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
Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Monday, February 10, 2025
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
On Barak
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
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
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