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Event Report on “Who travels thousands of miles? Gender Dimensions of War Dead Accounting and Memory Making in Post-war Vietnam”
On May 2, 2024, the Humanities Research Center hosted Dr. Tâm T. T. Ngô, a senior researcher and associate professor at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Tâm first had an informal discussion with students and later proceeded to give a talk […]
Student Report on “Ritual, Anti-Ritual, and the Efficacy of Reform” Lecture by Dr Peter van der Veer.
On April 22, 2024, the Humanities Research Center hosted Dr. Peter van der Veer, a distinguished scholar in the field of anthropology and religion. Dr. van der Veer is Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Society in Germany, and Professor Emeritus at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has taught at the Free University […]
Exploring the “Superdeep”: The third DKU Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference
By Junyan Li, class of 2026 The Humanities community at Duke Kunshan University recently hosted its third annual Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference on April 26th and 27th at the Academic Building. Co-hosted by Professor James Miller from DKU, and Professor Carlos Rojas from Duke, the event served as a platform for researchers and students from […]
Report on Reading Group for “Embracing Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence for Inclusive Education”
On Friday, April 19, 2024, DKU faculty, staff, and students were invited to our last Session 4 reading group on “Embracing Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence for Inclusive Education”. During this session, we commenced our discussion with a brief overview of the study conducted by Allen, Cowie, and Fenaughty (2020), titled “Safe but not Safe: LGBTTIQA+ […]
Who travels thousands of miles? Gender Dimensions of War Dead Accounting and Memory Making in Post-war Vietnam
Date & Time: May 2, 17:30 -18:30 Location: AB 1079 Description: Dr. Tâm T. T. Ngô, Senior Researcher/Associate Professor at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, part of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the last four decades, to find, to identify, and to commemorate more than half a […]
GENDER+LANGUAGE
Date and time: 6:00 PM, April 29th Location: Water Pavilion Description: Join us for an engaging discussion on the intersection of gender and language with Professors Zhenjie Weng, Stephanie Anderson, and student speakers. Explore how language shapes and reflects gender norms, identities, and perceptions. (SNACKS WILL BE PROVIDED)
HRC Student Film Festival
Date & Time: 4.26 8 PM Venue: IB Lecture Hall Featuring works including: Eternity by Chujie Cao (02:35) Dreams of Skateboarding by Liew (4:52) Lost in Art by Yinan Wang (8:31) Hand Book by Lan Wei (4:13) My Bamboo Teacher by Jessie Cao (8:18) Bubble Gum by Chengxi, Hanxi, Yile, & Mengyue (3:24) Emotional Holiday by […]
Cultural Domination:Philosophical Perspectives
Date: Friday, April 19thTime: 205 pmLocation: IB1056 Thomas M. Besch is Luojia Professor of Philosophy at Wuhan University and Honorary Associate at the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney. He mainly taught in Sydney, Wuhan, and Ankara, with stints in Hradec-Kralove and Oxford. His research focuses on ideas of public reason and justification, […]
Student Report on “Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine”
Reported by Lia Smith, Class of 2026 This lecture and workshop was a part of the Gender Studies Initiative’s event series. Each event connects gender to a range of topics where gender, sexuality, and feminism are discussed. On March 29th, 2024 this event brought Professor Frances Hasso from the program in gender, sexuality and feminism […]
The 2nd Gender Studies Initiative Student Conference Program
Date: Friday, April 19th, 9 AM – 3 PM Venue: AB 2107 9-9:15 AM: Keynote Speech by Professor Selina Lai Henderson Session 1 – Challenges to Heteronormativity 9:15-10:15 AM Presentations and faculty discussions 10:15-10:45 Q&A Heteronormativity in Korean Boys Love Comics: A Case Study of Chinese Queer Women’s Gender Discourse – Shuzhe Wang Faculty discussant: Keping Wu […]
