Duke Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

 AMES Events & Communication Assistant (Grad Students ONLY)

Position: Part-time, 10-15 hours a week; starting August 25, 2014 and ending April 25, 2015

Salary:  $14.00 - $17.00 an hour depending on experience

Job Description:

                Plans, organizes, coordinates, and promotes department events including Arabic-Hebrew Night at Duke, End of Year Korean Party, Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration, Japanese Speech Contest and Post-Cold War in Asia Series and other events throughout the academic year.  Coordinate services for on-site events, such as hotel accommodations and transportation for participants, reserving facilities, parking, catering, signage, decorations, audio visual support, printing and other special requirements. Major responsibilities include: publicity (making flyers, emailing, etc.), travel and lodging arrangements for visitors, facility reservations, catering, local transportation and other special requirements for conferences for faculty and guest speakers. The person will also list all events on the Duke Calendar and AMES website and perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.   

Skills & Qualifications:

• Use of Publisher, Word or other software for designing fliers and announcements.
• Ability to accomplish projects with little supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal skills both in person and by phone, with high professionalism.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and work assignments from a variety of faculty.
• Must be organized and have strong attention to detail.

Please respond to: -  Mindy Marcus, AMES Business Manager  by August 1, 2014

Congratulations to our 2014 AMES Majors and Minors

Chang Chen and Liao Yun-Chang 

WHERE HAVE ALL THE SUNFLOWERS GONE: Dispatches from the Taiwan #OccupyCongress     Student Movement

Wednesday,  April 9   12noon - 2:00 PM   Franklin Center 130

Yun-chang Liao is Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Lih Bao 立報, and Cheng Chang was one of the founding editors of Sifang Bao 四方報—both newspapers are based at Shih Hsin University in Taipei, and have been tentpoles of Taiwan's thriving independent and alternative media scene. 

Sifang Bao is the collective name for newspapers published in five separate linguistic editions—Indonesian, Tagalog, Thai, Cambodian, and Vietnamnese—to serve the present multicultural and multilingual landscape of Taiwan with its growing population of labor and marriage migrants from Southeast Asia. Sifang Bao was the first news media to give voice and provide a platform for migrants in their own languages, a radical concept even in 2006 when it was founded—and it has since garnered both widespread critical and popular acclaim in Taiwan and throughout Southeast Asia. More recently, Cheng Chang has been executive producer of 唱四方, Singing in Taiwan; and he as well as Liao are the founders of the newly established Taiwan Immigrant Writing Awards.