XR Workshop #2 Intro to Augmented Reality (AR) Design
The Anthropocene XR Lab presents its second XR Workshop on Augmented Reality (AR) Design. All is welcome! Date: June 23, 2022, 8-9pm Location: Zoom ID 936 9996 2557, Passcode: 849092
The Humanities Research Center Calls for Proposals
The DKU Humanities Research Center (HRC) invites proposals from all DKU/Duke faculty and affiliates working on humanities-related projects. Projects should be based at DKU and/or connect Duke and DKU faculty. Proposals should be sent to Eugenie Chao (eugenie.chao@dukekunshan.edu.cn), Senior Program Coordinator for the Humanities Research Center, by July 15, 2022. Research Labs Small Events Large […]
Student Report: Anthropocene XR Lab: A Beginner’s Guide to Unity Game Engine
Reported by Josh Manto, DKU Undergraduate Class of 2024 On the second of June 2022, the HRC Anthropocene Lab hosted a workshop on Unity Game Engine, a development platform often used for application, website, and game development. The workshop was facilitated by Leiyuan Tian and was taught by Tony Ren, both of whom are from […]
Congratulations to Prof Tyler Carter’s New Book Launch: “No Blame” – An Amorphous Digital Book of Poetry and Art
Congratulations to Professor Tyler Carter, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the Language and Culture Center at Duke Kunshan University! No Blame, as Dr. Carter describes, is “an amorphous digital book of poetry and art, with text by [himself] and coding/artwork by Eric Goddard-Scovel. It consists of 64 pages, with 48 poems (i.e., 16 […]
Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad 科学与慈善
The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce its fall conference, Ciencia y Caridad 科学与慈善, (“Science and Charity”), based on Picasso’s painting of the same name, exhibited in the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. The conference will be held in person in Barcelona on October 7-8, 2022 and will be accessible to the global DKU community via […]
Student Report: The Bird Collision Prevention Project
Reported by Shuyuan Zhou Studies have shown that bird strikes on buildings are considered to be the second leading cause of bird deaths caused by humans. Birds may perish during the day without realizing the glass is there due to its reflectivity and permeability; at night, they may be attracted to the light and thus […]
Congratulations to Professor Zach Fredman on his first book “The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941-1949”
Congratulations to Professor Zach Fredman on his first book, The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949 (UNC Press, 2022). This book examines the U.S. military presence in China during World War II and the Chinese Civil War. Read more about his book below: Could you tell us about your new book and […]
Call for Early Career Participants for CHCI/Mellon Global Humanities Institute on Climate Justice and Problems of Scale
The Global Humanities Institute on Climate Justice and Problems of Scale will occur at the University of Pretoria between July 29 and August 7, 2022. Virtual sessions will be held on July 30-31, August 1-2, and August 4-6. The Institute is sponsored by the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and funded by the Andrew […]
Weakening Strategies: Vattimo and Chinese Thought
Gianni Vattimo (1936–) is one of Europe’s foremost contemporary philosophers, whose work has had a lasting influence on a broad range of fields including sexuality, theology, art and politics. He is known chiefly for the idea of “weak thought” (pensiero debole), which aims to weaken the strong narration of Western metaphysics and the violence of […]
