The Shanghai Literary Review – Student Assistants – Recruitment
Starting with Issue Seven, DKU and The Shanghai Literary Review (TSLR) will work together in the planning and production of the magazine and will provide working apprenticeships and seminars on publishing for students at DKU. The Shanghai Literary Review is an annual journal of literature and art, founded in 2016, with an editorial team spread […]
Humanities Conference Keynote Report: Carmen Tong on Human-Animal Relationships in a Posthumanistic Future
By Sinan Farooqui Class of 2022 The third keynote lecture for the Duke Kunshan Humanities Fall Conference 2020: Hum/Animal, was led by Professor Carmen Tong, the Lecturer in Sociology at Hong Kong University. Her research expertise lies in the sociological and ethnographic investigation of schooling and student culture in Hong Kong, while her recent research […]
Points Center for Contemporary Art Series Talk | Conversation with Li Tingwei and Long Pan
Time: 10/30, Friday 6-7pm Location: IB1046 Zoom ID: 262-835-7204 The Media & Arts Speaker series at Duke Kunshan University is a bi-weekly event that invites leading practitioners in media and arts to speak about their work and practice and engage with our DKU community. The second short series features Points Center for Contemporary Art (PCCA). […]
Calling for Research Participants: First-Year Students and Third Space Lab – Part 2
Calling for first-year students as research participants for our study on “Transformative Learning and Third Space Personae in International Education”. Randomly selected students will earn a RMB 100 gift card for participating in the survey. Please click the link below to register and find out more: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2t2gTbysBN839pX For any questions, please contact Dr. Emmanuelle Chiocca […]
Freedom Lab Event Report | Freedom’s Proximity: The Interconnections between American Slavery, British Colonial Abolition, and Slave Ship Revolt
By Sihan Wang Class of 2023 Click [HERE] to watch the recording With 50 participants, on February October the 13th, a talk on the Creole Slave-Ship Revolt was carried out via Zoom by Professor Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, a prestigious historian whose research interests include slavery, abolition, and post-emancipation societies, especially in North America and the Caribbean […]
Egyptian Christians under Sisi: Where Do They Go Now?*
By Hyun Jeong Ha Assistant Professor of Sociology The Lebanese film Where do we go now (2011) begins with a procession of dozens of women to a cemetery in a secluded village. The women in black slowly march as a group, each one beating their chest with their hands out of deep sorrow at losing their loved […]
Humanities Conference Keynote Report: Oron Catts on Neolife and the HumAnimal
By Anisha Joshi Class of 2022 The Covid-19 pandemic upturned many plans, one of them being Duke Kunshan University’s second Humanities Research Conference, initially scheduled for the Spring of 2020. Rescheduled for the fall of 2020, the Hum/Animal themed Humanities Research Conference was finally held over the weekend of September 18th, 2020. Thanks to the […]
Humanities Conference Keynote Report: Gabriel Rosenberg on a More-Than-Human History of Sexuality
By Anisha Joshi, Class of 2022 Why is there an implicit (and unquestioned) assumption that studying animals does not require you to study sexuality? In his keynote lecture chaired by Professor Vivienne Xu, Professor Gabriel Rosenberg unpacked this question by analyzing and adding to William Cronon’s seminal text in environmental history, ‘Nature’s Metropolis’.
Humanities Conference Keynote Report: Mylan Engel on Animal Ethics, Sustainability, and Commonsense
By Sinan Farooqui Class of 2022 The second keynote lecture for the Duke Kunshan Humanities Fall Conference 2020: Hum/Animal, was led by Professor Mylan Engel, who is a Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University, specializing in epistemology and ethics, with an emphasis on animal ethics, environmental ethics, and global justice. Accordingly, he spoke on […]
CAC:// DKU 2020 Research/Creation Fellowship Winner Announcement
Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce that the CAC://DKU 2020 Research / Creation Fellowship (USD$10,000) has been awarded to the artist GUO Cheng for his project proposal Wind Verification. Guo will start the 3-month residency program at Chronus Art Center (CAC) and Duke Kunshan University. Jury Statement The first collaborative initiative between CAC_Lab and […]
