Urban Religion Reading Group Second Discussion | Consuming Religion by Kathryn Lofton
Time and Date: Tuesday 2 March 8:00AM China Time (7:00PM EST) Zoom ID : 451 154 2347 About the speaker: Kathryn Lofton is the Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, Professor of History and Divinity, and Dean of the Humanities at Yale University. She is the author of Oprah: The Goaspel of […]
The Thursday Night Tea Research Group | INTIMACY with Camila Gonzatto
February 25, 7-8:15pm CST IB 1010 / Zoom 298 656 1787 In the spirit of intimacy, the award-winning filmmaker and writer will share with us the first short film (12min) she ever made and then talk about the experience and what she has learned since. She will then give the audience a task which will […]
Whose Karate? Language and Cultural Learning in a Multilingual Karate Club in London
Date: Feb.26, 2021 Time: 8 pm (China time)/7 am (EST)/12pm (UK time) Zoom Meeting ID: 988 6817 2079 This talk aims to explore language learning as a process of cultural translation and translanguaging. The empirical base of the argument draws upon a sociolinguistic ethnography of translanguaging practices in a karate club in east London, UK. Through examining […]
Finding Midori: Being, Becoming and Belonging
By Hajra Farooqui Class of 2022 The literature faculty of the Arts and Humanities division at Duke Kunshan University have organized a Literature Reading Series sponsored by the Humanities Research Center. Throughout this semester, the center will host an array of guest speakers from around the world as they present and discuss their work with […]
Media and Arts Speaker Series | Curating the Curatorial: A Lab for “Applied Curating”
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 fourth miniseries of talks looks at the concept of the lab, both as a philosophy and a methodology to […]
Urban Religion Reading Group First Discussion | The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao by Ian Johnson
Thursday 11 February 09:00 China Time (20:00 EST February 10) Zoom ID : 975 8445 4966 Passcode: 170411 About the speaker: Ian Johnson has been engaged with China for the past thirty-five years, writing on long-term social issues such as the country’s search for faith and values, as well as political challenges including efforts to […]
Interdisciplinary Knowledge Network Lab
The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce the establishment of an Interdisciplinary Knowledge Network Lab, to be co-sponsored by the Humanities Research Center and the Data Science Research Center. All faculty, staff and students are invited to an information session on Wednesday February 24 from 3-4pm in IB2025 (the recording is now available to […]
