The Ernest Gellner Lecture this year will be delivered by Duke Professor Prasenjit Duara on 'Nationalism and the Crisis of Global Modernity,' on Monday, April 5 th at 11:00 AM EST.
Scholars with diverse regional expertise gathered for the book writing workshop and to collaboratively interrogate cultural production ‘third space’ associated with habitats that produce complex socio-cultural and ecological formations in Asia.
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.
In a recent webinar organized by Duke’s Global Asia Initiative, scholars, Dr. Sunil Amrith and Dr. Clark Alejandrino discussed the climate and history in monsoon Asia.
On March 4, 2020, Dr. Natalie Koch presented “Asian Entanglements in Arid Lands: Arizona, Arabia, and Desert Geopolitics” at the Duke Center for International and Global Studies. Natalie Koch is Associate Professor of...
On February 4th, at the invitation of the Duke Global Asia Initiative, Dr. Mayumi Fukunaga, Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology and Environmental Ethics from University of Tokyo, gave a seminar talk titled “Futuring Salmon: Dreams of Marine Ranching amidst the Ruins of the Anthropocene”.
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...
