Learn How to Discover the Past
Archives and History Initiative by Carl Zhang and Disty Mahmud In this talk, DKU archival specialist Ryder Kouba presented his insights and expertise as the university’s archivist and special collections librarian, discussing the types of archives he is building, the importance of preserving materials, and online resources available beyond DKU. He also shared thoughts on […]
Report on Entangled Cartographies: Mapping the Unmappable in a Digital Age
Report on Entangled Cartographies: Mapping the Unmappable in a Digital Age Reported by Kymbat Altybay, class of 2028 On November 6-7, 2025, the IB Lecture Hall at Duke Kunshan hosted the international conference “Entangled Cartographies.” For two days, a unique group of thinkers gathered to solve an urgent question: how do we chart digital, ecological, […]
Report on “Gathering the Cracks: Poetic Counter-Mapping of Informal Networks in Bacheng”
English and Chinese reported by Zhiyuan Mark Ma, Junyi Yu, Jiaxin Wang On November 6, 2025, the Entangled Cartographies Conference (Track II: Networked Societies), hosted by Prof. Benjamin Bacon, gathered scholars and students to explore the changing landscapes of mapping, networks, and spatial imagination in the digital age. During this panel, DKU students Zhiyuan Mark […]
Activity Recap: Japanese Tea Ceremony Etiquette and Appreciation
On Friday, November 21, 2025, at 1:00 PM, about twenty students and faculty members gathered for a special Japanese Tea Ceremony workshop. This event is part of China-Japan Post-1945 event series. Prof. Cong Li from the Language and Culture Center invited a specialist of the Japanese tea ceremony from Shanghai, who held the workshop at […]
Provincializing Earth: The Making of a Planet since 1946
Thursday December 4, 5-6:15 PM, AB1079 Speaker: Alexander C.T. Geppert, New York University and NYU Shanghai Global history is currently attempting to reinvent itself under the supposedly new label ‘planetary history’ yet without paying much attention to the planet’s outerspatial environment. Divided into four segments – planetization, picturization, satellization, extraterrestrialization – this talk argues that […]
The Sublime Body in Pain: Ballet, the Nation and the Female Ideal in Contemporary China
Thursday November 27, 5:00-6:15pm, Lib 2115 Speaker: Professor Ziying Cui, Visiting Lecturer of Dance at DKU In 2015, Huawei shocked the world with a striking advertisement: a ballerina’s foot, one perfectly poised in a satin shoe, the other bruised and bleeding beneath its bandages. For Huawei’s founder, this tortured foot symbolized both “pain and happiness” […]
Liberty and Power in a New Global Order | Nov. 24th
Monday Nov. 24th 12:00-13:15 WDR 2201 Lunch will be provided! Global governance is tightening and foreshadows that world state formation will become a live political issue in this century. Should this prospect be seen as a mere scaling-up of familiar ideas about statehood, to deal with global urgency around everything from climate change to public […]
Event Recap: Exploring Lu Xun’s Japanese Essay, “I Want to Deceive People”
Reported by Ruoying Wang, class of 2028 On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, DKU faculty, staff, and students gathered in LIB1123 for a special reading and discussion session titled “I Want to Deceive People.” The session was led by Professor Taku Kurashige, Associate Professor at Tsinghua University’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, whose research […]
Punishment Park, a film by Peter Watkins
Time: Nov. 25th, 6:30 pm (Screening at 7:15) Space: Performance Cafe Drinks & refreshments are provided at the event. A film screening event of Punishment Park, a film by Peter Watkins, presented by the Fascism and Everyday Life Initiative, hosted by Duke Kunshan Humanities Research Center.
