Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University

text: “The Fight Against Police Racial Profiling in Japan: A Conversation with Felicity Stone-Richards and Maurice Shelton”; event date and time; photos of two people (the primary speakers)

🔜 2/26, 7PM (E. US) // 2/27, 9AM (Japan): Dr. Felicity Stone-Richards (University of Michigan) talks w/ Maurice Shelton, an entrepreneur who has been living in Japan for 11 years. Moderated by Professor Kimberly Hassel @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social (Duke).

🔗 asianpacific.duke.edu/event/fight-...

text: Happy Lunar New Year 2026; image of a golden horse silhouette with floral cutouts surrounded by a decorative ring; text in the background saying "Happy New Year" in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesian, Burmese, and Mongolian

Happy Lunar New Year from APSI! May the fire horse bring positive energy, resilience, and light to illuminate your thinking and the world.
新年快乐 ⋆ 새해 복 많이 받으세요 ⋆ 新年おめでとう ⋆ Chúc Mừng Năm Mới ⋆ สวัสดีปีใหม่ ⋆ Manigong Bagong Taon ⋆ Selamat Tahun Baru ⋆ နစ်သစ်မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ ⋆ шинэ жилийн мэнд хүргэе

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A special screening of the 2025 documentary, “Silent War: Asian American Reckonings with Mental Health” will be followed by an expert panel discussion.
📆 November 18. 2025
🕖 7:00 PM
🏫 Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater
This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome.
duke.is/2/ss2m

I’m on the ballot for the Diversity and Equity Committee! As an Afro-Latina scholar in Asian Studies, advocacy for scholars of underrepresented identities has been central to my service. If elected, I will work with AAS in aiding these scholars to thrive—not just survive—in the field.

🥮 🎑 中秋节快乐! ~ 中秋節快樂! ~ 추석 잘 보내세요! ~ お月見おめでとうございます! ~ Chúc mừng Trung Thu vui vẻ! ~ រីករាយពិធីបុណ្យអុំទូក!

In 2025, the Mid-Autumn Festival takes place October 5–8.
We hope you enjoy a wonderful holiday with lots of amazing food and great views of the supermoon!

Crafting a Tibetan Terroir: Winemaking in Shangri-La | Asian/Pacific Studies Institute This talk discusses a recently published book about how wine has transformed Tibetan land and lives. Set in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed "Shangri-La" by the Chi

Sept. 25—APSI's Fall 2025 Speaker Series continues with Brendan Galipeau: “Crafting a Tibetan Terroir: Winemaking in Shangri-La.”
🕒 3:00PM
📍 Carpenter Conf. Room (249), Rubenstein Library
ℹ️ asianpacific.duke.edu/event/crafting-tibetan-terroir-winemaking-shangri-la-09-25-2025/

Natural Resources and Burmese Religions | Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Alexandra Kaloyanides explores how Myanmar’s natural resources have shaped its religious life, and how its religious life has shaped the Southeast Asian country’s extract

📅 Our FA25 Speaker Series launches 9/18 with Alexandra Kaloyanides: “Natural Resources and Burmese Religions.” Bring your questions to this free, public talk!
🕒 3:00PM
📍 Carpenter Conf. Room (249), Rubenstein Library
ℹ️ asianpacific.duke.edu/event/natural-resources-and-burmese-religions-09-18-2025/

Chinese Exclusion 2.0?: An Online Teach-In on Visa Revocations and What it Means for Chinese Students and the U.S. Webinar

📣 June 5 (9AM PDT), @chowleen.bsky.social will be part of a discussion organized by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies: “Chinese Exclusion 2.0?: An Online Teach-In on Visa Revocations and What it Means for Chinese Students and the U.S.”
🔵 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

We're looking forward to your keynote talk (and to the presentation by our own Lilia Yan!) 🎉

A social media graphic features a photograph of a book on a table, open with its pages fanning out, and bookshelves visible in the background. Text: 2026 AAS Book Prize Nominations - submission deadline June 30 - https://bit.ly/AASBookPrizes

Hear ye, hear ye! The nomination period for our AAS 2026 Book Prizes is NOW OPEN! Publishers, you have until June 30 to submit nominations—authors of eligible books, talk to your publisher about being nominated!

bit.ly/AASBookPrizes

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This Friday, we wrap our spring Speaker Series with Professor Inkyu Kang (Penn State Behrend) who will unpack the technological paradox behind Japan's analog affinity and South Korea's digital shift.
Join the conversation: asianpacific.duke.edu/event/unpack...

Today, 3PM: Prof. Giorgio Biancorosso examines the combinatorial practice at the heart of Wong Kar-wai’s cinema to retheorize musical borrowing, appropriation, and repurposing in Hong Kong cinema and beyond.

Emily Feng in conversation with Eileen Chow: Let Only Red Flowers Bloom | Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Join APSI as award-winning journalist Emily Feng (Trinity ’15) discusses her career and how she reveals dramatic human stories of resistance and survival in a country inc

Full details: asianpacific.duke.edu/event/emily-feng-conversation-eileen-chow-let-only-red-flowers-bloom/

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Award-winning journalist Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social will be at Duke discussing her career as an acclaimed reporter and writer + her new book, “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom”
📅 March 20
🕠 5:30 PM
📍 Ruby Lounge
Free and open to the public
@chowleen.bsky.social

📽 Tonight's screening of “In the Mood for Love” includes an intro and Q&A with Professor Giorgio Biancorosso.

🎞 For fans of bonus features, we are sharing this “extra scene” online (because Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung are indeed extra in all the best ways):
youtu.be/szvRRy8Lkz4

You're welcome. 🍿

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Friday, 2/14: APSI welcomes Prof Lijing Jiang to compare and contrast the development of shrimp aquaculture in Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand.
Details: asianpacific.duke.edu/event/niche-tanks-and-coastal-sprawl-species-technology-and-economics-shrimp-aquaculture-japan/
@dukeenvironment.bsky.social

Asia Society seeks applications for 2025 Osborn Elliott Journalism Prize The $10,000 cash award will recognize the best piece of journalism on Asia published during calendar year 2024.

Are you a journalist reporting on #Asia? Apply for the 2025 Osborn Elliott Prize!

@asiasociety.org is seeking applications from a reporter or team of reporters with the best example of journalism about Asia from 2024. Submissions close March 17 for the $10K prize. asiasociety.org/asia-society...

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For those at/around Duke, we look forward to welcoming Prof. Emily Wilcox this Friday (Jan. 31) as she re-examines how the 1957 visit of dancers from Latin America to the PRC should inform our understanding of #dance history.
Details: asianpacific.duke.edu/event/rethin...

A red banner with golden snakes and the year 2025; text: "Happy Lunar New Year" "Year of the Wood Snake"

🏮 May the year of the wood snake bring you peace, success, creativity, intuition, and wisdom 🏮
Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate!
From APSI~~ 新年快乐 ⋆ 새해 복 많이 받으세요 ⋆ 新年おめでとう ⋆ Chúc Mừng Năm Mới ⋆ สวัสดีปีใหม่ ⋆ Manigong Bagong Taon ⋆ Selamat Tahun Baru ⋆ နစ်သစ်မှာ ပျော်ရွှင်ပါစေ ⋆ шинэ жилийн мэнд хүргэе

It was great to hear our APSI DGS, the ever-amazing Professor Eileen Chow, on ep. 270 of “They Call Us Bruce.” Be sure to catch the full episode for a considered discussion of the role “United States v. Wong Kim Ark” played amid the complicated history of U.S. citizenship. @chowleen.bsky.social

This month we are pleased to feature an #NCCSpecialist spotlight on @matthew-hayes.bsky.social (Duke Libraries), sharing his journey from the study of early modern Buddhism to to supporting the broader Duke community with research skills & archival expertise! 📿📖 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

To our community: please share widely among your scholarly networks and encourage qualified individuals to apply!

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We're hiring! APSI seeks a postdoctoral scholar with training in a humanities or social science discipline whose research concerns environmental and climate studies in Asia.
Apply @ academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29581
The one-year position begins FA25.

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Welcome to 2025! Looking ahead to the spring term, be sure to check out some of the amazing Asia-focused courses happening at Duke.
We put together highlights of a few new+returning ones: asianpacific.duke.edu/blog-post/ex...
A full list is at: asianpacific.duke.edu/academics/co...

Looking forward to this series!

Leo Ching named new dean of humanities and the arts for Trinity College Ching, a longtime professor in the AMES department, will succeed Professor of Classical Studies William Johnson as the new Schiff Family Dean of Humanities and the Arts July 1.

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Leo Ching on being named the Schiff Family Dean of Humanities and the Arts for the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.
His term begins July 1.
Read the full article in the Duke Chronicle:
www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024...

New channel, who dis? (Just kidding.)
Bluesky no longer requires an invitation to join (spring semester was busy; we just got the memo) so we're expanding our social media portfolio. Asia has a wealth of case studies for contingency planning amid possible dynastic shifts...