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Repatriate:00

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and History
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Wing Ki Lee
text: New Civilizationisms in Asia a roundtable discussion; a row of four photos (the speakers) and their names; text: January 29 3:30 P M Carpenter Conference Room (249), Rubenstein Library

New Civilizationisms in Asia

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and History
Thursday, January 29, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen); Prasenjit Duara (Duke); Cemil Aydin (UNC—Chapel Hill); Jie-Hyun Lim (Williams)
text: “APSI Speaker Series spring 2026; Shu-chin Tsui ‘Traces of Plastic Waste: Slow Violence and Slow Cinema in Chris Jordan’s “Albatross”’; Duke University Asian/Pacific Studies Institute”; a headshot of Shu-chin Tsui; a silhouette map of Asia; background photo of a bird's nest containing plastic debris and other detritus (bones, feathers)

Traces of Plastic Waste: Slow Violence and Slow Cinema in Chris Jordan’s “Albatross”

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Friday, February 20, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Shu-chin Tsui (Bowdoin Professor of Asian Studies & Cinema Studies, Bowdoin College)
Duttlinger

The Individual and the Community: Paradoxes of Responsibility in Kafka's Prose Fiction

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies and German Studies
Monday, February 23, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Carolin Duttlinger
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Making Regions: Academic Strategies for Middle East Studies

Sponsor(s): Duke Islamic Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
TBA
Seteney Shami
text: “APSI Speaker Series spring 2026; Yanshuo Zhang; ‘Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China’”; headshot of Yanshuo Zhang; background image: an absract painting of close-set buildings

Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, March 19, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Yanshuo Zhang (Pomona College)
Image of Dr. Betsy Rymes and date: March 19th 4:30-6pm

Real World Language: Everyday Inquiry Activities for Exploring the Power of Language with your (Inevitably) Multilingual Students

Sponsor(s): Romance Studies
Thursday, March 19, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Dr. Betsy Rymes
Flyer for Ben Rowlett talk "Diversity in "Asia's World City"?

Diversity in “Asia’s World City”? Mobilizing homonationalist discourse in support of the Gay Games Hong Kong

Sponsor(s): English, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, and Linguistics
Thursday, March 26, 2026
1:35 pm - 2:35 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Ben Rowlett
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Lecture on Pirandello

Sponsor(s): Romance Studies and Theater Studies
Thursday, April 09, 2026
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Professor Michael Subialka
Pirandello's Modernist Imagination and Tolkien's Theory of Fantasy: The Work of Recovery and the Power of Self-Reflective Form A Lecture by Michael Subialka, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at UC Davis

Pirandello's Modernist Imagination and Tolkien's Theory of Fantasy: The Work of Recovery and the Power of Self-Reflective Form

Sponsor(s): Romance Studies and Theater Studies
Thursday, April 09, 2026
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Michael Subialka
Close-up of medieval person writing in a book

Graduate Panel in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Sponsor(s): Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Thursday, April 09, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
He Li (Religious Studies), Matias Sur (Romance Studies), and Derek Witten (English)
text: “APSI Speaker Series spring 2026; Victor Seow ‘The Human Factor: How Chinese Psychologists Reimagined the Science of Work in the Machine Age’”; wordmark of the Duke Asian/Pacific Studies Institute; a photo of Victor Seow; background: a detail photo of gears in a machine

The Human Factor: How Chinese Psychologists Reimagined the Science of Work in the Machine Age

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, April 16, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Victor Seow (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University)
APSI Speaker Series fall 2026; Yuichiro Onishi ‘On Afro-Asian Radicalism’”; wordmark of the Duke Asian/Pacific Studies Institute; a silhouette map of Asia; a photo of Yuichiro Onishi; background: protesters attend a Black Lives Matter event in Tokyo

On Afro-Asian Radicalism

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and African and African American Studies (AAAS)
Thursday, September 03, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
A poster with the details of the event and stickers of Italian culinary items.

Talk With Professor Guido Farinelli

Sponsor(s): Romance Studies
Wednesday, September 09, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Professor Guido Farinelli
Duke Center for Teaching and Learning

Pressing Prompts Workshop (In Person)

Sponsor(s): Duke Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) and AI Support Hub
Thursday, September 10, 2026
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
text: “A Poetic Politics of Shade in Saigon” Erik Harms Yale University; event date, time, location (info in webpage); a photo of a person (Erik Harms); background image of a person hugging a large tree in a grassy urban park

A Poetic Politics of Shade in Saigon

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, September 10, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Erik Harms (Yale University)
A headshot of a person (Chenhui Sun); text (talk title, speaker name and affiliation, date, time, and location; all details on page); background photo of a church in the mountains foregrounded by a persimmon tree

Catholic Music in the Snowlands of China: Sound, Ritual, and History in Tibetan Regions

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Divinity School, and Libraries
Monday, September 14, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Chenhui Sun (Chinese National Academy of Arts)
Headshot of a person (Bella Pei Wang); text: “APSI Speaker Series fall 2026; Bella Pei Wang; Best Briend or Cybermother? A Confucian reflection on A I companionship; Duke Asian/Pacific Studies Institute”; background image of a Chinese landscape brush painting depicting a scholar in traditional robes and a profile of a person with a circuit map overlay

Best Friend or Cybermother? A Confucian Reflection on AI Companionship

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Tuesday, October 06, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Bella Pei Wang (University of Hong Kong)
text: “APSI Speaker Series fall 2026; Jeongmin Kim ‘Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War’”; wordmark of the Duke Asian/Pacific Studies Institute; a photo of Jeongmin Kim; background: assorted archival documents

Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Jeongmin Kim (University of Manitoba)
Gordinsky

Natasha Gordinsky: "Sonic Inheritance: War and Storytelling in Germanophone Post-Soviet Jewish Writing”

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES), German Studies, and Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Natasha Gordinsky
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Public Discourse and Journalism : The News Story from Tunisia, 2011–2026

Sponsor(s): Romance Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for French and Francophone Studies, and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Thursday, October 29, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Emna Ben Jemaa
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Jewish Studies Research Symposium

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, November 01, 2026
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Headshot of a person (Joseph W. Ho); text: “APSI Speaker Series fall 2026; Joseph W. Ho; Missionary Photography, Missionary Modernity: Transnational Imaging in Republican China; Duke Asian/Pacific Studies Institute”; background image: a black-and-white photo of people and buildings in a Chinese village in the early 20th century

Missionary Photography, Missionary Modernity: Transnational Imaging in Republican China

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Friday, November 06, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Joseph W. Ho (Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan)
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A Literalist Paradigm? On Translating (and Retranslating) Carlo Ginzburg

Sponsor(s): Romance Studies and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Stephen Twilley
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