APSI arranged for nine graduate students and one postdoctoral scholar to attend the Southeastern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, held January 20–22, 2023, at the University of Richmond.
Through faculty research and community engagement, APSI supports efforts to raise the profile of Asian American & Diaspora Studies at Duke and in the Triangle.
Drawing on alternatives to traditional "sea defense" proposed by survivors of the 2011 tsunami in Japan, Prof. Andrew Littlejohn asked how we might "ecologize safety" by adapting mitigation strategies that exist in nature and reshaping the relationships between coastal communities and their surrounding environment.