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
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
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
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
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Michael Christopher Low (U. of Utah)
“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)
Global Voices: Exploring Multilingualism in the 21st Century
Friday, April 04, 2025
9:00 am - 10:00 am
multiple
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
Darius and Cathy Brubeck
Jewish Studies Research Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Natural Resources and Burmese Religions
Thursday, September 18, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Alexandra Kaloyanides (UNC Charlotte)
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
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir: Winemaking in Shangri-La
Thursday, September 25, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Brendan Galipeau (Binghamton University, SUNY)
A Revision of Paraguayan Guarani Predicates: Argument Indexing and Diathesis
Friday, October 17, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Bruno Estigarribia
Jewish Studies Annual Research Scholars Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, October 19, 2025
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Mapping East Asian Religions: Local Traditions, Global Transformations
Thursday, October 30, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Fenggang Yang (Sociology, Purdue University)
Spectacle, Development, and Modern Japan
Thursday, November 20, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design)





