Spring into Literature Reading Series Present BRANDON SHIMODA
12PM Thursday 4 February IB 2025 / Zoom: 614 954 2152 Brandon Shimoda is an award-winning poet and non-fiction writer. His most recent books are The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), a lyric portrait of his grandfather which received the PEN Open Book Award, and The Desert (The Song Cave, 2018). His next […]
Media and Arts Speaker Series | Unfamiliar Convenience: Dissecting Haunted Everyday Technologies as Attitude
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 third miniseries of talks looks at the concept of the lab, both as a philosophy and a methodology to […]
The Thursday Night Tea Research Group Event Report | Dating Apps and Intimacy with Dalia Othman
By Anisha Joshi Class of 2022 What does intimacy look like in a society where romantic interactions are so mediated by AI and dating apps? For the first workshop on intimacy, in a four-part series organized by the Thursday Night Tea Research Group, Dalia Othman discussed how some of these dating apps work, and what […]
Film Screening with Filmmaker | NOWHERE TO CALL HOME
Time and Date: 7:00pm, Wednesday January 20 (6:00am EST) Venue: IB-1008 (IB-Auditorium) Zoom ID: 530.394.0458 NOWHERE TO CALL HOME provides a rare glimpse into the world of a Tibetan woman without her hukou, torn between her traditional way of life and her desire for her son to have a better future in the city. Shot […]
The Thursday Night Tea Research Group | DATING APPS with Dalia Othman
Thursday January 21, 7-8:30pm CST / 6-7:30am EST On Campus: IB 1010 Zoom: 298 656 1787 In this workshop—the first of a four-part series organized by the Thursday Night Tea Research Group on the topic of intimacy—we will be talking about what hides behind the dating apps: how do they determine who we date? Is […]
Spring Writing Retreat
During the break between the two Spring sessions, the Humanities Research Center and the Center for the Study of Contemporary China will collaborate to offer an intensive writing retreat from Monday 15 to Friday 19 March. The aim is to offer time and space for DKU faculty to make serious progress on an important project […]
