by Ameya Kulkani and Marina Holder
by Bryce Beemer, Assistant Professor History (Duke Kunshan University)
Date & Time: Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 4:30 pm
Location: Durham 240 & Zoom
Questions to consider:
1) How does a study of slavery in global contexts other than the Americas and Atlantic network add to our understanding of the variety of forms slavery took?
ASU career resources
by Dr. Faheem Hussain
Friday, October 29m 2021 at 11:00 am
Questions to consider:
1) Who are the Rohingya, and what are the political and historical circumstances underlying the current crisis?
2) What are some of the “digital innovations, workarounds, challenges, and imaginations” observed by Dr. Hussain in the refugee camps?
by Professor David Pietz, UNESCO Chair in Environmental History (University of Arizona)
Date & Time: Friday, October 22, 2021, at 10:00 am
Location: Durham 240 & Zoom
As part of ASU's commitment to global engagement, sustainability, and future-oriented knowledge and research, the Center for Asian Research has organized a series of virtual lectures for the 2021-2022 academic year on the theme of "Global Asia in a Multipolar World." This virtual lecture series highlights research from prominent scholars in an array of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and beyond, broadly centered on Inter-Asian networks and flows of ideas, peoples, and texts across national and linguistic borders.
Kūkai on Truth Vs. Beauty
by Dr. Nicholas Williams
Friday, September 24th, 2021 at 11:00 am
Questions to consider:
1) Who was Kūkai? Why is he an important figure in both Japanese and Chinese religious and cultural history?
Sponsored by Center for Asian Research & the School of International Letters and Cultures
Date & Time: October 21, 2021, at 4:30pm AZT
Questions to consider:
1) The legendary Japanese animator Osamu Tezuka is often compared to the American animator Walt Disney. How appropriate is this comparison? What are some of the similarities between the two artists’ careers, and what are the limitations of this comparison?
