GAI hosted Prof. Nicola Di Cosmo, the Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies at Princeton, USA who presented his talk at Duke University on Writing Climate into the History of Steppe Empires.

The Global Asia Initiative (GAI) in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) welcomes Dr. Yuan Chen as a postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Humanities.

The Ernest Gellner Lecture this year will be delivered by Duke's Professor Prasenjit Duara on 'Nationalism and the Crisis of Global Modernity,' on Monday, April 5 th at 11:00 AM EST.

As a follow-up to the GAI workshop ' Trans-species Listening and Rights of Nature: Legal Persons beyond the Human ' which was organized on October 5 th , 2018, a special issue was published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment in Summer 2020. This issue was edited by GAI affiliates Jeffrey Nicolaisen and Ambika Aiyadurai and the GAI director, Prof. Prasenjit Duara.