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Superdeep Nighthawks: The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto; Mendonça Filho 2025) | Apr 23, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008 Week 27 of 28 long short fast weeks of teaching… What could be more fitting now than a 158min long & Superdeep movie that for the first half doesn’t even reveal its genre?! Join the Nighthawks for Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s 2025 masterpiece The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto), which is worth […]
Early Buddhist Sculpture in Riverine South India | May 7th
May 7, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ｜ LIB 1117｜ Speaker: Kalyani Madhura Ramachandran When we think of ancient Indian Buddhist art, do we often focus on northern sites like Gandhara or Mathura? Hidden along the rivers of South India lies the site of Phanigiri, home to early Buddhist sculptures from the 1st–4th centuries CE. […]
Talk about Noguchi’s India ｜ May 6th
May 6, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |LIB 1117 | Speaker: Kalyani Madhura Ramachandran Did you know that the career of Isamu Noguchi, the master of modernist sculpture, was profoundly shaped by his encounters with India’s ancient stone art? His journey began in 1949 at Mahabalipuram, and over the years, the forms and textures of […]
Art History, Visual Studies, and the Archive: Thinking through Postcards of the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923
Calling any students interested in art history! Duke Professor and former Dean of the Humanities Gennifer Weisenfeld will host a workshop on art historical methods with a special media focus on postcards, using historical images of the Great Kanto Earthquake for hands-on active learning exercises. This workshop also illuminates the question of “the archive.” This […]
Transwar Design: Kamekura Yūsaku from Nippon Kōbō to the Tokyo Olympics
Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University Renowned designer and art director, Kamekura Yūsaku is widely heralded as a pillar of the postwar Japanese design field. As a founding member of the influential Japan Advertising Artists Club in 1951, and key designer for both the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, Kamekura’s enormous contribution […]
Report on Reading Group for “Embracing Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence for Inclusive Education”
On April 17, 2026, faculty, staff, and students at Duke Kunshan University convened for the session of the “Embracing Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence for Inclusive Education” reading group series, which also marked the conclusion of this three-year event initiative. The discussion centered on Wei and Liu’s 2019 article “Coming out in Mainland China: A National […]
Report on “On the Ethics of Economic Theorizing:Perspectives from Psychoanalytica. Theory”
By Mohan Li（Class of 2028） The lecture began with a reflection on the speaker’s long-standing engagement with the methodology of economics, with particular emphasis on the choices and trade-offs involved in theory construction. He observed that any economic model necessarily selects certain elements of reality while abstracting from others, yet there is no universally accepted […]
Report on Lecture Series Event: Ordinary Frontier at the Desert’s Edge
By Yuejia Liu（Class of 2028） On April 16, 2026, Duke Kunshan University (DKU) hosted a session of the “Cultures and Societies” lecture series, featuring “Ordinary Frontier at the Desert’s Edge: Aspirational Ecology and Sedimented Infrastructures in Northwestern China”. Co-organized by the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Humanities Research Center, the event […]
Thematic Short Film Screening about Memory, Identity & Resistance
Tue, April 21 | 7 PM | CCTE Performance Cafe Join us for an evening of six short films from four countries, circling with one persistent question: whose story gets to be told, and what does it cost to tell your own? From queer homecoming in China to political uprising in Myanmar, from a Moroccan […]
Film Society: Linda Linda Linda (2005) | April 15
Wednesday, April 15th, 6pm | IB Lecture Hall “Four girls, one song, and a day that changes everything.” This Wednesday, DKU Film Society will present to you the movie Linda Linda Linda (2005). Four high school girls scrambling to prepare for a cultural festival after everything falls apart at the last minute. What follows is […]
