Spring 2020 Mellon Visiting Professor, Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy, Getulio Vargas Foundation and Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil
An interdisciplinary scholar of the law and race...
Duke is conducting an Africa cluster hire—of at least two African scholars—this semester. All departments across Trinity were invited to nominate candidates, with seven chosen as finalists. These finalists will visit Duke between January 15-...
The Global Asia Initiative director, Dr. Prasenjit Duara ’s paper The Chinese World Order in Historical Perspective: Soft Power or the Imperialism of Nation-States? was recently published on the Social Science Research Network . Dr Duara explores...
As a part of the virtual component of this integrated training program, the Nicholas Institute is currently developing an gateway online massive open online course (MOOC), Why and How to Build Sustainable Infrastructure , which will be hosted...
How does a society grapple with its ghosts? Is there a particular quality of Northeastern Japan that lends itself to the appearance and persistence of ghosts? Are the ghosts themselves mere manifestations of individual grief?
On December 6, four distinguished China scholars, Melanie Manion (Duke), Songying Fang (Rice), M. Taylor Fravel (MIT), and Jessica Chen Weiss (Cornell), shared a summary of their past and current research, offering perspective on what it takes...
