Author: Eugenie Chao

Reported by Maya Peak, Class of 2026 

During the Ciencia y Caridad, Humanities Fall Conference held in Barcelona by DKU’s Humanities Research Center, multiple student presentations were held. Projects ranged from Art and Humanities to Data and Policy, tying in themes of the intersections of research and charity, stressing the humanity in humanities. Below are the summaries of the presentations that took place on Saturday, the eighth, along with photos from Shuyuan Zhou’s presentation.

My Great Grandmother, My Grand Aunt, My Grandmother, My Mother, and I: A Family Album, presented by Shuyuan Zhou

Shuyuan Zhou presented, My Great Grandmother, My Grand Aunt, My Grandmother, My Mother, and I: A Family Album, a series which collected, questioned, and answered on the intergenerational female experience. Through images of her and her family along with some of the storytelling ability of objects in the collection, Zhou shared to us the beauty and suffering in femininity across time.

The Feminine Fabulation: Chinese Women’s Taking In and Spitting Out Bitterness presented by Meixuan Wang Continue reading “Student Report: Student Presentations of October 8”

Reported by Soumya Lahoti, Class of 2025

October 7, 2022, 15:00-16:30
This lecture was part of the 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad.

Isabel Duran Gimenez-Rico, professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, welcomed everyone warmly and had an introduction round. She started by explained why we should read sad stories. They are a way of combating sexism and many other societal vices. Humanities have grown as a way of making people aware of how others suffer; literature opens our eyes to women’s, homosexuals, and old-age people’s struggles. They work as they are all intensely sad narratives. They make us, the reader feel a sense of discomfort. Continue reading “Student Report: Student Seminar with Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico”

Reported by Soumya Lahoti, Class of 2025

October 7, 2022, 12:30-14:00
This lecture was part of the 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad.

Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico is a Professor of English Philology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She based her keynote lecture on revisiting medical conditions through a gendered lens. She focused on an intriguing gender swap in translating literature to visual or medical media. She spoke about the male gaze and the female gaze in medical media and the subtle differences in which they’re dealt with in a way that speaks to both genders. She spoke at length about Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (1993), which was adapted into the 1999 film of the same name by James Mangold, and The Dying Animal by Philip Roth (2001) was adopted by Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet into Elegy (2008). Continue reading “Student Report: Keynote Lecture of Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico”

Reported by Soumya Lahoti, Class of 2025

October 7, 2022, 18:00 – 18:30
This lecture was part of the 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad.

Patricia Leighten presented an excellent commentary on the depths of Picasso’s psyche, live from Canada. Picasso has been called the most important artist of the last century. He was particularly influential on subsequent and contemporary art practices.

Leighten walks us through the stages of Picasso’s life, from his early works, to where he practiced art in Barcelona and Paris, his Blue and Rose periods, Cubism, and Surrealism. We also learn about how Picasso’s art responded in radical ways to the social and political forces of his times, as well as to the philosophical and aesthetic issues of the rapidly changing period that were spanned by his life and his work. Continue reading “Student Report: Picasso and His Times”