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, […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
