Ascension 登楼叹: Documentary Screening with Filmmaker
Humanities Research Center’s Doc Lab and Center for the Study of Contemporary China Present: Documentary Screening with Filmmaker Q&A Session with co-producer, Maggie Li, will follow film screening Date: Wed, Sept 28, 6:00pm BJT Location: IB-1008 (IB-Auditorium) Zoom ID: 530.394.0458 Screen the film up to 48 hours in advance at the following link: https://projectr.tv/films/duke-kunshan-screening/631a127dd82b310001b55c72 Ascension, […]
Student Report on Professor Hyun Jeong Ha’s Manuscript Workshop: Social Mechanisms of Sectarian Violence in Egypt, 1970-2020: Types and Patterns of Armed Aggression and Communal Clash
Reported by Waner Shao, Class of 2024. The HRC Citizenship Lab hosted a Manuscript Workshop: Social Mechanisms of Sectarian Violence in Egypt, 1970-2020: Types and Patterns of Armed Aggression and Communal Clash with Professor Hyun Jeong Ha on August 1, 2022. The paper examined how political events, such as the Arab Spring, have affected sectarian relations, especially between […]
Games and Culture | Reading Games as Cultural Texts
Games and Culture | Reading Games as Cultural Texts Presented by DKU’s Arts & Humanities Division Date: Sep 29, 8-9:30pm BJT Zoom Meeting ID: 982 3938 0827 Passcode: 528585 We all play games. All the time. But how well do you “read” the games you play? What roles do culture, race, gender, class or ideology […]
HRC Announces “Computational Humanities and Social Science: A Seminar and Workshop Series”
Computational Humanities and Social Science: A Seminar and Workshop Series” features lectures, workshops, and roundtable discussions with leading experts and practitioners in computational humanities and social sciences from all over the world. Sponsored by the Humanities Research Center at Duke Kunshan, this series covers various aspects of computational analysis, humanistic interpretation, data visualization, as well […]
Call for Proposals for HRC’s Mysticism Colloquium
Humanities Research Center’s Mysticism Colloquium led by Professors Ben Van Overmeire, Bryce Beemer, and Yitzhak Lewis. “We are organizing an HRC-funded colloquium around the theme “mysticism,” defined broadly. We invite papers that discuss both the general usage of the term mysticism (“what does it mean?”) and specific case studies of mysticism as it manifests in […]
HRC Announces: “Destiny of Rebirth and Late Imperial Chinese Culture”
The Humanities Research Center is proud to sponsor Assistant Professor of Chinese Language at Duke Kunshan University, Wenting Ji’s “Destiny of Rebirth and Late Imperial Chinese Culture.” This academic event introduces an 18th century Chinese tanci 彈詞 fiction Zaishengyuan 再生緣 (Destiny of Rebirth) written by Chen Duansheng 陳端生 (1751–1796). Set in the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) […]
HRC’s CARE Lab is seeking Research Assistants
HRC’s CARE Lab (Caring for Animals REsearch Lab) is seeking Research Assistants! Please submit CV and cover letter to eugenie.chao@dukekunshan.edu.cn by Sept 16, 2022. Please see below for job description:
