Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University
LightNews LightNews
banner
apsi-duke.bsky.social
Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University
@apsi-duke.bsky.social
430 followers 83 following 21 posts
The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute is the focal point of research and teaching on the Asia Pacific region at Duke University.
(@DukeAsia on Twitter)
Posts Replies Media Videos
apsi-duke.bsky.social
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
film poster for “Silent War: Asian American Reckonings with Mental Health” consisting of a collage of stills from the documentary; descriptive text included in the post: event date, time, location, sponsors; names of the panelists (Eileen Chow, Yan Li, Lily Chen, Ling Jin, Pooja Mehta)
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reposted by Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University
kimberly-hassel.bsky.social
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.
asianstudies.org Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · Oct 15
Established by member vote in 2020, the Diversity and Equity Committee is the newest AAS governance body. Its members advise the Board of Directors on issues relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

buff.ly/TAstsxe
Portrait of Kimberly Hassel, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at Duke University, featured as a nominee for the Diversity and Equity Committee in the AAS 2025 Elections.
October 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
🥮 🎑 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!
October 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
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/
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
asianpacific.duke.edu
September 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
📅 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/
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
asianpacific.duke.edu
September 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
📣 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...
Chinese Exclusion 2.0?: An Online Teach-In on Visa Revocations and What it Means for Chinese Students and the U.S.
Webinar
www.international.ucla.edu
June 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
We're looking forward to your keynote talk (and to the presentation by our own Lilia Yan!) 🎉
kimberly-hassel.bsky.social Kimberly Hassel @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social · May 6
Absolutely thrilled to be delivering a keynote for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives in Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025. Please register if you haven’t already! Can’t wait to think with everyone on digital mediations of Afro-Japanese encounters and #otakuhotgirlstudies. ✨
aurelievpetit.bsky.social Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · May 1
Introducing another one of our amazing keynotes: @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social who will present on "Mediating Afro-Japanese Encounters from Yasuke to Megan Thee Stallion" ⚔️💿✨ Kimberly is an Assistant Professor in the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University! Tickets 🎫 below!!
May 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University
asianstudies.org
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
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
April 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
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...
Background photo of a nighttime street scene in Japan; headshot of Inkyu Kang; descriptive text (event title, date, time, location, series, organizer)
April 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
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.
April 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
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
Headshot of Emily Feng; descriptive text (talk title, date, time, location, sponsor)
March 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
apsi-duke.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. 🍿
February 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
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
Headshot of Lijing Jiang; a map of Asia; background image of shrimp; text (event series, sponsor, speaker, title, date, time, location)
February 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Reposted by Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University
newyork.asiasociety.org
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...
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.
asiasociety.org
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
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...
Headshot of Emily Wilcox; a map of Asia; background image of dancers on a stage; text (event series, sponsor, speaker, title, date, time, location)
January 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
🏮 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
A red banner with golden snakes and the year 2025; text: "Happy Lunar New Year" "Year of the Wood Snake"
January 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
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
angryasianman.bsky.social Phil Yu @angryasianman.bsky.social · Jan 26
On the latest They Call Us Bruce, we welcome Eileen Chow and Ava Chin to talk about our rage at the new world order, Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, the legacy of Wong Kim Ark, and the (too often forgotten) lessons of history. blog.angryasianman.com/2025/01/they...
They Call Us Birthright Citizenship
blog.angryasianman.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Reposted by Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University
nccjapaninfo.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...
January 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
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.
A bridge crosses over a body of water surrounded by trees and high-rise apartment buildings; text (APSI seeks postdoctoral associate researching environmental and climate studies in Asia); application URL and deadline
January 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
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...
Light streaks in a ball shape; text: "2025" and "Happy New Year
January 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
🎉 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...
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.
www.dukechronicle.com
June 21, 2024 at 2:52 PM
apsi-duke.bsky.social
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...
June 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM