Third Space Lab Recruits Research Participants – Transformative Learning and Conflict Resolution in International Education
Dear Sophomores and Juniors, We are looking for students for a research study conducted by Emmanuelle S. Chiocca, Ph.D. and Saghar Leslie Naghib, Ph.D. Our research project revolves around the change that students undergo as a result of studying in an intercultural and multilingual higher education setting. We are trying to understand how students make […]
The Unended Korean War: 70 Years Exhibition – Presented by Third World Newsreel
Duke’s Asian American & Diaspora Studies (AADS) and Duke Kunshan’s Freedom Lab Present Transpacific Connections Collaboratory. TCC is a vertically-integrated transnational collaboration among faculty, graduate and undergraduate students at Duke, DKU, and beyond. Our goal is to build a platform to innovate methodologies and technologies to explore together divided and forgotten transpacific histories and their […]
Kunshan Digital City of Arts and Culture: Recruitment
Kunshan Digital City of Arts and Culture is an initiative of the Humanities Research Center’s Kunshan Digital Humanities project. In our pilot project, 2019-2020, we asked DKU students to create works of art in and around Kunshan. Students photographed Kunshan’s changing architecture, created original works of performance art, reenacted historical dramas, made a documentary about hairy crabs, […]
Research Report: Emancipation, “New Man”, and Citizenship in Republican China
Congratulations to Professor Qian Zhu as well as DKU students Qingyi Yin and Xueyi Liu! Their collaborative research project, sponsored by the Freedom Lab, was recently awarded the Summer Research Scholars Grant. Below you will see a report composed by them describing their work. We look forward to the conference papers and publications that will […]
Black Lives Matter — Course Offerings at DKU 2020-21
Students who are interested in pursuing research into Black Lives Matter may be interested to take some of the following courses that will provide a foundation for understanding the historical contexts and contemporary significance of relevant issues.
Art Equals Politics: Vignettes of Culture, Decolonization, and Black and Brown Liberation
Time: Monday July 20th, 2020. 9PM-11PM China Time, 9AM-11AM US Time Zoom ID: 344-318-9585 DESCRIPTION The recent nationwide protests against the police killing of African American man George Floyd has brought again to the fore the urgent political question of America’s long history of racism. Such racism effects African Americans in Particular, but also Indigenous […]
Third Space Lab Event Report on “International Education: Can Intercultural Journey Have a Transformative Role in Life?”
By Anisha Joshi Class of 2022 Click [HERE] to watch the recording On June 29th, 2020, the Third Space Lab hosted guest researcher Dr. Joana Almeida, who discussed the importance of intercultural competence and the different ways students can foster this invaluable skill in a rapidly globalizing world. With a research focus in the internationalisation […]
Race and Racism in America: A Reading List
Compiled by Selina Lai Henderson, Denise Simpson, and Jesse Olsavsky The current protests against police violence in the US have brought to the forefront questions about the history of race and racism in America. But these protests are not new, nor are the questions they pose. From the days of slavery, to those of segregation, […]
DKU Health Humanities Laboratory Request for Proposals: Health Humanities Projects
Health Humanities Lab Information Session On July 8th at 10am (China Time) the Health Humanities Lab will host an information session via Zoom to give an overview of health humanities, the types of projects students and faculty might consider proposing, and guidance on the proposal development process. Date and Time: July 8, 2020 at 10am […]
