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Call for Proposals from A Library of Things at MACHANG is seeking proposals for an upcoming three-week residency at MACHANG
What is a thing? What is an object? These seemingly simple yet profoundly complex ontological questions have been explored by artists and thinkers across culture and time. In the specific setting of contemporary exhibition making (a specialty of MACHANG for almost a decade with the booming contemporary art scene in Shanghai and in China at […]
HRC is now on WeChat!
We are excited to announce the launch of Humanities Research Center’s WeChat channel in both Chinese and English! Please scan QR code below to subscribe. 欢迎关注昆山杜克大学人文研究中心（HRC）的官方微信公众号！ To follow us on other social media channels, scan the codes below:
Student Report on Improving Accessibility and Inclusion of Social VR for People with Disabilities
This lecture by Professor Yuhang Zhao was a part of HRC’s Anthropocene XR Lab‘s Talk Series. Click here for upcoming events from the Lab. Reported by Vicky Yongkun Wu, Class of 2026. Social VR refers to VR platforms where people communicate and socialize in the form of avatars. With the advancement of technology, social VR […]
Third Space Lab Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk: Zhang Xin and Emmanuelle Chiocca
You are cordially invited to attend the TSL Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk by Co-Directors of the Lab, Dr. Zhang Xin and Dr. Emmanuelle Chiocca on Distinguishing Oneself: First-year International Students’ Pre-College Motivations and Expectations in a Sino-Foreign Joint-Venture University in China. Date/Time: Fri, Nov 18, 4pm BJT Location: CC1095 and Zoom (register to receive […]
Looking back at the 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad
Reported by Mateja Bokan, Class of 2025. DKU Humanities Research Center (HRC) organized the 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad 科学与慈善 in Barcelona during the first week of October. Gathering DKU students currently in Barcelona and other members of the DKU community via Zoom, this two-day event brought together around eighty participants, four keynote […]
Anthropocene XR Lab Presents: Accessibility and Inclusion of Social VR for People with Disabilities
This event has passed. The recording is now available: Guest Speaker: Prof. Yuhang Zhao Date and Time: Nov 9, 9:15-10:15 am, Beijing Time. Zoom ID: 989 5768 1032; Passcode: XRLAB Talk Introduction Social VR has the potential to become the next generation of the Internet. However, current VR technology mainly relies on realistic visual feedback to […]
Student Report: Film screening of “I am Not Your Negro”
Reported by Mateja Bokan, Class of 2025. This Documentary Screening of “I am Not Your Negro” is sponsored by HRC Freedom Lab on October 25, 2022. Based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House, I am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck is a Documentary nominated for an Academy Award that raises urgent ideas […]
Book Talk with Yitzhak Lewis, author of “A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity”
Yitzhak Lewis, Assistant Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University recently published A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity. Please join us on his book talk at the Institute of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University. Date/Time: Wed, Nov 2, 2022, 12:00-1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time; 6-7pm Barcelona time; Thurs, Nov […]
Student Report of The Politics of Environmental Crisis: Perspectives from Latin American Art and Ecology – Joanna Page
This keynote lecture from Joanna Page was part of 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad. Reported by Pauline Rogers, Class of 2025. Professor Joanna Page is a professor at the Center of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge in the UK who focuses on literature, film, graphic fiction and visual arts from […]
Student Report: Joanna Page – Student Seminar
This student seminar was part of 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad. Reported by Pauline Rogers, Class of 2025. Professor Page’s seminar focused on the theme of Art-Science Projects. Before arriving at the seminar, participants were expected to read the introduction of her book Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art. She begins by asking […]
