Past Events

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    Alice in Evasion: Japan/Adaptation/Carroll

    January 28, 2021 - 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
    Amanda Kennell (International Studies, NCSU)
    Zoom meeting

    In this talk, Amanda Kennell (Assistant Teaching Professor of International Studies, NCSU) examines over a century of Japanese Alice adaptations to reveal why artists return to Alice and what Alice reveals about the contemporary media environment.

    • Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
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    SEAREG Movie Night - Spotlight: Thailand

    November 20, 2020 - 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm
    Allen Hicken, Songkhun Nillasithanukroh, Penchan Phoborisut, and Joel Selway
    Zoom meeting

    Join SEAREG on October 20 at 7 p.m. (Eastern US/Canada) for a screening of the blockbuster Bad Genius followed by a discussion of the Thai context, especially the role of young people in both perpetuating the status quo as well as instigating...

    • Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
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    Future US-China Relations in Higher Education: Challenges & Prospects

    November 13, 2020 - 3:30 am to 5:00 am
    moderator: Yichen Zhang (CEO, CITIC Capital Holdings Limited); panelists: Scott MacEachern (Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, DKU); Joyce Ma (China Country Director, The Nature Conservancy); John Van Fleet, (Director of Corporate Globalization, Antai College, Shanghai Jiaotong University)
    Ballroom AB, Duke Kunshan University
    https://duke.zoom.us/j/99699457414?pwd=akFmK2phZGNGMGVwQ0R6TDRpdXAxdz09

    The Duke Kunshan University (DKU) China Town Hall 2020 aims to provide a learning and sharing platform for our DKU community, together with those accomplished educators and experts who lead the panel discussion.

    • Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
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    Inequality, Culture War, and Imperiled Common Good: America and China

    November 12, 2020 - 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
    Richard Madsen, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UC San Diego
    Zoom meeting

    Despite rising inequality, daily life in both America and China is afflicted more by culture conflicts than class struggle. Richard Madsen (Sociology, UC San Diego) argues here, however, that in both societies, these cultural conflicts are...

    • Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
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    CHINA Town Hall

    November 10, 2020 - 6:45 pm to 9:00 pm
    Ray Dalio, Mark Cohen, Richard P Suttmeier, and Paul Triolo
    Zoom Webinar

    Join APSI and DUCIGS for a China Town Hall on Tuesday, November 10, at 6:50 p.m. (EST). The first part of the event will consist of a virtual "watch party" for a keynote address from the National Committee on US-China Relations featuring renowned...

    • Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
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    Global Trivia Night

    November 9, 2020 - 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm
    Zoom meeting

    Global Trivia Night

    • Africa Initiative
    • Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
    • Brazil Initiative
    • Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
    • Center for Slavic Eurasian and East European Studies
    • Concilium on Southern Africa
    • Council for European Studies
    • Council for North American Studies
    • Duke Islamic Studies Center
    • Duke University Middle East Studies Center
    • Global Asia Initiative

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