Critical Asian Humanities at DUKE

05/08/2017

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04/12/2017

TOMORROW: Carol Gluck of Columbia University in the City of New York on Doing Justice to the Past: What the World Owes to the Comfort Women.
3:30 p.m., Thomas Room, Lilly Library- Duke University. Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by Carolina Asia Center and the Triangle Center for Japanese Studies.
Event details & registration: https://www.facebook.com/events/1904496529837449/
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University Asian Students Association (Duke University) Duke Women's Studies Undergraduates The Duke Women's Center Duke Global Health Institute - DGHI Duke University - John Hope Franklin Center Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University Story Lab at Duke Critical Asian Humanities at DUKE

09/13/2016

THE EVENT: Professor Chen Kuan-Hsing 陳光興 at Duke
WHEN: 9/19/16 Monday 12-2pm.
WHERE: Smith Warehouse Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall,
114 S Buchanan Rd Durham, NC 27701
Please join us!

02/22/2016

Announcing the 2016 Critical Asian Humanities Workshop at Duke
April 8-9
http://asianmideast.duke.edu/cah-workshop

10/16/2015

http://asianmideast.duke.edu/cah-workshop

Call For Papers:

Graduate Student Conference
in conjunction with the second annual
Critical Asian Humanities workshop
at Duke University
April 8th, 2016

Duke University will host a select graduate student conference on April 8th, 2016, in conjunction with its second annual Critical Asian Humanities workshop, which will run from April 8th to April 9th. Integrating approaches and methodologies from cultural studies, critical theory, and area studies, Critical Asian Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that emphasizes humanistic inquiry while critically interrogating many of the assumptions on which the humanities have traditionally relied. The workshop’s keynote speakers will be:

David Der-wei Wang (Harvard): “Worlding Literary China: History, Literature and Chinese Modernity"

John Treat (Yale): "Arendt in Asia: Judgment and Responsibility in Nanjing and Hiroshima”

Colleen Lye (UC Berkeley): “Asian American Sixties”

Closing remarks: Prasenjit Duara (Duke)

The graduate student conference component of the workshop will feature papers by 4-6 graduate students, to be selected by a panel of Duke faculty and grad. students. Duke will cover the domestic travel and 3 days of room/board for the graduate students who are invited to speak.

Although the workshop does not have a formal theme, preference will be given to graduate student papers that complement the keynote speakers’ focus on transregionalism and transnationalism. Students working on Asia in any discipline in the humanities or interpretive social sciences are welcome to apply.

Please send a 500-word abstract and brief biographical blurb to Carlos Rojas ([email protected]) by December 1, 2015.

Call For Papers: Graduate Student Conference in conjunction with the second annual Critical Asian Humanities workshop at Duke University April 8th, 2016 Duke University will host a select graduate student conference on April 8th, 2016, in conjunction with its second annual Critical Asian Humanitie…

04/09/2015

03/28/2015

The updated flyer for the Critical Asian Humanities workshop. Sorry!

01/29/2015

Dear CAH’ers and friends,

We will be holding the second CAH Forum of the spring semester next Friday, Feb 6, from 5:00-7:00pm in Franklin Center 240. Our speaker is Prof. Anne Allison, and the title of her talk is ““Home and Hope in Precarious Japan.” She suggests that you read chapter 5 of her most recent book, Precarious Japan.

Unlike previous Forums, this time we will move very quickly into open discussion, so please read the recommended chapter carefully ahead of time.

As always, CAH students are strongly encouraged to attend, and all others are warmly welcome. Food and drink will be served.

01/08/2015

And we concluded our fall semester CAH Forum with a talk by Aimee Kwon, on her forthcoming book "Intimate-Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan" (Duke UP 2015)!
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Intimate-Empire/index.html

01/08/2015

CAH Forum, Fall 2014: Michael Hardt on "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”