Category: Events

Please join us for the following lecture on Thursday, September 24 5:15-6:15 PM, FedEx GEC, Room 4003, UNC-CH Zelideth Maria Rivas, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Marshall University “Glocal Multiculturalism in Japan: Idol groups, Matsuri, and Festivais” Today’s globalism and cosmopolitanism … Read more

The Academy of Buddhist Studies at Dongguk University in Seoul and Duke University are jointly hosting a one-day, international conference that seeks to place colonial Korean Buddhism (1910-1945) in a transnational and global context. Eight scholars of Korean Buddhism will … Read more

upcoming CFP deadline: CFP – Korean Literature Association (KLA) Conference Global Korean Literature at the Crossroads: Celebration of Continuity and Transformation Duke University – November 13-14, 2015 Korean literary studies in North America, once a discipline held together by the … Read more

The Triangle East Asia Consortium events calendar will return in the fall of 2015. Stay tuned!

Screening in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), Jan 17-19 Introduced by Simon Partner (History, Duke) Set in a digitally recreated postwar Tokyo (in 1958), Takashi Yamazaki’s Always – Sunset … Read more

(Goro Miyazaki, 2011, 91 min, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, Color, BluRay) With an introduction by Eileen Chow (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke) Goro Miyazaki’s From Up on Poppy Hill was the top-grossing animated film in Japan in 2011, and … Read more

Urbanization and the transportation revolution are fundamentally challenging our inherited knowledge-models about Asia. Asia is shifting from rural to urban, the Himalayan barrier between China and India is rapidly becoming part of the past, while Japan, which was the first … Read more

Duke Asian American Theater (DAAT) is hosting a visit by Obie-award winning stage and screen actor James Saito. Come to the Multicultural Center at 8pm on Monday, October 28 to enjoy some refreshments, meet some new friends, and hear about … Read more

Duke/Korea University Conference  Bordering the Borderless: Faces of Modern Buddhism in East Asia  Co-organizers: Richard Jaffe and Hwansoo Kim (Duke University, USA), Sungtaek Cho (Korea University, Seoul Korea), and Jin Y. Park (American University, USA)  Sponsors: Duke’s Asian Pacific Studies Institute … Read more

Join Duke Gardens for a free drop-in festival in the Asiatic Arboretum, with Asian-inspired activities and demonstrations. Tickets will be issued at the Durham-Toyama Sister Cities Teahouse for limited, small groups to experience a brief tea sampling at scheduled times; … Read more