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. […]
Workshop Report: Varieties of Harmony in Greek and Chinese Philosophy
Duke University, April 16–17, 2026 | By Qirui Lei – Harmony Lab From April 16 to 17, 2026, the Harmony Lab participated in a two-day workshop at Duke University exploring the concept of harmony across Greek and Chinese philosophical traditions. The event brought together scholars working on Plato, Aristotle, early Chinese thought (Confucian and Daoist), […]
Tea Culture Week 2026 at Duke Kunshan University | A Journey Through Tea: Culture, Senses, and Everyday Life
From April 20 to 23, Tea Culture Week unfolded at Duke Kunshan University, bringing together over 200 students, faculty, and staff into the Library Tea Room and Performance Café Corridor.Across four evenings and through tea-related documentary, performances, dialogues, and hands-on activities,participants didn’t just learn about tea, but they experienced it through their senses, conversations, and everyday practices. The […]
Humans of DKU won the “Diversity and Inclusion Effort of the Year” Award
The Humans of DKU Exhibition was held from March 19 to April 5, 2026, at HUM Space (AB1075A). It was curated by students Yesuidari Amarbayasgalan, Byerikbol (Beck) Yerbol, and Avidikhuu Altangerel, under the supervision of Professor Seth Henderson, with support from Bilguun Dugarsuren, and funded by an HRC HUM Space exhibition grant. The exhibition featured […]
Report on Reading Group for “Embracing Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence for Inclusive Education”
On April 17, 2026, faculty, staff, and students at Duke Kunshan University convened for the session of the “Embracing Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence for Inclusive Education” reading group series, which also marked the conclusion of this three-year event initiative. The discussion centered on Wei and Liu’s 2019 article “Coming out in Mainland China: A National […]
Report on “On the Ethics of Economic Theorizing:Perspectives from Psychoanalytica. Theory”
By Mohan Li（Class of 2028） The lecture began with a reflection on the speaker’s long-standing engagement with the methodology of economics, with particular emphasis on the choices and trade-offs involved in theory construction. He observed that any economic model necessarily selects certain elements of reality while abstracting from others, yet there is no universally accepted […]
Report on Lecture Series Event: Ordinary Frontier at the Desert’s Edge
By Yuejia Liu（Class of 2028） On April 16, 2026, Duke Kunshan University (DKU) hosted a session of the “Cultures and Societies” lecture series, featuring “Ordinary Frontier at the Desert’s Edge: Aspirational Ecology and Sedimented Infrastructures in Northwestern China”. Co-organized by the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Humanities Research Center, the event […]
Report on HRC Spring Conference 2026
Reported by Hao Zheng, class of 2029 On April 3, Duke Kunshan University’s Humanities Research Center held its annual undergraduate spring conference, bringing together 80 participants under the theme “Nature and Society.” The event explored the intersections between human communities and the natural world through diverse topics including gender, ecology, sustainability, craft, disability, memory, and […]
Report on Panel Discussion: Which Book Made You Fall in Love with History?
Report by Disty Mahmud and Carl Zhang On Wednesday, March 26th, the Archives and History Initiative (AHI) organized a panel discussion inviting faculty and students to discuss books that made them passionate about history. Professor Lei Lin started the discussion with the book Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 published in 1992 by Philip […]
Report on Reading Group for “Embracing Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence for Inclusive Education”
On March 27, 2026, DKU faculty, staff, and students convened for the latest session of the “Embracing Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence for Inclusive Education” reading group series, focusing on global LGBTQ+ content censorship and the case study of “Censoring ‘Rainbow’” in China by Jamie Zhao. The session opened with an icebreaker discussion where we shared […]
