Whitney Bauman: Thinking through the Anthropocene
by Sinan Farooqui Over the eons, the incessant ticking of time has culminated in our present reality: the Anthropocene, or the age of humans. This title comes with implications and indications about the state of the world, its hierarchies and underlying attitudes. And it is upon these very concepts that our distinguished speaker, Professor Whitney Bauman […]
Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference Call for Papers
Duke Kunshan University is pleased to announce its first Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference from April 19-21, 2019. All topics broadly within the humanities and interpretive social sciences will be considered. Panels will be formed around themes based on the applications.
Attending the 2019 Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society Conference
by Runya Liu As a member of the Planetary Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (PETAL) I had the privilege of attending a conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society with Duke Kunshan University Professor Daniel Lim in Hawai’i from January 27-28. The invited talks and presentations were wonderful opportunities to learn how people from different […]
Reflections on Pedagogy and Philosophy
by Julius Vaitkevicius, Nanjing University The workshop on Philosophy and Pedagogy at Kunshan Duke University provided a valuable opportunity for educators around the world to discuss and share insights gained in teaching philosophies in cross-cultural environments. The theme of the workshop focused on the notion that philosophy could be taught not only as a bare […]
Imran Khan: Carving a Creative Pathway in the Corporate World
By Hajra Farooqui College students around the world constantly face an enormous dilemma: How does one choose a field of study that guarantees sustained intellectual stimulation, is applicable to the daily functioning of the real world, can offer financial support and can keep our indecisive moving selves rationally happy in the long term? The truth […]
当历史的车轮碾过 ——听“论《百年孤独》中体现的男子气概 ”讲座有感
By Mozhu Zhang 一部著作，讲述了七代人的生命旅程，记录了一个家族的沉浮兴衰，再现了拉丁美洲的社会历史图景。加西亚·马尔克斯的《百年孤独》从第一次与读者见面到现在以近半个世纪，不论是其魔幻现实主义的写作手法，还是复杂的家族人物网与传奇故事，都曾被无数学者反复揣摩和品读。然而，对《百年孤独》这座巨大“宝库”的探寻之旅仍没有结束，现就职于北京大学及柏林自由大学的Caio Yurgel教授向我们分享了他对书中体现出的男子气概的解读。
Caio Yurgel: the Representation of Masculinity in García Márquez
By Sinan Farooqui In this age of MeToo movements and greater awareness of women oppression and the restriction of their basic rights, it is often prudent to look back upon the literary works that may have upheld the traditional ideas of masculinity, resulting in the formation of such a machismo culture.
