Remembering “Beauty Salon 2” from Artist in Residence 2022

Over the three days of “Beauty Salon 2,” the artists in residence, who referred to themselves as “老妖精 (_ao_ao_ing)” created a temporary living room on DKU campus where DKU community members could participate in the happenings, in the name of art. Here’s a recap of the event filmed by Zhixian Zhang (Class of 2023) and Junyi Yu (Class of 2025), and filmed and edited by Yuzhe Zhong (Class of 2025).

Artist-in-Residence at DKU is supported by Humanities Research Center, Division of Arts and Humanities, and DKUNST Art on Campus, convened and organized by DKU’s Associate Director of Arts, Professor Zairong Xiang.

 

Student Report: Carles Prado-Fonts Keynote and Student Seminar

Reported by Mateja Bokan, Class of 2026.

This keynote lecture and student seminar were part of 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad.

In this lecture titled Science and Empathy: Looking at China from the West in the early 20th century, Professor Prado-Fonts, an Associate Professor in the department of Arts and Humanities at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, explains the portrayal of China, its people, and its culture in the Western nations around the time of Picasso’s painting (1897) and developed in the first decades of the 20th century and into the interwar period.  Continue reading “Student Report: Carles Prado-Fonts Keynote and Student Seminar”

Student Report: Research Lab Presentations and Guide to Undergraduate Student Research

Reported by Shivam Mani, Class of 2025.

Oct 7, 2022 Research Lab Presentations and Guide to Undergraduate Student Research was presented as part of 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad.

After a series of student research presentations, James Miller, Co-Director of the HRC led us into a presentation of the several research labs within the HRC. Prof. Miller began by praising the students for their research and said that the Humanities labs provide a beginning for undergraduate students interested in conducting research.

The Humanities labs are time limited and receive funding for only 2-3 years, after which they are closed, and new projects are started. Continue reading “Student Report: Research Lab Presentations and Guide to Undergraduate Student Research”

Student Report: Student Presentations of October 8

Reported by Maya Peak, Class of 2026 

During the Ciencia y Caridad, Humanities Fall Conference held in Barcelona by DKU’s Humanities Research Center, multiple student presentations were held. Projects ranged from Art and Humanities to Data and Policy, tying in themes of the intersections of research and charity, stressing the humanity in humanities. Below are the summaries of the presentations that took place on Saturday, the eighth, along with photos from Shuyuan Zhou’s presentation.

My Great Grandmother, My Grand Aunt, My Grandmother, My Mother, and I: A Family Album, presented by Shuyuan Zhou

Shuyuan Zhou presented, My Great Grandmother, My Grand Aunt, My Grandmother, My Mother, and I: A Family Album, a series which collected, questioned, and answered on the intergenerational female experience. Through images of her and her family along with some of the storytelling ability of objects in the collection, Zhou shared to us the beauty and suffering in femininity across time.

The Feminine Fabulation: Chinese Women’s Taking In and Spitting Out Bitterness presented by Meixuan Wang Continue reading “Student Report: Student Presentations of October 8”

Student Report: Student Seminar with Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico

Reported by Soumya Lahoti, Class of 2025

October 7, 2022, 15:00-16:30
This lecture was part of the 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad.

Isabel Duran Gimenez-Rico, professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, welcomed everyone warmly and had an introduction round. She started by explained why we should read sad stories. They are a way of combating sexism and many other societal vices. Humanities have grown as a way of making people aware of how others suffer; literature opens our eyes to women’s, homosexuals, and old-age people’s struggles. They work as they are all intensely sad narratives. They make us, the reader feel a sense of discomfort. Continue reading “Student Report: Student Seminar with Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico”

Student Report: Keynote Lecture of Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico

Reported by Soumya Lahoti, Class of 2025

October 7, 2022, 12:30-14:00
This lecture was part of the 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad.

Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico is a Professor of English Philology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She based her keynote lecture on revisiting medical conditions through a gendered lens. She focused on an intriguing gender swap in translating literature to visual or medical media. She spoke about the male gaze and the female gaze in medical media and the subtle differences in which they’re dealt with in a way that speaks to both genders. She spoke at length about Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (1993), which was adapted into the 1999 film of the same name by James Mangold, and The Dying Animal by Philip Roth (2001) was adopted by Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet into Elegy (2008). Continue reading “Student Report: Keynote Lecture of Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico”

Student Report: Picasso and His Times

Reported by Soumya Lahoti, Class of 2025

October 7, 2022, 18:00 – 18:30
This lecture was part of the 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad.

Patricia Leighten presented an excellent commentary on the depths of Picasso’s psyche, live from Canada. Picasso has been called the most important artist of the last century. He was particularly influential on subsequent and contemporary art practices.

Leighten walks us through the stages of Picasso’s life, from his early works, to where he practiced art in Barcelona and Paris, his Blue and Rose periods, Cubism, and Surrealism. We also learn about how Picasso’s art responded in radical ways to the social and political forces of his times, as well as to the philosophical and aesthetic issues of the rapidly changing period that were spanned by his life and his work. Continue reading “Student Report: Picasso and His Times”

Citizenship Lab Welcomes Elena Lopez

Citizenship Lab is proud to welcome their first post-graduate affiliate, Elena Lopez. Read Lopez’s biography below.

Elena Lopez

Elena Lopez is a PhD candidate in anthropology at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. Her research interests include political philosophy, social- environmental and multispecies justice, conflict, nationhood, and understandings of citizenship. In her doctoral thesis, Elena disturbs current understandings of political community, aiming to learn something new about the conditions that can make living together possible and for decolonial ecologies to flourish. Launching an ethnographic investigation into the White settler and her understandings of shared responsibility, Elena explores the creative processes of political struggle to examine decolonial thought in relation to temporality, citizenship, and notions of white Australian identity.

helena.lopezandersson@my.jcu.edu.au

Made in China: Cities and the People that Make Your Shoes 

“Made in China: Cities and the People that Make Your Shoes” is funded by HRC’s Doc Lab as part of  Doc Lab’s ongoing “Requests for Proposals: Documentary Projects.”

Project members: Cici Cheng (Media and Arts) and UG student (TBD)

Project summary: China continues to have the world’s largest footwear industry. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the country faced quarantines and closed factories, including most of the shoe manufacturing facilities. The pandemic had an impact on both domestic and global manufacturing and distribution operations within these businesses, disrupting an already fragile supply chain. Continue reading “Made in China: Cities and the People that Make Your Shoes “

Professor Xiang Biao shares his book “Self as Method: Thinking through China and the World”

Humanities Fall Conference 2022 keynote speaker, and one of China’s foremost social anthropologists, Professor Xiang Biao, shares the English translation of Self as Method: Thinking through China and the World (Self as Method | SpringerLink).

This recently released book is Open Access, free to read and download. Continue reading “Professor Xiang Biao shares his book “Self as Method: Thinking through China and the World””