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Future of the Humanities: The Gender/Sex Turn
Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce its fall conference Future of the Humanities: The Gender/Sex Turn 人文学的未来：性／别转向 on September 20-21, 2019. Register to attend the conference here. The conference features four outstanding keynote speakers. Josephine HO 何春蕤, scholar-activist in gender/sexuality studies Yingying HUANG 黄盈盈, China’s leading sociologist of sex work and HIV/AIDS Yin-bin […]
Future of the Humanities: Faculty Papers
The following papers by faculty at Duke Kunshan University, New York University, Shanghai, and Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou will be presented at the Fall Conference The Future of the Humanities at Duke Kunshan University, September 20-21, 2019.
Future of the Humanities: Keynote Speakers
Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce four outstanding keynote speakers at its conference, “Future of the Humanities: The Gender/Sex Turn 人文学的未来：性／别转向” on September 20-21, 2019. Josephine HO 何春蕤, scholar-activist in gender/sexuality studies Yingying HUANG 黄盈盈, China’s leading sociologist of sex work and HIV/AIDS Yin-bin NING 甯应斌, Taiwan’s leading philosopher and theorist of […]
The Memory Project at Duke Kunshan University
By Anisha Joshi, DKU’22 The word ‘memory’ can refer to many different things. It can mean an individual’s remembrance of a past experience, or the collective recollection of an event that impacts a larger group of people. With the Memory Project, documentarian Wu Wenguang explores both these avenues by documenting and protecting the memories of […]
Workshop Report: Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1940–1949
By Alberto Najarro and Zach Fredman Duke Kunshan University welcomed historians from around the globe to our campus from July 12 to 13 for conference entitled “Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1940–1949.” Sponsored by the Humanities Research Center, this conference explored the wide-ranging encounters between Chinese and Americans in China during this crucial […]
The Memory Project
by Anisha Joshi The word ‘memory’ can refer to many different things. It can mean an individual’s remembrance of a past experience, or the collective recollection of an event that impacts a larger group of people. In the Memory Project, documentarian Wu Wenguang explores both these avenues by documenting and protecting the memories of people […]
2019-2020 Call for Funding 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 Chi Zhang (chi.zhang323@dukekunshan.edu.cn), administrative assistant for the Humanities Research Center, by the specified deadlines.
Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1940–1949
The largest sustained engagement between Americans and Chinese that ever occurred in China took place during the 1940s. During this period, individual American and Chinese soldiers, scientists, nurses, and truck drivers, among many others, came together to collaborate in the fight against Japan. These interactions had a resonating impact: shaping popular perceptions of China and […]
Paul Scharre: Lethal Autonomous Weapons
Runya ‘Agnes’ Liu, an undergraduate at Duke Kunshan University, and Daniel Lim interview Paul Scharre, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and award-winning author of Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, on Lethal Autonomous Weapons.
Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference
On April 19-21, 2019 at Duke Kunshan University, DKU undergraduate students were joined by seniors from top Chinese universities for the very first DKU undergraduate humanities research conference. Envisaged by the humanities research center to provide an open platform for junior college students to learn how to do research when DKU just started its undergraduate […]
