The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce its annual Spring Conference 2025, which will be held in person at Duke Kunshan University from April 18-19, 2025, and will be centered around the topic of gender and sexuality. The conference will feature 4 keynote lectures and a couple dozen undergraduate research papers.
Current undergraduate students in at DKU and NYU Shanghai are invited to submit abstracts. Students selected from NYU Shanghai will receive round-trip transport to Kunshan, all meals, and shared accommodations.
Application
- Papers must be written in English.
- Papers must be unpublished research that has not been presented in a previous DKU Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference
- Papers may be on any topic in an arts, humanities, interpretive social science or related interdisciplinary field. They do not have to address the conference theme.
- Papers that rely principally on quantitive research methods will not be considered.
- Papers must be by a single author.
- Prizes of 1000 RMB will be awarded to the best five papers.
Fill out the application form here or scan the QR code.
Timeline
- Tuesday, March 11, Information session on preparing a submission: Zoom TBD
- Friday, March 14, or before: Submit application form with paper title and 300-word abstract.
- Monday, March 24: Acceptance decisions announced.
- Sunday, April 13: Final papers (max 10 pages double-spaced, excluding notes and bibliography) must be submitted to organizers to be considered for a prize.
- Friday, April 18, and Saturday, April 19: Conference takes place on campus
