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Superdeep Nighthawks: Common Side Effects (Bennett & Hely 2024) | Mar 5 & 6, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008 Finals week, signature work deadline… all work and no rest… Your own Superdeep accomplishments aside, this must lead to Common Side Effects. Join the Nighthawks for Joe Bennett & Steve Hely‘s 2024 animated mind-bender (…& food & drink). Note that we will screen this one over two evenings, with ep. 1–5 on […]
Superdeep Nighthawks: Didi (弟弟;Wang 2024) | Thu Feb 26, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008 Week 7 again…goddammit. But if this feels hard, just remember what middle & high school felt like… Join the Nighthawks for a Superdeep return to days of young, with Sean Wang‘s 2024 Didi (弟弟), a wonderful bittersweet portrait of Asian American adolescence in early ’00s California (…& food & drink). ▷ Feb […]
Superdeep Nighthawks: All is Lost (Chandor 2013) | Thu Feb 19, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008 Chinese New Year Festival, everyone traveling home. With everyone gone, is all lost? Dive Superdeep and find out with the Nighthawks (who won’t leave you!) in J.C. Chandor‘s 2013 All Is Lost. Come watch one of the late Robert Redford’s final performances… ▷ Feb 19, 8:28pm ▷ IB 1008 Lecture Hall *** The Nighthawks offer […]
How to Do Historical Research with DKU Professors｜Research Sharing Workshop
We are excited to invite you to an upcoming event hosted by DKU Humanities Research Center and the Archives and History Initiative, “How to Do Historical Research with DKU Professors”. This research sharing session will let you learn from DKU students about their experiences researching primary sources alongside faculty. It’s a great chance to gain insights […]
Celebrating the Success of Prof. Richer’s Workshop and HUM Exhibit at NYU Shanghai
We are delighted that Prof. Renee Richer’s workshop, “Planting Relationships: A Sensorial Introduction to Plant Structure and Common Food Plant Families,” previously held at DKU, enjoyed a successful launch in NYU Shanghai. The HUM exhibit, “Flora and Feminists: The Subversive Science of Botany,” featuring the work by Professors Richer, Erin Wilkerson, and Dingyi Xu, and […]
Provincializing Earth: The Making of a Planet since 1946
Thursday December 4, 5-6:15 PM, AB1079 Speaker: Alexander C.T. Geppert, New York University and NYU Shanghai Global history is currently attempting to reinvent itself under the supposedly new label ‘planetary history’ yet without paying much attention to the planet’s outerspatial environment. Divided into four segments – planetization, picturization, satellization, extraterrestrialization – this talk argues that […]
The Sublime Body in Pain: Ballet, the Nation and the Female Ideal in Contemporary China
Thursday November 27, 5:00-6:15pm, Lib 2115 Speaker: Professor Ziying Cui, Visiting Lecturer of Dance at DKU In 2015, Huawei shocked the world with a striking advertisement: a ballerina’s foot, one perfectly poised in a satin shoe, the other bruised and bleeding beneath its bandages. For Huawei’s founder, this tortured foot symbolized both “pain and happiness” […]
Punishment Park, a film by Peter Watkins
Time: Nov. 25th, 6:30 pm (Screening at 7:15) Space: Performance Cafe Drinks & refreshments are provided at the event. A film screening event of Punishment Park, a film by Peter Watkins, presented by the Fascism and Everyday Life Initiative, hosted by Duke Kunshan Humanities Research Center.
Superdeep Nighthawks: Into the Inferno (Herzog 2016) | Nov 6, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008 As the days get cooler and the session is heating up join the Nighthawks and Werner Herzog for a Superdeep dive Into the Inferno (…& food & drink). Time: Thu Nov 6, 8:28pm (food; 8:38 film) Location: IB 1008 (Lecture Hall) *** The Superdeep Nighthawks offer a space for late birds to take Superdeep respite after a week of […]
