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The Humanities Research Center Calls for Proposals
The DKU Humanities Research Center (HRC) invites proposals from all DKU/Duke faculty and affiliates working on humanities-related projects. Projects should be based at DKU and/or connect Duke and DKU faculty. Proposals should be sent to Eugenie Chao (eugenie.chao@dukekunshan.edu.cn), Senior Program Coordinator for the Humanities Research Center, by July 15, 2022.
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Student Report: Anthropocene XR Lab: A Beginner’s Guide to Unity Game Engine
Reported by Josh Manto, DKU Undergraduate Class of 2024
On the second of June 2022, the HRC Anthropocene Lab hosted a workshop on Unity Game Engine, a development platform often used for application, website, and game development. The workshop was facilitated by Leiyuan Tian and was taught by Tony Ren, both of whom are from the class of 23’. From covering basic interface navigation, understanding hierarchies, to more in-depth concepts like game physics and scripting, Tony and Leiyuan were successful in providing a beginner-friendly tutorial to Unity game engine.
Tony showing us the the preliminaries, which include downloading Unity Game Engine, and an IDE (integrated development environment) such as Visual Studio Code to write scripts. After downloading all preliminary software, Tony explains the basics: (more…)
Congratulations to Prof Tyler Carter’s New Book Launch: “No Blame” – An Amorphous Digital Book of Poetry and Art
Congratulations to Professor Tyler Carter, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the Language and Culture Center at Duke Kunshan University!
No Blame, as Dr. Carter describes, is “an amorphous digital book of poetry and art, with text by [himself] and coding/artwork by Eric Goddard-Scovel. It consists of 64 pages, with 48 poems (i.e., 16 static original poems and 32 poems shuffled by algorithms partially derived from the casting of I Ching hexagrams) and 16 works of generative art.”
Generate your version of the book here: https://www.noblamebook.com/ and read more about Dr. Carter’s book below:
Could you describe what I Ching refers to and how it inspired No Blame? What is the significance of the title? (more…)
Student Report: The Bird Collision Prevention Project
Reported by Shuyuan Zhou
Studies have shown that bird strikes on buildings are considered to be the second leading cause of bird deaths caused by humans. Birds may perish during the day without realizing the glass is there due to its reflectivity and permeability; at night, they may be attracted to the light and thus hit the glass. At Duke Kunshan University, most of the buildings have fully transparent glass structures, and many birds die as a result of collisions with the glass.
The Bird Collision Prevention Project, an interdisciplinary art and research project aims to have a comprehensive look at the bird collision problem at DKU, starting with its landmark, the Water Pavilion. 
We use artistic intervention on the glass architecture itself to create a colorful and warm barrier. In Spring 2021, we’ve “turn the cage into a bird” by hanging a mixture of twines and yarns to divide the outer area of the Water Pavilion into 5x10cm intervals, which could effectively create a friendly alert to the avian visitation. 
The latent fluidity of the drooping yarns echoes the near-water position of the Water Pavilion, which might make the architecture and its natural surrounding a unity not by transparency but interference.
Congratulations to Professor Zach Fredman on his first book “The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941-1949”
Congratulations to Professor Zach Fredman on his first book, The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949 (UNC Press, 2022). This book examines the U.S. military presence in China during World War II and the Chinese Civil War.
Read more about his book below:
Could you tell us about your new book and what inspired you to write it?
Like a lot of writers, I wrote the book I wanted to read. More than 120,000 American servicemen deployed to China during World War II and the Chinese Civil War, making this military presence the largest encounter between Americans and Chinese that ever occurred in China. But nearly all of the scholarship and popular writing on wartime U.S.-China relations focused on senior military commanders or diplomats. I wanted to learn about these soldiers, the Chinese people they interacted with, and how their day-to-day engagements influenced the larger politics of the Sino-U.S. alliance.
Call for Early Career Participants for CHCI/Mellon Global Humanities Institute on Climate Justice and Problems of Scale
The Global Humanities Institute on Climate Justice and Problems of Scale will occur at the University of Pretoria between July 29 and August 7, 2022. Virtual sessions will be held on July 30-31, August 1-2, and August 4-6.
The Institute is sponsored by the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. A limited number of positions are open for Early Career Scholars (untenured faculty, postdocs, and advanced graduate students) whose work engages climate justice and/or multiscalar analysis. Applications are requested as soon as possible. Please see the call for details: GHI Climate Justice 2022 CFP.
Questions about the Institute may be directed to: pstrong@utexas.edu – Pauline Strong, for the six organizing institutions (U of Texas, U of Pretoria, American University at Beirut, Arizona State U, Carnegie Mellon U, U of Sydney)
Pauline Turner Strong | PI, CHCI Global Humanities Institute on Climate Justice & Problems of Scale
Director, Humanities Institute | Professor, Anthropology | Faculty Affiliate, Native American and Indigenous Studies
College of Liberal Arts | University of Texas at Austin
Student Report: Third Space Lab Guest Speaker Series from Prof Anwei Feng and Prof Bob Adamson
Reported by Dongkun (Ludwig) Lyu
On May 5, 2022, Third Space Lab launched their Guest Speaker Series sharing a discussion focused on Language and culture in the form of an online forum. This forum was mainly composed of two sessions, the talk and Q & A. Two distinguished speakers, Prof. Anwei Feng and Prof. Bob Adamson from UNNC, discussed multi-lingual China realities, key policies and multi-lingual education models based on two of their edited volumes on this topic.
XR WORKSHOP #1: A Beginner’s Guide to Unity Game Engine
Presented by HRC Anthropocene XR Lab
Time/Date: June 2, 2022, 8-9pm
Zoom ID: 953 0162 0473
Keynote speaker: Yong (Yutong) Ren, Class of 2023
Congratulations to Recipients of the 2022 Shirley Graham and W.E.B Du Bois Award!
Freedom Lab is thrilled to announce the following 9 recipients of the 2022 Shirley Graham and W.E.B. Du Bois Award. The Award (5000 rmb per recipient) will help with our DKU juniors on their Signature Work projects, including book purchasing, art installations, photo printing and exhibits, archival research, and field work.
Congratulations to all! (more…)
HRC Doc Lab Requests for Proposals: Documentary Projects
The Humanities Research Center’s Doc Lab seeks proposal submissions for documentary projects. The projects can be rooted in any discipline and/or be interdisciplinary in nature as long as they incorporate a humanities perspective. The projects can be based in any medium of preference.
Both students and faculty are invited to submit project proposals. Students who would like to submit proposals are required to find at least one DKU faculty member to mentor the project. Faculty who submit a proposal must incorporate at least one student role as part of the project. Teams featuring multiple student roles are highly encouraged. Proposals that include or consist of Signature Work projects are welcome.
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