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 […]
Game and Interactive Narrative Lab Opening & Mixer
Event Information Time: September 22 | 7 PM – 8:30 PM Location: Performance cafe Come hang out with the Game & Interactive Narrative Lab and see what we’re about in this opening and mixer. We’ll have No, I’m Not a Human running casually throughout the event; you can take control, backseat, or discuss it with […]
AI for Human-Centered Healthy Aging Lab (AIHCHA): People
Faculty Lijing Yan — Co-Director Professor of Global Health, Duke Kunshan University Chronic disease prevention and control, healthy aging, and innovation in translational health systems and implementation science. Read more ▸
AI for Human-Centered Healthy Aging Lab (AIHCHA): About
Our Mission AIHCHA develops and studies human-centered AI that supports older adults’ physical, mental, and social well-being while respecting dignity, autonomy, culture, relationships, and lived experience. Grounded in humanistic inquiry and community partnership, we build and evaluate technology that strengthens human care rather than standing in for it. About Us By 2035, China is projected […]
September 9th | Film Society | Solaris
What if the universe could bring your memories to life? This Wednesday, hosted by Professor Erin Wilkerson, DKU Film Society is excited to invite you to a screening of Solaris (1972). Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, the film follows psychologist Kris Kelvin, who travels to a space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris to investigate the […]
Surfing Nazaré with Pasolini Maria José de Abreu
Event Information: September 7｜6:30 PM WDR 1111 Speaker: Columbia University Professor Maria José de Abreu Mark you calendar and come curious! Embrace the journey of surfing!
FEELING INTO FORM: Art, Movement, and the Making of Empathy
Event Information September 15 | 6:00 PM Community Center Theater Organized by Heritage Lab, with Prof. Jung Choi and Prof. Kolleen Guy What can happen when music and visual art respond to similar ideas? Join us on Tuesday, September 15 at 6:00 pm in the CCTE Theater for the closing concert of the exhibition Feeling […]
