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The Thursday Night Tea Research Group｜ LATINOAMÉRICA with Wei Ran
November 4, 7-8:15pm China Time IB 1010 / Zoom ID 298 656 1787 In the second event of our translation series, Prof. Wei Ran will be exploring the “Latin American Thought Translation Series” as a case study for remapping the relations between China and the world. He will discuss the selection and translation of Latin American texts by the contemporary Chinese academic community, which followed a shift […]
Nov. 5 Third Space Lab Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk: Joseph Davies
You are cordially invited to attend the TSL Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk by Joseph Davies on Developing Learning-focused Feedback Practices: An Evaluation of English for Academic Purposes Teacher Feedback Literacy at a Sino-Foreign University at 3:30 pm on Friday Nov. 5th, 2021 (China Standard Time). This talk is hosted online. Join Zoom Meeting: https://duke.zoom.us/j/97579376928 Please RSVP by 5 pm China Standard […]
Volunteer for Planet X
Want to be a member of a whole new world? Our game project “Planet X” awaits! Details of the Project The project is sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre PETAL lab. We adopt the model of strategic games to create an “alternative world”, in which one plays as a will of the state on “Planet […]
Portraits of Third Spaces: Your DKU/Kunshan/Durham Story – Narrative Contest
Your time studying at DKU, returning “home,” or living abroad may have been filled with unique and fascinating experiences; the Third Space Lab invites you to share them with the world! Submit your personal narrative about intercultural or international experiences for a chance to win recognition and prizes. Topics could include such things as culture […]
The Historicity of Crisis: Contingency and Continuity in Twentieth-Century Intellectual Histories
October 30-October 31, 2021 8-11pm CST/8-11am EST/2-5pm (UTC+2) Zoom: 912 3984 7450 In this workshop, we invite scholars from the field of intellectual history to engage a global conversation on how historians in various areas in the world have narrated the crises in the twentieth century through the perspectives of both continuity and contingency. To […]
The Self and the Other: How We Navigate Identity in the 21st Century
Friday, October 29, 2021, 9:00 PM CST Zoom: 336 052 6609 | passcode: aiyo https://duke.zoom.us/j/3360526609?pwd=b0lDUmp2OU5RSEROTWdEUzZLbzVXdz09 Before embarking on complex sociocultural histories of fatness, beauty, disability, neurodivergence, and queer representation, the first seminar in the Body Liberation & Feminism series deals with the notion of the self, and by extension, the other. How does your ethnicity, nationality, […]
The Humanities Research Center Welcomes Senior Program Coordinator Eugenie Chao
The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Eugenie Chao as Senior Program Coordinator. Reporting to co-directors James Miller and Carlos Rojas, Eugenie is responsible for the overall co-ordination and administration of the Center’s programs. Currently working remotely from New York, Eugenie received her Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and her Master’s […]
WGDI Presents “Body Liberation & Feminism: A Series”
The Women’s, Gender, and Diversity Initiative (WGDI), in collaboration with the Humanities Research Center, is proud to present the first seminar in our pilot event series: Body Liberation and Feminism: A Series. The WGDI is an informal collective of DKU students and faculty who are working together to initiate conversations rooted in contemporary questions of […]
TSL Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk | Dr. Harper Staples Oct. 22
You are cordially invited to attend the TSL Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk by Dr. Harper Staples on Mapping and analyzing multilingual student identities in the European context: outcomes and implications for learner engagement and wellbeing at noon on Friday October 22, 2021 (China Standard Time). Location: CC 1095. Zoom link will be sent to remote participants. Bring your own lunch and enjoy […]
Superdeep #1: “Reactive Luck” (Nathan Hauthaler) | Wed, Oct 13, 6:30pm
Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 6:30pm CST IB 2026 | Zoom 6979897969 All DKU students are invited to attend the first meeting of the Superdeep workshop, DKU’s work-in-progress workshop for philosophically-minded or -interested students and student projects. No prior knowledge of philosophy is required; all students, from all divisions and at all stages of their studies, […]
