Poster Drawing Workshop with Edén Barrena
September 6-8, 2019 in DKU Water Pavilion
Edén Barrena is a Spanish visual artist based in Shanghai who has exhibited her work internationally. Join her in a drawing workshop aimed at integrating creative practice to your research profile. The workshop will include tips on accessing the archive, interpreting your research into a visual medium, and critique from an experienced artist.
Humanities Career Forum Presents Andrew Sohn
The Humanities Research Center will host a Humanities Career Forum on Friday 20 September from 12-1pm in the Water Pavilion the campus of Duke Kunshan University. The guest of honor will be Mr. Andrew Sohn, who majored in English at Columbia University before embarking on a career in investment banking, and then founding his own company, Due West Education. (more…)
Future of the Humanities: The Gender/Sex Turn
Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce its fall conference Future of the Humanities: The Gender/Sex Turn 人文学的未来：性／别转向 on September 20-21, 2019.
Register to attend the conference here.
The conference features four outstanding keynote speakers.
- Josephine HO 何春蕤, scholar-activist in gender/sexuality studies
- Yingying HUANG 黄盈盈, China’s leading sociologist of sex work and HIV/AIDS
- Yin-bin NING 甯应斌, Taiwan’s leading philosopher and theorist of modernity
- Yueyue WENREN 闻人悦阅, award-winning author of Amber, a top-ten Chinese novel of 2018
Future of the Humanities: Faculty Papers
The following papers by faculty at Duke Kunshan University, New York University, Shanghai, and Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou will be presented at the Fall Conference The Future of the Humanities at Duke Kunshan University, September 20-21, 2019. (more…)
Future of the Humanities: Keynote Speakers
Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce four outstanding keynote speakers at its conference, “Future of the Humanities: The Gender/Sex Turn 人文学的未来：性／别转向” on September 20-21, 2019.
- Josephine HO 何春蕤, scholar-activist in gender/sexuality studies
- Yingying HUANG 黄盈盈, China’s leading sociologist of sex work and HIV/AIDS
- Yin-bin NING 甯应斌, Taiwan’s leading philosopher and theorist of modernity
- Yueyue WENREN 闻人悦阅, award-winning author of Amber, a top-ten Chinese novel of 2018
The Memory Project at Duke Kunshan University
By Anisha Joshi, DKU’22
The word ‘memory’ can refer to many different things. It can mean an individual’s remembrance of a past experience, or the collective recollection of an event that impacts a larger group of people. With the Memory Project, documentarian Wu Wenguang explores both these avenues by documenting and protecting the memories of people who lived through the cultural revolution and who live in China with the legacy of this past. Support from the Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center, enabled Wu Wenguang to bring the project to the campus during the Water Town Film Festival with two of his team members, Hu Sanshou and Zhang Mengqi from Beijing. (more…)
