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Who travels thousands of miles? Gender Dimensions of War Dead Accounting and Memory Making in Post-war Vietnam
Date & Time: May 2, 17:30 -18:30
Location: AB 1079
Description: Dr. Tâm T. T. Ngô, Senior Researcher/Associate Professor at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, part of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In the last four decades, to find, to identify, and to commemorate more than half a million fallen soldiers who died for the Vietnamese state in the three international wars that the country fought in the twentieth century, nearly the entire Vietnamese population has been mobilized. While the public face of this mass mobilization is dominantly male, the private and intimate driving force behind this work of war accounting and war memory making is saliently female. Millions of Vietnamese mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters who have been waiting, grieving, and mourning for their sons, brothers, husbands, and fathers who did not return when the wars ended. In addition to emotional pain and the psychological anguish of not knowing the faith of a missing loved one, these women also had to deal with the social, economic, legal and familial implication of the absence of their men, and often had to deal with these issues in a social context laden with patriarchal values and hierarchies. Since the 1990s, many of them joined the search for the remains and the spirits of their fallen men. This presentation sketches out a few among those million journeys to search for their male missing relatives and voice women’s perspectives about warfare and its human cost. In so doing, it aims to go beyond the uncomfortable yet established link between war and gender to restore the agentive power of women in keeping memory, healing wound and suturing the social fabrics torn by war violence.
GENDER+LANGUAGE
Date and time: 6:00 PM, April 29th
Location: Water Pavilion
Description: Join us for an engaging discussion on the intersection of gender and language with Professors Zhenjie Weng, Stephanie Anderson, and student speakers. Explore how language shapes and reflects gender norms, identities, and perceptions.
(SNACKS WILL BE PROVIDED)
Superdeep #26: “Social Values & Expert Disagreement in Psychiatric Classification: the Case of Gaming Disorder” (Wang Yafeng) | Thu Apr 25, 5 pm
5 pm | IB 2028
It doesn’t take an expert to agree on this one being a Superdeep treat: Wang Yafeng (Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences) joining the Workshop to present on “Social Values & Expert Disagreement in Psychiatric Classification: the Case of Gaming Disorder”. Thu Apr 25 | 5 pm | IB 2028
Snacks & drinks will be served at the Workshop.
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The Workshop is Superdeep‘s venue for philosophical work-in-progress research & practice. For more info or to submit proposals for the Workshop, follow this link; for more info on Superdeep more generally, follow this one.
Superdeep is sponsored by DKU’s Humanities Research Center.
Superdeep Nighthawks: Sound of Metal (Marder 2019) | Apr 25, 8:28pm
8:28pm | IB 1008
Join the Nighthawks, in collaboration with DKU Metal & Rock Clubs, to learn about the power of music & community with Darius Marder‘s 2019 Sound of Metal (…& food & drink). Thu Apr 25, 8:28pm IB 1008.
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Superdeep Nighthawks meet on Thu eve (~8pm till late); more info here. To propose a screening, follow this link; for more info on Superdeep generally, follow this one.
Superdeep is sponsored by DKU’s Humanities Research Center.
Superdeep Nighthawks: Amarcord (Fellini 1973) | Apr 18, 8:08pm
8:08pm | IB 1008
Join the Nighthawks for some Superdeep nostalgic revocation with Federico Fellini‘s 1973 Amarcord (…& food & drink). Thu Apr 18, 8:08pm IB 1008.
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Superdeep Nighthawks meet on Thu eve (~8pm till late); more info here. To propose a screening, follow this link; for more info on Superdeep generally, follow this one.
Superdeep is sponsored by DKU’s Humanities Research Center.
Superdeep Nighthawks: Lost in Translation (Coppola 2003)
8:04pm | IB 1008
Even if by now you’ve gone way Superdeep & already mastered all the languages spoken at DKU, join the Nighthawks & Sofia Coppola to get Lost in Translation (…& food & drink). Thu Apr 11 | 8:04pm | IB 1008.
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Superdeep Nighthawks meet on Thu eve (~8pm till late); more info here. To propose a screening, follow this link; for more info on Superdeep generally, follow this one.
Superdeep is sponsored by DKU’s Humanities Research Center.
Climate Emergency and the Future of Democracy
Date: Monday, April 15th
Time: 5:00PM CST
Location: Zoom – 922 1935 5842
On Monday, April 15th, Professor Robyn Eckersley will have a seminar on Climate Emergency and the Future of Democracy. This seminar tracks the rise of climate emergency claim making as a global discourse, and takes stock of the criticisms from those who argue that the emergency frame should be abandoned because it will necessarily undermine democracy. Against these critics, Professor Eckersley offers an alternative and more sympathetic democratic critique of the grammar of climate emergency claim making, and then poses and critically explores two questions that have been ignored by the critics: what might happen to liberal democracy if the climate emergency movement fails in its demands upon the state? Could the climate emergency movement be a potential saviour of democracy because it seeks to build legitimacy for measures that would safeguard the fundamental socio-ecological conditions for the survival of democratic states?
Robyn Eckersley is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She has published widely in the fields of environmental political theory and International Relations, with a particular focus on ecological democracy, the greening of states, and the ethics, politics and governance of climate change. She received a Distinguished Scholar Award (Environmental Studies Section) at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Toronto 2019.
Superdeep Nighthawks: Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman 2008) | Fri Apr 5, 8:04pm
8:04pm | IB 1008
Join the Nighthawks for a Superdeep blurring of all the lines & breaking of all the walls of real life & real death & real stages & real warehouses of Charlie Kaufman‘s 2008 Synecdoche, New York (…& food & drinks). Fri Apr 5, 8:04pm IB 1008. (Note that, observing Tomb Sweeping Day, this week the Nighthawks converge on Friday, not Thursday.)
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Superdeep Nighthawks meet on Thu eve (~8pm till late); more info here. To propose events or screenings, follow this link; for info on Superdeep generally, follow this one.
Superdeep is sponsored by DKU’s Humanities Research Center.
Superdeep #25: “On Polyamory and its Viability” (Yixuan Cao) | Fri Apr 5, 6:04pm
6:04pm | IB 2026 | Zoom 6979897969
What’s not to love about our next Superdeep Workshop by Yixuan Cao “On Polyamory and its Viability” — Friday 6:04pm IB2026. (Note that, to observe Tomb Sweeping Day, we are meeting Friday this week, not Thursday.)
Snacks & drinks will be served at the Workshop.
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The Workshop is Superdeep‘s venue for philosophical work-in-progress research & practice. For more info or to submit proposals for the Workshop, follow this link; for more info on Superdeep more generally, follow this one.
Superdeep is sponsored by DKU’s Humanities Research Center.
Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine
Please Join us alongside Professor Frances Hasso for a captivating discussion on “Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine”. Be sure to prepare for this enlightening event with the required reading!
- Date & Time: Friday, March 29th, 2024 Time: 8:00 PM
- Speaker: Professor Frances Hasso, a Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism at Duke University
- Location: Zoom Meeting Zoom ID: 261 330 4845
- Note: This event requires pre-reading. Chapter 3 is mandatory, while the introduction is optional.
