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Headshot of Lijing Jiang; a map of Asia; background image of shrimp; text (event series, sponsor, speaker, title, date, time, location)

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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Lijing Jiang (History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University)
Headshot of Giorgio Biancorosso; a map of Asia; background image of a music mixing board; text (event series, sponsor, speaker, title, date, time, location)

POSTPONED TO APRIL 3—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
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Giorgio Biancorosso (Music, University of Hong Kong)
Headshot of Professor Kirsten Cather; descriptive text (event title, date, time, location, series, sponsor); background: an impressionist painting of a person with their hand on their jaw

Scripting Suicide in Japan (book talk)

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Thursday, February 27, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Kirsten Cather (East Asian Studies, University of Texas—Austin)
Think Outside the Box

Open Playful Pedagogy Workshops

Sponsor(s): Language, Arts and Media Program and Thompson Writing Program
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Nan Mullenneaux
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Workshop - Charity and Family in Muslim Societies

Sponsor(s): Duke University Middle East Studies Center and Duke Islamic Studies Center
Thursday, March 06, 2025
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Timur Kuran (Duke), Mustafa Batman (Duke), Adam Sabra (UCSB), Sumathi Ramswamy (Duke), and Adam Mestyan (Duke)
Man sitting in a restaurant with green sweater on and tortoise shell glasses

A Nobility of the Spirit: Lineage, Household, and State in Ottoman Egypt

Sponsor(s): Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Duke Islamic Studies Center, History, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Thursday, March 06, 2025
5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Adam Sabra (UC Santa Barbara)
Typing Hands

Faculty & Staff Writing Retreat

Sponsor(s): Faculty Write, Libraries, and Thompson Writing Program
Friday, March 07, 2025
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Jennifer Ahern-Dodson
portrait of man sitting down on flyer

Saltwater Kingdoms: Fossil-Fueled Water and Climate Change in Arabia

Sponsor(s): Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Michael Christopher Low (U. of Utah)
Image of Julian of Norwich

“Shaked in sorow and anguish and tribulation”: Holy Church in Crisis in Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Love

Sponsor(s): Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Divinity School
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Nicholas Watson (Harvard University)
image of Professor Malika Zeghal next to recent book publication

Book Presentation: The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

Sponsor(s): Duke University Middle East Studies Center and Duke Islamic Studies Center
Thursday, March 27, 2025
4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Malika Zeghal (Harvard)
Global Voices Conference flyer April 4

Global Voices: Exploring Multilingualism in the 21st Century

Sponsor(s): Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES)
Friday, April 04, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
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Playing the Changes - Tracking Darius Brubeck | Film Viewing and Discussion with Darius and Cathy Brubeck

Sponsor(s): Concilium on Southern Africa, African and African American Studies (AAAS), Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), International Comparative Studies (ICS), and Music
Monday, April 07, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Darius and Cathy Brubeck
Research Symposium

Jewish Studies Research Symposium

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Headshot of Alexandra Kaloyanides; a map of Asia; background image of golden Buddhas; text (speaker name, talk title, speaker series)

Natural Resources and Burmese Religions

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Religious Studies
Thursday, September 18, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Alexandra Kaloyanides (UNC Charlotte)
Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education

Duke's Suite of Generative AI Tools (Hybrid)

Sponsor(s): Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education
Thursday, September 25, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Headshot of Brendan Galipeau; text (talk title, speaker name, series information); background image of buildings and a vineyard in the mountains

Crafting a Tibetan Terroir: Winemaking in Shangri-La

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Cultural Anthropology
Thursday, September 25, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Brendan Galipeau (Binghamton University, SUNY)
Picture of Bruno Estigarribia

A Revision of Paraguayan Guarani Predicates: Argument Indexing and Diathesis ​

Sponsor(s): Romance Studies and Linguistics
Friday, October 17, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Bruno Estigarribia
Nabratein

Jewish Studies Annual Research Scholars Symposium

Sponsor(s): Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, October 19, 2025
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
mountains

Improv for Writers

Sponsor(s): Language, Arts and Media Program and Thompson Writing Program
Monday, October 20, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Nan Mullennaux
Headshot of Fenggang Yang; a map of Asia; text: “Mapping East Asian Religions: Local Traditions, Global Transformations”; APSI Speaker Series Fall 2025, Duke Asian/Pacific Studies Institute; background image of a Chinese painting

Mapping East Asian Religions: Local Traditions, Global Transformations

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Religious Studies
Thursday, October 30, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Fenggang Yang (Sociology, Purdue University)
Headshot of Angus Lockyer; background image of an illuminated city skyline at twilight

Spectacle, Development, and Modern Japan

Sponsor(s): Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) and Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Thursday, November 20, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249
Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design)
A photo of a person wearing a white shirt and glasses standing in front of a sculpture

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
flyer

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)
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