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Religion+Science, with Yitzhak Lewis and Marcus Werner
The Religion+ research group of the Humanities Research Center at Duke Kunshan University is pleased to announce its Tuesday Night Conversation Series, Religion+X. Join the first conversation on January 10, 2022.Religion+Science, with Yitzhak Lewis and Marcus Werner Date/Time: January 10, 6:30-8pm Location: DKU Water Pavilion*Snacks and drinks provided! Join us!
Student Article: People and virtual cities
This report was written in response to Anthropocene XR Lab’s Talk Series with Professor Victoria Szabo, Director of Graduate Studies of the PhD Program in Computational Media, Arts and Culture at Duke University. Chloe Alimurong, Class of 2025
HRC Care Lab Presents: “Compassionate Matters” with Peter Li
Compassion Matters Humans and Nonhuman Individuals in Today’s World (动物处境与人类的偏见：年轻人能做什么？) The recording of the talk is now available: Date/Time: Dec 15, 2022, 9am China time Location: Zoom ID 975 3620 3156 Speaker: Peter Li, Associate Professor of E. Asian Politics, Animal Law and Policy at the University of Houston-Downtown Abstract This presentation is about the need […]
Congratulations, Gürol Baba and Jay Winter on their recent publication!
Gürol Baba, Jay Winter, “The Wilsonian Moment at Lausanne, 1922–1923”, Journal of Modern European History, 2022, Vol. 20(4) 536–553 Using Turkish, British, French, and Australian archival records, this article examined the background and diplomatic strategies of the Turkish delegation at the Treaty of Lausanne and its selective understanding of self-determination, excluding non-Turkic and non-Muslim people […]
Religion+ Group Announces Tuesday Night Conversation Series
The Religion+ research group at Duke Kunshan University is pleased to announce its Tuesday Night Conversation Series, Religion+X The series will take place every Tuesday from 6:30pm-8pm and feature DKU religious studies professors James Miller, Tommaso Tesei and Ben Van Overmeire in informal conversation with other DKU professors on a wide range of topics. Snacks […]
Congratulations to Selina Lai-Henderson on her new publication!
Congratulations to Selina Lai-Henderson’s new publication! “Langston Hughes and the Shanghai Jazz Scene.” Langston Hughes in Context, ed. Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Here’s the link to the book. Biography Selina Lai-Henderson is an Assistant Professor of American Literature and History at Duke Kunshan University. Her research and teaching are at the heart of transnational American […]
Student Report on ‘Reinterpreting China’s Second World War’ by Professor Rana Mitter
Reported by Mateja Bokan, Class of 2025. This lecture was part of Statelessness Conference that tells the story of statelessness in Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War. ‘Reinterpreting China’s Second World War’ by Professor Rana Mitter of Oxford University focused on the question of the refugee and how they fit into the […]
Student Report: Statelessness Conference Overview
Reported by Mateja Bokan, Class of 2025 Co-sponsored by the Humanities Research Center and the Arts and Humanities Division at Duke Kunshan University, the Statelessness Conference took place on December 1st and 2nd in person and online in Barcelona. This project aims to tell the story of statelessness in Asia and the Pacific during the […]
Student Report on Meredith Oyen’s “The international politics of refugee settlement in Shanghai”
Reported by Chloe Alimurong, Class of 2025 The international politics of refugee settlement in Shanghai by Meredith Oyen: Associate professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) This lecture is part of Statelessness Conference that tells the story of statelessness in Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War. In her paper (currently […]
Student Report on Juvenile Abolitionism
Reported by Cody Schmidt, Class of 2025 This talk is part of HRC’s Freedom Lab with Professor Jesse Olsavsky, a series of events and lectures exploring the relationship between freedom and un-freedom in the modern world. Freedom Lab focuses on topics such as abolitionism, feminism, colonialism, and more. Michaël Roy, professor of American Studies at […]
