Event Report — Reclaiming Creativity: Rodolfo Cossovich on Accessibility 2.0 and Co-Designing with Artists
By Yuran Wang，Class of 2028 On the evening of February 11, 2026, Reclaiming Creativity through Accessibility 2.0 took place at IB 1046, featuring Rodolfo Cossovich, Assistant Arts Professor of Interactive Media Arts (IMA) at NYU Shanghai. In a world often obsessed with normative metrics and idealized bodies, the talk challenged the audience to rethink […]
Celebrating a New Publication: “The Modern Question: China and Beyond”
Warmest congratulations to Qian Zhu, together with DKU AH colleagues Zairong Xiang and Caio Yurgel, on the publication of their co-edited research symposium, “The Modern Question: China and Beyond,” in The Chinese Historical Review.We aim to neither harbor nor to advance a specific definition of modernity—a term that often is read as simply denoting how transformations in technology, administration, and knowledge render […]
DKU Professor Secures Three-Year UNESCO Transnational Heritage Research Grant (2026–2028)
Heartfelt congratulations! The Humanities Research Center at Duke Kunshan University is pleased to announce that Constellations of Memory: Transnational Heritage Networks and the Afterlives of War has been selected to for a three-year research grant from 2026 to 2028 from UNESCO. The three-year grant is part of the Transnational Heritage Joint Research Grant program and […]
Film Society – Nomadland ｜ Feb.26
This week, co-hosted by Prof. Jesse Olsavsky and Prof. Nellie Chu, DKU Film Society will screen Nomadland, directed by Chloé Zhao. Following the 2008 recession, the film follows Fern as she travels across the American West, living and working among a community of modern nomads after the closure of her hometown. Blending scripted scenes with […]
Superdeep Nighthawks: Didi (弟弟;Wang 2024) | Thu Feb 26, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008 Week 7 again…goddammit. But if this feels hard, just remember what middle & high school felt like… Join the Nighthawks for a Superdeep return to days of young, with Sean Wang‘s 2024 Didi (弟弟), a wonderful bittersweet portrait of Asian American adolescence in early ’00s California (…& food & drink). ▷ Feb […]
Superdeep Nighthawks: All is Lost (Chandor 2013) | Thu Feb 19, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008 Chinese New Year Festival, everyone traveling home. With everyone gone, is all lost? Dive Superdeep and find out with the Nighthawks (who won’t leave you!) in J.C. Chandor‘s 2013 All Is Lost. Come watch one of the late Robert Redford’s final performances… ▷ Feb 19, 8:28pm ▷ IB 1008 Lecture Hall *** The Nighthawks offer […]
Happy Chinese New Year from DKU HRC!
DKU Humanities Research Center is thrilled to welcome the 2026 Year of the Horse with you! As we journey into a new year of discovery and collaboration, we look forward to sharing inspiring exhibitions, engaging weekly events, and exciting projects with our vibrant community. Here’s to a year filled with curiosity, meaningful connections, and limitless […]
Guest Lecture by Prof. Rodolfo Cossovich (NYU Shanghai) | Reclaiming Creativity through Accessibility 2.0 | Feb. 11
Guest Lecture by Prof. Rodolfo Cossovich (NYU Shanghai) February 11 (Wednesday), 2026 | 7:00–8:00 PM | IB 1046 Speaker: Prof. Rodolfo Cossovich, Assistant Arts Professor of Interactive Media Arts, NYU Shanghai In a world shaped by standardized technologies and “ideal” bodies, many digital tools unintentionally limit creative expression. This lecture introduces Accessibility 2.0, a new […]
Film Society | Screening of 家乡的消息 News from Home (1976) | Female Directors Series | Feb. 11
“Letters read over drifting cityscapes” Wednesday, 2.11, 6:15pm CCTE Theater This Wednesday, hosted by Professor Erin Wilkerson, the Film Society will present the last movie News from Home (1976) before Chinese new year!!! Directed by Chantal Akerman, it is a poem with quiet, radical meditation on distance, memory, and belonging. Filmed in New York yet […]
Superdeep Nighthawks: The Lives of Others (Henckel von Donnersmarck) | Feb 12, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008 Have you ever wondered what it might be like to live under surveillance? Join the Nighthawks on Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck‘s trip to a different time and place with The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen …& food & drink). Don’t miss this gem, which features one of the last […]
