficiency Assessment
Sponsor(s):
Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES) and Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Thursday, February 06, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet
Monday, February 10, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
On Barak

Niche Tanks and Coastal Sprawl: Species, Technology, and Economics of Shrimp Aquaculture in Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Friday, February 14, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Lijing Jiang (History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University)

Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, February 20, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Giorgio Biancorosso (Music, University of Hong Kong)

Scripting Suicide in Japan (book talk)
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, February 27, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Kirsten Cather (East Asian Studies, University of Texas—Austin)


Workshop - Charity and Family in Muslim Societies
Thursday, March 06, 2025
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Timur Kuran (Duke), Mustafa Batman (Duke), Adam Sabra (UCSB), Sumathi Ramswamy (Duke), and Adam Mestyan (Duke)

A Nobility of the Spirit: Lineage, Household, and State in Ottoman Egypt
Thursday, March 06, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Adam Sabra (UC Santa Barbara)

Saltwater Kingdoms: Fossil-Fueled Water and Climate Change in Arabia
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
“Shaked in sorow and anguish and tribulation”: Holy Church in Crisis in Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Nicholas Watson (Harvard University)

Book Presentation: The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
Thursday, March 27, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Malika Zeghal (Harvard)

Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Thursday, April 10, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Nükhet Varlık

Defining Your Impact at Midcareer: A Workshop for Associate Faculty (Tenured and Nontenured)
Sponsor(s):
Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement
Monday, May 05, 2025
9:00 am - 12:00 pm