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...
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...
