August 2020 – Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center

August 29, 2020September 20, 2024

Second Annual DKU Student Film Festival – 2020

Friday September 18th at 7:00pm

Duke Kunshan University, Innovation Building Lecture Hall

Curated by Kaley Clements

The second annual DKU Student Film Festival is sponsored by the Humanities Research Center and is held in conjunction with the Humanities Research Center’s fall conference: Hum/Animal.

The student film festival is not held in the spirit of competition, but rather as an event to gather student filmmakers from Mainland China and Hong Kong to broaden their understanding of what students at similar institutions in the region are working on. The intent is to foster relationships that lead to future collaborations, networking in the film industry, etc. It is also a chance for faculty from these institutions to come together to discuss ways to make a stronger filmmaking culture in the Southern Jiangsu/Greater Shanghai Region. Continue reading “Second Annual DKU Student Film Festival – 2020”

August 17, 2020September 20, 2024

Hum/Animal: Humanities Fall Conference Program

Hum/Animal is the theme of the Humanities Research Center’s fall conference and student film festival, which takes place from September 18-20 on the campus of Duke Kunshan University, and via Zoom.

The conference comprises five elements:

Keynote speeches by leading experts on the relationship between humans and other animals, from a range of perspectives, including bioart, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies
Parallel sessions featuring the research of new and returning DKU faculty in the humanities and social sciences
Parallel sessions featuring the research of undergraduate students from DKU and other universities, chosen via highly selective peer review process
Parallel sessions featuring the work of DKU’s Humanities Research Labs
A student film festival curated by Kaley Clements

Continue reading “Hum/Animal: Humanities Fall Conference Program”

August 16, 2020September 20, 2024

Ron Arkin: Lethal Autonomous Weapons

Runya ‘Agnes’ Liu and Muhammad Usama, undergraduates at Duke Kunshan University, interview Ron Arkin, Regents’ Professor in the College of Computing and Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory at Georgia Tech University, on Lethal Autonomous Weapons.

August 12, 2020September 20, 2024

Partnership Announcement: The Shanghai Literary Review & Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center

The Shanghai Literary Review and Duke Kunshan Humanities Research Center are pleased to announce our recent partnership.

Starting with TSLR Issue Seven, our organizations will work together in the planning and production of the magazine and to provide unique educational opportunities for students at DKU. Continue reading “Partnership Announcement: The Shanghai Literary Review & Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center”

August 4, 2020September 20, 2024

Third Space Lab Recruits Research Participants for a Longitudinal Study – Transformative Learning and Third Space Personae Development in Global Education

Dear First-Year Students,

We are looking for incoming first-year students about to study at DKU to participate in a research project conducted by Emmanuelle S. Chiocca, Ph.D., Zhang Xin, Ph.D., co-directors of the Third Space Lab and faculty members in the Language and Culture Center.

Our research project revolves around students’ change as a result of living and studying in a translingual and intercultural environment. This research is being conducted in higher education institutions both in China and in the United States. You were selected as a possible participant because you are about to study at DKU. Continue reading “Third Space Lab Recruits Research Participants for a Longitudinal Study – Transformative Learning and Third Space Personae Development in Global Education”

August 3, 2020September 20, 2024

Freedom Lab Event Report on “Art Equals Politics: Vignettes of Culture, Decolonization, and Black and Brown Liberation”

By Huang Bihui (Honey)

Class of 2022

On the 20th of July 2020, the Freedom Lab invited the famous Afro Yaqui Music Collective—an award-winning group of Jazz musicians based in Pittsburgh, for a live music performance and a conversation. There were five artists present for the occasion: Ben Barson, Charlotte Hill O’Neal (also known as “Mama C”), Gizelxanath Rodriguez, Nejma Nefertiti, and Peggy Myo-Young Choy. They are experts in different fields of art, and it was a pleasure seeing and hearing about their work on liberation and fights against global injustices. Professor Jesse Olsavsky and Professor Selina Lai-Henderson, co-directors of the Freedom Lab, hosted this event. We had a diverse group of approximately 65 attendees scattered around different parts of the world to share the love and knowledge that the Afro Yaqui artists gave.

Before the event started, Mama C lit up a bundle of sage to prepare for the event. This was done so to honor our ancestors and those who fought hard for the future that we now have. Even though we could not smell it from our Zoom screens, we could see it. Just as how it might be hard to live through our ancestors’ lives vicariously, we can see and live through what they have sacrificed for us. Continue reading “Freedom Lab Event Report on “Art Equals Politics: Vignettes of Culture, Decolonization, and Black and Brown Liberation””