Duke Asia-Pacific (AP) Forum

China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet

Dr. Richard Freeman (Harvard and NBER) & Ms. Qingnan Xie (Nanjing University of Science and Technology) will discuss the US-China scientific partnership, how it impacts each partner (and the world), and the possible consequences of a breakdown in the bilateral relationship.

Dr. Scott A. Mitchell (Institute of Buddhist Studies) will explore how building Buddhist communities, publishing magazines, and organizing conferences and educational programs are a necessary foundation for the spread of Buddhism and how this labor is often obscured by its own success.

Using a historical and ethnographic analysis of government officials' involvement in creating noise control policies in 1980s Taiwan and the present, Jennifer Hsieh (Anthropology, University of Michigan) examines the strategies and obstacles of the state to measure and regulate that which can be heard but not seen in a post-authoritarian context.

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."

Dr. Elizabeth Son focuses on how Korean diasporic performance artist Dohee Lee contends with palimpsestic histories of militarized violence on Jeju Island in MAGO - a 2014 multimedia performance that integrated 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.

Conflict over the Americanization and Japanization of Shin Buddhism in Early 20th-Century US

Hear how some influential Korean composers of the 20th century asserted their cultural heritage and responded to contemporary musical ideas.