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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 […]
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” […]
SIGNATURE WORKSHOP – History & History-Related Projects
Join us to share your progress and receive feedback from faculty and students! Date & Time: Wednesday, Sept 17 | 17:00–19:00 Location: AB3109 Refreshments: Snacks & drinks provided This event is presented by Disty Mahmud, Jiayi Wei, Zhenan Xie, Carl Renyuan Zhang & John Runkun Zhao as part of the Archives and History Initiative at […]
Student Report on Frederick Douglass and The Beginnings of Pan-Africanism
Reported by Renyuan (Carl) Zhang and Disty Mahmud, Archives and History Initiative On September 11th, 2025, 44 participants gathered for a faculty-led discussion where Professor Olsavsky presented a draft chapter from his forthcoming book. His manuscript explores themes of Pan-Africanism, African decolonization, and the reimagined legacy of Frederick Douglass. While Douglass is not traditionally placed […]
Frederick Douglass and The Beginnings of Pan-Africanism
Date: September 11, 2025 Time: 5:15–6:15 PM Venue: AB 1079 Speaker: Prof. Jesse Olsavsky Explore how African, Caribbean, and African American thinkers circulated ideas about Frederick Douglass—a runaway slave, antislavery activist, and statesman—and reinterpreted him as a founding figure of Pan-Africanism, a movement that became a guiding ideology for African decolonization. Snacks & […]
