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...
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...
Global Asia Initiative Director, Prof. Prasenjit Duara who is also the President of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) will host the Presidential Plenary Panel at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference . The conference will take...
The Global Asia Initiative initiated workshop “Rivers in the Anthropocene: Global Challenges and Local Responses” was held successfully at the Duke Kunshan University campus on July 5-8. 16...
By Ambika Aiyadurai Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India
My visit to Global Asia Initiative at Duke University was a part of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship...
This article was published in Duke Today ( LINK ).
In a recent discussion at Duke, authors Amitav Ghosh and Roy Scranton discussed climate change and our imaginative failure in the face of global warming. Law...
