Third Space Lab Launch
Date: Monday, April 6 Time: 9am US Eastern time / 9pm China time Zoom Meeting ID: 599-474-290 Third Space Lab (TSL) welcomes the DKU community to participate in its launch. Dr. Zhang Xin, Dr. Naghib, and Dr. Chiocca will introduce the lab’s objectives, research projects, and workshops on international education. The highlight of the launch is the […]
中国官方媒体正在失去公信力吗？
English 3月3日，在昆山杜克大学人文研究中心与杜克大学富兰克林人文学中心共同主办的在线谈论会“新冠病毒带来的人类、社会和政治意涵”上，杜克大学政治学教授梅勒妮·马尼恩 (Melanie Manion) 谈到了媒体公信力的问题。来自昆山杜克和杜克大学的师生以及《南华早报》美国分社社长参加了讨论。
Freedom Lab: Launch Event
Date: March 26 Time: 9pm (China time) / 9am (US Eastern time) Zoom Meeting ID: 344-318-9585 Hosted by the Lab’s faculty and student researchers, the launch will introduce the Lab, its objectives and research projects, as well as a series of exciting events for 2020. The launch will conclude with a Keynote by Professor Geoffrey Harpham […]
Report on The Coronavirus: Human, Social, and Political Implications
By Sarah Rogers, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University This post originally appeared on the Franklin Humanities Institute website. In February 2020, after Duke Kunshan University closed its campus and shifted to online instruction in order to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19, a group of DKU faculty became residents at Duke University. These included two new […]
Is China’s official media losing its authority?
By Xiaoxi Zhu Student Media Center fellow 中文翻译 The story of Wenliang Li, the so-called whistleblower of the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, was widely spread on Chinese social media when he died from the disease on Feb. 7. He was an ophthalmologist working in the Central Hospital of Wuhan, Hubei province, where the first case of […]
The Coronavirus: Human, Social and Political Implications
On Tuesday March 3, Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center in partnership with the Franklin Humanities Institute created a panel on the human, social and political implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The panel consisted of two sessions. The first was an online Zoom presentation to DKU students, with nearly 200 total participants.
Gandhi, Vegetarianism, and Culinary Cosmopolitanism: A Discussion with Professor Nico Slate
April 13, 2020 8:30 PM (China Time) 8:30 AM (US Eastern Time) Zoom Meeting ID: 261-330-4845 All in the DKU community are welcome to join in a discussion with Professor Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University) on the subject of vegetarianism and its relation to Gandhi’s political views on race, cosmopolitanism, and decolonization. Discussion will be […]
The American Religious Landscape: Where to Begin?
An interactive talk by Elijah Siegler, Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, College of Charleston. Tuesday, March 17, 9am Eastern, 9pm China Time Note that because of the current health situation everyone will be participating via Zoom.
