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Report on Entangled Cartographies: Mapping the Unmappable in a Digital Age
Report on Entangled Cartographies: Mapping the Unmappable in a Digital Age Reported by Kymbat Altybay, class of 2028 On November 6-7, 2025, the IB Lecture Hall at Duke Kunshan hosted the international conference “Entangled Cartographies.” For two days, a unique group of thinkers gathered to solve an urgent question: how do we chart digital, ecological, […]
Report on “Gathering the Cracks: Poetic Counter-Mapping of Informal Networks in Bacheng”
English and Chinese reported by Zhiyuan Mark Ma, Junyi Yu, Jiaxin Wang On November 6, 2025, the Entangled Cartographies Conference (Track II: Networked Societies), hosted by Prof. Benjamin Bacon, gathered scholars and students to explore the changing landscapes of mapping, networks, and spatial imagination in the digital age. During this panel, DKU students Zhiyuan Mark […]
Activity Recap: Japanese Tea Ceremony Etiquette and Appreciation
On Friday, November 21, 2025, at 1:00 PM, about twenty students and faculty members gathered for a special Japanese Tea Ceremony workshop. This event is part of China-Japan Post-1945 event series. Prof. Cong Li from the Language and Culture Center invited a specialist of the Japanese tea ceremony from Shanghai, who held the workshop at […]
“I Want to Deceive People”: Explore Lu Xun’s Japanese Essay
Date & Time: November 12th, 12:00–13:30 Venue: LIB1123 Speaker:Taku Kurashige He is Associate Professor at Tsinghua University’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (he also holds a PhD from Tsinghua). His research dives into modern Chinese/Japanese literatures, Sino-Japanese-American relations, and intellectual history. In this session, Prof. Kurashige will dissect “I Want to Deceive People” by […]
Entangled Cartographies Conference
I have rivers but no water; forests but no trees; cities but no buildings. What am I? A map. (origins of riddle unknown) In his 1931 paper “A Non-Aristotelian System and Its Necessity for Rigor in Mathematics and Physics”, Polish American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski introduced the now-iconic phrase, “a map is not the […]
Report a lecture on Zen Master Zekkai Chūshun
Reported by Ben Van Overmeire, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies On September 10, 2025, faculty and students gathered in Room IB1047 to attend a lecture on Zen Master Zekkai Chūshun (1336–1405), a Japanese Rinzai Zen monk and poet. The speaker, Paul S. Atkins, a professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures […]
Call for Papers: DKU Entangled Cartographies Conference
Overview I have rivers but no water; forests but no trees; cities but no buildings. What am I? A map. (origins of riddle unknown) In his 1931 paper “A Non-Aristotelian System and Its Necessity for Rigor in Mathematics and Physics”, Polish American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski introduced the now-iconic phrase, “a map is […]
Lecture: A Japanese Zen Monk in Ming China: Zekkai Chūshin (1336–1405) and East Asian Cultural Exchange
Date: September 10, 2025 Time: 18:00–19:30 Venue: IB1047 Speaker: Paul S. Atkins, Professor of Japanese, Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, Seattle. Title: A Japanese Zen Monk in Ming China The life and works of Zekkai Chūshin 絶海中津 (1336–1405), a Japanese Rinzai Zen monk and poet, offer a unique perspective on the […]
