Visitor Registration Open for the Spirit of Space Exploration Conference
The Humanities Research Center at Duke Kunshan University is pleased to announce that visitor registration is now open for its conference on The Spirit of Space Exploration in China and the West, which runs from June 6-8, 2024. A full conference program may be viewed online here. The conference features four keynote speakers and some […]
Event Report on “Who travels thousands of miles? Gender Dimensions of War Dead Accounting and Memory Making in Post-war Vietnam”
On May 2, 2024, the Humanities Research Center hosted Dr. Tâm T. T. Ngô, a senior researcher and associate professor at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Tâm first had an informal discussion with students and later proceeded to give a talk […]
The Spirit of Space Exploration in China and the West: Conference Program
Visitors who wish to attend the conference should register by June 4, 2024. Download a copy of the program book here. Thursday, June 6, 2024 0900 Welcome and Introduction from the Organizers (James Miller and Ben Van Overmeire) 0910 Welcome and Introduction from the ASU Space Intersections Conference (Jack Traphagan) 0930-1030 “Shooting Down Souls… Good […]
A Visit to Wudangshan
From March 21 to March 24, 2024, DKU Professors Hwa Yeong Wang and James Miller, along with two Religious Studies students, Caroline Moon and Mateja Bokan, traveled for an enriching educational journey to Wuhan University, followed by a visit to the sacred Daoist Wudang Mountain. This trip, organized by the Humanities Research Center, was aimed […]
Superdeep Nighthawks: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford & Mercado 2022) | May 9, 8:08pm
8:08pm | IB 1008 The last week of the last session of the last semester of the academic year… high time for a last wish! So join the Nighthawks for Joel Crawford & Januel Mercado‘s 2022 Puss in Boots: the Last Wish (…& food & drink). Thu May 9, 8:08pm IB 1008. *** Superdeep Nighthawks […]
Student Report on “Ritual, Anti-Ritual, and the Efficacy of Reform” Lecture by Dr Peter van der Veer.
On April 22, 2024, the Humanities Research Center hosted Dr. Peter van der Veer, a distinguished scholar in the field of anthropology and religion. Dr. van der Veer is Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Society in Germany, and Professor Emeritus at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has taught at the Free University […]
Exploring the “Superdeep”: The third DKU Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference
By Junyan Li, class of 2026 The Humanities community at Duke Kunshan University recently hosted its third annual Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference on April 26th and 27th at the Academic Building. Co-hosted by Professor James Miller from DKU, and Professor Carlos Rojas from Duke, the event served as a platform for researchers and students from […]
