Category: Conferences

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Student Report on Women’s History Month Student Workshop

Reported by Vicky Yongkun Wu, Class of 2026

This workshop was part of the Women’s History Month 2023 events organized by the HRC’s Gender Studies Initiative. 

The Women’s History Month Student Workshop 2023, hosted by Professor Titas Chakraborty, focused on 9 student papers. On Friday April 21, after Professor James Miller’s opening remarks, student presenters, who were accordingly distributed to three panels, gender in China, women and conflict, and feminism and media, were given approximately 10 minutes to introduce their projects, followed by professors’ comments and the Q&A session. The wide range of gender topics covered in the workshop was impressive and truly enhanced gender studies at DKU. Continue reading “Student Report on Women’s History Month Student Workshop”

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Registration for the Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference

The Humanities Research Center invites all members of the DKU community to participate in its Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference, China and the World, which will be held in person at Duke Kunshan University from April 28-29, 2023. The conference features approximately 40 undergraduate research papers from DKU and universities across China including:

  • Chinese Academy of Art
  • CUHK Shenzhen
  • Fudan University
  • NYU Shanghai
  • Tianjin Foreign Studies University
  • Wuhan University
  • University of Nottingham, Ningbo

Students will present their papers on panels chaired by DKU professors, and cover the following themes:

  • Chinese and Japanese Literature
  • Contemporary Chinese Culture
  • Gender, Media and Technology
  • Histories and Environments
  • Identity, Psychology and Society
  • Literature, Borders and Boundaries
  • Philosophy, Religion and Ethics
  • Visual Media and Society

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Students who attend the conference are also invited to sign up for an exclusive seminar with one of the keynote speakers, as well as a gala dinner with the speakers on Saturday April 29. 

See the conference program

Register for the conference by Thursday April 20  Continue reading “Registration for the Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference”

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Student Report on Estimating Remaining Lifespan from the Face

Reported by Cody Schmidt, class of 2025

This was the first event of the Computational Humanities Seminar series, which focuses on the role of technology in the social sciences. The series is organized by Jaehee Choi, Zhaojin Zheng, and Alice Xiang.

 Professor Amir Fekrazad, a professor of economics from Texas A&M – San Antonio, presented his research on using artificial intelligence to estimate a person’s remaining lifespan on February 24th. Moderated by Professor Jaehee Choi, Professor Fekrazad detailed the process of creating such technology. Continue reading “Student Report on Estimating Remaining Lifespan from the Face”

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Student Report on Religion + Empire

Reported by Shivam Mani, Class of 2025

This talk was a part of the HRC’s Religion+ event series, held in-person on the DKU campus. Each event connects a topic to religion, and faculty are invited to speak on their work and/or ideas about the intersection of the topics.

 This event brought Prof. Bryce Beemer, Prof. Titas Chakraborty, and Prof. Tommaso Tesei together for a conversation about the role of religion in the formation, development, and behaviors of empires throughout history. Continue reading “Student Report on Religion + Empire”

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Superdeep#17: “Lucid Dreams Elucidated” By Nathan Hauthaler, Weifan Mo and Siyu Wang

Reported by Dongkun Lyu

The seminar was divided into three parts. Sue first introduced the Ontology of the Lucid Dream, Michelle then discussed several different “Selves” in the dream, and finally Nathan proposed the research on knowledge in dreams and related action philosophy. Continue reading “Superdeep#17: “Lucid Dreams Elucidated” By Nathan Hauthaler, Weifan Mo and Siyu Wang”

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Student Report on The Climate Emergency and Tuvalu’s Escape to the Metaverse: Challenging the Complicity of Design in Technological Solutionism

Cody Schmidt, class of 2025 

This event was hosted by HRC’s Citizenship Lab. The Citizenship Lab seeks to understand the transformation of citizenship and the ways in which citizenship is expressed through ecological, temporal, and spatial terms. The full event can be viewed here.

Dr. Nick Kelly and Professor Marcus Foth from the Queensland University of Technology joined Professor Robin Rodd from Duke Kunshan’s Citizenship Lab on March 9th to discuss the role of the metaverse in the politics of climate change. Based on their article published in The Conversation, the two began by explaining Tuvalu’s attempt to save their nation that has turned towards metaverse technologies.  Continue reading “Student Report on The Climate Emergency and Tuvalu’s Escape to the Metaverse: Challenging the Complicity of Design in Technological Solutionism”

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Undergraduate Research Conference Information Session, March 20 at 8pm

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference is March 21, 2023. To help students prepare their abstracts, Professor James Miller, co-director of the Humanities Research Center, will give a information session on Monday 20 March from 8-9pm (Zoom 6952900771).

In the information session you will learn

  • advantages of participating in the conference
  • advantages of presenting a paper at the conference
  • the rules for which types of papers will be accepted and which will be rejected
  • how the selection process works
  • how to write a good title and a good abstract

All students who are considering participating in the conference are strongly encouraged to attend.

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Student Report on Ghost Rivers in the Urban Anthropocene

Reported by Cody Schmidt, class of 2025

This talk was hosted by HRC’s Citizenship Lab. The Citizenship Lab seeks to understand the transformation of citizenship and the ways in which citizenship is expressed through ecological, temporal, and spatial terms.

Professor Kregg Hetherington from Concordia University joined Duke Kunshan’s Citizenship Lab on February 17th to deliver a presentation titled “Ghost Rivers in the Urban Anthropocene.” Moderated by Citizenship Lab co-director Robin Rodd, the lecture recounted the story of the St. Pierre, a river that once ran through Montreal and nourished the city in its foundation, now considered a “ghost river.” Continue reading “Student Report on Ghost Rivers in the Urban Anthropocene”

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China and the World, Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference, April 28-29

The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce its annual Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference, China and the World, which will be held in person at Duke Kunshan University from April 28-29, 2023. The conference will feature approximately 40 undergraduate research papers and 4 keynote addresses. Students who are selected for the conference will also attend an exclusive seminar with one of the keynote speakers. Continue reading “China and the World, Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference, April 28-29”

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Student Report: Superdeep#16: “ChatGPT” with Tim Fitz (Turnitin)

Reported by Dongkun Lyu (with ChatGPT)

Before I started to write a report, I asked ChatGPT:

“Could you please write around a 300 words seminar report for me? The date is Feb 1, 2023. People are Tim Fitz (engineer of Turnitin), Professor Daniel Lim and DKU professors and student. The content is encompassing the research area of the speakers, the process of the development of AI, their experience and thought of ChatGPT and some classic computer experiment like ‘The Turing test’ and ‘Chinese character test’.”

Consequently, most of this report, except for the first paragraph (because it repeats the information I was given), was not useful. Continue reading “Student Report: Superdeep#16: “ChatGPT” with Tim Fitz (Turnitin)”