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 […]
Film Society | When Youth Ends (And Nothing Begins) | Mini-term Special Screening Series | Mar. 9-14
“When Youth Ends (And Nothing Begins)” At 22, the world is supposed to make sense at last: diploma in hand, résumé in order, possibilities abound. The films in this series suggest the opposite. Moving between university dormitories, cramped apartments, and decadent dance floors, they follow young people who did everything “right” and still fail to […]
Report on Exhibition: Thresholds and Threads: Disability and DKU Voices
By Zhuo’er Chen On February 2, 2026, Duke Kunshan University (DKU) opened Thresholds and Threads: Disability and DKU Voices, an exhibition that encouraged reflection on the diverse experiences of disability within the DKU community and beyond. The event began with a welcome address from Professor Selina Lai-Henderson, followed by Professor Keping Wu’s brief introduction on […]
Event Report — Embodied Wisdom Through Tea: Tea, Stillness, and the Senses
By Lianyun (Peggy) Pang and Byerikbol Yerbol On the evening of February 2, Embodied Wisdom: Tea, Stillness, and the Senses took place at Performance Café, offering students a quiet and immersive tea experience. Designed and facilitated by Prof. Lianyun Pang of the Language and Culture Center,the session formed part of her Infusions of Thought experiential learning series. Through embodied […]
Congratulations to Prof. Qian Zhu on Her New Publication!
We’re excited to spotlight a profound new work! Prof. Qian Zhu has published “Bringing the Global to China: Anti-Eurocentrism, Rooted Globalism, and Chinese in Global Intellectual History”, in Special Forum: Global History in China, Global Intellectual History, Dec., 2025,https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2025.2591936 In her study of Chinese global historiography since the 1980s, Zhu proposes “rooted globalism” as an […]
HRC Annual Undergraduate Spring Conference 2026 | Info Session
Interested in presenting your research at the HRC Annual Undergraduate Spring Conference 2026? Join our info session to learn more about the conference theme “Nature and Society,” the submission process, and how to prepare a strong abstract. February 9, 2026 | 8:00–8:30 PM Zoom Link: https://duke.zoom.us/j/6476020030 Meeting ID: 647 602 0030 | Passcode: HRC All DKU […]
How to Do Historical Research with DKU Professors｜Research Sharing Workshop
We are excited to invite you to an upcoming event hosted by DKU Humanities Research Center and the Archives and History Initiative, “How to Do Historical Research with DKU Professors”. This research sharing session will let you learn from DKU students about their experiences researching primary sources alongside faculty. It’s a great chance to gain insights […]
Film Society | Screening of 沼泽 La Ciénaga (2001) | Female Directors Series | Feb. 5
“A house suffocating in heat, noise, and decay” Thursday, 2.05, 7:15pm Library 2101B -> (film appreciation room) Presented by DKU film society this week, La Ciénaga (2001) announces Lucrecia Martel as one of cinema’s most radical new voices. Set in the stagnant summer of an Argentine bourgeois family, the film replaces plot with atmosphere, letting […]
