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Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke promotes research and teaching on the Asia Pacific region

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Jeongmin Kim explores an intimate and global history of the Korean War that urges us to rethink the often-antithetical r...
10/20/2026

Jeongmin Kim explores an intimate and global history of the Korean War that urges us to rethink the often-antithetical relationship between sexual intimacy and market economies in the context of war and occupation.
📅 Tuesday, October 27
🕛 3:00PM
📍 Carpenter Conference Room (249), Rubenstein Library
🔗 https://www.facebook.com/events/1635681408134904
All APSI Speaker Series talks are free and open to the public.

We appreciate Professors Bella Pei Wang and Daniel Bell visiting Duke from the University of Hong Kong.Professor Wang sh...
10/07/2026

We appreciate Professors Bella Pei Wang and Daniel Bell visiting Duke from the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Wang shared insights about how Confucian ethics can inform our understanding of the benefits and risks of modern AI use.

Professor Bell illustrated how political thought from ancient Chinese philosophy has the same relevance for the modern world as philosophy from ancient Greece and Rome.

It was a pleasure to hear insights yesterday from sociocultural anthropologist Dr. Ruth Toulson, whose most recent book ...
09/30/2026

It was a pleasure to hear insights yesterday from sociocultural anthropologist Dr. Ruth Toulson, whose most recent book “Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore,” was selected as the second prize winner for the American Anthropological Association’s 2026 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing.

With research grounded in Confucian ethics, Bella Pei Wang challenges the industry claim that AI companions offer a reme...
09/29/2026

With research grounded in Confucian ethics, Bella Pei Wang challenges the industry claim that AI companions offer a remedy for loneliness.
📅 Tuesday, October 6
🕛 12:00 noon
📍 Carpenter Conference Room (249), Rubenstein Library
🔗 Best Friend or Cybermother? A Confucian Reflection on AI Companionship

All APSI Speaker Series talks are free and open to the public.

Duke University Department of Religious Studies

Anthropologist and mortician, Ruth E. Toulson, takes you behind the scenes in a Singaporean funeral parlor.📅 Tuesday, Se...
09/22/2026

Anthropologist and mortician, Ruth E. Toulson, takes you behind the scenes in a Singaporean funeral parlor.
📅 Tuesday, September 29
🕟 3:00 PM
📍 Carpenter Conference Room (249), Rubenstein Library

This talk is free and open to the public.

🔗 The Gift of a Co**se: Ordinary Necropolitics in Contemporary Singapore

🎉 It was wonderful to celebrate the recent works of Gennifer Weisenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of ...
09/18/2026

🎉 It was wonderful to celebrate the recent works of Gennifer Weisenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History, at this FHI Bookwatch—From Gas Masks to Graphic Design: Reading the Recent Work of Gennifer Weisenfeld event, co-organized by Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University and the Duke University Libraries.

Thanks to all the amazing panelists for their insights and to the audience for warm engagement.

It is great to be part of the intellectual life at Duke! 💙

Be sure to join the Faculty Bookwatch next week for an expert panel on “From Gas Masks to Graphic Design: Reading the Re...
09/11/2026

Be sure to join the Faculty Bookwatch next week for an expert panel on “From Gas Masks to Graphic Design: Reading the Recent Work of Gennifer Weisenfeld”—a reception and book signing follow the discussion.

Panelists: Leo Ching; Christine M. E. Guth; Simon Partner; Benjamin Uchiyama
Moderator: Ranjana Khanna

Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University Duke University Libraries

A different history of Tibet, revealed through music and ritual.Musicologist and performer Chenhui Sun uses a newly disc...
09/08/2026

A different history of Tibet, revealed through music and ritual.

Musicologist and performer Chenhui Sun uses a newly discovered manuscript to reveal a complex picture of religion and culture in Tibetan regions of China.

🗓 September 14 (Monday)
🕒 3PM
🏨 Carpenter Conference Room (249), Rubenstein Library

Free and open to the public.

note: translation during the post-talk Q&A (English-Chinese) will be facilitated by Karen Shi, an MA student in East Asian Studies.

Next week: come learn about state-social clashes and cooperation regarding urban shade in one Vietnamese city.Anthropolo...
09/03/2026

Next week: come learn about state-social clashes and cooperation regarding urban shade in one Vietnamese city.
Anthropologist Erik Harms (Yale University) will discuss A Poetic Politics of Shade in Saigon.
🗓 September 10 (Thursday)
🕒 3PM
🏨 Carpenter Conference Room (249), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke West Campus
Free and open to the public.

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