Confronting Anti-Asian Hate: Gendered, Racialized, and Transnational Perspectives
IB 1047 / Zoom: 451 154 2347 Thursday April 1, 11:00 AM – 13:00 PM China Guest Speakers: Amy Lee, Lecturer UC Berkeley (amyklee@berkeley.edu) Stephanie Chan, English faculty, Foothill College (chanstephanie@fhda.edu) Jennifer Cheng, Poet and Essayist, Winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize (me@jenniferscheng.com) Lunch will be provided Co-sponsored […]
Film Screening with Filmmaker | In Wuhan (Last Screening Salon of the Year)
Time and Date: Thursday April 1st, 7pm China Time IB-1008 / Zoom ID: 530.390.0458 Snacks & Refreshments Provided In Wuhan is a documentary that reveals the scene inside Wuhan during the earliest days of the pandemic. The film is a deep dive into the many logistical and humanitarian concerns involved in locking down and quarantining […]
The Thursday Night Tea Research Group | LOVE with Claire Nioche-Sibony
March 25, 7-8:15pm CST IB 1010 / Zoom 298 656 1787 What makes a roommate a good roommate, or a partner a good partner, or a dog a good dog? Kafka used to wonder what was the minimum amount of words he had to say at any given dinner party in order not to be seen as […]
Media and Arts Speaker Series | V2_Lab for the Unstable Media
The Media & Arts Speaker Series at Duke Kunshan University is a bi-weekly event that invites leading practitioners in media and arts to speak about their work and practice and engage with our DKU community. The fourth miniseries of talks looks at the concept of the lab, both as a philosophy and a methodology to […]
The Thursday Night Tea Research Group Event Report | INTIMACY with Camila Gonzatto
By Anisha Joshi Class of 2022 What is intimacy, actually? How do you put into words what this multifaceted experience can mean, how do you define it? In the second installment series on intimacy organized by the Thursday Night Tea Research Group, screenwriter and director Camila Gonzatto invited participants to workshop some ideas of how […]
BOYS Exhibition: I Am No Different Than You
Exhibition Name: I Am No Different Than You Date: 22nd – 27th March Venue: Water Pavilion “BOYS” Curation Statement I Am No Different Than You is an exhibition that features one of Daniel Adams’ photography projects titled “BOYS” created in 2020. Adams is a conceptual portrait photographer based in Malaysia. Through his lens, we explore […]
Literature Lunch JAM
Excited about a great book you just read and wanting to share it with more people? Come join our first Literature Lunch JAM. It doesn’t get any better than bonding with like-minded faculty, friends and souls over a free meal and books we love! When: March 25 (Thursday) @ 12pm Venue: AB Cafe Please rsvp […]
DKU Health Humanities Laboratory Request for Proposals: Health Humanities Projects
Information Session On Friday, March 19th at 10am (China Time) the Health Humanities Lab will host an information session via Zoom to give an overview of health humanities, the types of projects students and faculty might consider proposing, and guidance on the proposal development process. Health Humanities Lab Information Session Date and Time: March 19th, […]
Third Space Lab Guest Speaker Series Report | Whose Karate? Language and Cultural Learning in a Multilingual Karate Club in London
By Sihan Wang Class of 2023 The third talk of the Third Space Lab Guest Speaker Series happened on the eve of Lantern Festival in China. We had the great honor to invite Dr. Zhu Hua, Chair of Educational Linguistics in School of Education from University Birmingham and the director of MOSAIC Group for Research […]
Student Seminar Series: Your Chance to Teach
By Hajra Farooqui Class of 2022 DKU undergraduate program is starting a new series to pilot in Session 4 of Spring 2021. Based on Duke University’s House Courses, the Student Seminar Series aims to be a series of student-led seminars in which students design and teach short courses introducing new topics of academic interest. Apply […]
