APSI faculty panel brings "Invisible Nation" into focus

On November 4, a panel of four APSI faculty experts engaged members of the Duke and Triangle communities in a thoughtful and thought-provoking conversation about the 2024 documentary “Invisible Nation.”

Following the screening, the panelists drew on their individual experiences in Taiwan as well as their own research expertise to share their perspectives about some of the issues raised in the film before inviting the audience to ask questions and participate in dialogue. In case you missed it, you can watch the full panel discussion on APSI's YouTube channel.

Carlos Rojas, the panel moderator, introduced the film at the start of the event. He is a professor of Chinese cultural studies in the department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image. His research focuses on issues of gender and visuality, corporeality and infection, and nationalism and diaspora studies.

Eileen Cheng-yin Chow 周成蔭 is an associate professor of the practice in Chinese and Japanese cultural studies at Duke University, and one of the founding directors of Story Lab at Duke. She is currently the Director of Graduate Studies for Duke Asian Pacific Studies Institute's East Asian Studies graduate program, and a founding/core faculty member of Duke Asian American and Diaspora Studies.

Guo-Juin Hong, an associate professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, specializes in film historiography, film theory, sound studies, postcolonial theory and theories of culture and globalization. He is also a scholar of film and other media of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.

Gareth Price, a visiting assistant professor in the Linguistics program, is a sociolinguist and political sociologist who completed a jointly-supervised PhD at the University of Essex and spent several years conducting research and language study in Taiwan. At Duke, his teaching includes courses in language policy, language and culture, language and migration, language and media, and critical discourse analysis.