Sponsored by Duke’s Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and the Franklin Humanities Institute DATE: February 27, 2012 LOCATION: C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse, Duke TIME: 4:00-6:00pm

Please join the Duke East Asia Nexus (DEAN) for an important event exploring the implications of nuclear energy use in Japan — and around the world. Long touted as the answer to the world’s growing energy demands and environmental conflicts, nuclear power has … Read more

Schedule: 6:00p.m.:  “The Material Culture of Disasters in Premodern Japan” – Morgan Pitelka, Associate Professor, Asian Studies, UNC; Director, Triangle Center for Japanese Studies 6:30 p.m.:  “Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923” – … Read more

Takushi Odagiri, a Visiting Professor at Duke’s Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,  is a scholar of modern Japanese philosophy and Japanese critical. He holds an M.D. (University of Tokyo) and an M.S. (Universityof London), and has recently received his Ph.D. … Read more