Portraits of Third Spaces: Your DKU/Kunshan/Durham Story – Narrative Contest
Your time studying at DKU, returning “home,” or living abroad may have been filled with unique and fascinating experiences; the Third Space Lab invites you to share them with the world! Submit your personal narrative about intercultural or international experiences for a chance to win recognition and prizes. Topics could include such things as culture […]
The Historicity of Crisis: Contingency and Continuity in Twentieth-Century Intellectual Histories
October 30-October 31, 2021 8-11pm CST/8-11am EST/2-5pm (UTC+2) Zoom: 912 3984 7450 In this workshop, we invite scholars from the field of intellectual history to engage a global conversation on how historians in various areas in the world have narrated the crises in the twentieth century through the perspectives of both continuity and contingency. To […]
The Self and the Other: How We Navigate Identity in the 21st Century
Friday, October 29, 2021, 9:00 PM CST Zoom: 336 052 6609 | passcode: aiyo https://duke.zoom.us/j/3360526609?pwd=b0lDUmp2OU5RSEROTWdEUzZLbzVXdz09 Before embarking on complex sociocultural histories of fatness, beauty, disability, neurodivergence, and queer representation, the first seminar in the Body Liberation & Feminism series deals with the notion of the self, and by extension, the other. How does your ethnicity, nationality, […]
The Humanities Research Center Welcomes Senior Program Coordinator Eugenie Chao
The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Eugenie Chao as Senior Program Coordinator. Reporting to co-directors James Miller and Carlos Rojas, Eugenie is responsible for the overall co-ordination and administration of the Center’s programs. Currently working remotely from New York, Eugenie received her Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and her Master’s […]
WGDI Presents “Body Liberation & Feminism: A Series”
The Women’s, Gender, and Diversity Initiative (WGDI), in collaboration with the Humanities Research Center, is proud to present the first seminar in our pilot event series: Body Liberation and Feminism: A Series. The WGDI is an informal collective of DKU students and faculty who are working together to initiate conversations rooted in contemporary questions of […]
TSL Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk | Dr. Harper Staples Oct. 22
You are cordially invited to attend the TSL Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk by Dr. Harper Staples on Mapping and analyzing multilingual student identities in the European context: outcomes and implications for learner engagement and wellbeing at noon on Friday October 22, 2021 (China Standard Time). Location: CC 1095. Zoom link will be sent to remote participants. Bring your own lunch and enjoy […]
Superdeep #1: “Reactive Luck” (Nathan Hauthaler) | Wed, Oct 13, 6:30pm
Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 6:30pm CST IB 2026 | Zoom 6979897969 All DKU students are invited to attend the first meeting of the Superdeep workshop, DKU’s work-in-progress workshop for philosophically-minded or -interested students and student projects. No prior knowledge of philosophy is required; all students, from all divisions and at all stages of their studies, […]
The Future of Work and Labor 劳动的未来 / 未来的劳动
Humanities Fall Conference The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce its fall conference: The Future of Work and Labor 劳动的未来 / 未来的劳动. The conference features three renowned keynote speakers: multimedia artist Cao Fei; science fiction author Chen Qiufan; and professor of philosophy and business, Wang Jianbao. In addition to the keynote speeches, DKU faculty from […]
Aesthetic analysis of therapeutic urban green space in Shanghai
This project examines aesthetic features supporting therapeutic urban green space in Shanghai. Urban green space promotes public health by providing a therapeutic opportunity in nature, and its therapeutic impacts have been identified in many cities. Although aesthetic beauty contributes to therapeutic impacts of green space, however, we still know little about features of aesthetic and […]
Student-lead Public Health Ethics Research Project
This project has two stages, where the philosophical portion of the literature review is done prior to beginning the next stage. Research through literature review, participating in discussions regarding the readings, potential research questions that are applicable to COVID-19 pandemics, and will complete a research paper for publication or presentation. The paper will focus on […]
