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Student Report: Superdeep#13 – “The Question “Why” and Descriptions of Action”

Superdeep #13 is part of Superdeep philosophy workshop series led by Professor Nathan Hauthaler. 

Presented and reported by Dongkun Lyu

(Since this seminar was organized by myself, I have written this special narrative report in first person.)

Photo by Weifan Mo, Class of 2023

The topic and notions that appeared in this seminar were mostly centered on the philosophy of action which is an important field concerning human bodily movement and intention. Both the question “why” and description of action were essential concepts in Anscombe’s work Intention, a classic of 20th-century philosophy. Continue reading “Student Report: Superdeep#13 – “The Question “Why” and Descriptions of Action””

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Superdeep #14: ”Knowing One’s Dreams” (Weifan Mo) | Thu, Nov 17, 6:30pm

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Join us for Superdeep #14, in which Weifan (Michelle) Mo (E&L Philosophy ’23) will awaken us to the difficulties of “Knowing One’s Dreams”.

The event is first in a series of collaborations between Superdeep and the DKU-Wuhan University Houtu Research project Unforgotten Dreams/哲学视野中的梦境.

As always, everyone is welcome to join; no prior knowledge of philosophy is required. And, as always, snacks and refreshments will be served at the meeting.

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For more information on DKU’s Superdeep workshop or Houtu Unforgotten Dreams, contact Nathan Hauthaler. For more information on the workshop see also https://sites.duke.edu/dkuhumanities/superdeep/.

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Third Space Lab Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk: Zhang Xin and Emmanuelle Chiocca  

You are cordially invited to attend the TSL Brown Bag Lunch Research Talk by Co-Directors of the Lab, Dr. Zhang Xin and Dr.  Emmanuelle Chiocca on Distinguishing Oneself: First-year International Students’ Pre-College Motivations and Expectations in a Sino-Foreign Joint-Venture University in China.

Date/Time: Fri, Nov 18, 4pm BJT
Location: CC1095 and Zoom (register to receive zoom link)

Snacks and bubble teas provided. 

Please RSVP by Thursday, November 17:  https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_575R4kSqToMders

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Looking back at the 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad

Reported by Mateja Bokan, Class of 2025.

DKU Humanities Research Center (HRC) organized the 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad 科学与慈善 in Barcelona during the first week of October. Gathering DKU students currently in Barcelona and other members of the DKU community via Zoom, this two-day event brought together around eighty participants, four keynote speakers, and a distinguished Guest Lecturer in order to shed light on global response to various challenges using China and Spain as contexts of scientific development and empathy to bring communities together. Continue reading “Looking back at the 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad”

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Anthropocene XR Lab Presents: Accessibility and Inclusion of Social VR for People with Disabilities 

This event has passed. The recording is now available:

Guest Speaker: Prof. Yuhang Zhao
Date and Time: Nov 9, 9:15-10:15 am, Beijing Time.
Zoom ID: 989 5768 1032; Passcode: XRLAB

Talk Introduction

Social VR has the potential to become the next generation of the Internet. However, current VR technology mainly relies on realistic visual feedback to provide an immersive experience to sighted people. Most VR applications are not accessible to visually impaired people, preventing them from benefiting from this important class of emerging technology. In this talk, I’ll describe my research on social VR accessibility and inclusion, where we explore avatar accessibility and inclusion for disabled people and design audio-based VR techniques to make avatar dynamics in social VR accessible to visually impaired people. I will also reflect on general accessibility guidelines for VR.

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Student Report: Film screening of “I am Not Your Negro”

Reported by Mateja Bokan, Class of 2025.

This Documentary Screening of “I am Not Your Negro” is sponsored by HRC Freedom Lab on October 25, 2022.

Freedom Lab Co-Directors, Selina Lai-Henderson and Jesse Olsavsky introduces the film. (Photo by Jesse Campbell, Class of 2025)

Based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House, I am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck is a Documentary nominated for an Academy Award that raises urgent ideas regarding racism in the United States of America. Continue reading “Student Report: Film screening of “I am Not Your Negro””

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Book Talk with Yitzhak Lewis, author of “A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity”

Yitzhak Lewis, Assistant Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University recently published A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity. Please join us on his book talk at the Institute of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University.

Date/Time: Wed, Nov 2, 2022, 12:00-1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time; 6-7pm Barcelona time; Thurs, Nov 3, 2022, 12:00-1:00am Beijing Time.

Register for Zoom information.

More information from the Institute’s website: Continue reading “Book Talk with Yitzhak Lewis, author of “A Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity””

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Student Report of The Politics of Environmental Crisis: Perspectives from Latin American Art and Ecology – Joanna Page

This keynote lecture from Joanna Page was part of 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad.

Reported by Pauline Rogers, Class of 2025.

Professor Joanna Page is a professor at the Center of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge in the UK who focuses on literature, film, graphic fiction and visual arts from Latin America, focusing on Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. Many of her projects, including her most recent book, Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art, focus on the intersection between science and art. As the first guest speaker in the 2022 Fall Humanities Conference held in Barcelona, Professor Page brings us a lecture titled The Politics of Environmental Crisis: Perspectives from Latin American Art and Ecology. Continue reading “Student Report of The Politics of Environmental Crisis: Perspectives from Latin American Art and Ecology – Joanna Page”

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Student Report: Joanna Page – Student Seminar

This student seminar was part of 2022 Humanities Fall Conference: Ciencia y Caridad.

Reported by Pauline Rogers, Class of 2025.

Professor Page’s seminar focused on the theme of Art-Science Projects. Before arriving at the seminar, participants were expected to read the introduction of her book Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art. 

She begins by asking us a question that we split into groups and discuss. “What are the differences between art and science?” Differences that we are asked to focus on include their objectives, methods of communication, what is valued, standard of what makes it good, and spaces in which they operate.  Continue reading “Student Report: Joanna Page – Student Seminar”