Freedom Lab Event Report on “The Utopianism called Decolonization: Thinking with Tagore”
By Yue Qiu Class of 2022 On June 11, 2020, The Freedom Lab invited Professor Sandeep Banerjee from McGill University to lead a discussion on “The Utopianism called Decolonization: Thinking with Tagore“. The Freedom Lab co-directors, Professors Jesse Olsavsky and Selina Lai-Henderson hosted the lecture. Professor Titas Chakraborty and around 20 students attended the conference. […]
Third Space Lab Initiative – Portraits of Third Spaces: Your DKU/Kunshan Story
Portraits of Third Spaces: Your DKU/Kunshan Story is a community project to create a unique story that captures the intercultural transformation of the people of the DKU and Kunshan communities. The transformation that many students, faculty, staff, and members of the Kunshan community have experienced in the past two years is a result of other […]
Third Space Lab Presents – Guest Speakers Series: Dr. Joana Almeida
Date: Monday, June 29th Time: 9pm (China time) / 9am (US Eastern time) Zoom Meeting ID: 780 074 6166 Third Space Lab (TSL) welcomes the DKU community to attend Dr. Joana Almeida’s talk and to discuss some of the challenges of intercultural education and international mobility with her. The talk will be followed by a […]
Report on Kunshan Digital City of Arts and Culture
By Anisha Joshi Class of 2022 View the presentation View the StoryMap collections (requires Duke NetID) View the full tour map (requires Duke NetID) In the rush and uncertainty with which many of us vacated campus as COVID-19 was taking shape as an epidemic in China, few of us had anticipated how much we would miss Kunshan […]
Freedom in Quarantine
Message from Co-Directors of the Freedom Lab: Would you like to learn more about the dramatic implications of the COVID-19 crisis for freedom? Incoming Arts and Humanities faculty member, Professor Zairong Xiang, has just published a short essay “Freedom in Quarantine” in the journal Critical Times, which explores this theme as well as many others, […]
Report on Interdisciplinarity and the Future of Life
By Anisha Joshi Class of 2022 In the fourth installment in the Interdisciplinarity series, Professor Ed Turner from Princeton University discussed astrobiology and interdisciplinarity in science. As an astrophysicist who has published a plethora of papers that also discuss astrobiology, in this conversation Professor Turner discussed the implications the interdisciplinary field of astrobiology has on […]
Report on Interdisciplinarity and the Future of Knowledge
By Sinan Farooqui Class of 2022 Interdisciplinarity lies at the heart of Duke Kunshan University’s innovative curriculum for the 21st century. Building on the work of the Humanities Research Center in Planetary Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (PETAL) and Digital Humanities, the HumanSpace+ Research Group, investigates the goals, values and practices of interdisciplinary integration in the […]
Arts and Humanities Division and Freedom Lab Presents | The Utopianism called Decolonization: Thinking with Tagore
Thursday June 11, 9am EST / 9pm China Time Zoom Meeting ID: 2613304845 Speaker: Sandeep Banerjee, Associate Professor, Department of English, McGill University Click [HERE] to watch the recording Abstract: In this talk I aim to situate decolonization as a kind of the utopianism. I contend that decolonization is not, as is typically understood, simply […]
