The Archives of the Royal Asiatic Society, China
In September 2024 the Humanities Research Center launched its pilot partnership program with the Royal Asiatic Society, China (RAS). Under the supervision of DKU Associate Dean James Miller and DKU Archivist Ryder Kouba, students William Tran (DKU’28) and Elliot Aung (DKU’28) undertook the work of digitizing the library’s archives and catalog respectively. Background The RAS […]
Event Report on Female + Film: Women: Their voices, and the stories we shared
Reported by Yuqing Wang (Class of 2025) On the evening of May 7th, we gathered at the second-floor screening room of the DKU Library to watch the documentary Woman. Directed by Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand, this film doesn’t follow a traditional narrative—it offers no commentary or storyline. Instead, it invites 2,000 women from over 50 […]
Eco-Emancipation Conference
Date: April 10 -12 Location: Lib1115 As climate change accelerates and ecosystems face unprecedented threats, rethinking humanity’s relationship with nature has never been more urgent. Eco-emancipation brings together leading scholars from around the world to explore new frameworks for environmental justice, biocultural rights, and the political and legal recognition of non-human life. This conference will […]
Harmony Lab Conference – “Confucianism, Family, and Women”
May 9 (Friday) 9:00-12:00 AB (Academic Building) 1087 Harmony Lab is holding its first conference on Friday, May 9, 2025, sharing a year-long project. The Harmony Lab is a nexus of philosophical research undertaken by Duke University, Duke Kunshan University, and Wuhan University. It builds on and extends the Harmony Lab at Duke University’s […]
Event Report: Unnatural Rain: Legitimizing Weather Modification in the Cold War U.S.
Archives and History Initiative, by Disty Mahmud ‘26 and Yuruo Zhang ‘27 On April 30th, the Archives and History Initiative hosted Professor Joseph Giacomelli, who presented on his research paper, Unnatural Rain: Legitimizing Weather Modification in the Cold War U.S. The talk explored how weather modification, especially cloud seeding, was framed and justified during the […]
Superdeep #33: “Ti (體 essence) and yong (用 function) in Korean Buddhism and Confucianism” (Halla Kim, Sogang) | May 8, 5:28pm
5:28pm | IB 2026 Concluding another Superdeep academic year, get your essence and function into shape once more with Prof. Halla Kim (Sogang University) sharing eponymous work on “Ti (體 essence) and yong (用 function) in Korean Buddhism and Confucianism”. Thu May 8 | 5:28pm | IB 2026. Snacks & drinks will be served at […]
