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Dear Mom and Dad by Rachel Darius
Dear Mom and Dad by Rachel Darius won the award for best cinematography and best film at the 2018 Student Experience Documentary Awards Ceremony, held on December 10, 2018 at Duke Kunshan University. The film portrays the ups and downs of student Rachel Darius’s experience during the first semester at university in the form of […]
The 2018 DKU Student Vlog Awards Ceremony
While the 2018 Fall Semester is drawing to an end, so is the session one of the pilot Student Experience Documentary Project. The night of December 10 was a celebration of the nine finalists who were chosen to make short documentaries out of their weekly vlogs. It showcased the students’ development of artistic creativity, and […]
New Media Art in Shanghai
On Saturday December 1st, the Petal fellows and their advisor, Dr. James Miller, traveled to Shanghai to meet artists Fito Segrera and Benjamin Bacon. The students first went to the M50 art district, near the French concession in Shanghai, and had lunch with Fito. After lunch, Fito showed the students around the Chronus Art Center, […]
A Discussion with Daniel Seng on Artifical Intelligence and Law
Daniel Seng is Associate Professor of Law at the School of Computing, at the National University of Singapore. He graduate from Stanford University’s doctorak program in Empirical Sciences and the Law (JSD). His areas of expertise are intellectual property, information technology, law, machine learning, NLP and quantitative legal analysis.
Student Documentary Experience Vlog Screening
On December 10, 2018 the finalists in the Duke Kunshan University Student Documentary Experience project will be premiering their documentaries at a screening and awards festival. AB Ballroom, 6-8pm Registration required
Shanghai-Jiangsu Humanities Research Network
To keep informed about events and activities, please sign up for the weekly newsletter of the Shanghai-Jiangsu Humanities Research Network, a partnership between Duke Kunshan University, NYU Shanghai, and Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University. By regularly sharing information about visiting speakers, events and activities, the three universities hope to foster increased engagement in arts, humanities and […]
Discussion with Astrobiologist and Author David Grinspoon
The PETAL lab mainly focuses on the ethical issues related to Planetary Science and Artificial intelligence. As part of our exploration of these concepts, we interview famous authors, scientists, and researchers who do work related to these fields. We share the audio and a brief description of the interviews online, so that everyone can have […]
Fito Segrera: Redefining the Boundaries Between Art and Artificial Intelligence
By Anisha Joshi In a world where a deep fear of incumbent malice and malevolence runs within the hearts of most who have pondered the rapid pace of development in artificial intelligence, Fito Segrera sees a possibility for an exceedingly more positive future with benevolent AI. With a practical sense of optimism, he has considered […]
人文学科是人类未来发展的显学
万睿涵 (DKU’22) Wan Ruihan, a freshman at Duke Kunshan University, describes the experience of participating in the launch of the Humanities Research Center. She writes that because of the strong pressure to study sciences in high school, “I feel that I was never able to express my love for the humanities. However, when I came to […]
A Step into the Future of the Humanities
By Anisha Joshi (DKU’22) An indefatigable feeling of enthusiasm pervaded the atmosphere of Duke Kunshan University over the weekend of September 15–16, as faculty and students alike geared for two days full of seminars and discussions exploring the future of humanities. The campus experienced a flurry of activity and intellectual stimulation as ideas and perspectives were […]
