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)
New Civilizationisms in Asia
Thursday, January 29, 2026
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen); Prasenjit Duara (Duke); Cemil Aydin (UNC—Chapel Hill); Jie-Hyun Lim (Williams)
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
Shu-chin Tsui (Bowdoin Professor of Asian Studies & Cinema Studies, Bowdoin College)
The Individual and the Community: Paradoxes of Responsibility in Kafka's Prose Fiction
Monday, February 23, 2026
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Carolin Duttlinger
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
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
Yanshuo Zhang (Pomona College)
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
Dr. Betsy Rymes
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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
Ben Rowlett
Pirandello's Modernist Imagination and Tolkien's Theory of Fantasy: The Work of Recovery and the Power of Self-Reflective Form
Thursday, April 09, 2026
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Michael Subialka
Graduate Panel in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Sponsor(s):
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Thursday, April 09, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
He Li (Religious Studies), Matias Sur (Romance Studies), and Derek Witten (English)
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
Victor Seow (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University)
