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Film Society: The Substance (2024)
As the premiere of our latest “Female Directors” screening series, this week the Film Society presents The Substance (2024), the gory horror by female director Coralie Fargeat. A grotesque fusion of body horror, dark satire, and feminist commentary, The Substance tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a fading Hollywood celebrity who injects a black-market drug […]
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 […]
Riverbank Homes: an exhibition by Prof. Li Xu & students from CHINESE 401 B
Date & Time: 4–31 December 2025 (Launch Event: 1:00 PM) Venue: HUM Space (AB1075A) Experience 《枕河人家》 Riverbank Homes, a December photography exhibition in the HUM Space presented by Professor Li Xu and students from CHINESE 401B: Issues in Modern China, in collaboration with the Office of Student Experience and the Office of Campus Engagement. Through […]
LILYPAD’S FALL 25 MAGAZINE IS HERE!
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5TH, 5:30–6:30 PM at Performance Cafe Snacks and drinks covered The LilyPad’s Fall 25 Magazine is ready, and we’re hosting a small launch get-together to share it with you! Stop by to pick up your free copy (filled with campus stories, student art, and all the DKU spirit), and chat with the team […]
Report on The Sublime Body in Pain: Ballet, the Nation and the Female Ideal in Contemporary China
On Thursday, November 27, 2025, Duke Kunshan University faculty, staff, and students attended a lecture by Professor Ziying Cui, Visiting Lecturer of Dance, titled “The Sublime Body in Pain: Ballet, the Nation and the Female Ideal in Contemporary China.” The lecture examined how the Chinese imagination has invested the ballerina’s disciplined, suffering body with symbolic […]
Film Society Screening: Lan Yu (2001) | Nov. 27
Thursday night is film night! This week, the Film Society presents 蓝宇 Lan Yu (2001), one of the landmark works of queer Chinese cinema. Join us for a powerful screening that continues the “Censored” Series and highlights a film long kept from public view. Set in Beijing in the years leading up to 1989, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
