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Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University
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The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute is the focal point of research and teaching on the Asia Pacific region at Duke University.
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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.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🥮 🎑 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
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...
April 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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
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
March 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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
February 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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...
January 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🏮 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
January 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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.
January 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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...
January 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM