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Yearly Archives: 2019
Philip Brey: AI and Surveillance
Hsien-Yao Chee and Leonardo Barbara, undergraduates at Duke Kunshan University, interview Philip Brey, Professor of Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente, on Artificial Intelligence and Surveillance technologies.
Azim Shariff: The Moral Machine Experiment and Autonomous Vehicles
Anika Kuchukova, an undergraduate at Duke Kunshan University, and Daniel Lim interview Azim Shariff, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, on the Moral Machine Experiment and autonomous vehicles.
Robert Seamans: AI and the Economy
Bella Jia, an undergraduate at Duke Kunshan University, and Daniel Lim interview Robert Seamans, an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations in New York University’s Stern School of Business, on Artificial Intelligence and the Economy.
Urban Villages in China
Over the last three decades, China’s rapid urbanization has been facilitated by the unprecedented mobility of rural migrant populations. Today it is estimated that some 240 million migrants have left the countryside to work in China’s cities, though the number is surely much higher. While there are heated debates about how to characterize what some […]
On Speculation: A Seminar with Ranjana Khanna
by Sinan Farooqui Facedown in the sand. The waves crashing relentlessly. The red t-shirt. Small, lifeless. Most of us are familiar with the image of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year old Syrian child whose body washed up in Turkey after the refugee boat he was in capsized. The unforgettable image of Aylan on the beach resulted […]
Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference Program
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.
India-China Talk Series: April 11-12, 2019
An Indian Town’s Entry into World War II: Ramgarh as the Chinese Expeditionary Force Training Center, Italian PoW Camp, and Indian Nationalist Movement Hub CAO Yin, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University Thursday April 11, 5.30pm-6.45pm in AB1079 India-China Discourse: The Knowledge Gap Tansen Sen, Director, Center for Global Asia, and Professor, NYU-Shanghai Friday April 12, 5.30pm-6.45pm, […]
Art in Global China, February 23-24, 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 […]
Philosophy, Ethics, and Technology : A Conversation
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 […]
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 […]
