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FEELING INTO FORM: Art, Movement, and the Making of Empathy
Event Information September 15 | 6:00 PM Community Center Theater Organized by Heritage Lab, with Prof. Jung Choi and Prof. Kolleen Guy What can happen when music and visual art respond to similar ideas? Join us on Tuesday, September 15 at 6:00 pm in the CCTE Theater for the closing concert of the exhibition Feeling […]
Feeling into Form: Art, Movement, and the Making of Empathy
People move. They move across borders, between languages and cultures, toward new lives or away from danger. Sometimes movement is chosen; sometimes it is forced. Wherever people go, they carry memories, stories, sounds, images, and traditions. Movement shapes people: in turn, people reshape the art and cultures they encounter. Feeling into Form asks what happens […]
Factual News for Duke Workshop
By Renhao Guo I arrived in the United States on April 14, 2026, embarking on an academic journey that I had never envisioned before. From the Duke campus to the two-day workshop on “Varieties of Harmony in Greek and Chinese Philosophy”, as a freshman, what I once regarded as distant and vast is now within reach. […]
Thematic Short Film Screening about Memory, Identity & Resistance
Tue, April 21 | 7 PM | CCTE Performance Cafe Join us for an evening of six short films from four countries, circling with one persistent question: whose story gets to be told, and what does it cost to tell your own? From queer homecoming in China to political uprising in Myanmar, from a Moroccan […]
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 […]
Liberty and Power in a New Global Order | Nov. 24th
Monday Nov. 24th 12:00-13:15 WDR 2201 Lunch will be provided! Global governance is tightening and foreshadows that world state formation will become a live political issue in this century. Should this prospect be seen as a mere scaling-up of familiar ideas about statehood, to deal with global urgency around everything from climate change to public […]
Is There Buddhist Meritocracy?
Date & Time: NOV 10TH 16:00-17:15 Location: WDR 3002 Speaker: Oren Hanner, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Classical Buddhist thinkers had a lot to say about the nature of reality and human psychology, but unlike Western philosophers, they largely remained silent about sociopolitical issues. Can the Buddhist tradition offer us any useful resources for thinking […]
Report on Born in Shanghai: A Refugee Child’s Journey and Memory of Wartime
Reported by Yuruo Zhang, class of 2027 On Oct. 23, 2025, Duke Kunshan warmly welcomed Sonja MÜHLBERGER, a child of Shanghai Jewish refugee parents. During the sharing, she introduced her remarkable story in Shanghai during World War II. Over 20 students and 4 faculty members attended this lecture. After Sonja’s father was released from the […]
Born in Shanghai: A Refugee Child’s Journey and Memory of Wartime
Date: Oct. 23 Time: 11：45am-1:15 pm Location: AB1079 Join us for a special lecture with Sonja Mühlberger, whose parents fled to Shanghai in 1939 after her father was imprisoned in a concentration camp for four weeks. Following her mother’s efforts to secure his release, the family settled in Shanghai, where Sonja was born. She is among more […]
Student Report on Heritage Lab Launch
Reported by Philip Yanakiev, class of 2027 On Tuesday, August 26, 2025, faculty, staff, and students gathered at the library for the launch of the Heritage Lab, co-led by Professor Kolleen Guy and Professor Jung Choi. Professor Guy opened the session by introducing the lab and its inspiration – the UNESCO grant-funded project “Museums as […]
