Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center
Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Arts, Humanities, and Interpretive Social Sciences at Duke Kunshan University
By Elva Yu
DKU Humanities Research Center 的 Petal Lab 一直在给让人文和科技牵线搭桥，初进入时，我只知这里可以研究深刻有趣的伦理道德问题。后来才渐悟 James Miller 教授所言：“这世界的伦理问题光靠人文学科的思索是不能解决的，我们要把那些科学家‘拉下水’，让他们直面自己的研究背后所蕴含的人类意义”
1月21号，Petal Lab 邀请了David Grinspoon来学校开展讲座，题为“太空生物学：人类在地球和地球之外的角色”。讲座后，这位科学家和DKU的一些教授以及Petal Lab全体师生在晚餐间继续碰撞思想的火花。
A key challenge in joint venture universities is that of creating a culture of engagement in which students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds are able to work together across cultural and linguistic divides. This is difficult for at least two reasons. The first is that in an institution such as Duke Kunshan University, foreign students have to live and work in an alien cultural and linguistic environment. This means that they are deprived of many comforts of their home and are constantly forced to confront the strangeness of their new cultural situation. But the same is true for the mainland Chinese students who, though still living in their homeland, have to navigate and educational culture that is quite different from what they are used to, and to work in a language that is not native to them. Each group of students has to live and work to some extent against the grain, that is, against the patterns and habits that have enabled them to be successful thus far. Continue reading “Philosophy and Pedagogy Workshop”
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