Brown Bag Lunch with Joseph Davies: “Feedbackpacking”: Mapping the journey towards L2 student feedback literacy
You are cordially invited to attend the TSL Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk by Joseph Davies on at 4 pm on ‘Feedbackpacking’: Mapping the journey towards L2 student feedback literacy.
Date/Time: Fri, Oct 28, 4pm China Standard Time
Location: CC 1095. To participate on zoom, please RSVP below.
Snacks and bubble teas provided.
Please RSVP by 5pm Thurs Oct 27:
https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8dY7IyCzxBKNQc6
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Freedom Lab Documentary Screening of “I am Not Your Negro”
Please join the Freedom Lab in a viewing of the Academy Award Winning Documentary I am Not Your Negro, by Haitian director Raoul Peck. Narrated in the words of African American writer James Baldwin (1924-1987), I am Not Your Negro traces Baldwin’s experiences and reactions to the Civil Rights Movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, as well as the deeply entrenched history of racism in the United States.
Discussion will be held afterwards.
Date & Time: Tues, Oct 25, 6-8PM Barcelona Time
Location: Third Floor of IES Building.
HRC Doc Lab Project: One Hundred Crossed-Out Messages of Gender Discrimination: A Crypto-philanthropic exploration of feminist NFT PFPs
One Hundred Crossed-Out Messages of Gender Discrimination: A Crypto-philanthropic exploration of feminist NFT PFPs is funded by HRC’s Doc Lab as part of Doc Lab’s ongoing “Requests for Proposals: Documentary Projects.”
Members
Faculty Advisor: Professor Jung Choi
Undergraduate Researcher: Xinran (Penelope) Lai
Project Summary
Crypto philanthropy, with the word “crypto” referring to “using blockchains and their cousin technologies as tools themselves to achieve impactful outcomes” and the word “philanthropy” concerning “allocating unrestricted capital towards the improvement of society, life, the physical world, and everything in between” (Lehrer 2022), is now gaining increased attention as the concept of cryptocurrency continues to emerge and thrive in many areas. For example, cheecoin (CHEE), Hollywood’s first NFT and game metaverse token, focuses on helping stray animals. (more…)
Student Report on Weakening Strategies: Vattimo and Chinese Thought
Reported by Mateja Bokan, Class of 2026
Organized by the DKU Humanities Research Center in cooperation with the Vattimo Archive and Center at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), the Weakening Strategies: Vattimo and Chinese Thought (September 30, 2022) was a one-day symposium that aimed to advance comparative understanding of the concept of weakness, in conversation with the Vattimo’s philosophy and Chinese thought. Panel two was chaired by DKU Humanities Research Center’s co-director James Miller and featured East China Normal University’s Professor of Philosophy Liangjian Liu, University of Turin’s Research fellow Erica Onnis, and Loyola University Andalusia’s Associate Professor of Philosophy Mario Wenning. Each of the speakers brought their own perspectives and interpretations into how Daoist theories work with Vattimo’s thought and work. (more…)
Student Report: The Analysis of Effective Interaction in the Virtual Classroom – A Research Talk with Layla Shelmerdine
Reported by Vicky Yongkun Wu, Class of 2026
This research talk is part of the Third Space Lab brown bag lunch research talk presented by the Humanities Research Center. The program is broadly associated with research projects related to languages, cultures, and intercultural communication.
Dr. Layla Shelmerdine’s research on effective interaction in the virtual classroom is inspired by the increasingly online learning trend during the pandemic. It is vital to develop better practices to promote learning in virtual spaces. During the research talk, the audience and Dr. Shelmerdine agreed that in addition to the content, online interaction also greatly affects the quality of online classes. (more…)
Video Footage of 2021 Artist in Residence at DKU
Video by Xiaoyi Kuang, Class of 2025.
In case you missed 2021’s Artist in Residence, here’s a short video of the bustling event at DKU.
Learn more about DKU’s first Artist in Residence at DKU.
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.
Duke Scholars Lecture Series | Worldviews and the Planetary Politics: Oceans, Gardens, and Jungles
Duke Scholars Lecture Series | Worldviews and the Planetary Politics: Oceans, Gardens, and Jungles is presented by DKU’s Center for the Studies of Contemporary China.
This event features HRC Advisory Board members: Prof Prasenjit Duara and Prof Selina Lai-Henderson.
Time and Date: Friday October 21, 10:30 AM BJT
Speaker: Prasenjit Duara, Oscar L. Tang Family Distinguished Professor of East Asian Studies, Duke University
Moderator: Selina Lai-Henderson, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Duke Kunshan University
Zoom ID: 942 0378 1977, Passcode: CSCC
Abstract
Contemporary world politics is structured around the world order of nation-states in turn founded largely upon a Newtonian cosmology and an associated worldview. I develop a conceptual framework around the ‘epistemic engine’ which organizes and circulates the cosmological and institutional structures of Enlightenment modernity. Subsequently, I explore how the imperial Chinese world order– functional until at least the late 19th century–reveals a different cosmology shaping a different world order and politics. I also explore the contemporary PRC view of the world order probing the extent to which its historical experiences can be seen to re-shape the hegemonic epistemic engine. In the final section, I draw from a paradigm of ‘oceanic temporality’ to grasp counter-finalities generated by the epistemic engine on the earth and the ocean itself. Can the counter-flows of social movements allow us to imagine a post-Enlightenment, planetary cosmology?
Biography
Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Distinguished Family Chair Professor of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He was born and educated in India and received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was previously Professor and Chair of the Dept of History and Chair of the Committee on Chinese Studies at the University of Chicago (1991-2008). Subsequently, he became Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director, Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore (2008-2015). He was President of the Association for Asian Studies, USA from 2019-2020.
In 1988, he published Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (Stanford Univ Press) which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS, USA. Among his other books are Rescuing History from the Nation (U Chicago 1995), Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (Rowman 2003) and most recently, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge 2014). He has presented over 150 keynote and distinguished lectures globally since 1996 and his work has been widely translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and the European languages. He was awarded the doctor philosophiae honoris causa from the University of Oslo in 2017.
2023 Call 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 Professor James Miller by November 15, 2022.
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Third Space Lab Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk: Layla Shelmerdine on Analysis of Effective Interaction in the Virtual Classroom
You are cordially invited to attend the TSL Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk by Dr. Layla Shelmerdine on Analysis of Effective Interaction in the Virtual Classroom
Date/Time: Fri, Oct 14, 4pm BJT
Location: https://duke.zoom.us/j/95127320264
Please RSVP by Thursday, Oct 13: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b14dUj4AFVhtlYi
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Superdeep #12: “Anscombe on Basic Action: Doubts about Doubts” (Nathan Hauthaler) | Mon, Oct 10, 6:30pm
Mon, Oct 10, 12:30 pm CET / 6:30 pm BST
IB 2026 / IES Rm 2.5 (2nd Fl)
Zoom 69 79 89 79 69
Join us for our next Superdeep meeting, in which Nathan Hauthaler (AH | Philosophy) will cast on “Anscombe on Basic Action: Doubts about Doubts”.
As always, everyone is welcome to join; no prior knowledge of philosophy is required. And, as always, snacks and refreshments will be served at the meeting.
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For more information on DKU’s Superdeep workshop,
see https://sites.duke.edu/dkuhumanities/superdeep/
or contact Nathan Hauthaler.
