Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center
Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Arts, Humanities, and Interpretive Social Sciences at Duke Kunshan University
Duke Kunshan University is pleased to announce the winning submissions to the first Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference from April 19-21, 2019. Over 230 applications were received from across China, and 40 papers were chosen for inclusion in the final program. Continue reading “Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference Program”
CAO Yin, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
Thursday April 11, 5.30pm-6.45pm in AB1079
Tansen Sen, Director, Center for Global Asia, and Professor, NYU-Shanghai
Friday April 12, 5.30pm-6.45pm, AB1079 Continue reading “India-China Talk Series: April 11-12, 2019”
by Xuenan Cao
Art in Global China was in the 1990s the site of intense contestation between market and art. This site continues in the present as both a public and private discourse space for gatherings of art historians, curators, artists, researchers and students, and others who are similarly invested in the making of the contemporary art scene. During the two-day event, Professor Eva Man, director of Film Academy and Chair Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and Haoyang Zhao, MFA from Duke University gave academic talks on the institutional, cultural, and technical components that inscribe what make sense to us as art. The event also provided an opportunity for speakers and guests to review students’ photography and film works and nurture interests in these two prominent media of art-making. Continue reading “Art in Global China, February 23-24, 2019”
by Sinan Farooqui
Philosophy, Ethics and Technology.
Three fields which have been interwoven into the fabric of time, overlapping increasingly due to the unstoppable tide of globalization in the modern era. The latest in the series of colloquiums hosted by the Humanities Research Center saw a conversation between two highly respected academics––Dr. Carl Mitcham (Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Colorado School of Mines) and Dr. Tom Wang (Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China) –– who work in the intersection of these fields. Hosted in a different format than all that preceded it, this colloquium saw both speakers simply conversing with each other and the audience, based on a set of given questions, as opposed to just giving a lecture. Continue reading “Philosophy, Ethics, and Technology : A Conversation”
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