A three-day workshop that seeks an aqueous perspective on history and how the drivers in contemporary society have led to changes and effected adaptations to the hydrosphere.

The surrendering of the concession in Wuhan marked a key shift in Britain's power in China, and also an important symbolic defeat for the British Empire in Asia. This talk takes us into the streets of Wuhan, examining the various communities whose politics and personalities clashed in 1927.

Zach Fredman draws on English and Chinese-language sources to examine the formation, evolution, and undoing of the alliance between the United States and the Republic of China during World War II and the Chinese Civil War, resulting in a tormented relationship across all levels of Sino-American engagement.

2023 East Asian Studies/Critical Asian Humanities Annual Workshop

This talk examines the bizarre twists and turns the song "March for the Beloved" (Nim ŭl wihan haengjin'gok), has undergone since its original inception, as occasions for thinking about the culture of protest and the politics of memory that shape the legacies of democratization in South Korea.

Drawing on fieldwork in the Republic of Nauru, the world's smallest island nation, Prof. Julia Morris (International Studies, UNC Wilmington) discusses the realities of the island's offshore asylum arrangement with Australia and its impact on islanders, workforces, and migrant populations.

This talk discusses research that leveraged Singapore's unique demographic composition to measure the extent to which individuals' ethnicity, national identity, and class influence their altruism towards outgroup members.

A reading of Disorientation and Q&A with Elaine Hsieh Chou

Join the Duke East Asian/Asian Diaspora Studies group for a talk with acclaimed Taiwanese American novelist Elaine Hsieh Chou, author of Disorientation .