This semester's AP Forums feature recipients of the APSI Summer Research Grants who conducted research relevant to East or Southeast Asia last summer. Presentations will last 20-25 minutes each with room for discussion at the end.

What does it mean for the future of the planet when one of the world's most durable authoritarian governance systems pursues "ecological civilization"? Despite its staggering pollution and colossal appetite for resources, China exemplifies a...

Please join Duke's Denis Simon (Senior Adviser to the President for China Affairs), Dr. Richard Freeman (Harvard and NBER) & Ms. Qingnan Xie (Nanjing University of Science and Technology) to discuss: what are the facts about the US-China scientific partnership? How has the partnership impacted the world, and each of the partners? And what are the possible consequences of a breakdown in the partnership?

For fifty years, however, Japanese Americans had been building Buddhist communities, publishing Buddhist magazines, and organizing conferences and educational programs to promote Buddhism in America. In this talk, we will explore how these activities are a necessary foundation for the spread of Buddhism and how this labor is often obscured by its own success.

Please join us for a conversation between Professor David Schanzer and China Director of Human Rights Watch Sophie Richardson

Jennifer Hsieh will investigate sensory practices in institutional and technological settings, with an emphasis on urban East Asia.

Join Professor Edmund Malesky as he interviews Murray Hiebert, author of Under Beijing's Shadow: Southeast Asia's China Challenge, discussing the undercurrents lying beneath the surface of China's relations with its smaller southern neighbors, as well as the ways these countries could address the "China Challenge."

In this talk, Dr. Elizabeth Son focuses on how Korean diasporic performance artist Dohee Lee contends with palimpsestic histories of militarized violence on Jeju Island in MAGO (2014). MAGO is a multimedia performance that integrates ritual movement, dance, music, film and motion graphics, site-specific installation, and Korean mythology with the tumultuous history of state-sanctioned violence on Jeju Island. In the talk she will discuss how the utilization and re-visioning of Korean mythology and performance practices allow Lee to "time travel," playing with different time scales, linear and cyclic, that interface with contrasting states of being.

Michihiro Ama is Karashima Tsukasa Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at the University of Montana where he teaches courses on various aspects of Japanese literature and culture, and all levels of Japanese, including business...

This concert features chamber music by Korean composers from the mid-20th century, when Korea was going through one of the most tumultuous times in its history.

After being liberated from the four decades of colonial rule, Korea faced...