October 14 | Exhibition | Fans of Good Women: Lady Windermere and Its Cultural Translation
Join us on Wednesday, October 14 at 6pm in the HUM Space for the launch of the Fans of Good Women: Lady Windermere and Its Cultural Translation exhibit, followed by a short performance at 6:30 pm. Presented by Prof. Hui Yao and a group of students from DKU Curtain Call Drama Club, the event explores how […]
Student Report | Game and Interactive Narrative Lab | Opening & Mixer
Reported by Ankh-Od Otgonbat (Class of 2029) Bottles of tonic water were waiting for event participants at the Performance Cafe. Why? Because it’s the opening mixer of GIN Lab — Game and Interactive Narrative Lab! The evening opened with remarks from Prof. Selina Lai Henderson, who spoke about how the humanities are becoming more and […]
September 30th | Film Society | Arrival
What if time isn’t something we move through, but something we can see? ⏳ This Wednesday, DKU Film Society presents to you the movie Arrival (2016), directed by Denis Villeneuve. The film follows Louise Banks, a linguist the military recruits when twelve alien spacecraft appear around the world. Her job is to talk to them. […]
September 23rd | Film Society | Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049
What does it mean to be human? This week, DKU Film Society invites you to a special screening of Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Directed by Ridley Scott, Blade Runner takes us to a dark, futuristic Los Angeles where artificial humans known as replicants live alongside people. Rick Deckard, a former blade […]
Prof. Erin Wilkerson’s Film heads to Chicago Underground Film Festival!
On the southern border of Europe, where the Silk Road once met the Adriatic, a woman struggles to protect what remains of a dying world. Blending history, memory, and speculative fiction, this richly layered meditation traces the intertwined legacies of ecology, anti-fascist resistance, and post-Yugoslav transformation, revealing the land itself as an enduring archive of […]
Student Report | Concert & Roundtable Discussion: To the Fleeting Water Say｜告潺潺流水
Reported by Alexandra Aliu (Class of 2029) “To the Fleeting Water Say” serves as both the world premiere of Professor Maximiliano Amici’s new chamber music composition and the closing event for the Humanities Research Center (HRC) exhibition Feeling into Form: Art, Movement and the Making of Empathy. The performance draws inspiration from the Yijing (I […]
Stitching Lives: Embroiderers and the Making of Contemporary Suzhou Embroidery: People
Team Members Prof. Keping Wu is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University. Prof. Wu has conducted over two decades of ethnographic fieldwork in Suzhou and her recent interest lies in the entanglement of places, material culture, and bodies of ordinary people, especially women, in the making of art, cultural heritage, and the social […]
Stitching Lives: Embroiderers and the Making of Contemporary Suzhou Embroidery: About
Suzhou embroidery (Su Xiu) is one of China’s most celebrated forms of intangible cultural heritage. Often presented through its exceptional techniques, aesthetics, and finished works, it is also a living practice continually shaped by the people who make it. Stitching Lives shifts attention from embroidery as a fixed cultural artifact to the practitioners whose skills, […]
September 16th | Film Society | Coherence
What if the only way to survive tonight was to become someone else? This Wednesday, DKU Film Society presents Coherence (2013), James Ward Byrkit’s directorial debut. Eight friends sit down to dinner as a comet crosses overhead. Then the lights fail, and down the street, in a house that shouldn’t exist, they see themselves. As photographs, […]
Celebrating a New Publication by Prof. Caio Yurgel!
We’re pleased to share a recent article by Prof. Caio Yurgel, just published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, a leading international journal in psychoanalytic and cultural studies. The article, “The name of Haizi: the symbolic fiction of being alive,” looks at the relationship between the Chinese poet Haizi’s poetry and his suicide. Rather than reading […]
