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 a letter home to her parents.
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 growing experience in film-making, and brought the audience back to the past four months. Chancellor Feng Youmei, Executive Vice Chancellor Denis Simon, and Vice Chancellor Gao Haiyan attended the event, and joined the program directors in presenting awards to the finalists. (more…)
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, and later, his personal workshop. (more…)
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. (more…)
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 (more…)
Shanghai-Jiangsu Humanities Research Network
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